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

& “The Deep State” Going To Destroy

Our President And Country?

The 2017 Trump

Presidency - #17
November 14, 2017 – December 6, 2017

Mueller Has Found Flynn Guilty, Will

This Help The “Psycho Left” Destroy
The Trump Presidency
And United States of America?
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 How We Can Be Certain That
Mueller Won’t Prove Trump-Russia Collusion
Caitlin Johnstone - Rogue Journalist, Poet, And Utopia Prepper.
Nov 12, 2017

Donald Trump colluded with the Russian government to

steal the 2016 election using hackers and propaganda, the
US intelligence community would have found it and
leaked it to the New York Times or the Washington Post
last year.

A while back I figured out a trick for using Twitter as a

tool to find out what sorts of things establishment loyalists
really don’t want me saying. Once I discover a really hot
button, I write an article that bangs on that button as hard
as possible. One of those buttons is expressing my
certainty that Robert Mueller’s investigation will never,
ever find any proof that Trump colluded with Russia to
steal the 2016 election using hackers and propaganda.

We are not allowed to say such things. If you debate a

Russiagater for any length of time and you know how to
debunk their assertions, they always, always, always wind
up resorting to a “just you wait until Mueller finishes his
investigation” declaration, which from my point of view is
the same as debating a fundamentalist Christian whose
argument boils down to

“Well I’ll be proven right when you die and

God sends you to Hell!”

You can always feel right if you kick the can around some
corner in the future that can’t be seen and analyzed
critically. Luckily for us, we’ve got information that we
can look at right now which does not require any religious
faith.

We know from the Snowden leaks on the NSA, the CIA

files released by WikiLeaks, and the ongoing controversies
regarding FBI surveillance that the US intelligence
community has the most expansive, most sophisticated and
most intrusive surveillance network in the history of
human civilization. Following the presidential election last
year, anonymous sources from within the intelligence
community were hemorrhaging leaks to the press on a
regular basis that were damaging to the incoming
administration. If there was any evidence to be found that
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Mueller isn’t going to find anything in 2017 that these
vast, sprawling networks wouldn’t have found in 2016.
He’s not going to find anything by “following the money”
that couldn’t be found infinitely more efficaciously via
Orwellian espionage. The factions within the intelligence
community that were working to sabotage the incoming
administration last year would have leaked proof of
collusion if they’d had it. They did not have it then, and
they do not have it now. Mueller will continue finding
evidence of corruption throughout his investigation, since
corruption is to DC insiders as water is to fish, but he will
not find evidence of collusion to win the 2016 election that
will lead to Trump’s impeachment. It will not happen.
This sits on top of all the many, many, many reasons to be
extremely suspicious of the Russiagate narrative in the first
place.
Humans are storytelling creatures. The most significant
and most underappreciated facet of our existence is how
much of our interface with the world consists not of our
direct experience of it, but of our mental stories about it.
Combine that fact with the century of research and
development that has gone into refining propaganda tactics
and the US plutocracy’s stranglehold on mainstream
media, and you get a nation lost in establishment
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narratives. People forming their worldviews based on
phantasms of the mind instead of concrete facts.
I’ve noticed a strange uptick in establishment loyalists
speaking to me as though Trump-Russia collusion is
already an established fact, and that I’m simply not well-
informed. There is still the same amount of publicly
available evidence for this collusion as there ever was
(zero), so this tells me that the only thing which has
changed is the narrative. Pundits/propagandists are
increasingly speaking as though this is something that has
already been established, and the people who consume that
propaganda go out and circulate it as though it’s an
established fact. When you’re not plugged into that echo
chamber, though, it looks very weird.
This is why Russiagaters find my certainty that collusion
will never be proven so intensely abrasive. Their entire
worldview consists of pure narrative — literally nothing
other than authoritative assertions from pundits who speak
in a confident tone of voice — so when they encounter
someone doing the same thing but with hard facts, it
causes psychological discomfort. This discomfort is called
cognitive dissonance. It’s what being wrong feels like.
I mean, I get it. Really, I do. When I stop listening to the
narratives of both his supporters and his detractors and just
look at the hard facts, from my point of view Trump is
doing some really shitty things and doesn’t seem much
different from his neoliberal neocon predecessors.
Republicans are horrible, and he seems pretty much like a
garden variety Republican who says rude things on
Twitter. If I look at those hard facts, then add in two years
of psychological brutalization by the corporate media
telling Americans that Trump is an evil Nazi who will turn
the country into a smouldering crater, I can understand
why people would be in a hurry to get him out of office.
And when I converse with Russiagaters, that’s generally
what this boils down to. “Impeach Trump” is a punishment
in search of a crime. They’ve been whipped into a frenzied
state of fear by establishment psyops, and they want
Mueller to pull a deus ex machina and save them from the
evil orange monster. They believe Mueller will get Trump
impeached for Russian collusion because they badly want
to.
It’s not going to happen, though. Deus ex Mueller isn’t
coming. You’re going to have to solve your country’s
problems yourselves, America.
And this is actually a good thing, because Trump is not the
source of your country’s problems. Believing that a Trump
impeachment will fix any of America’s major ills is like
believing cough suppressants cure pneumonia. What do
you get when you have pneumonia and you take cough
suppressants instead of antibiotics? You get wrong-
sounding Muppets, that’s what.
 addressing the disease which created him, you’re just
addressing the symptom.

The problem is not Trump. The problem

is that America is ruled by an unelected
power establishment which maintains
its rule by sabotaging democracy,
exacerbating economic injustice and
expanding the US war machine. Stop
listening to the lies that they pipe into
your echo chambers and turn to face
your real demons.
If you attribute all your problems to Trump, you’re
guaranteeing more Trumps after him, because you’re not
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 Establishment Insiders, Mueller
And Woolsey Falsely Target LTG Michael Flynn
By Kelleigh Nelson
Nov 13, 2017

I am concerned for the security of our great intelligence. The General is the victim of an elaborate
Nation; not so much because of any threat “deep state” scam whose real objective is to destroy not
from without, but because of the insidious merely Flynn but the Trump presidency, and that is why
forces working from within. —General he’s in Mueller’s crosshairs.
Douglas MacArthur
A body of men holding themselves
accountable to nobody ought not to be
trusted by anybody. —Thomas Paine

Robert Mueller and his gang of Clinton supporting

attorneys should have long ago been fired. There is a total
crisis of confidence in the man because of his involvement
in the Uranium One deal. Had he any integrity, he would
have recused himself. Real Russian collusion rests in
Hillary Clinton’s lap, but the prey isn’t Hillary, it’s our
President, and that’s why Former FBI Director Mueller is
targeting Trump’s friends.
Lieutenant General Michael T. Flynn

Sebastian Gorka was told by a senior level FBI agent that

he needed to understand that the seventh floor of the FBI,
meaning the senior leadership, looks at the Trump White
House as the enemy.
Former FBI agent, John Guandolo says the primary
Islamic advisors who are inside the White House, State
Department, CIA, FBI, DHS, national security staffs, and
others are Muslim Brotherhood (MB) operatives or
Muslims ideologically aligned with the Muslim
Brotherhood. Mueller even helped Obama purge Islamic
documents from training manuals.
James Woolsey saw a lucrative lobbying position already
under contract with Gen. Flynn’s company and tried to
steal it out from under him at a price 20 times higher,
telling the Turkish businessmen he could do a better job.
When he was passed over for a position in the Trump
campaign, and the Turks turned him down, did he retaliate
against Flynn?
The enemies of this administration are targeting those who
have surrounded our President hoping they can find
something to take Donald J. Trump down, and they don’t
care who they destroy to get to him.
LTG Flynn served honorably for 33 years in the U.S.
Army, much of the time at the top levels of military
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Trump supporter and former National Security Advisor,
Michael Flynn has more experience battling the Taliban, al
Qaeda and other militant groups than anyone else in
Trump’s inner circle. He was the perfect choice for Chief
of the National Security Agency.
Flynn takes a more aggressive approach against Islamist
militants, which is probably what actually got him ousted.
Former FBI agent, John Guandolo,
(Understandingthethreat.com) has exposed the infiltration
by the Muslim Brotherhood of jihadist organizations in our
DOJ. One need only read his book, Raising a Jihadi
Generation, to understand how difficult the intelligence
community would make it for Flynn.
The General rightly believes that the United States is
losing a global war against Islamist extremism that may
last for generations. His book, The Field of Fight
prescribes a harder political line on Iran, including
information warfare to expose shortcomings in Iran’s
revolution.
Like Trump, Flynn called the 2003 invasion of Iraq a
strategic blunder and says that energy should have been
directed instead toward political support for opponents of
Iran’s theocratic rulers. Link
Flynn Resigns as National Security Advisor
The General’s tenure as National Security Adviser ended
because of a conversation he had with Russian
Ambassador Sergey Kislyak, but there was nothing illegal
about that conversation and the tape proves it.
The more serious problem for Flynn could be his
connections with the government of Turkey. What people
don’t understand is that he was trying to protect the
American people and their children.
Former Press Secretary Sean Spicer stated Flynn had done
nothing wrong in his lobbying work. “This is what he did
for a living. He was being compensated,” Mr. Spicer said.
“He was a private citizen at the time. There’s nothing
nefarious about doing anything that’s legal as long as the
proper paperwork is filed.”
Private U.S. citizens who lobby for a foreign government
must disclose their work to the Justice Department. Flynn
had registered with the Justice Department as a foreign
agent for $530,000 worth of lobbying work before Election
Day. In March 2017, after resigning as the NSA, he filed a
Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) disclosing that
through his firm, Flynn Intel Group, he had worked in
2016 on behalf of Inovo BV, a firm based in the
Netherlands and owned by a Turkish businessman with
links to the Turkish government.
Flynn’s firm was paid $530,000 by Inovo. The General’s
FARA filing revealed that a September 19 meeting
occurred and that Islamist Fethullah Gülen was discussed.
But the filing claims that Flynn’s work was on behalf of
Inovo, not the Turkish government, and that it concerned
merely “the political climate in Turkey” and “doing
business in Turkey,” related to the export of natural gas.
According to Flynn’s lawyer, he didn’t need to register
because his client was a Turkish businessman and not a
government official, but had opted to do so retroactively.
The Podesta Group did not file under FARA after years of
lobbying for the European Center which supported Viktor
Yanukovych, Ukraine’s pro-Russian president. Mueller’s
recent indictment of Manafort rather than Tony Podesta is
telling. He is targeting friends of Trump, hoping to take
our President down.
Gülen’s Charter Schools on Air Force Bases
Recep Tayip Erdogan accused Fethullah Gülen of
masterminding the failed 2016 Turkish coup d’état
attempt. He is currently on Turkey’s most-wanted-terrorist
list and is accused of leading what the current Turkish
officials call the Gülenist Terror Organization. Turkey is
demanding the extradition of Gülen from the United
States.
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Michael T. Flynn apparently knew about Islamist Gülen’s
hundreds of charter schools in America. All of them have
an innocuous name, names that would never be connected
to Islam. Gülen’s charter schools are on several US Air
Force Bases. Why is an Islamic school, Coral Academy of
Science Las Vegas, on Nellis AFB where our fighter jets,
munition squadrons and bombs are housed?
U.S. State Department cables, divulged by WikiLeaks,
reveal that Foggy Bottom, which has closely
monitored Gülen since 2003, describes the preacher as a
“radical Islamist” whose moderate message cloaks a more
sinister and radical agenda. He is a true, dyed-in-the-wool
Islamist who wishes to transform the United States and
Turkey into Shariah states.
In light of Gülen’s modus operandi elsewhere, the
Department of Homeland Security should be asking itself
why such a non-transparent, religion-based organization
would seek to establish itself on our military bases,
teaching the children of our service men and women.
[Link] And what about Gülen’s other 200 charter schools
throughout the country? Do the parents even know what
their children are exposed to?
Illustration by Greg Groesch of Washington Times
The Gülen organization uses charter schools and affiliated
businesses in the U.S. to misappropriate and launder state
and federal education tax dollars, which the organization
then uses for its own benefit to develop political power in
this country and globally. Gülen’s assets are between $20
and $50 billion.
Gülen, H1-B Visas and the CIA
Worse yet, beside defrauding American taxpayers, the
Gülen organization is one of the country’s largest
recipients of H1-B “specialty occupation” visas, even more
than Google, which it uses to import Turkish teachers into
its charter schools, supposedly because local U.S. talent is
not available to fill math and science teaching positions in
its charter schools. The Gülen organization illegally
threatens to revoke these visas unless the Turkish teachers
agree to kick back part of their salary to the organization.
 Woolsey is a Democrat, he’s a member of the Council on
Foreign Relations, and was Director of the CIA under Bill
Clinton for two years. Mueller’s probe of General Flynn
has garnered support from James Woolsey.

Gülen is wrapped up with the CIA, and two CIA handlers,

Graham Fuller, George Fidas, and others gave Gülen court
references for permanent Visa residence considering his
so-called “extraordinary abilities.” That same CIA wanted
to rid the Trump administration of General Flynn, for
obvious reasons. Here is Graham Fuller’s article extolling
the virtues of the Gülen movement and stating it is not a Woolsey joined as a senior adviser to Republican
cult. presidential candidate Donald Trump in September 2016,
but resigned in January when Trump made statements
Even WikiLeaks has exposed Gülen and his involvement critical of the United States Intelligence Community. He
in the U.S. and Turkey. is another DC swamp snake, one who most likely detests
General Flynn. Woolsey is an establishment globalist
insider, and he still wields power in DC because of his past
Flynn Op-ed, Turkey in Crisis
appointments.
In an election day op-ed, 8 November 2016 in The Hill,
Former FBI agent, John Guandolo, has made it clear that
General Flynn wrote that Turkey was in crisis and needed
the White House, State Department, CIA, FBI, DHS,
our help. The article is a brilliant overview, and note, we
national security staffs, and others are infiltrated with
see mention of the Muslim Brotherhood again.
Muslim Brotherhood operatives or Muslims ideologically
aligned with the Brotherhood. They are the first to
We must begin with understanding that Turkey is vital to complain if anyone in US intelligence should utter the
U.S. interests. Turkey is really our strongest ally against truth of Islam or stealth jihad.
the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS), as well as a
source of stability in the region. It provides badly needed
Mike Flynn is a man with a mission and with knowledge
cooperation with U.S. military operations.
about Islamic enemies, which certainly would make
Woolsey uncomfortable.
The primary bone of contention between the U.S. and
Turkey is Fethullah Gülen, a shady Islamic mullah residing
in Pennsylvania whom former President Clinton once Woolsey Claims Flynn Offered Him CIA Job
called his “friend” in a well circulated video.
In a WSJ article, Woolsey even claimed that NSA Flynn
offered him his job back as CIA Director. [Link]
Gülen portrays himself as a moderate, but he is in fact a
radical Islamist. He has publicly boasted about his
“soldiers” waiting for his orders to do whatever he directs Robert Kelner, Flynn’s attorney said, “Mr. Woolsey’s
them to do. If he were in reality a moderate, he would not claim in The Wall Street Journal that he was offered the
be in exile, nor would he excite the animus of Recep position of the CIA director if he would agree to report
Tayyip Erdogan and his government. only to Gen. Flynn is entirely false. Woolsey was passed
over for any position in the Trump administration and that
may be coloring this and other untrue allegations he has
For those of us who have closely studied the careers of
made against Gen. Flynn.”
Seyed Qutb and Hasan al Bana, the founders and followers
of the Muslim Brotherhood, Gülen’s words and activities
are very familiar. Mueller Interviews Woolsey and Wife

Former CIA Director, James Woolsey Both Woolsey and his wife have been in communication
with the FBI regarding the Sept. 19, 2016 meeting
Woolsey was invited to attend by one of General Flynn’s
business partners. Both have been interviewed by the FBI
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and members of the Office of the Special Counsel.
According to NBC News, the FBI communicated with
Woolsey both before and after Mueller’s team took over.
The interview with Woolsey was regarding allegations that
Mike Flynn discussed a possibly “illegal” removal of
Fethullah Gülen from the U.S.
In March 2017, Woolsey claimed that Flynn discussed
with Turkish officials the possibility of removing Gülen
from the U.S. The Turkish government believes the
Muslim cleric is responsible for helping spur last
summer’s attempted coup to overthrow President Erdogan.
Woolsey told the WSJ he arrived at the meeting in New
York on Sept. 19, in the middle of the discussion,
and believed the actions being discussed were possibly
illegal He claimed the topic was Pennsylvania resident,
Fethullah Gülen.
Woolsey also claimed he heard Flynn say Gülen could be
removed from the country without using the U.S.
extradition legal process. This bogus story is now gaining
media legs, so much so that the General’s lawyer had to
issue a statement.
Flynn’s spokesman, Price Floyd, told the WSJ that “at no
time did Flynn discuss any illegal actions, nonjudicial
physical removal or any other such activities.”
“The claim made by Woolsey that General Flynn, or
anyone else in attendance, discussed physical removal of
Gülen from the United States during a meeting with
Turkish officials in New York is false,” Floyd said. “No
such discussion occurred. Nor did Mr. Woolsey ever
inform General Flynn that he had any concerns whatsoever
regarding the meeting, either before he chose to attend, or
afterwards.”
Woolsey actually notified Vice President Joe Biden,
through a mutual friend, of what he thought could be an
illegal discussion by Flynn.
In September 2016, Flynn was a private citizen and was an
adviser to the Trump campaign.
Woolsey Attempt to Undermine Flynn
Reuters recently exposed the fact that while advising
Trump in 2016, Woolsey had a plan to discredit Fethullah
Gülen. Three people familiar with the proposal said he
pitched a $10 million contract to two Turkish businessmen
to help discredit the mullah.
Only a week after joining the Trump campaign on national
security issues, and one day after Flynn’s meeting,
Woolsey met with Ekim Alptekin and Sezgin Baran
Korkmaz for lunch. He and his wife proposed a lobbying
and public relations campaign targeting…yes…Fethullah
Gülen.
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Reuters stated they saw a memo where Woolsey and his
wife Nancye Miller sketched a plan to draw attention to
Gülen’s role in the coup against Turkey’s Erdogan so as to
encourage an official investigation.
However, Alptekin, an ally of Erdogan, and Chairman of
the US-Turkey Business Council, had already agreed
through one of his companies to a $600,000 contract with
the consulting firm of Michael Flynn to research Gülen.
Woolsey was a member of Flynn’s firm, the Flynn Intel
Group, according to a Justice Department filing by the
firm and an archive of the company’s website, although a
spokesman for Woolsey disputed that characterization,
saying he was an unpaid adviser and his affiliation was
“loosely defined.”
During the luncheon meeting Woolsey and Miller tried to
convince the two Turks that they were better than Flynn
for the job. Bidding for a lobbying or consulting contract
with a foreign company or government is not illegal, but
the Woolseys did not win the contract.
There you have it. Two Trump advisers were competing
with each other for a business deal with Alptekin, but
Woolsey was trying to undercut Flynn.
Jonathan Franks, a spokesman for Woolsey and Miller,
said they had pursued with Turkish interests an “economic
development proposal in the wake of the coup that
centered around reassuring folks that Turkey was a safe
place to do business” but that the project’s focus was not
on Gülen.
But Alptekin said Woolsey and Miller pursued his
business at the Sept. 20 luncheon pitching the project to
target Gülen, but he preferred to stick to his contract with
Flynn’s firm.
Alptekin Denies Woolsey’s Story
Flynn’s contract to help the Turkish government caused an
uproar, but only because it’s Mike Flynn. Woolsey stated
in media interviews that Flynn and others had discussed
the idea of covertly spiriting Gülen out of the US to
Turkey.
Flynn has denied such a plan, and so has Alptekin, who
said it was never discussed. Alptekin found Woolsey’s
claim astounding because Woolsey sought Alptekin’s
business the very next day. Alptekin told Reuters that
Woolsey’s story is fiction.
Woolsey had pitched the project to Korkmaz at a meeting
in California in August of 2016. Woolsey’s wife outlined
the proposal and sent it in an email to her husband who
printed it out and gave it to Korkmaz who then forwarded
it to Alptekin.
Korkmaz had known Woolsey for years and invited him to
the meeting. Korkmaz actually told Woolsey he was
looking for someone who could handle a lobbying and
public relations project related to Gülen.
The proposal by the Woolsey’s included getting then
Senator Sessions to co-author articles on the situation in
Turkey and engaging other top lawmakers like Senator
Bob Corker as well as putting Woolsey on Fox News and
CNN. Cost was $10 million.
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Conclusion
Here is another DC swamp set-up, and Mueller is not only
going after General Flynn, but he’s also targeting Flynn’s
son, Michael, all for alleged Trump/Russian collusion that
even leftist Dianne Feinstein has said lacks any proof.
This witch hunt is costing the Flynns not only a great
amount of stress over the entire fallacious investigation,
but also legal fees are draining their resources. Please help
this wonderful veteran clear his name by donating to his
legal defense fund. Any amount you can send will help
them.
 How To Instantly Prove (Or Disprove)
Russian Hacking Of U.S. Election
By George Washington
Nov 15, 2017 1:42 AM
It’s newsworthy that CIA head Mike Pompeo recently met
with Bill Binney – who designed the NSA’s electronic
surveillance system – about potential proof that the DNC
emails were leaked rather than hacked.
It’s also noteworthy that the usual suspects – Neocon
warmongers such as Max Boot – have tried to discredit
both Binney and Pompeo.
But there’s a huge part of the story that the entire
mainstream media is missing …
Specifically, Binney says that the NSA has long had in its
computers information which can prove exactly who
hacked the DNC … or instead prove that the DNC emails
were leaked by a Democratic insider.
Remember – by way of background – that the NSA
basically spies on everyone in America … and stores the
data long-term.
After the story of Pompeo’s meeting with Binney broke,
Binney told Washington’s Blog:
Here’s what they would have from the
programs you list [i.e. NSA’s Fairview,
Stormbrew and Blarney spying programs,
which Edward Snowden revealed] plus
hundreds if not thousands of trace route
programs embedded in switches in the US
and around the world.
First, from deep packet inspection, they
would have the originator and ultimate
recipient (IP) of the packets plus packet
series 32 bit number identifier and all the
housekeeping data showing the network
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segments/path and time to go though the
network. And, of course, the number of
packet bits. With this they would know to
where and when the data passed.
From the data collection, they would have
all the data as it existed in the server taken
from.
That’s why I originally said if the FBI
wanted Hillary’s email, all they have to
do is ask NSA for them.
All this is done by the Narus collection
equipment in real time at line rates (620
mbps [mega bits per second,] for the STA-
6400 and 10 gbps [giga bits per second] for
the Insight equipment).
Binney explained what these numbers mean: Each Narus
Insight device can monitor and record around 1,250,000
emails each second … or more than 39 trillion emails per
year.
Wired reported in 2006:
Whistle-blower Klein allegedly learned that
AT&T was installing Narus boxes in
secure, NSA-controlled rooms in switching
centers around the country.
Binney told us there are probably 18 or so Narus recording
systems throughout the U.S. deployed by the NSA at
AT&T facilities, drawing our attention to the following
NSA document leaked by Edward Snowden:
[see on next page]
And this AT&T graphic:

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And:
Universal data collection from links,
routers, soft switches, IDS/IPS,
databases, etc. provides total network
view across the world’s largest IP
networks.
Binney also pointed me towards a couple of network
engineering principles that show that figuring out who
hacked the emails (or proving they were leaked) is well
within NSA’s capabilities.
Initially, when data is transmitted online, it is sent using
the TCP/IP Packet format. Put simply, data is not sent in a
vacuum, but rather as part of a bundle containing a lot of
other information.
Here’s the TCP part of the bundle:
And here’s the IP part of the bundle:
So any data analyst can learn a tremendous amount about
the source address of the sender, the destination address of
the receiver and a boatload of other information by using a
“packet sniffer” to inspect the “packets” of information
being sent over the web.
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Additionally, it’s simple to conduct “traceroute” searches.
“Traceroute” is a computer network diagnostic tool for
displaying the route and measuring transit delays of
packets across an Internet Protocol network.
Wired reported in 2006:
“Anything that comes through (an
internet protocol network), we can
record,” says Steve Bannerman, marketing
vice president of Narus, a Mountain View,
California, company. “We can reconstruct
all of their e-mails along with
attachments, see what web pages they
clicked on, we can reconstruct their
(voice over internet protocol) calls.”
So NSA can easily basic packet sniffers and traceroutes,
And see this.
Remember, Edward Snowden says the NSA could easily
determine who hacked the Democratic National
Committee’s emails:
If Russia hacked the #DNC, they should be condemned for
it. But during the #Sony hack, the FBI presented
evidence.
***
Even if the attackers try to obfuscate
origin, #XKEYSCORE makes following
exfiltrated data easy. I did this
personally against Chinese ops. 5:58 AM
- Jul 25, 2016
Binney told us:
Snowden is right and the MSM is
clueless.
***
Do they have evidence that the Russians downloaded and
later forwarded those emails to wikileaks? Seems to me
that they need to answer those questions to be sure that
their assertion is correct.
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You can tell from the network log who is going into a site.
I used that on networks that I had. I looked to see who
came into my LAN, where they went, how long they
stayed and what they did while in my network.
Further, if you needed to, you could trace back approaches
through other servers etc. Trace Route and Trace Watch
are good examples of monitoring software that help do
these things. Others of course exist … probably the best
are in NSA/GCHQ and the other Five Eyes countries. But,
these countries have no monopoly on smart people that
could do similar detection software.
He explained:
If it were the Russians, NSA would have
a trace route to them and not equivocate
on who did it. It’s like using “Trace Route”
to map the path of all the packets on the
network. In the program Treasuremap
NSA has hundreds of trace route programs
embedded in switches in Europe and
hundreds more around the world. So, this
set-up should have detected where the
packets went and when they went there.
He added:
As Edward Snowden said, once they have
the IP’s and/or other signatures of 28/29
[the supposed Russian hacking groups]
and DNC/HRC/etc. [i.e. the DNC and
Hillary Rodham Clinton], NSA would use
Xkeyscore to help trace data passing
across the network and show where it
went. [Background.]
In addition, since Wikileaks is (and has
been) a cast iron target for
NSA/GCHQ/etc for a number of years
there should be no excuse for them
missing data going to any one
associated with Wikileaks.
***
Too many words means they don’t have clear evidence of
how the data got to Wikileaks.
And he stressed:
If the idiots in the intelligence community
expect us to believe them after all the crap
they have told us (like WMD’s in Iraq and
“no we don’t collect data on millions or
hundreds of millions of Americans”) then
they need to give clear proof of what
.
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they say. So far, they have failed to
prove anything.
Which suggests they don’t have proof
and just want to war monger the US
public into a second cold war with the
Russians.
After all, there’s lots and lots of money in that for the
military-industrial-intelligence-governmental complex of
incestuous relationships.
***
If you recall, a few years ago they pointed to a specific
building in China that was where hacks on the US were
originating. So, let’s see the same from the Russians. They
don’t have it. That’s why they don’t show it. They want to
swindle us again and again and again. You can not trust
these intelligence agencies period.
And he told Newsweek:
U.S. officials “know how many people
[beyond the Russians] could have done
this but they aren’t telling us anything. All
they’re doing is promoting another cold
war.”
Binney … compared allegations about
Russian hacks to previous U.S. fabrications
of intelligence to justify the invasion of Iraq
in 2003 and the bombing of North Vietnam
in 1964.
“This is a big mistake, another WMD or
Tonkin Gulf affair that’s being created
until they have absolute proof” of Russian
complicity in the DNC hacks, he charged
during a Newsweek interview. He noted
that after the Kremlin denied complicity in
the downing of a Korean Airlines flight in
1983, the U.S. “exposed the conversations
where [Russian pilots] were ordered to
shoot it down.” Obama officials “have the
evidence now” of who hacked the DNC, he
charged. “So let’s see it, guys.“
NSA either doesn’t have solid evidence of Russian
hacking of DNC emails – which means the Russians didn’t
do it – or those with the power to demand NSA produce
the evidence simply haven’t asked the right questions.
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 Fusion GPS Co-Founder Leaked Dossier To Reporters In
Retaliation For Comey Reopening Clinton Email Case
By Debra Heine
November 15, 2017
Glenn R. Simpson, arrives for a scheduled appearance before a
closed House Intelligence Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in
Washington, Tuesday, Nov. 14, 2017. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez
Monsivais)
Fusion GPS co-founder Glenn Simpson refused to answer
key questions during his seven-hour closed-door
appearance Tuesday before the House Intelligence
Committee, Fox News reported Wednesday. But he did
acknowledge that he personally discussed allegations in
the Steele dossier with members of the media, even though
he did not speak to the sources behind the allegations
himself to verify whether they were true.
Moreover, he reportedly said that he leaked details from
the dirty dossier to reporters right before the 2016 election
because he was "upset" that then-FBI director James
Comey had reopened the Clinton email case.
Simpson told investigators he never spoke to the
underlying sources of the document, never traveled to
Russia and did not verify the dossier beyond comparing
the claims to “open source” media reporting.
The source said Simpson also told
investigators he was “upset” when then
FBI Director James Comey re-opened
the Hillary Clinton email investigation in
late October 2016, and Simpson wanted
to push back.
Simpson’s attorneys negotiated the details of his
appearance before the committee last week, agreeing to
voluntarily testify rather than be subpoenaed.
“Throughout this entire year, the White
House and its allies on the Hill and
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elsewhere have attempted at every turn to
smear Fusion GPS because of its
connection to the Steele dossier,”
Simpson’s attorney Joshua Levy said
Tuesday.
Levy admitted that Steele and Simpson had briefed
reporters on the dossier last year, but insisted that neither
Simpson nor Fusion GPS paid members of the media to
publish stories of any kind.
Banker turned human rights activist Bill Browder has
accused Fusion of hiring journalists to plant stories in the
media.
Fusion, meanwhile, continued to fight the Intel
Committee's request for their bank records in court on
Wednesday.
According to The Daily Caller, Steele has revealed in
court papers in London that
"he was directed by Fusion to brief
reporters at The New York Times, The
Washington Post, CNN, Yahoo! News and
The New Yorker in September 2016."
Steele also gave an interview via Skype to Mother Jones
reporter David Corn, who published an article about
Steele’s allegations on Oct. 31, 2016.
Levy maintains that the dossier is legitimate.
“What they did do is they contracted with
Christopher Steele…. This experienced
British intelligence official came back with a
report that now in hindsight looks quite
accurate,” Levy said.
Fox News is standing by its report that Simpson met with
Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya before and after the
June 2016 Trump Tower meeting with Donald Trump Jr.
and other campaign officials.
But Levy said Simpson was “shocked and surprised” when
he discovered through the media that the Trump team had
met with Veselnitskaya.

Rep. Sean Duffy (R-Wisc.) called for a special counsel to

investigate the dirty dossier, Uranium One, and the Clinton
Foundation.
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 Katy Tur Gloats Journalists Purposefully 'Shot Down'
Uranium One Stories During Campaign
By Kristine Marsh
November 16, 2017 11:11 AM EST

It goes to show you how desperate

they've become to push back on the
special counsel in the Russia
investigation and what has been coming
out and dripping out from that.

After conservative media forced the networks and liberal

cable news to finally cover the latest FBI revelations over
the Clinton Foundation’s financial dealings with Russia,
they’ve changed tactics from ignoring the story, to
dismissing it as bogus.
Fellow guest Jeremy Peters of the New York Times also
MSNBC host Katy Tur bragged on Wednesday’s dismissed the story as “political catnip” for conservatives.
Deadline: White House that the media were fully aware of
the Uranium One story, during the campaign, but
You know what it is Nicolle?
purposefully chose to ignore it.

It's the Clintons. They're political catnip

Speaking to her fellow panel of liberals and Clinton
defenders, Tur scoffed that President Trump repeatedly
tried to bring up the Uranium One story on the campaign
trail, but she, and her fellow journalists, wouldn’t take the
bait.
Tur slammed the story as a “desperate” move by Trump
since she admitted, it was a regular talking point from his
campaign in 2015 and 2016, which the media refused to
report on:
So long to bring this up, too, which is it's almost
surprising.
Donald Trump brought up Uranium One
and his ilk brought up Uranium One
during the campaign and it was shot
down so many times by me and other
reporters in our own reporting.
And then it went dark. They didn't really bring it up again
until recently.
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for this type of conservative. You see it
with the reaction to judge Moore. What
about Bill Clinton? He had relations with
an intern in the white house. They can't
help themselves. Every time there is a
Republican scandal, the answer is
always, well, what did Bill Clinton do?
What did Hillary Clinton do? You're
seeing the same thing.
While Tur added that Trump was only bringing up it again
because it was “politically expedient” for him to do so.
“When things get hairy for him, Hillary
Clinton once again. It's their way, the
Republicans' way, Donald Trump's way
of taking some of the heat off his own
shoulders,” she said dismissively.
As a reminder, on October 17, The Hill reported that
newly released documents from the FBI showed that the
Clinton Foundation received massive kickbacks from the
Obama Administration’s dealings with Russia over the
Uranium One deal, to the tune of millions of dollars, all the
while Hillary Clinton was Secretary of State. The newly
corroborated information was widely reported by
conservative blogs and Fox News, last month but the
allegations that the Clintons benefitted financially from the
deal was confirmed by the New York Times back in 2015.
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So for all MSNBC and CNN’s fretting that Uranium One
is a “dumb conspiracy theory” “clown show” and a
“debunked” “closed case,” their eagerness to silence the
supposed non-story speaks volumes.
 Here Are Some Revelations From
New Book About The Steele Dossier
Chuck Ross - Reporter
9:32 PM 11/16/2017
A new book out by Guardian journalist Luke Harding
provides previously unknown details about the Trump
dossier and its author, former British spy Christopher
Steele.
Harding offers a sympathetic and largely uncritical look at
Steele and the dossier, which was commissioned by
opposition research firm Fusion GPS and funded by the
Clinton campaign and DNC.
Steele’s 35-page report remains largely uncorroborated,
and Trump and members of his campaign have denied the
most salacious allegations laid out in the report.
While Harding defends the dossier against those denials,
his book, “Collusion: Secret Meetings, Dirty Money,
and How Russia Helped Donald Trump Win,” does help
fill in some gaps in how Steele compiled his anti-Trump
research, which BuzzFeed News published to much
controversy on Jan. 10.
Here are a few revelations from the book, which hit
shelves on Thursday.
Steele first began investigating Paul Manafort
According to Harding, after Fusion GPS hired Steele in
spring 2016, the former MI6 officer began his project by
investigating Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort’s
business activities.
Fusion took on the project after being hired in April 2016
by Perkins Coie, the law firm that represented the Clinton
campaign and DNC.
“In early spring 2016, Simpson approached
Steele. Steele started to scrutinize Paul
Manafort, Trump’s new campaign
manager,” writes Harding.
Manafort is mentioned only twice in the dossier. Steele
alleges that he directed the Trump campaign effort to
collude with Russian operatives.
Manafort left the campaign in Aug. 2016 after reports
surfaced about his consulting work for a pro-Russia
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Ukrainian political party. He has since been indicted for
money laundering by Special Counsel Robert Mueller.
New details about the surveillance
warrant against Trump campaign
adviser Carter Page
Harding reports new details about what information was
included in a Justice Department application for a Foreign
Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrant against
Carter Page, a former Trump campaign adviser who had
visited Moscow in July 2016 and is featured prominently
in the dossier.
The Washington Post reported earlier this year that a FISA
warrant was authorized against Page last September, just
after he left the Trump campaign.
The evidence presented by the government for that warrant
has remained a closely held secret, though there have been
reports that the dossier was cited in the request. Page
vehemently denies the allegations made against him in the
dossier and has argued that the federal government broke
the law by relying on Steele’s “dodgy dossier” to spy on
him.
In the dossier, Steele alleges that Page, an energy
consultant, met in secret with two Putin allies during his
Moscow trip as part of the alleged campaign collusion
scheme. The dossier also accuses Page of working with
Manafort on the effort. Page has denied ever talking to
Manafort or of meeting the Kremlin officials that the
dossier alleges he colluded with.
According to Harding, the FISA application cited contacts
that Page has had in the past with Russian operatives.
It has previously been reported that in 2013, Page, an
energy consultant and former banker, was approached by a
covert Russian spy as part of an apparent recruitment
attempt. Page cooperated with the FBI in the case.
Page’s testimony was included in the FISA warrant
application, according to Harding.
Harding also revealed that the FISA application cited
 “further meetings with Russian operatives
that had not been publicly disclosed.”
The author did not elaborate on those meetings.
Dossier allegations about Page were
shared with top lawmakers
The allegations about Page that were made in the dossier
“figured prominently” in classified briefings provided to a
small group of lawmakers in Aug. 2016, according to
Harding.
“In a classified briefing to congressional
leaders in late August Page’s name figured
prominently. The CIA and FBI were sifting
through a mount of intercept material
featuring Page, much of it ‘Russians talking
to Russians,’ according to one former
National Security Council member,”
Harding writes.
One of the lawmakers who received those briefings was
then-Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid.
Reid would later send a letter to then-FBI Director James
Comey referring to “disturbing” information he had
learned about contacts between the Trump campaign and
Russian operatives.
According to Harding, Reid was referring to the
allegations made in the dossier about Page.
Clinton campaign member emailed
reporter about Trump sex allegations
Harding reported that he was contacted by a member of the
Clinton campaign who laid out allegations that Trump had
used prostitutes in Moscow. Steele’s June 20, 2016 dossier
memo makes similar unverified claims.
The outreach establishes for the first time that someone on
the Clinton campaign attempted to peddle unfounded
rumors about Trump to the press. Harding did not identify
the campaign official.
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He wrote:
“In October an email written by a person in
the Clinton camp reached my inbox. It set
out some of the unproven allegations
against Trump, including sex with
prostitutes in Moscow. The email said the
claims came from a source inside the FSB.
This was not Steele’s work, but some of it
echoes the dossier.”
Reporters at competing outlets
cooperated on anti-Trump efforts
In the book, Harding describes how reporters at competing
outlets rallied together as part of an effort to expose
Trump’s alleged Russia ties.
“There was healthy competition still, but
reporters on different titles began working
together on some stories. There were
formal press consortiums and ad hoc
conversations between onetime rivals,”
Harding writes.
“I talked to The New York Times, The
Washington Post, the Financial Times in
London, Reuters, Mother Jones, The Daily
Beast, CNN, and others. Such
conversations took place in New York,
Washington, London, Munich, and
Sarajevo. Some happened in glossy
conference rooms, others in the corners of
pubs over warm ale.”
Steele did not want BuzzFeed to publish
the dossier
Steele has revealed in London court filings that he did not
distribute the dossier to anyone outside of Fusion GPS,
British intelligence, Arizona Sen. John McCain and one of
his associates, David Kramer.
And according to Harding’s book, Steele appeared to have
been upset by BuzzFeed’s decision to publish the
document.
“Steele hadn’t wanted his dossier to be published. Buzzfeed
were ‘tossers,'” a friend of Steele’s told Harding.
Fusion GPS founder Glenn Simpson
gave a copy of the dossier to McCain
It has been previously reported that McCain was aware of
the dossier before it was published by BuzzFeed on Jan.
10. He was told of its existence in Nov. 2016 by Sir
Andrew Wood, a former British ambassador and associate
of Steele’s. It was also known that a copy was passed to
McCain and his associate, David Kramer.
What was not known was that McCain was provided a shared a copy of the dossier confidentially
final copy of the dossier directly by Simpson, the former with McCain.”
Wall Street Journal reporter who started Fusion GPS.
McCain’s spokeswoman did not respond to The Daily
“Les than twenty-four hours later, Kramer Caller’s request for comment.
returned to Washington. Next, Simpson
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 MRC’s Gainor: ‘Media Have Been
Trying’ To Impeach Trump Since Election
By Corinne Weaver
November 16, 2017 10:57 AM EST

“The media are trying to craft a narrative so

it makes Trump look bad,” according to
MRC Vice President of Business and
Culture Dan Gainor.
He spoke to Fox Business anchor Trish Regan on The
Intelligence Report Nov. 14, about a recent exposé
published by The Atlantic accusing Donald Trump Jr. of
corresponding with Wikileaks a total of three times.
He pointed out also that media continue ignoring stories
surrounding Hillary Clinton and Russia because it does not
fit their agenda, while “trying to craft narratives” that
make the president look bad.
When Regan brought up the Clinton/Steele dossier, funded
by the Clinton campaign as an attempt to link Trump to
Russia, Gainor warned that the media will ignore that story
too and

“they’ve done everything they can to

suppress it.”

Regan also asked why no one really paid attention to the

efforts being made to pass tax cuts in Congress. Gainor
attributed that to their disregard for people’s priorities and
their own ambitions to impeach Trump.

“The American people — nobody cares

about us. The media have been trying ever
since Trump won to impeach him,” he said.
According to the left-wing magazine, Trump Jr. sent three
messages in response to the attempts by Wikileaks to play Gainor added,
a role in the election. Gainor reacted, “This is where we
are in 2017, where three messages on Twitter is a national “From day one, not even since he took
conspiracy!” office, but literally since he won, they’ve
been working with the deep state. You
Gainor criticized the liberal media for attempting to notice how that term has disappeared from
damage the Trump name instead of reporting facts, the press? When the major media started
using it, the conservative media started
“They’re ignoring the real story because it using it. All these leaks come from the
benefits them. The real story is these deep state. And they are going right to the
things keep leaking.” press. The press loves it because it gives
them headlines and it helps them target
“Don Jr. gave this information as he was Trump. It’s a symbiotic relationship.”
supposed to, and then it leaks to the press
because some people in the investigation
are trying to take down the Trump
administration with public scorn and media
support, instead of actually doing the
investigation like they are supposed to,”
Gainor continued. “So he’s got to respond
out in public on Twitter because that’s the
way this game is being played, it’s being
played behind closed doors, and the media
are part of the players.”

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 More Than A Dozen Trump
Campaign Officials Subpoenaed By Special
Counsel Mueller
By Usafeaturesmedia
Posted On November 17, 2017
The paper also called the subpoena the “first official order”
for information from the campaign
(National Sentinel) Russian Probe: Special counsel
Robert Mueller has issued subpoenas to at least a dozen
former Trump campaign officials, taking officials by
surprise after the campaign said it would voluntarily
cooperate with his probe, The Wall Street Journal reported
Thursday, citing a source.
The paper also called the subpoena the “first official order”
for information from the campaign, which responded to the
order on an “ongoing” basis, said the source.
.
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No one who was subpoenaed was compelled to testify
before a grand jury, the paper said.
“Sending a subpoena to an entity that says
it has been cooperating with document
requests isn’t unusual in cases in which
prosecutors have some concern that their
demands aren’t being met promptly or
aren’t being entirely fulfilled,” the Journal
wrote, citing former prosecutors.
Mueller has been tasked by the Department of Justice to
look into alleged attempts by the Russian government to
interfere in the 2016 election, as well as possible collusion
with President Donald J. Trump’s campaign.
Trump and many of his former campaign associates have
regularly denied colluding with Russia to ‘steal’ the
election from Democratic rival Hillary Clinton.
And thus far, after more than a year’s worth of
investigating by the former Obama administration and now
Mueller, there has been no evidence found that has been
publicly released.
 Blue State Blues: After 300 Days,
Trump Administration Finds A Rhythm
By Joel B. Pollak
17 Nov 2017
Thursday, November 16 marked 300
days since President Donald Trump
took office on January 20. The third 100
days were even more tumultuous than
the first 100 and second 100.
And much remains undone. There are still jobs to fill,
promises to keep, and bills to sign. Trump has yet to notch
a major legislative achievement (thanks, in part, to
infighting and incompetence in Congress).
But the Trump administration seems, at last, to have found
a rhythm.
If the first 100 days were defined by Trump’s executive
orders, and the second 100 days by the controversy over
James Comey and the Russia investigation, the third 100
days were largely defined by foreign policy.
In early August — day 201 — Trump offered North Korea
his infamous warning of “fire and fury like the world has
never seen.” By day 295, he was mocking Kim Jong-un as
“short and fat,” which probably represents a sort of
progress.
At the same time, Trump announced the deployment of
additional troops to Afghanistan, breaking with his own
rhetoric on the campaign trail and risking the support of
his political base, which worried that he had given in to
advisers from the Beltway “swamp.” (Conversely,
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Washington praised Trump’s decision.) The major
difference between Trump’s “surge” and that of his
predecessor was that Trump declined to give a date for
withdrawal.
Perhaps the greatest challenge of the third 100 days was
the Charlottesville controversy. White supremacists, neo-
Nazis, and KKK members descended on the town to
protest the removal of a statue honoring Confederate
general Robert E. Lee. At a Saturday demonstration
following a Friday night torchlight parade, they clashed
violently with left-wing Antifa activists. A right-wing
extremist drove his car into the Antifa procession, killing a
young woman.
Trump condemned the violence on all sides, but was
criticized for not singling out the right-wing extremists (as
if he had a special duty to dissociate himself from them).
He issued a second, sharper statement, then clashed with
reporters at Trump Tower, adding that there were “fine
people” even among those protesting to preserve the
statue. He was correct — as even the New York
Times reported — but the controversy shook the White
House for weeks.
But if Charlottesville created new concerns about
America’s political and racial divisions, Hurricane Harvey,
which hit Texas in late August, showed “neighbor helping
neighbor, friend helping friend, and stranger helping
stranger,” in Trump’s words. He received high marks for
his response to Harvey, and to Hurricane Irma in Florida.
Hurricane Maria, which ripped Puerto Rico, was a bigger
challenge — but largely because of conditions unique to
the island.
Trump also played the role of comforter-in-chief after
dozens were killed in a mass shooting at a country music
festival in Las Vegas, where a killer fired on the crowd
from his hotel room. A few weeks later, New York
suffered its worst terror attack since 9/11 when a Muslim
immigrant from Uzbekistan killed pedestrians and
bicyclists with a pickup truck in lower Manhattan. Trump
called for an end to the diversity visa program that had
admitted the killer.
Throughout the third 100 days, Trump made a number of
important policy decisions in fulfillment of his campaign
promises. The most important was his decision to end
Barack Obama’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals
(DACA) — the so-called “Dream Act by fiat” — on
constitutional grounds. But Trump gave Congress a chance
to legalize it, worrying supporters that he would cave,
though the new border wall prototypes offered some
solace.
In addition, Trump chipped away at the architecture of
Obamacare, which the Senate had failed to repeal earlier in
the year. He rescinded the mandate that had required
insurers to provide contraceptives, including abortifacient
drugs.
He also issued an executive order allowing health
insurance companies to offer cheap, short-term policies,
and also announced an end to
the unconstitutional subsidies to insurance companies,
pending a congressional fix.
The president also de-certified the Iran deal, demanding
that Congress find a way to strengthen it against Iran’s
development of nuclear-capable ballistic missiles and its
support for terrorist groups.
The administration ended the Obama administration’s
Clean Power Plan, which critics said was not only
unconstitutional but would also be devastating for the coal
industry. And Trump declared the abuse of opioids a
national public health emergency.
Remarkably, Trump’s victory in the fight over his “travel
ban” went largely unheralded. In October, the Supreme
Court tossed out the case against his executive order
limiting travel from several terror-prone countries, noting
that the ban had been changed significantly. Effectively,
the Court’s delay earlier in the year gave time for the
Trump administration to complete the terms of the original
order and revise it. Challenges continued, but with little
impact.
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Meanwhile, the Russia investigation faltered. Though
Special Counsel Robert Mueller indicted one of Trump’s
former campaign managers, Paul Manafort, the charges
had nothing to do with “collusion.” Junior foreign policy
adviser George Papadopoulos pleaded guilty to lying to the
FBI, but that was all.
The tables were turned as the public learned that the
Clinton campaign and the Democrats had funded the
Russian “dossier” through Fusion GPS.
The third 100 days were also marked by political turmoil,
as chief strategist Steve Bannon left the White House and
returned to Breitbart. Trump clashed openly with Senate
Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and other
establishment figures, several of whom announced their
retirements. In Alabama, insurgent Judge Roy Moore
defeated Trump-endorsed incumbent Sen. Luther Strange
— an outcome that is still rocking the political world.
In Hollywood, movie mogul Harvey Weinstein was
accused of sexual harassment and assault over decades,
setting off a tidal wave of allegations against other stars
and power players. The wave soon crashed over
Washington, DC, as the Washington Post reported
allegations that Roy Moore had improper relationships
with young women several decades before — and
members of Congress began to come forward about sexual
harassment on Capitol Hill.
Meanwhile, the economy boomed, with growth surging to
3.1% in the third quarter. The stock markets soared, hitting
constant new records. Trump’s overall approval was
dismally low, but economic confidence at its highest level
in decades, with tax reform potentially on the horizon.
It was a performance Trump touted on his visit to Asia, the
longest by a U.S. president since the early 1990s. After
300 days, it seemed he had finally found his groove.
 WOW! Book Ties Fusion GPS, John McCain &
Mainstream Media To ‘Trump Dossier’ As
New Details Emerge
By Joshua Caplan
Friday, November 17, 2017

In yet another twist to the ‘Trump
dossier,’ saga, we now learn that Fusion
GPS Co-founder Glenn Simpson
personally gave Senator John McCain
(R-AZ) a copy of the now discredited
dossier. Earlier reports suggested that
McCain was made aware of the dossier
from British associates, but was never
in possession of the document’s final
draft.
by Simpson, the former Wall Street Journal
reporter who started Fusion GPS.
“Les than twenty-four hours later, Kramer
returned to Washington. Next, Simpson
shared a copy of the dossier confidentially
with McCain.”
McCain’s spokeswoman did not respond to The Daily
Caller’s request for comment.

In a section of Ross’ piece subtitled “Reporters At

Competing Outlets Cooperated On Anti-Trump
Efforts,” it’s reveals that mainstream media reports,
fiercely competitive over scoops and exclusives, colluded
together in an effort to push Trump-Russia hysteria.

Daily Caller has more:

In the book, Harding describes how reporters at competing

outlets rallied together as part of an effort to expose
Trump’s alleged Russia ties.
“A new book out by Guardian journalist
“There was healthy competition still, but
Luke Harding ["Collusion: Secret
reporters on different titles began working
Meetings, Dirty Money, and How Russia
together on some stories. There were
Helped Donald Trump Win,”] provides
formal press consortiums and ad hoc
previously unknown details about the
conversations between onetime rivals,”
Trump dossier and its author, former British
Harding writes.
spy Christopher Steele,” writes the Daily
Caller’s Chuck Ross. “I talked to The New York Times, The
Washington Post, the Financial Times in
Daily Caller reports: London, Reuters, Mother Jones, The Daily
Beast, CNN, and others. Such
conversations took place in New York,
It has been previously reported that
Washington, London, Munich, and
McCain was aware of the dossier before it
Sarajevo. Some happened in glossy
was published by BuzzFeed on Jan. 10. He
conference rooms, others in the corners of
was told of its existence in Nov. 2016 by Sir
pubs over warm ale.”
Andrew Wood, a former British
ambassador and associate of Steele’s. It
was also known that a copy was passed to Not only did Fusion GPS give McCain a copy of the
McCain and his associate, David Kramer. dossier, but its contents helped spur an arms race of sorts
for Trump-Russia collusion stories.
What was not known was that McCain was
provided a final copy of the dossier directly
The comes amid reports John Podesta told investigators
that he met with Fusion GPS about the dossier.
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 The revelation is raising eyebrows as
Podesta told Congress that he didn’t know
who paid for opposition research firm for
the shoddy ‘intel.’
Chuck Ross of the Daily Caller notes
“The Times report does not say whether
Podesta and Simpson discussed the
.
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Clinton campaign’s involvement in the
dossier project.”
Simpson spoke with House investigators in a closed-door
meeting Tuesday. As The Gateway Pundit previously
reported, Fox News’ Catherine Herridge says Simpson
failed to verify the dossier’s claims prior to handing it off
to clients.
 John Podesta Pens Op-Ed On Washington Post After Jeff
Sessions Hints At Special Counsel For Uranium-One Deal
John Podesta Is In “Panic Mode”
By Alex Christoforou
November 17, 2017, 15:39
Clinton mafia top boss John Podesta is
panicking over news that Attorney General
Jeff Sessions said a special counsel for the
Clinton-Uranium-One deal may be called.
Podesta sought safe refuge to deliver his lies on the Jeff
Bezos-CIA funded Washington Post.
Via The Gateway Pundit…
Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign chair is in
‘panic mode,’ after reports Attorney
General Jeff Sessions is weighing a special
counsel to investigate the Uranium-One
deal.
According to Fox News, the Justice
Department head ordered senior federal
prosecutors to evaluate whether or not a
special counsel should investigate the
Uranium One deal and “alleged unlawful
dealings related to the Clinton Foundation.”
Podesta penned an unhinged op-ed after
the news, accusing President Trump and
AG Sessions of attempting to turn the U.S.
into a banana republic.
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Podesta wrote in the Washington Post…
Okay, it’s official. President Trump wants to
upend 230 years of constitutional history
and principle to run the U.S. justice system
like a banana republic, or perhaps more
aptly like what now passes for the rule of
law in the country he aspires to emulate,
the Russian Federation. What the
Founding Fathers built with a written
Constitution and 85 Federalist Papers, the
president is trying to tear down 140 or 280
characters at a time.
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This week, it was reported that Attorney General Jeff
Sessions — in an apparent effort to appease Trump — is
considering appointing a special counsel to investigate
Clinton’s role in approving the purchase of Uranium One,
a company that owned uranium mines in the United States,
by Russia’s nuclear energy agency. This is what
authoritarians and tyrants do. They use the instruments of
state power, particularly the wrath of the prosecutor, to
rain opprobrium down upon citizens with whom they
disagree. It is what Putin did by using the Russian penal
system to break the back of Sergei Magnitsky’s anti-
corruption campaign and end his life. Our constitutional
system of limited power, checks and balances and
individual rights has protected us from such abuses of
power. Trump is putting that system to the test.
***
[I]f Sessions yields to pressure from the
president and the president’s House
Republican allies, it will be a dark day at
the department I once proudly served. The
rule of law will have been weakened, and
our country will be in further peril.
 Report: Fusion GPS Founder Never Even Verified Dossier
Claims Before Peddling Document To Reporters
By Cristina Laila
Friday, November 17, 2017
Fusion GPS co-founder Glenn Simpson
spoke with House investigators in a
closed-door meeting Tuesday. Fox
News’ Catherine Herridge reports
Simpson never even verified the Dossier
claims before peddling the document to
reporters.
Fox News reports:
The co-founder of the firm behind the anti-
Trump ‘dossier’ told House investigators
Tuesday that he personally discussed with
members of the media allegations of
Trump-Russia collusion, though he did not
speak to the sources behind the claims, a
source told Fox News.
But the source said Simpson
acknowledged he did not personally look
into certain aspects of the dossier — which
was authored by former British intelligence
officer Christopher Steele and contained
salacious allegations about the Trump
team’s ties to Russia.
Simpson told investigators he never spoke
to the underlying sources of the document,
never traveled to Russia and did not verify
the dossier beyond comparing the claims to
“open source” media reporting.
Herridge also said that her source told her that Glenn
Simpson was “upset” when Comey re-opened Hillary’s
email investigation at the end of October and wanted to
push back.
And he did…
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On October 31st, 2016 with just days to go until election
day, David Corn of Mother Jones broke the story of a
‘veteran spy’ who gave the FBI information on Trump’s
alleged connections to Russia. Christopher Steele, British
spy and author of the garbage dossier was not named in
this Mother Jones report. Only hints of the dossier were
published; the salacious claims were omitted.
Hillary Clinton was disappointed the entire dossier hadn’t
been published in full prior to the election. After all, she
paid millions of dollars for the smear document.
The author of the dossier, Christopher Steele was also
desperate to get the salacious document out to the public.
He told David Corn of Mother Jones, “The story has to
come out.”
A week later, Hillary Clinton and the Democrats were in
utter shock when Trump won the presidential election.
Desperate to delegitimatize him, BuzzFeed published the
entire dossier on January 10th, right before the
inauguration.
According to the Washington Post, the FBI agreed to pay
the British Spy who compiled the garbage dossier after the
election to continue to dig up dirt on Trump and Russia.
The FBI pulled out of this arrangement once the author of
the dossier, Christopher Steele was publicly identified in
media reports.
Comey FBI also used the largely debunked Trump dossier,
which alleged Russian ties to the President’s campaign
associates, to convince a judge to grant them a FISA
warrant, allowing them to secretly monitor Trump
campaign official Carter Page.
All of this happened without the dossier
being verified!
 OOPS: James Comey’s Subtweeting
Of Trump Comes Back To Bite Him BADLY
By Jacob B.
Posted At 5:05 Pm On November 19, 2017

James Comey’s life now seems to consist of using quotes

from historical figures to constantly subtweet President
Trump. Here is what he put out today, undoubtedly in
response to Trump’s firing back at LaVar Ball.

That’s a tremendous quote. Too bad Comey didn’t follow

it himself when he was in charge of the FBI.

Has James Comey ever been accused of being a good

leader?

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Related:

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 Top NSA Whistleblower Claims
‘Russiagate’ A Fake To Increase War-Spending
Eric ZUESSE
19.11.2017
William Binney is the mathematician and Russia-
specialist, who quit the NSA in 2001 as its global
Technical Director for geopolitical analysis, because of the
lying about, and manipulations of, intelligence, that he saw
— distortions of intelligence by the George W. Bush
Administration — in order to ‘justify’ systematic, massive,
and all-encompassing, Government snooping into all
Americans’ private electronic communications. His, and
some colleagues’, efforts to get the Inspector General of
the US Department of Defense to investigate the matter,
produced FBI raids into their homes, and seizures of their
computers, so as to remove incriminating evidence they
might have against higher-ups. According to Binney,
NSA's Director, Michael Hayden, had vetoed in August
2001 a far less intrusive and more effective system of
signals-intelligence collection and analysis, which might
have enabled the 9/11 attacks to be blocked — a more
effective system that would have been less expensive, less
intrusive, and not violated Americans’ Constitutional
rights. Hayden went on to head the CIA, until the end of
George W. Bush’s Presidency. Afterward, Hayden joined
the Chertoff Group and other military-industrial-complex
contractors of the US federal Government. There were no
such rewards for any of the whistleblowers.
Binney viewed Hillary Clinton as continuing George W.
Bush’s neoconservatism, and so, though reluctantly, voted
for Donald Trump in the 2016 election.
On November 15th, an interview of Binney was published
at the Washingtonsblog news-site, titled “How to
Instantly Prove (Or Disprove) Russian Hacking of US
Election”, in which Binney provides technical details to
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explain why he strongly believes that the Democratic
Party’s allegations, which say that Russia was the source
of the leaks of information from the computers of the
Democratic National Committee and from Hillary
Clinton’s campaign manager John Podesta, are nothing
more than intentional concoctions and distortions, which
are backed and promoted by America’s military-industrial
complex, whose stock-values rise accordingly with the
lies.
He believes,
there’s a huge part of the story that the
entire mainstream media is missing …
Specifically, Binney says that the NSA has
long had in its computers information which
can prove exactly who hacked the DNC …
or instead prove that the DNC emails were
leaked by a Democratic insider. …
And he stressed:
If the idiots in the intelligence community
expect us to believe them after all the crap
they have told us (like WMD’s in Iraq and
“no we don’t collect data on millions or
hundreds of millions of Americans”)
then they need to give clear proof of
what they say. So far, they have failed to
prove anything.
Which suggests they don’t have proof
and just want to war monger the US
public into a second cold war with the
Russians.
After all, there’s lots and lots of money in
that for the military-industrial-intelligence-
governmental complex of incestuous
relationships.
His technical explanation of how he came to this
conclusion, is provided in that Washingtonsblog article. He
doesn't think that the elements within the intelligence
community which are promoting the Russiagate
allegations can possibly be so stupid as to actually believe
what they are saying. He claims that they know that what
they are saying is false, because if it weren’t false, then
they could provide, to the public, evidence that it is true,
and do it without violating anyone’s rights, nor revealing
any legitimate US national-security information.
Basically, he is saying that the keepers of the keys are
blocking the public from the truth, because they know that
the truth will expose the fact that they’ve been lying to the
public, all along.
His technical explanation of the details employs a number
of undefined terms, which aren’t understandable to persons
who are not themselves technically knowledgeable about
the field, such as his saying:
First, from deep packet inspection, they
would have the originator and ultimate
recipient (IP) of the packets plus packet
series 32 bit number identifier and all the
housekeeping data showing the network
segments/path and time to go though the
network. And, of course, the number of
packet bits. With this they would know to
where and when the data passed.
From the data collection, they would have
all the data as it existed in the server taken
from. That’s why I originally said if the FBI
wanted Hillary’s email, all they have to
do is ask NSA for them.
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All this is done by the Narus collection
equipment in real time at line rates (620
mbps [mega bits per second,] for the STA-
6400 and 10 gbps [giga bits per second] for
the Insight equipment).
Binney explained what these numbers
mean: Each Narus Insight device can
monitor and record around 1,250,000
emails each second … or more than 39
trillion emails per year.
However, no one who is promoting the Russiagate
allegations is taking him on, to debate Binney’s
allegations. Instead, all of the newsmedia are plastered
with allegations of ‘Russia’s meddling in American
democracy’.
There are people who know what the terms that Binney is
using refer to. But, thus far, none of these people is saying
that Binney is a liar. Instead, they’ve all just been ignoring
him — and none of the major newsmedia have been
inviting Binney and the promoters of the military-
industrial-complex’s position onto their forums in order to
debate these issues in public. It’s just like the situation was
about ‘Saddam’s WMD,’ in 2002 and 2003 prior to our
invasion and destruction of Iraq as a supposed ‘response’
to the 9/11 attacks.
 DEEP STATE CRIMINALS=> FBI And DOJ Did NOT
Verify Phony Trump Dossier Before Requesting FISA Spy
Warrant On Trump Campaign
By Jim Hoft
Monday, November 20, 2017
This is just stunning.
The FBI and CIA did not verify the anti-
Trump dossier before they began
spying on the Trump campaign.
And the dossier was all a complete lie.
Fusion GPS co-founder Glenn Simpson
reportedly never even verified the
Dossier claims before peddling the
document to reporters.
These people should all be prosecuted
and punished.
Instead many of these same operatives are still in office
and still working against the president.
The Washington Examiner reported:
FBI and Justice Department officials have
told congressional investigators in recent
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days that they have not been able to verify
or corroborate the substantive allegations
of collusion between Russia and the Trump
campaign outlined in the Trump dossier.
The FBI received the first installment of the dossier in July
2016. It received later installments as they were written at
the height of the presidential campaign, which means the
bureau has had more than a year to investigate the
allegations in the document. The dossier was financed by
the Hillary Clinton campaign and compiled by former
British spy Christopher Steele.
An August 24, 2017 subpoena from the House Intelligence
Committee to the FBI and Justice Department asked for
information on the bureau’s efforts to validate the dossier.
Specifically, the subpoena demanded “any documents, if
they exist, that memorialize DOJ and/or FBI efforts to
corroborate, validate, or evaluate information provided by
Mr. Steele and/or sub-sources and/or contained in the
‘Trump Dossier.'”
According to sources familiar with the matter, neither the
FBI nor the Justice Department has provided documents in
response to that part of the committee’s subpoena. But in
face-to-face briefings with congressional staff, according
to those sources,
FBI and DOJ officials have said they
cannot verify the dossier’s charges of a
conspiracy between the Russian
government and the Trump campaign.
 Revenge Of The Deplorables - Trump Haters Blacklisted,
Accused, Fired And Under Investigation
By Susan Duclos - All News Pipeline
November 20, 2017
Trying to keep up with how many die-hard Trump haters
are now so busy defending themselves, trying to save their
own careers, infighting among themselves, fighting off
bipartisan actions against them, has become a full time job
in itself, yet as we see daily reports of yet another hater put
into the crosshairs, we can't help but think we are watching
the "Revenge of the Deplorables."
Reference: "you could put half of Trump's
supporters into what I call the basket of
deplorables." - Hillary Clinton, LGBT Gala
in New York City on Sept. 9, 2016.
BLACKLISTED IN AMERICA
The latest Trump hater in the spotlight is the has-been
comedian Kathy Griffin, who thought it would be "funny"
to pose in a video and share an image of her holding a
bloody mock head of President Trump back in May 2017,
which cost her first her New Years gig with CNN, all
around criticism, and all of her U.S.A. tour dates, as
cancellation after cancellation hit her schedule, until there
was nothing left.
She then hired "Fame Whore" lawyer Lisa Bloom and
gave a tearful press conference, which didn't help matters,
as soon Griffin and Bloom were in a very public falling out
over the disastrous presser.
On Saturday Griffin posted a video to her YouTube
channel titled "State of the Union," where she explained
she was on a "world tour" but it was getting ready to end
and complained that she was in the "middle of a
Hollywood blacklist," while whining "when I get home, I
do not have one single day of paid work in front of me."
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“At 57, I don’t have a lot of time to be
patient. Don’t be too hard on me. I’m fully in
the middle of a Hollywood blacklist,” she
added. “I just want you guys to know, when
I get home, I do not have one single day of
paid work in front of me.”
“And people that want me to go back and
start in [comedy] clubs and do ten minutes
again, I don’t mean to be an a**hole, but
no. I’m not going to do that,” she continued.
“I’ve worked way too hard to go back and
work for free and do the club scene
again…this is the bullsh*t, because I’ve
been blacklisted.”
“I’m not going to lie. It’s going to be hard
when I go home and I don’t have one show
in my future,” Griffin explained. “I think I
should be able to get my life back. So, I
know I took a picture that offended a lot of
people, but this wall of crap has never
fallen on any woman in the history of
America the way it has on me.”
HOORAY FOR HOLLYWOOD........
The list of Hollywood celebrities being accused of sexual
misconduct continues to grow. Yet another "group" where
the majority in the industry, the loudest and most
obnoxious subset, continually told Americans that because
of their "fame" they needed to gather together and tell
Americans who they should vote for and when that didn't
work, took to the DC streets to "protest," the inauguration
of President Trump.
Well, they aren't quite as busy bashing the president now
because they are involved in an industry-wide implosion
the likes of which has never been seen before, which
started with movie mogul Harvey Weinstein and has now
engulfed dozens of so-called celebrities including, but not
limited to:
 Actor Kevin Spacey;
 Celebrity chef John Besh;
 Comedian Louis C.K;
 Cinefamily executives Hadrian Belove and Shadie
Elnashai;
 Actor Richard Dreyfuss;
 Director-producer Gary Goddard;
 Casting employee Andy Henry;
 Actor Dustin Hoffman;
 Actor Robert Knepper;
 Showrunner Andrew Kreisberg;
 Actor Jeremy Piven;
 Filmmaker Brett Ratner;
 Comedy festival organizer Gilbert Rozon;
 Producer Chris Savino;
 Actor Tom Sizemore;
 Actor Jeffrey Tambor;
 Actor George Takei;
 Writer-director James Toback;
 Hollywood executive Adam Venit, and;
 “Mad Men” creator Matthew Weiner;
 Actor Ed Westwick.
The claims against these celebrities range from the
umbrella term "sexual misconduct" to rape, molestation,
abuse and even pedophilia.
It is being reported that in Los Angeles the LAPD are
investigating nearly two dozen cases of alleged criminal
sexual misconduct connected to multiple people within the
entertainment industry, where
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"Allegations span from misdemeanor
sexual battery to felony rape, and in many
cases, there are multiple complaints lodged
against the same individual," according to
NBC News.
Today we see that two more names have been added to the
list as "Live! With Kelly and Ryan" co-host Ryan
Seacrest and hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons are among
the latest to be accused of sexual misconduct," as reported
by Syracuse.com, celebrity news.
MEDIA IN THE CROSSHAIRS......
Yet another industry that spent the entire presidential
campaign season attempting to influence voters, is the
mainstream media, from outright fake news, to selectively
editing quotes from the then-candidate Donald Trump, to
providing over 80 percent negative coverage of his
campaign, is now engulfed in a number of their own sexual
misconduct scandals, as well as yet more humiliating
corrections and retractions over regular political reporting.
A poorly worded Wall Street Journal report was widely
misinterpreted, then those false reports were spread from
CNN, The Washington Post, Newsweek, The Independent,
The Guardian, and Vice News, most of whom eventually
offered corrections after the story had already gone viral.
A widely-reported claim that a Polish
nationalist march in Warsaw Saturday
featured a banner calling for an “Islamic
holocaust” can be traced back to an
inaccurate Wall Street Journal report, a
Daily Caller News Foundation investigation
revealed.
Unclear and incorrect language in TheWSJ
report led to rampant inaccuracies in
reports published by CNN, The Washington
Post, Newsweek, The Independent, The
Guardian, and Vice News. These reports,
most of which were traced back to CNN’s
report, claimed a banner at a Polish
nationalist march in Warsaw over the
 weekend read “pray for an Islamic
holocaust,” despite the fact that the last
time such a banner was seen in the Polish
capital was in 2015.
Without clarifying a specific time but
supposedly referring to an incident two
years ago, TheWSJ claimed Saturday that
the banner “appeared over a bridge in
Warsaw,” although it actually appeared in
the city of Poznan. This mistake, which
TheWSJ corrected Wednesday, appeared
to cause confusion among numerous
reporters, who assumed that the banner
appeared at Saturday’s rally.
On top of just the latest in "fake news" reporting, the
industry is also seeing a massive backlash after the
publishing of the "Sh*tty Media Men" list which was
shared privately with a number of women in the industry,
detailing "bad behavior" of their male colleagues, used as a
whisper network to warn newcomers of sexual predators in
their midst. While some of the allegations were utterly
ridiculous in nature, such as intermingling men that
"flirted" with others accused of things like actual rape and
abuse, other allegations have proven to be true as
resignations and firings in some of the outlets named on
the list have hit the news.
Since the existence of the list, some of the more high
profile names that have either resigned, been fired, or are
subject to internal investigations, or being accused of
sexual harassment, include, but are not limited to:
 NBC News Journalist Mark Halperin;
 New Republic publisher Hamilton Fish;
 NPR news chief Michael Oreskes;
 Amazon executive Roy Price;
 Rolling Stone publisher Jann Wenner;
 NBC News booker Matt Zimmerman;
 Webster Public Relations CEO Kirt Webster;
 Billboard magazine executive Stephen Blackwell;
 Penguin Random House art director Giuseppe
Castellano; Mother Jones David Corn,
 Vox Media Editorial Director Lockhart Steele,
 Sam Kriss whose work has appeared in publications
including VICE, The Guardian, The Atlantic, Slate, The
Baffler and the New York Times,
 GQ (formerly Gentlemen's Quarterly), Rupert Myers,
 VICE writer Michael Hafford.
The latest reports showing this is an ongoing and growing
scandal for the MSM, now includes NPR's board
chairman, Roger LaMay "is the subject of a complaint
filed with NPR alleging past inappropriate behavior,"
reported on by NPR.
Related: ‘Unsafe and Just Plain Dirty’: Women Accuse
Vice of ‘Toxic’ Sexual-Harassment Culture
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Just for entertainment purposes, a recent Raw Story video
from November 19, shows a CNN reporter in Alabama
was interrupted and had to turn the coverage back to their
in-house host after a Roy Moore supporter started
screaming "fake news, fake news, fake news."
It is short, but amusing, especially when the CNN host
comes back on screen and says "Alright, well sometimes
that happens."
SOCIAL MEDIA AND TECH GIANTS UNDER THE
GUN
Social media and tech giants such as Twitter, Facebook
and Google are all suffering different issues other than
sexual allegations, as the MSM turns against social media,
and Google faces multiple anti-trust issues and concerns,
while Twitter is being criticized for purging and de-
verifying conservatives, while Google has begun using far
left ideologically driven "fact checkers," in yet another bid
to destroy Independent Media and we are seeing bipartisan
calls to regulate social media giants as a utility.
THE CLINTON ERA IS OVER....
Last but not least we Hillary Clinton, who decided it would
be beneficial to alienate half of America by calling them
"deplorables." Hillary has had a very bad year, from losing
the election to the most recent series of scandals from the
recent revelations on Uranium One, to the reports that her
campaign and the DNC helped fund the still unverified
"Trump dossier" which was used to obtain FISA orders to
allow surveillance on Trump campaign team members, to
former DNC interim cair Donna Brazile revealing how the
Clinton campaign rigged the primaries and basically took
control of the DNC before she was even the official
nominee, which Charles hurt calls "three Watergate-level
scandals."
Not only has the tide turned against Hillary but we are
seeing former apologists for Bill Clinton's sexual abuse
allegations, now coming out quite vocally against him as
we see new allegations coming out against Bill for sexual
assault.
Hillary and Bill Clinton have lost most liberal network in
the country, MSNBC, and the biggest bag of hot air,
Mika Brzezinski, which should tell us all, the Clinton era
is over.
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BOTTOM LINE
Each person, and industry seeing their entire foundation
crumble from under them, scandals knocking them off
their high horses, and will no doubt limit their "influence"
on the masses, have all, for the most part, been virulently
anti-Trump, mocking his supporters as "deplorables,"
calling them racists, sexist, and any other derogative
descriptor they could find, are all now seeing themselves
in the spotlight like Emperors with no clothes, and it is
getting uglier day by day.
If we step away from each individual accusation and
scandal engulfing them and look at it from afar,
encompassing the big picture, what we are seeing is the
"Revenge of the Deplorables."
 NARRATIVE BUSTED: Cash On Hand Numbers Show
DNC In Deep, Deep Trouble
By Greg P.
Posted At 10:55 Am On November 21, 2017

LOL.

Dems are broke:

So much for the narrative that Trump will destroy the

GOP:

So, how much longer until the DNC makes changes?

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 IN A Stunning Counter-Coup,
Trump Has Turned The Tables On The Deep State
By Dave Hodges, The Common Sense Show
November 21, 2017

Trump has turned the tables on the Deep State, for now. Here is an excerpt from 2016 in which I alleged with
complementary documentation that Hillary obtained the
Are they or aren’t they? Are several top government uranium from American ranchers and farmers like the
officials under sealed indictments or not? Have US Bundy and the Hammond families.
marines landed at Langley to arrest Deep State operatives
at the CIA headquarters. Is it true that key Deep State
operatives have been roughed up in order to gain
cooperation? Let’s see where the facts takes us on these
topics.

Deep-Sourcing the Criminals

Much of the information that is in this article comes from

two broad categories (1) open source intelligence
information from which about 75% of all intelligence
comes from; and (2) the publicly disclosed “insider”
information from many of my colleagues that has been
made public. However, there is one piece of information
that has been disclosed that has not been properly cited. I
am speaking about Robert Mueller who has turned state’s
evidence.
The Stunning SGT Report
The SGT produced a 12 minute video in which they
revealed some of the strategy that has accompanied
Trump’s counter-coup against Deep State operatives. The
video documentary is very well organized, well-sourced
and confirms much of what I already know to be true.
However, the report is missing a couple of pieces of the
puzzle that are essential to understanding that a state of
civil war exists between the Trump administration and the
majority of the American people against the subversive
operatives of the Deep State and their radical followers.
In the following video, SGT alleges that Robert Mueller
has led a plot, in conjunction with key members of the
Trump administration that will soon turn the tables on the
Russian collusion charges. The topic has to do with
Clinton’s sale of nuclear grade uranium to the Russians.
Go to the youtube channel owned by
dutchsinse. He makes a very compelling
case that several ranches, not just Bundy’s
and Hammond’s have been under assault
in order to procure precious metals. In the
following youtube video, dutchsinse asks
the following question:
“Let’s just call it what it is. Human greed
is at stake here. Who is going to get the
gold back there in the back country?
Who is going to get the uranium?”
One of the big problems in America today is that “public
servants” like Hillary Clinton actually represent a foreign
enemy masquerading as a domestic public servant.
I will go one step further than Donald
Trump’s assertion that Clinton and state
that Hillary Clinton is this generation’s
Ethel Rosenberg.

As I reported in 2015, the uranium was seized by the BLM

from ranchers and farmers in the West. The Bundy family
would be one of these victimized families. The well done
SGT Report did not report on this fact.

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Ethel Rosenberg was convicted and executed for selling
nuclear secrets to the Soviets
Hillary Clinton, the Ethel Rosenberg of
her generation. Clinton sold uranium to
the Russians while serving as the
Secretary of State and this is what both
the Bundy and the Hammond Ranch
Affair is all about. And there is nothing
to suggest that these nefarious acts are
still ongoing.
A former key member of the Obama administration and
current Presidential candidate, Hillary Clinton, has proven
herself to be the Ethel Rosenberg of her generation. You
may recall your U.S. history as Ethel Rosenberg sold
nuclear secrets to the Soviet Union at the height of the
Cold War. In an act every bit as egregious as Ethel
Rosenberg’s treason, Hillary Clinton sold uranium to the
Russians while serving as the Secretary of State.
Ironically, the original source on this treasonous act
committed by Clinton was none other than the liberal rag
we call the New York Times.
The rest of this story, along with the relevant history of
Uranium One can be accessed by clicking here. As good
as the SGT Report is, it does not contain this highly
relevant information. There is another piece of evidence
that needs to be brought in relation the SGT Report. The
topic has to do with the flipping of Robert Mueller and his
new-found allegiance to the Trump administration.
The Flip Flop of Robert Mueller
Robert Mueller is a traitor to this country. Robert Mueller
has broken too many federal laws in his role as special
prosecutor to even count. On the surface, Robert Mueller
belongs in prison for his actions in support of the Clinton
Foundation and their Uranium One deal.
The SGT Report correctly and without substantiation
reveals that Special Prosecutor, Robert Mueller, is engaged
in a double-cross to turn the Russian collusion charges
back onto Clinton and her associates.
Here is what I wrote about Mueller’s invovlement in the
Uranium One conspiracy.
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Former FBI Director Robert Mueller was
appointed as Special Counsel for the sole
purpose of investigating possible Russian
collusion charges between President
Trump’s campaign and the Russian
government. On the heels of the collusion,
Mueller is also looking for the smoking gun
for obstruction of justice, on the part of
Trump, which is the same charge that
ultimately brought down the presidency of
Richard Nixon. However, sometimes life is
ironic and in a stunning
development, Wikileaks, Julian
Assange, tweeted a released State
Department cable, which clearly and
irrefutably proves that then Secretary of
State Hillary Clinton ordered former FBI
Director and present Special Counsel,
Robert Mueller to deliver a sample of
stolen Highly Enriched Uranium (HEU)
to Russia in 2009.
In the article from the above-referenced statement appears,
I also published a memo which ties Mueller into the
delivery of the highly enriched uranium to the Russians.
So why has Robert Mueller joined Trump in going after
the Deep State operatives? The obvious answer is that he
had to in order to avoid prosecution.
Robert Mueller has joined Trump, not because he wanted
to, but because he had to.
Trump in what will become the biggest sting in American
political history. The SGT Report does not explain the flip-
flop of Robert Mueller. Mueller could be shot as a traitor
for delivering nuclear grade material to the Russians.
When he was confronted with this evidence, he had no
choice but to join the other side. And the SGT Report
correctly asserts that the phony investigation into Trump’s
alleged Russian connections would eventually land on
Hillary’s illegal sale of uranium to the Russians and
Mueller was caught up in this. Soon Comey will be singing
the praises of Trump as well. These revelations explain
why Podesta’s brother has quit his own firm because he
was involved. John Podesta was involved as well.
Wasserman Shultz hired the Awan brothers to erase as
much evidence as they could. This is part of what Seth
Rich leaked to W-ikileaks and this is why Podesta had him
murdered.
I witnessed a sea change in Mueller the last week on
October as evidenced by the following report:

Please note that the guardians of the Deep State, Youtube
(Google), demonitized this video while it was still in the
cue. As Steve Quayle likes to say
“You know you are over the target when
you are getting flac”.
On November 9, 2017, I receieved notification that
Mueller had flipped sides. On November 12th, I published
the following:
People have asked me what caused me to suspect that
Mueller had flipped sides and was actually pursuing
Clinton et al? Besides the fact that the deeper that Mueller
dug into Trump’s Russian connections, the more Hillary
was implicated, there were media revelations as well.
.
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Further, there was a well-placed leak about 3 weeks ago,
made to Fox News, in which the Uranium One conspiracy
was reported in a very prominent manner. Add to that, the
Clinton Foundation and the DNC was being outed by
Donna Brazile at the same time on Fox News. I recognized
these news releases for what they were, a psyops directed
against the Deep State.
Why would Fox News air such a thing? Simple, Rupert
Murdock has had his disagrements and conflicts with the
Deep State and the New World Order. And who could
forget that Murdock and Trump had a well-publicized
meeting when it was obvious that Trump was going to win
the Republican nomination. Trump and Murdoch are allies.
Fox News is part of the plan to take down Clinton et al.
Conclusion
People have asked me how did I get so close to the truth?
The simple answer is that I have very good sources. To
illustrate this point, please allow me to relate a Larry
Nichols and Jeff Sessions encounter. In the early fall, Jack
Easum and Paul Martin had befriended Larry Nichols.
Larry Nichols told Jack that he had received a call from his
old pal, Jeff Sessions. Sessions caled Nichols and
screamed at Nichols to stop giving me inside information.
However, Nichols informed Sessions that he had not
passed along infomration to me, which was true. When this
story reached me, I knew I was on the right track.
Donald Trump has flipped Mueller. What about the
Marines at Langley and the all the rest? Undoubtedly, the
empire will strike back and the uncovered topics that were
not covered here, will be presented in the next part in this
series.
 Matthews Hammers Brazile For Arguing The 2016
Election ‘Was Not A Legitimate Election’
By Curtis Houck
November 21, 2017 11:26 PM EST
Former interim Democratic National Committee
chairwoman Donna Brazile continued her book tour with
an appearance on Tuesday’s Hardball where she faced a
stiff grilling from host Chris Matthews for her belief that
the 2016 presidential election was illegitimate due to
Russian meddling.
Surprisingly, Matthews stood up for the American people
who voted Donald Trump into the White House, admitting
that “the election still counts” and thoughts otherwise are
Third World-like talk being yielded by Brazile, Hillary
Clinton, and their allies.
Matthews started the interview by asking about potential
2020 presidential candidates Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders
before moving to recent comments by Clinton about the
election:
Okay, let me ask you about Hillary Clinton's statement
recently that the 2016 election wasn't legitimate. Now, that
is very confounding to me. Does that mean it shouldn't
count? What does it mean to say it's not legitimate? You
might not like a lot of things done in it. A lot of things get
bad done. I mean, there's dirty campaign fundraising and
people break the rules all the time. There's prejudice, racial
prejudice, all kinds of prejudice. But the election still
counts. Do you think she's saying it was not a legitimate
election? What do you say to that?
Brazile initially waffled, claiming that Clinton
“was saying that this was a disruptive
political season and what we are
learning, Chris, every day, is that the
Russian interference went beyond the
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stolen e-mails and the weaponization of
information.”
Matthews wasn’t buying it, continuing to press. After a
few repetitions of the question, Brazile responded that
“Donald Trump cracked the blue wall” in
the Rust Belt but “I do believe Secretary
Clinton is making a very important
point” with “[t]he role of social media”
plus “coordination between Wikileaks
and possibly the Trump campaign.”
The MSNBC host agreed that investigators must get to the
bottom of what happened, but that didn’t necessarily mean
the election didn’t count. Matthews pushed and only then
did Brazile admit that last year’s election wasn’t real:
MATTHEWS: We do it all the time here,
Donna. My question to you is, was it a
legitimate election? Does it count?
BRAZILE: My personal view is that it was
not a legitimate election.
MATTHEWS: So it doesn't count?
BRAZILE: Chris, remember, I am the
campaign manager of Al Gore in 2000 and
where, as you well know, the Supreme
Court decided. This election will always
have an asterisk by it and that's why I think
Donald Trump should take steps as
President to clean up our system so that no
more foreign governments have no foreign
meddling occur in the future.
Matthews has continually attacked Trump for his
birtherism regarding Barack Obama and thus Trump
believed he
“wasn’t a legitimate President because
he was an illegal immigrant and that's
what illegitimate means, is that an
legitimate election or not and you're
saying it was not a legitimate election.”
“It doesn't count. That's a strong
statement,” he added.
Brazile dithered away by claiming she’s able to speak to
illegitimate elections since she was the head of Al Gore’s
2000 presidential campaign that, in her view, was unfairly
decided by the Supreme Court.
Giving credit where credit is due, Matthews stood his
ground, offering her a sharp rebuke:
We're going in different directions. I think
the world illegitimate is third world, fourth
world. Hillary should have never used it.
She can say there was a corrupt aspect to
it. She could say people did bad things.
There was interference from abroad, but
the Electoral College count was for real.
Here’s the relevant portion of the transcript from
MSNBC’s Hardball on November 21:
MSNBC’s Hardball
November 13, 2017
7:36 p.m. Eastern
CHRIS MATTHEWS: Okay, let me ask you about Hillary Clinton's
statement recently that the 2016 election wasn't legitimate. Now,
that is very confounding to me. Does that mean it shouldn't
count? What does it mean to say it's not legitimate? You might
not like a lot of things done in it. A lot of things get bad done. I
mean, there's dirty campaign fundraising and people break the
rules all the time. There's prejudice, racial prejudice, all kinds of
prejudice. But the election still counts. Do you think she's saying
it was not a legitimate election? What do you say to that?
DONNA BRAZILE: I think she was saying that this was a
disruptive political season and what we are learning, Chris, every
day, is that the Russian interference went beyond the stolen e-
mails —
MATTHEWS: Sure, I know that. Yeah.
BRAZILE: — and the weaponization of information. We all know
—
MATTHEWS: But you think it wasn’t a legit —
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BRAZILE: — it’s — Chris —
MATTHEWS: — yes, I know. But just to the point, you think it
was a legitimate election, right?
BRAZILE: Look, Donald Trump cracked the blue wall. We know
that. He was able to win votes in Pennsylvania, Michigan, and
Wisconsin. But, yes, I do believe Secretary Clinton is making a
very important point. The role of social media. This coordination
between Wikileaks —
MATTHEWS: Okay.
BRAZILE: — and possibly the Trump campaign. We need to get
to the bottom of it.
MATTHEWS: I know. I agree.
BRAZILE: And I hope that Director Mueller can get to the bottom
of it.
MATTHEWS: We do it all the time here, Donna. My question to
you is, was it a legitimate election? Does it count?
BRAZILE: My personal view is that it was not a legitimate
election.
MATTHEWS: So it doesn't count?
BRAZILE: Chris, remember, I am the campaign manager of Al
Gore in 2000 and where, as you well know, the Supreme Court
decided. This election will always have an asterisk by it and that's
why I think Donald Trump should take steps as President to
clean up our system so that no more foreign governments have
no foreign meddling occur in the future.
MATTHEWS: Okay, we have a definition of problem because,
you know, what's his name, Trump is out there. He's said for
years that Barack Obama wasn't a legitimate President, because
he was an illegal immigrant and that's what illegitimate means, is
that an legitimate election or not and you're saying it was not a
legitimate election. It doesn't count. That's a strong statement.
BRAZILE: Chris, Chris, I have worked on more campaigns than
many Americans and I can tell you something. When you see all
of the evidence that it's a mountain of how the Russians say people did bad things. There was interference from abroad,
interfered in our election — but the Electoral College count was for real.

MATTHEWS: I know! BRAZILE: Chris, I agree on that point, but you're arguing
semantics when I want to argue that there was some big issues,
BRAZILE: Which is why I wrote the booked Hacked, when you big problems, and she faced a significant headwind in 2016 and I
see what they did in social media with Facebook and Twitter — think what she means when she talks about legitimacy, she's
talking about the foreign interference and meddling and what I
describe in my book, Hacked. The corruption of our files and
MATTHEWS: So it doesn't count.
what they did to try to destroy the Democratic National
Committee and discredit our nominee, Hillary Clinton.
BRAZILE: — we have — we need to get to the bottom of it,
Chris. And I’ll come back when the investigation is over with.
MATTHEWS: Okay. Well said.
MATTHEWS: We're going in different directions. I think the world
illegitimate is third world, fourth world. Hillary should have never
used it. She can say there was a corrupt aspect to it. She could
.

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 Unsealed Fusion GPS Bank Records
Show Russia-Related Payments
By Debra Heine
November 21, 2017
Glenn R. Simpson, arrives for a scheduled appearance before a
closed House Intelligence Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in
Washington, Tuesday, Nov. 14, 2017. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez
Monsivais)
A federal court on Tuesday finally unsealed Fusion GPS'
bank records, revealing new details about payments made
to the opposition research firm behind the unverified
Steele dossier. The docs also confirm that Fusion GPS
made payments to three journalists known to have reported
on Russia issues.
The House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence
has been fighting in court for weeks to access documents
that show payments to the journalists between June 2016
and February 2017.
Judge Richard Leon, a Bush appointee, ruled last week in
the U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., that the
records be unsealed.
The Daily Caller reported that the documents list 112
transactions involving Fusion GPS — most of which were
redacted.
The records show that two law firms — Perkins Coie
and BakerHostetler — paid Fusion GPS more than $1.5
million last year for services on separate Russia-related
projects. Perkins Coie represented the Clinton campaign
and DNC's anti-Trump research efforts,
while BakerHostetler represented Prevezon Holdings and
its owner, Russian businessman Denis Katsyv, who were
trying to get the Magnitsky Act repealed.
The records show that Perkins Coie paid Fusion a total of
$1,024,408 between May 24, 2016, and Dec. 28, 2016.
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According to the DCNF,
"the largest payment was made just before
the election. Perkins Coie made a
$365,275 payment to Fusion GPS on Oct.
28, 2016, according to the records."
The transaction list does not show payments that Fusion
made to Christopher Steele, the former British spy who
wrote the dossier. The firm reportedly paid Steele a total of
$168,000 for his work, which lasted from June 2016 until
the election.
The records show that Fusion was also paid $523,651 by
the law firm BakerHostetler between March 7, 2016 and
Oct. 31, 2016.
Fusion worked for BakerHostetler to investigate Bill
Browder, a London-based banker who helped push
through the Magnitsky Act, a sanctions law vehemently
opposed by the Kremlin.
Glenn Simpson, a former Wall Street Journal reporter and
one of Fusion GPS’ founders, reportedly prepared the
memo for the anti-Browder project.
According to Fox News, he met with Russian lawyer
Natalia Veselnitskaya before and after her meeting with
Donald Trump Jr., Jared Kushner, and Paul Manafort in
June of 2016.
However, Simpson told the House Intelligence Committee
earlier this month that he did not know of Veselnitskaya’s
Trump Tower meeting until reports of it appeared in the
media.
The unsealed documents also provide details about
payments Fusion GPS made to three journalists between
June 2016 and February 2017.
The committee sought records related to “five Fusion
payments to research and Russia expert [name redacted],
and production of three additional payments,” as well
as records “related to Fusion’s payments to journalists who
have reported on Russia issues relevant to its
investigation,” according to the documents.
House Republicans have been trying to find out if Fusion
GPS used the dossier — which according to Rep. Trey
Gowdy "looked like the National Enquirer prepared it" —
to feed anti-Trump stories to the press during and after the
presidential campaign.
According to the Washington Examiner, the House
Intelligence Committee said in a court filing that "the three
journalists who were paid by Fusion GPS are known to
have reported on 'Russia issues relevant to [the
committee's] investigation.'"
But the recipients' names, the amounts, and purposes of
those payments were either redacted from the documents
that Fusion GPS filed to the U.S. District Court for the
District of Columbia or were not disclosed.
The unsealed filings show that Fusion fought hard against
releasing records related to these payments, and even
asked the court to issue a restraining order against the
House committee for seeking the documents.
Levy last week admitted that Steele and Simpson had
briefed reporters on the unverified dossier last year, but
insisted that neither Simpson nor Fusion GPS paid
members of the media to publish stories of any kind.
Fusion instead argued that some payments went to
reporters to help the company with research.
Simpson reportedly told House investigators during his
recent closed-door testimony that he leaked details from
the dirty dossier to reporters right before the 2016 election
because he was "upset" that then-FBI director James
Comey had reopened the Clinton email case.
According to Fox News, he also told members of the
House Intelligence Committee to look for "a wide-ranging,
multi-faceted Russian conspiracy that included the
infiltration of the NRA."
An NRA spokesman told Fox News that "they had no
knowledge of any Russian infiltration."

Fusion GPS partner Peter Fritsch argued in a Nov. 3

declaration that “transactions between Fusion GPS and
certain journalists…are not pertinent to work related to
Russia or Donald Trump.”

And in an email to the Intel Committee’s legal team on

Nov. 2, Simpson’s attorney, Joshua Levy, argued that
“records related to payments to the journalists and
‘individuals’ are protected by the First Amendment and
confidentiality, and they are not pertinent.”

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 Unsealed Fusion GPS Bank Records
Reveal $523K Payment From Russian Money Launderer
By Tyler Durden
Nov 22, 2017 8:50 AM
Unsealed court documents reveal that the firm behind the
salacious 34-page Trump-Russia Dossier, Fusion GPS,
was paid $523,000 by a Russian businessman convicted of
tax fraud and money laundering,
whose lawyer, Natalia Veselnitskaya,
was a key figure in the infamous June
2016 meeting at Trump Tower arranged
by Fusion GPS associate Rob
Goldstone.
In short, D.C. opposition research firm Fusion GPS is the
common denominator linked to two schemes used to
damage the Trump campaign.
Founded in 2011 by former Wall St. Journal journalist
Glenn Simpson and two other WSJ alumni, Fusion was
responsible for the Clinton/DNC - funded dossier (which
two Kremlin officials participated in), and was also
involved in the infamous Trump Tower meeting with the
Russian attorney of another Fusion client - an encounter
some suspect may have been used to obtain a FISA
wiretapping warrant on the Trump campaign.
He [Simpson] worked closely with Natalia Veselnitskaya,
the Russian lawyer who also showed up at the infamous
Trump Tower meeting held on June 9, 2016.
Simpson’s research ended up in the
Trump Tower meeting in the form of a
four-page memo carried by
Veselnitskaya.
She also shared Simpson’s work with Yuri Chaika, the
prosecutor general of Russia.
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Simpson told the House Intelligence Committee earlier this
week that he did not know that Veselnitskaya provided the
Browder information to Chaika or to Donald Trump Jr.,
the Trump campaign’s point-man in the Trump Tower
meeting. -Daily Caller
Of note, the 34-page dossier created by Fusion was
reportedly used to obtain a FISA surveillance warrant on
one-time adviser to the Trump campaign, Carter Page.
Quite a bit more notable is the fact that Glenn
Simpson met with Natalia Veselnitskaya hours before the
Trump Tower meeting, and also met with Hillary Clinton's
campaign chairman John Podesta the day after the 34-
page dossier was published by BuzzFeed. Glenn gets
around.
InFusion of Funds
The Daily Caller's Chuck Ross - who has done
an outstanding job turning over stones and finding gold -
now reports that the heavily redacted Fusion GPS bank
records unsealed Tuesday reveal DNC law firm Perkins
Coie paid Fusion a total of $1,024,408 in 2016 for
opposition research on then-candidate Donald Trump -
including the 34-page dossier.
Ross also reports that law firm Baker Hostelter paid
Fusion $523,651 between March and October 2016 on
behalf of a company owned by Russian businessman and
money launderer Denis Katsyv to research Bill Browder,
a London banker who helped push through the Magnitsky
Act - named after deceased Russian lawyer Sergei
Magnitsky, who Browder hired to investigate Russian
corruption.
Veselnitskaya, through Baker Hostetler, hired Glenn
Simpson of the firm Fusion GPS to conduct a smear
campaign against me and Sergei Magnitsky in advance of
congressional hearings on the Global Magnitsky Act. -Bill
Browder, Testimony to Senate Judiciary Committee,
7/26/17
Magnitsky Act
Magnitsky uncovered a high level embezzlement and
money laundering scheme, sanctioned by Russian
Officials, in which large sums of money were stolen from
the Russian government and invested in New York real
estate. Some of the missing funds were traced to Katsyv's
firm, Prevezon Holdings Ltd., which settled with the
Justice Department in 2017 - paying $5.9 million in fines.
Magnitsky was arrested and thrown in prison for just under
a year, only to die seven days before he was to be released.
He developed gall stones, pancreatitis, and a blocked gall
bladder for which he received little to no medical care, and
was found to have been physically assaulted shortly before
he died.
In response to Magnitsky's horrific death and because
Russian money laundering occurred on US soil, Congress
and President Obama enacted the Magnitsky act in 2012 -
imposing sanctions on Russia and barring Russian officials
believed to be involved in Magnitsky's death from entering
the United States. Russia retaliated by halting an adoption
program for US foster parents.
Enter Natalia
What's strange is that Katsyv's attorney, Natalia
Veselnitskaya - a John McCain fan who hates Trump and
uses Democrat lobbyists, was initially denied entry into
the United States, only to be allowed in under
"extraordinary circumstances" by Obama's Homeland
Security Department and approved by former AG Loretta
Lynch so she could represent Fusion GPS client Denis
Katsyv's company, Prevezon Holdings
- and attend the meeting at Trump
Tower with Donald Trump Jr. - arranged
by Fusion GPS associate Rob
Goldstone.
Let's Review:
 Russian businessman Denis Katsyv was a key figure in
an embezzlement and money laundering scheme
involving New York real estate, uncovered by Russian
lawyer and accountant Sergei Magnitsky. Magnitsky
died in Moscow's Butyrka prison after a year of
inhumane treatment.
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 The embezzlement scheme uncovered by Magnitsky
along with the circumstances behind his death resulted
in the Magnitsky Act - a bipartisan bill signed in
December 2012 by President Obama which imposed
sanctions on Russia.
 Katsyv settled with the U.S. Justice department in
2017, paying a paltry $5.9 million in 2017 to settle the
case - less than 3% of the amount originally sought by
federal prosecutors.
 Katsyv's attorney, Natalia Veselnitskaya, lobbied to
remove the sanctions imposed by the Magnitsky Act.
 Fusion GPS was paid $523,651 by Katsyv to
investigate London Banker Bill Browder who pushed for
the Magnitsky Act
 Fusion GPS associate Rob Goldstone set up the
infamous meeting at Trump Tower between Donald
Trump Jr., Katsyv's lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya and
various associates. The meeting was pitched to Trump
Jr. as a "discussion on adoption" (not opposition
research on Hillary Clinton) and was shut down by
Trump after it became clear Veselnitskaya wanted to
discuss the Magnitsky Act, which Don Jr. apparently
didn't realize was linked to the adoption issue. Others
present at the meeting include Jared Kushner, Paul
Manafort, and Goldstone.
 Hours before the Trump Tower meeting, Fusion
GPS founder Glenn Simpson met with
Veselnitskaya.
Meanwhile...
 Fusion GPS was paid $1,024,408 by a DNC law firm,
funded in part by Hillary Clinton and the DNC, to
create the salacious 34 page dossier.
 Fusion paid former British spy Christopher Steele
$168,000 to assemble the document (which had the
cooperation of two senior Kremlin officials).
 Clinton campaign manager John Podesta met with
Fusion CEO Glenn Simpson the day after the 34 page
dossier was made public.
For their efforts, Fusion GPS was paid over $1.5 million
dollars between Hillary Clinton, the DNC, and the holding
company owned by pro-Kremlin businessman Denis
Katsyv.
Russian Ties Galore!
Looking at other Russian affiliations on the left - since
that's the entire impetus of the witch hunt against President
Trump:
 Russia gained control over 20% of United States
uranium after the Clinton Foundation received $145
million from Uranium One affiliates and Russian
oligarchs connected to the deal.
 The Obama administration approved the
transaction after the FBI knew of a Russian plot to
 corner the US Uranium market and a racketeering
scheme involving a Kentucky trucking company. Over
5,000 documents and a video of Russians preparing a
briefcase stuffed with bribe money for Obama
administration officials were obtained by an FBI
informant.
 Bill Clinton met with Vladimir Putin at his house in
Russia, the same day he collected $500,000 for a
speech to a Russian bank which upgraded Uranium
One stock. Clinton sought approval from Hillary
Clinton's State Department to meet with 15 Russians.
 Tony Podesta, brother of John Podesta, lobbied for
Uranium One after Russia state-owned energy giant
Rosatom owned the company outright.
 Tony Podesta met regularly with Clinton Foundation
and was considered "basically part" of the
organization, according to a former long-time
executive of the Podesta Group, who also said Podesta
was "peddling Russian oligarchs" all over D.C.
.
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 Clinton campaign chief and longtime DNC operative
John Podesta recommended that brother Tony hire
Hillary Clinton's chief legislative advisor at the State
Department, David Adams, which allowed a direct link
between the firm's Russian clients and the Obama
administration.
 John Podesta sat on the board and owned shares in
Joule Unlimited - a green-energy company which
received $35 million from the Russian government
while Hillary Clinton served as Secretary of State. In
addition to Podesta, Joule's board of directors included
senior Russian official Anatoly Chubais and oligarch
Reuben Vardanyan - a Putin appointee to the Russian
economic modernization council. Podesta jettisoned his
shares before the 2016 election, transferring them to
his daughter via a shell corporation.
Unfortunately, Attorney General Jeff Sessions feels there
isn't 'enough basis' to investigate any or all of the above.
 Collusion? Bank Records From Dem
Oppo-Research Firm Linked To Clinton Campaign Made
Russia-Related Payments
By Usafeaturesmedia
Posted On November 22, 2017
“The documents also shed new light on requests made by
the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence
about payments that Fusion GPS made to journalists”
(National Sentinel) Election 2016: An opposition research
firm linked to the Democratic National Committee and the
campaign last year of Hillary Clinton made Russia-related
payments last year, according to newly unsealed bank
records.
As reported by The Daily Caller, the records belong to
Fusion GPS, the firm behind the infamous “Trump
dossier” that was paid for the Clinton campaign and the
DNC.
A federal court unsealed the records in a lawsuit involving
the firm, thereby revealing new details about payments that
were made last year to Fusion GPS when it was
commissioning the dossier.
“The documents also shed new light on
requests made by the House Permanent
Select Committee on Intelligence about
payments that Fusion GPS made to
journalists,” The DC reported.
The records were opened following a ruling last week by
U.S. District Judge Richard Leon in Washington, D.C.
While most of the records are redacted, there is evidence
of transactions between a pair of law firms that Fusion
GPS worked with last year involving Russia-related
projects.
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One of the firms, Perkins Coie, which represented the
Clinton campaign and the DNC, paid Fusion $1,024,408
between May 24, 2016, and Dec. 28, 2016, according to
the unsealed records.
The biggest payment was made right before the Nov. 8
election when Perkins Coie made a payment amounting to
$365,275 to Fusion — on Oct. 28, 2016. Also, a payment
that was made to Fusion was made later than previously
thought, The DC reported.
“The transaction list does not show
payments that Fusion made to Christopher
Steele, the former British spy who wrote
the dossier. The firm reportedly paid Steele
a total of $168,000 for his work, which
lasted from June 2016 until the election,”
said the website.
“The records show that Fusion was
also paid $523,651 by the law firm
BakerHostetler between March 7, 2016 and
Oct. 31, 2016.”
Fusion worked on behalf of BakerHostetler to investigate
Bill Browder, a banker from London who helped to usher
the Magnitsky Act through — a sanctions law that the
Russian government vehemently opposed.
BakerHostetler also represented Prevezon Holdings and its
owner, a Russian businessman named Denis Katsyv.
Both Katsyv and Prevezon worked to limit the impact of
the sanctions imposed but he Magnitsky Act.
In addition, the documents reveal that the House
Intelligence Committee is seeking records from Fusion
related to the firm’s “payments to journalists who have
reported on Russia issues relevant to its investigation.”
In a memo that was filed on Tuesday, attorneys for the
House panel said they are seeking transition records
related to “three individual journalists…each of whom
have reported on and/or been quoted in articles regarding
topics related to the Committee’s investigation, some of dossier story, the firm is known to keep a stable of
which were published as recently as October 2017.” reporters on its payroll.

The names of the journalists were redacted. And while it Fusion founders Peter Fritsch, Thomas Catan and Glenn
isn’t clear year that Fusion paid any journalists to hype the Simpson are former Wall Street Journal reporters.

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 "Impeach Trump" Billboards
Have Come To Times Square
By Tyler Durden
Nov 22, 2017 9:29 AM
Apparently, running one of his “impeach Trump” ads
during game five of the World Series didn’t provide
billionaire Democratic donor Tom Steyer enough
exposure.
As we’ve previously reported, the unhinged billionaire’s
ad campaign demonstrates a shocking lack of self-
awareness. In the video, Steyer bills himself as an
“American Citizen” and ticks off exaggerated claims about
Trump, including accusing him of being “mentally
unstable” and a “clear and present danger” to the American
people.
He then pleads with members of Congress to circumvent
the Democratic process and impeach the president for a
series of vaguely defined violations.
As if to underscore its ridiculous claims,
a weepy string quartet plays throughout
the video, in case viewers couldn’t
grasp the gravity of the threat that
Trump represents.
Now – just in time for New Years Eve and the rest of the
busy holiday season –
Steyer is plastering “impeach Trump”
billboards in New York City’s Times
Square.
The digital billboards will flash Steyer’s message to
passers-by for 10 minutes out of the hour.
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The billboards direct viewers to a petition that Steyer
started encouraging Republican members of Congress to
join the push to impeach Trump.
For 10 minutes out of every hour through to New Year’s
Eve, billboards on Times Square will direct passers-by to a
website where they can sign a petition calling for US
President Donald Trump’s impeachment.
Over 350,000 people walk across Times Square each day,
one of the busiest pedestrian zones in the world. It will
only get busier on New Year’s Eve, when up to a million
people will go to watch the countdown. They might also
catch a glimpse of the billboards paid for by billionaire
Democratic Party donor Tom Steyer.
The billboards direct their viewers to
Steyer’s website, needtoimpeach.com,
where they can sign a petition asking
Congress to take action against the
Commander-in-Chief.
“We’re putting a couple of large
billboards in Times Square calling for
the impeachment of the president,”
Steyer, who put $20 million toward the campaign, told
Bloomberg on Monday.
“We legitimately feel that this is the huge
issue in front of the American people that
no one is standing up for what the
overwhelming number of Americans think.”
Steyer is former hedge fund manager who has championed
environmentalist causes like fighting climate change. Since
launching his “impeach Trump” campaign, the petition has
garnered nearly 3 million signatures. While it might seem
large out of context, it’s a tiny fraction of the nearly 50
million Americans who voted for Trump.
The financier has persisted with his campaign despite pleas
from senior Democratic leaders like Nancy Pelosi to end it.
Pelosi and other top Dems have reportedly told Steyer that
they consider his campaign a distraction from the party’s
overall political strategy.
Opponents of Trump’s controversial presidency have long
called for his impeachment, accusing him of colluding
with the Russian government during the 2016 presidential
election campaign, among other things. However, despite
an avalanche of leaks seemingly orchestrated to discredit
the president, no clear or definitive evidence of collusion –
which isn’t a crime in and of itself - has been found.
Trump famously lashed out at Steyer on Twitter last
month, calling him “whacky” and “totally unhinged”.

Meanwhile, progressive Democrats in the House have

introduced articles of impeachment against Trump for the
fourth time – a decision that has also drawn the ire of
Pelosi, who can’t afford another poor showing in the 2018
mid-term elections. In the articles of impeachment, the
Democrats listed five acts – including firing former FBI
Director James Comey – that should qualify him for
impeachment.

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 It IS Bogus: FBI Admits It Can’t Verify
Contents Of “Trump Dossier” Paid For By
Hillary Clinton And The DNC
By JD Heyes
Wednesday, November 22, 2017
It’s been around for more than a year and some
Republicans believe it was used to justify at least some of
the congressional and government investigations into
alleged “collusion” between President Donald J. Trump’s
campaign and the Russian government.
But the FBI has thus far been unable to verify the most
inflammatory and outrageous claims made in the infamous
“Trump dossier” that we now know was bought-and-paid-
for opposition research financed by two-time failed
Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton and the
Democratic National Committee.
As reported by Byron York at the Washington Examiner,
the FBI has not been able to verify much of anything in the
dossier, least of all the most salacious claims.
Earlier this week, York writes that FBI and Trump Justice
Department officials informed congressional investigators
that they’ve been unable to verify or corroborate
substantial allegations of collusion between the Trump
campaign and Russian government officials, as the dossier
claims.
“The FBI received the first installment of
the dossier in July 2016. It received later
installments as they were written at the
height of the presidential campaign, which
means the bureau has had more than a
year to investigate the allegations in the
document,” York writes. “The dossier was
financed by the Hillary Clinton campaign
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and compiled by former British spy
Christopher Steele.”
The House Intelligence Committee issued a subpoena Aug.
24 of this year to the FBI and Justice Department. The
subpoena sought information on the bureau’s efforts to
prove or validate the 35-page document.
Specifically, York says the subpoena sought
“any documents, if they exist, that
memorialize DOJ and/or FBI efforts to
corroborate, validate, or evaluate
information provided by Mr. Steele and/or
sub-sources and/or contained in the ‘Trump
Dossier.’”
York cited unnamed sources “familiar with the matter”
who said neither the FBI nor officials within the Justice
Department could provide any documents in response to
that portion of the committee’s subpoena.
However,
“in face-to-face briefings with congressional
staff,” he writes, “according to these
sources, FBI and DOJ officials have said
they cannot verify the dossier’s charges of
a conspiracy between the Russian
government and the Trump campaign.”
In other words,
this document is bogus,
though, in many respects, it represents a very real
impediment to justice.
(Related: Expert: Bogus Trump ‘dossier’ was NOT
‘just opposition research’ but used by FBI to launch
‘collusion’ probes.)
Those declarations are in direct contrast to comments
made recently by the committee’s ranking (minority)
member, Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif. He told The Wall
Street Journal this week that “a lot of” the dossier “has
turned out to be true.”
But as York points out, the document contains a number of
very specific allegations that an agency with the resources
of the FBI most certainly could verify — that is, if they
were true.
Among them:
There are many more York outlines, but he adds:
 An alleged 2013 Moscow hotel incident in which
“TRUMP’s (perverted) conduct in Moscow included
hiring the presidential suite of the Ritz Carlton hotel,
where he knew President and Bus OBAMA (whom he
hated) had stayed on one of their official trips to
Russia, and defiling the bed where they had slept by
employing a number of prostitutes to perform a ‘golden
showers’ (urination) show in front of him. The hotel was
.
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known to be under FSB control with microphones and
concealed cameras in all the main rooms to record
anything they wanted to.”
 The president’s alleged participation in “sex parties”
that were said to have taken place in St. Petersburg,
Russia.
 Allegations of meetings between Carter Page, a low-
influence, short-term Trump foreign policy advisor, and
Igor Sechin, the head of Rosneft, Russia’s massive
state-owned oil firm, as well as other alleged meetings
between Page and a top official in President Vladimir
Putin’s government.
“Whatever the case, the bottom line
appears to be that the FBI and the Justice
Department are not vouching for the
accuracy of the substantive allegations of
collusion in the dossier.”
 Steyn, Concha Mock Loony Newsweek, New Yorker Pieces
as Cases of ‘Trump Derangement Syndrome’
By Curtis Houck
November 22, 2017 1:01 PM EST
On Tuesday’s Tucker Carlson Tonight, fill-in host Mark
Steyn and The Hill’s Joe Concha enjoyed themselves at the
expense of the latest liberal media diatribes, showcasing
new cases of the incurably stupid Trump Derangement
Syndrome involving everything from the death of Charles
Manson to the attack on Republican Senator Rand Paul
(Ky.).
“Charles Manson is dead, but
Newsweek has found a sinister new cult
leader to replace him. President Donald
Trump. What’s the reasoning?
According to Newsweek, Trump and
Manson both use, quote, ‘emotional
language’ to establish a bond with
followers. You know how it is, one day,
you’re giving a speech on immigration
and the next day, everybody’s writing
helter-skelter on the wall and blood. It’s
a simple two-step process,” the hilarious
Steyn began.
Concha astutely pointed out a rather significant problem
with Newsweek’s claim, which was that
“if you read the story, the author, at
least, the psychoanalyst that they speak
to, concedes that he has no idea what
Manson actually said to attract his
followers” so, therefore, “[h]e just made
assumptions that he knew and then
made the connections.”
He tapped into the real source of this lunacy, which was
“TDS, which is Trump Derangement Syndrome” that
repeatedly pops up in the liberal media.
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“So, there clearly there is no antidote,
but I guess there is thinking, you know,
Mussolini and Stalin just doesn’t have
that oomph anymore as far as analogies
and Hitler hit our 100,000 quotas as far
as comparing Trump to Hitler. So, let’s
go somebody who is breathing within
the last 72 hours I think we relate too in
Charles Manson,” Concha added
The duo also noted how this also described The New
Yorker’s rationale for the attack on Sen. Paul, which was
“the sinister banality of American life” under Trump. Of
course, that’s not the reason for the attack, as the two
explained:
CONCHA: Now, if you read about this
story, Rand Paul was attacked by a
neighbor and reportedly for nonpolitical
reasons.
STEYN: Yeah. Lawn clipping supposedly,
something like that.
CONCHA: Supposedly, right and a sitting
senator is attacked at his home and gets a
couple of ribs broken.
STEYN: Right.
CONCHA: And again it’s the anger that’s
emanating from Donald Trump that actually
possessed this person to do that.
STEYN: It’s not just anger though, it’s
banal anger.
CONCHA: Right. That’s the trick.
The third case came from a German professor arguing that
it’s unfortunate Trump hasn’t gone all-in to thwart climate
change since, according to University of Freiburg’s
Rüdiger Glaser, Trump’s ancestors fled 19th century
Europe because of climate change. Yes, really. Here’s
Concha’s thoughts:
No, obviously not and here’s the thing. If
you had a diary entry from Frederick
Trump, who is Trump’s grandfather, and he
said we had to get out of here because
things are going bad with the crops of
whatever, then fine or if you did an
 interview with somebody, but there’s no
evidence whatsoever, again, to connect
this back to Donald Trump and the
implication clearly is that the current
President pulled out of the Paris climate
accords and now the planet is doomed and
he didn’t realized that climate change
actually affected his relatives as 130 years
ago and boy, the irony of that, huh?
Here’s the relevant transcript from FNC’s Tucker Carlson
Tonight on November 21:
FNC’s Tucker Carlson Tonight
November 21, 2017
8:19 p.m. Eastern
MARK STEYN: Charles Manson is dead, but Newsweek has
found a sinister new cult leader to replace him. President Donald
Trump. What’s the reasoning? According to Newsweek, Trump
and Manson both use, quote, “emotional language” to establish a
bond with followers. You know how it is, one day, you’re giving a
speech on immigration and the next day, everybody’s writing
helter-skelter on the wall and blood. It’s a simple two-step
process. Joe Concha writes about media for The Hill and he joins
us. Joe, were you shocked to discover that Trump and Manson
are the only two guys in history to have used “emotional
language” to connect the followers?
JOE CONCHA: Well, the funny thing is, if you read the story, the
author, at least, the psychoanalyst that they speak to, concedes
that he has no idea what Manson actually said to attract his
followers.
STEYN: Right.
CONCHA: He just made assumptions that he knew and then
made the connection back and this is all about TDS which is
Trump Derangement Syndrome.
STEYN: Yes.
CONCHA: And this example and we have two others here.
Actually is from the last two days. It’s not like that we’re doing the
best year type of thing. So, there clearly there is no antidote, but I
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guess there is thinking, you know, Mussolini and Stalin just
doesn’t have that oomph anymore as far as analogies and Hitler
hit our 100,000 quotas as far as comparing Trump to Hitler. So,
let’s go somebody who is breathing within the last 72 hours I
think we relate too in Charles Manson.
STEYN: Yeah and those guys are wacky foreigners, let’s
compare him to an all-American monster.
CONCHA: Boom. There you go.
(....)
STEYN: This other story you mentioned from The New Yorker is
about, quote, “the sinister banality of American life” emanating
from Donald J. Trump.
CONCHA: The exact quote is the attack on Rand Paul by his
neighbor “reveals a sinister banality,” as you said, “of American
life that these days is often emanating from Donald Trump.” Now,
if you read about this story, Rand Paul was attacked by a
neighbor and reportedly for nonpolitical reasons.
STEYN: Yeah. Lawn clipping supposedly, something like that.
CONCHA: Supposedly, right and a sitting senator is attacked at
his home and gets a couple of ribs broken.
STEYN: Right.
CONCHA: And again it’s the anger that’s emanating from Donald
Trump that actually possessed this person to do that.
STEYN: It’s not just anger though, it’s banal anger.
CONCHA: Right. That’s the trick.
STEYN: Yes.
(....)
STEYN: So, by the way, it was over for the — it may be
Democrats go bananas over lawn clippings. The other thing is
that, apparently, Trump, who is a climate denier —
CONCHA: That’s the best one, I think.
STEYN: — his own family were driven out of Europe by 19th
Century climate change.
CONCHA: There it is. “Did Donald Trump’s ancestors migrated to
the United States because of a change in climate?” Apparently,
130 years ago, Donald Trump’s grandfather left Germany, just
like Eddie Murphy coming to America, and went to Queens
because he was trying to escape the climate change that was
going on over there and if you look at the weather in Queens, you
compare it where the Trumps were in Germany, it’s basically the Germany. You know, the revolutions of 1848 and whatnot, but
same. the weather wasn’t one of them.

CONCHA: No, obviously not and here’s the thing. If you had a
diary entry from Frederick Trump, who is Trump’s grandfather,
and he said we had to get out of here because things are going
bad with the crops of whatever, then fine or if you did an
interview with somebody, but there’s no evidence whatsoever,
again, to connect this back to Donald Trump and the implication
clearly is that the current President pulled out of the Paris climate
accords and now the planet is doomed and he didn’t realized that
climate change actually affected his relatives as 130 years ago
and boy, the irony of that, huh?

STEYN: And the jokes on him because the tortured climate, the
STEYN: Yes and it was basically great because we were coming slow warming trend of the 19th Century that drove his
out of a Little Ice Age. And we have this gradual warming trend to grandfather to get on that ship to Ellis Island, he’s now destroying
the 19th century. There were a lot of problems in 19th century the planet.

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 Top NSA Official Says Russia Election Meddling Is
Propaganda To Increase War-Spending—Media Silent
Washington, D.C. – William Binney is a 30-year National
Security Agency veteran, who served as the global
Technical Director for geopolitical analysis at the NSA
and was an architect of its surveillance program before
becoming a famed whistleblower upon resigning in 2001.
Binney was persecuted for attempting to expose lies and
distortions of intelligence by the George W. Bush
administration used to justify systematic, massive, and all-
encompassing surveillance into all Americans’ private
electronic communications.
In regards to Russiagate, Binney has been a strong
proponent of the idea that the Democratic National
Committee was not hacked by Russians, and in a
November 15 interview, published on
Washingtonsblog news-site, titled “How to Instantly Prove
(Or Disprove) Russian Hacking of US Election”, he
provides a technical analysis that exposes how the
Democratic party allegations of “Russian hacking” are a
part of an operation of intentional deception backed by the
military-intelligence-industrial complex.
The former NSA tech guru says the agency he worked at
for decades has evidence of exactly who hacked… or
instead, proves that the emails were leaked by a
Democratic party insider.
Binney stressed:
“If the idiots in the intelligence community
expect us to believe them after all the crap
they have told us (like WMD’s in Iraq and
‘no we don’t collect data on millions or
By Jay Syrmopoulos
November 22, 2017
hundreds of millions of Americans’) then
they need to give clear proof of what they
say. So far, they have failed to prove
anything.”
This highly suggests there is no evidence of a substantial
Russian hack, but rather an operation by the military-
intelligence-industrial complex (MIC) looks to expand the
influence and hegemony of the United States under the
auspices of a second Cold War.
As former CIA, State Department, and House Intelligence
Committee security expert Fred Fleitz notes:
“Only two intelligence entities – the Office
of the Director of National Intelligence
(DNI) and the Department of Homeland
Security (DHS) – have weighed in on this
issue, not 17 intelligence agencies [as
Hillary Clinton had claimed]. And what they
said was ambiguous about Russian
involvement. An unclassified October 7,
2016 joint DNI-DHS statement on this issue
said the hacks
‘. . . are consistent with the methods and
motivations of Russian-directed efforts.
the These thefts and disclosures are intended
to interfere with the US election process.
Such activity is not new to Moscow — the
Russians have used similar tactics and
techniques across Europa and Eurasia, for
example, to influence public opinion there.
We believe, based on the scope and
sensitivity of these efforts, that only
Russia’s senior-most officials could have
authorized these activities.’
Saying we think the hacks
‘are consistent with the methods and
motivations of Russian-directed efforts’ is
far short of saying we have evidence that
Russia has been responsible for the hacks.
Maybe high-level officials would have
authorized them if Russian hackers were
responsible, but the DNI and DHS
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 statement did NOT say there was evidence
Russia was responsible.”
Binney believes the intelligence community is politicizing
intelligence to promote a false narrative surrounding
Russia. He claims they know that what they are saying is
false, because if it weren’t false, then they could provide,
to the public, evidence proving their claims, and do it
without revealing any legitimate US national-security
information.
Tellingly, Binney, who is widely regarded as a “legend”
within the agency and the NSA’s best-ever analyst and
code-breaker, believes the public is being lied to as the
truth would destroy the entire popularized-Russian election
interference narrative.
“That’s why I originally said if the FBI
wanted Hillary’s email, all they have to
do is ask NSA for them,” Binney said.
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Interestingly, the whole of corporate state media largely
refuses to give Binney any airtime to reveal the damning
information that refutes the Russiagate conspiracy theory,
and instead continues to promote a false narrative created
by the military-intelligence-industrial complex and
promoted by the corporate state media apparatus.
Instead of anyone standing up and challenging Binney’s
analysis, the mass media in the U.S. has effectively
censored his message by ignoring him—and potentially the
biggest story of 2017—and, instead, running with Russian-
meddling in US elections propaganda.
Make no mistake that this situation is the modern-day
equivalent of ‘Saddam’s Weapons of Mass Destruction’
politicized intelligence debacle that led to the invasion of
Iraq and millions dead as a quasi ‘response’ to the 9/11
attacks—but with potentially much more grave
consequences.
 Q Clearance Patriot:
The Storm And The Awakening
By MAGA -
November 19, 2017 –
Q Anon: Preface
Let me start off by saying that the Q
Anon / Q Clearance Patriot posts are so
vast in scope, to summarize ‘everything’
is nearly impossible. The posts paint a
huge picture around the basis that
‘everything is connected and everything
has meaning’.
I’m going to give you my feeble attempt at the cliff notes
version of just a few of the first posts and expand on it a
little.
Q Anon: Down the Rabbit Hole
The Special Counsel is not corrupt.
Let me say that again, the special counsel, headed by
Mueller, is not running a corrupt investigation. He’s doing
the job properly under the guise of investigating the Trump
team. This has lowered the guard of the true targets
because nobody anticipated it, including the media. There
are an unprecedented number of sealed indictments across
the nation right now that have not been executed, over
1100 sealed indictments at last glance.
Many high level officials will soon be
arrested to actually ‘Drain the Swamp‘
beyond what anyone thought was possible.
Once the corruption and the ‘type of corruption’ is
revealed to the American people, it will trigger ‘The
Awakening’. This event will be something unlike anything
you’ve ever witnessed, Americans will unite behind
Trump and his administration for cleaning house.
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Even an Atheist knows and must be
intelligent enough to know, that Satan
worshipers are real, Cults are real and
‘True Evil’ exists.
Disinformation is also real. It’s the job of the media and
the entertainment industry to keep the public saturated
with stimulus designed to keep us blind and distracted.
This is where most people ‘tune out’ because it’s too hard
for them to swallow. They don’t want to believe that there
are people in this world buying children to rape and kill
them as sacrifices. It’s tough to stomach but who are we if
let this continue, who are we if we choose to turn a blind
eye. Evil exists, and it exists at the highest level of the
United States government. Don’t be naive and think ‘it
can’t happen here’ because I assure you that it is.
The level of importance of this operation
equates to a ‘Good vs Evil’ battle that
transcends politics.
This is a ‘Global Evil’ that attempted to takeover America.
Many in our government actively worship Satan,
Moloch/Molech and participate Pedophilia, Spirit
Cooking, etc. Most Americans are afraid to look this Truth
in the eye but True Evil does exist regardless of your
religious views. This is not a joke and most definitely not a
game. Thousands of Pedophiles and Child Traffickers have
been arrested since Trump was sworn in. They are all
under heavy investigation, including their funds and their
affiliations.
Saudi Arabia, Rothschild and Soros are
the puppet masters that fund this Global
Evil.
For the first time in history, this triangle of funding has
lost one of it’s sides and is beginning to collapse. The old
Saudi Arabia was funding child trafficking, Hillary
Clinton, false flags and various other evil activities.
The New Saudi Arabia is just taking form
as Saudi Arabia’s King Salman, the same
King who honored President Trump during
his visit, made an abrupt change in the
line of succession.
He appointed his younger son Mohammed bin Salman
(people call him MBS) as Crown Prince and is reportedly
going to step down this week due to dementia, which will
make MBS King. As soon as MBS was named Crowned
Prince is when ‘The Purge’ in Saudi Arabia began.
Hundreds of Officials and other Princes were arrested for
corruption charges, many with ties to Clinton, Podesta,
Huma, Obama, etc. All of their corrupt dealings and bank
records are being investigated. As this unfolds, the paper
trail will likely lead to charges here in the United States
and could possibly be some of the sealed indictments.
MBS has a good relationship with Trump and has vowed
to ‘Make Saudi Arabia Great Again‘, less strict and
more moderate. Saudi Arabia is now working with Israel
(highly unusual) and Trump against Iran, Radical Islam
and efforts to defund terrorism.
This is a once in a lifetime opportunity
take out this Global Cabal of Satan
worshiping pedophiles.
Military Intelligence and NSA Director Admiral Rogers
has played a vital role in rooting out this evil. The ability
to avoid ‘other agencies’ and oversight through the power
of ‘State Secrets Privilege’ has played a vital role and once
the special counsel has concluded, they will have played a
vital role as well.
State Secrets Privilege is an ability of Military Intelligence
that shields it’s secrets from the Judicial Branch. It has
been upheld by the Supreme Court and was established
with United States v. Reynolds, 345 U.S. 1 (1953) and
expanded during the Bush admin after 9/11. The criteria
for invoking this privilege is when:
“‘there is a reasonable danger’ that
disclosure [of evidence] will ‘expose military
.
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matters which, in the interest of national
security, should not be divulged.’ The
invocation must come from “the head of the
department which has control over the
matter, after actual personal consideration
of that office.
Admiral Rogers, Director of the NSA, Head of all 16
Intelligence Agencies, the man who briefs the President
every morning, is an interesting figure in all of this.
Adm. Rogers was in charge of NSA under Obama and kept
his position with Trump.
Rogers met with then President-Elect Trump at Trump
Tower November 17th 2016, without letting the Obama
White House know. 2 days later, Obama was considering
firing him before leaving office.
Many believe that Admiral Rogers may have warned
Trump about Obama’s Intelligence Community (James
Clapper and John Brennan) spying on their activity from
the FISA warrant they obtained in October 2016.
Just the tip of the iceberg
This doesn’t even cover 5% of it or even get into the
‘Breadcrumbs’ that Q posted. Regardless of whether you
choose to believe Q Anon or not, the momentum that this
has created is enormous. Americans felt a lot of this in
their gut for a long time, that something just wasn’t quiet
right with these people. Especially after the Podesta
emails. Stay strong, have Faith and Pray. The Patriots are
in control now.
 President Donald Trump’s
Accomplishment List
November 21, 2017
Trump Economy
November
 Trump Protects U.S. Intellectual Property in China
 Broadcom will move back to U.S. — and bring tax
money with it
 US private sector added 235,000 jobs in Oct - Beats
Expectations
October
 Consumer confidence highest level since December
2000
 Q3 GDP at 3 Percent – Beats Expectations
 Ivanka Trump creates new World Bank initiative to
foster Entrepreneurship among Women
 Consumer Sentiment in U.S. Surges to 13-Year High
 63.1%: Participation Rate Reaches Trump-Era High
 Unemployment down to 4.2, wages rise .5%
 New entrants from outside the labor market made up
3.2
 U.S. Factories Expanding at 13 Year high
 Dow posting first eight-quarter winning streak in 20
years
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 Home builder confidence at 12-year high
 Manufacturer confidence at a 20-year high
September
 Tech giants pledge millions to Trump initiative
 Q2 GDP up 3.1%
 Sales of new U.S. homes rebounded in August
 Federal Reserve: Household Wealth in America at
record high of $1.7 trillion - Rising property values and
Financial gain
 Surging stock market powers U.S. wealth to $96.2
trillion
 Food Stamp Usage Has Fallen Every Month Under
Trump
 Wages rising faster than prices
 Median Incomes Climbing for First Time Since 2007
 US Census Bureau: American median income is
increasing for the first time since 2007
 Trump has signed a $15 billion relief package for Texas
in the wake of Hurricane Harvey
 Jobless claims drop to 240,000 - hottest streak in 43
years
 U.S. Consumer Sentiment Rose in August
 Recovery Is Finally Trickling Down to Least-Educated
Workers
 U.S. Job Satisfaction Highest Level Since 2005
 American manufacturing expanded in August at fastest
pace in six years
August
  Donald Trump Ends Obama Effort to Waive Work  1000s of jobs being created through pact with Saudi
Requirements for Welfare Arabia

 Consumer confidence strengthens in August, second-  Executive Order on the Establishment of the American
highest level since late 2000 Technology Council

 President Trump Cuts More US Debt for a Longer April

Period of Time Than Any President
 USA's small business confidence is spurring a hiring
 Pennsylvania coal company to open a SECOND coal and spending spree
mine
 Alibaba Takes First Step To Fulfilling Jack Ma And
 Summer Youth Unemployment Falls, Level Since 1969 President Trump's 'One Million U.S. Jobs' Promise

 Shortage of illegal labor has caused construction March

worker wages to increase by 30% in Texas
 Slashing job-killing regulations left and right
 In Trump era, American corporations are seeing their
best earnings in 13 years  Creating thousands of more jobs for immigration
officers and border patrol
 US trade deficit narrows as exports hit 2-1/2-year high
February
 Milestone for Trump: 1 million new jobs in six months
 Signed a resolution encouraging women in
 National unemployment rate at 4.3% (lowest it's been entrepreneurship and STEM
in 16 years)
 Executive ordered all federal agencies to create task
July forces to cut regulations that hurt the economy

 13,000 jobs being created in WI - largest job  US Manufacturing Index at a 33-year high
announcement in WI history (Foxconn)
 Coal Miners are WINNING. Cut Regulations/Create
June Jobs/New Plant

 Black Unemployment, Lowest Level in 17 Years  US Economic Confidence Surges To Highest Level
Ever Recorded By Gallup
 Gas prices at a 12-year low
January
 Some states are experiencing their lowest
unemployment rates in their histories  45th PRESIDENT of the United States of America,
DONALD J. TRUMP
 Trump Announces $200 Million in Apprenticeship
Funding

 U.S. has record 6 million job openings, 6.8 million Trump Trade Agreements
Americans are looking for jobs
November
 CEO confidence highest since 2014
 Japan Freezes North Korea’s Assets after Trump’s
 U.S. jobless rate falls to lowest level in 16 years Visit

 Trump signs bills that helps Veterans and Police October

officers by giving them Priority and Training
 U.S. Trade Deficit is Shrinking – Exports Rising
May
 Trump Fights for ‘America First’ as 4th Round of
 Government spending as percentage of GDP down NAFTA Negotiations End

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  Crude Oil Shipment to India Highlights Expanding
Energy Partnership
August
 Crude oil shipment from Texas opens new vistas in
India-U.S. ties
 Argentina agrees to allow first U.S. pork imports in 25
years
 Trump orders probe of China's intellectual property
practices
 New memorandum to protect American IPs from China
- Potentially save Billions of dollars and millions in jobs
July
 Coal exports up 60%
 China opens rice market for US exports for first time
ever
 U.S. makes final finding rebar exports from Taiwan
 Renegotiating NAFTA with Canada and Mexico in
order to make better trade deals - May terminate
June
 United States and Mexico finalize sugar trade deal
 First U.S. Natural Gas Shipped to Poland
May
 Trade agreement clears way for Moody’s, Fitch and
S&P to rate onshore bonds
 Signed an Arms Deal worth more than $350 billion and
various other investment agreements with Saudi Arabia
 China, U.S. reach trade agreement on beef, poultry
and natural gas
April
 Trump orders a study on abuses of U.S. trade
agreements – WTO
 Trump slaps tariffs on Canadian lumber imports
 Increased tariffs on Canadian lumber by 20% (worth $1
billion)
 China buys more U.S. coal, sends North Korea
 Trade deficit falling faster than expected
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March
 Trump Administration Issues Trade Policy Agenda
Focusing on U.S. Sovereignty and Jobs
January
 Trans Pacific Partnership TERMINATED
Trump Government
November
 House Passes Tax Bill in Major Step Toward Overhaul
October
 Senate Passes Budget Resolution Clearing the Way to
pass Tax Reform with a Simple Majority
 Trump's HHS defines life as beginning at conception
 Iran Deal: DECERTIFIED
 Trump: 'We are stopping cold the attacks on Judeo-
Christian values'
 Trump administration abandons the Obama-era clean
power plan aimed at reducing global warming
 School Choice tops the list of Priorities U.S. Education
Department Grants
 Trump Signs Healthcare Order, Expands Choice and
Access through associations
 US and Israel withdraw from UNESCO citing "anti-
Israel bias"
 Trump has written 46 Executive Orders
September
 Executive order enabling Treasury Deparment to target
companies doing business with North Korea
August
 Trump has signed 53 bills into law
 Ending many of Obama's useless Executive Orders
 Trump Signs Order Rolling Back Environmental Rules
on Infrastructure
 11,000 government jobs slashed under Trump -
downsizing government
  UN Security Council unanimously imposed new March
sanctions on North Korea
 President Trump's executive order will undo Obama's
 Senate confirms 65 Trump nominees for various Clean Power Plan rule
positions
 U.S. Will have Free but Fair and Balanced Trade:
 U.S. Small Business Administration opens assistance Mnuchin
center
 Executive order to reduce operating costs of the
July Federal Government

 800 Obama regulations cut - Saved over $200 billion  Fired all 46 attorney generals hired by Obama

 EPA's Pruitt moves to roll back over 30 environmental February

regulations in record time
 Purging the State Department of Obama loyalists
 Cut the White House budget - Saved taxpayers $22
million January

June  Fixing lobbying laws - 5 year lobbying ban on White

House officials
 Haley Tells Congress US Assuming More Assertive
Role at UN  Put a regulatory freeze on all federal agencies

 Trump’s EPA To Repeal Obama’s ‘Waters Of The US’  Cutting regulations in government agencies (add 1,
Rule take out 2)

 Eliminated 1200 man hours of wasteful paperwork Trump Homeland Security

requirements including Y2K preparedness
October
 President Trump Announces “Massive Permit Reform"
Push  DHS: Announces New Procedures for Refugee
Admissions
 Trump Lays Out Plan to Privatize Air Traffic Control
System  Deportations From the Interior up 34%

 Statement by President Trump on the Paris Climate  DACA Renewals Drop 21%
Accord
 30-foot concrete slab prototypes erected along border
May
September
 Treasury to call for rolling back banking regulations
 ICE has conducted a MASSIVE raid on sanctuary cities
 Trump orders a Voter Fraud Commission to investigate this week - 498 illegal immigrants arrested
2016 election
 Trump has updated his travel ban, includes these 8
 Fired corrupt and incompetent FBI Director James countries - Chad, Iran, Libya, North Korea, Syria,
Comey Venezuela, Yemen, Somalia - NO EXPIRATION DATE

 HHS to Rescind Birth Control Mandate in Obamacare  Crossing The Border Illegally Is Harder Than It’s Been
In 50 Years
April
 Withholding Federal Funds from Sanctuary Cities -
 Appointed conservative Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Must allow ICE access to jails and notify befor release
Court
 $1.6 billion down payment to start building the wall
 Ben Carson Finds $500 Billion (Billion!) In Errors during
Audit of Obama HUD  Trump cuts off visas for countries that refuse deported
immigrants
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  Rescinded DACA
August
 Extreme Vetting' for some green cards
 Deportation orders up 31% nationwide under Trump
 Deportation Orders Up 30%
 Miami has removed its "sanctuary" status
 ICE raids targeting families net 650 arrests
July
 Denver To ICE: Stop Arresting Illegal Immigrants At
Courthouse. ICE To Denver: Not A Chance.
 17 Texas sheriffs approved to partner w/ICE
 ICE chief wants smuggling charges on leaders of
sanctuary cities
 New crackdown on 'so-called' sanctuary cities
 Raids to target teenaged suspected gang members
 Army Corps starts pre-construction work on border wall
 Deportations in LA are up 60% alone
 80% jump in illegal targets
 Illegal immigration arrests up 40% nationwide
 Feds taking over Texas National Guard mission along
border
 Border Patrol Morale at Highest Level
 Trump Admin Preparing Texas Wildlife Refuge for First
Border Wall Segment
 Christian refugees admitted now outnumber Muslim
refugees admitted
 Bill allocates $1.6 billion for Trump's border wall
 Memo reveals ICE officers have free rein
 ICE crackdown scaring some families back to Mexico
June
 No Sanctuary For Criminals Act - deny federal grants to
sanctuary cities - Passed House and Senate
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 Kate's Law - harsher penalties for previously deported
criminals - Passed House and Senate
 Number of refugees taken in is down 50%
 Rescinded DAPA
May
 Workers install final panel in upgrade of border fence
 US agency raids Indian IT firms
April
 Raids turn Oregon city into ghost town
 Ending "catch and release" immigration policy
 March
 Silicon Valley Staffing Firm Charged in H1B Fraud
 Unshackling ICE - told that they can take action against
ALL illegal immigrants - increasing presence in
sanctuary cities
Trump Department of Defense
November
 Gen Mattis Briefs NATO: ISIS 95% Eradicated
October
 U.S.-Backed Forces Capture Raqqa from ISIS
 ISIS facing imminent collapse in Syria's Raqqa
 Gen. Mattis breaks down New Afghanistan Strategy -
NO RESTRICTIONS on Air Power"
September
 US-backed fighters 'seize 80% of Raqqa from Islamic
State'
 Mattis sees need for new DOD space programs
 Trump calls for Increased Military Spending: Senate
passes $700 billion defense policy bill
 US shares technology with India. Enlisting them to fight
in Afghanistan
August
 Mattis vows US support for Ukraine against Russian
'aggression'
  Jeff Sessions Delivers Remarks to the Executive Office
 U.S. Cyber Command will be elevated to a "Unified for Immigration Review
Combatant Command"
 Sessions outlines broad exemptions for religious
July freedom

 Mattis decides to withhold U.S. cash from key Pakistani  Human Trafficking Arrests SURGE: Trump Cracks
military fund Down on “Modern Slavery"

 ANALYSIS: ISIS facing knockout punch in Raqqa after September

losing Mosul
 3,800 Gang Members Charged in Operation Spanning
 Mosul liberated from ISIS United States and Central America

May  DOJ files suit against company for not hiring Americans

 Mattis: 'Annihilation Tactics' Being Used Against ISIS  Sessions says U.S. will intervene in campus free
speech cases
 US, Gulf countries form new group: 'TFTC' to stem flow
of terror financing  US Marshalls Seek Unregistered Sex Offenders, Arrest
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 NATO weighs new 'Counter Terrorism Post' following
Trump's demands  Department of Justice Awards Nearly $59 Million to
Combat Opioid Epidemic
March
August
 ISIS leader 'admits DEFEAT in Iraq and orders
militants to flee or kill themselves in suicide attacks'  DOJ Halts Operation Chokepoint, Which Targeted
Firearm Dealers
February
 DOJ Halts Obama's Operation Chokepoint, Which
 Mattis Gives White House Tentative Plan for Rapid Targeted Firearm Dealers
Defeat of ISIS
 More than 1,000 arrests in sex trafficking operation
James Mattis threatens to ‘moderate’ US backing for Nato
over budgets  Four charged with leaks from Trump administration as
attorney general vows crackdown

July
Trump Department of Justice
 Big increase in cocaine seizures
November
 Jeff Sessions announces new crackdown on 'so-called'
 193 Illegal Alien Gang Members Arrested in MS-13 sanctuary cities
Crackdown
 Justice Department announces takedown of AlphaBay,
October the largest dark web market

 Restrictions Lifted – Organized Crime Task Force to
target MS-13 Gang
 397 Arrested 84 Minors Rescued in Underage Sex
Trafficking Crackdown
 Justice Department Announces First Ever Indictments
Against Designated Chinese Manufacturers of Deadly
Fentanyl and Other Opiate Substances
 Sessions's New Civil-Forfeiture Rules
 Jeff Sessions: 400 medical professionals charged in
largest health care fraud takedown
 The Department of Justice Stands by Texas's Voter ID
Law
June

 238 arrested in sweep of suspected child sex predators

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  Trump signs VA accountability act into law, promises
 Jeff Sessions Declares Fight Against Elite Pedophiles better care for veterans
A Top Priority
 Trump Administration Streamlines Veteran Medical
May Records

 Charges: Sex traffickers took hundreds from Thailand May

to US
 White House to launch veterans' complaint hotline
 The U.S. attorney general is bringing back the harshest
sentences for low-level drug offenses April

March  Accountability and Whistleblower Protection at the

Department of Veterans Affairs’
 Sex Trafficking Arrests Soar Under Trump; MSM
Completely Ignores  Trump Signs Bill to Extend Veterans Choice Program

 Sessions reassures senators: No pot crackdown

imminent Trump State Department

November

Trump Veterans Admin  North Korea Designated as "State Sponor of

Terrorism"
October
October
 VA seeks partnerships to build and improve health-care
facilities  United States Announces a New Strategy on Iran

 VA announces Veterans Coordinated Access & September

Rewarding Experiences Act
 Trump Administration Announces 'Extreme Vetting'
 VA, Ginnie Mae create task force to address mortgage Plans
refinancing issues
 Trump cuts Obama’s refugee target in half, takes more
September Christians than Muslims

 Telemedicine: An important tool for Veterans health
August
 Trump Signs Bill to Streamline VA Disability Claims
Appeals Process
 Trump signs ‘Forever GI Bill,’ boosting aid to student
vets
 New Order Indefinitely Bars Almost All Travel From
Seven Countries
 UN Security Council unanimously steps up sanctions
against North Korea
 Fewest Monthly Refugee Arrivals in August Since 2002
August

 How the VA Choice and Quality Employment Act of  Trump to stop travel from countries that refuse to help
2017 may drive civil service reform Homeland Security

 VA expands telehealth access  America has withdrawn almost $300 million in foreign
aid to Egypt
July
July
 VA fires more than 500 feds under Trump, even before
new accountability law  Rex Tillerson blasts China for hiring slaves from North
Korean government
June

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  Tillerson to shutter war crimes focused State Dept.  Tillerson Tightens Limits on Filling State Department
office: report Jobs

 Rex Tillerson, Mediating Gulf Dispute, Signs April

Antiterrorism Pact With Qatar
 Report: Trump plans to cut foreign aid, merge State
 Canceled Obama Era special immigration program for and USAID
foreign entrepreneurs
 Pulling funds to the UN
 Critical milestone in the global fight against ISIS
March
 Tillerson to back up Trump efforts to bolster Eastern
Europe against Russia  Tillerson on North Korea: Military action is 'an option'

June February

 It's a bloodbath at the State Department

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 Fusion GPS Founder Told Congress
That Russians Had Infiltrated The NRA
Chuck Ross -
10:48 AM 11/22/2017
Attendees line-up to meet musician Ted Nugent (not pictured) at a
book signing event during the National Rifle Association's annual
meeting in Houston, Texas on May 5, 2013. (REUTERS/Adrees Latif)
The co-founder of the opposition research firm behind the
Trump dossier testified to Congress earlier this month that
he believed Russian operatives have infiltrated the
National Rifle Association.
Glenn Simpson, a founding partner of Fusion GPS,
casually suggested in an interview with the House
Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence that the gun
rights group had been breached, a source familiar with the
matter told The Daily Caller.
Fox News first reported about Simpson’s testimony on
Tuesday night.
TheDC’s source said that Simpson suggested the NRA-
Russia connection in response to a line of questions from
committee Democrats who asked whether any
conservative groups have been infiltrated by Kremlin
agents.
No evidence has been made public supporting Simpson’s
allegations, and it was not clear from Simpson’s testimony
what links he believes there are between the NRA and
Russian agents.
The dossier, which was funded by the Clinton campaign
and DNC, makes no mention of the NRA or any other
conservative groups. The document, written by former
British spy Christopher Steele, alleges that the Trump
campaign cooperated with the Russian government in
order to help Trump win the election.
News articles attempting to link Russians to the NRA have
appeared with increased frequency over the past year. The
articles have keyed in on Aleksander Torshin and Maria
Butina, two Russian nationals who have developed a close
relationship to the pro-Second Amendment group.
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The pair are lifetime members of the NRA and frequently
attend the group’s events. In 2011, Butina founded a
Russian gun rights group called The Right to Bear Arms.
Some NRA officials have visited Russia to attend that
group’s functions.
It is not clear if Simpson was referring to Torshin, the
deputy chairman of Russia’s central bank, and Butina
during his House committee interview.
Torshin and Butina entered the news again last week after
the Senate Judiciary Committee cited an email sent to the
Trump campaign offering a “Russian backdoor overture
and dinner meeting” with Donald Trump.
The email, sent from a Christian values advocate named
Rick Clay to Rick Dearborn, a Trump campaign official,
suggested that Torshin sought face time with Trump on the
sidelines of the NRA annual meeting held in Louisvillve in
May 2016.
The email made its way to Trump son-in-law Jared
Kushner, who shot down the idea.
Despite that, the email was reported in the press as an
attempt either by the Trump campaign to collude with
Russia or as an effort by Torshin to gain access to the
Trump orbit.
Torshin’s initial contact in the U.S., a man named Johnny
Yenason, said that he — and not Torshin — suggested a
meeting with Trump. (RELATED: Central Figure In
‘Backdoor Overture’ Request Denies That Russian
Official Sought Meeting With Trump)
Yenason told TheDC in exclusive interviews this week that
he met Torshin and Butina at a National Prayer Breakfast
function in Moscow in March 2016. He contacted the pair
two months later in hopes that they would attend a
veterans group fundraiser that he was putting together on
the sidelines of the NRA convention.
Yenason, who provided emails to back up his claim, then
got in touch with Clay with the idea of asking the Trump
campaign whether the Republican would be interested in
attending the event and meeting Torshin.
 Creators Of Infamous Trump Dossier
Made Mysterious Payments To Journalists
© AP Photo/ Jim Lo Scalzo/Pool Image - US
00:15 23.11.2017
Court documents confirm that Fusion GPS, financed by
the Democratic National Committee and Hillary Clinton’s
2016 presidential campaign, paid reporters in relation to
the infamous dossier that alleged then-candidate Donald
Trump engaged in “golden shower” urine show orgies at
the Ritz Carlton in Moscow.
The US House of Representatives is stepping up pressure
on Fusion GPS, a private research firm founded by two
former Wall Street Journal reporters. According to recent
documents filed by the House in court, Fusion transferred
unspecified sums of money to unnamed journalists
between June 2016 and February 2017. These journalists
were known to have covered "Russia issues relevant to the
[House Intelligence Committee's] investigation," according
to the Washington Examiner.
Documents Fusion GPS filed with the US District Court
for the District of Columbia had virtually all useful
information about the financial transfers redacted,
including names, the amount of money, and the intention
of the payments.
The House Intel Committee is urging the court to force
Fusion GPS to publish banking records connected the
payments, the Examiner reports.
For its part, Fusion GPS asked the court for a restraining
order to avoid having to disclose further information.
"Those requested records involve
transactions that are not pertinent to work
related to Russia or Donald Trump," Fusion
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GPS co-founder Peter Fritsch said in an
affidavit filed this week.
Obviously, there seems to be a concern by some members
of the House committee that Fusion paid journalists
to report on the story. Notably, BuzzFeed was among first
to publish the salacious document, while CNN quickly
followed suit and discussed the dossier's existence
on national television. Literally dozens of reporters
from Politico and the Washington Post — two publications
hardly known for exhibiting a pro-Trump bias — had seen
the dossier and dismissed it as not newsworthy because its
statements could not be corroborated.
Furthermore, attorneys for the House alleged that Fusion
GPS set up meetings between
"dossier author Christopher Steele with at
least five major media outlets in September
2016, including Yahoo News."
Yahoo News was also one of the first outlets to publish a
story on the dossier, specifically bringing former Trump
adviser Carter Page into the fold.
"While many politicians and bureaucrats
in the US Congress remain distracted
by irrelevant sideshows such as the
minuscule amounts of money spent on
Facebook ads that no one paid attention
to last year or how various perverted
members might have once amused
themselves," Page said in a statement
to the Washington Examiner Wednesday,
"the determined leaders and hardworking
staff with the House Intelligence Committee
have once again remained on the tip of the
spear as they drive toward essential
answers regarding the real government
interference in the 2016 election."
Meanwhile, in late October, the Campaign Legal Center
filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission
stating that the DNC and 2016 Clinton campaign broke the
law by hiding how they financed Fusion GPS to craft the
document. The project to fabricate ties between Trump and
Russia was reported to cost more than $12 million.

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 Accusing Someone You Disagree With Of
Being A Russian Troll Is Admitting
You Have No Argument
Caitlin Johnstone - Rogue Journalist, Poet, And Utopia Prepper.
Nov 27, 2017
I shouldn’t have to write this article. And yet, here we are.
I don’t care who you are or how much Palmer Report you
read: accusing someone who disagrees with you of
conducting psyops for a foreign government is never, ever
a normal or acceptable way of conducting political
discourse.
I tweeted the above yesterday after noticing another uptick
in the bizarre habit establishment loyalists have of labeling
anyone who disagrees with them as Russian trolls. And,
though I didn’t address it to her and made no mention of
her, Louise Mensch took it personally.
This led to a deluge of fascinating interactions with
Mensch’s followers, in which I was sincerely informed
that Twitter has admitted to half of its users being Russian
agents, though it is likely more. I was also called a Russian
agent many, many times, because saying it’s not okay to
accuse a stranger you disagree with of being a Russian
agent is just the sort of thing a Russian agent would say.
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Well, let me start off this weird, stupid article that I
shouldn’t have to write by saying that I myself am not a
Russian agent. I’ve never been to Russia, I have no ties to
the Russian government, I rarely use sources in my articles
that have ties to Russia, and to the best of my knowledge
none of my patrons are Russian. I say this not because I
feel a need to defend these foam-brained accusations but to
point out that it is, in fact, very possible to disagree with
the establishment Russia narrative without being
incentivized to in rubles.
Political discourse between establishment loyalists and
everyone else has been trampled to death by the gratuitous
use of this obnoxious debate-avoiding tactic. Everyone
who publicly questions the MSNBC Russia narrative will
be met with these accusations. Everyone who speaks about
it with much of an online following will receive these
accusations on a daily basis.
This is not normal. Anti-Trumpists have been trained over
the last year by people like Rachel Maddow, Louise
Mensch, and the Palmer Report to believe that accusing
everyone who disagrees with you of being a Russian agent
is a normal thing that sane people do, but they are wrong.
It is a bizarre, obnoxious tactic, and when you use it, you
are admitting that you have no argument.
In the unlikely event that any Louise Mensch types are still assumes from the beginning that nobody could possibly
reading at this point, let me explain how normal online disagree with your omniscient, infallible worldview unless
discourse operates: they were deceived by a malevolent party. If your position
is defensible, defend it like a normal human being.
 Party A presents a position on an issue.
 Party B presents a rebuttal to the position, often I’ve had some success with simply drawing attention to the
supplemented with links substantiating their claim. fact that the person levelling these accusations is using a
 Party A returns with their own counter-argument and tactic that is not a normal or acceptable part of political
their own substantiations. discourse. Individuals with a bit of personal insight can get
 Repeat this back-and-forth for as long as both parties pretty embarrassed when you calmly point out that they’re
remain interested. doing something they know deep down is really weird and
unhealthy, so they’ll back away from it once you bring a
little self-awareness to their McCarthyite chicken dance. I
The civility with which this discourse takes place varies
recommend my readers try it if you ever run into this tactic
wildly, and it can leave both parties feeling like they
yourselves.
wasted an hour or two of their lives talking to a brick wall.
But it can also be very informative to people watching, it
can often lead to one party realizing that their argument
isn’t nearly as strong as their partisan echo chamber had
led them to believe it was, and it can cause both parties to
do more research and rigorous thinking as they strive to
come up with a compelling case. It can even lead to
someone realizing that they don’t know nearly as much
about a given issue as they thought they did and privately
questioning their previous assumptions.

Conversations like this are socially enriching and lead to a

more intelligent and better-informed humanity. Compare
that to:

 Party A presents a position on an issue.

 Party B accuses party A of conducting psyops for a
foreign government.
 Discussion ends.

These accusations always kill dialogue. And they are

meant to. It is a safe way of slamming the door on ideas
which make the person who uses this tactic uncomfortable.

There is no legitimate reason to ever accuse a stranger you

disagree with of being a Russian agent. Firstly, you cannot
possibly know that the stranger you’re dialoguing with
works for the Kremlin. Secondly, even in the highly
unlikely event that the person you are speaking to really is
a secret Russian agent, you should still be able to out-
debate them. Kremlin trolls don’t have magical powers.
They can’t hypnotize you. If you’re interacting with one
they’ll be advancing arguments and ideas just like anyone Bottom line: when a stranger on the internet accuses you
else, and if your arguments and ideas are defensible you of being a Kremlin agent, of being a “useful idiot”, of
should be able to defend them clearly and articulately. “regurgitating Kremlin talking points”, this is simply their
way of informing you that they have no argument for the
A related accusation is conceding that while it is possible actual thing that you are saying. If you’re using hard facts
that the individual you are speaking to may not be a paid to point out the gaping plot holes in the Russiagate
Kremlin operative, they are at the very least a “useful narrative, for example, and all they can do is call your
idiot” who has been brainwashed by Russian propaganda argument Russian propaganda, this means that they have
and is unknowingly advancing pernicious ideas. This is no counter-argument for the hard facts that you are
also an admission that you have no argument. You’re presenting. They are deliberately shutting down the
shutting down dialogue instead of debating your position possibility of any dialogue with you because the cognitive
articulately. You’re also making a fallacious case which
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dissonance you are causing them is making them
uncomfortable.
Yes, paid shills for governments all over the world do
indeed exist. But the odds are much greater that the
stranger you are interacting with online is simply a normal
person who isn’t convinced by the arguments that have
been presented by the position you espouse. If your
position is defensible you should be able to argue for it
normally, regardless of whom you are speaking to.
Yes, propaganda exists. But what is propaganda other than
arguments and ideas? It isn’t witchcraft or wizardry. It
isn’t going to melt your face like that scene in Raiders of
the Lost Ark; you can engage it rationally without plugging
your fingers in your ears and screaming “propaganda!” In
the event that the ideas you are debating against online are
indeed the product of government deception, you should
be able to debunk them using truth and rationality. If there
are lies, point them out using truth and facts. If there are
.
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half-truths, bring in the other half of the equation. If there
are bad arguments relying on bad thinking, refute them
with good arguments and good thinking. The methods of
refuting propaganda are the same as the methods of
refuting anything else, so it’s stupid to act like plugging
your fingers in your ears and screaming “propaganda” is a
legitimate tactic. If “propaganda” can’t be refuted using
legitimate debate methods, then what you are calling
propaganda looks an awful lot like truth.
I fight what I consider to be establishment propaganda for
a living, but if all I ever did was type “that’s propaganda!”
over and over again, nobody would ever read my articles. I
have to make a compelling case for what actual
disinformation is being presented and present clear
arguments for why I think they are wrong. The same is
true for everyone, even if they believe their position is
supported by 17 intelligence agencies and the infinite
wisdom of the Palmer Report.
 Group Files Lawsuit To Have Compromised
Mueller Removed From Special Counsel Post
By Usafeaturesmedia
Posted On November 28, 2017
“…a fanciful theory that we now know was
invented by the Hillary Clinton presidential
campaign…”
(National Sentinel) Deep State: A conservative watchdog
organization has filed suit to have special counsel Robert
Mueller removed from his position, alleging obvious
conflicts of interest.
Filed by Freedom Watch founder Larry Klayman, he also
highlights in his complaint against Attorney General Jeff
Sessions and FBI director Christopher Wray that
“it is a criminal offense to leak grand jury
information.”
The complaint also blames Sessions for the appointment of
Mueller as special counsel, which likely would not have
happened if the attorney general had not recused himself
from any Russia-related investigations of alleged collusion
with the Trump campaign during last year’s election.
“Mr. Mueller was appointed because the
Attorney General, Mr. Sessions, needlessly
recused himself from overseeing an
investigation into a fanciful theory that we
now know was invented by the Hillary
Clinton presidential campaign in their
deliberations within 24 hours of suffering an
unexpected loss in the November 8, 2016
presidential campaign,” the complaint says.
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“Out of an abundance of caution, Mr.
Sessions bent over backwards to avoid
even the slightest appearance of bias or
conflict of interest and recused himself.”
Klayman also highlighted the leaking that has taken place
from Mueller’s office.
“Since the inception of the Mueller
Investigation, a pattern of a persistent
torrent of leaks has emerged, and
considering their nature, it is clear that the
majority of these leaks are coming from
Special Counsel Robert Mueller and his
staff, most of whom are suffering
from serious conflicts of interest,” says the
complaint.
“Mr. Mueller and his team suffer from
numerous conflicts of interest that not only
mandate their removal, but also explain
why the leaks are being disseminated to
the media on a daily basis,” it continues.
Also, the complaint notes that Mueller and fired FBI
Director James Comey, who leaked his own memo from a
meeting with President Trump in the hopes of having a
special counsel appointed, are longtime friends and
associates, further proving that Mueller can’t be trusted.
“Furthermore, Mr. Mueller’s investigation
turns on the credibility and personal
interests of Mueller’s long-term colleague
and close friend, former FBI Director
James Comey. (“Mr. Comey”),” the
complaint adds.
“He must be held accountable to the law
and should not be able to do as he pleases
to further his and his friends, like former
FBI Director James Comey’s, political
agenda,” Klayman said.
 Former Federal Prosecutor Labels Mueller Trump-Russia
Collusion Investigation “Creeps On A Mission”
By Jim Hoft
Tuesday, November 28, 2017

Uranium One scandal. We also know that a special FBI

investigation into Russia when Mueller was FBI Director
was suddenly covered up and buried allowing the Uranium
One deal to proceed.

Prior to the Obama administration approving the very

Former Head of the FBI Robert Mueller
was selected to lead an investigation
into the nonsensical allegation that
President Trump colluded with Russia
in the lead up to the 2016
election. The President has
consistently and repeatedly denied
these allegations.
The allegations led to the investigation created after
Attorney General Jeff Sessions removed himself from any
Russia related investigation and appointed Mueller’s old
friend Rod Rosenstein as Assistant Attorney General who
then quickly appointed Mueller to lead the Special
Investigation.
controversial Uranium One deal in 2010 giving Russia 20
percent 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 investigation was
ignored and US uranium went to the Russians while the
Clintons gained millions in donations to their fraudulent
Clinton Foundation.
This is all ignored by the MSM, Democrats and many top
Republicans. No special investigation into Uranium One
has yet been called. So Mueller charges ahead with his
bogus special investigation.
Yesterday on Hannity a former
federal prosecutor labeled
Mueller’s investi-gation ‘Creeps
on a Mission’.

We now know that the investigation

itself is fraudulent.

There is no law that prevents an American from colluding

with a foreign entity during the election. 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.

After being promoted Mueller quickly showed his true

colors. He disregarded his relationship with formed The Uranium One deal where the
corrupt FBI Director James Comey. He’s hired a team of Clintons (and no doubt others) gained
former Obama and Clinton attorneys. He also has a record millions while 20 percent of US uranium
of failed investigations related to the Clintons and Obama. went to Russia is clearly the most
Yet he failed to recuse himself showing his true colors as extreme case of treason in US history.
the dirty cop he is. Mueller won’t permit being prosecuted
along with his colleagues for their
Despite calls to step down Mueller moves on. Recently it treasonous actions so they charge on
was uncovered that Mueller was hand picked by the with the fraudulent special
Assistant AG Rosenstein to be the special counsel because investigation!
both men were involved in covering up the Clinton
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 Trump's Thanksgiving Media Tear
By Eddie Scarry
Nov 28, 2017, 12:01 AM
While vacationing at his private club, Mar-a-Lago, over the
Thanksgiving holiday, President Trump took to Twitter where he
shared some scathing commentary on a wide range of subjects,
including his favorite target: the media. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)
President Trump used his Thanksgiving holiday to return
again and again to his antipathy for the news media, which
left many in the press scratching their heads over the long
break.
Between Nov. 23, Thanksgiving Day, and Monday, the
president fired off 26 tweets (and two retweets of other
accounts) on topics ranging from pending tax legislation to
the Alabama Senate race to personnel moves at the
Consumer Finance Protection Agency. Of those tweets,
eight were about the media, and on more than one occasion
they were targeted at specific outlets and scathing in tone.
Reacting to a tweet from White House social media
director Dan Scavino about the MSNBC program
“Morning Joe” on Monday, Trump tweeted, “The good
news is that their ratings are terrible, nobody cares!"
Trump is known to be an avid Twitter user, posting his
thoughts about the day’s news most frequently in the
mornings when his messages seem to coincide with cable
news segments on any topic that animates him.
But there is often little or no discernible pattern to his
Twitter activity and the holiday weekend was no
exception.
“I have no clue why he weighed in so
much,” one CNN producer told the
Washington Examiner. The producer,
whose network was perhaps Trump’s
biggest target over the holiday, was not
authorized to speak on the record.
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On Saturday, Trump tweeted,
“@FoxNews is MUCH more important in
the United States than CNN, but outside of
the U.S., CNN International is still a major
source of (Fake) news, and they represent
our Nation to the WORLD very poorly. The
outside world does not see the truth from
them!”
The network and some of its on-air talent took exception
with the slight.
CNN’s publicity department used its own Twitter account
to reply,
“It's not CNN's job to represent the U.S. to
the world. That's yours. Our job is to report
the news. #FactsFirst."
One of Trump’s media tweets seemed crafted purely for
the sake of causing mischief.
“Time Magazine called to say that I was
PROBABLY going to be named ‘Man
(Person) of the Year,’ like last year, but I
would have to agree to an interview and a
major photo shoot,” he said Friday. “I said
probably is no good and took a pass.
Thanks anyway!”
The magazine denied that it had ever indicated Trump
would be its “Person of the Year.”
After Trump’s broadside against “Morning Joe,” a
producer at MSNBC speculated that Trump was likely on a
tirade against the media in anticipation of some pending
news story that may break and consume the White House.
“Something might be coming this week that
has him wanting to diminish the credibility
of cable news,” the producer said.
At least one big story related to the administration did
break over the holiday and it will likely still have
consequences into the near future.
The New York Times reported on Thanksgiving Day that
former national security adviser Mike Flynn and his
lawyers were no longer communicating with the White
House about special counsel Robert Mueller’s
investigation into Russia’s election interference. The report
set off speculation through the weekend that Flynn may be
negotiating with Mueller’s team for a plea bargain or
otherwise cooperating with the investigation.
On Sunday, Trump wrote on Twitter,
“Since the first day I took office, all you
hear is the phony Democrat excuse for
losing the election, Russia, Russia, Russia.
Despite this I have the economy booming
.
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and have possibly done more than any 10
month President. MAKE AMERICA
GREAT AGAIN!”
The next day came Trump’s tweet against “Morning Joe”
and a separate one proposing a competition to find out
which TV news outlet was
“the most dishonest, corrupt and/or
distorted in its political coverage of your
favorite president (me).”
Trump specifically said, however, that the game would
exclude Fox News, which he generally views favorably.
The series of tweets seemed to be, as they often are, a
reaction to something, but it wasn’t clear what.
Another producer, this one at Fox, said it likely was the
Russia coverage.
“I think,” the producer said, “he knows
Mueller is hot on his trail and he's freaking
out and trying his distraction strategy.”
The White House did not return a request for comment.
 Obama Inspector General Reveals How A Stunned James
Clapper Led To Deep State Cover Up Of
Hillary’s Email Scandal
By Joshua Caplan
Tuesday, November 28, 2017
On Monday evening, former Intelligence
Community Inspector General Charles He said Clapper’s Clinton email comments came during an
McCullough III told Fox News’ Catherine in-person meeting about a year before the presidential
Herridge that the Clinton campaign election – in late December 2015 or early 2016.
warned it would fire him after
discovering evidence of “top secret,” “[Clapper] was as off-put as the rest of us
emails passing through Hillary Clinton’s were.”
private email server.

“There was personal blowback.

Personal blowback to me, to my family,
to my office,” McCullough III told Fox
News.

McCullough told Fox News that then-Director of National

Intelligence James Clapper was briefed on the findings and
in turn was told by officials to keep the intelligence official
out of the matter.
Fox News reports:
..[T]he former inspector general, with
responsibility for the 17 intelligence
agencies, said the executive who
recommended him to the Obama
administration for the job – then-Director of
National Intelligence James Clapper – was
also disturbed by the independent Clinton
email findings.
“[Clapper] said, ‘This is extremely reckless.’
And he mentioned something about — the
campaign … will have heartburn about
that,” McCullough said.
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After the Clapper meeting, McCullough said his team was
marginalized.
“I was told by senior officials to keep
[Clapper] out of it,” he said, while
acknowledging he tried to keep his boss in
the loop.
Despite concrete evidence of Clinton’s breaking the law,
Clapper was shielded from the investigation. The former
CIA director could have helped get the FBI’s house in
order by briefing bureau officials on the seriousness of the
evidence — but instead, did nothing.
Clapper’s silence on the evidence he was presented more
than suggests he is complicit in covering up Clinton’s
wrongdoings.
From the very start, the FBI’s investigation into Hillary Clinton investigation would be special —
Clinton’s private email use was flawed. As Gateway that it would be handled by a small team at
Pundit’s Jim Hoft reported last Friday, Rep. Matt Gaetz headquarters, that it would be given special
(R-FL) told Fox and Friends that Congress now has status.”
evidence Crooked cop James Comey and his FBI did not
follow normal standards and gave Hillary Clinton “special
status” in their investigation.

Gaetz told Fox News,

“We now have evidence that the FBI’s

investigation of Hillary Clinton did not follow
normal and standard procedures. The
current deputy director of the FBI Andrew
McCabe sent emails just weeks before the
presidential election saying that the Hillary
.

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 Michael Flynn's Lawyer Meets With Members Of
Special Counsel's Team, Raising Specter Of Plea Deal
By Matthew Mosk, Mike Levine, Brian Ross
Nov 28, 2017, 10:45 AM ET
“No one should draw the conclusion that
this means anything about Gen. Flynn
cooperating against the president,”
Sekulow said.

The New York Times broke the news, calling it an

indication that Flynn may be cooperating with prosecutors.

The lawyer for President Donald Trump’s former national

security adviser Michael T. Flynn met Monday morning
with members of special counsel Robert Mueller’s team —
the latest indication that both sides are discussing a
possible plea deal, ABC News has learned.

Trump’s legal team confirmed late last week that Flynn’s

attorney Robert Kelner alerted the team that he could no
longer engage in privileged discussions about defense
strategy in the case — a sign Flynn is preparing to
negotiate with prosecutors over a deal that could include
his testimony against the president or senior White House
officials.
That process would typically include a series of off-the-
record discussions in which prosecutors lay out in detail
for Flynn and his lawyers the fruits of their investigation
into his activities. Prosecutors would also provide Flynn an
opportunity to offer what’s called a proffer, detailing what
information, if any, he has that could implicate others in
wrongdoing.
When reached Monday, Kelner declined to comment on
the nature of his morning visit to Mueller’s offices in
Washington, D.C.
Sources familiar with the discussions between Flynn’s
legal team and Trump’s attorneys told ABC News that
while there was never a formal, signed joint defense
agreement between Flynn’s defense counsel and other
targets of the Mueller probe, the lawyers had engaged in
privileged discussions for months.
Jay Sekulow, a member of Trump’s legal team, told ABC
News last week that the break was “not entirely
unexpected.”
Eduardo Munoz Alvarez/AFP via Getty Images. Michael Flynn Jr. is
seen behind his father, retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, as they arrive
at Trump Tower in New York on Nov. 17, 2016.
Sources familiar with the Flynn investigation have told
ABC News the retired lieutenant general has felt increased
pressure since prosecutors began focusing attention on his
son, Michael G. Flynn, who worked as part of the Flynn
Intel Group, the consulting firm founded by the elder
Flynn, a former head of the Defense Intelligence Agency.
Michael G. Flynn also traveled with his father to Russia in
2015 for his now famous appearance at a Moscow dinner
where he sat next to Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Democrats in Congress have told ABC News they
forwarded information to the Mueller team alleging that
Michael T. Flynn illegally concealed more than a dozen
foreign contacts and overseas trips during the process of
renewing his security clearances.
“It appears that General Flynn violated
federal law by omitting this trip and these
foreign contacts from his security clearance
renewal application in 2016 and concealing
them from security clearance investigators

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 who interviewed him as part of the
background check process,” Reps. Elijah
Cummings and Eliot L. Engel, both
Democrats, wrote in a letter to Flynn’s
attorney.
The letter highlights information House investigators
collected from executives at three private companies
advised by Flynn in 2015 and 2016. The companies were
pursuing a joint venture with Russia to bring nuclear
power to several Middle Eastern countries and secure the
resulting nuclear fuel before Flynn joined then-candidate
Trump on the campaign trail.
Flynn is a decorated military officer who served as director
of the Defense Intelligence Agency from 2012 until his
retirement in 2014. He was out of the spotlight only
briefly. He joined the Trump campaign as an adviser in
2016, and Trump later named Flynn as his first national
security adviser. He was forced to resign, however, after
just 24 days on the job, when it was revealed that he
misled Vice President Mike Pence about his conversations
with Russian officials during the presidential transition.
Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images, FILE. Robert Mueller, special counsel
on the Russian investigation, leaves the U.S. Capitol in Washington,
D.C., June 21, 2017.
Cummings told ABC News that Flynn’s foreign contacts
— which involved high-ranking foreign officials and
business executives — were so numerous they could not
have been inadvertent omissions or incidental contacts.
“He has, over and over again, omitted
information that he should have disclosed,”
Cummings said. “It’s not an aberration, and
that’s clear.
Flynn’s lawyer has declined to comment on the letter, and
when ABC News tracked down Flynn this summer at a
beach in Newport, Rhode Island — his hometown — he
didn’t say much more.
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“I’m just having a great time with the family
here,” Flynn said. “I’m doing good, [but] I’m
not going to make any comments.”
The alleged omissions could be a serious matter — and not
just for Flynn. While Cummings said intentionally
omitting foreign contacts when applying for security
clearance can carry a five-year prison term, he
acknowledged that penalties are rarely so severe. The
leverage the alleged transgressions provide, however,
could prove useful to prosecutors seeking to use the threat
of prosecution to compel Flynn’s assistance in the broader
investigation into Russian interference in the 2016
presidential campaign.
Former FBI Director James Comey provided a window
into that strategy during his three hours of testimony
before the Senate Intelligence Committee earlier this year.
“There is always a possibility if you have a
criminal case against someone and you
bring them in, squeeze them, flip them,
[that] they give you information about
something else,” Comey said.
The alleged omissions are just the latest to make trouble
for Flynn. He failed to declare a December 2015 trip to
Russia, where he sat next to Putin and for which was paid
$33,000. In March 2017, Flynn submitted a late filing with
the Department of Justice under the Foreign Agent
Registration Act, revealing that the Flynn Intel Group was
paid $530,000 for three months of work on behalf of a
Dutch firm owned by a Turkish businessman with close
ties to the Turkish government.
Susan Walsh/AP Photo, FILE. President Donald Trump walks in
front of National Security Adviser Michael Flynn and Joint Chiefs
Chairman Gen. Joseph Dunford, left, and after arriving at MacDill
Air Force Base in Tampa, Fla., Feb. 6, 2017.
Flynn’s work for Turkey remains the subject of additional
scrutiny. Of interest to federal agents, according to people
interviewed by the FBI, is his alleged role in a bizarre,
unrealized proposal first reported by The Wall Street
Journal to kidnap Turkish dissident cleric Fethullah Gulen,
who is living in exile in rural Pennsylvania and is
suspected of involvement in a failed coup attempt.
Gulen, who has denied involvement in the coup attempt,
has lived legally in the Pocono Mountains since 1999, and
the Turkish government has been financing efforts to
persuade the U.S. government to return him to Turkey for
years.
July at a press conference, the Turkish ambassador to the
U.S. also denied the notion of a kidnapping plot.
“There’s no truth to that,” he said, adding
that the Turkish government was following
“traditional” procedures to have Gulen
extradited “through the legal channels.”

Former CIA Director James Woolsey confirmed for ABC

News he was at a meeting in which Flynn allegedly raised
the idea.

“It became clear to me that they were

seriously considering a kidnapping
operation for Gulen, and I told them then
that it was a bad idea, it was illegal,”
Woolsey said. “I won’t say that they had
firmly decided to do that. But they were
seriously considering it.”

Chris Greenberg/Bloomberg via Getty Images, FILE. Robert K.

Kelner, Flynn’s lawyer, took the rare step of publicly Kelner is seen in this Oct. 23, 2006 file photo in Washington, D.C.
refuting those assertions, saying there was no such
discussion and calling them categorically “false.” In mid-
ABC News’ John Santucci contributed to this report.
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 Legacy Media Savage Trump After He Called Liz Warren
“Pocahontas” While Failing To Report She LIED
About Native American Heritage
By JD Heyes
Tuesday, November 28, 2017
In insane Left-wing legacy media melted down (again) in
recent days after President Donald J. Trump trolled Sen.
Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., over her phony claim of
having Native American blood.
But what those same media outlets didn’t do is report that
Warren lied about being of Native American heritage to
advance her academic career and enrich her bank account.
As reported by Fox News — which did point out the irony
— the Leftist media and its sycophantic Democrat-
supporting pundits and talking heads were predictably
apoplectic after Trump referred to Warren as “Pocahontas”
at a White House event to honor World War II-era Navajo
code-talkers.
After Warren herself referred to the trolling as a “racial
slur,” the legacy media dutifully picked up the phrase and
ran with it:
CBS’ “Evening News,” ABC’s “World News
Tonight” and “NBC Nightly News” barely
mentioned why Trump uses the term in the
first place – but the origin of the nickname
— Warren’s dubious claims of Native
American heritage — is newsworthy when
trying to determine if it’s an offensive slur or
a well-earned moniker.
Here’s as harsh as it got regarding Warren’s misleading
claim: ABC and NBC both used the same phrase to
describe it, saying she merely “came under fire” for
claiming Native American heritage.
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But in an analysis of the media pass, Newsbusters’
Nicholas Fondacaro wrote that all three major broadcast
networks “failed to do their due diligence and fully cover
the origin of Trump’s criticism,” being much “more eager
to slam their favorite punching bag,” the president, of
course, when presented with low-hanging fruit.
Fox Business host Stuart Varney also took Warren to task
over her claim that Trump saying what he said was a
“deeply unfortunate…racial slur.”
“Really?” wrote Varney. “Let’s not forget
that the original insult to Native Americans
came from Elizabeth Warren herself.
Applying for a job as a Harvard professor,
she claimed to be a Native American.
Harvard eagerly accepted her claim— they
could tick off two boxes to show diversity:
female and minority.”
But the claim was false, he noted further. In fact, she’s
never been able to prove the claim — other than to say she
has “high cheek bones.”
Oh. Well, then. No further DNA testing needed. (Related:
The purpose of mainstream media is thought control and
suppression: How to find the facts between the
propaganda.)
“Truth is, she had played the racial spoils
game,” Varney continued. “Falsely claiming
minority status to get a job” — something
she could not do if the federal government
had never institutionalized racism by
legalizing the consideration of race and
ethnicity in the hiring process (and school
admissions, and other considerations).
As Fox News noted further, Harvard even promoted
Warren as a Native American faculty member back in
1996 in a Harvard Crimson piece on campus diversity
(yes, even back then the Left was insane about ‘diversity’
over other qualities, like competence, education,
experience, etc.).
During her first U.S. Senate campaign in 2012 the Boston
Herald outed Warren over her false claim, but it didn’t
matter: Massachusetts voters would cast a ballot for a
Democrat no matter how many lies they told, and so, she
won.
But the outing didn’t stop there. Fox News noted that
subsequent reporting revealed that Warren had used the
bogus Native American heritage claim since the 1980s,
chalking it up to family lore that was passed down but
never verified with DNA testing (and she isn’t taking a test
anytime soon, either, you may have noticed).
Eventually, after the Washington Post couldn’t verify her
claim either, the paper simply instructed “readers to look
into it on their own and decide whether Trump’s attacks
over Warren’s background have merit.”
.
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Wow. How’s that for some investigative journalism?
When Trump makes incorrect statements, the Post’s “fact
checkers” are all over it.
“The media don’t want to explain that Sen.
Elizabeth Warren built her entire career on
the laughable claim that she was part
Native American. Rather than using an
ethnic slur, Trump is actually defending
Native Americans against Warren’s
disgusting abuse of affirmative action,”
observed Media Research Center Vice
President Dan Gainor.
He’s right, as was Varney.
 Navajo Code-Talker Honored By Trump
Destroys Liz Warren With Epic One-Liner
By Usafeaturesmedia
Posted On November 28, 2017

Now, one of the Navajo code talkers, Thomas Begay, response to Warren’s allegation that Trump
broke his silence in defending the president used a “racial slur” against her.

(National Sentinel) Trolling the Troll: Sen. Elizabeth

Warren, D-Mass., claimed anew that President Donald J.
Trump was being “racist” when he referred to her as
“Pocahontas” during a meeting to honor Native American
code-talkers during World War II.

Trump’s nickname for Warren is in reference to her

claiming to be of Native American descent to get favored
status when applying for previous positions with Ivy
League schools like Harvard.

“You were here long before any of us were

here. Although we have a representative in
Congress who they say was here a long
time ago. They call her Pocahontas,”
Trump said, which sent anger and
resentment through Democratic lawmakers
and liberal media outlets.

Now, one of the Navajo code talkers, Thomas Begay,

broke his silence in defending the president.

“The Marines made us yell ‘Geronimo’

when we jumped out of planes and that
didn’t offend me either,” he said, in
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 Elizabeth Warren Falsely Claimed
Native American Ancestry But Objects When
President Trump Calls Her ‘Pocahontas’
By Michael Patrick Leahy
28 Nov 2017
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA)
complained on Monday when President
Trump referred to her as “Pocahontas,”
despite her long history of falsely
claiming to have Native American
ancestry.
“It is deeply unfortunate that the President
of the United States cannot even make it
through a ceremony honoring these heroes
without having to throw out a racial slur,”
Warren told MSNBC on Monday.
“In an Oval Office event honoring World
War II Navajo code talkers on Monday,
Trump issued a joke at Warren’s expense,”
Breitbart News reported.
“We have a representative in Congress
who they say was here a long time ago.
They call her ‘Pocahontas’,” the president
said.
Monday afternoon, a reporter asked White House Press
Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders about Trump’s use of
“Pocahontas” to describe Warren, and Sanders hit back at
Warren:
Reporter: “Does [Trump] see political value
in calling people out racially?”
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Sanders: “I think that Sen. Warren was
very offensive when she lied about
something specifically to advance her
career.” pic.twitter.com/qvRA06zEOR
— NBC News (@NBCNews) November 27,
2017
Sanders is correct in her assertion, as Breitbart News has
documented extensively over the past five years, since the
issue first became public in 2012.
In May 2012, Breitbart News reported there is zero
credible evidence–either documentary or genetic–that
supports Warren’s claim of Native American ancestry.
Warren has offered no evidence in the subsequent five
years.
Trump’s reference to Warren as “Pocahontas” came on the
same day her allies at the Consumer Financial Protection
Bureau–an independent agency of questionable
constitutionality established in the 2010 Dodd-Frank bill,
largely on the basis of academic research conducted by
Warren herself–orchestrated a power grab in an attempt to
thwart his appointment of OMB director Mick Mulvaney
as acting director of an agency described by many
conservatives as “out-of-control.”
(Late Tuesday, a federal judge threw out
that attempted power grab, dismissing
deputy director Leandra English’s request
for a temporary restraining order preventing
President Trump from naming Mulvaney
acting director of the agency.)
George Mason University professor of economics Todd
Zywicki, who President Trump is considering as a
potential permanent director of the CFPB to replace
recently resigned Richard Cordray, a long-time Warren
ally, has built an impressive academic record that focuses
on the inaccuracy and deception of Warren’s academic
research that led to the establishment of the agency.
 “The Obama administration has promised
that the Federal Reserve’s new Consumer
Financial Protection Bureau will be
independent from politics, a model of
regulatory expertise grounded in sound
data and economics. Naming Harvard Law
Prof. Elizabeth Warren as de facto agency
head undermines both goals,” Zywicki
wrote in a September 2010 op-ed in the
Wall Street Journal.
“Questions about the validity of Warren’s
scholarly findings have haunted her since
early in her career,”
Zywicki told Breitbart News in 2012, adding:
Reviewing her first major scholarly work, a
co-authored book, noted bankruptcy
professor Philip Schuchman (now
deceased) stated bluntly, “In my opinion,
the authors have engaged in repeated
instances of scientific misconduct.” Similar
questions ghave continued to nag her
scholarship throughout her career,
especially her usage and handling of
empirical data and the conclusions she
draws from it.
For example, her high-profile claim that half or more of
personal bankruptcies attributable to medical problems has
come in for especially withering criticism. Her first major
academic study on the topic claimed that almost half of
personal bankruptcies were attributable to medical
problems and that the number of bankruptcies annually
attributable to medical issues had increased 23-fold in 20
years.
But as I wrote in critiquing that study,
“Notwithstanding the long consensus that
relatively few bankruptcies are caused by
health problems and health costs, a recent
study concludes that approximately half of
consumer bankruptcies are caused by
medical problems, a twenty-three-fold
increase over a twenty-year period. Both
conclusions are fundamentally
unsupportable, however, and rest primarily
on the way in which the researchers define
and count what constitutes a medical
bankruptcy rather than an actual increase
in the number of bankruptcies caused by
medical problems.”
Trump’s “Pocahontas” reference on Monday focuses
national attention on Warren’s track record lacking
credibility, both in her academic research and her claims of
Native American ancestry.
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To bolster those Native American ancestry claims, Warren
points only to “family lore” and her “high cheek bones.”
She has consistently refused to take a DNA test.
More than five years after Warren’s claims of Native
American ancestry were completely disproven, she
continues to stick with the defense that it must be true
because her family members told her so.
“Just to be clear: I learned about my
family’s heritage the same way everyone
else does – from my parents and
grandparents. I never asked for and never
got any benefit from it,” Warren said in
a fundraising email sent out late Monday.
But professional genealogists offer a more honest,
evidence-based approach to researching family history.
In Professional Genealogy: A Manual for Researchers,
Writers, Editors, Lecturers, and Librarians, author
Elizabeth Shown Mills notes that family history research
depends on two key factors
(1)”Credibility: whether a source’s
information is likely to reflect past reality,”
and
(2) “Relevance: whether information relates
to the person or question of immediate
concern.”
“Original records, especially those made
near the time of the matter at issue, are our
first choice for credibility,” Mills adds.
Mills continues:
Family traditions and anecdotal accounts
present us with dilemmas and
opportunities. We know how easily facts
become confused and details embroidered
when passed through the generations; our
clients and our families may not have that
perspective yet. We can help others
understand that family stories have
value but must be tempered with
caution and researched until evidence
justifies accepting or discarding them.
By way of example…
Illustrious ancestors.
More difficult to handle, perhaps, is the
issue of including “research” by earlier
members that set forth illustrious
ancestors with no valid documentation.
We need tact to help our families realize
the inappropriateness of including
 unsubstantiated lineages. An otherwise
credible book can be vastly diminished by
flimsy or disproved claims. (emphasis
added)
Born in 1949, Warren first made her false claim of Native
American ancestry publicly at the age of 35 in 1984, when
she submitted several recipes to Pow Wow Chow: A
Collection of Recipes from Families of the Five Civilized
Tribes: Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek &
Seminole, a cookbook compiled by her cousin, Mrs. James
P. Rowsey. In that cookbook, Warren described herself as
“Elizabeth Warren – Cherokee.”
The recipes Warren submitted included “Cold Omelets
with Crab Meat,” and “Crab with Tomato Mayonnaise
Dressing .” According to Boston talk radio king Howie
Carr’s research, those recipes appear to have been
plagiarized:
The two recipes, “Cold Omelets with Crab
Meat” and “Crab with Tomato Mayonnaise
Dressing,” appear in an article titled “Cold
Omelets with Crab Meat,” written by Pierre
Franey of the New York Times News
Service that was published in the August
22, 1979 edition of the Virgin Islands Daily
News, a copy of which can be seen here.
Ms. Warren’s 1984 recipe for Crab with
Tomato Mayonnaise Dressing is a word-
for-word copy of Mr. Franey’s 1979
recipe.
In 1973, when she applied to Rutgers University Law
School at the age of 24, she did not claim minority status,
but in 1985, while still on the faculty of the University of
Texas Law School, Warren first asserted her false claim of
minority ancestry professionally in that year’s Association
of American Law Schools (AALS) faculty directory. She
would continue to make that claim for the next dozen
years, until the 1997 AALS faculty directory.
David Bernstein summed up Warren’s own claims that she
was a minority, writing at the Volokh Conspiracy in 2012:
The old AALS Directory of Faculty guides
are online (through academic libraries) at
Hein Online. The directories starting listing
minority faculty in an appendix in 1986.
There’s Elizabeth Warren, listed as a
professor at Texas. I spot-checked three
additional directories from when she was a
professor at the University of Pennsylvania,
including 1995-96, the year Harvard offered
her a position. Elizabeth Warren, Elizabeth
Warren, Elizabeth Warren.
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So, we know one thing with almost 100% certainty:
Elizabeth Warren identified herself as a minority law
professor. We know something else with 90%+ certainty:
(at least some) folks at Harvard were almost certainly
aware that she identified as a minority law professor,
though they may not have known which ethnic group she
claimed to be belong to, and it may not have played any
role in her hiring.
But it gets even more interesting: once Warren joined the
Harvard faculty, she dropped off the list of minority law
faculty. Now that’s passing strange. When the AALS
directory form came around before Warren arrived at
Harvard, she was proud enough of her Native American
ancestry to ask that she be listed among the minority law
professors. (Or, in the unlikely even that she just allowed
law school administrators to fill out the forms for her
without reviewing them, they were aware that she claimed
such ancestry, and she didn’t object when she was listed.)
Once she arrived at Harvard, however, she no longer chose
to be listed as a minority law professor.
Hmmm.
In 1993, the year Warren was a visiting professor at
Harvard Law School, a Harvard affiliated publication
referred to her as “a woman of color,” as Breitbart News
reported:
[I]n the spring of 1993, three years before
Harvard Law School first publicly stated
she was “a woman of color,” Elizabeth
Warren likely made that claim while
teaching at Harvard, and at approximately
the same time the faculty was considering
her for a tenured position. Warren, now
running for the Democratic nomination for
U.S. Senate in Massachusetts, told Politico
as recently as May 15 that she had “no
idea” why a Harvard Law School
spokesman called her a “woman of color”
in a 1996 Harvard Crimson article and a
1997 Fordham Law Review article.
However, a 1993 issue of the Harvard
Women’s Law Journal suggests that she
knew very well indeed.
An article, “Women of Color in Legal Academia: A
Biographic and Bibliographic Guide,” which was
published by the Harvard Women’s Law Journal (since
renamed the Harvard Journal of Law and Gender) in its
Spring 1993 edition (Volume 16), lists Warren as one of
approximately 250 “women of color” in legal academia.
Politico reported that
“a 1997 Fordham Law Review piece
described [Warren] as Harvard Law
 School’s ‘first woman of color,’ based,
according to the notes at the bottom of the
story, on a “telephone interview with
Michael Chmura, News Director, Harvard
Law (Aug. 6, 1996).”
Senator Warren used her false claim of Native American
ancestry to advance her professional career and help land a
permanent, tenure track job at Harvard Law School in
1995. For several years, the school went along with the
charade, incorrectly including Warren as a “minority” in
its annual report to the EEOC.
There is absolutely no credible evidence to support
Warren’s claim of Native American ancestry, but there is
solid documentary evidence that shows she is a direct
descendant of a member of the Tennessee Militia that
rounded up the Cherokee for the Trail of Tears in the
1830s, as Breitbart News reported in May 2012:
For over a quarter of a century, Elizabeth
Warren has described herself as a Native
American. When recently asked to provide
evidence of her ancestry, she pointed to an
unsubstantiated [and thoroughly debunked]
claim on an “1894 Oklahoma Territory
marriage license application” by her great-
great grand uncle William J. Crawford that
his mother, O.C. Sarah Smith Crawford,
Ms. Warren’s great-great-great
grandmother, was a Cherokee.
It is on this flimsy “word of mouth” assertion that O.C.
Sarah Smith Crawford was a Cherokee that Warren first
based her “1/32 Cherokee” claim. (We all have 32 great-
great-great grandparents, so the heritage of one of those
great-great-great grandparents constitutes 1/32 of our own
heritage.)
Oklahoma in 1894 had no such document as a marriage
license application. Breitbart News obtained and reviewed
the actual 1894 marriage license of O.C. Sarah Smith
Crawford’s son, William J. Crawford, and confirmed that
document includes no claim whatsoever of Cherokee
ancestry.
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But O.C. Sarah Smith Crawford’s husband Jonathan
Crawford, Elizabeth Warren’s great-great-great
grandfather, was a member of the Tennessee Militia that
rounded up the Cherokees in the 1830s, as Breitbart
News reported in May 2012:
O.C. Sarah Smith Crawford had no
Cherokee heritage, was listed as “white” in
the Census of 1860, and was most likely
half Swedish and half English, Scottish, or
German, or some combination thereof.
(Note, the actual 1894 marriage license
makes no claim of Cherokee ancestry.)
But the most stunning discovery about the life of O.C.
Sarah Smith Crawford is that her husband, Ms. Warren’s
great-great-great grandfather, was apparently a member of
the Tennessee Militia who rounded up Cherokees from
their family homes in the Southeastern United States and
herded them into government-built stockades in what was
then called Ross’s Landing (now Chattanooga),
Tennessee–the point of origin for the horrific Trail of
Tears, which began in January, 1837.
It is time for Ms. Warren to publicly
acknowledge the truth of her ancestry,”
Breitbart News concluded more than
five years ago.
Our call for Senator Warren to finally fess up and admit
the truth about her own complete lack of Native American
ancestry is just as relevant in November 2017 as it was in
May 2012:
“It is time for her to admit that she has no
Native American heritage that she can
prove; and it is time for her to acknowledge
instead, that she is likely a direct
descendant of a Tennessee Militiaman who
apparently rounded up the ancestors of
those who truly have Cherokee heritage,
the first step in their forced removal from
the Southeastern United States to
Oklahoma over the long and tragic Trail of
Tears.”
 Wow! Stock Market Up More Than 30 Percent
In Greatest Rally Ever Since Trump Victory
By Usafeaturesmedia
Posted On November 29, 2017

No president has seen all-time highs (now at 61) in the Also, since the election the Dow has surpassed 5 major
markets during their first year in office before Trump milestones – 19,000, 20,000, 21,000, 22,000 and 23,000.
This, too, is the first time this has happened in less than a
year in U.S. history.

No president has seen all-time highs (now at 61) in the

markets during their first year in office before Trump.

“President Trump set the record earlier this

year for the most all time closing stock
market highs during his first year in office.
Currently the Dow has set 78 closing highs
since last year’s election and 61 since
(National Sentinel) Stocks: The Dow Jones Industrial
President Trump’s inauguration. (As a
Average has gained some 5,500 points and 30 percent in
comparison, President Obama had no
value since Donald J. Trump defeated Hillary Clinton in
stock market highs his entire first
the November 2016 election, marking one of the greatest
term.)” The Gateway Pundit reported.
market rallies in the history of the country.
The Standard & Poor’s (S&P) and NASDAQ markets have
This year alone, the DJIA has grown by more than 4,000
also climbed to record highs under Trump.
points, adding trillions in wealth to millions of middle
income investors.
In all, the markets have gained more than $5 trillion in
wealth since Trump won.
A year ago on election night the Dow closed at 18,333; it
closed Tuesday evening at 23,837. That’s the largest one-
year gain in the 100-year history of the DJIA.

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 BREAKING: O’Keefe Strikes Again=> Wapo Reporter
Admits Russia Story “F*Cking Crap Shoot…Maybe It
Doesn’t Exist” (VIDEO)
By Cristina Laila
Wednesday, November 29, 2017

James O’Keefe strikes again! “Beginning immediately, all requests to

bring groups into the newsroom — whether
Monday, Project Veritas founder James
O’Keefe, tweeted a video of Washington students, visiting journalists, represent-
tatives of governments or other groups —
Post reporter Aaron Davis attempting to
must be cleared with me. Even for
ambush the group’s imminent
undercover bombshell video on the approved groups, we may limit where they
can go and the use of still or video
paper.
cameras,” wrote Grant.

On Tuesday, O’Keefe tweeted out a poll asking the public

which WaPo reporter he should expose next as he teased
the new video was about to drop.

Which @washingtonpost employee will we expose on

hidden camera next? #AmericanPravda The choices were
between, Marty Baron, Adam Entous, Fred Ryan or
Melissa McCullough

Leading up to the video release, WaPo reporters were

panicking and stalking the Project Veritas headquarters!

In Monday’s undercover video, Washington Post National

Security Correspondent Dan Lamothe and Director of
Product Joey Marburger speak to the paper’s hidden
agenda. Evidently, covering Trump the way they do is
good business, even though it’s fake news.

The left-wing media went crazy and relentlessly attacked

James O’Keefe, claiming the guerrilla journalist is
‘irrelevant’ and ineffective.

This only motivated O’Keefe to up the ante so he bragged

about having inside sources at WaPo and subsequently
leaked an internal email showing panic had spread.
An email was sent by the Washington Post’s deputy
managing editor Tracy Grant to the paper’s entire
newsroom notifying reporters of a policy change in respect
to visitation.
Now this…
WaPo’s National Security reporter Adam
Entous admits the Russia story is a “f*cking
crapshoot” and there is no evidence
suggesting Trump colluded with the
Russians during the 2016 presidential
election.

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Entous says: “I shouldn’t be saying these things because
we don’t… We’re not supposed to really
“But we really haven’t addressed… Our talk about that kind of stuff.”
reporting has not taken us to a place where
I would be able to say with any confidence Once again, O’Keefe catches fake news sycophants
that the result of it is going to be the admitting there is no evidence to support the Russian
president being guilty of being in cahoots collusion story yet they continue to roll out blazing
with the Russians. There’s no evidence of ‘Trump-Russia’ headlines.
that that I’ve seen so far.
“We’ve seen a lot of flirtation, if you will, Video via Project Veritas:
between them but nothing that, in my
opinion, would rank as actual collusion.
Now that doesn’t mean that it doesn’t exist,
it just means we haven’t found it yet. Or
maybe it doesn’t exist.”

Melissa McCullough, the Director of Newsroom

Operations, expresses her bias against Trump, admitting

“let’s just hope he doesn’t get re-elected in

another three years.”

McCullough then backpedals and says,

.

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 Federal Court Sides
With Trump Admin Over CFPB Posting
By Usafeaturesmedia
Posted On November 29, 2017
“It’s time for the Democrats to stop
enabling this brazen political stunt by a
rogue employee”
(National Sentinel) Judiciary: A federal court on Tuesday
sided with President Donald J. Trump over his
appointment former budget director Mick Mulvaney to
head up the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau after its
outgoing director tried to name his own replacement.
Richard Cordray resigned Friday, with his last action being
the installation of Leandra English, the agency’s deputy
director, as his replacement.
But within hours, Trump named Muvaney, former head of
the Office of Management and Budget, to lead the CFPB.
U.S. District Judge Timothy Kelly ruled against English
and refused to issue a temporary restraining order that
would prevent Mulvaney from taking over while allowing
her to assume the role of acting director.
In a statement, the Trump administration White House said
it
“applauds the court’s decision, which
provides further support for the president’s
rightful authority to designate Director
[Mick] Mulvaney as acting director of the
CFPB.”
.
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“It’s time for the Democrats to stop
enabling this brazen political stunt by a
rogue employee and allow Acting Director
Mulvaney to continue the Bureau’s smooth
transition into an agency that truly serves to
help consumers,” the White House said.
Both Mulvaney and English say they are the legal acting
director of the powerful agency. The 2010 Dodd-Frank
legislation states that in the director’s absence, the deputy
director becomes acting director.
But in naming Mulvaney, the White House, which was
supported by the Justice Department’s Office of Legal
Counsel and the CFPB’s general counsel, relied on the
older Federal Vacancies Reform Act, which allows for
presidential appointment of an acting director.
White House, backed by the Justice Department’s Office
of Legal Counsel and the CFPB’s general counsel, point to
the older Federal Vacancies Reform Act as allowing for
presidential appointment of an acting director.
English was represented in court by former CFPB
employee Deepak Gupta, who has become a leading anti-
Trump litigator.
Following Kelly’s ruling, Gupta told reporters he was not
sure what the next legal move would be and that he would
be consulting with English regarding whether or not to file
an appeal.
However, he said
“this judge does not have the final word on
what happens in this controversy and I
think he understands that.”
 New James O’Keefe Video: Washington Post Reporter
Seems To Cast Doubt On Russia Collusion Story
By Joel B. Pollak
29 Nov 2017
James O’Keefe and Project Veritas
released their latest undercover video
Wednesday morning, showing
Washington Post national security
reporter Adam Entous doubting claims
of collusion between Russia and
President Donald Trump’s presidential
campaign.
The new video appears to have been recorded as part of an
undercover investigation by Project Veritas into the
Post before it was apparently foiled and exposed by
Post reporters earlier this week.
Entous has been one of the Post‘s leading reporters on the
Russia collusion story. In May, he published a story based
on a secret audio recording of House Republican leaders in
2016, in which Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA)
was heard to joke,
“I think Putin pays … Trump.” Entous and
the Post — who refused to release the raw
audio — treated the story as a major
scoop, capturing what Entous claimed had
been “a politically explosive assertion.”
O’Keefe’s video appears to show that Entous privately
doubts the Russian collusion story — though it is not clear
when the video was recorded, and it is possible that Entous
changed his view of the Russia allegations over time. In
October, Entous was part of the Washington Post team that
revealed that Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign and
the Democratic National Committee had indirectly funded
Fusion GPS and the infamous Russian “dossier.”
(Conservatives have cited that report frequently — often
without acknowledging the Post‘s work in publishing it.)
In the Project Veritas video, Entous is shown saying:
Our reporting has not taken us to a place
where I would be able to say with any
confidence that the result of it is going to be
.
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the president being guilty of being in
cahoots with the Russians. There’s no
evidence of that that I’ve seen so far.
…
Frankly, there may not be anything that
gets the president. It may be just lower-
level people who are compromised by this.
We just don’t know. It’s very hard to tell.
So, we just don’t know at this point.
…
In terms of the actual secret arrangements
where they cooperate, we haven’t seen
anything that shows that yet. We’ve seen a
lot of flirtation, if you will, between them,
but nothing that, in my opinion, would rank
as actual collusion. Now, that doesn’t mean
that it doesn’t exist, it just means we
haven’t found it yet. Or it may mean it
doesn’t exist.
…
I mean, it’s a f*cking crap shoot. I literally
have no prediction whatsoever as to what
would happen, and I do all the stuff for
the Post on this … so I honestly would tell
you, I have no idea.
In narrating the video, O’Keefe points out that numerous
editorials and opinion articles in the Post have presumed
that the allegations of Russian collusion are true.
“Why doesn’t the editorial page reflect what
the news people actually report?” O’Keefe
asks, charging that the paper is biased.
The video also shows footage of a woman identified as
a Washington Post news executive saying that she hopes
Trump is not re-elected.
Breitbart News has reached out to Entous for comment.
 Washington Post Writer: ‘No Evidence’
Of Collusion Between Trump And Russia
© Flickr/ Bill Walsh - US
21:59 29.11.2017(Updated 22:57 29.11.2017
the Trump campaign and Trump White House have been
colluding with Russian actors since day one.

Controversial political activist James O’Keefe secretly

recorded a conversation with Washington Post staff writer
on the Russiagate investigation Adam Entous. Speaking
candidly, Entous admitted there was no evidence of
collusion between Trump and Russia and expressed
skepticism that there was collusion at all.

"Our reporting has not taken us to a place

where I would be able to say with any
confidence that the result of it is going to be
the president being guilty of being
in cahoots with the Russians," Entous told
O'Keefe in one of the conservative activist's
hidden camera exposes. "There's no
evidence of that that I've seen so far."
"We've seen a lot of flirtation, if you will,
between them but nothing that, in my
opinion, would rank as actual collusion.
Now that doesn't mean that it doesn't exist,
it just means we haven't found it yet. Or
maybe it doesn't exist."

The general online reaction to the video is that Entous

behaved with integrity, claiming that there was no decisive
evidence of collusion and that while it was possible, it
could also be a "crapshoot" — expressing the healthy The Post's editorial board runs daily articles pushing this
skepticism of a journalist, in other words. narrative, and Entous' reporting has reinforced it.

The problem is not so much what Entous said as who it's
coming from:
Entous writes about national security, foreign policy and
intelligence for a mainstream outlet that has arguably acted
as the standard bearer for the Russiagate narrative — that
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"Trump's company had more contact
with Russia during campaign, according
to documents turned over to investigators,"
reads one of his headlines from October.
"Sessions discussed Trump campaign-
related matters with Russian ambassador,
 US intelligence intercepts show," is another
he wrote in July.

The Post has also been caught in falsehoods about Russia

in the recent past. In November 2016, they published an
article with a then-explosive headline: "Russian
Propaganda Effort Helped Spread 'Fake News'
During Election, Experts Say."

The Post was roundly criticized for not only printing a

false article, but for significantly altering it
after publication and waiting another half day to add an
editorial note mentioning the corrections to the article.
"An earlier version of this story incorrectly
said that Russian hackers had penetrated
the US electric grid. Authorities say there is
no indication of that so far. The computer
at Burlington Electric that was hacked was
These "experts" included PropOrNot, an organization that not attached to the grid," the end of the
claims to be dedicated to rooting out Russian propaganda article once read.
in media but has been roundly slammed — including Now it ends with this line:
by progressive left-wing and other mainstream outlets —
as a gang of conspiracy theorists who slam any outlet that "Adam Entous contributed to this report."
deviates from the mainstream — from progressive public
policy organization ThinkProgress to uber-popular
conservative news aggregator Drudge Report — as a
Russian shill.
The Post was forced to add a lengthy editor's note to the
beginning of the story, stressing that they did not "vouch
for the validity of PropOrNot's findings" — yet they still
cited them as "experts" in an article. Yep.

Any disclosures from O'Keefe, of course, must be taken

In January 2017, they claimed that a Vermont power
company had been purposefully disrupted by Russian
hackers based on the incredibly flimsy evidence that a
laptop that belonged to the power grid's maintenance
company, Burlington Electric, had a similar piece
of malware on it as ones used by Russian hacking groups.
The only problems with that story was that the laptop
wasn't connected to the power grid and that there was no
evidence that the malware was placed on the laptop
by Russian hackers or indeed by anyone with malicious
intent. Not that these gaping inaccuracies stopped the Post
from hastily printing an article titled "Russian Hackers
Penetrated US Electricity Grid Through A Utility
In Vermont, US Officials Say," of course.
with a fistful of salt, as he has been caught in falsehoods
and manipulative behavior to better suit conservative
narratives before. Earlier in November, O'Keefe and his
Project Veritas organization were accused of trying
to trick The Post into publishing a fake story about a
woman who claimed Republican Alabama US Senate
candidate Roy Moore raped her as a teenager.
The Post realized that the woman was in all likelihood a
plant for Project Veritas and exposed the would-be sting.
O'Keefe was roundly criticized, including by major
conservative publications.
Media figures have largely come to Entous' defense online,
with variations on journalist Glenn Greenwald's reaction,
that Entous
"expresses exactly the caution, skepticism
and clinging to evidence that any good
journalist, by definition, would be guided
by."
If only more of them were guided by this ethic in their
work.

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 ‘US Wants Phony Russiagate Probe Kept Alive’:
NY Comedian Summoned Over Assange Interview Tells RT
Published Time: 29 Nov, 2017 11:11 Edited Time: 29 Nov, 2017 11:13
© Randy Credico / Facebook
The US is seemingly living in the past and again eyeing a
‘cold war’ with Russia, while also pursuing its “phony
Russiagate” inquiry, an American comedian asked to
attend a Congress hearing over his interview with Julian
Assange, told RT.
Randy Credico, a comedian, radio host and
civil rights activist, received a letter earlier
in November requesting him to “participate
in a voluntary, transcribed interview at the
Committee’s offices” during the first half of
December.
The letter was signed by Congressman Michael Conaway
(R-Texas), who leads the Russia investigation in the House
Intelligence Committee, and the ranking member,
Congressman Adam Schiff (D-California).
“They are going after me, why? Because of
my connection with Julian Assange. I have
been interviewing him for the last year,
year-and-a-half. I’ve had him on my show.
I’ve been in the [Ecuadorian] embassy [in
London]. And this is just another way of
keeping this phony ‘Russiagate’ inquiry
alive,” Credico told RT’s Caleb Maupin.
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Credico earlier confirmed that he and Assange previously
held meetings at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London,
where the WikiLeaks co-founder has been held up since
June 2012 in an effort to avoid extradition to the US. The
meetings took place on September 6, November 13, and
November 16 this year.
The comedian said he may testify in front of the
committee, but he will definitely
“use the protection of the First Amendment
[freedom of speech].” US authorities “just
could cite you for contempt for not
testifying,” he claimed, noting that he still
would resort to the protection by the First
Amendment Protection.
Stressing his determination,
Credico said that “they [authorities] can put
me in jail, but I’m certainly not going to
comply with this witch hunt, with this
modern day McCarthyism, because that’s
all it is.” “That nomenclature that they use
calling him [Julian Assange] a hostile
intelligence-gathering operation – that’s
what they call the journalists,” he told RT.
RT interviewed Credico before the comedian received a
summons from the House Intelligence Committee. The
writ requested him
“to testify at a deposition touching matters
of inquiry committed to said committee or
subcommittee,” says the document which
Credico released on Twitter on Tuesday.
According to Credico, the US government simply wants to
hush up the material he received from Assange.
“They [US authorities] don’t want people to
see what we have done in Libya … Syria,
Palestine, [or] our build-up against Russia
[and] China… anything. They don’t want it
out. Iraq, Afghanistan, drone strikes – all
that stuff they want to keep suppressed
 from the public. I want to know about it.
Why can’t I know about it? ” he asked.
While touching upon Russia in detail, Credico told RT that
Washington still lives back in the 1950s, in the period of
the Cold War with the Soviet Union.
“They [US authorities] don’t want a nuclear
war, they want a cold war. You know, like
they did is what the ’50s were all about.
The ’50s were all about the Cold War, the
Red Scare back then,” he added.
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The comedian said that he doesn’t see any
“Russian bases over there” in the US,
however, it’s Washington who “surrounded
Russia, surrounded Iran” and continues
to “surround Syria and China.”
The comedian dubbed the whole thing with alleged
Russia’s meddling into the 2016 US elections “hyped up
and exaggerated.” The Kremlin has repeatedly denied any
such interference or collusion with the Trump campaign,
with Russian President Vladimir Putin stating in May that
the anti-Russia spin was concocted by those who simply
can’t come to terms with the fact that Clinton lost the
election fair and square.
The amount of money – $100,000 – which was allegedly
spent on Facebook to interfere into the election
“would not get even a congressman
elected or a city council member elected if
he spent that kind of money on
Facebook,” he added.
In fact, US media should think more about its “internal
problems” rather than spend all their time talking about
Russia, Credico claimed.
“You ask anybody on the streets right now
the top 10 problems what they are
concerned about … and I guarantee
Russia will not even be in the top 20, top
30,” he said.
People in the US care about education, jobs and the
criminal justice system, Credico believes.
 Russia Owns Trump?
By Stephen Lendman - Stephenlendman.Org
11-29-2017
It’s hard keeping track of everything Russia is falsely
accused of.
Claims include nonexistent aggression in Ukraine,
meddling in America’s election, affecting the Brexit vote,
the one supporting Catalan independence - plus a whole lot
more, none of it credible, all of it made up rubbish.
Russiagate is like global tides, no way to stop them rising.
Here’s the latest from the Russophobic New York Times -
accusing the Kremlin of owning Trump.
Sound absurd? Indeed so! The Times isn’t deterred, saying
before entering the presidential sweepstakes, Trump
pursued plans to build a Trump Tower in Moscow,
claiming an individual
“with ties to Russian organized crime” was
involved, “apparently (as) an intermediary
between (him) and Russia.”
Pursuing investments in Russia is entirely legal and proper.
Claiming Trump dealt with someone tied to organized
crime in the country requires credible proof, along with
evidence he knew about it but proceeded anyway.
The Times, other media scoundrels, undemocratic Dems
and others in Washington accused him of too much to keep
track of, bashing him repeatedly for the wrong reasons, not
the most important right ones.
Russiagate is a conspiracy to undermine him, along with
longstanding Russia bashing, especially intense since
letting Crimea rejoin the country, a legal act, worst of all
since Trump took office.
The Times:
Americans need “come to terms with
substantial evidence that the president is in
thrall to a foreign power.”
Claims without credible revelations are groundless. Trump
is a businessman, before becoming president “in thrall to”
profit-making like all others in business.
.
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It’s their job. If not accomplished successfully they’re
replaced by someone more competent. As a former small
businessman, I know how things work, the same in big
business as small.
Without profits, they can’t operate - even though corporate
America and small business are world’s apart.
The Times:
“There’s no longer any serious question
that there was cooperation between
Trump’s campaign and Russia, but the
extent of the cooperation, and the precise
nature of it, remains opaque.”
False!
No evidence exists showing Russia
interfered in America’s election - to help
Trump or for any other reasons.
Endless accusations otherwise are baseless - blowing
smoke, a Times specialty on the nonexistent improper or
illegal Russia/Trump connection.
There is none - other than as president having relations
with many countries, for good or ill, too much of the latter
in America.
A Final Comment
According to Morgan Lewis law firm attorneys Sheri
Dillon and William Nelson representing Trump, he has no
outstanding debts to Russian persons or entities.
Nor does he have equity investments by Russian persons
or entities in Trump-controlled properties, or Trump
organization investments in Russian entities.
He had considerable income from the sale of the Miss
Universe pageant (in 2013, held in Moscow) and Florida
real estate.
 Is Washington The Most Corrupt
Government In History?
Paul Craig Roberts
November 29, 2017
Robert Mueller, a former director of the FBI who is
working as a special prosecutor “investigating” a contrived
hoax designed by the military/security complex and the
DNC to destroy the Trump presidency, has yet to produce
a scrap of evidence that Russiagate is anything but
orchestrated fake news. As William Binney and other top
experts have said, if there is evidence of Russiagate, the
NSA would have it. No investigation would be necessary.
So where is the evidence?
It is a revelation of how corrupt Washington is that a fake
scandal is being investigated while a real scandal is not.
The fake scandal is Trump’s Russiagate. The real scandal
is Hillary Clinton’s uranium sale to Russia. No evidence
for the former exists. Voluminous evidence for Hillary’s
scandal lies in plain view.
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2017/10/25/hillary-
clinton-and-real-russian-collusion.html
Why are the clearly false charges against Trump being
investigated and the clearly true charges against Hillary
not being investigated? The answer is that Hillary with her
hostility toward Russia and her denunciation of Russian
President Putin as the “New Hitler” is not a threat to the
budget and power of the US military/security complex,
while Trump’s aim of normalizing relations with Russia
would deprive the military/security complex of the
“enemy” it requires to justify its massive budget and
power.
Why hasn’t President Trump ordered the Justice
Department to investigate Hillary? Is the answer that
Trump is afraid the military/security complex will
assassinate him? Why hasn’t the Justice Department
undertaken the investigation on its own? Is the answer that
Trump’s government is allied with his enemies?
How corrupt does Mueller have to be to agree to lead a
fake investigation designed to overthrow the democratic
election of the President of the United States? Why doesn’t
Trump have Mueller and Comey arrested for sedition and
conspiring to overthrow the president of the United States?
Why instead is Mueller expanding his investigation
beyond his mandate and bringing charges against Manafort
and others for decade-old under-reporting of income? Why
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instead is Congress harassing journalist Randy Credico for
interviewing Julian Assange? How does an interview
become part of the House Intelligence (sic) Committee’s
investigation into “Russian active measures directed at the
2016 U.S. election?” There were no such active measures,
but the uranium sale was real.
Why haven’t the media conglomerates that have produced
presstitutes instead of journalists been broken up? Why
can presstitutes lie 24/7, but a man can’t make a pass at a
woman?
Once you begin asking questions, there is no end of them.
The failure of the US and European media is extreme.
The presstitutes never investigate real events. The
presstitutes never question inconsistencies in official
stories. They never tie together loose ends. They simply
read over and over the script handed to them until the
official story that controls the explanation is driven into the
public’s head.
Consider, for example, the Obama regime’s claim to have
murdered Osama bin Laden in his “compound” in
Abbottabad, Pakistan, next to a Pakistani military base.
The official story had to be changed several times. The
Obama regime claim that Obama and top government
officials had watched the raid via cameras on the SEALs’
helmets had to be abandoned. There was no reason to
withhold the filmed evidence, and of course there was no
such evidence, so the initial claim to have watched the
killing became a “miscommunication.” The staged photo
of the top government officials watching the alleged live
filming was never explained.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1382859/Osama-
bin-Laden-dead-Photo-Obama-watching-Al-Qaeda-leader-
die-live-TV.html
The entire story never made any sense: Osama, unarmed
and defended only by his unarmed wife, was murdered in
cold blood by a SEAL. What in the world for? Why
murder rather than capture the “terrorist mastermind” from
whom endless information could have been gained? Why
forgo the political fanfare of parading Osama bin Laden
before the world as a captive of the American superpower?
Why were no photographs taken? Why was Osama’s body
dumped in the ocean. In other words, why was all the
evidence destroyed and nothing saved to back up the
story?
Why the fake story of Osama being given a sea burial from
an aircraft carrier? Why was no media interested that the
ship’s crew wrote home that no such burial took place?
Why was there no presstitute interest in the fact that the
SEAL unit, from which the SEALs on the alleged raid on
bin Laden’s compound were drawn, was loaded against
regulations in one 50-year old Vietnam era helicopter and
shot down in Afghanistan, with all lives lost? Why was
there no presstitute interest in the parents of the SEALs
complaints about inappropriate procedures that cost their
sons’ lives and about fears expressed to them by sons that
something was wrong and they felt endangered?
http://www.wnd.com/2013/07/navy-seals-father-obama-
sent-my-son-to-his-death/
and https://www.military1.com/navy/article/403494-navy-
seals-parents-sue-biden-panetta-over-sons-deaths/
and http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/05/08/families-
of-seal-team-6-to-reveal-why-they-think-the-govt-is-as-
much-responsible-for-the-death-of-their-sons-as-the-
taliban
Did the SEAL unit have to be wiped out because the
members were asking one another,
“who was on that raid?” “Were you on the bin
Laden raid?” When in fact no one was on the
raid.
Why wasn’t Congress interested?
Why was the live Pakistani TV interview with an eye
witness of the alleged raid on bin Laden’s compound not
reported in the US media? The witness contradicted every
aspect of the official story. And this was immediately after
the event. There was no time for anyone to concoct an
elaborate counter-story or motive to do so. Here is the
interview:
https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2013/11/15/pakistan-
samaa-tv-interview-eyewitness-alleged-osama-bin-laden-
killing/ and here is a verified translation that confirms the
accuracy of the English subscripts:
https://www.opednews.com/populum/page.php?f=Pakistan
-TV-Report-Contrad-by-paul-craig-roberts-110806-
879.html
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Osama bin Laden had been dead for a decade prior to the
false claim that Navy SEALs murdered him in Pakistan in
May 2011. Here are the obituaries from December 2001:
https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2013/11/20/bin-ladens-
obituary-notice/ and this one from Fox News:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/2001/12/26/report-bin-
laden-already-dead.html
Here is bin Laden’s last confirmed interview. He says he
had nothing to do with 9/11. Why would a terrorist leader
who succeed in humiliating “the world’s only superpower”
fail to boost his movement by claiming credit?
https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2012/11/26/the-osama-
bin-laden-myth-2/
See also:
https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2014/11/07/another-
fake-bin-laden-story-paul-craig-roberts/
http://www.globalresearch.ca/pentagon-orders-purge-of-
osama-bin-ladens-death-files-from-data-bank/5342055
http://themindrenewed.com/interviews/2013/334-int-32
https://www.opednews.com/populum/page.php?f=Creating
-Evidence-Where-Th-by-paul-craig-roberts-110805-
618.html
https://www.opednews.com/populum/page.php?f=Pakistan
-TV-Report-Contrad-by-paul-craig-roberts-110806-
879.html
Think about this. The bin Laden story, including 9/11, is
fake from start to finish, but it is inscribed into
encyclopedias, history books, and the public’s
consciousness.
And this is just one example of the institutionalized mass
lies concocted by Washington and the presstitutes and
turned into truth. Washington’s self-serving control over
explanations has removed Americans from reality and
made them slaves to fake news.
So, how does democracy function when voters have no
reliable information and, instead, are led into the agendas
of the rulers by orchestrated events and fake news?
Where is there any evidence that the United States is a
functioning democracy?
AWAN CASE: DNC Lawyer Scrambling To Block Evidence
From Hidden Laptop Tied To Wasserman Schultz
Zeropointnow
Thu Nov 30, 2017 2:52am EST
A lawyer for former DNC IT staffer Imran Awan is
scrambling to block evidence found on a hidden laptop
which may contain proof of a massive spy ring operating
at the highest levels of Congress, in what may be the
largest breach of National Security in U.S. history.
Awan, a Pakistani national, worked for dozens of
Democratic members of Congress along with his wife, two
brothers and a friend. Following the publication of DNC
emails by WikiLeaks in the lead-up to the 2016 election,
Congressional investigators discovered that the Awans had
a secret server being housed by the House Democratic
Caucus backed up to an offsite Dropbox account.
“For members to say their data was not
compromised is simply inaccurate. They
had access to all the data including all
emails. Imran Awan is the walking
example of an insider threat, a criminal
actor who had access to everything,” –
Daily Caller
According to a briefing, “all five of the shared employees
system administrators collectively logged onto the [House
Democratic] Caucus system 5,735 times, or an average of
27 times per day,” despite only one of them being
authorized to do so.
The Awans were banned from the House
IT network on February 2, 2017 after being
named in a criminal investigation –
however they continued to work in the
building for Congresswoman Debbie
Wasserman Schultz until Imran Awan’s
arrest at Dulles Airport trying to flee the
country in late July. Awan and his wife,
Hina Alvi, were charged with conspiracy
and bank fraud in relation to a real estate
transaction.
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The laptop in question was tucked away in a tiny room
formerly used as a phone booth on the second floor of the
Rayburn House Office Building late one night in March,
only to be found by Capitol Police just after midnight on
April 6, 2017 along with notebooks marked ‘attorney
client privilege,’ letters addressed to the US Attorney of
DC regarding Debbie Wasserman Schultz, and several
forms of identification. Based on the contents of the
backpack, some believe Awan wanted the laptop to be
found.
Attorney-Client Privilege
Luke Rosiak of the Daily Caller, who has been tracking
the Awan case, reports that Awan’s attorney Chris Gowen
– a former aide to Hillary Clinton, is seeking to block the
laptop evidence by arguing the ‘attorney client privilege‘
note attached to the notebook found with the laptop covers
the contents of the hard drive, according to court papers
filed Tuesday.
Via the Daily Caller:
“Chris Gowen, Awan’s attorney, said at the
last hearing: “We do expect there being
an attorney-client privilege issue in this
case… What occurred is a backpack from
my client was found, he was trying to get a
better signal, there was a note that said
attorney client privilege and a hard
drive. We feel very strongly about this.”
A Capitol Police report reveals the following items were
found in the backpack:
1. A Pakistani ID card with the name Mohommed Ashraf
Awan
2. A copy – not original – of a driver’s license with name
Imran Awan
3. A copy (front and back) of his congressional ID
4. An Apple laptop with the homescreen initials ‘repdws’
5. Composition notebooks with notes handwritten
saying ‘attorney client privilege’ and possibly
discussing case details below
6. Loose letters addressed to US Attorney of DC
discussing the apparent owner of the bag being
investigated.
As Rosiak points out, it is unclear how the handwritten
note saying “attorney client privilege” could be construed
to cover a hard drive, rather than the pages of [the]
notebook it was contained on.
Andrew McCarthy, a former chief assistant U.S. attorney
who has followed the case, said
“The A/C (attorney-client) privilege only
applies to communications between the
client and lawyer that are for the
purpose of seeking legal advice and that
are intended by both parties to be kept
confidential… Moreover, asserting that
something is A/C protected does not
make it so.
You still have to show that the material in question
constitutes communications strictly between the lawyer
and client that were for the purpose of seeking legal
advice.
“If I give my lawyer my bank records and
ask him if they show evidence of a crime,
the bank records do not become A/C-
privileged — only his advice to me would
be A/C-privileged. And if I stuck a sign on
my bank records that said ‘A/C-
privileged documents,’ that would not
make them A/C-privileged documents,”
he told The Daily Caller News Foundation
Wednesday.” –Daily Caller
Debbie Downer
In May of 2016, Debbie Wasserman Schulz – an employer
and personal friend of Awan – spent several minutes
browbeating the Chief of DC Capitol Police at a budget
meeting, claiming the laptop should be given back since it
was hers and threatening ‘consequences’ if it wasn’t
returned.
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The Awan brothers were managing
computers for members of the House
Permanent Select Committee on
Intelligence – a group with top secret
clearance which is looking into Russian
election interference right now.
Also of note
The brothers were “shared employees,” hired by multiple
Democrats for IT work whenever it was needed – so they
floated all over the place doing all sorts of work on House
members computers.
Democrats Juaquin Castro, Cedric
Richmond, Andre Carson, Jackie Speier,
Tammy Duckworth, and Louis
Frankel all employed the Awans.
Information Brokers?
Judge Andrew Napolitano appeared on Fox Business
Network in late July where he dropped a bombshell:
not only did the Awans had access to
the emails of every member of
Congress, Imran Awan reportedly sold
information to still unknown parties,
which the FBI is currently investigating.
Napolitano:
He was arrested for some financial crime –
that’s the tip of the iceberg. The real
allegation against him is that he had
access to the emails of every member of
congress and he sold what he found in
there. What did he sell, and to whom did
he sell it? That’s what the FBI wants to
know. This may be a very, very serious
national security situation.
Varney:
Wait a second, he was the IT worker along
with his two Pakistani brothers, for DWS,
and other Democrats in the House – and
the theory is that he got access to all of
their secrets or whatever, and sold some?
Napolitano:
Yes, and this was at the time that
Congresswoman Schultz was also the
 chair of the Democratic National
Committee. So at this point I don’t believe
they know what he sold, and to whom he
sold it – but they do know what he had
access to, which is virtually everything in
the House of representatives,
which would include classified material
in the House intelligence committee.
Lt. Colonel Tony Shaffer went even further – claiming that
the Awan brothers were linked to the Muslim
Brotherhood while working for Democrat Congressman
Andre Carson, a report reinforced by Frontpage Magazine:
As Frontpage reported in February:
The office of Andre Carson, the second
Muslim in Congress, had employed Imran
Awan. As did the offices of Jackie Speier
and Debbie Wasserman Schultz; to whom
the letter had been addressed.
Carson is the second Muslim in Congress and the first
Muslim on the House Permanent Select Committee on
Intelligence and, more critically, is the ranking member on
its Emerging Threats Subcommittee. He is also a member
of the Department of Defense Intelligence and Overhead
Architecture Subcommittee.
The Emerging Threats Subcommittee, of which Carson is a
ranking member, is responsible for much of
counterterrorism oversight. It is the worst possible place
for a man with Carson’s credentials.
Carson had inherited his grandmother’s seat and exploited
it to promote a radical Islamist agenda. He has interfaced
with a laundry list of Islamist groups from CAIR to ISNA
to ICNA to MPAC. Islamists have funded Carson’s
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career to the tune of tens of thousands of dollars.
The Center for Security Policy has put together a
dossier of Carson’s connections to the Muslim
Brotherhood. The Brotherhood is the parent organization
of many key Islamic terror groups posing a threat to our
national security including Al Qaeda and Hamas.
Andre Carson shared the stage at a CAIR banquet with
Sirraj Wahaj:
An unindicted co-conspirator in the World
Trade Center bombing who had once
declared,” You don’t get involved in politics
because it’s the American thing to do. You
get involved in politics because politics are
a weapon to use in the cause of Islam.”
CAIR itself had been named an unindicted
co-conspirator in terror finance.
Immunity for Hina?
In September, it was reported that Hina Alvi – Imran
Awan’s wife, had struck a deal with federal prosecutors to
return to the U.S. from Pakistan to face conspiracy and
bank fraud charges.
Alvi and her children fled to the safety of Pakistan in early
2017, so her voluntary return – which was structured with
an arrest to be made “not in front of her children” is
significant. Upon her return to the United States, Hina was
arraigned on four felony counts of bank fraud and handed
over her U.S. passport to prosecutors.
Congressman Trent Franks (R-AZ) says that Alvi’s return
may be part of a broader immunity deal with prosecutors
in return for a “significant” and “pretty disturbing” story
about Debbie Wasserman Schultz:
“I don’t want to talk out of school here but I
think you’re going to see some revelations
that are going to be pretty profound. The
fact that this wife is coming back from
Pakistan and is willing to face charges, as it
were, I think there is a good chance she
is going to reach some type of immunity
to tell a larger story here that is going to
be pretty disturbing to the American
people.”
“I would just predict that this is going to
be a very significant story and people
should fasten their seat belts on this
one.”
Despite the volumes of evidence stacking up against the claims the entire investigation of the Awans is nothing
former DNC IT staffers, Debbie Wasserman Schultz more than Islamophobia.
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 Dershowitz: ‘Mueller Going
Well Beyond His Authority As’ Special Counsel
By Usafeaturesmedia
Posted On November 30, 2017
“These are political sins if they are sins at
all. They are not crimes.”
(National Sentinel) Russia Investigation: Famed
constitutional attorney Alan Dershowitz said Wednesday
that special counsel Robert Mueller, who was appointed by
the Justice Department to investigate allegations of Trump
campaign collusion with Russia, has far surpassed his
mandate.
In an interview with Fox News, Dershowitz, who is a
Democrat, said that Mueller was attempting to turn
constitutional actions by presidents into crimes.
The former FBI director was “going well
beyond his authority as a prosecutor,” the
Harvard law professor emeritus said.
In recent days Mueller has requested documents from the
Justice Department regarding President Donald J. Trump’s
dismissal of former FBI Director James Comey, who is a
longtime friend and associate of Mueller’s. He also wants
documents related to Attorney General Jeff Sessions’
recuse from the Russia investigation.
Mueller is scheduled to interview a number of White
House officials.
But Dershowitz defended Trump, saying,
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“The president is entitled to fire the head of
the FBI. The president is entitled to direct
his attorney general who to investigate,
who not to.”
“That’s what the law has been since
Thomas Jefferson,” he added, saying that if
we want to change it Congress must do so,
not through a special prosecutor.
“I don’t see that the prosecutor should have
a right to turn a constitutionally protected
act of the president into a crime by
speculating on what his motive might have
been,” he stated.
“These are political sins if they are sins at
all. They are not crimes.”
“He’s going to do the domino game,”
Dershowitz forecast, explaining that
Mueller will indict someone close to the
president on an unrelated matter and then
press them for more information about
Trump and Russia.
That’s dangerous, however, because those
indicted often exaggerate because they
know “the better the evidence, the sweeter
the deal.”
Dershowitz defended Trump in May as well, saying that
the president had every right to call then-FBI Director
Comey off a probe of Trump’s first national security
adviser, Michael Flynn.
Mueller’s team is reported to have sufficient evidence
already to indict both Flynn and his son, Michael Flynn Jr.,
who also worked for the Trump campaign, The Hill noted
this week.
 Gingrich Says Trump ‘Decisively Reining
In The Left’ — Will The CFPB Be Next Domino To Fall?
By Usafeaturesmedia
Posted On November 30, 2017
Congress and the President should now work to abolish the
CFPB as soon as possible, or at the very least, bring this
rogue agency back under the rule of law”
(National Sentinel) Right-Leaning: President Donald J.
Trump has made great progress in dismantling the Left-
leaning agenda of his predecessor, former President
Barack Obama, and is continue to make good progress in
returning the country to a more conservative, constitutional
footing, according to former House Speaker Newt
Gingrich.
“While the mainstream media has fixated
on exaggerated day-to-day mini-
controversies, the Trump Administration
has methodically eliminated job-killing
Obama-era regulations, filled judicial
vacancies with solid conservatives at an
astonishing pace, and accomplished real
breakthroughs in trade relations with China
and the Middle East,” he wrote in a column
for Fox News, where he is a contributor.
Now, he noted, Trump is working to neuter the Consumer
Financial Protection Bureau, a creation of the so-called
“Dodd-Frank” financial reform legislation Obama signed
into law in 2010 following the financial crisis of 2008.
Gingrich said he’s been a longtime opponent of the CFPB
because he believes it is unconstitutionally unaccountable
to Congress, and by design.
Earlier this week Trump named Mick Muvaney, former
head of the Office of Management and Budget, to lead the
CFPB. That appointment is being challenged by Leandra
English, the agency’s deputy director, in a lawsuit. English
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was appointed by outgoing director Richard Cordray, who
claimed the 2010 law gives him, not the president, the
authority to name successors.
U.S. District Judge Timothy Kelly ruled against English
this week and refused to issue a temporary restraining
order that would prevent Mulvaney from taking over while
allowing her to assume the role of acting director.
“The CFPB consistently oversteps its
bounds. It is prohibited from regulating car
deals, yet it does so anyway. It is prohibited
from collecting personal data from
consumers, yet it does so at a scale that
rivals the NSA’s most controversial data
gathering operations,” Gingrich wrote.
“Further, the CFPB draws its funding from
the Federal Reserve’s operating expenses
rather than annual appropriations – making
it unaccountable to Congress,” he said.
Additionally, the writers of the Dodd-Frank legislation
added provisions stating that only a president can remove a
CFPB director, and even then only under certain
conditions.
That also unconstitutionally limits Executive and
Legislative Branch authorities, Gingrich wrote.
“Essentially, the bureau can do whatever it
wants – without fear of losing its funding or
its leadership,” he said.
But he added that Trump has already prevailed in court by
having his appointment of Mulvaney, a staunch critic of
the bureau, upheld for the time being.
Now, “Congress and the President should
now work to abolish the CFPB as soon as
possible, or at the very least, bring this
rogue agency back under the rule of law,”
says Gingrich.
 New York Times: White House Plans To Force Out
Secretary Of State Rex Tillerson
By Charlie Spiering
30 Nov 2017
President Donald Trump is thinking
about forcing Secretary of State Rex
Tillerson out of office, according to a
report in the New York Times.
The report details a plan developed by White House chief
of staff John Kelly that would replace Tillerson with CIA
Director Mike Pompeo, not U.N. Ambassador Nikki
Haley, a popular choice for Washington insiders.
Sen. Tom Cotton, according to sources, would replace
Pompeo at the CIA.
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Tillerson’s reputation has shifted since he first took the
position of Secretary of State, as he struggled to maintain a
relationship with the president. Career diplomats and
journalists openly criticized him for “gutting” the State
Department.
Reports that Tillerson described the
president as a “fu*king moron” didn’t help.
"My source didn't just say he called him a
moron. He said he called him an f-ing
moron." — @SRuhle
https://t.co/meVHZiAbaB
— MSNBC (@MSNBC) October 4, 2017
Another report claimed that Tillerson threatened to resign
after Trump delivered an intensely political speech at the
annual Boy Scout Jamboree.
But Trump denied those reports as “fake news.”
As the former CEO of Exxon-Mobil, Tillerson was a dark
horse candidate for Secretary of State that surprised the
establishment when Trump picked him.
The majority of career diplomats and foreign policy wonks
were angered by his attempts to reorganize the
department. Trump allies soon viewed him as a “low
energy” official that spent more time trying to protect his
own image instead of articulating the Trump agenda.
 10 Reasons Why The 2017 Record Stock Market Rally Is
Due To President Trump’s Actions
By Jim Hoft
Thursday, November 30, 2017
The stock market in 2017 has increased
at record levels unseen in American
history. Never before has the market
increased by more than 4,000 points in a
single calendar year but has done that
in 2017. The Dow is up more than 30
percent since the election.
Liberals and Democrats refuse to give
President Trump credit for the stock
market rally this past year but they
provide no evidence to support their
false convictions. Here are 10 reasons
why the 2017 record stock market rally
is due to President Trump’s actions and
why it will continue.
1. President Trump’s Marketing Skills
President Trump’s marketing and
leadership may be the single most
important factor pushing the economy
and the stock market to record highs.
Civilian Trump was a billionaire and a promoter. He
prided himself in deal making and his presence led him to
have one of the most popular shows on TV (The
Apprentice). In nearly every single speech or rally he has
held, he promotes success, making America great again,
winning and prosperity. This repetition and promotion has
led to consumer confidence reaching a 17 year high.
President Trump’s repetition and success encourage
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economic excitement in the US like a snowball going
downhill.
2. Frankly, Obama’s Economy was Horrible
To say that the economy was on a roll before the
2016 election is not true. The last all-time stock market
high before the November 8th, 2016 election was on
August 15th, 2016, three months prior to the election. The
stock market decreased in value in 2015 and there were no
new stock market all-time highs in Obama’s entire first
term. Obama’s economy incurred unemployment as high
as 10 percent. His Presidency was the first ever to not
reach an annual GDP of at least 3 percent in at least one
year during his term. His policies doubled the US Debt to
nearly $20 trillion and the massive increase in regulations
stifled the economy. Not only that but Obama had no idea
how to lead America to greatness. His words and actions
actually portrayed someone who didn’t want America to
win.
Clearly this past year’s record stock
market increase is not due to the prior
President whose ‘America last’ policies
led to the destruction of the middle
class and the stagnation of the
American economy.
3. Reduction 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 notes 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.
4. President Trump Encouraging Business Leaders to
Build in America
President Obama said before the election that jobs just are
not coming back to the United States. He mocked
candidate Trump for suggesting that jobs could come back
to the US and said some of those jobs just aren’t coming
back – “What magic wand do you have?”
President Trump didn’t listen to his predecessor. He went
out immediately after winning the election and began
speaking to business leaders across many industries. He
encouraged then to come back to the US and company
after company announced their plans to build in the US.
This all happened before his inauguration! He continued
this work into his administration and the results are clear,
even foreign companies are coming to the US. More than
1.5 million jobs were created in 2017 through October.
5. Ending Obama Trade Deals that Hurt the US
One of the first actions that President Trump took was to
sign an executive order that formally withdrew the U.S.
from the Trans-Pacific Partnership free trade deal. Even
union leaders applauded this move –
Mr. Trump could end the U.S. participation with 11 other
Pacific Rim nations with the stroke of a pen because
Congress had not ratified the ambitious accord despite
strong support from business groups and President Obama.
Nevertheless, the withdrawal put Capitol Hill and foreign
governments on notice that the president would demand
better deals on a one-on-one basis.
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The president’s populist stance on trade shook up alliances
in Washington. Mr. Trump got a round of applause from
union leaders during a meeting at the White House, but
prominent Republican lawmakers vowed to defend their
party’s traditional support for open markets and free trade.
Trump’s policies of putting the American worker first only
benefit the US worker, company and economy.
6. Igniting Clean Coal
One coal miner in Pennsylvania praised President Trump
for his actions that ended unnecessary regulations that
prevented coal from being mined in the US. The coal
industry is back according to a piece from the New York
Post –
But many Americans aren’t aware of this modernization.
So having a president who believes in this industry, and
rallies publicly for it, means a lot. Trump has “created an
optimism in the business community that has trickled
down from big companies to small, and for all of their
workers,” Dethlefsen said.
The clean coal industry employs many workers at good
paying jobs. President Trump promised these miners jobs
again and he succeeded in doing just that.
7. Pipelines Mean More Than Good Jobs
Another of President Trump’s first actions was to allow the
building of the Keystone and Dakota pipelines. These
projects were rejected by the prior administration on the
grounds that the pipelines were ecologically unfriendly but
the more likely reason for their denial was they would help
America being more energy independent, something the
donors to Washington elites would not want. By
approving the pipelines, thousands of jobs were created
and the US was one step closer to energy independence.
These actions have now led to the US being an oil exporter
for the first time ever. The US is now also the net exporter
of natural gas for the fist time in 59 years.
Energy independence means more jobs,
more income into the US, and less
money going to rouge oil producing
countries that want to destroy the US.
8. Saudi Arms Deal
In his first major international trip, President Trump
traveled to the Middle East and in front of the leaders of 50
Muslim countries, said that they must ‘drive out’ Islamic
terrorists.

On this same trip the President aligned with these leaders
in standing against Iran and promoted a $100 billion arms
proposal with the Saudis. This deal has some impact on
the current economy but will have significant impact in the
future and this is what impacts the stock market greatly.
9. China Investment in the US
This past month President Trump traveled to Asia on
another successful trip. In addition to meeting with leaders
across the region, the President announced another huge
win for the US. China signed a MOU with the US that
was reported in China but not publicized by the highly
partisan MSM in the US who remains silent on nearly all
of President Trump’s successes –
China Energy Investment Corp, the world’s largest power
company by asset value, has signed a memorandum of
understanding (MOU) to invest $83.7 billion in shale gas,
.
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power and chemical projects in West Virginia, the U.S
state said on Thursday.
The agreement was the biggest among a
slew of deals signed during U.S. President
Donald Trump’s state visit to Beijing. The
total value of the deals done during
Trump’s trip could be as much as $250
billion.
This deal will help one of the most impoverished regions
in America and many West Virginians didn’t know about
it because the MSM didn’t tell them.
10. It’s Not Hillary!
Certainly one of the major reasons the stock market is
soaring is because Hillary Clinton is not President.
Hillary’s policies were a promise for more of the same and
the same was not working. America dodged a bullet last
November and the markets responded. Americans were
not with her. She lost and America won.
Liberals, Democrats and NeverTrumper
will continue to tell you that President
Trump has nothing to do with the
historic stock market rally America is
enjoying right now. But remember,
these fools also told us Hillary was
going to win in a landslide.
 London’s Muslim Mayor Calls For Trump Ban After
Retweets, Church Of England Demands
Apology From President
By Liam Deacon
30 Nov 2017
Mayor of London Sadiq Khan has
claimed U.S. President Donald Trump
showed “support” for Britain First by
retweeting a series of videos
Wednesday, and renewed his call for the
leader of the free world to be banned
from the United Kingdom.
A member of the British Parliament also called for the
Federal Bureau of Investigation to investigate the president
and put him on a security watch list, while the leader of the
Church of England demanded an apology and implied the
retweets were racist.
“President Trump has used Twitter to
promote a vile, extremist group that exists
solely to sow division and hatred in our
country,” claimed Mayor of London Sadiq
Khan in a statement.
“It’s increasingly clear that any official visit
from President Trump to Britain would not
be welcomed,” he added, explaining that
he has “previously called on Theresa May
to cancel her ill-judged offer of a state visit”.
The comments came hours after British Home Secretary
Amber Rudd told the House that an invitation for a state
visit from the president to the United Kingdom had been
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made and accepted, but that no specific plans or dates had
been confirmed.
The mayor has previously compared Mr. Trump to Islamic
State and flew to the U.S. to campaign against his election,
implying his presidency would aid Islamic terrorists and
their narrative.
Trump's ignorant view of Islam could make
both our countries less safe. It risks
alienating mainstream Muslims. London
has proved him wrong
— Mayor of London (@MayorofLondon)
May 10, 2016
In his new statement, Mr Khan said the president had
demonstrated “support” for the fringe, racist group Britain
First – although it is not clear Mr. Trump was aware who
they were when he retweeted a retweet from one of their
leaders.
Mr. Khan wrote:
“Many Brits who love America and
Americans will see this as a betrayal of the
special relationship between our two
countries.
“It beggars belief that the President of our
closest ally doesn’t see that his support of
this extremist group actively undermines
the values of tolerance and diversity that
make Britain great.”
He also insisted the prime minister and
government use any influence they “claim
to have with the President” to “ask him to
delete these tweets and apologise to the
British people”.
The office of the prime minister has already described the
retweets as “wrong”, prompting the president to respond,
telling Theresa May to focus on tackling terror instead of
policing speech.
 I join the urgent call for President “We should be asking the FBI to
@realDonaldTrump to remove his Britain investigate, putting [President Trump] on a
First retweets and make clear his watch list and barring him from entry to our
opposition to racism and hatred. country.”
https://t.co/JosYO7vwEG
pic.twitter.com/v66KQVtWQq Justin Welby, the Archbishop of Canterbury, said the
— Justin Welby ‫@( ن‬JustinWelby) retweets were “deeply disturbing” and called on him to
November 29, 2017 delete the messages and apologise.

Mr. Khan is not the only British public figure to attack and The far-left Soros-funded group Hope Not Hate was
insult the president since he shared the videos on invited to speak on the BBC four times Thursday morning
Wednesday. on the matter and has set up a petition urging the British
ambassador to the U.S. to intervene.
Labour MP David Lammy claimed that the “sharing of
those videos is a crime in the UK called inciting hatred”,
adding:

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 NYT REPORT: Trump Plans To Replace
Secretary Of State Tillerson With Mike Pompeo
By Jon Hall
Thursday, November 30, 2017

President Trump is reportedly planning
to oust Secretary of State Tillerson and
replace his spot with CIA Director Mike
Pompeo, says the New York Times.
On the allegations of Tillerson insulting him, President
Trump rejected the notion and responded to the original
NBC report:
It was fake news. It was a totally phony
story. It was made up — it was made up by
NBC. They just made it up.
When asked if he still had confidence in
Tillerson, Trump said he had “total
confidence in Rex”.

President Trump also tweeted on the NBC story, blasting

them for publishing and broadcasting Fake News:

According to The Times, the plan to

move Tillerson and replace him with
Pompeo was devised by White House
chief of staff, John Kelly. As of yet, it’s
unclear how involved in the decision
President Trump is; considering it’s his
White House and administration, it’s
safe to assume this shake-up wouldn’t
be happening without his approval.

Interestingly enough, shortly after the

According to The New York Times, the news broke of Tillerson being ousted…
move will occur in the next several
weeks. Tom Cotton, a Republican
Senator from Arkansas, would replace
Pompeo as CIA chief, according to the
White House’s plan.
In October, Tillerson addressed and
quashed rumors published by NBC
News that he called the President a
“moron” and considered resigning from
his post in the future.
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 …It was revealed that John McCain will
now fully support the Senate tax reform
bill. Could this have been President
Trump striking a deal with the Swamp?
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Replace Tillerson and be provided with the last vote he
needed on taxes? The timing is certainly suspect but it’s
likely just a coincidence – we’ll never know for sure!
This is a breaking story and will be
updated with any developments.
 Trump’s FCC Chairman
Blasts Twitter For Censoring Conservatives
Lisa Bourne
Thu Nov 30, 2017 - 9:07 Am EST
WASHINGTON, D.C., November 30, 2017
(LifeSiteNews) — Federal Communications Commission
Chairman Ajit Pai scolded Twitter this week for censoring
conservative users of its platform.
Twitter strongly opposes Pai’s plan to repeal the Obama-
era “net neutrality” rules for a return to pre-2015
regulatory framework and has said it will fight the effort, a
stance the FCC chair dubbed pretense.
“Now look,” Pai said, “I love Twitter, and I
use it all the time. But let’s not kid
ourselves; when it comes to an open
Internet, Twitter is part of the problem.”
“The company has a viewpoint,” he added,
“and uses that viewpoint to discriminate.”
Pai offered an example of Twitter recently blocking a
Senate campaign announcement ad for U.S. Rep. Marsha
Blackburn, R-Tennessee,
“because it featured a pro-life message.”
At a July event to protect net neutrality rules, Twitter had
also warned users that a link to one company’s statement
on Internet regulation “may be unsafe,” noted Pai.
“And, to say the least, the company
appears to have a double standard when it
comes to suspending or de-verifying
conservative users’ accounts as opposed
to those of liberal users,” Pai stated. “This
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conduct is many things, but it isn’t fighting
for an open Internet.”
Pai made his comments at an Internet freedom symposium
in Washington, D.C., for free market think tank R Street
Institute and the Lincoln Network tech freedom advocacy
group.
For most of the Internet’s existence until 2015, high-speed
access has been treated by the FCC as a lightly regulated
information service under Title I of the 1996
Communications Act. This was done away with at the
urging of the Obama administration, whose controversial
2015 net neutrality rules changed the classification of
Internet access to a heavily-regulated telecommunications
service under Title II of the Communications Act.
The proposal to roll back the net neutrality regulations by
Pai, a Trump appointee, has drawn fire from big tech
companies, Hollywood celebrities and others preferring
government regulation of the Internet.
The reversal is expected to pass on a party-line vote at the
FCC's meeting next month, a CNN report said.
Free speech continues to be a significant concern as big
tech and social media companies attempt to squelch speech
for pro-life supporters, social conservatives, Christians,
and other traditionally-minded parties.
Twitter had flagged Blackburn’s ad – which mentioned the
Planned Parenthood baby body parts trafficking scandal –
as “inflammatory” and “negative,” banning it unless
Blackburn removed the reference to the abortion giant.
Twitter later reversed its stance after its move garnered
significant media attention and criticism.
The social media platform has also blocked Live Action’s
ability to advertise, objecting to its tweets containing
ultrasound images of unborn babies, it undercover Planned
Parenthood investigations and calls for Congress to defund
the abortion chain.
YouTube, Facebook, and Vimeo have also blocked video
coverage of Planned Parenthood’s alleged bartering in
baby parts from children aborted at its facilities.
Google has been found to affect Internet search results for
a desired return and Facebook has blocked a blogger who
quoted the Bible on homosexuality.
Twitter rejected an ad for a book earlier this year because it
said marriage was between one man and one woman, and
an ad from the pro-life group Susan B. Anthony List was
suppressed last month because it used the term “killing
babies.”
Pai said in his address this week that “unfortunately,
Twitter isn’t an outlier.”
“Indeed,” he said, “despite all the talk about
the fear that broadband providers could
decide what Internet content consumers
can see, recent experience shows that so-
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called edge providers (of content,
application or service via the Internet) are
in fact deciding what content they see,”
adding, “These providers routinely block or
discriminate against content they don’t
like.”
He also listed examples from the past year of streaming
services restricting videos from conservative commentator
Dennis Prager on subjects he considers “important to
understanding American values,” algorithms that decide
what content users do and don’t see without themselves
being disclosed, and online platforms covertly editing
specific users’ comments.
“In this way,” Pai said, “edge providers are
a much bigger actual threat to an open
Internet than broadband providers,
especially when it comes to discrimination
on the basis of viewpoint.”
 Dear Trump Admin: The Gateway Pundit And James
O’Keefe Would Like To Request CNN’s Returned
Tickets To WH Christmas Party
By Jim Hoft
Thursday, November 30, 2017
Americans have had enough.

During the 2016 election Trump voters sought out

alternative media voices to get their news on Trump.

First Lady Melania Trump readies the White House for Christmas 2017

CNN made headlines this week when they returned their

tickets to the Trump administration to the White House
Christmas Party.

CNN, the Washington Post, The New York Times, NBC,

CBS, ABC, TIME magazine, Newsweek, ESPN, late night
comedians, Hollywood, the foreign press, the BBC, the AP,
GOP elites, etc. have been at war with the Trump Two 2017 studies found The Gateway
administration and Trump voters since Donald Trump Pundit Was 4th Most Influential Right-
announced his intent to run for president in 2016. Leaning Media Outlet during last year’s
election.
The White House press corps has attacked the Trump
administration at EVERY press conference this year. Harvard and Columbia Journalism
Review found that conservatives fled
One unhinged reporter even asked White House Press the toxicity of the mainstream media
Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders if Donald Trump and found alternative sources like
supported slavery. Breitbart, The Gateway Pundit and The
Drudge Report to be more trustworthy.

This morning we spoke with legendary investigative

reporter James O’Keefe from Project Veritas. We are
asking the Trump White House to please consider us as
fill-ins for CNN.

You can help us by contacting the White

House.

Ask them to please distribute the

returned Christmas party tickets to The
Gateway Pundit, James O’Keefe and
Project Veritas.
The American media has never been so
mistrusted and hated by the American
Thank you.
public.

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 MSMBC Hosts: Trump Is Mentally Ill,
Has Dementia, Must Be Removed From Office
“His BIZARRE BEHAVIOR CONTRAVENES BOTH THE
Constitution AND BASIC MORAL JUDGMENT”
Steve Watson | Infowars.COM
November 30, 2017
MSNBC’s Morning Joe hosts called for
President Trump to be removed from
office via the 25th Amendment this
morning, claiming that he is mentally
unstable.
Mika Brzezinski read a New York Daily News editorial on
air, quoting
“Only those completely under his spell can
deny what growing numbers of Americans
have long suspected: The President of the
United States is profoundly unstable. He is
mad. He is by any honest layman’s
definition mentally unwell.”
She also quoted a New York Times writer who wrote that
“something is unleashed with” Trump at this time.
The hosts bemoaned Trump re tweeting ‘conspiracy
theories’, including a tweet directed at Joe Scarborough.
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The tweet was a reference to Lori Klausutis, a 28-year-old
office staffer who worked for Scarborough while he was in
Congress and was found dead in his district office in July
2001. The death, caused by a fatal head trauma, was ruled
to be an accident.
“And this comes in the midst of a nuclear
showdown with North Korea,” Scarborough
said. “So I’m just kind of wondering —
what’s the Cabinet waiting for? What are
Republicans in the House and Senate —
because it’s never going to get more
deadly serious than it is now.”
“If this is not what the 25th Amendment
was drafted for — I would like the Cabinet
members, serving America, not the
president, serving America …you don’t
represent him,” Scarborough added.
“You have somebody inside the White
House that the New York Daily News says
is mentally unfit; that people close to him
say is mentally unfit; that people close to
him during the campaign told me had early
stages of dementia.” Scarborough
continued.
“When are we supposed to say this? After
the first nuclear missile goes? Is that when
it’s proper to bring this up in polite society?”
he urged.
Brzezinski then read a statement she said she wrote, “Joe and I are not intimidated. And his
claiming that Trump’s ‘false conspiracy theories’ are part bizarre behavior contravenes both the
of an effort to Constitution and basic moral judgment.”
she added.
“intimidate the press and cause a chilling
effect on the First Amendment.”
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 Is President Trump A 'Conspiracy Theorist'
Or Just Another Angry American Who Has Had
Enough With Clinton, Obama And Deep State
Corruption And Wants Truth?
President Trump Goes To War With The Deep State On Twitter
By Stefan Stanford - All News Pipeline - Live Free Or Die
November 30, 2017

to speak truth loudly after what we've gotten for many

years from globalist puppets in America.

Globalist politicians who not only sold out our nation but
who've spent many decades destroying our planet and we'll
agree with many ANP readers right here and right now in
stating, should top dogs like Hillary, Pelosi, Obama and
McCain not eventually be held accountable for their
crimes and treason, we'll have absolute proof that there is
no 'rule of law' in America. If laws only apply to 'the little
people', they are null and void in the eyes of God and
truth.

While for much of the past decade+, political correctness

nearly destroyed America as we slipped ever further into a
totalitarian borg-like state, much of the past year has seen
it ripped apart and while some ANP trolls have continued
to claim that President Donald Trump is just another
illuminati globalist, recent events and tweets put out on
twitter by our Commander-in-chief show otherwise.

On Tuesday, President Trump put out the tweet seen

screenshot below in which he calls out not only 'crooked
Hillary' and her emails which endangered our national
security but directly called out the 'deep state' while using
the words 'rigged' and 'corrupt' to describe them. Then
Wednesday, Trump retweeted several anti-Muslim videos
which were tweeted by Jayda Fransen, the deputy leader of As we see in the top-rated response tweets to President
Britian First, tweets which have triggered liberal media all Trump from Mike Cernovich screenshot below,
across the board while proving once again that blunt truth
sometimes hurts. "this is amazing!" Calling it one of the best
days in US history in that we finally have a
Directing his Tuesday tweet to @TuckerCarlson and president who is standing up to the traitors
@seanhannity, will we soon witness new bombshell stories within America who've sold out our country
on Fox News into how 'crooked Hillary's' emails put for some warped dream of a global,
Americans lives in danger while endangering our national totalitarian state,
security?
Cernovich also asks our President to pardon General Mike
While the MSM and liberals are breaking down over Flynn should he be convicted of a 'deep state created'
President Trump's tweets, we have to admit how refreshing crime as Flynn is deeply loved by Trump's 'base' voters.
it is to finally have a Commander-in-chief with the courage
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Will President Trump be able to follow through and take
down the traitors to America? While we won't hold our
breaths waiting for that to happen, let's take a look at a few
other signs of where this may be going.
Hillary Clinton recently stated that President Trump is
'obsessed with her' and “when in trouble in
the Congress or the Russian investigation,
his go-to targets are President Obama and
me, and African Americans” while just days
ago, she also claimed that President Trump
was 'peddling dangerous conspiracy
theories'.
According to this new story from Vox, President Trump is
still pushing Barack Obama 'birther conspiracy theories'
while according to this new story over at The Independent,
Trump has been peddling numerous 'debunked' conspiracy
theories behind closed doors.
However, we'd LOVE to ask The Independent and Vox,
how can a 'conspiracy theory' be debunked when there
HAS NEVER BEEN AN OFFICIAL investigation into
such things as Obama's place of birth, the 'Clinton Body
Count' or numerous other so-called 'conspiracies'?
REMEMBER! The first executive order that Barack
Obama signed was to permanently seal his records. What
is he hiding?
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And remember also that back on August 18th of 2016,
Hillary claimed Trump was peddling conspiracy theories
about her health, a 'conspiracy theory' confirmed less than
a month later when Hillary did her best 'Weekend at
Bernies' imitation when she collapsed after attending a
9/11 memorial, just the latest 'frail Hillary stumble' that
continue to today.
Then remember back on June 1st, Hillary spread a
'conspiracy theory' herself when she made explosive
claims at a conference in California that President Trump
was conspiring with 1,000+ Russian agents to spread fake
news about her. With ANP among the many alternative
news outlets labeled 'Russian propagandists' by the failed
globalist website 'Prop or Not' in a story published at the
Washington Post, we have to ask, is EVERYBODY who
doesn't go along with Hillary and the 'deep state' a 'Russian
propagandist'?
If so, tens of millions of Americans are likely considered
'Russian propagandists' for as we see in the election
county-by-county map below, most of the country, except
for the whacky liberal cities, voted for President Trump.
And remember! The term 'conspiracy theories' was first
created by the deep state itself back in 1967 to discredit
alternative theories about the death of John F. Kennedy, a
few of which have recently been confirmed with the long-
awaited release of the JFK documents.
So once again, will President Trump be able to follow
through and bring down this entire crooked and deeply
corrupt 'house of cards' in America? We'll say we believe
that the 'complete success' of his presidency is dependent
upon it.
As Susan Duclos is reporting in her story on ANP today,
should only 'the little guys' have to pay for their crimes
while people like Bill Clinton get away with endless trips
to nowhere on Jeffrey Epstein's 'Lolita Express', everything
else that is happening now is part of a huge scam. Should
Hillary be able to get away with her numerous crimes
against America including Uranium One and many, many
more, including the endless 'body count', we'll have
absolute proof that 'the rule of law' in America is a huge
joke, and its a joke upon 'we the little people', 'deplorables'
all across the country.

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 Nets Downplay Economic Growth,
Spend Just 52 Seconds On 2017 GDP
By Julia A. Seymour
November 30, 2017 2:41 PM EST
The U.S. economy grew at a 3.3 percent
rate in the third quarter, according to
the latest estimate from the Commerce
Department’s Bureau of Economic
Analysis (BEA) released Nov. 29.
Guess how much time ABC, CBS and NBC evening news
shows gave that good economic news?
None.
The rate announcement was slightly higher than
expectations from some Wall Street economists, according
to Business Insider. But unlike Business Insider,
Bloomberg and others, the network evening shows entirely
ignored the major economic measure the night of Nov. 29.
Network silence about good economic news has happened
a lot since President Donald Trump took office —
especially when it came to gross domestic product (GDP)
reports. 2017 GDP estimates started coming out in April,
but since then less than a minute of evening news coverage
was spent reporting them on ABC World News with David
Muir and CBS Evening News. NBC Nightly News with
Lester Holt didn’t spent any time on them at all.
The BEA releases GDP estimates each month like
clockwork, revising each a few times before issuing the
final rate of quarterly growth.
Shockingly, there were only three combined mentions of
GDP on nights that the BEA issued a new estimate,
providing network viewers with a mere 52 seconds of
news on the state of the American economy. Thirty-four of
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those seconds aired on CBS Evening News, 18 seconds on
ABC World News with David Muir.
Both networks reported the first estimate of 2017 quarterly
economic growth on April 28, which was a
“disappointing” 0.7 percent, according to World News with
David Muir. Evening News made sure to point out that it
would make Trump’s promise of getting annual economic
growth to 3 or 4 percent very difficult.
CBS fill-in anchor Anthony Mason declared,
“He has his work cut out for him.”
That disappointing rate was the BEA’s very first estimate
(called the "advance" estimate), and it was later revised up.
THe final reading for the quarter was 1.2 percent. None of
the revision announcements were reported by the evening
news shows.
On July 28, Evening News covered the GDP report again
following the 2.6 percent initial estimate of second quarter
growth. That night, Mason said the “economy is picking
up” and pointed out it was “more than double the first
quarter rate.”
However, when that was revised up again in August to an
“impressive” 3 percent (which even the liberal New York
Times admitted was a “substantial acceleration”) the
networks were silent. Again, the rate was revised upward
and finalized at 3.1 percent by October 2017, but the
evening shows’ silence prevailed.
In October, all three evening news programs ignored the
story again when the BEA estimated third quarter growth
was 3 percent. U.S. News & World Report said the
economy was showing “resilience” to the hurricanes, and
Business Insider exclaimed,
“GDP hits 3%, crushing estimates
despite hurricanes.”
Now November’s GDP report can be added to that already
long list of economic news censored by the network
evening news shows this year.
.
Methodology: MRC Business watched ABC World News,
CBS Evening News and NBC Nightly News each night on
the days the BEA released GDP estimates between April
28, 2017 (the first estimate for Q1 2017) through Nov. 29,
2017 (first estimate of Q3 2017). CBS Evening News brief
coverage on Jan. 27, was not included because it pertained
to Q4 of 2016. Nexis transcripts were also analyzed to
confirm results.

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 Trump-Go-Round: Prez Set To Replace Tillerson At State
With Pompeo At CIA; Move Cotton To Fill Intel Post
By Usafeaturesmedia
Posted On November 30, 2017

“Rex Tillerson never threatened to resign” It was rumored that UN Ambassador Nikki Haley, former
governor of South Carolina, may replace Tillerson, but in
recent weeks Trump is said to have settled on Pompeo
because he has good rapport with him.

Reports about Tillerson’s ouster comes on the heels of a

report by NBC News in October that Trump and Tillerson
have had a falling out, with the latter allegedly calling the
president a “moron” at a social event earlier this year.

Both men have denied the report, calling it

(National Sentinel) Political Rumors: President Donald J. “fake news.”
Trump is set to replace Secretary of State Rex Tillerson
with CIA Director Mike Pompeo, The New York Times is “It was fake news. It was a totally phony
reporting. story. It was made up — it was made up by
NBC. They just made it up,” Trump said
when asked about Tillerson’s comment.
Also, the paper said that the president would then
nominate Sen. Tom Cotton of Arkansas to become the next
intelligence chief. Saying he had “total confidence in Rex,” Trump also
tweeted that the secretary of state never threatened to quit.
The Times said that the changes come come in the next
several weeks. “Rex Tillerson never threatened to resign.
This is Fake News put out by @NBCNews.
Low news and reporting standards. No
The paper described the move as ‘forcing
verification from me,” he said.
out’ Tillerson, “whose relationship with
[Trump] has been strained.”
Tillerson also denied that Vice President Mike Pence had
to convince him to stay.
The Times added that Trump has yet to approve the plan,
which was devised by Chief of Staff John Kelly.
“The vice president has never had to
persuade me to remain as secretary of
Reports noted that Cotton would likely take the CIA job if
State because I have never considered
offered, though his office said he is focused on serving the
leaving,” he said.
people of Arkansas.
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 Trevor Noah Reveals Why Trump
Calls Elizabeth Warren 'Pocahontas'
By P.J. Gladnick
November 30, 2017 4:43 PM EST
On Tuesday night's Daily Show on Comedy Central, host
Trevor Noah dared to go where most of the liberal media
fail to tread. Namely exactly why President Donald Trump
calls Senator Elizabeth Warren by the name of
"Pocahontas." He revealed that it was not so much an
ethnic slur as it was a mockery of Warren's highly dubious
claim to have Native-America ancestry. Yes, Noah took
some shots at Trump along the way but that is pretty much
expected. What is surprising is his funny commentary
about Warren's claimed ethnic background.
This whole beef between Donald Trump and Elizabeth
Warren is a tricky one to process because all the other
nicknames he uses on other people are self-explanatory.....
But when he says "Pocahontas" you might be thinking,
"Wait Trevor, I'm confused, is Elizabeth
Warren Native American?"
And you see that's the question because for a long time she
said she was.
Correct, Trevor. A question that most of the liberal media
refuses to either ask or answer.
Wow! How white is your college that when you get
called out for being too white your response is naw-ah! We
got her! Yo! Elizabeth come on out here and show these
white folks what it is!
Noah proceeded to mock Warren's contribution to a
cookbook called Pow Wow Chow:
Wow. Okay. If you're contributing recipes to
a book called "Pow Wow Chow," you better
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be comfortable in your Native American
identity.
At this point Trevor Noah did the slight bit of research that
the liberal media overwhelmingly refused to do for
obvious political reasons:
The problem is in 2012 the New England Historical
Genealogical Society looked into it and they found no
proof of Warren having Native American lineage which is
problematic because she wrote for "Pow Wow Chow."
I mean that would be like finding out I'm
completely white, I have no African blood,
and yet I wrote the book "Snacks For
Blacks."
Finally, this stunner from Noah...a bit of praise (wrapped
in a slam) for Trump:
Elizabeth Warren did something
problematic. The kind of thing that we
rightfully call each other out for every single
day. So as weird as it is to say, in his own
racially offensive way, Donald Trump was
being "woke." And that's unfortunately the
truth and like a Bernie Sanders pop album,
the truth isn't always something we want to
hear.
Trevor Noah is already being slammed for his very slight
defense of Trump at the Democratic Underground:
Trevor Noah defending Trump on
"Pocahontas"
So this is his takeaway from Trump's slur in front of
Native Americans. Calling him "woke."
Proving, once again, why, since that hack took over, the
Daily Show has lost all buzz it once had.
Exit question: How long before the liberal media also joins
in on attacking Noah for the unforgivable heresy of giving
praise (albeit very slight) to Trump while mocking
Elizabeth Warren?
 Fusion What? Despite Important
Developments, AP, NY Times Have Ignored
Fusion GPS For 4 Weeks
By Tom Blumer
November 30, 2017 8:57 PM EST
The truth about the involvement of the PR firm Fusion
GPS with creating, promoting, and disseminating the
infamous Trump-Russia dossier has slowly emerged
during the past four weeks.
Yet, based on site searches, the Associated Press and New
York Times have not published a single substantive,
genuinely related in-house story in over four weeks.
A Thursday evening search at APnews.com on "Fusion
GPS" (not in quotes) indicates that the firm's name only
showed up in a November 9 Cleveland.com "A.M. News
Links" because that site in turn linked to a Fox News item
about how firm co-founder Glenn Simpson struck a deal
with a House panel and would return for dossier testimony.
That APnews.com search also surfaced several Washington
Times items with dates ranging from October 28 through
November 5, but none more recent, even though they exist,
as will be seen later. Apparently, someone at AP
proactively decided that subsequent Washington
Times stories were unacceptable for inclusion at AP.
The most recent Fusion GPS-related in-house AP story
appeared on October 28, and claimed that the "Trump
Dossier Research (Was) Triggered By (A) Website
With GOP Ties."
The headline is false, i.e., it's fake news.
A visit to the AP's underlying story itself demonstrates that
it's false (bolds are mine throughout this post):
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“During the 2016 election cycle we retained
Fusion GPS to provide research on
multiple candidates in the Republican
presidential primary, just as we retained
other firms to assist in our research into
Hillary Clinton,” wrote the site’s editor-in-
chief, Matthew Continetti, and chairman
Michael Goldfarb. They continued: “The
Free Beacon had no knowledge of or
connection to the Steele dossier, did not
pay for the dossier, and never had
contact with, knowledge of, or provided
payment for any work performed by
Christopher Steele.”
If the final excepted sentence just quoted is true (and
there's no reason to believe it isn't), how can reporters
Steve Peoples and Zeke Miller (or the headline writers)
claim that the Free Beacon "triggered" the Trump dossier
research?
Answer:
They can't.
The decision to pursue the matters which resulted in the
dossier's creation occurred after the Free Beacon's
involvement ended. But Peoples and Miller made the claim
anyway, effectively deceiving those who read the story's
headline but didn't go on to the underlying story.
AP's obvious reliance on others for content to fill its web
pages, combined with its failure to report simple facts such
as the one just noted, support the contention I made in an
October NewsBusters post that financial conditions at the
wire service are deteriorating. It appears to have reached
the point where the AP is no longer interested in being the
originating news source of record on clearly important
national matters. (To be fair, I should note that the search
engine problems documented in that October post appear
to have been resolved, and that, absent contrary evidence,
searches done at APnews.com will locate stories containing
the requested search term in content, which was previously
not the case, as well as in headlines and tags.)
The most recent items found in a Thursday evening date-
ordered search on "Fusion GPS" (not in quotes) at the New
York Times consist of a November 11 story and two
November 4 opinion items.
That November 11 story was a pity-party piece about the
current plights of the Podesta brothers, i.e., Hillary Clinton
2016 campaign manager John and his lobbyist brother
Tony.
Times reporter Kenneth Vogel was clearly more interested
in generating sympathy for the brothers than he was in
communicating substance. He did not mention Fusion GPS
by name until Paragraph 19 of 33, passing up several
obvious previous opportunities to name the firm.
Vogel's November 11 report contained nothing of
substance relating to the disclosure negotiations between
Fusion and Congress.
The most recent additional result surfaced in the
aforementioned Times search was a November 1 item by
the paper's Jim Rutenberg, which was also for all practical
purposes an opinion piece which whined about how the
"Russia Inquiry Fails to Unite a Nation." Rutenberg's
primary line of attack was that outlets owned by Rupert
Murdoch, which, unlike the Times and AP, have been
reporting Fusion GPS-related developments, were
generating their "own journalistic weather."
Boo-hoo, Jim. In case you didn't notice, you no longer
control either the narrative or the country's direction. You
should have figured that out when your de facto call for
reporters to abandon the "the norms of objectivity in
journalism" in covering Donald Trump's 2016 campaign
failed to prevent his election.
Thus, the New York Times has no substantive in-house
Fusion GPS-related story since October 30, the day Paul
Manafort was indicted.
A review of items found in searches at just two center-
right websites will give readers a good idea of the serious
news stories the Associated Press and New York Times
have chosen to ignore.
First, here are three related stories found at the Washington
Times, whose work, as noted earlier, was actually carried
at APnews.com until November 5, then abruptly halted:
 November 13 ("The finances of Russian dossier
purveyor Fusion GPS begin to emerge") — Given
the apathy at AP and the New York Times, the most
ironic phrase in Dan Boylan's writeup is this: "In a story
where revelations seem to tumble out daily ..."
Substantively, Boylan's story reported the existence of
communications between Donald Trump Jr. and
Wikileaks, and noted Fusion's resistance to complying
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with the congressional subpoena it received based on
its "free speech rights."
 November 14 ("Rep. Jim Jordan: Special counsel
needs to investigate dossier’s role in FISA
warrant") — The story by Sally Persons tells readers
that the Ohio Congressman wants "a special counsel to
investigate whether the dossier was used to justify a
FISA warrant on those associated with the Trump
campaign." The implications and their newsworthiness
are obvious: It is an illegal act for the government and
its lawyers to knowingly obtain a FISA warrant based
on information which is either unverified or already
known to be false. Any evidence obtained as a result of
an illegally obtained FISA warrant would ordinarily be
inadmissible in any legal proceeding.
 November 24 ("Firm behind dubious Trump-Russia
dossier paid multiple journalists for work") —
Rowan Scarborough's story is particularly damning:
Fusion "has paid three journalists for work related
to Congress’ Russia probe, according to court
filings," as a way, according to a House attorneys,
of "seeding its opposition research into news
stories." It's reasonable to wonder if the AP's and New
York Times's failure to report this development is a de
facto admission that they believe that one or more of
their reporters may be among Fusion's payees.
Now let's look at the Daily Caller. A search there indicates
that it has published over 30 Fusion GPS-related
items since November 6. Highlights:
 November 7 — "Trump Dossier Firm Met With
Russian Lawyer Before (June 2016) Trump Tower
Meeting"; actually, it was before and after. Oh, and
during, give what was reported on November 9, namely
that a "Russian Lawyer Took Fusion GPS Report Into
(That) Trump Tower Meeting"
 November 7 — "Fusion GPS Paid By Kremlin-Linked
Firm While Putting Together Steele Dossier"
 November 11 — "John Podesta Met With Fusion GPS
Founder After Trump Dossier Was Published"
 November 17 — "Fusion GPS Founder Told Congress
He Regrets That His Research Ended Up In Kremlin
Hands." Sure, Glenn, even though a Kremlin-linked
firm paid you guys.
 November 19 — "Report: DOJ And FBI Haven’t
Verified Salacious Parts Of The Trump Dossier." The
original writeup is in the Washington Examiner. If true,
it would mean that if the dossier was the basis for
obtaining the FISA warrant, DOJ and the FBI knew
they obtained it under false pretenses.
 November 21 — "Fusion GPS Bank Records Show
Russia-Related Payments"
It should be beyond obvious that the nation's media
gatekeepers are abusing their positions to ensure that the
truth about Fusion GPS and its involvement with
Democratic Party-controlled entities and the Obama
Justice Department and FBI never become widely known.
 'Are You Stupid?' Donald Trump's Tweets Just Gave These
Lawyers Ammunition for Their Court Case
Against His Administration
By Graham Lanktree
11/30/17 at 9:48 AM

A lawyer who is suing the Department of Justice to gain

information on whether President Donald Trump was
surveilled by the Obama administration says the
president’s tweets will help them win their case against the
government.

“OMG, are you stupid? You just blew apart two

different cases your DOJ is defending against
me. I’m going to take you apart, Mr. President,”
tweeted lawyer Bradley Moss, who specializes
However, Trump tweeted Wednesday that members of
in Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) and
Congress are looking to issue contempt citations
national security litigation over a tweet Trump
sent Wednesday.
“against the Justice Department and the FBI for
withholding key documents and an FBI witness
Moss, who works for the James Madison Project, a
which could shed light on surveillance of
government transparency group, filed a freedom of
associates of Donald Trump.”
information request back in March with USA Today
reporter Brad Heath after Trump fired off a series of tweets
accusing President Barack Obama of having his “wires The president called this “big stuff” and ordered the DOJ
tapped” at Trump Tower. and FBI to “Give this information NOW!”

President Donald Trump speaks about tax reform legislation during a
visit to St. Louis on November 29. A lawyer in a freedom of information
case has argued that Trump's tweets undermine a claim by the
Department of Justice. Kevin Lamarque/Reuters
The DOJ wrote back that it couldn’t confirm or deny the
existence of any surveillance orders or documents about it.
Following Trump’s tweet, Moss submitted it to the court in
support of his case. “The president's tweet this evening is a
rather clear and concrete official acknowledgement of the
existence of records responsive to the Plaintiff's FOIA
requests,” he wrote.
The DOJ’s lawyers said earlier in November that Trump's
tweets are “official statements.” But in another case they
say the tweets count as “personal conduct that is not an
exercise of state power” and have argued that because
Twitter is a private company, not a public forum, Trump's
tweets are not "state actions."

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Trump’s tweet, Moss argued in his court filing, should be
“more than sufficient to nullify” the DOJ’s refusal to
neither confirm nor deny whether the surveillance and
documents about it exist.
Moss filed a similar document in another case he is
pursuing for Politico against the DOJ concerning the
release of any documents about the Christopher Steele
dossier given to Trump to brief him on its contents.
The controversial dossier, released by BuzzFeed News in
January, makes several allegations about potential
collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia in that
country's efforts to interfere in the 2016 election. The suit
is pushing to also find out if the government has
determined whether any parts of the dossier are accurate.
Trump’s tweets potentially undermine the two cases being
fought by his administration and could lead to the release
.
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of information that would be damaging to him and
embarrassing to the government.
Earlier in the day, Trump made several other controversial
tweets that took aim at the media, calling NBC News and
CNN "fake news" and retweeting anti-Muslim posts by the
U.K.-based far-right group Britain First.
“Apparently @realDonaldTrump you have
excited my young partner @BradMossEsq with
your latest #narcissistic tweet. So much so that
he thinks we'll now clean your clock in
#litigation,” tweeted Mark Zaid, Moss’s legal
partner and founder of the James Madison
Project, on Wednesday.
“That works for me,” Zaid wrote, “because I’m
particularly interested in the #attorney’s fees!”
 The Internecine Deep State
Conflict Moves To Stage Two
Charles Hugh Smith
Thursday, November 30, 2017
It now seems evident that the Neoliberal Camp of the U.S.
Deep State is highly vulnerable on an individual basis.
I tend to notice things like a year-old
blog entry suddenly getting thousands
of page views. The essay that received a
surge of recent interest: Is the Deep State
at War--With Itself? (December 13, 2016).
I'm reprinting the essay below for those interested, as
nothing has emerged to change the conclusions.
That in itself reveals that the internecine war within
America's Deep State is if anything heating up as those
attempting to hang a "Russian collusion" narrative on their
Deep State opponents have failed to produce any proof of
this collusion despite a year of effort.
Then all of a sudden big political donor
Harvey Weinstein gets taken down for
behaviors that have been well-known
within the circles of power for 20+
years.
So what changed? Why did Mr. Weinstein's protective
wall suddenly fail after serving him so effectively for
decades?
But Mr. Weinstein was only the first to fall. Now high-
profile figures across the mainstream media are toppling
like dominoes. Doesn't it seem a bit peculiar that all these
Protected Privileged are suddenly being exposed,
disgraced and removed from positions of influence and
power?
Maybe it's just random coincidence, but
I doubt it.
It has the scent of an intentional covert campaign. It's well
known that the mainstream media and Hollywood has been
in bed with the security agencies for decades, and so it
seems non-random that suddenly all these big-shots have
lost their Protected Privileged Status more or less at once.
Not to put too fine a point on it, but it looks like those who
played on the losing side's team (or cheered from the
sidelines) just had their privileges revoked.
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Were we to speculate on the meaning of
this first-sweep of the media: how about
a campaign to strip the failed narrative
of its media supporters?
Now that everyone sees the lay of the land, the Second
Stage will be to collect all the dirty laundry that's been
hidden away out of fear, and then methodically expose,
disgrace and remove the next layer of media/entertainment
supporters of the failed narrative.
Stage Three will be to collect and
release the same sort of evidence
against the political class.
We can discern evidence for this campaign in the number
of candidates who suddenly declare they won't be running
for re-election for personal reasons, or to "move on to
other projects," etc.
As this campaign moves up the wealth-
power pyramid, we'll see more big shots
resigning or retiring.
Those that resist will find all their dirty laundry is
suddenly being made public.
Isn't it interesting that PBS and the rest of the mainstream
media went all out to support Hillary Clinton's recent
media campaign to revive the "Russian collusion"
narrative via her new book, yet the campaign fell flat with
the American public?
This is remarkable: a highly
coordinated, massive media campaign
failed to re-energize the "Russian
collusion" narrative,
and may have actually backfired by drawing renewed
interest in Russian dealings with the Clinton Foundation
during Hillary's term as Secretary of State.
I hesitate to draw a military analogy, but
it certainly feels like a replay of the
Battle of Midway,
in which an over-confident Japanese Imperial Navy was
poised to declare victory until the cream of its fleet, four
aircraft carriers, were sunk or disabled in the space of a
few moments by U.S. Navy dive bombers.
The grand attack that was supposed to reverse these
catastrophic losses--Hillary's book and accompanying
media blitz--fizzled, and that failure clearly eroded the
defenses of those who supported this counter-attack by the
demoralized but still powerful Neoliberal Camp of the
Deep State.
It now seems evident that the Neoliberal
Camp of the U.S. Deep State is highly
vulnerable on an individual basis:
All too many over-confident big-wigs appear to have
counted a bit too much on their Protected Privileged Status
being permanent.
Collectively, they appear to have forgotten, perhaps as a
result of their titanic hubris, that only the paranoid survive.
Various cliques within the 3-Letter Agencies are
frantically trying to protect their satraps and benefactors,
but the tide has turned and all the threats and pay-offs that
defended the Protected Privileged so effectively for
decades are no longer working.
Now the Protected Privileged are running scared, as well
they should, for the opposing camp within the 3-Letter
Agencies has all the dirty laundry it needs to bring down
the Neoliberal Camp, one disgraced big-shot at a time.
The way of the Tao is reversal.
Here's last year's essay on the Deep
State conflict:
Is the Deep State at War--With Itself?
December 14, 2016
The recent pronouncement by the C.I.A.
that Russian hackers intervened in the
U.S. presidential election doesn't pass
the sniff test--on multiple levels.
Let's consider the story on the most basic levels.
1. If the report is so "secret," why is it dominating the
news flow?
2. Why was the "secret report" released now?
3. What actual forensic evidence is there of intervention?
Were voting machines tampered with? Or is this
"secret report" just another dose of fact-free "fake
news" like The Washington Post's list of 200 "Russian
propaganda" websites?
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4. The report claims the entire U.S. intelligence
community is in agreement on the "proof of Russian
intervention on behalf of Trump" story, but then there's
this:
"The C.I.A. presentation to senators about
Russia’s intentions fell short of a formal
U.S. assessment produced by all 17
intelligence agencies. A senior U.S. official
said there were minor disagreements
among intelligence officials about the
agency’s assessment, in part because
some questions remain unanswered."
Given that the N.S.A. (National Security Agency) was so
secret that its existence was denied for decades, do you
really think the NSA is going to go public if it disagrees
with the C.I.A.?
Given the structure of the Deep State
and the intelligence community, "minor
disagreements" could well mean
complete, total disavowal of the C.I.A.'s
report.
That this is the reality is suggested by the F.B.I.'s
denunciation of the report's evidence-free, sweeping
conclusion:
FBI Disputes CIA's "Fuzzy And
Ambiguous" Claims That Russia Sought To
Influence Presidential Election
5. The supposed interventions clearly fall under the
purview of the NSA. So why is the C.I.A. going public in
what is clearly a politicized report intended to influence
the public via massive, sustained coverage in the
mainstream media?
6. Notice the double standard: so when the U.S. attempts
to influence public opinion in other nations, it's OK, but
when other nations pursue the same goal, it's not OK?
7. What are we to make of the sustained campaign to
elevate "Russian hackers and propaganda" from signal
noise to the deciding factor in the U.S. election?
8. Russian hacking and attempts to influence American
public opinion are not new. The intelligence agencies
tasked with protecting American cyberspace have long
identified state-sponsored hacking from Russia and
China as major threats. So why, all of a sudden, are we
being told the Russians successfully influenced a U.S.
election?
What changed? What new capabilities did they develop?
9. And most importantly, what evidence is there that
Russian efforts affected the election? Were digital
 fingerprints found on voting machine records? Were
payments to American media employees uncovered?
Shouldn't statements purported to be "fact"
or the "truth" be substantiated beyond "trust
us, an agency with a long history of failed
intelligence, misinformation and illegal
over-reach"?
10. Doesn't it raise alarms that such a momentous
accusation is totally devoid of evidence? If you're
going public with the conclusion, you have to go public
with at least some of the evidence.
Here's the media blitz and some skeptical response:
CIA: Russia intervened to help Trump win
Secret CIA assessment says Russia was
trying to help Trump win White House
Former UK Ambassador Blasts "CIA's Blatant Lies",
Shows "A Little Simple Logic Destroys Their Claims"
Longtime readers know I have proposed a major divide
in the Deep State--the elements of the federal government
which don't change regardless of who is in elected office.
This includes the intelligence community, the Pentagon,
the diplomatic and trade infrastructure, Research and
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Revelopment, and America's own organs of media
"framing" and "placement."
Is the Deep State Fracturing into Disunity? (March 14,
2014)
More recently, I wondered if the more progressive
elements of the Deep State recognized the dangers to U.S.
security posed by the neocons and their candidate, Hillary
Clinton, and had decided to undermine her candidacy:
Could the Deep State Be Sabotaging Hillary? (August 8,
2016)
In other words, it's not the Russians who sabotaged
Hillary--it's America's own Deep State that
undermined her coronation. It wasn't a matter of
personalities; it was much more profound than that. It was
about the risks posed by the neocon strategies and policies,
and just as importantly, the politicization of the
intelligence network.
And this is precisely what we discern in the C.I.A.'s
unprecedented and quite frankly, absurd "secret
report:" a blatantly politicized "report" that is not
supported by any evidence, nor is it supported by the other
16 intelligence agencies. (Silence doesn't mean approval in
this sphere.)
We can now discern the warring camps of the Deep
State more clearly. On the one side is the C.I.A., the
mainstream media, and the civilians who have feasted on
wealth and power from their participation in the neocon's
Global Project.
On the other side is the Defense Department's own
intelligence agencies (D.I.A. et al.), the N.S.A., the F.B.I.
and at least a few well-placed civilians who recognize the
neocon agenda as a clear and present danger to the security
of the nation.
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From this perspective, the C.I.A.'s rash, evidence-free
"report" is a rear-guard political action against the
winning faction of the Deep State. The Deep State
elements that profited from the neocon agenda were
confident that Hillary's victory would guarantee another
eight years of globalist intervention. Her loss means they
are now on the defensive, and like a cornered, enraged
beast, they are lashing out with whatever they have in
hand.
This goes a long way in explaining the C.I.A's release of a
painfully threadbare and politicized "report."
 “Mental Illness” MSNBC Host And Possible Murder
Suspect Joe Scarborough Uses Globalist Talking Point In
Attempt To Remove Trump From Office And End
Democracy In America
Alex Thomas
November 30th, 2017

globalist Richar Haas, that of course would be Trump’s

fault rather than the rogue dictator in North Korea who has
publicly called for nuking America.

Another day, another stunning attack on the very

legitimacy of being elected the President of the United
States if you are not in bed with the establishment, this
time coming from the liberal propaganda “news” outlet
MSNBC and their globalist inspired morning show
host Joe Scarborough who took to the airwaves to demand
that the rightfully elected president be removed from office
because his enemies “believe” that he has early signs of
some sort of mental illness.
You read that right. MSNBC is now openly calling for the
removal of President Trump from office for mental illness,
with literally no evidence, simply because the
establishment believes he must be crazy for refusing to
bow down to the globalist cabal that essentially runs the
world.
“He is completely detached from reality, we
had a New York Times and Washington
Post piece saying so a couple of days ago,
and the question is Mika,” Scarborough
claimed, “if this is not what the 25th
Amendment was drafted for, I would like
the cabinet members serving America, not
serving the president” to act accordingly.”
Scarborough then claimed that we are literally about to
have a nuclear war, sourcing his claims from open world
government proponent and Council on Foreign Relations
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“We are headed towards a nuclear
showdown,” he continued. “Most insiders
say, Richard Haas has said it matches
everything we’ve heard from inside the
administration, we are closer to war on the
Korean peninsula that most Americans
know, we heard this months ago, that we
are going to have a ground war in Korea,
they believe that inside the White House for
a very long time.”
Scarborough then called on the cabinet to remove Trump
from office in order to save what he believes would be
millions of American lives. This truly is Trump
Derangement Syndrome taken to the extreme.
“You represent 320 million people whose
lives are literally in your hands and we are
facing a showdown with a nuclear power
and you have you somebody inside the
White House that the New York Daily News
says is mentally unfit, that people close to
him say is mentally unfit, that people close
to him during the campaign told me had
early stages of dementia,” Scarborough
said.
This latest attack on American democracy itself comes
after Trump shockingly tweeted about the mysterious (and
still unsolved) death (murder?) of an intern who worked in
Scarborough’s Florida Congressional office.
Despite claims by the mainstream media, the death of Lori
Klausutis has never been fully investigated and the
authorities who did look into the matter where openly
friendly with the then Republican Congressman.
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Trump’s tweet seemed to hit home with Scarborough who
has now gone on a rampage demanding that the person
rightfully elected by the American people be removed
from office, citing discredited mental illness claims as the
reason when in reality it is because Trump is willing to call
out Scarborough’s shady past as well as stand up to the
world globalist establishment.
 Michael Flynn Charged With Lying
To FBI, Set To Plead Guilty
By Tyler Durden
Dec 1, 2017 9:18 AM

Special Counsel Robert Mueller has charged former
Trump national security adviser Michael Flynn with
"willfully and knowingly" making "false, fictitious and
fraudulent statements" to the FBI regarding conversations
with Russia's ambassador. Flynn, in turn, is expected to
plead guilty in a DC court to making false statements to
FBI agents in January 2017, according to the court filing
presented below. The plea hearing is set for 10:30 am ET.
 COURT FILING SAYS FLYNN FALSELY STATED HE
DID NOT ASK RUSSIAN AMBASSADOR TO
REFRAIN FROM ESCALATING SITUATION AFTER
U.S. HAD IMPOSED SANCTIONS ON RUSSIA
 COURT FILING SAYS FLYNN FALSELY STATED HE
DID NOT RECALL THAT RUSSIAN AMBASSADOR
TOLD HIM RUSSIA HAD CHOSEN TO MODERATE
ITS RESPONSE TO U.S. SANCTIONS AS A RESULT
OF HIS REQUEST
 COURT FILING SAYS FLYNN FALSELY STATED
THAT HE DID NOT ASK RUSSIAN AMBASSADOR
TO DELAY VOTE ON PENDING UN SECURITY
COUNCIL RESOLUTION AND THAT AMBASSADOR
.
NEVER DESCRIBED RUSSIA'S RESPONSE TO HIS
REQUEST
Michael Flynn is now the second person involved with the
Trump campaign to admit wrongdoing in Mueller’s probe
into allegations of collusion between the Trump campaign
and Russia.
The news about Flynn comes a day after CNN reported
that Jared Kushner had met earlier this month with
Mueller's team as part of the investigation into Russia's
meddling in the election, according to two people familiar
with the meeting.
The question is whether as part of the plea Flynn will
'reveal' something about Trump, because if 6 months after
the Mueller probe the best he could get out of Flynn is
making a "false statement" about meeting the Russian
ambassador, then Trump has nothing to be worried about.
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 Flynn Charged With Lying To The FBI
— Will Plead Guilty
By Usafeaturesmedia
Posted On December 1, 2017

“The charge against Flynn is the first in
Mueller’s probe that has reached someone
in the Trump White House”
between Team Trump and Russia during the campaign last
year.
Mueller is also looking into potential obstruction of justice
and financial crimes, which is beyond his initial Justice
Department mandate.

“Trump’s former campaign chairman Paul Manafort and

(National Sentinel) Russia Investigation: Former national
security advisor Michael Flynn has been charged with
making false statements to the FBI.
Flynn is set to appear in court Friday morning.
CNN reports that special counsel Robert Mueller has
charged Flynn with “willfully and knowingly” making
“false, fictitious and fraudulent statements” to the FBI
regarding conversations he allegedly had with Russia’s
ambassador to the U.S.
The White House has declined to comment.
The arrest makes Flynn the first official tied to President
Donald J. Trump’s administration and the fourth one
connected to the Trump campaign to be charged as part of
Mueller’s ongoing investigation into alleged collusion
.
his deputy Rick Gates were indicted last month; they
pleaded not guilty. And Trump campaign foreign policy
adviser George Papadopoulos pleaded guilty for making a
false statement to the FBI over contacts with officials
connected to the Russian government,” CNN reported.
“The charge against Flynn is the first in Mueller’s probe
that has reached someone in the Trump White House and
is the latest sign that the special counsel’s investigation is
intensifying,” the network reported further.
Flynn was forced to resign by Trump after he admitted he
gave incomplete information to Vice President Mike Pence
regarding his contact with the Russian diplomat.
Update [0933 CST]: Flynn has agreed to
plead guilty, according to court documents.
A White House source told CNN that the
plea was expected. “Poor judgment. But
this was expected. Trump fired him for lying
to (Vice President Mike Pence). Of course,
he lied to the FBI, too,” the source said.

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 How Trump Mercilessly Trolls
The Media In Five Simple Steps
By Tyler Durden
Dec 1, 2017 5:25 PM

Almost every morning Americans wake up to yet another
Trump tweet storm that sends MSNBC's 'Morning Joe'
hosts and guests into an absolute frenzy that begins with
modest expressions of 'outrage' and ends with Joe
Scarborough once again offering up his 'professional'
medical opinion on Trump's mental health just before
calling for his immediate impeachment.
Of course, as Axios points out today,
that daily 'Morning Joe' meltdown is all
part of Trump's simple 5-step plan to
manipulate the media into covering
precisely what he wants them to cover.
Stephens smartly noted Thursday in the New York
Times.
Step 3: The cable beast awakens.
MSNBC/CNN/Fox are basically 24/7
politics now, and the reporters who
uncorked on Twitter sit alongside the hosts
to dissect/condemn the Twitter bomb. They
tweet the highlights. The rage builds.
The cycle speeds.
 One result: "A political opposition that is exhausting
itself — and much of the public — with its perpetual
state of moral apoplexy," Stephens writes.

Here's how it works...

Step 1: Throw an early morning Twitter

bomb, usually but not always timed to
"Fox & Friends" fodder or
reinforcement.

The Tweet-bomb frequently hits "fake news" or some

social topic with racial undertones.

 Within minutes, thousands of Trump's Twitter followers

retweet it, and the sparks fly in response. Trump knows
this and has bragged to staff about the storm he's ...meanwhile, by mid-afternoon 'Morning Joe's' outrage has
stirring as he hits "publish." been countered by numerous online media outlets that
ramp up the rhetoric to a whole new level just in time for
Rachel Maddow and Sean Hannity to offer their final
 The data: As president, Trump has tweeted about fake
remarks late in the evening...
news 124 times, mostly before 9 a.m., and his tweets
about fake news average more retweets and likes.
Step 4: The fringes foment. Breitbart belts
out a stream of stories, usually supporting
Step 2: The outrage machine kicks in.
Trump or mocking cable hysteria on the
The first hour of "Morning Joe" is
left. It pumps its greatest hits through
consumed by reaction to either that
Facebook, where both sides game the
morning's or yesterday's tweet bomb. But
algorithm to play to their team's emotional
the real action unfolds on Twitter, with
response. Twitter wars usually ensue.
scores of journalists and activists
howling in protest.
 The data: Many of the most engaging politics and news
pages on Facebook in October were hyper-partisan
 "He exerts a deeper level of control simply through his
political pages, according to social analytics company
ability to bait hostile media at will with his every
NewsWhip, and the most popular reaction to them is
seemingly nutty utterance," conservative columnist Bret
the "angry face" emoji.

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 Step 5: Opinions fly. By nighttime,  The data: Hannity averages more than 3.1 million
MSNBC goes hard left, Fox hard right, viewers a night over the last two months, and Maddow
peaking with their highest-rated averaged 2.6 million.
champions (Maddow on the left and
Hannity on the right) tucking like- ...then we all sleep, rinse and repeat.
minded people in with soothing stories
of why they were so right today.
.

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 Bill Clinton-Loretta Lynch Tarmac Meeting: Docs Show
FBI More Concerned About LEAKS Than Impropriety
By Usafeaturesmedia
Posted On December 1, 2017

“The documents show the FBI worked to and criminally investigate the resulting
make sure no more details of the meeting Obama FBI/DOJ sham investigation.”
would be revealed to the American people”
At the time Bill Clinton met with Lynch, his wife and
then-Democratic presidential contender Hillary Clinton,
was under criminal investigation by the FBI for
mishandling classified emails through an unauthorized,
secret personal email server she had set up in her New
York state home.

The legal watchdog organization said that the documents

also indicate that Comey seemed to learn of the meeting
from news reports.
(National Sentinel) Scandal: Documents obtained by legal
watchdog Judicial Watch indicate that James Comey’s FBI
The group also said the documents about a leak that Bill
was more concerned that details of a controversial meeting
Clinton intentionally delayed his plane from taking off so
between former President Bill Clinton and then-Attorney
he could “maneuver” into a meeting with Lynch.
General Loretta Lynch on an airport tarmac in Arizona
would leak than the appearance of impropriety.
“The resulting story in the Observer is
seemingly confirmed and causes a flurry of
The documents, the release of which the FBI stalled,
emails about the source of the article,”
appear to support allegations that the bureau wasn’t as
Judicial Watch said in a press release. “FBI
concerned about the scandalous nature of the meeting as it
official(s) write ‘we need to find that guy’
was details about it would leak to the public.
and that the Phoenix FBI office was
contacted ‘in an attempt to stem any further
“These new FBI documents show the FBI damage.'”
was more concerned about a whistleblower
who told the truth about the infamous
Another FBI official who was with Lynch’s security detail
Clinton-Lynch tarmac meeting than the
suggested the implementation of non-disclosure
scandalous meeting itself,” said Judicial
agreements.
Watch chief Tom Fitton.
“The documents show the FBI worked to “The names of the emails [sic] authors are
make sure no more details of the meeting redacted,” the release stated. “There are
would be revealed to the American people. no documents showing concern about the
No wonder the FBI didn’t turn these meeting itself.”
documents over until Judicial Watch caught
the agency red-handed hiding them,” he
Several Republican members of Congress have questioned
added.
the veracity of Lynch’s claim that she and the former
“These new documents confirm the urgent president only made small talk regarding family and golf.
need to reopen the Clinton email scandal
.

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 Matthews: Mueller Wants To Prosecute And His Target Is
Trump – Trump’s Supporters Will Say Mueller
Is Out To Get Trump
By Ian Hanchett
1 Dec 2017
On Friday’s “MSNBC Live,” MSNBC host Chris Matthews
reacted to ormer Trump National Security Adviser Michael
Flynn being charged and reportedly planning to plead
guilty with lying to the FBI by stating Special Counsel
Robert Mueller intends to prosecute, special counsels
target whatever target they are assigned to, and in this
case, Mueller’s target is the president. He also argued that
Trump’s supporters will “circle the wagons” by attacking
Mueller and saying he’s out to get the president.
Matthews said that the charges seem to be a case of Flynn
being let off lightly in exchange for cooperating with
prosecutors. He added,
“Mueller’s got one goal, and that is to
prosecute the collusion — if it occurred —
between the Trump administration and the
.
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campaign and the Russians. That’s his
goal. Or, corollary to that, any kind of
obstruction to prevent the prosecution of
that case, the investigation of that case.
And so we know the direction he’s going.
Mueller didn’t take this incredible challenge
without a clear direction in mind. And his
clear direction is prosecution. By the way,
I’ve never met a special counsel that did
not intend to prosecute. That’s what they
do. They’re assigned to a particular target
and they target it. In this case, I believe it’s
the president.”
Later on, in response to a question on how “the true
Trumpers, the Steve Bannon universe” will react to the
Flynn case,
Matthews stated they will “go after the
special prosecutor and suggest that this is
over-prosecution, that he is out to get the
president, and that they’re using superior
efforts to get him, that they’re just targeting
him, and I think they’ll basically circle the
wagons. But, you know, the nationalist
cause basically doesn’t allow for
interference in terms of facts or issues or
behavior.”
 Donald Trump Is Not To Blame For Dreadful Western
Media Coverage Of Russia
Bryan Macdonald
Published Time: 1 Dec, 2017 16:37 Edited Time: 2 Dec, 2017 16:35
Foreign Policy's Moscow writer blames the hysteria
around Trump for making it harder to be a correspondent
in Russia. But the rot set in long before the US elected its
current president and Western hacks in Russia need to
examine their own failings.
The headline reads like a cry for help: “Donald Trump
Has Been Torture for Foreign Correspondents in
Russia.” And a casual observer may well empathize with
the author. However, in reality, as an exercise in myopia
and the shifting of blame, Amie Ferris-Rotman’s dispatch
takes some beating. It also, surely unwittingly, helps to
explain why American and British coverage of Russia is so
poor.
The representatives of the English-speaking media in
Moscow apparently have a sense of entitlement way above
their status and, for the most part, their ability. They seem
to expect Russian officials to grant them preferential
treatment, despite the fact that their coverage is, almost
uniformly, hostile to the Kremlin. Not to mention how the
United States and Britain are making it
increasingly difficult for Russian outlets to operate in their
home jurisdictions.
For instance, only this week, RT America has been
stripped of its press credentials for the US Congress,
despite assurances that its recent forced registration as a
“foreign agent” wouldn’t affect its ability to operate.
Instead of calling out their government for blatant
censorship of the foreign media, members of the American
press here seem sorely concerned about the potential
blowback for them in Moscow. Which may result in them
being denied access to the Russian Duma (the lower house
of the parliament).
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That said, given the level of debate there these days, a far
more sinister punishment would be to force all US
reporters in Moscow to attend the Duma daily on pain of
having their visas revoked.
Free movement
As it happens, while RT America can no longer visit
Congress, Western journalists are invited to all major
Russian political events (including Valdai and Vladimir
Putin’s annual news conference where they regularly ask
questions). Furthermore, Putin’s Press Secretary, Dmitry
Peskov conducts a daily conference call, in which they can
participate. If they want to ask him a question, he'll usually
take it. He also might give them his Telegram details so
they can follow up there.
Yet, Foreign Policy complains that it (once)
“could call Putin’s spokesman Dmitry
Peskov on the phone, today he is almost
impossible to get hold of.”
I could also call my grandmother on the blower but these
days technology has moved on, and I’m pretty confident
she’d have eventually migrated to WhatsApp or similar
services.
We are also informed how “contrary to
common belief, it has been a long time
since foreign journalists have been able to
cultivate, gain, or develop Kremlin
sources.”
Now, if this is true, and I believe it is, how does that tally
with the frequent articles where Ferris-Rotman’s
colleagues quote anonymous Kremlin “insiders.” Take this
example last month from The Independent’s Oliver
Carroll, for instance.
There’s also the fact that Russian officials tell me they
don’t want to talk to journalists from British and American
outlets because they largely don’t trust them.
“She is trying to blame Russia for their lack
of professionalism,”
a senior foreign ministry official responded to my
questions.

“They have their own agenda, and they are

not ready for the (sic) dialogue. They have
decided everything for themselves. The
trust is lost.”

Next up, Ferris-Rotman claims “it is no

secret that our communications are tapped.
We abide by an unwritten rulebook of self-
censorship. Straying can and has meant
ejection.”

Now, I can’t comment on their correspondence being

monitored, but, even if it is, buying a sim card in Russia
takes a few minutes, and I doubt the Russians are any more
advanced than GCHQ or the NSA on this front.
Furthermore, to the best of my recollection, no reporter has
been ejected for “straying” in recent times. Granted, there
has been a few denied entry for visa violations (including
myself). But, anyway, a casual look at the Twitter feeds of
Western hacks in Moscow proves they don’t self-censor
when they bash Russia. Even if they do delete the odd
tweet that may rebound on them when seeking future
access to institutions.
There’s also an issue where the Russian Foreign Ministry
is very lax in enforcing its own rules on press
accreditation. Because it’s an open secret in Moscow that
many freelancers are registered at bureaus and addresses
with which they have no actual association. But the
authorities aren’t running around kicking people out. Now,
from personal experience, I can tell you this would not be
tolerated in the US.
Me me me

Foreign Policy also complains that

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 “the tidbits of information we do manage to
secure could have been collected from
outside Russia,” which sounds like a bad
work person blaming their tools and begs
the question of what they are even doing in
Moscow. Because it’s hardly to enjoy the
weather (as I write, it’s minus nine degrees
Celsius with blizzard conditions).
Another complaint is how
“the only cracks that have been etched in
the (alleged Trump-Russia) collusion story
from this side of the Atlantic have been
courtesy of Russian journalists.”
But it doesn’t seem to dawn on the author that these
reporters may be better trained and more competent. Plus,
in any country, you’d imagine local reporters, who are
often specialized, would be more connected than outsiders
who have a broad mandate.
When the subject moves onto TV viewing habits, it gets
even more desperate:
“like Russians across the country, we tune
in each Sunday evening to watch news
programs on state-run television by hosts
Vladimir Soloviev and Dmitry Kiselyov.”
But watching TV is not journalism. And it’s like the DC
correspondent of RIA, or TASS basing their reports on
Rachel Maddow’s show. Perhaps if Foreign Policy turned
off the goggle box and made an effort to cultivate Russian
sources they’d get further. For instance, why not head
down the provinces: because Moscow is not Russia?
Lastly, Ferris-Rotman adds some unnecessary information
which serves to damage her own argument:
“during the summer, many foreign reporters
gathered for the annual boat party, an
informal event that has taken place in
recent years. On the invitation, the dress
code read, “Rain: Cosy Bear. Shine: Fancy
Bear,” a play on the hacking groups linked
.
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by security experts to the Russian
government.”
Grown-up games
While the “hack pack” may think this was cool and
“ironic,” it actually sounds really juvenile and hardly
endears them to Russian officials. Plus, the fact they all
seem to hang out together all the time, and spend much of
the day validating each other on Twitter, rather than
pressing the flesh with Russians, kind of sums up why they
can’t break stories.
Because if anyone seriously thinks hanging with an expat
clique is the best way to cover Russia, I’ve got a bridge to
sell them.
Anyway, I asked a senior Kremlin official, who
emphasized once again that Putin’s circle rarely, if ever,
leaks important information, what he thought of the
Foreign Policy piece. He replied:
“American political journalism seems to
operate on leaks and briefings. So, I
believe Western hacks in Moscow expect
the same to be true here and then get
upset when it isn’t.”
“They also need to look at how they cover
this country. How many of them have tried
to be balanced and understand Russia’s
position? No wonder it’s only fringe
opposition who are interested to speak to
them,” he continued.
“We no longer trust Western journalists,
and we have good reasons not to, so
they’d be better off to stop playing and take
a deep look at themselves and figure out
why. They also might note how their
countries are treating our organizations like
RT and Sputnik, after decades where they
lectured us about free speech,” the source
concluded.
* An earlier version of this article incorrectly named
“Foreign Policy” as “Foreign Affairs.” We apologize for
the error.
 Flynn Prepared To Testify Against Trump;
Gold Spikes, Stocks Crash
By Tyler Durden
Dec 1, 2017 11:14 AM
Gold is spiking as stocks and the dollar sink after headline
reports from ABC that Michael Flynn promised "full
cooperation to the Mueller team"
and is prepared to testify that as a
candidate, Donald Trump "directed him
to make contact with the Russians."
There are more headlines:
 FLYNN HAD CONTACT WITH `SENIOR'
TRANSITION AIDE RE: AMBASSADOR
 FLYNN ADMITS MAR-A-LAGO CALL TO DISCUSS
TALKS WITH AMBASSADOR
Reuters adds some color on what is occurring in the court:
 FEDERAL PROSECUTORS SAY FLYNN SPOKE
WITH SENIOR MEMBERS OF TRUMP'S
TRANSITION TEAM ABOUT HIS CONVERSATIONS
WITH RUSSIAN AMBASSADOR REGARDING U.S.
SANCTIONS
 PROSECUTORS SAY FLYNN SPOKE WITH A
'SENIOR OFFICIAL' OF TRUMP'S TRANSITION
TEAM WHO WAS AT MAR-A-LAGO RESORT IN DEC
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2016 TO DISCUSS WHAT TO COMMUNICATE TO
RUSSIAN AMBASSADOR
 PROSECUTORS SAY FLYNN WAS DIRECTED BY 'A
VERY SENIOR MEMBER' OF TRUMP TRANSITION
TEAM TO POLL COUNTRIES AHEAD OF UN VOTE
IN DEC 2016
 PROSECUTORS SAY FLYNN WAS TOLD BY THE
SENIOR MEMBER OF TRUMP TRANSITION TEAM
TO REACH OUT TO OTHER COUNTRIES TO
INFLUENCE THE UN VOTE TO DELAY OR DEFEAT
THE RESOLUTION
Michael Flynn issued a statement:
After over 33 years of military service to our country,
including nearly five years in combat away from my
family, and then my decision to continue to serve the
United States,
it has been extraordinarily painful to
endure these many months of false
accusations of "treason' and other
outrageous acts.
Such false accusations are contrary to
everything I have ever done and stood
for.
But I recognize that the actions I
acknowledged in court today were
wrong, and, through my faith in God, I
am working to set things right.
My guilty plea and agreement to cooperate with the
Special Counsel's Office reflect a decision I made in the
best interests of my family and of our country.
I accept full responsibility for my
actions.
Trump's Impeachment odds spiked...
The Dollar plunged...

And VIX spiked to 4 month highs...

Gold spiked and stocks slumped...

It did not take long for Dianne Feinstein to issue a

damning statement:

 *FEINSTEIN SAYS FLYNN GUILTY PLEA ABOUT

MORE THAN LYING TO FBI
 *FEINSTEIN: PLEA SHOWS TRUMP ASSOCIATE
NEGOTIATING WITH RUSSIANS

All major equity indices are tumbling...

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 The Scalp-Taking Of Gen. Flynn
By Robert Parry
December 1, 2017
Exclusive: The Russia-gate prosecutors have taken the
scalp of ex- National Security Adviser (and retired Lt.
Gen.) Flynn for lying to the FBI. But this case shows how
dangerously far afield this “scandal” has gone, reports
Robert Parry.
Russia-gate enthusiasts are thrilled over the guilty plea of
President Trump’s former National Security Adviser
Michael Flynn for lying to the FBI about pre-inauguration
conversations with the Russian ambassador, but the case
should alarm true civil libertarians.
Retired U.S. Army Lt. Gen Michael Flynn at a campaign rally for
Donald Trump at the Phoenix Convention Center in Phoenix,
Arizona. Oct. 29, 2016. (Flickr Gage Skidmore)
What is arguably most disturbing about this case is that
then-National Security Adviser Flynn was pushed into a
perjury trap by Obama administration holdovers at the
Justice Department who concocted an unorthodox legal
rationale for subjecting Flynn to an FBI interrogation four
days after he took office, testing Flynn’s recollection of the
conversations while the FBI agents had transcripts of the
calls intercepted by the National Security Agency.
In other words, the Justice Department wasn’t seeking
information about what Flynn said to Russian Ambassador
Sergey Kislyak – the intelligence agencies already had that
information. Instead, Flynn was being quizzed on his
precise recollection of the conversations and nailed for
lying when his recollections deviated from the transcripts.
For Americans who worry about how the pervasive
surveillance powers of the U.S. government could be put
to use criminalizing otherwise constitutionally protected
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speech and political associations, Flynn’s prosecution
represents a troubling precedent.
Though Flynn clearly can be faulted for his judgment, he
was, in a sense, a marked man the moment he accepted the
job of national security adviser. In summer 2016,
Democrats seethed over Flynn’s participation in chants at
the Republican National Convention to “lock her [Hillary
Clinton] up!”
Then, just four days into the Trump presidency, an Obama
holdover, then-acting Attorney General Sally Yates,
primed the Flynn perjury trap by coming up with a novel
legal theory that Flynn – although the national security
adviser-designate at the time of his late December phone
calls with Kislyak – was violating the 1799 Logan Act,
which prohibits private citizens from interfering with U.S.
foreign policy.
But that law – passed during President John Adams’s
administration in the era of the Alien and Sedition Acts –
was never intended to apply to incoming officials in the
transition period between elected presidential
administrations and – in the past 218 years – the law has
resulted in no successful prosecution at all and thus its
dubious constitutionality has never been adjudicated.
Stretching Logic
But Yates extrapolated from her unusual Logan Act theory
to speculate that since Flynn’s publicly known explanation
of the conversation with Kislyak deviated somewhat from
the transcript of the intercepts, Flynn might be vulnerable
to Russian blackmail.
Russia’s former Ambassador to the United States Sergey Kislyak.
(Photo from Russian Embassy)
Yet, that bizarre speculation would require that the
Russians first would have detected the discrepancies;
secondly, they would have naively assumed that the U.S.
intelligence agencies had not intercepted the conversations,
which would have negated any blackmail potential; and
thirdly, the Russians would have to do something so
ridiculously heavy-handed – trying to blackmail Flynn –
that it would poison relations with the new Trump
administration.
Yates’s legal theorizing was so elastic and speculative that
it could be used to justify subjecting almost anyone to FBI
interrogation with the knowledge that their imperfect
memories would guarantee the grounds for prosecution
based on NSA intercepts of their communications.
Basically, the Obama holdovers concocted a preposterous
legal theory to do whatever they could to sabotage the
Trump administration, which they held in fulsome disdain.
At the time of Flynn’s interrogation, the Justice
Department was under the control of Yates and the FBI
was still under President Obama’s FBI Director James
Comey, another official hostile to the Trump
administration who later was fired by Trump.
The Yates-FBI perjury trap also was sprung on Flynn in
the first days of the Trump presidency amid reverberations
of the massive anti-Trump protests that had arisen across
the country in support of demands for a “#Resistance” to
Trump’s rule.
Flynn also had infuriated Democrats when he joined in
chants at the Republican National Convention of “lock her
up” over Democratic presidential nominee Hillary
Clinton’s use of a private email server and other alleged
offenses. So, in targeting Flynn, there was a mix of
personal payback and sabotage against the Trump
administration.
The Legal Construct
The two-page complaint against Flynn, made public on
Friday, references false statements to the FBI regarding
two conversations with Kisylak, one on Dec. 22, 2016, and
the other on Dec. 29, 2016.
Hillary Clinton speaking at a rally in Phoenix, Arizona, March 21,
2016. (Photo by Gage Skidmore)
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The first item in the complaint alleges that Flynn did not
disclose that he had asked the Russian ambassador to help
delay or defeat a United Nations Security Council vote
censuring Israel for building settlements on Palestinian
territory.
The New York Times reported on Friday that Russia-gate
investigators “learned through witnesses and documents
that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu asked the
Trump transition team to lobby other countries to help
Israel, according to two people briefed on the inquiry.
“Investigators have learned that Mr. Flynn
and Mr. Trump’s son-in-law and senior
adviser, Jared Kushner, took the lead in
those efforts. Mr. Mueller’s team has
emails that show Mr. Flynn saying he
would work to kill the vote, the people
briefed on the matter said,” according to
the Times.
Breaking with past U.S. precedents, President Obama had
decided not to veto the resolution criticizing Israel,
choosing instead to abstain. However, the censure
resolution carried with Russian support, meaning that
whatever lobbying Flynn and Kushner undertook was
unsuccessful.
But the inclusion of this Israeli element shows how far
afield the criminal Russia-gate investigation, headed by
former FBI Director Robert Mueller, has gone. Though the
original point of the inquiry was whether the Trump team
colluded with Russians to use “hacked” emails to defeat
Hillary Clinton’s campaign, the criminal charge against
Flynn has nothing to do with election “collusion” but
rather President-elect Trump’s aides weighing in on
foreign policy controversies during the transition. And, the
first initiative was undertaken at the request of Israeli
Prime Minister Netanyahu, not Russian President Vladimir
Putin.
The second item, cited by Mueller’s prosecutors,
referenced a Dec. 29 Flynn-Kislyak conversation, which
received public attention at the time of Flynn’s Feb. 13
resignation after only 24 days on the job. That phone call
touched on Russia’s response to President Obama’s
decision to issue new sanctions against the Kremlin for the
alleged election interference.
The complaint alleges that Flynn didn’t mention to the FBI
that he had urged Kislyak
“to refrain from escalating the situation” and
that Kislyak had subsequently told him that
“Russia had chosen to moderate its
response to those sanctions as a result of
his request.”
The Dec. 29 phone call occurred while Flynn was
vacationing in the Dominican Republic and thus he would
have been without the usual support staff for
memorializing or transcribing official conversations. So,
the FBI agents, with the NSA’s transcripts, would have
had a clearer account of what was said than Flynn likely
had from memory. The content of Flynn’s request to
Kislyak also appears rather uncontroversial, asking the
Russians not to overreact to a punitive policy from the
outgoing Obama administration.
In other words, both of the Flynn-Kislyak conversations
appear rather unsurprising, if not inconsequential. One was
taken at the behest of Israel (which proved ineffective) and
the other urged the Kremlin to show restraint in its
response to a last-minute slap from President Obama
(which simply delayed Russian retaliation by several
months).
Double Standards
While Flynn’s humiliation has brought some palpable joy
to the anti-Trump “Resistance” – one more Trump aide
being taken down amid renewed hope that this
investigation will somehow lead to Trump’s resignation or
impeachment – many of the same people would be
howling about trampled civil liberties if a Republican
bureaucracy were playing this game on a Democratic
president and his staff.
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Retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn attending a dinner marking the RT
network’s 10-year anniversary in Moscow, December 2015, sitting at
the same table as Russian President Vladimir Putin and Green Party
leader Jill Stein.
Indeed, in the turnabout-is-fair-play department, there is
some equivalence in what is happening over Russia-gate to
what the Republicans did in the 1990s exploiting their
control of the special-prosecutor apparatus in the first
years of Bill Clinton’s presidency when interminable
investigations into such side issues as his Whitewater real-
estate deal and the firing of the White House travel office
staff plagued the Clinton administration.
Similarly, Republicans seized on the deaths of four U.S.
diplomatic personnel on Sept. 11, 2012, in Benghazi,
Libya, to conduct a series of lengthy investigations to
tarnish Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s tenure and raise
questions about her judgment. Democrats understandably
called these attacks partisan warfare in legal or
investigative garb.
What I have heard from many Hillary Clinton supporters
in recent months is that they don’t care about the
unfairness of the Russia-gate process or the dangerous
precedents that such politicized prosecutions might set.
They simply view Trump as such a danger that he must be
destroyed at whatever the cost.
Yet, besides the collateral damage inflicted on mid-level
government officials such as retired Lt. Gen. Flynn facing
personal destruction at the hands of federal prosecutors
with unlimited budgets, there is this deepening pattern of
using criminal law to settle political differences, a process
more common in authoritarian states.
As much as the Russia-gate enthusiasts talk about how
they are upholding “the rule of law,” there is the troubling
appearance that the law is simply being used to collect the
scalps of political enemies.
 Stocks Fall On Report That Michael Flynn
Was Directed By Trump To Talk To Russians
 ABC News Reported That Flynn Would Testify That He Was Directed To Make Contact With The Russians.
 The Major Averages Hit Their Session Lows On The Report.
 Gold And Treasuries Spiked Higher Following The ABC Report As Investors Fled To Market Safe Havens.
Alexandra Gibbs | Fred Imbert
December 1, 2017

Stocks fell Friday on a report that Michael Flynn was

directed by President Trump to talk to Russians.
ABC News reported that Flynn, the former national
security adviser, would testify that he was directed to make
contact with the Russians.
The S&P 500 declined 0.6 percent after falling more than 1
percent. The Nasdaq composite lagged, dropping 0.9
percent
Gold and Treasuries spiked higher following the ABC
report as investors fled to market safe havens.

"It comes down to did trump obstruct justice

in any way," said Peter Boockvar, chief
market analyst at The Lindsey Group. "It's
another potential political blindside. We've
gotten a lot of those," he said.

In a statement, Flynn said he agreed to "cooperate with the

Special Counsel's Office reflect a decision I made in the
best interests of my family and of our country."

"If you believe the market has been rallying

in the last 13 months [on Trump, this
report] potentially unravels all of that," said
Jeremy Klein, chief market strategist at
FBN Securities. "Markets don't like
uncertainty and this is the ultimate
uncertainty."

The major averages hit their session lows on the report,

with the Dow Jones industrial average briefly dropping But it appears many investors were willing to bet that the
more than 300 points before trading 100 points lower. Flynn report does not mean the Mueller probe would lead
directly to Trump and derail his presidency and economic
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agenda. Stocks pared their losses after Senator Mitch
McConnell told reporters that they had the votes to pass
the Senate tax bill.
Senate had Republicans delayed voting on their tax bill
Thursday, sending stock futures lower. The setback
concerned a fiscal "trigger" that forced lawmakers to patch
up the plan only hours before a planned final vote.
But futures cut their losses as the Senate showed signs of
progress on coming to an agreement on a tax measure.
Republican Senators Steve Daines and Ron Johnson —
two of the last GOP holdouts on the bill — said they
would support the measure, increasing the likelihood of it
passing.
Brendan McDermid | Reuters - Trader Peter Tuchman works on the
floor of the New York Stock Exchange, (NYSE) as the Dow Jones
Industrial Average crosses 24,000, in New York, U.S., November 30,
2017.
Expectations of lower corporate taxes have been a boon for
U.S. stocks since President Donald Trump got elected,
.
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helping the major indexes reach all-time highs. Jeff
Carbone, managing partner of Cornerstone Financial
Partners, said that, without a corporate tax cut, stocks
could suffer a 3-to-5 percent pullback in the short-term.
If the Senate's bill passes, House and Senate members
would have to work on a new bill to reconcile differences
between their two tax bills.
Bruce Bittles, chief investment strategist at Baird, said the
market realizes
"the Republican party wants to get this
done one way or the other," but added that
"the big question is how much of this is
already built into the market."
"We're sitting at all-time highs and I
wouldn't be surprised if we took some
[gains] off the table" after the corporate
taxes are cut, Bittles said.
In corporate news, shares of Mylan jumped 3.5 percent
after CNBC reported that Amazon has held preliminary
talks with generic drug makers about a potential entry into
pharmaceuticals.
Ulta Beauty was the worst-performing stock in the S&P
500, falling 5.8 percent after the cosmetics retailer issued
weaker-than-expected guidance for the current quarter.
—CNBC's Jacob Pramuk contributed to this report.
 Update: Mike Flynn Pleads Guilty
To Lying To FBI’s Special Counsel
By Kristina Wong
1 Dec 2017

“On or about January 24, 2017, defendant MICHAEL T.

UPDATE: Michael Flynn has entered his
guilty plea and will reportedly testify
against President Donald Trump.
JUST IN: @BrianRoss on @ABC News
Special Report: Michael Flynn promised
"full cooperation to the Mueller team" and is
prepared to testify that as a candidate,
Donald Trump "directed him to make
contact with the Russians."
https://t.co/aiagnvr8eS
pic.twitter.com/r8u2LWAd0O
— ABC News (@ABC) December 1, 2017
The original story follows below:
The Special Counsel announced Friday morning a plea
hearing for former National Security Adviser Lt. Gen.
Mike Flynn later in the day.
Flynn, according to court documents released by the
special counsel, is charged with lying to the FBI.
.
FLYNN did willfully and knowingly make materially
false, fictitious, and fraudulent statements and
representations in a matter within the jurisdiction of the
executive branch of the Government of the United States.”
The special counsel charged that Flynn lied about not
asking then-Russian Ambassador to the U.S. Sergei
Kislyak to refrain from escalating the situation in response
to sanctions imposed by the Obama administration on
December 29, 2016, and saying he did not recall that
Kislyak told him Russia would moderate its response as a
result.
It also charged that Flynn lied about asking Kislyak on
December 22, 2016 to delay a vote on or defeat a pending
United Nations Security Council resolution, and that
Kislyak did not describe Russia’s response to the request.
Flynn is scheduled to appear at the U.S. District Court for
the District of Columbia at 10: 30 a.m. on Friday, where he
is expected to plead guilty as part of a plea deal.
[Flynn Information by Kristina Wong on Scribd
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'Full Cooperation' In Russia Probe: Source
By Brian Ross, Matthew Mosk, Josh Margolin, Adam Kelsey, VERONICA STRACQUALURSI
Dec 1, 2017, 11:06 AM ET
Retired Lt. Gen Michael Flynn has promised “full
cooperation” in the special counsel’s Russia investigation
and, according to a confidant, is prepared to testify that
Donald Trump directed him to make contact with the
Russians, initially as a way to work together to fight ISIS
in Syria.
The stunning turn comes as Flynn, who is cooperating with
investigators in Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s probe,
pleaded guilty to one count of lying to the FBI about his
back-channel negotiations with the Russian ambassador –
talks that occurred before Trump took office. The Special
Counsel made the plea agreement public Friday morning.
A close confidant told ABC News that Flynn felt
abandoned by Trump in recent weeks, and told friends
about the decision to make the plea deal within the last 24
hours as he grew increasingly concerned about crippling
legal costs he would face if he continued to contest the
charges.
Richard Frankel, a former senior aide to Flynn and an ABC
News contributor, said Flynn made his decision to
cooperate under immense pressure, but he believes it is the
right move for the country.
“I don't know how much General Flynn
knows about any criminal activity that took
place during the campaign or in the White
House,” said Frankel, who also served in a
senior role at the FBI. “However, General
Flynn was a top adviser to President Trump
in the campaign and a top adviser to him
when he entered into the WH so if there
are bodies buried so to speak, General
Flynn would know about them in my
opinion.”
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Flynn was charged with lying to the FBI about the nature
of his conversations with then-Russian ambassador to the
United States Sergey Kislyak during the presidential
transition. Those conversations led Russian officials to
temper their response to increased U.S. sanctions,
according to the charging documents.
The charge means Flynn could face up to five years in
prison.
Flynn became the latest and most-senior Trump associate
to face charges in Mueller's probe and arrived at the U.S.
District courthouse accompanied by his wife and attorney
Robert Kelner after having been processed at the FBI
Washington Field Office, where he was fingerprinted and
photographed, according to FBI officials.
In court, the retired lieutenant general was asked by
Federal Judge Rudolph Contreras if he had ever been a
part of similar proceedings, to which Flynn replied that he
had not. Contreras then asked Kelner whether he was
correct in assuming that Flynn was pleading guilty.
"Yes, your honor," said Kelner.
After the hearing, Flynn was free to go, but has to check in
with authorities each week. Sentencing has been put off for
now — and the judge noted that Flynn is agreeing to
cooperate with authorities in other matters.
Flynn had initially resisted cooperating with the
investigation, according to people close to the retired
general, but he has been facing mounting legal debts and
plans to sell his house to help defray costs.
He only recently learned the full scope of the charges he
could potentially face. Last week, Trump lawyers received
calls from Kelner, alerting them that he could no longer
participate in information exchanges with other possible
Mueller targets, the first public indication that a plea deal
was in the works.
Trump and his legal team have learned of Flynn's decision
via news reports Friday morning, according to sources
with knowledge of the situation.
On Monday, Kelner was spotted exiting a meeting at
Mueller’s offices in Washington, ABC News reported.
Jonathan Ernst/REUTERS - PHOTO:Former U.S. National Security
Adviser Michael Flynn, left, with his attorney Robert Kelner, center,
as he arrives for a plea hearing at U.S. District Court in
Washington,D.C., Dec. 1, 2017.
Flynn is a decorated military officer who once headed the
Defense Intelligence Agency and, after leaving
government, spoke frequently at Trump campaign rallies.
He began facing scrutiny after it was learned he took
payment to attend a Russian television event, at which he
appeared seated next to Russian President Vladimir Putin.
That scrutiny only increased after he took over as Trump’s
national security adviser. He was ultimately forced to
resign after just a few weeks on the job after it was
revealed that he misled Vice President Mike Pence and
other administration officials about his meeting with the
Russian ambassador.
Flynn initially denied that he discussed U.S. sanctions
placed on Russia with Kislyak, but transcripts of Flynn and
Kislyak’s phone calls reviewed by Justice Department
lawyers showed otherwise.
Flynn was paid over $500,000 by foreign clients for
consulting work and speaking fees – including contracts he
allegedly failed to list on applications for security
clearances and financial disclosure forms. He also only
belatedly disclosed lobbying work his firm engaged in on
behalf of the Turkish government.
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Carlos Barria/Reuters, FILE - Former White House National
Security Advisor Michael Flynn at the White House, Feb. 13, 2017.
Trump reportedly attempted to persuade the FBI to drop its
investigation into Flynn’s conduct. In a Feb. 14 meeting at
the White House, Trump reportedly told then-FBI Director
James Comey to “let this go.”
“I hope you can see your way clear to
letting this go, to letting Flynn go,” Trump
told Comey, according to a memo Comey
wrote afterwards, which was later
described by the New York Times. “He is a
good guy. I hope you can let this go.”
On Oct. 30, two members of Trump's campaign staff,
former campaign chair Paul Manafort and his longtime
associate Rick Gates, were indicted on 12 counts brought
by Mueller's team related to work done prior to joining the
Trump campaign, including conspiracy against the U.S.,
conspiracy to launder money and serving as an
unregistered agent of a foreign principal.
That same day, it was also revealed that a third Trump
campaign adviser, George Papadopoulos, pleaded guilty
earlier in the month to making false statements to FBI
agents probing his attempts to arrange a meeting between
Russian officials and the campaign.
ABC News' Jack Date, Geneva Sands, Mike Levine, Trish
Turner and John Santucci contributed to this report.
This is a developing story. Please check back for updates.
 'Morning Joe' Ups Ante: Calls For
Cabinet-Led Coup, 'Sociopath' Trump Must Be Removed
Trump's 'Mental State' Is 'Going To Crescendo In More Insane Behavior'
Dec 1, 2017
The hosts of Morning Joe are using their show to rally
members of Trump's cabinet remove the president from
office.
This cabinet-led coup could happen via the
25th Amendment, host Joe Scarborough said Friday. That
amendment to the Constitution, adopted in 1967, deals
with replacing a president who is no longer able to
"discharge the powers and duties of his office," which
these hosts say applies to Trump due to his apparent
mental incapacitation.
"If you’ve been around mental health
issues in your life ... the pressure
heightens, it gets worse," Donny Deutsch
said Friday. "And we should be frightened
right now. We should be — there is nothing
glib about it."
"At what point do you go to article 25? [sic]"
Deutsch asked.
Deutsch said he's able to diagnose a change in Trump's
mental state:
"I have known him for 20 years and I’ve
spent hours and hours with him, everything
from negotiating leases to at-school
functions to hours and hours of interviewing
him on my old show. He’s not the same
guy. You can see it in his eyes and in his
speech pattern, and most frighteningly his
behavior. I think there’s something else
happening here. If you've been around
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mental illness and whatnot, I think he’s
feeling the noose around his neck
tightening with Mueller."
"So take a guy who is mentally unstable,"
Deutsch continued. "Now put a gun closer
— metaphorically, closer and closer to his
head, and I think that’s what you’re seeing
this week. I think there’s a new level, and I
think we’re going to see it heightened as
these two stories are coming together. His
mental health and the Russian inquiry are
coming together and it’s going to
crescendo in even more insane behavior.”
Scarborough also predicted Trump's mental health would
deteriorate.
"My mom has dementia," Scarborough
said. "She had pre-dementia for several
years. My father’s death, the pressure of
that, is when we really lost her. And so it
got exponentially worse very first. The
more pressure you’re under in this — if this
is, in fact, the problem, the worse it gets."
Scarborough said that Trump confidantes agree with him
that Trump has "mentally devolved."
"There is no doubt mentally, and maybe it’s
the pressure of the campaign and this,
everybody that’s known Trump for years
says he has mentally devolved, and I just
want to know when it’s safe to start talking
about it and writing about it," he said.
Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson said mental
health experts warned him that Trump's behavior would
get worse.

"I mean, it’s just extraordinary. How much
worse can it get?" he asked. "I fear it can
get worse, and the people who are
professionals in mental health frankly tell
me this doesn’t get better. This probably
won’t get better. It’s not going to resolve
itself somehow. And as you said, he tends
to want to escape the people who could
keep him on the straight and narrow, so
maybe we need to shut down Mar-a-Lago.”
During a conversation about Trump's retweets that caught
the ire of British lawmakers, Deutsch went further,
declaring that this behavior shows he's a "sociopath."
“And you know who does things without
any thinking about repercussions?" he
asked. "A sociopath.”
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On Thursday, Scarborough said the 25th Amendment was
created for situations like this.
"He is completely detached from reality, we
had a New York Times and Washington
Post piece saying so a couple of days ago,
and the question is Mika," Scarborough
said, "if this is not what the
25th Amendment was drafted for, I would
like the cabinet members serving America,
not serving the president" to act
accordingly.
"He is completely detached from reality, we
had a New York Times and Washington
Post piece saying so a couple of days ago,
and the question is Mika," Scarborough
said, "if this is not what the
25th Amendment was drafted for, I would
like the cabinet members serving America,
not serving the president" to act
accordingly.
On Friday, Scarborough was more circumspect, though
still advocating for removing Trump from office.
“The 25th Amendment, again, Mika, it
wasn’t put for a situation like this,"
Scarborough said. "It’s hard to wonder —
it’s very complicated, but you do wonder."
ABC Giddy: Flynn Is ‘Prepared To Testify’ Against Trump,
Family, WH; Ordered To Speak With Russians
By Curtis Houck
December 1, 2017 12:26 PM EST
In comments that have sent Twitter into a frenzy, ABC
News investigative correspondent Brian Ross reported
Friday morning that former National Security Advisor
Michael Flynn is
“prepared to testify...against President
Trump, against members of the Trump
family and others in the White House”
ow he’s pled guilty to lying to the FBI in Robert Mueller’s
Russia probe.
Former Clinton official and chief anchor George
Stephanopoulos teed Ross up for this anti-Trump
Christmas present by stating that Flynn pleading guilty on
just one charge of lying
“certainly would suggest that Michael
Flynn had a fair amount of information
to offer the special counsel in return.”
Out of nowhere, Ross uncorked this doozy, revealing that
Flynn
“has promised full cooperation to the
Mueller team” and, according to “a
confidante,”
is willing to testify against not only the President, but the
First Family and the White House.
“He's prepared to testify that President
Trump, as a candidate, Donald Trump,
ordered him — directed him to make
contact with the Russians which
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contradicts all that Donald Trump has
said to this point,” Ross added.
As to why Flynn would cooperate, Ross breathlessly
continued:
As well, we're told Flynn made the decision to cooperate
only in the last 24 hours, that he is distraught by this
decision, but feels he is doing the right thing for his
country, that he was facing huge legal bills in more than a
million dollars and that he said that, finally, he had to this
for that reason. He’s had to put his house on the market.
He is facing serious financial problems.
Stephanopoulos took this news and ran with it, telling
chief White House correspondent Jonathan Karl:
And, Jon Karl, let’s go back then the importance of
Michael Flynn right here. Michael Flynn, a chief foreign
policy adviser to President Trump — candidate Trump.
Had a relationship with him going through April 2017 after
he was fired. One of the reports we had seen was that
President Trump had asked him to stay strong in that, so
the big question will be what kind of direction was he
getting from president trump during the campaign perhaps
about any work with the Russians. What did Flynn tell him
about those conversations with Ambassador Kislyak?
What did President trump tell him about the FBI
investigation?
ABC’s chief anchor would know all about the impact of
plea deals and special counsels as he had a stint in the
Clinton White House.
Anyway, Karl pointed out that Flynn “was
the first major national security figure to
come on and support the Trump
campaign, big speaker at the
Republican convention, the third person
named to the Trump transition team,
very major role in filling out the national
security team.”
Here’s the relevant transcript from the ABC News Special
on December 1:
ABC News Special only in the last 24 hours, that he is distraught by this decision, but
December 1, 2017 feels he is doing the right thing for his country, that he was facing
10:59 a.m. Eastern huge legal bills in more than a million dollars and that he said
that, finally, he had to this for that reason. He’s had to put his
GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS: Brian, this certainly would house on the market. He is facing serious financial problems.
suggest that Michael Flynn had a fair amount of information to
offer the special counsel in return. STEPHANOPOULOS: And, Jon Karl, let’s go back then the
importance of Michael Flynn right here. Michael Flynn, a chief
foreign policy adviser to President Trump — candidate Trump.
Had a relationship with him going through April 2017 after he was
fired. One of the reports we had seen was that President Trump
had asked him to stay strong in that, so the big question will be
what kind of direction was he getting from president trump during
the campaign perhaps about any work with the Russians. What
did Flynn tell him about those conversations with Ambassador
Kislyak? What did president trump tell him about the FBI
investigation?

JONATHAN KARL: And remember, George, he was the first

major national security figure to come on and support the trump
campaign, big speaker at the Republican convention, the third
BRIAN ROSS: That's right, George. He has promised full
person named to the Trump transition team, very major role in
cooperation to the Mueller team. He's prepared to testify we are
filling out the national security team. This is a major figure and
told by a confidante, against President Trump, against members
the question is going to be exactly what he told the president.
of the Trump family and others in the White House. He's
The President actually recommended if you remember this — he
prepared to testify that President Trump, as a candidate, Donald
had actually said that Flynn should demand immunity before
Trump, ordered him — directed him to make contact with the
testifying before Congress. So, one question that was asked here
Russians which contradicts all that Donald Trump has said to this
many times and never emphatically denied would the president
point. As well, we're told Flynn made the decision to cooperate
consider a pardon of Michael Flynn. That had never happened.
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 White House Plays Down
Importance Of Flynn Guilty Plea
Alex Pfeiffer
December 1, 2017

“The false statements involved mirror the

President Trump’s attorney Ty Cobb played down the
importance of former National Security Advisor Michael
Flynn’s guilty plea Friday.
Flynn pleaded guilty to lying to the Federal Bureau of
Investigation about his phone calls in December 2016 with
the Russian ambassador to America. The Associated
Press reported that the former Trump campaign and White
House official admitted that “Trump transition officials
directed his contacts with the Russians.”
false statements to White House officials
which resulted in his resignation in
February of this year,” Cobb said in a
statement released to reporters. “Nothing
about the guilty plea or the charge
implicates anyone other than Mr. Flynn.
The conclusion of this phase of the Special
Counsel’s work demonstrates again that
the Special Counsel is moving with all
deliberate speed and clears the way for a
prompt and reasonable conclusion.”
Flynn is the fourth former Trump campaign official to be
charged by special counsel Robert Mueller’s wide-ranging
probe into alleged Russian election interference.

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 Flynn Charged With Lying To FBI,
Clapper Still Free After Committing Clear Perjury
Being A Member Of The Deep State Has Its Perks
Paul Joseph Watson | Infowars.Com
December 1, 2017

Director Clapper responded “Not wittingly.

There are cases where they could
inadvertently perhaps collect, but not
wittingly.”

Former Trump national security adviser

Michael Flynn has been charged with
“willfully and knowingly” lying to the
FBI about his conversations with
Russia’s ambassador, charges that
James Clapper has been able to avoid
over 4 years after committing clear
perjury when he lied under oath about
the NSA’s mass surveillance of
Americans.
“The charging document states that Flynn
made a false statement to the FBI when he
stated that in December 2016 he did not
ask Kislyak “to refrain from escalating the
situation in response to sanctions that the
United States had imposed against Russia
that same day; and Flynn did not recall the
Russian ambassador subsequently telling
him that Russia had chosen to moderate its This was proven to be completely fraudulent three months
response to those sanctions as a result of later when whistleblower Edward Snowden revealed that
his request,” reports CNN. the NSA was deliberately collecting tens of millions of
Americans’ phone call records as well as browsing
While Flynn is expected to plead guilty to making false histories, chat logs, email usage, as well as their physical
statements, Obama’s DNI head Clapper was able to locations.
commit brazen perjury with no consequences whatsoever.
Clapper would have had a level of security clearance to
During testimony in 2013 in front of a congressional know that this was taking place. He committed clear
inquiry, Clapper was asked by Senator Ron Wyden if the perjury by lying under oath, yet faced no consequences at
NSA was collecting “any type of data at all on millions or all.
hundreds of millions of Americans.”
Clapper was also caught in a brazen lie when he denied
“No, sir,” responded Clapper. that any surveillance targeting people linked to the Trump
administration had taken place.
Senator Wyden asked “It does not?”

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During a March 2017 appearance on Meet the Press with
Chuck Todd, Clapper asserted that,
“There was no such wiretap activity
mounted against the president elect at the
time, or as a candidate, or against his
campaign.”
“Now we learn that there was, in fact, a
FISA court order and it came from the FBI
and Clapper, in his own words, claimed he
would have known about that,” reported
Mediaite. “And he denied it, unequivocally.
Maybe he forgot all about the FISA order
wiretapping Paul Manafort while he was in
direct contact with Trump in his campaign
and after the election.”

In summary, it appears that lying under oath is perfectly

acceptable if you’re a member of the deep state, and
Clapper, unlike General Flynn, is enjoying the privilege of
having that special distinction.

This was proven to be false by the revelation that Trump

campaign manager Paul Manafort had been wiretapped
both before and after the election.

Clapper himself partially admitted this during a September

2017 appearance on CNN when he told Don Lemon it was
“conceivable” President Trump’s conversations could have
been picked up during the course of the surveillance.

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 Catastrophic Failure: Democrats Long-Held Strategy Of
'Divide And Conquer' Has Blown Up In Their Faces
- 'If, God Forbid, The Fragmented Mob Of Girlies, Girly Men, And
Cowardly Thugs Start Major Violence, I Predict That We Will Finish It'
Submitted To All News Pipeline By William B Stoecker
December 1, 2017
It is no secret to most of us conservative patriots that, in
addition to incrementalism, the left’s favorite tactic is
divide and conquer. In one sense they have succeeded,
setting Blacks against Whites, Demoncraps against
Republicans, women against men, perverts against
straights, and so on.
But I am reminded of the admonition: “Be careful what
you wish for. You might just get it.” For the leftists have
splintered their own movement into warring factions who,
while denouncing “hate” actually hate one another as
much as they hate us. Identity politics is doomed to
catastrophic failure. Consider the groups who still support
the Demoncrap, or Communist Party.
First, there are the traditional leftists, including the
loveable “liberals.” Living as I do in the People’s Republic
of California, ruled by Jerry Moonbeam, I know them all
too well; they virtually surround me. They tend to be
symbol oriented, meaning that they are not into deeds (like
working at truly productive occupations) and believe in
words…and the left is very, very good at rhetoric. Leftist
elites say the prettiest things, and their UI (Useful Idiot)
followers believe them.
Women tend to be more verbal than men on the
average…and are more prone to be leftists. Lawyers and
college English teachers deal with words, and tend to be
leftists. (By contrast, engineers, farmers, and ranchers deal
with real things and do real deeds and tend to be more
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conservative). Leftists often live in a bubble or echo
chamber and deal only with others of their own kind and
hear only their own opinions (given to them by
government, academia, and the slimestream media)
bouncing back at them. They never have to defend their
opinions in open and honest debate.
They are the ultimate conformists (although they see
themselves as intellectual freethinkers). And they are
incredibly egotistical…vanity, remember, is Satan’s
favorite sin. Like eighteenth century European aristocrats,
they simply assume that they are superior to us
“deplorables” and “bitter clingers.” Their masters seduce
them by telling them that if they accept an ideological
package deal without question it will prove that they are
bold, daring, sexy, intellectual, and compassionate.
Many of us patriots began as young “liberals,” including
myself and even such famous figures as Joseph Farah of
wnd.com, and Bill Jasper, Senior Editor of the Birch
Society’s New American magazine. Gradually, we realized
the error of our ways and possessed sufficient humility to
admit that we were wrong, that, in fact, we had been
played for fools. As more and more of the truth is exposed
many leftists will convert. But most are too proud, too
arrogant to admit that not only are they not superior to the
rest of us, but that they have been self-deluded fools. They
will double down and move further into the darkness.
Their choice.
Then there are the radical feminists. They are leftist as
well, of course, and many of them are lesbians.
Supposedly they stand for women’s “rights,” but they all
adored Slick Willy Clinton, who abused and even raped
women, and probably had former WH intern Mary
Mahoney and her co-workers murdered. And feminists just
love Muslims, who murder their own wives and daughters,
practice female circumcision, and force their women to
wear black sacks over their heads.
In fact, feminists are what I call “againsters,” people who
pretend to be for something, but are really nihilistic haters
who are against almost everything. Aside from their desire
to butcher unborn babies, feminists are united in their
hatred and contempt for men. We can thank Adam
Weishaupt himself for inspiring modern feminism. So
already we can see a split in the left, between the men and
the women.
The ranks of sexual perverts now include not only
homosexuals and lesbians, but an ever-growing variety of
trans-genders, sexually mutilated, or hormone-injected
creatures. For a time their preferred abbreviated title was
LGBT, but we can call them “Glibetts,” for GLBT. Of
course, they have expanded their title, adding more and
more letters, and demand that they be addressed by their
preferred imaginary pronouns and want people who fail to
guess their preference to be jailed for using the wrong
pronoun. And they demand access to all bathrooms and
shower facilities of both sexes, and are agressively pushing
their agenda in the indoc centers formerly known as
“public schools,” seeking to twist our children into little
versions of themselves.
They claim to be a large minority of the population, but
Gallup polls show that all of them together, homosexuals
(I will not give them “gay”), lesbians, and the mutilated,
make up only 3.8% of the US population…a shrill, strident
minority. They have, however, contributed far more than
their share of serial killers. Their relationship with
heterosexual leftists is sketchy at best, and Muslims
profess to hate them (but then Muslims hate everyone and
everything on Earth, including each other). It is sobering to
reflect that even Hitler, Stalin, and Mao never tried to
force the pervert agenda on their people…but it’s
happening here in the land of the “free.”
Black people have traditionally voted for the party of
slavery, segregation, Jim Crow laws, and eugenics…the
Demoncraps. Blacks make up only 13.3% of our
population, but commit roughly half of all the crimes, and
a disproportionate number of them are on welfare. Despite
being the beneficiaries of the welfare, and affirmative
action and quotas, they still pretend to be “oppressed.” Not
a day goes by without Whites and others being robbed,
raped, and murdered by Blacks, who have murdered White
infants and tortured Whites to death, but the poor babies
still pretend that they are the victims of racism.
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In addition to Black Muslims and Black Panthers they
have now formed yet another group of violent
militants…Black Lives Matter, or BM. There are a small
number of truly great Black patriots, but the majority of
even otherwise decent and intelligent Blacks have drunk
the koolaid. The BM types generally hate their fellow
leftists who are White and Hispanic.
Hispanics make up 17.8% of the US population, and many
of them, especially those whose families were already here
when the Anglos arrived, are productive citizens and do
not support the leftist agenda. But many do, especially the
immigrants (both legal and illegal), many of whom
escaped from Mexico and came here to wave the Mexican
flag. They include such groups as La Raza, Spanish for
“The Race.” Imagine the hue and cry if a group of Whites
formed an organization called The Race.
Counting all immigrants, not just those from Latin
America, the US as of 2016 had 42.4 million of them,
some 13.3% of the population, including at least 12.5
million illegal aliens. Their net cost to taxpayers is some
$116 billion per year. As of 2014 some 42% of immigrant
households received some form of welfare and/or food
stamps. Many of the Hispanic immigrants are in violent
gangs like MS-13, and many of them are racists who hate
Whites, Blacks, Jews, and Asians. Yet White leftists think
they can make common cause with them.
And, finally, we come to the Muslims, those charming
people who mutilate their little girls, make their wives
wear black sacks, and murder their daughters in the name
of “honor.” Not a day passes without news of some mass
murder or bombing committed in the name of the “religion
of peace.” When they have no Christians or Jews handy,
they kill other Muslims, as in the recent terrorist attack in
Egypt. Particularly in Europe, but also in Minnesota,
where large numbers of Somali twofers (Black and
Muslim) have been imported, Muslims commit most of the
street crime in between major terrorist attacks.
Islam is now the third largest religion in America after
Christianity and Judaism; there are now some 3.3 million
Muslims here, and 72% are immigrants or the sons and
daughters of immigrants. Many of them hate Blacks, and
they hate all their fellow leftists who are not Muslim,
especially the Jews. Yet leftists cannot bear to hear any
criticism of Muslims, accusing critics of “racism,” despite
the fact that Islam is not a race. But then leftists are not
into truth, or logic, and “racism” is their designated
conversation stopper.
This fragmentation is reflected in the leadership of the
Demoncrap Party…you might think that this would doom
them to electoral failure, but never underestimate the
Republicans’ talent for (as the saying goes) snatching
defeat from the jaws of victory.
By contrast, we patriots, a large and growing minority of
the population, are relatively united. We may disagree on
minor points, but we do not hate one another. Many of us
have military training and experience, and many of us are
armed. The leftist thugs who call themselves “Antifa,”
meaning anti-fascist, are actually violent fascists; their
logo is colored black, white, and red…the colors of the
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Nazi flag and (according to Plato) the stones of Atlantis.
They, like the inner city Black “flash mobs” and the BM
thugs, are very good at ganging up on women who are
patriots, on children, and on the elderly and disabled. They
are not accustomed to armed men fighting back.
If civil war erupts, the military and police will likely be
split between those who will obey orders, any orders, and
those who actually want to obey the law and protect and
serve their fellow citizens. And the gulf between us and the
left has grown, and, I believe, is now unbridgeable. What I
have said about Muslims is also true of leftists: you cannot
make agreements with people who always lie and always
violate every agreement; you cannot compromise with
people whose goal is your enslavement and death; and you
cannot reason with the criminally insane. If, God forbid,
the fragmented mob of girlies, girly men, and cowardly
thugs start major violence, I predict that we will finish it.
 The Time Was And Remains Ripe For Trump, The
Trumpians And The Republican Shills Of Plutocrats
By Joseph Natoli
December 1, 2017
The Ripe Time
Our Narrator-in-Chief, President Donald Trump reminds
us with every tweet that you can play fast ball with facts
and truth and there is really no one to stop you. I would
like say “Unless you’re on trial in a U.S court” but a recent
viewing of The People v. O.J. Simpson, 2016, reminded
me of how even the hardest of evidence can be narrated
against its meaning.
Each one of us feels Constitutionally free to present our
reasoning, stretching way back to when black Africans
“needed” to be enslaved and the indigenous population
“needed” to be exterminated to the present and why it’s
best to separate human activity from global warming and
why it’s best for everyone to starve the Federal
government and lower taxes on the rich in order for us all
to enjoy our share of “life, liberty and the pursuit of
happiness.”
You might say that there was always a hole in our
representations of truth, which we now universally adopt
as “narratives,” to use the terminology of postmodernists,
long out of fashion except for their legacy.
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Whether you trace a grand narrative change in that mass
psyche back to the worldwide countercultural uprising of
the `60s and `70s which as Derrida was to phrase it
deconstructed a mythology of a grounding reason
transparently expressed in language, or to a relentless
undermining of governmental authority launched by
Conservative think tanks, attitudes changed drastically.
You might say we had popularly discovered that reason
and its minions facts, argument, evidence and so on, had a
soft belly.
Trump
Trump the Artful Dodger instinctively recognized the
unprotected soft belly of campaign discourse. You could
play the electorate like a piano regardless of what the truth
of anything you said might be. Refutation by fact checkers
and the defensive responses of your opponents would
come after and have the same impact as next day
quarterbacking. This is a candidate who did not hesitate to
lie because he had no fear there was a way acceptable to
all that would expose his lies.
Trump the Confidence Man played all the notes that an
electorate primed for years to fire up would hear as
salvation and himself as their Savior. He went through a
door that had already been opened in the American mass
psyche. His own steady attack on the mainstream media,
most especially the legacy press, taps into a suspicion
already on the boil in the U.S.
We became post-truth before Trump appeared, and in that
new configuration of self and world a
zeitgeist/paradigm/mindset of suspicion has taken center
stage. That distrust goes beyond the ranks of Trump’s
followers and extends to all those who live by the wages
they earn and not the dividends upon which a far smaller
percentage of the population live.
Regardless of how history narrates Trump’s beginning and
end as the U.S.’s most unstable and potentially dangerous
president, it must record his gifts at seizing the moment
and bringing himself to power. And it may record that
Trump as a savior has detoured an imminent uprising of an
irate populace scheduled for a quiet “creative destruction.”
This is a role he has not abandoned in the same way a
confidence man does not abandon his mark.
His presidency has not fueled the anger of this irate
populace in the certain way Hillary Clinton or Bernie
Sanders would have. And it seems unlikely that the
presidency of any of the Republicans challenging Trump
would have done anything other than increase the yearning
of the discarded for a Punisher Demagogue.
The Resistance formed against Trump is not to be ignored
but its anger is not threatening in the way populist anger is
threatening. A dimension of populist response other than
the overwhelming power of its irrational attachments is its
readiness to enact beyond restraint its feelings. Trump has
laid down concepts that do not emerge from or build the
house of reason but are stones thrown through that house’s
windows. And that suits the temper of the times for all
those not basting in the warmth of their stock returns.
Similar to the way “Reaganism” and his upending of the
credibility of any egalitarian economics has endured
though Reagan is dead, Trump will leave us with a dark
legacy. I refer to Trump’s political iconoclasm, from
historically respected protocols of presidential behavior to
his replacement of State Department diplomacy with the
disturbing erraticism of his own personality to his
egomaniacal drive to replace democratic values with his
own willfulness, itself grounded in truly mindboggling
ignorance, presumption and arrogance.
The Trumpians
I believe it important to recognize that Trump, both as
campaigner and president, is not stepping beyond what his
followers were hoping for and were prepared to accept.
That segment of Trumpians scheduled for extinction by an
economics that was designed to axiomatically do so is the
enduring segment. The racists, homophobes, anti-Semites,
misogynists, anti-Muslim and other perennial haters,
which plague every society, blossoming in ripe moments,
are instruments to be played by aspiring demagogues. The
U.S. has proven particularly fertile ground, which is ironic
considering the multi-ethnic, racial and religious
composition of the country from the very beginning. But
those who are collateral damage that the present form of
globalized techno-capitalism is prepared to accept will not
self-eradicate. And an economics that holds eradication as
a beneficial “creative destruction” out of which something
better will emerge is an intractable enemy to those
unwilling to oblige this economics.
Trump had rightly guessed that there were enough angry
Haters and enough fearful on financialized capitalism’s
Death Row to win him the presidency. Discovering that his
voters were not primarily from the lowest economic strata
does not mean that class had nothing to do with his
victory. Incomes have been hollowed out so that a former
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six figure salary and a secure job reduced drastically in
both salary and conditions of employment is itself cause
to be a Trumpian.
The fact that Trumpians remains inconceivable to those
who enjoy far different realities is in no way any kind of
deconstruction of reasons why Trump is supported nor any
kind of just dismissal of those supporters. Unless an
economic system that benefits only those who are totally
appalled, offended and fearful of Trump and the
Trumpians is drastically changed, an army of voters
waiting for another savior will remain with us. We would
have to disengage ourselves from the Reagan “trickle
down” legacy and, deeper than that, deconstruct Adam
Smith’s words where we are urged to nurture “self-love”
and not our humanity, words that have left a greater
indelible mark on the American mass psyche than
Lincoln’s “better angels of our nature.”
The Plutocrats’ Shills
Trump has given hope to those scheduled for extinction in
the economic order of things but he has also given voice to
the craziness of his own long coddled temperament. That
display and voice is frightening to those who see his
destructive potential in regard to our democratic order of
things.
Those who focus their politics not on economic inequities
but cultural ones also find Trump frightening. Doubtlessly,
paying scant attention to such inequities allows those
offended by Trump to discount their own steady stream of
dividends as irrelevant in their view of Trump.
Those on Death Row within our economic order of things
have reason to discount Trump’s twitter tirades and
tantrums not because they lack the sensitivity of the
gentrified but because they instinctively recognize that all
that amounts to nothing compared to the economic
resurrection Trump has promised.
Congressional Republicans also easily step around
Trump’s offensive and disturbing words and behavior
because they too have their eye on higher stakes. This is a
president who will make their Reaganite/Ayn Randian
dreams come true, a president who believes the wealthy
are the successful winners who will compete in the global
market and make America the winner on the game board
of their choice. Government is the problem as Reagan
instructed and must be gotten out of the way.
Perhaps the Ayn Rand Republicans expected to do so by
starving the Federal government by starving the Treasury
and so starve every entitlement program and return all of
that to private profit making. But what they have gotten in
Donald Trump is a president who intends to uproot and
upend that Federal government and all its agencies and is
doing so by the force of his own unstoppable mania.
Does this frighten legislators operating as shills for
plutocrats, such as Trump?
I do not think so because just as Angela Merkel is not
fazed by a Trumpian madness that will disappear, the shills
expect that the order that will be created will remain when
Trump is gone. They hold that there is a resiliency to that
part of the government democratic order that they wish to
hold on to that Trump cannot taint.
With financialized capitalism once again cut loose from all
government shackles, the fossil fuel industry profits and
dividends preserved, the taxes of corporations and the
wealthy reduced to a laugh, entitlement programs brought
to near bankruptcy and thus closer to privatization or
.
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repeal, military spending increased so that global business
can remain secure, anti-work and union activities thwarted,
and the transfer of everything once public to private
control and much more, an order of things will be
entrenched that Trump’s shenanigans will not have
impeded.
A future that Trump’s presidency made possible, although
not in the plans of any Congressional Republican, will not
be harmed by the wayward excursions of his personality.
Ironically, however, that future order is set up to intensify
the cries for a savior among those on Death Row, for
another Trump, this time one who will most certainly
“make them great again.”
 'Like Christmas!' 'View' Giddy At
Flynn Plea: 'The Antithesis To Election Night'
By Kristine Marsh
December 1, 2017 2:06 PM EST
The View’s reaction to the breaking news that Michael
Flynn admitted to lying to the FBI was just about what you
would expect from the super partisan show.
After ABC News broke into The View’s live show to report
that Michael Flynn had plead guilty to lying to the FBI
about his communications with the Russian ambassador,
co-host Joy Behar shared the news with their very liberal
audience:
ABC News Brian Ross is reporting Michael Flynn
promised full cooperation to the Mueller team and is
prepared to testify that as a candidate, Donald Trump
directed him to make contact with the Russians! Yes!
The audience erupted in cheers and screaming as Behar
threw her hands up in the air in excitement. Turning to the
rest of the grinning panel, Behar clapped her hands and
cheered along with the audience.
“The crowd is standing,” Sunny Hostin
laughed.
“It's beginning to look a lot of like
Christmas and it's beginning to look a
lot like collusion,” guest host, CNN’s Ana
Navarro gushed.
A taken-aback Meghan McCain reacted to the audience’s
exuberance:
“This is like you get a car, you get a car,
you get a car reaction by the audience,”
she joked.
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“He goes to jail. He goes to jail. He goes
to jail. Lock him up,” Behar pounded on
the table and cheered again.
She added:
“You know what this is for me? This is the
antithesis of election night,” she gushed.
“On election night I had to wear a veil. I
was in mourning. This is like the
antithesis of that hideous night and
that’s why I’m happy,” she added
Hostin had a more serious take:
This is so significant. You're talking about
someone's national security advisor,
someone with a military background who
pled guilty to lying to the FBI to the federal
government and now going to testify that
not as president, but as a candidate, the
candidate Donald Trump directed him to
make contact with the Russians. I mean
does everybody understand how significant
that is?
As the audience applauded the news, Hostin looked
gleeful.
“There's no -- I mean, it's unbelievable. If
true,” she stated.
She added,
“There is no legal definition for collusion.
But there is a legal definition for
conspiracy. Conspiracy requires an overt
act from one person to the other. I could
prove an overt act, easily,” she argued.
“Isn't it kind of like treasonous?” Behar
asked McCain.
“I concede to you it's a good moment for
you and a good moment for Democrats,”
she responded.
“And for the country!” Behar grinned as
the audience broke into cheers again.
 “No. I will say-- Not to be the Debbie
Downer, but if this somehow leads to
indictment the country is going to rip itself
apart, and it's not going to be good for
America,” McCain stated.
“No it will lead to resignation,” Behar
shot back. “I remember Richard Nixon
and Richard Nixon stepped down and
so should Donald Trump,” she declared,
as the audience yelled out their agreement.
“If it leads to that,” McCain noted while the
audience kept clapping.
She urged caution to the easily excited audience:
Again, this just happened in real time in this segment. We
don't know the exact details of this. I will implore
everyone--I know everyone is cheering here. I give
Democrats and liberals this moment, whatever. But I will
say, I don't want this country to become more polarized
and ripped apart than it already is.
As the audience talked over each other,
Hostin gushed, “This isn't a liberal
moment guys. This is an American
moment!”
Behar agreed. “That's right,” she said as
the audience cheered.
“It’s not Democrat, it’s not Republican!
It’s not! It’s an American moment,”
Hostin reiterated.
Host Sara Haines took a more reserved approach:
Even though there’s clapping and
screaming and everyone is excited it's also
a mixed emotion thing. It's bad. That
doesn't mean it's good for the country
either way. That's really bad if the present
day president --there is collusion proven
here. It's not it's a happy day. It's we
need to figure out what went down here.
I can't find myself cheering either.
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“Oh, no. It's a happy day. Come on.
Come on,” Behar scoffed in dismissal, as
the audience applauded.
Behar wasn’t done with her anti-Trump diatribe.
“He is going to be taken down for what
he did and this country can start to
heal!” she gushed.
Haines again urged caution.
“We don't even know what that process
would look like. It's messy now and --” she
began.
“Justice is messy!” Behar couldn’t help
herself.
Navarro called the information “scary as hell” repeating
that it’s a “very scary day” knowing that Flynn had the
clearance he did while contacting the Russians:
To me it's not a happy day. It's not a sad
day. For me what it is first of all, we're still
in this process. It's a very scary day. The
idea this guy despite the fact he was
having contact with the Russians during the
election was then named national security
adviser, the power that that has, the
intelligence that has, the clearance that
has, the access that has, the influence that
has, the profile that that has. The
international implications that that has. This
guy, the former general who knew what he
was doing had been having contact with
the Russians and was able to get that
position. And that Donald Trump continued
protecting him over and over again, even
after he had to fire him is scary as hell.
“Except it's less scary now that they're
finding all this out!” Behar grinned.
Hostin argued we should all be concerned about a foreign
power interfering in our elections.
“[I]t's not a democratic issue. It's not a
Republican issue. We should all collectively
be concerned that this happened. This is a
time for our country this is good for our
country to expose this kind of behavior,”
she argued.
“We should be concerned,” Haines said,
adding, “not gleeful.”
“This is Christmas for Joy,” she joked.
But McCain wasn’t happy at the news and tried to argue to
the panel that talks of indictment and impeachment
weren’t good for the country:
I don't want to relive the '60s. I don't want
to relive having a president impeached. We
have been talking very intentionally. I don't
want this country to rip itself apart. I would
like to find more in-between. This is--it
seems like an audience very excited
about the idea of President Trump being
indicted and possibly impeached.
Like clapping seals, the audience responded by applauding
the idea of Trump being impeached.
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Behar responded with a more level-headed answer to
McCain’s argument:
“If someone commits a crime, that’s a bad
thing. When they find out, that’s a good
thing. That’s what I’m talking about now. I
don’t believe there will be an impeachment,
I think there will be a resignation,” Behar
argued.
“People were calling for his impeachment
the day after the election though,” McCain
pushed back. “I know Trump supporters,
this isn’t going to be seen in the same
lense as it’s seen now,” she stated.
 Trump Attorney Ty Cobb
Releases Statement Following Flynn Guilty Plea
By Usafeaturesmedia
Posted On December 1, 2017
“The false statements involved mirror the
false statements to White House officials
which resulted in his resignation in
February of this year”
(National Sentinel) Special Counsel: President Donald J.
Trump’s attorney released a statement following news that
former national security advisor Michael Flynn had
pleaded guilty to charges he lied to FBI agents regarding
conversations he had with Russia’s ambassador to the U.S.
Earlier, Flynn said that his guilty plea was made in the best
interests of the country and his family.
“My guilty plea and agreement to cooperate
with the Special Counsel’s Office reflect a
decision I made in the best interests of my
family and of our country. I accept full
responsibility for my actions,” he said.
Earlier reports noted that Flynn said he will cooperate fully
with special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe.
As to the implications of Flynn’s admission, Trump
attorney Ty Cobb said there are no links to the White
House.
“Today, Michael Flynn, a former National
Security Advisor at the White House for 25
days during the Trump Administration, and
a former Obama administration official,
entered a guilty plea to a single count of
making a false statement to the FBI.
“The false statements involved mirror the
false statements to White House officials
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which resulted in his resignation in
February of this year,” Cobb continued.
“Nothing about the guilty plea or the charge
implicates anyone other than Mr. Flynn.
The conclusion of this phase of the Special
Counsel’s work demonstrates again that
the Special Counsel is moving with all
deliberate speed and clears the way for a
prompt and reasonable conclusion.”
Cobb’s statement jibes with an assessment by Andrew
McCarthy, a former federal prosecutor who specialized in
national security cases.
Writing in National Review, McCarthy said that the nature
of Flynn’s plea did not appear to have any implications in
the long-running media and political narrative that the
Trump campaign “colluded” with Russia against
Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton.
“There’s less to the news than meets the
eye,” McCarthy wrote.
He added:
…[W]hen a prosecutor has a cooperator
who was an accomplice in a major criminal
scheme, the cooperator is made to plead
guilty to the scheme. This is critical
because it proves the existence of the
scheme. In his guilty-plea allocution (the
part of a plea proceeding in which the
defendant admits what he did that makes
him guilty), the accomplice explains the
scheme and the actions taken by himself
and his co-conspirators to carry it out. This
goes a long way toward proving the case
against all of the subjects of the
investigation.
That is not happening in Flynn’s situation.
Instead…he is being permitted to plead
guilty to a mere process crime.
Further, McCarthy explained,
 “It is becoming increasingly palpable that, Trump campaign in the Kremlin’s
whatever ‘collusion’ means, there was no machinations.”
actionable, conspiratorial complicity by the
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 Limbaugh: Timing Of Flynn Charges
‘May Not Be Coincidental’ — ‘Look At All
The News It Has Swept Off The Front Pages’
By Jeff Poor
1 Dec 2017
Friday on his nationally syndicated radio show,
conservative talker Rush Limbaugh questioned the timing
of the announcement former National Security Adviser
Michael Flynn had been charged by special counsel Robert
Mueller for lying to the FBI.
Limbaugh suggested the timing of the news was to draw
the attention away from passage of the tax bill among
other items in the news, including the Matt Lauer firing
from NBC and the “not guilty” verdict in the Kate Steinle
murder trial.
“So there you have it – they’re all excited,”
Limbaugh said. “Mueller did the deed on
the right day. Mueller did the deed to
sweep the tax cut deal off the table and to
tick everybody off. This is, in Jonathan
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Martin’s opinion, the swamp banding
together – the establishment coordinating
its efforts to continue to destroy Trump and
muddy the waters. The tax bill is going to
pass. As far as [Mitch] McConnell and
[Paul] Ryan are concerned, none of this
today is a legal problem.”
“It’s a bit of a political problem, but it
doesn’t present any legal problems to them
or their tax bill,” he continued. “The tax bill
is going to pass. But I don’t have any doubt
that the timing of this thing today may not
be coincidental. Just look at all the news it
has swept off the front pages and look what
it put back on the front page: ‘Trump
colluded with the Russians to steal the
election from Hillary.’”
 Unbelievable: The Deep State Is Now
Going After Michael Flynn And Donald Trump For
Wanting To TAKE OUT ISIS Terrorists
Alex Thomas
December 1st, 2017
In a move that has the entire liberal media establishment
up in arms with claims that this could bring down the
president, former Trump national security adviser Michael
Flynn has pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI about
conversations he had with the Russian ambassador.
Despite the fact that outlets such as CNN and ABC News
are breathlessly reporting that the charges against Flynn
have to do with Russia, it has actually been revealed that
the reason for the calls to the Russians was to coordinate
the FIGHT AGAINST ISIS.
CNBC reports:
ABC News reported that Flynn, the former
national security adviser, would testify that
he was directed to make contact with
Russians during the presidential campaign
in 2016. Flynn pleaded guilty to lying to the
FBI about his postelection contacts with
Russia’s ambassador to the U.S.
ABC said later in an updated report that
Flynn will say Trump asked him to make
contact with Russia “initially as a way to
work together to fight ISIS in Syria.”
In a statement, Flynn said he agreed to
“cooperate with the Special Counsel’s
Office reflect a decision I made in the best
interests of my family and of our country.”
That’s right, Michael Flynn, and President Trump by
extension, are now being attacked by Mueller and the
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entire deep state simply for seeking to work closer with
Russia in order to take out literal terrorists!
Paul Joseph Watson reports:
As news broke that Michael Flynn would
testify that Donald Trump ordered him to
talk to the Russians during the transition
phase between administrations, the left
exploded with glee that actual evidence of
“Russian collusion” was in sight and it
could bring down Trump.
The reality turned out to be somewhat
disappointing for them.
ABC News reported that Trump directed
Flynn to speak with the Russians “initially
as a way to work together to fight ISIS in
Syria.”
In other words, Trump committed the
grievous sin of attempting to work
diplomatically with another super power to
defeat Islamic terrorism.
This is hardly the damaging revelation
Trump’s enemies had been hoping for.
[…]
Talking to ambassadors is not a criminal
offense, it’s a routine procedure for
incoming administrations. Obama
campaign officials responsible for the “reset
policy” with Russia met with Russian
officials back in 2008 before the election
had even taken place.
The real reason Flynn was brought down
on a technicality is because he made an
enemy out of the deep state by directing
exposing them for failing to fight ISIS and
to some extent actually helping the spread
of radical Islam.
At this point one has to wonder if Mueller himself is
actually running cover for a terrorist organization as he has
done in the past.
The National Review’s Andrew McCarthy also destroyed crime — he’d be pleading guilty to an
the notion that this is some big bombshell: espionage conspiracy.

It remains unclear why the Obama Justice So there you have it. These entire “bombshell revelations
Department chose to investigate Flynn. against Flynn” are literally NOTHING but two politicians
There was nothing wrong with the incoming trying to reach out to another country in order to FIGHT
national-security adviser’s having meetings ACTUAL TERRORISTS. I repeat, Flynn and Trump are
with foreign counterparts or discussing being attacked for reaching out to a Russian ambassador
such matters as the sanctions in those about FIGHTING ISIS.
meetings. Plus, if the FBI had FISA
recordings of Flynn’s conversations with It truly doesn’t get any more bizarre than the establishment
Kislyak, there was no need to ask Flynn media attacking Americans who want to take out ISIS.
what the conversations entailed.
[…]
Flynn is prepared to testify that Trump
directed him to make contact with the
Russians — initially to lay the groundwork
for mutual efforts against ISIS in Syria.
That, however, is exactly the sort of thing
the incoming national-security adviser is
supposed to do in a transition phase
between administrations. If it were part of
the basis for a “collusion” case arising out
of Russia’s election meddling, then Flynn
would not be pleading guilty to a process
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 Mike Flynn Says Decision To Testify
Against Trump Was In ‘Best Interests’ Of His Family
By Kristina Wong
1 Dec 2017
Former National Security Adviser Ret.
Lt. Gen. Mike Flynn defended his
decision to make a plea deal with the
Special Counsel and to testify as a
witness against President Trump and
members of his family.
“After over 33 years of military service to
our country, including nearly five years in
combat away from my family, and then my
decision to continue to serve the United
States, it has been extraordinarily painful to
endure these many months of false
accusations of ‘treason’ and other
outrageous acts,” Flynn said in a statement
Friday after he pleaded guilty to lying to the
FBI.
“Such false accusations are contrary to
everything I have ever done and stood for.
But I recognize that the actions I
acknowledged in court today were wrong,
and, through my faith in God, I am working
to set things right. My guilty plea and
agreement to cooperate with the Special
Counsel’s Office reflect a decision I made
in the best interests of my family and of our
country. I accept full responsibility for my
actions,” he said.
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Flynn was under serious financial strain, and his family
members had urged him to start a legal defense fund
earlier this year. Flynn’s son was also interviewed by the
special counsel team, raising speculation that he was also
being investigated.
Flynn reportedly also made the decision because he felt
that he had been “abandoned” by Trump. Flynn will
reportedly testify that during the campaign, President
Trump had instructed him to reach out to Russia.
Flynn’s charge of lying to the FBI stems from his
conversations with then-Russian Ambassador to the U.S.
Sergei Kislyak on December 29, 2016. Flynn told the FBI
he did not discuss sanctions imposed that day by the
Obama administration.
He also told Vice President Mike Pence that he did not
discuss sanctions, which Pence repeated in an interview.
Flynn was fired after someone leaked the classified
contents of his phone call to the Washington Post in
February, revealing that he had lied to Pence.
Flynn was also under scrutiny for his lobbying work for
Turkey in the lead up to the election. He reportedly
hatched a plan to kidnap a Islamic cleric in Pennsylvania
seeking asylum from Turkey.
 Michael Flynn Charged With Lying To The FBI While
Deep State Obama Operative James Clapper Is Allowed To
Commit “Brazen Perjury” On National TV
Alex Thomas
December 1st, 2017

Senator Wyden asked “It does not?”

In what the entire mainstream media is reporting as a
“bombshell”, former Trump national security adviser
Michael Flynn has been charged with lying to the FBI
about a series of legal conversations he had with the
Russian ambassador that included talk on how better to
take out ISIS.
“The charging document states that Flynn
made a false statement to the FBI when he
stated that in December 2016 he did not
ask Kislyak “to refrain from escalating the
situation in response to sanctions that the
United States had imposed against Russia
that same day; and Flynn did not recall the
Russian ambassador subsequently telling
him that Russia had chosen to moderate its
response to those sanctions as a result of
his request,” reported CNN.
Director Clapper responded “Not wittingly.
There are cases where they could
inadvertently perhaps collect, but not
wittingly.”
This was proven to be completely
fraudulent three months later when
whistleblower Edward Snowden revealed
that the NSA was deliberately collecting
tens of millions of Americans’ phone call
records as well as browsing histories, chat
logs, email usage, as well as their physical
locations.
Clapper would have had a level of security
clearance to know that this was taking
place. He committed clear perjury by lying
under oath, yet faced no consequences at
all.
That’s right, there is clear and obvious evidence that
Clapper broke the law and committed perjury yet he
remains untouched by anyone within the FBI. This is clear
bias on the part of the Federal Bureau of Investigations and
should be immediately investigated.

In comparison, Obama and deep state operative James

Clapper has committed open perjury multiple times over
the years and literally nothing has happened to him. I guess
being a globalist operative has its perks.

As Paul Joseph Watson reported:

During testimony in 2013 in front of a
congressional inquiry, Clapper was asked
by Senator Ron Wyden if the NSA was
collecting “any type of data at all on millions
or hundreds of millions of Americans.”
“In summary, it appears that lying under
oath is perfectly acceptable if you’re a
member of the deep state, and Clapper,
unlike General Flynn, is enjoying the
privilege of having that special distinction.”

“No, sir,” responded Clapper.

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 Why The Michael Flynn
“Scandal” Is A Giant Nothingburger
The Resistance Thinks It Will Bring Down Trump; It Won’t
Paul Joseph Watson | Infowars.Com
December 1, 2017
As news broke that Michael Flynn would
testify that Donald Trump ordered him
to talk to the Russians during the
transition phase between
administrations, the left exploded with
glee that actual evidence of “Russian
collusion” was in sight and it could
bring down Trump.
The reality turned out to be somewhat disappointing for
them.
ABC News reported that Trump directed Flynn to speak
with the Russians
“initially as a way to work together to fight
ISIS in Syria.”
In other words, Trump committed the grievous sin of
attempting to work diplomatically with another super
power to defeat Islamic terrorism.
This is hardly the damaging revelation Trump’s enemies
had been hoping for.
“Sorry to be a party-pooper but if this is the
extent of the “directive” Flynn received, it’s
incredibly mundane,” commented journalist
Michael Tracey.
As the National Review’s Andrew McCarthy points out,
“There’s less to the news than meets the
eye.”
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“It remains unclear why the Obama Justice
Department chose to investigate Flynn.
There was nothing wrong with the incoming
national-security adviser’s having meetings
with foreign counterparts or discussing
such matters as the sanctions in those
meetings. Plus, if the FBI had FISA
recordings of Flynn’s conversations with
Kislyak, there was no need to ask Flynn
what the conversations entailed,” he writes.
“Flynn is prepared to testify that Trump
directed him to make contact with the
Russians — initially to lay the groundwork
for mutual efforts against ISIS in Syria.
That, however, is exactly the sort of thing
the incoming national-security adviser is
supposed to do in a transition phase
between administrations. If it were part of
the basis for a “collusion” case arising out
of Russia’s election meddling, then Flynn
would not be pleading guilty to a process
crime — he’d be pleading guilty to an
espionage conspiracy.”
In other words, for Flynn’s behavior to be proof of
“Russian collusion” that embroils Trump, he would have
had to had access to a time machine given that he spoke
with Kislyak after the election.
The notion that Trump colluded with Russia by asking
Flynn to speak to Ambassador Kislyak is also ludicrous.
As the passage below highlights, hundreds of
Congressman, Senators and members of the State
As Mike Cernovich points out,
Department have met with Kislyak since he became
ambassador in 2008.
“Flynn’s estimated prison sentence is 0 to 6
months and a $500 to $9,500 fine. Ignore
the headlines and read the legal
documents. This was a bullshit technicality
they got General Flynn on.”

Talking to ambassadors is not a criminal offense, it’s a

routine procedure for incoming administrations. Obama
campaign officials responsible for the “reset policy” with
Russia met with Russian officials back in 2008 before the
election had even taken place.
The real reason Flynn was brought down on a technicality
is because he made an enemy out of the deep state by
directing exposing them for failing to fight ISIS and to
some extent actually helping the spread of radical Islam.
“The resistance” actually thinks this is
going to bring down Trump, like they
claimed literally every other hysterical non-
reason would bring down Trump.
Watching their hopes dashed over and over again never
stops being funny.

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 Morning Joe Promotes Military Insubordination
Based On Claim That Trump Has ‘Dementia’
By Chris Reeves
December 1, 2017 3:51 PM EST
On Friday’s Morning Joe, the show’s liberal pundits
doubled down on their claim that everybody around Trump
thinks he has signs of serious mental deterioration. Host
Joe Scarborough did not reveal his source for yesterday’s
assertion that Trump has “dementia,” but he and the other
panelists used this claim to advocate for current military
servicemen and presidential cabinet members to “stand up
to Trump” and not follow orders from the President. USA
Today senior politics reporter Heidi Przybyla also took the
opportunity to misrepresent a poll from the Military Times,
claiming that it supported the idea that most military
officers think Trump is mentally not “fit” to be
commander-in-chief.
The poll that she appeared to be
referencing asked no such thing of the
troops that it surveyed.
Prior to the segment in question, the Morning Joe crew re-
hashed the “dementia” content from Thursday’s show. The
primary difference between Thursday’s and Friday’s
broadcasts was that on Friday morning, the whole panel
jumped in to diagnose Trump as literally suffering from
some sort of breakdown of his mental faculties.
Eventually, Morning Joe’s speculation about Trump being
mentally ill transitioned into talking about why Trump’s
cabinet members have not been doing more to actively and
openly oppose the President given the fact that “his hand
[is] near the nuclear button”:
MIKA BRZEZINSKI: I also think he's never
-- and it’s like a lot of people that we've
seen in the past, that things have not
ended well. He has never seen the
consequences of any of his actions. Ever.
[murmurs of agreement from panel]
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So he may be in kind of a weird unself-
aware mode where the noose is tightening,
but he also doesn’t believe -- so, I mean, I
can't explain this crazy behavior, but I
can call it crazy.
DONNY DEUTSCH: I have a question for
you guys, ‘cause you know-
BRZEZINSKI: It’s crazy.
DEUTSCH: -the Gary Cohns of the world
and all of these people around him, a lot of
very, very decent people.
JOE SCARBOROUGH: Right.
DEUTSCH: At what point do they stop the
“well, I’m -- it's better me being here-
BRZEZINSKI: [interjecting] No.
SCARBOROUGH: [interjecting] So-.
DEUTSCH: -cause I’m protecting things”
versus “I love this country. I love my
children. I love my future grandchildren.
There's a man with his hand near the
nuclear button and somebody’s gotta
stand up.”
At this point, Scarborough intervened and turned the
conversation towards the American military, which he
framed as being a check to Trump’s assumed desire to
order the murders of hundreds of thousands or potentially
even millions of people for no reason:
So, so here's the deal. I mean, if you're, if you’re a
domestic adviser for the President, then I do think that you
have to -- you can't stay. I don't know how Gary Cohn
stays. If you are, you know, some of the generals that are
around him, we're in the middle, and we have been hearing
for some time that they fear a land war on the Korean
peninsula is coming.
For them to abandon their post right
now because of a tweet, they cannot do
that. And I do believe history will show a
lot of these men and women that are
standing shoulder to shoulder through
this crisis to be people that put their
country first.
 Steve Rattner, who frequently appears on
Morning Joe to do economic analysis, then
chimed in to express his vague hope that
people within Trump’s cabinet like John
Kelly are “still willing to stand up to
Trump when the moment comes.”
Afterwards, Przybyla brought up the supposed results of
the recent Military Times poll in an attempt to suggest that
the American military will resist “crazy” orders from the
President:
[I]f you look at where some of the rumblings are coming in
terms of who's going to speak out, it is from the national
security community, because you see Corker saying:
This is the person controlling the nuclear arsenal
essentially turning this into a reality show. And then you
see this poll, for example, by the Military Times, I don't
know if you saw it, out recently, where they say only 30%
of commissioned officers think that he is fit.
There is only one Military Times poll
conducted in late October that appears to
be what Przybyla is referencing, but she
completely misrepresented what the
survey was about.
The Military Times did not ask soldiers about what they
thought of Trump’s fitness, mental or otherwise, for the
Presidency. Instead,
“[t]he questions focused on President
Trump’s time in the White House and
national security issues facing U.S.
leaders.”
As part of this, serving troops were polled on their
broader favorability views of Trump, which the military
paper reported thusly:
President Donald Trump enjoys far
stronger support among members of the
military than the American public at large,
according to the latest scientific Military
Times poll.
(...)
Overall, about 44 percent of all troops
surveyed in the Military Times poll have
a favorable view of Trump, while roughly
40 percent have an unfavorable opinion of
him.
(...)
While almost 48 percent of enlisted troops
approve of Trump, only about 30 percent
of officers say the same, the poll shows.
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Favorability and mental fitness are not the same thing, and
Przybyla should have double-checked her sources before
spreading misinformation that U.S. military officers think
Trump is literally insane.
BBC World News America anchor Katty Kay followed
Przybyla’s comments by holding up the example of Air
Force General John Hyten, the top American nuclear
commander at U.S. Strategic Command, who recently
suggested in an open forum that Trump is likely to order
an illegal nuclear attack:
And then you have the head of Strategic Command.
Heeten saying,
Hyten saying, that, you know, I, they --
questioning the legality of a proposed
nuclear strike. And I think those people
are thinking, right, how do we put
ourselves in a position where if
something were to happen that we
believe is catastrophic for the country,
we try to make sure that we can prevent
it. And I think these rumblings about the
legality of a nuclear strike, that's what
you’re preparing for.
Kay’s point echoes Scarborough’s more explicit call in
early October for Republicans in the Senate to act
immediately to cripple the President’s nuclear defense
capabilities, which would seriously hinder America’s
ability to respond to nuclear threats.
This is the problem with loose talk about Trump being
mentally ill. In order to prevent a nuclear war in the first
place, our nuclear defense forces need both: A) the ability
to respond quickly to any existential threats to America;
and B) the moral confidence in the President to believe
that he and his advisors have made the right decision in
ordering any nuclear attack. Undermining that moral
confidence should not be done lightly, let alone to make a
partisan political point.
The following is a partial transcript of today's segment:
7:12 AM EST
MIKA BRZEZINSKI: I also think he's never -- and it’s like a lot of ROBINSON: [interjecting] Yeah.
people that we've seen in the past, that things have not ended
well. He has never seen the consequences of any of his actions. SCARBOROUGH: -because of a tweet,-
Ever.
ROBINSON: [interjecting] Yeah.
[murmurs of agreement from panel]
SCARBOROUGH: -they cannot do that.
So he may be in kind of a weird unself-aware mode where the
noose is tightening, but he also doesn’t believe -- so, I mean, I
DEUTSCH: I didn't bring them up. Right.
can't explain this crazy behavior, but I can call it crazy.
SCARBOROUGH: And I do believe history will show a lot of
DONNY DEUTSCH: I have a question for you guys, ‘cause you
these men and women that are standing shoulder to shoulder
know-
through this crisis to be people that put their country first.

BRZEZINSKI: It’s crazy.

DEUTSCH: But the domestic people are in a different position.

DEUTSCH: -the Gary Cohns of the world and all of these people
ROBINSON: Much different, yeah.
around him, a lot of very, very decent people.
[some inaudible crosstalk]
JOE SCARBOROUGH: Right.
STEVE RATTNER: But what's also a little bit scary is that John
DEUTSCH: At what point do they stop the “well, I’m -- it's better
Kelly, who I don't know, but seems to be -- have been-
me being here-
BRZEZINSKI: [interjecting] I know!
BRZEZINSKI: [interjecting] No.
RATTNER: -a distinguished career, great guy.
SCARBOROUGH: [interjecting] So-.
BRZEZINSKI: [interjecting] I agree with you.
DEUTSCH: -cause I’m protecting things” versus “I love this
country. I love my children. I love my future grandchildren.
There's a man with his hand near the nuclear button and RATTNER: He seems to become a bit of an enabler. When you
somebody’s gotta stand up.” look at what he said after that poor kid was killed in Niger and
some of the other stuff, I hope he's still willing to stand up to
Trump when the moment comes.
SCARBOROUGH: So, so here's the deal. I mean, if you're, if
you’re a domestic adviser for the President, then I do think that
you have to -- you can't stay. I don't know how Gary Cohn stays. SCARBOROUGH: Yeah.
If you are, you know, some of the generals that are around him,-
HEIDI PRZYBYLA: They're not gonna bail, but if you look at
DEUTSCH: [interjecting] Got it, got it. where some of the rumblings are coming in terms of who's going
to speak out, it is from the national security community,-
SCARBOROUGH: -we're in the middle,-
SCARBOROUGH: Right.
EUGENE ROBINSON: [interjecting] Yeah.
PRZYBYLA: -because you see Corker saying: This is the person
controlling the nuclear arsenal essentially turning this into a
SCARBOROUGH: -and we have been hearing for some time-
reality show. And then you see this poll, for example, by the
Military Times, I don't know if you saw it, out recently, where they
DEUTSCH: [interjecting] Got that, got that. say only 30% of commissioned officers think that he is fit. So I
think if there is a community that's not going to bail, but then also
SCARBOROUGH: -that they fear a land war on the Korean speak out,-
peninsula is coming. For them to abandon-
KATTY KAY: [trying to cut in] And then you have-
DEUTSCH: [interjecting] Agree.
PRZYBYLA: -it's the same thing you saw during the campaign.
SCARBOROUGH: -their post right now-
SCARBOROUGH: It’s the military.

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KAY: [continuing her point] -the head of Strategic Command.
Heeten saying, Hyten saying, that, you know, I, they --
questioning the legality of a proposed nuclear strike. And I think
those people are thinking, right, how do we put ourselves in a
position where if something were to happen that we believe is
.
catastrophic for the country, we try to make sure that we can
prevent it. And I think these rumblings about the legality of a
nuclear strike, that's what you’re preparing for.
(...)

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 MSNBC Hopes Flynn Flip Brings
GOP Agenda To ‘Screeching Halt’
By Kyle Drennen
December 1, 2017 5:11 PM EST
During MSNBC’s Velshi & Ruhle on Friday, the liberal
co-anchors were giddy at the prospect that former National
Security Advisor Michael Flynn pleading guilty to making
false statements to the FBI in the Russia investigation
would bring the entire Republican legislative agenda to a
“screeching halt.”
Talking to Meet the Press moderator Chuck Todd at the
end of the 11 a.m. ET hour, Stephanie Ruhle eagerly
asked:
“Does this news that we’re seeing out of
the White House today put everything
else to a screeching halt?”
Todd confessed that didn’t seem likely:
“Nothing seems to ever stop Washington –
you know, sort of stop everything....the
Senate Republicans....I think collectively
they’re gonna put blinders on in all this,
and their gonna, their mindset is gonna
be, ‘We’re just going to continue to do
our agenda, do the taxes’...”
An exasperated Ali Velshi responded:
“But at what point does that stop? At
what point do Republicans say the tone
has changed, the mood of the country is
changing, it is – you can’t put blinders on
about Trump v. Russia anymore?”
Todd observed:
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It’s when they hear about it from
home....Until this makes a Senate
Republican or a House Republican feel as
if, “Oh, my God, the bottom’s going to fall
out on my political career if I don’t get right
with the voters on this this regarding the
President.” Then that’s when you’ll see
that. But you know, we’re not there yet.
Ruhle was disgusted, and replied:
“Isn’t that sick?”
Just prior to their discussion with Todd, Velshi and Ruhle
conducted a softball interview with Democratic New
Mexico Senator Tom Udall, repeatedly teeing him up to
slam congressional Republicans.
“But at some point this becomes very,
very serious for your Republican
colleagues to say the evidence is
mounting that the White House did have
something to do with the Russians....This
has to become more political at some
point with the dropping of this charge
against Mike Flynn,” Velshi proclaimed.
The Democrat agreed: “Yeah, I think you’re
probably right.”
Ruhle followed up:
“You talk to your Republican counterparts
all the time....Behind closed doors, when is
it that they start to say, ‘Maybe we’ve
got to do something here’?” Udall
predicted:
Well, I think this is something they don’t want to talk
about. And at this point you have the three investigations.
They can defer over to the three investigations and
hopefully not talk about it. But as this builds up, I think
we’re going to have the special prosecutor issue his report,
we’re going to have the reports out of these three
investigations, and it’s going to be pretty devastating. At
that point they’re going to have to take some action.
Velshi implored the lawmaker to make the investigation
the number one issue in Congress:
...have you inquired as to what
Democratic senators or Democratic
members of Congress have the power
to do to now move this into the fore?
Because as you said, your Republican
colleagues tend not to like to talk about it.
When we book people on to talk about
taxes or whatever the case is, they don’t
want to talk about Donald Trump and
Russia. At some point, what can you do
to make this the main course of
conversation?
Udall assured him:
“We need to clearly push forward on the
investigations that are
ongoing....Increasingly, this is going to
build, and I think they have to face this, the
Republicans have to face it.”
Here are transcripts of the December 1 coverage:
11:52 AM ET
ALI VELSHI: Senator Tom Udall from New Mexico, he’s a
Democratic senator, he serves on the Senate Commerce and
Foreign Relations and Appropriations Committees, joins us now.
And, Senator, I think when we initially wanted to talk to you, we
wanted to talk taxes. That’s on hold for the moment because the
vote’s on hold. We do have the Dow now down 240 points.
Senator, at some point – we’ve had Liz Holtzman on with us this
morning, we’ve had Bill Kristol on – at some point this cannot
avoid the scrutiny of Congress. Now it’s not that it has, because
there are three into the Russian investigation going on in
Congress. But at some point this becomes very, very serious for
your Republican colleagues to say the evidence is mounting that
the White House did have something to do with the Russians in
their effort to get sanctions not imposed on Russia. This has to
become more political at some point with the dropping of this
charge against Mike Flynn.
SEN. TOM UDALL [D-NM]: Yeah, I think you’re probably right. I
don’t have any doubt with this disclosure today and this plea that
what we’re seeing unfold is the special prosecutor now is going
to have a very intimate view as to the President, his team, both in
the transition and in the early days of the administration, as to
how it was operating and what were the contacts with Russia and
what exactly was the back and forth. So this is a very, very
significant plea today.
STEPHANIE RUHLE: You talk to your Republican counterparts
all the time. You’ve known them a lot longer than President
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Trump has. Behind closed doors, when is it that they start to say,
“Maybe we’ve got to do something here”?
UDALL: Well, I think this is something they don’t want to talk
about. And at this point you have the three investigations. They
can defer over to the three investigations and hopefully not talk
about it. But as this builds up, I think we’re going to have the
special prosecutor issue his report, we’re going to have the
reports out of these three investigations, and it’s going to be
pretty devastating. At that point they’re going to have to take
some action.
VELSHI: At some point, Senator, this crosses from – it is – for
some Americans, this has been background noise. For some
people, the Russia investigation has been in the foreground. But
at some point, what – have you inquired as to what Democratic
senators or Democratic members of Congress have the power to
do to now move this into the fore? Because as you said, your
Republican colleagues tend not to like to talk about it. When we
book people on to talk about taxes or whatever the case is, they
don’t want to talk about Donald Trump and Russia. At some
point, what can you do to make this the main course of
conversation? Because I think a lot of Americans today are
saying, “Alright, I held out not knowing what this was all about,
it’s now becoming a lot clearer what this was all about.”
UDALL: Well, I think the important thing is that in all the
committees that have jurisdiction, we can ask questions. We can
inquire with officials that have some knowledge about this. We
need to clearly push forward on the investigations that are
ongoing and the special prosecutor needs to move in a thorough
and timely way and get that information out there. Increasingly,
this is going to build, and I think they have to face this, the
Republicans have to face it.
VELSHI: Senator, good to talk to you. Thank you very much for
joining us.
UDALL: Thank you.
VELSHI: We’ll call you back on when we have an opportunity to
talk about taxes. At some point this vote will be rescheduled. It
might be later today. Thank you, Senator. Senator Tom Udall.
UDALL: That’s great. Thank you. Thank you very much.
(...)
11:55 AM ET
(...)
STEPHANIE RUHLE: Does this news that we’re seeing out of the
White House today put everything else to a screeching halt?
CHUCK TODD: You know, in – if you had asked me that
question 10 years ago and the way Washington worked even just
a decade ago, I would have said yes, screeching halt. Nothing
seems to ever stop Washington – you know, sort of stop
everything. There’s still business that has to be done. I don’t think
the tax bill starts.
(...)
TODD: But look, the Senate Republicans, there’s a handful of
them that say that they want to hold things up at some points in
time on this stuff, but I think collectively they’re gonna put
blinders on in all this, and their gonna, their mindset is gonna be,
“We’re just going to continue to do our agenda, do the taxes,”
and then sort of try to distance themselves a little bit.
VELSHI: So you heard we talked – we just asked Tom Udall
about that. Obviously he’s not on the right side of aisle to give us
an answer that would be satisfactory. But at what point does that
stop? At what point do Republicans say the tone has changed,
the mood of the country is changing, it is – you can’t put blinders
on about Trump v. Russia anymore?
TODD: It’s when they hear about it from home. You know, right
now, I think, Ali, I heard you say this, it’s been background noise,
right? And it has been. It’s sort of been like the background music
you’ve stopped listening – paying attention to in the elevator.
RUHLE: It doesn’t affect people day-in and day-out in their lives.
.
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TODD: Right. Until this makes a Senate Republican or a House
Republican feel as if, “Oh, my God, the bottom’s going to fall out
on my political career if I don’t get right with the voters on this this
regarding the President.” Then that’s when you’ll see that. But
you know, we’re not there yet.
RUHLE: Charles, isn’t that sick?
TODD: There aren’t enough – there are not enough in the
Republican base yet that is ready to – I mean, thanks to the
gerrymandered district, thanks to our polarization. Remember, 35
to 45% of the country is going to accept more of the Ty Cobb
explanation here and the President Trump explanation here, at
least for a while. I think it’s gonna take more shoes to drop. I
think if you – you know, if it’s the President, his son-in-law, if it
really does creep into the family – and perhaps Donald Trump Jr.
here, we shouldn’t leave him out, since he also seemed to be
dabbling in Russian diplomacy every now and then during that
campaign year. Until it actually touches the family in public, and
the public sees that, if it does, if indeed the investigation gets all
the way there, then perhaps it becomes that political problem that
your generic Republican senator or Republicans congressman
has to say, “I’m out.”
RUHLE: Alright, Chuck, we have to interrupt you.
VELSHI: Just to underscore, actually, a point that Chuck just
made, Mitch McConnell has just walked on to the Senate floor
and said to reporters, “We have the votes.” This is for the tax bill
that should have been voted on an hour ago. So, again, to your
point, it would be much better for Mitch McConnell if he were to
be able to hold this vote today and pass tax and let the media
and the rest of the world focus on Mike Flynn.
TODD: Hey, guys, in an odd way, this may be a gift to Mitch
McConnell in trying to get his 50 votes, right? The intense public
scrutiny that was coming the last 12 hours on this tax bill may
have had an impact on a handful of senators. Well, now, no one’s
watching, right? Make your deal-cutting a little bit easier.
(...)
 FBI Has Flynn On Lying About Ties To Israel, Not Russia
Several Major US Media Outlets Were Initially Silent About The Israeli
Connection Making It Seem As If Flynn's Guilty Plea Was
Vindication Of Russiagate Instead
So Then After Several Months Of Investigation Into Trump Team's
Alleged "Russia Ties" Mueller Has Manafort On Ties To Kiev, And Flynn
On Ties To Tel Aviv? Where Is Russia In All Of This?
Ali Abunimah
Sat, Dec 1, 2017

Former US National Security Adviser Michael Flynn
entered a guilty plea Friday to lying about efforts by the
incoming Trump administration to help Israel avoid
censure at the UN Security Council over its illegal
settlements on occupied Palestinian land.
Flynn’s plea is widely taken as an indication that he is
cooperating with Mueller, and that he may provide
evidence against other targets of the investigation.
Collusion with Israel

Yet several major US media outlets were initially silent
about the Israeli connection.
Flynn appeared in federal court in Washington to admit
that he lied about conversations he had with the Russian
ambassador last December, in the weeks before Donald
Trump took the oath of office.
The single count charges that Flynn lied to federal
investigators about two conversations; in the first, on 22
December, Flynn asked the Russian envoy to delay or
defeat the UN Security Council vote condemning Israel’s
settlements.
The Trump transition team’s effort to halt the UN
resolution was unsuccessful. It passed with no opposition
on 23 December, after the Obama administration declined
to cast a veto.
Flynn’s plea adds to the mounting evidence of Trump’s
collusion with Israel to shield it from accountability for its
violations of international law.
Last month, The Wall Street Journal reported that Trump’s
son-in-law and Middle East peace envoy Jared
Kushner was being probed by Mueller over contacts with
Israeli officials aimed at thwarting the UN vote.

advertisement In October, Trump campaign foreign policy adviser

In the second conversation, a week later, Flynn had asked
the Russian government to refrain from retaliating harshly
to sanctions imposed by the Obama administration – an act
that, ironically, would benefit the United States.
According to the charge sheet, Flynn made false
statements to the FBI about these conversations during
questioning on 24 January 2017, days after Trump took
office and Flynn was already National Security Adviser.
George Papadopoulos also pleaded guilty to lying to the
FBI in the course of the Mueller investigation.
While Papadopoulos is a far more junior figure than Flynn,
he had championed Israeli settlers during an April 2016
visit to Israel. Papadopoulos’ remarks impressed one
Israeli right-wing observer that “Trump has somewhat of a
prism on world affairs, and that there are some reasonably
informed people trying to advise him.”

Flynn’s guilty plea is a result of the ongoing investigation Media silence

by special counsel Robert Mueller, the former FBI director
appointed by the Department of Justice in May to lead a
Yet despite the clear signs that Trump’s consistent concern
broad investigation sparked by allegations of ties between
seemed to be advancing Israeli, rather than Russian,
the Trump campaign and Russia.
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paid attention to the collusion with Benjamin Netanyahu’s
government.
Reports on the websites of NPR, CNN and CBS about
Flynn’s plea seen by The Electronic Intifada on Friday
morning initially made no mention of Israel at all. CBS
and CNN later added information about Flynn’s role in
trying to thwart the UN resolution vote.
NBC and The New York Times mentioned Israel in their
reports, respectively in the tenth and eighth paragraphs.
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To its credit, NBC noted that “Flynn, while not yet in
office, was trying to get the Russians to do what Israel
wanted, and thus undercut US policy.”
Citing sources briefed on the inquiry, The New York
Times reported that Mueller’s investigators “have learned
through witnesses and documents that Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel asked the Trump transition
team to lobby other countries to help Israel.”
“Investigators have learned that Mr. Flynn and Mr.
Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser, Jared Kushner,
took the lead in those efforts,” the newspaper states,
adding that “Mueller’s team has emails that show Mr.
Flynn saying he would work to kill the vote.”
Other contacts?
On Twitter, CNN’s Jim Sciutto, citing an FBI statement,
pointed out that Flynn contacted the Russians “after being
asked by a senior Trump transition official to find out how
foreign governments stood on the coming UN Security
Council resolution about Israel.”
That indicates that Flynn might well have been in touch
with other Security Council members, not just Russia.
Yet despite this, the overwhelming focus remains on
alleged collusion with Russia. The obvious Israeli
connection has not garnered the same obsessive attention
from liberal politicians and pundits who have jumped on
every “Russiagate” allegation of “collusion” no matter
how dubious or fictional.
Long-time media observer Sam Husseini of the Institute
for Public Accuracy noted the discrepancy, observing in a
tweet that it is “Funny how [the] Israeli press is
highlighting Flynn apparently lying to help Israel more
than [the] US press.”
 Flynn Guilty Plea Brings Mueller
Investigation Directly Into The White House
By Chris Megerian And David S. Cloud
Dec 01, 2017
President Trump’s former national security advisor,
Michael T. Flynn, pleaded guilty Friday to lying to the FBI
about his contacts with Russia’s ambassador to the U.S.,
communications that court documents said Flynn had
discussed with “a very senior member” of Trump’s
transition team.
U.S. District Judge Rudolph Contreras said at Flynn’s plea
hearing that the retired three-star Army general had agreed
to provide "substantial assistance for prosecution of
another person," suggesting that Flynn is helping the FBI
target a higher-up in the White House.
According to court papers, Flynn repeatedly lied to FBI
agents when they interviewed him at the White House on
Jan. 24, four days after Trump was inaugurated, as part of
the investigation into whether any of the president's aides
had assisted Russian efforts to interfere in the 2016
presidential election.
Flynn’s cooperation means special counsel Robert S.
Mueller III can focus on members of Trump’s inner circle,
including the president’s son-in-law and senior advisor,
Jared Kushner, who took part in meetings with or
concerning Russian officials or intermediaries last year or
during the transition.
Mueller has not charged anyone with helping Russian
hacking or other election-related misdeeds. But his probe
has produced felony charges against some of Trump's
former top aides, casting an ever darker shadow over the
White House and sending a clear warning to those still in
the cross-hairs.
The single charge against Flynn, who agreed to cooperate
with Mueller’s team, stands in sharp contrast to the harsh
case filed against Trump’s former campaign manager, Paul
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Manafort, and his deputy, who refused to cooperate. They
were charged with a dozen counts of fraud, conspiracy and
money laundering on Oct. 30.
Flynn was released Friday on his own recognizance.
Manafort's lawyers this week asked a judge to approve a
bail package that would allow him limited travel in
exchange for pledging properties worth $11.6 million.
In a statement, Flynn cited his 33 years of service in the
Army, including five years in combat in Iraq and
Afghanistan.
"It has been extraordinarily painful" to
endure "false accusations of 'treason' and
other outrageous acts," he said. "Such
false accusations are contrary to everything
I have ever done and stood for."
"But I recognize that the actions I
acknowledged in court today were wrong,
and through my faith in God, I am working
to set things right," he added. "My guilty
plea and agreement to cooperate with the
special counsel's office reflect a decision I
made in the best interests of my family and
of our country. I accept full responsibility for
my actions."
Trump's lawyer, Ty Cobb, downplayed the significance of
Flynn's promise of cooperation. Despite the judge's
statement and prosecutor's filing, Cobb said,
"Nothing about the guilty plea or the charge
implicates anyone other than Mr. Flynn."
"The conclusion of this phase of the special
counsel's work demonstrates again that the
special counsel is moving with all
deliberate speed and clears the way for a
prompt and reasonable conclusion," he
said in a statement released by the White
House.
Cobb also downplayed Flynn’s importance, saying that he
was
“at the White House for 25 days during the
Trump Administration and a former Obama
administration official.”
Flynn was fired as head of the Defense Intelligence
Agency in 2014 for what the Obama administration said
was mismanagement. He became one of Trump's closest
aides during the campaign and the transition, both as a
surrogate and as a policy advisor.
After the election, Trump named him national security
advisor, one of the most senior positions in the White
House. But Flynn was forced to resign weeks later when
the media disclosed he had misled Vice President Mike
Pence and other officials about his contacts with the
Russian ambassador, Sergey Kislyak.
The charge filed Friday focused chiefly on those contacts.
According to court papers, Kislyak contacted Flynn on
Dec. 28 after President Obama had announced he was
imposing sanctions on Russia in response to its meddling
in the U.S. election.
The next day, the filing says, Flynn "called a senior
official" on Trump's transition team, who was with other
aides at Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida, to seek
guidance. They discussed the potential impact of the
sanctions on Trump's foreign policy goals.
After the call, Flynn called Kislyak and
"requested that Russia not escalate the
situation."
Flynn then spoke again with the senior official in the
transition team
"to report on the substance of his call…
including their discussion of the U.S.
sanctions."
Russian President Vladimir Putin indicated the next day
that Russia would not retaliate for the U.S. sanctions, and
Kislyak called Flynn to share the news, and he informed
the transition team.
But in his Jan. 24 interview with the FBI, Flynn "falsely
stated" that he did not ask Kislyak about the sanctions, and
did not remember the follow-up conversations, the
charging document states.
.
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Flynn also pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI about his
conversations with Kislyak about a United Nations
resolution passed last December criticizing Israeli
settlements on the West Bank.
The Obama administration was planning to abstain from
the vote on the resolution, a relatively rare move by the
U.S., which normally vetoes U.N. resolutions critical of
Israel.
Court documents indicate Flynn was the point man for an
effort by the Trump transition team to block the resolution,
apparently at the urging of Israel.
On Dec. 22 , Flynn was directed by a "very senior member
of the Presidential Transition Team" to contact officials
from Russia and other foreign governments "to influence
those governments to delay the vote or defeat the
resolution," according to a prosecution document.
The very senior transition official is not identified in the
document. But Trump issued a statement Dec. 22 that
called for the resolution to be vetoed.
"This puts Israel in a very poor negotiating
position and is extremely unfair to all
Israelis," he said.
Flynn called Kislyak the same day and asked Russia,
which holds a veto in the U.N. Security Council, to oppose
the settlement resolution. Kislyak called back the next day
and said Russia would not vote no, the prosecution
document says.
A version of the resolution passed later that day after the
U.S. abstained.
Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) said that Flynn's contacts
with the Russians before Trump took office could be a
violation of the Logan Act, a 1799 law prohibiting private
citizens from negotiating with foreign governments.
Flynn's guilty plea is "a stunning revelation
and could be a violation of the Logan Act,"
Feinstein said in a statement. "This is just
one more proof point that these
investigations must be allowed to continue
without interference."
 Why Flynn’s Plea Is A
Dead End For ‘Russiagate’ Conspiracy
Nebojsa Malic For RT
Published Time: 1 Dec, 2017 23:33 Edited Time: 1 Dec, 2017

Former US National Security Adviser Michael Flynn in Washington,

US, December 1, 2017 © Jonathan Ernst / Reuters

President Donald Trump’s short-lived national security

adviser, Michael Flynn, pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI.
Most US media jumped on the plea as proof of Trump’s
collusion with Russia. Actual documents, however, tell a
different story.
A court document signed by special counsel Robert
Mueller, dated Thursday, specifies two instances of Flynn
telling FBI investigators things that were not true. They
relate to two conversations he had with Russian
Ambassador Sergey Kislyak, in December 2016.
In the Statement of Offense signed by Flynn at his court
appearance on Friday, he admitted to acting on instructions
from a senior “Presidential Transition Team” (PTT)
official, prompting breathless speculation if that was
Trump himself, his son-in-law Jared Kushner, or someone
else altogether. The one question nobody seems to be
asking is, “So what?”
“There was nothing wrong with the incoming
national security adviser’s having meetings with
foreign counterparts or discussing such matters
as the sanctions in those meetings,” Andrew
McCarthy of National Review wrote on Friday.
Because Flynn was “generally despised by
Obama administration officials,” McCarthy
added, “there has always been cynical
suspicion that the decision to interview him was
driven by the expectation that he would provide
the FBI with an account inconsistent with the
recorded conversation - i.e., that Flynn was
being set up for prosecution on a process
crime.”

It is intuitively obvious to even the most casual observer
that Flynn’s “crime” is a procedural one: he told FBI
investigators he hadn’t done a thing that he actually did.
But was the thing he did - namely, speak with the Russian
ambassador to the US - against the law? Not really.
Back in May, former deputy Attorney General Sally Yates
testified before the Senate Judiciary subcommittee that she
came to the White House on January 26 - two days after
Flynn’s FBI interview - to say that he had lied about his
conversations with Kislyak. How did she know?

Under the 1799 Logan Act, it is technically against the law That, she said, was “based on classified
for a private US citizen to engage in diplomacy. However, information.”
only two people have ever been indicted under that law,
and no one has ever been prosecuted. Flynn was a member
Clearly, Yates knew Flynn was lying about the
of the presidential transition team whose duties involved
conversations because US intelligence had been listening
contacts with foreign diplomats. So why would the FBI
in on them. An Obama administration official leaked that
even ask him about his contacts with Ambassador
information to the Washington Post’s David Ignatius, who
Kislyak?
reported on the Flynn-Kislyak conversation on January 12,
eight days before Trump’s inauguration.
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Responding to that report, Vice President Pence said that
Flynn’s conversation with Kislyak “had nothing
whatsoever to do” with the Obama administration’s
expulsion of Russian diplomats and closure of two
diplomatic properties, enacted on December 29, 2016.
permitted to plead guilty to a mere process
crime,” he wrote, referring to a volunteer Trump
campaign adviser who likewise pleaded guilty to
lying to the FBI about seeking contacts with (a
nonexistent) “Putin’s niece.”

After the Post reported that the two did in fact discuss
Obama’s sanctions, citing anonymous sources again, Flynn
submitted his resignation.

The dark undertone of the Post’s reporting was that Flynn

was somehow “subverting” Obama’s sanctions, intended
as punishment for - alleged, and to this day unproven -
Russian “meddling” in US elections. What Flynn actually
did, as documented by the special counsel, was to ask
Russia not to escalate in response to Obama’s actions.

It worked, too: Russian President Vladimir Putin

announced that Moscow would not expel any US
diplomats, but rather invite them to the Kremlin for
holiday celebrations. It wasn’t until July, after the passage
of an anti-Russian bill in Congress, that Putin ordered the
US to downsize its diplomatic staff in Russia by 755.

So what about the frantic insistence of “Russiagate”

partisans that Flynn’s plea practically portends the
downfall of the president they refuse to accept as
legitimate? Their elation is unwarranted and premature,
warns McCarthy. If a prosecutor has a cooperating witness
who is an accomplice in a criminal scheme, the plea is
structured so it proves the existence of the scheme.

“That is not happening in Flynn’s situation. Flynn’s plea did include an admission he failed to report
Instead, like Papadopoulos, he is being activities undertaken on behalf of a foreign government:
Turkey, a key NATO ally of the US.
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 Jared Kushner Directed Michael Flynn
To Contact Russian Government In Dec. 2016: Report
By Melissa Quinn | Dec 1, 2017, 2:06 PM
Updated Dec 1, 2017, 6:43 PM
White House senior adviser Jared Kushner
speaks to reporters outside the White House in
Washington, Monday, July 24, 2017, after
meeting on Capitol Hill behind closed doors with
the Senate Intelligence Committee on the
investigation into possible collusion between
Russian officials and the Trump campaign. (AP
Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
Jared Kushner, President Trump’s son-in-law and a senior
adviser at the White House, reportedly directed former
national security adviser Michael Flynn to contact the
Russian government, and others, about a United Nations
resolution on Israeli settlements in Dec. 2016, according to
a report.
Two former members of Trump’s transition team told
Bloomberg that Kushner instructed Flynn to reach out to
foreign governments, including Russia, about the
resolution before the United Nations Security Council and
try to convince Russia to either oppose or delay the vote.
Court documents filed Friday said a “very senior member”
of the Trump transition team directed Flynn to make
contacts with Russian government officials, but the
member was not identified.
Documents state Flynn also discussed with senior
transition team officials his contacts with then-Russian
ambassador Sergey Kislyak about U.S. sanctions on
Russia.
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Sources told NBC News that K.T. McFarland, a member
of the transition team who later served as deputy national
security adviser, spoke with Flynn to advise him on what
to say on the call. McFarland is now Trump's nominee to
be U.S. ambassador to Singapore.
Flynn pleaded guilty to one count of lying to the FBI about
his contacts with the Russian ambassador Friday. The
former national security adviser made the misleading
statements during an interview with the FBI that occurred
while he was working in the White House, and those
statements also led to his termination as national security
adviser.
The documents from federal prosecutors lay out the
timeline for when Flynn communicated with high-ranking
members of the Trump transition team about his contacts
with the Russian ambassador, as well as the directions he
was given by those officials on the issue of U.S. sanctions
against Russia and the United Nations resolution about
Israeli settlements.
The government’s case against Flynn does not mention
President Trump, though ABC News reported Friday that
Flynn planned to tell investigators Trump, as a presidential
candidate, directed his contacts with Russian officials.
Flynn is planning to testify against Trump, members of the
Trump family and other White House officials, and said he
is cooperating with special counsel Robert Mueller and his
investigators, who are investigating Russian meddling in
the 2016 election.
According to court documents, Flynn told FBI agents in a
Jan. 24 interview he did not
“ask Russia’s ambassador to the United States
… to refrain from escalating the situation in
response to sanctions that the United States
had imposed against Russia.”
Flynn also told the FBI he didn’t recall another
conversation with Kislyak, during which the Russian
ambassador said Russia “had chosen not to moderate its
response to those sanctions” because of Flynn’s request.
Neither statement Flynn made to the FBI was true, the
government said.
The federal government said Kislyak contacted Flynn on
Dec. 28, 2016, the day then-President Barack Obama
signed an executive order announcing sanctions against
Russia as punishment for Russia’s interference in the 2016
election.
The next day, Flynn called a senior member of the Trump
transition team, who at the time was with other senior
transition team officials at Trump’s property in Palm
Beach, Fla., Mar-a-Lago. During Flynn’s phone call to the
senior transition team member, the two discussed what to
tell the Russian ambassador about the sanctions, including
how the sanctions could impact the incoming Trump
administration’s foreign policy goals, according to court
documents.
The transition team official and Flynn, a top Trump
campaign surrogate, also talked about how members of the
transition team who were at Mar-a-Lago didn’t “want
Russia to escalate the situation.”
After the Dec. 29 call with the senior transition team
official ended, Flynn then called Kislyak and asked that
Russia “not escalate the situation and only respond to the
U.S. sanctions in a reciprocal manner,” court documents
state.
Flynn then called the Trump transition team official to
discuss his call with Kislyak.
The following day, Dec. 30, 2016, Russian President
Vladimir Putin said in a statement Russia wouldn’t
retaliate against the U.S. in response to the sanctions.
Kislyak called Flynn on or around Dec. 31, 2016, to tell
him that Moscow decided not to retaliate “in response to
Flynn’s request.”
Flynn placed a call to senior transition team officials to
discuss his call with Kislyak regarding the sanctions and
Russia’s decision “not to escalate the situation,” according
to court documents.
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In addition to lying to the FBI about his contacts with the
Russian ambassador, Flynn also made false statements
during his Jan. 24 interview about contacts with Russia
and other countries regarding a resolution before the
United Nations Security Council introduced Dec. 21, 2016.
Flynn lied to the FBI about asking countries their positions
on the resolution, and falsely said he didn’t ask the
countries to vote a certain way.
According to court documents, a “very senior member” of
the Trump transition team told Flynn on or around Dec.
22, 2016, to contact officials from foreign governments,
including Russia, to determine their positions on the
resolution, which was on the issue of Israeli settlements.
The “very senior member” of the transition team also
directed Flynn to “influence those governments to delay
the vote or defeat the resolution.”
Flynn contacted Kislyak on Dec. 22, 2016, and told him
about the incoming Trump administration’s opposition to
the UN resolution. He also asked for Russia to oppose or
delay the resolution, according to the federal government.
Flynn spoke with Kislyak again Dec. 23, 2016, and the
Russian ambassador said Russia wouldn’t oppose the
resolution.
Trump’s former national security adviser is the first
member of the administration to be charged as part of
Mueller’s Russia probe.
The White House attempted to distance itself from Flynn
on Friday and said the false statements he gave to the FBI
are the same that ultimately led to his firing.
“Nothing about the guilty plea or the charge
implicates anyone other than Mr. Flynn,”
President Trump’s lawyer, Ty Cobb, said in a
statement. “The conclusion of this phase of the
special counsel’s work demonstrates again that
the special counsel is moving with all deliberate
speed and clears the way for a prompt and
reasonable conclusion.”
 Jared Kushner Can’t Pass
His Security Clearance Investigation, Officials Say
By Chris Riotta
12/1/17 at 6:00 AM

Updated | Jared Kushner is a security risk embedded in the
West Wing since he still hasn't passed a comprehensive
background investigation required of anyone seeking a
permanent security clearance—and no one will question
the president's decision to put his son-in-law in a
crucial government role, experts and officials told
Newsweek.
President Donald Trump's senior adviser has been working
under an interim security clearance nearly a year into the
administration, as investigators continue to assess his
trustworthiness and analyze his web of active foreign
investments, according to two sources with knowledge of
the status on Kushner's clearance.
Kushner's permanent security clearance was stalled
because he initially omitted 100 foreign contacts before
revising his forms three times. Kushner's
complicated business interests are also being
considered after he repeatedly revised financial disclosure
forms. But experts said the sheer volume of his ongoing
ties to foreign investors is enough to deny anyone access to
classified information.
campaign, following a pattern of not properly
disclosing information on government records.
Experts say Kushner's original SF-86 questionnaire may
have violated the personal conduct code in federal
directives for security clearance applicants, since his
failure to disclose any foreign contacts on his original
forms could be considered the equivalent of making false
statements.
Newsweek spoke with seven of the nation's leading law
firms specializing in security clearance law, with clients
throughout the Trump administration and federal
government. All seven said Kushner's security clearance
should be suspended until investigators can determine
whether his failures to disclose information
were intentional. Meanwhile, the White House has
claimed the delay in Kushner's clearance is normal due to a
backlog in applications.

"The real question is, Why hasn't his clearance

been denied?" said Alan Edmunds, a senior
attorney specializing in security clearance law
at the Edmunds Law Firm. "Of course, the real
reason it hasn’t been denied yet is because
nobody has the moxie to tell the president his
son-in-law can't be working in the White House,
even though he shouldn't be."

The process for getting a government security clearance is
well established: Adjudicators from the FBI comb through
a form called an SF-86 while making an official
assessment as to whether someone can be trusted with the
nation's secrets. Those analysts take into account personal
history, such as employment, relationships, foreign
entanglements and business deals—and review revisions
and mistakes that would-be officials have made on their
disclosure forms.
Kushner has updated his forms to add a slew of Russian
contacts he had throughout the 2016 presidential
For months, Democrats have called for Jared Kushner’s security
clearance to be revoked. Nicholas Kamm, Getty
"People occasionally treat this like it’s a minor
deviation from the truth, the way a person may
deviate from the truth on income tax filings, but
it’s not just a deviation," Mary Kuntz, a
Washington, D.C., attorney at Kalijarvi, Chuzi,
Newman & Fitch, P.C., told Newsweek. "It's
serious.... It’s evidence you can't be trusted and
makes the likeliness of you getting a security
clearance even less."

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Kushner's attorneys have maintained their client's
innocence from the very beginning, claiming the senior
adviser has always tried to be honest and transparent
despite his records routinely featuring extensive mistakes.
Ethics watchdogs have previously lambasted the former
tech entrepreneur and budding real estate magnate for not
including one of his companies on a government financial
disclosure form, in a move that allowed him to maintain a
stake in the young startup while profiting from its
explosive success during his transition to public service.
"It's one thing if you call in and admit to
forgetting one or two contacts.… Let’s face it,
some people in government have multiple
foreign connections," Greg Rinckey, a founding
partner at Tully Rinckey, told Newsweek. "But
when you forget a hundred, that’s concerning.
The whole point of security clearances are to
minimize threats. All this shows a lack of candor
on Kushner’s part, a major issue with receiving
a clearance."
Even if his forms were completely accurate from the start,
however, Kushner's foreign business dealings would
immediately raise investigators' eyebrows.
Kushner maintains a stake in several businesses and
properties with international ties, including a 41-story
office building at 666 Fifth Avenue in New York City,
on which his family business, Kushner Cos., reportedly
owes hundreds of millions. To raise funds, the company
has sought foreign investment from China, Saudi Arabia,
France, Israel and Qatar.
Experts say his stake in the Fifth Avenue building alone is
more than enough to cause a suspension of an interim
security clearance, as some believe he could use his
position in the White House to bail out his family's
investment.
"If Jared Kushner was working for any other
department in the U.S. government and these
issues arose…about falsifying a clearance or
omitting information…his access would be first
suspended. And then if there’s no other position
he could hold, he’d be out of work without pay.
He’d be off the job," Joseph Kaplan, founding
principal attorney at Passman & Kaplan, P.C.,
told Newsweek. "If he was anybody else, his
security clearance would have already been
denied."
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Democrats have been sounding the alarms on Kushner’s
security clearance ever since Trump took office,
questioning how he and his wife, White House senior
adviser Ivanka Trump, managed to obtain access to
classified information, and what qualifications permitted
them to work in the West Wing.
"I find it demoralizing. I'm a member of
Congress, and I've had a security clearance
when I was in the Air Force. I know if I
submitted two false clearances, they would
have me under
investigation," Representative Ted Lieu (D-
Calif.), who has long advocated for Kushner’s
security clearance to be revoked, told
Newsweek.
"If I also was responsible for a $1.2 billion debt
on a building in which half is attributable to me
and my family, they would simply not give me a
security clearance," Lieu added. "We also need
to ask: When Jared Kushner takes trips to
foreign countries, is he asking foreign officials to
help him finance the 666 building?"
Several requests for comment from Kushner’s legal team
and the White House communications office went
unanswered. Representatives from federal agencies
involved in the security clearance application process
declined to comment on the record, citing a practice of not
commenting on specific applications.
Regardless of whether Kushner is actually qualified to get
a security clearance, little is likely to change in the West
Wing, as the president has the ultimate authority in
determining whether his son-in-law and Middle East peace
envoy eventually receives a permanent clearance.
"The entire security clearance process comes
down to the president," said Sean Bigley, an
attorney who did background checks for
security clearances and worked in the
Department of Homeland Security under
President George W. Bush. "It would be
extremely rare—almost unheard of—though
[Trump] could order a clearance to be granted,
or reverse an adverse decision made by
adjudicators if he wanted to. But most of the
 time we see these cases are left to nonpolitical
career personnel."
As investigators pore through Kushner's documents, he
still has access to America’s secrets under his temporary
security clearance. And that rankles the nation's security
experts.
"None of this is normal, including the president
requesting security clearances for his children,"
Edmunds said. "I’ve never known a president to
do that."
Correction: This article was updated to correct the
spelling of Alan Edmunds's first name, as well as the law
firm Kalijarvi, Chuzi, Newman & Fitch.

Kushner remains in the White House despite multiple failures to

disclose his foreign contacts and business assets. Drew Angerer, Getty
.

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 Mueller Grasps At Straws As
Flynn Deal Disproves Election Collusion
by ZeroPointNow
Dec 1, 2017 4:12 PM

This whole charade with former National Security Advisor the Trump campaign and Russia – at least through
Mike Flynn reeks of desperation and makes clear that Flynn, as it pertains to pre-election collusion.
Mueller's team has an empty hand...
 It’s perfectly reasonable to expect an incoming
To summarize the plea agreement from the FBI Special President to instruct his incoming National Security
Counsel’s “Statement of the Offense” Advisor to establish a dialogue with a country like
Russia over recent and contentious sanctions, as well
as fighting ISIS in Syria.
 On December 29, 2016, Flynn called a senior official of
the Presidential Transition Team to discuss whether or
 If Flynn’s contact with Russia was related to “collusion”
not to talk to the Russians about recent U.S. sanctions
in regards to election meddling, he would be pleading
imposed by Obama.
guilty to an espionage conspiracy, not the “process
 Flynn got the go-ahead from someone (does not name
crime” of lying to the FBI..
Trump) and called the Russian Ambassador,
requesting that Russia not escalate the situation –
 If Flynn were to now drop some new bombshell about
asking that they only respond to the U.S. sanctions in a
greater Russian collusion, he would have lied to the
reciprocal manner.
FBI twice.
 On or about December 30 – the next day, Russian
President Vladimir Putin released a statement
indicating that Russia would not take retaliatory
measures in response to U.S. sanctions.
 Flynn lied about this on January 24 in a voluntary
interview with the FBI
 Flynn also lied to the FBI about calls he made to the
Russian Ambassador and other countries to try and
influence a UN resolution submitted by Egypt regarding
Israeli settlements, stating he only asked the countries’
positions on the vote

ABC news takes it a step further, reporting from an

anonymous source that

“Donald Trump directed him to make

contact with the Russians, initially as a
way to work together to fight ISIS in
Syria.” – As Andrew McCarthy of the National Review points out;

though NBC News reports it was Trump's son-in-law and “when a prosecutor has a cooperator
advisor Jared Kushner. who was an accomplice in a major
criminal scheme, the cooperator is
Observation and takeaways made to plead guilty to the scheme.

 The fact that Flynn spoke with the Russians in
December, well after the election, has been known
since February.
 Mueller’s “Statement of Offense” establishes is
that there wasn’t an existing backchannel between
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This is critical because it proves the existence of the
scheme. In his guilty-plea allocution (the part of a plea
proceeding in which the defendant admits what he did that
makes him guilty), the accomplice explains the scheme
and the actions taken by himself and his co-conspirators to
carry it out. This goes a long way toward proving the case the transition office to conduct a conversation” about the
against all of the subjects of the investigation. US’s Syria policy.

That is not happening in Flynn’s “General Flynn or I explained that there

situation. Instead, like Papadopoulos, were no such lines,” Kushner wrote. But he
he is being permitted to plead guilty to a said he went on to ask whether the
mere process crime. Russian Embassy “had an existing
communications channel … we could use
So why lie? where they would be comfortable
transmitting the information they wanted to
Why would Flynn lie about his contact with the Russians relay to General Flynn.” –Business Insider
in late January, five days after the Inauguration? Was it
because the nation had been whipped into an anti-Russia And now it emerges that Kushner
frenzy? Or, as some have suggested, does the rabbit hole allegedly asked Flynn to contact the
go much deeper and there are aspects of the Trump-Russia Russian Ambassador…
story that haven’t been made public yet? Again, if that
were known, Flynn would be pleading guilty to a much
more serious crime.

That said, Flynn is facing a whopping six months in prison

and a fine of up to $9,500 for lying to the Special Counsel.

So – unless there’s more than meets the eye, it appears that

the coverup is far greater than the crime in regards to
Flynn’s decision to lie to the FBI. And whatever the
Who’s next? outcome, the hard bounce in the S&P 500 would seem to
suggest this is perhaps another nothingburger and not quite
President Trump’s son-in-law and senior advisor, Jared the end of Drumpf.
Kushner, told the Senate Intelligence Committee that he
asked Russia’s Ambassador whether the Trump transition
team could use Russia’s embassy to communicate with
Moscow about Syria.

The meeting with the ambassador, Sergey Kislyak,

“occurred in Trump Tower, where we had our transition
office, and lasted twenty [to] thirty minutes,” Kushner
wrote in an 11-page statement detailing his contacts with
Russian nationals during the election and transition period.

“Lt. General Michael Flynn (Ret.), who

became the President’s National Security
Advisor, also attended … I stated our
desire for a fresh start in relations.”

Kushner said Kislyak, whose tenure in the US ended this

past weekend, asked whether there was “a secure line in
.

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 New Details From Mueller About Michael Flynn Is 'Big
Trouble' For Top Trump Officials — Including
Kushner, Conway, And Miller
Natasha Bertrand
December 1, 2017
 The special counsel Robert Mueller has disclosed
new details about Michael Flynn's contacts with
Sergey Kislyak, the former Russian ambassador.
 Flynn, the former national security adviser, pleaded
guilty to one count of making false statements to
the FBI about those conversations.
 There could be ramifications for other senior
Trump campaign and transition team officials,
including Jared Kushner.
The office of the special counsel Robert Mueller on Friday
disclosed new details about the former national security
adviser Michael Flynn's calls last December with the
Russian ambassador at the time, Sergey Kislyak.
Earlier on Friday, Flynn had pleaded guilty to making false
statements about those calls in an interview with the FBI
earlier this year.
The statement of offense lays out the most precise timeline
yet of Flynn's conversations with Kislyak, which federal
prosecutors say were encouraged by top members of
Trump's transition team.
Some reports have already pointed to Jared Kushner,
President Donald Trump's son-in-law and senior adviser,
as the person who directed Flynn to contact the Russians
about a UN Security Council vote.
"Obviously, this is likely big trouble for several
members of the Trump administration," said
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William Yeomans, a former deputy assistant
attorney general who spent 26 years at the
Justice Department.
"Clearly, others knew about — and may have
helped coordinate — the communication with
the Russian ambassador, but Trump officials
have uniformly denied such contacts and
knowledge of them," Yeomans said in an email.
He continued:
"This development thoroughly undermines
Trump's unrealistic predictions that the
investigation will end soon ... It appears likely
that many more shoes will drop before Mueller
is done. And it is particularly ominous for others
that Flynn appears to have gotten a generous
deal and appears still to be cooperating."
On January 24, the FBI interviewed Flynn about his
conversations with Kislyak. In that interview, prosecutors
say, Flynn "falsely stated" that he did not discuss the issue
of US sanctions with Kislyak and that he did not recall
Kislyak following up to tell him that Russia would
moderate its response as a result of Flynn's request.
On December 28, President Barack Obama signed an
executive order that imposed new sanctions on Russia and
expelled 35 Russian diplomats from the US in response to
Moscow's interference in the 2016 election. That day,
Kislyak contacted Flynn, the statement of offense says.
December 29
President Donald Trump with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak.
Russian Embassy
The next day, Flynn called a senior member of Trump's
transition team "who was with other senior members of the
Presidential Transition Team at the Mar-a-Lago resort in
Palm Beach, Florida, to discuss what, if anything, to
communicate" to Kislyak "about the US Sanctions," the
document says.
Trump was at Mar-a-Lago on December 29. A press-pool
report from that day indicates that transition officials at
Mar-a-Lago included Stephen Miller, K.T. McFarland,
Kellyanne Conway, Steve Bannon, and Reince Priebus.
Fox reported on Friday — citing a "very, very
knowledgeable source" — that it was McFarland who
spoke with Flynn about Kislyak on December 29.
Kushner was a senior member of the transition team and
had met with both Flynn and Kislyak earlier that month at
Trump Tower. He is a focus of Mueller's investigation into
Russia's interference in the 2016 US election and whether
any Trump associates played a part.
But it's unclear whether Kushner was at Mar-a-Lago on
December 29. He and his wife, Ivanka Trump, flew to
Hawaii for a vacation on December 22.
Flynn and the senior transition official "discussed the US
Sanctions, including the potential impact of those
sanctions on the incoming administration's foreign policy
goals" during their call on December 29, the document
says. It adds that they also discussed that members of the
transition team "at Mar-a-Lago did not want Russia to
escalate the situation."
"Immediately" after that call, the document says, Flynn
called Kislyak "and requested that Russia not escalate the
situation and only respond to the US Sanctions in a
reciprocal manner." Flynn then reported back to the Trump
transition official about his call with Kislyak.
December 30 and beyond
White House senior adviser Jared Kushner. Thomson Reuters
On December 30, Russian President Vladimir Putin
released a statement saying Russia would not retaliate
against the US for the sanctions and the expulsion of
diplomats.
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"We will not create problems for US diplomats,"
Putin said. "We will not expel anybody."
Hours later, Trump tweeted:
"Great move on delay (by V. Putin) - I always
knew he was very smart!"
On December 31, Kislyak called Flynn "and informed him
that Russia had chosen not to retaliate in response to
Flynn's request," the statement of offense says. Flynn again
reported back to "senior members" of the transition team
about the call.
On January 26 — two days after the FBI interviewed
Flynn — the acting attorney general, Sally Yates, warned
the White House counsel, Don McGahn, that Flynn had
not been forthcoming about his conversations with
Kislyak.
The Justice Department was particularly concerned about
an interview Vice President Mike Pence had given to CBS
in which he said Flynn had not discussed the issue of
sanctions with Kislyak in their phone calls.
"The first thing we did was to explain to Mr.
McGahn that the underlying conduct that
General Flynn had engaged in was problematic
in and of itself," Yates said in testimony to a
Senate Judiciary subcommittee earlier this year.
"We told him we felt like the vice president and
others were entitled to know that the information
that they were conveying to the American
people wasn't true."
She added:
"We told him ... we were concerned that the
American people had been misled about the
underlying conduct and what General Flynn had
done, and, additionally, that we weren't the only
ones that knew all of this."
Yates said McGahn then asked her why the DOJ would be
concerned
"if one White House official is lying to another."
He also wanted to know whether the
department was pursuing a criminal case
against Flynn and expressed concern that
taking action against Flynn could "interfere with
the FBI investigation," she said.
A New York Times reporter described a source close to
McGahn as saying on Friday that Yates did not explicitly
tell him that Flynn had committed a federal crime by lying
to the FBI about his calls with Kislyak.
Flynn started talking to Kislyak as early as December 1
Michael Flynn. Thomson Reuters
Obama's sanctions were not the catalyst for Flynn's contact
with Kislyak — they were in touch as early as December
1, when they met at Trump Tower, along with Kushner.
Kushner reportedly asked Kislyak during that meeting
whether the transition team could set up a back-channel
line of communication with Moscow, which would evade
detection by the US intelligence community, to discuss
issues related to terrorism and the Syrian civil war.
.
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About three weeks later, on December 22,
"a very senior member of the Presidential
Transition Team directed Flynn to contact
officials from foreign governments, including
Russia, to learn where each government stood"
on a resolution proposed by Egypt to the UN Security
Council that would condemn Israel's practice of building
settlements on disputed lands, the statement of offense
says.
That senior transition official was Kushner, according to
Bloomberg View.
That day, Flynn called Kislyak to tell him about the Trump
administration's opposition to the proposed resolution "and
requested that Russia vote against or delay" it, the
document says. Kislyak told Flynn on December 23 that
Russia "would not vote against the resolution" if it came to
a vote at the UN, it says.
Kushner also lobbied foreign governments — particularly
the UK — to help scuttle the resolution, according to
Foreign Policy. But he was rebuffed and the resolution
passed.
 Trump Lawyer’s Response to Flynn News:
You Mean That Former Obama Official Got in Trouble?
By Jeremy Stahl
Dec. 1 2017 12:51 PM
President Donald Trump’s attorney Ty Cobb issued a
response on Friday to the news that former national
security adviser Michael Flynn had pled guilty to making
false statements to the FBI and appeared to be cooperating
with special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe of potential
Trump ties to Russian election interference.
That statement was basically, nothing to see here.
Today, Michael Flynn, a former National Security Advisor
at the White House for 25 days during the Trump
Administration, and a former Obama administration
official, entered a guilty plea to a single count of making a
false statement to the FBI.
The false statements involved mirror the false statements
to White House officials which resulted in his resignation
in February of this year. Nothing about the guilty plea or
the charge implicates anyone other than Mr. Flynn. The
conclusion of this phase of the Special Counsel’s work
demonstrates again that the Special Counsel is moving
with all deliberate speed and clears the way for a prompt
and reasonable conclusion.
Considering the statement went out of its way to describe
Flynn as a “former Obama administration official,” it’s
.
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probably worth recalling a few fast facts about the Flynn
situation.
 Flynn’s “statement of the offense” implicates an
unnamed Trump transition official, presumably above
him on the food chain, in knowing about and advising
his conversations with the Russians, which were at
issue in Flynn’s false statements.
 Flynn was kept on as national security adviser even
after then–acting attorney general Sally Yates warned
the White House that he had lied about his contacts
with Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak in a way that
left him open to blackmail by the Russians. He was
ultimately only fired when it emerged publicly that he
had lied to Vice President Mike Pence.
 It’s also maybe worth noting that former FBI director
James Comey—who was fired by Trump because of
the Russian investigation, according to the president—
testified under oath that he was privately asked by
Trump to drop his investigation of Flynn. (The president
denies this.)
 And it also might be worth noting that Flynn was not
some minor figure in Trump’s campaign. In fact, he was
one of Trump’s fiercest defenders, most notably
leading a chant of “lock her up” during prime time of the
Republican National Convention. In fact, he was so
high up in the Trump campaign that candidate Trump
himself floated his name to the New York Times as a
possibility for vice president.
 Finally, it’s possibly worth remembering that former
President Barack Obama had Flynn removed from his
position as director of the Defense Intelligence Agency
two years into his work there. Oh yeah, and Obama
reportedly explicitly warned President Trump to “steer
clear” of Flynn.
But, sure, he’s probably most notable as “former Obama
administration official.”
 Why Flynn’s Plea Is A Dead
End For ‘Russiagate’ Conspiracy
Nebojsa Malic for RT
Published Time: 1 Dec, 2017 23:33 Edited Time: 1 Dec, 2017 23:36
Former US National Security Adviser Michael Flynn in Washington,
US, December 1, 2017 © Jonathan Ernst / Reuters
President Donald Trump’s short-lived national security
adviser, Michael Flynn, pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI.
Most US media jumped on the plea as proof of Trump’s
collusion with Russia. Actual documents, however, tell a
different story.
A court document signed by special counsel Robert
Mueller, dated Thursday, specifies two instances of Flynn
telling FBI investigators things that were not true. They
relate to two conversations he had with Russian
Ambassador Sergey Kislyak, in December 2016.
In the Statement of Offense signed by Flynn at his court
appearance on Friday, he admitted to acting on instructions
from a senior “Presidential Transition Team” (PTT)
official, prompting breathless speculation if that was
Trump himself, his son-in-law Jared Kushner, or someone
else altogether. The one question nobody seems to be
asking is,
“So what?”
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It is intuitively obvious to even the most casual observer
that Flynn’s “crime” is a procedural one: he told FBI
investigators he hadn’t done a thing that he actually did.
But was the thing he did - namely, speak with the Russian
ambassador to the US - against the law? Not really.
Under the 1799 Logan Act, it is technically against the law
for a private US citizen to engage in diplomacy. However,
only two people have ever been indicted under that law,
and no one has ever been prosecuted. Flynn was a member
of the presidential transition team whose duties involved
contacts with foreign diplomats. So why would the FBI
even ask him about his contacts with Ambassador
Kislyak?
“There was nothing wrong with the
incoming national security adviser’s having
meetings with foreign counterparts or
discussing such matters as the sanctions in
those meetings,” Andrew McCarthy of
National Review wrote on Friday.
Because Flynn was
“generally despised by Obama
administration officials,” McCarthy added,
“there has always been cynical suspicion
that the decision to interview him was
driven by the expectation that he would
provide the FBI with an account
inconsistent with the recorded conversation
- i.e., that Flynn was being set up for
prosecution on a process crime.”
Back in May, former deputy Attorney General Sally Yates
testified before the Senate Judiciary subcommittee that she
came to the White House on January 26 - two days after
Flynn’s FBI interview - to say that he had lied about his
conversations with Kislyak. How did she know? That, she
said, was
“based on classified information.”
Clearly, Yates knew Flynn was lying about the
conversations because US intelligence had been listening
in on them. An Obama administration official leaked that
information to the Washington Post’s David Ignatius, who
reported on the Flynn-Kislyak conversation on January 12,
eight days before Trump’s inauguration.

Responding to that report, Vice President Pence said that

Flynn’s conversation with Kislyak “had nothing
whatsoever to do” with the Obama administration’s
expulsion of Russian diplomats and closure of two
diplomatic properties, enacted on December 29, 2016.

After the Post reported that the two did in fact discuss
Obama’s sanctions, citing anonymous sources again, Flynn
submitted his resignation.

So what about the frantic insistence of “Russiagate”

The dark undertone of the Post’s reporting was that Flynn
was somehow “subverting” Obama’s sanctions, intended
as punishment for - alleged, and to this day unproven -
Russian “meddling” in US elections. What Flynn actually
did, as documented by the special counsel, was to ask
Russia not to escalate in response to Obama’s actions.
It worked, too: Russian President Vladimir Putin
announced that Moscow would not expel any US
diplomats, but rather invite them to the Kremlin for
holiday celebrations. It wasn’t until July, after the passage
of an anti-Russian bill in Congress, that Putin ordered the
US to downsize its diplomatic staff in Russia by 755.
partisans that Flynn’s plea practically portends the
downfall of the president they refuse to accept as
legitimate? Their elation is unwarranted and premature,
warns McCarthy. If a prosecutor has a cooperating witness
who is an accomplice in a criminal scheme, the plea is
structured so it proves the existence of the scheme.
“That is not happening in Flynn’s situation.
Instead, like Papadopoulos, he is being
permitted to plead guilty to a mere process
crime,” he wrote, referring to a volunteer
Trump campaign adviser who likewise
pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI about
seeking contacts with (a nonexistent)
“Putin’s niece.”
Flynn’s plea did include an admission he failed to report
activities undertaken on behalf of a foreign government:
Turkey, a key NATO ally of the US.

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 Robert Mueller Has A Plan
How The Special Counsel’s Deal With Michael Flynn
Neutralizes Trump’s Pardon Power
By Jed Handelsman Shugerman
December 1, 2107
Michael Flynn has offered a guilty plea, and he cannot rely
on Donald Trump’s pardons to save himself or his son.
There is broad consensus that the plea, to a single charge
of lying to the FBI, is a clear sign Flynn has agreed to very
significant cooperation against a very significant target.
Reports indicate that Flynn has agreed to testify against
Trump.
I write here to make three points. 1) The plea deal
continues Robert Mueller’s strategy of neutralizing
Trump’s pardon power. 2) The obstruction of justice
charge against Trump just got a whole lot stronger. 3)
Everyone is rightly focusing on Trump, but Vice President
Mike Pence and White House Counsel Don McGahn are in
bigger trouble than ever.
Mueller’s charges and Flynn’s plea still
leave open the possibility of state charges,
just in case Trump pardons Flynn federally.
Presidential pardons apply only to federal crimes. I’ve
written before about how Mueller’s prosecutorial strategy
required him to navigate complicated state-level double
jeopardy rules. His charges against Paul Manafort, Rick
Gates, and George Papadopoulos reflected a sharp strategy
to bring certain charges, while leaving plenty of others
available to state prosecutors. (I’ve provided a long list of
state crimes that relate to Trump-Russia allegations.)
Let me spell out how this strategy would apply to Flynn.
The former national security adviser has pleaded guilty to
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one charge of making a false statement to the FBI. What
are the other charges a state prosecutor could bring?
In early November, the Wall Street Journal reported that
Flynn and his son Michael Flynn Jr. allegedly discussed a
scheme in which they would receive up to $15 million for
taking part in an extradition scheme and an extralegal
“rendition” of cleric Fethullah Gülen, an opponent of
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. These
allegations could be grounds for charges of bribery and
conspiracy to kidnap (as well as conspiracy to assault and
perhaps other violent crimes).
The state of Pennsylvania, where Gülen resides, offers
extra protections against double jeopardy beyond the rights
guaranteed by the federal Fifth Amendment. The
Pennsylvania Supreme Court holds that “a subsequent
prosecution and imposition of punishment for the same
offense will not be permitted unless the Commonwealth’s
interests are substantially different from the interests of the
jurisdiction that initially prosecuted and imposed
punishment.” Given that, Flynn’s federal deal—which
does not include any charges related to the alleged Gülen
incident—preserves a number of criminal charges relating
to kidnapping, assault, and bribery in Pennsylvania, as well
as parallel charges in New York and possibly Virginia.
State tax fraud may also be in this mix.
The case against Trump for obstruction of
justice just got immeasurably stronger.
I’ve written before that Trump already confessed to
obstruction, more or less, on national television. His
explanation for firing FBI Director James Comey indicated
“corrupt intent” to impede the FBI’s investigation of his
campaign’s potential collusion with Russia. Comey also
testified before the Senate Intelligence Committee that
Trump had repeatedly intervened to protect Flynn
specifically. There has been a legal basis for an obstruction
of justice case, then, even if there hasn’t been much smoke
under all that fire. There is nothing in the statute or the
precedents requiring an underlying crime in order to prove
obstruction. The crime is called “obstruction of justice,”
not “obstruction of investigating guilt.”
Now that Flynn has pleaded guilty to a crime, and now that
he reportedly is singling out Jared Kushner, and will
probably acknowledge far more as he cooperates with
special counsel Robert Mueller, those obstruction charges
will now play stronger in the court of public opinion,
before actual courts and jurors, and in front of arguably the
most important juries, the House and Senate.
Mike Pence and Don McGahn are in trouble.
Everyone is rightly focused on Trump’s legal jeopardy, as
well as that of Kushner, but another person whose legal
fate changed significantly on Friday was Vice President
Mike Pence. White House Counsel Don McGahn should
also be concerned, as he, like Pence, was involved in
Flynn’s appointment during the presidential transition.
Pence and McGahn could be facing their own charges of
obstruction of justice, even before we learn anything new
from Flynn’s cooperation with the special counsel.
Consider the following timeline:
On Nov. 10, 2016, immediately after the election,
President Obama warned President-elect Trump not to hire
Flynn. The next day, Pence became head of the transition
team. On Nov. 14, new allegations appeared about Flynn’s
improper lobbying for Turkey. On Nov. 18, Rep. Elijah
Cummings, the House Oversight Committee’s ranking
member, notified Pence that Flynn was lobbying for
Turkey without registration. Two days later, Trump
announced Flynn as his choice for national security
adviser. In the process of this hire, Flynn failed to disclose
his contacts with Turkey as legally required, while also
setting up contacts with Russian Ambassador Sergey
Kislyak, allegedly in interference with the Obama
administration’s sanctions against Russia.
On Jan. 4, Flynn allegedly told transition counsel (and
soon-to-be White House Counsel) Don McGahn that he
was under investigation. McGahn failed to follow up.
Keep in mind that Pence, as head of the transition, and
McGahn, as transition counsel, were working together
closely on all these matters. On Jan. 15, Pence denied that
Flynn’s conversations with Kislyak were related to
sanctions, and he also denied contacts between the
campaign and Russia.
On Jan. 26, Sally Yates warned McGahn that Flynn had
been misleading Pence about his lobbying activities. On
Jan. 27, she warned him that Flynn was vulnerable to
blackmail. Nevertheless, Pence and McGahn did nothing,
and Flynn remained national security adviser for more than
two weeks, only resigning on Feb. 13. The next day,
Trump lobbied Comey to “see your way clear to letting
this go, to letting Flynn go.”
In May, Trump decided to fire Comey. Trump’s initial
letter was reportedly a “screed” about the Russia
investigation, and he showed it to Pence and McGahn,
among others. They moved to pare back the letter,
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allegedly because they recognized it created an impression
that Trump was admitting his intent to obstruct justice.
On May 10, a day after Trump fired Comey, Pence
publicly denied that the Russia investigation factored into
the decision. “Let me be very clear that the president’s
decision to accept the recommendation of the deputy
attorney general and the attorney general to remove
Director Comey as the head of the FBI was based solely
and exclusively on his commitment to the best interest of
the American people and to ensuring that the FBI has the
trust and confidence of the people of this nation,” the vice
president said.
As I have written before in much greater depth, Pence’s
involvement in the letter, if he acted materially to assist the
firing of Comey and to cover up Trump’s corrupt intent,
could constitute conspiracy to obstruct justice as well as
aiding and abetting the obstruction of justice. Moreover, if
Pence had read Trump’s original letter, and if the letter in
fact focused on the Russia investigation, Pence’s answers
would be a combination of lies, misrepresentation, and
concealment. If such allegations are true, then the
combination of Pence’s participation in the letter revision
and his lies afterward would constitute the affirmative acts
by a public official necessary for misprision of a felony, 18
U.S. Code Section 4.
Now with Flynn’s guilty plea, Pence’s and McGahn’s
criminal liability for obstruction of justice runs even
deeper. Flynn might now cooperate by telling the special
counsel how much more Pence and McGahn (and Trump)
knew of these matters, and how many times they may have
misled the public and FBI investigators. Pence and
McGahn might want to start getting their stories straight.
Or they might want to consider their own deals to
cooperate fully with Mueller’s investigation, lest they face
their own indictments.
Flynn’s cooperation represents a breakthrough for one
final reason: the prisoner’s dilemma.
The prisoner’s dilemma is a famous problem in
prosecutions and in academic game theory. A prisoner (or
more illustratively in this case, a defendant) knows if he
holds out against making a deal, and if all his co-
defendants in other jail cells also hold out, they will all go
free. However, if he holds out and another defendant
confesses and implicates him, he will get a much worse
sentence. If everyone confesses, everyone gets something
in between. So, the dilemma here is whether to assume
everyone is holding out or whether to assume someone
else is confessing to get a better deal. Up until now, only a
very small figure—Papadopoulos—had confessed, not
enough to make any central figure rethink his assumptions.
But now that Flynn is cooperating with Mueller, all bets
are off. Everyone knows the next few cooperators will get
deals, but the later you cooperate, the worse deal you get. and opens the gates for others to cooperate with Mueller to
The last (and biggest) co-conspirators get no deals at all. get a deal while there are still deals on the table.
Flynn’s deal could be a moment that breaks the silence,
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 Did Flynn's Plea Deal
Just Disprove Election Collusion
By Tyler Durden
Dec 1, 2017 6:24 PM

This whole charade with former National Security Advisor country like Russia over recent and contentious
Mike Flynn reeks of desperation and makes clear that sanctions, as well as fighting ISIS in Syria.
Mueller's team has an empty hand. To summarize the plea  If Flynn’s contact with Russia was related to “collusion”
agreement from the FBI Special Counsel’s “Statement of in regards to election meddling, he would be pleading
the Offense”: guilty to an espionage conspiracy, not the
“process crime” of lying to the FBI..
 On December 29, 2016, Flynn called a senior official of  If Flynn were to now drop some new bombshell about
the Presidential Transition Team to discuss whether or greater Russian collusion, he would have lied to the
not to talk to the Russians about recent U.S. sanctions FBI twice.
imposed by Obama.
 Flynn got the go-ahead from someone (does not name
Trump) and called the Russian Ambassador,
requesting that Russia not escalate the situation –
asking that they only respond to the U.S. sanctions in a
reciprocal manner.
 On or about December 30 – the next day, Russian
President Vladimir Putin released a statement
indicating that Russia would not take retaliatory
measures in response to U.S. sanctions.
 Flynn lied about this on January 24 in a voluntary
interview with the FBI
 Flynn also lied to the FBI about calls he made to the
Russian Ambassador and other countries to try
and influence a UN resolution submitted by Egypt
regarding Israeli settlements, stating he only asked
the countries’ positions on the vote

ABC news takes it a step further, reporting from an As Andrew McCarthy of the National Review points out;
anonymous source that “Donald Trump directed him to
make contact with the Russians, initially as a way to “when a prosecutor has a cooperator
work together to fight ISIS in Syria.” - though NBC who was an accomplice in a major
News reports it was Trump's son-in-law and advisor Jared criminal scheme, the cooperator is
Kushner. made to plead guilty to the scheme. This
is critical because it proves the
Observation and takeaways existence of the scheme.

 The fact that Flynn spoke with the Russians in
December, well after the election, has been known
since February.
 Mueller’s “Statement of Offense” establishes is
that there wasn’t an existing backchannel between
the Trump campaign and Russia – at least through
Flynn, as it pertains to pre-election collusion.
 It’s perfectly reasonable to expect an incoming
President to instruct his incoming National
Security Advisor to establish a dialogue with a
In his guilty-plea allocution (the part of a plea proceeding
in which the defendant admits what he did that makes him
guilty), the accomplice explains the scheme and the actions
taken by himself and his co-conspirators to carry it out.
This goes a long way toward proving
the case against all of the subjects of
the investigation. That is not happening
in Flynn’s situation. Instead, like
Papadopoulos, he is being permitted to
plead guilty to a mere process crime.

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 So why lie?
US’s Syria policy.
Why would Flynn lie about his contact with the Russians
in late January, five days after the Inauguration?
Was it because the nation had been
whipped into an anti-Russia frenzy? Or, as
some have suggested, does the rabbit
hole go much deeper and there are
aspects of the Trump-Russia story that
haven’t been made public yet?
Again, if that were known, Flynn would be pleading guilty
to a much more serious crime.
the transition office to conduct a conversation” about the
“General Flynn or I explained that there
were no such lines,” Kushner wrote. But he
said he went on to ask whether the
Russian Embassy “had an existing
communications channel … we could use
where they would be comfortable
transmitting the information they wanted to
relay to General Flynn.” –Business Insider
And now it emerges that Kushner
allegedly asked Flynn to contact the
Russian Ambassador…

That said, Flynn is facing a whopping six months in prison

and a fine of up to $9,500 for lying to the Special Counsel.

So – unless there’s more than meets the eye, it appears that

Who’s next?
President Trump’s son-in-law and senior advisor, Jared
Kushner, told the Senate Intelligence Committee that he
asked Russia’s Ambassador whether the Trump transition
team could use Russia’s embassy to communicate with
Moscow about Syria.
the coverup is far greater than the crime in regards to
Flynn’s decision to lie to the FBI. And whatever the
outcome, the hard bounce in the S&P 500 would seem to
suggest this is perhaps another nothingburger and not quite
the end of Drumpf.

The meeting with the ambassador, Sergey Kislyak,

“occurred in Trump Tower, where we had our transition
office, and lasted twenty [to] thirty minutes,” Kushner
wrote in an 11-page statement detailing his contacts with
Russian nationals during the election and transition period.

“Lt. General Michael Flynn (Ret.), who

became the President’s National Security
Advisor, also attended … I stated our
desire for a fresh start in relations.”

Kushner said Kislyak, whose tenure in the US ended this

past weekend, asked whether there was “a secure line in
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 Trump Plans Big Cuts In Two
Utah National Monument Boundaries
By Keith Schneider
Dec 01, 2017
Deep canyons distinguish Bears Ears National Monument.
President Trump has proposed shrinking the boundaries
(Los Angeles Times )
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and establishing smaller monuments in southeast Utah.
(Keith Schneider / Los Angeles Times)
In what would be an extraordinary test of a chief
executive’s authority to revoke boundaries of the country’s
national monuments, President Trump is expected to
formally propose chopping Utah’s Bears Ears and Grand
Staircase-Escalante monuments into five separate and
much smaller national monuments.
A map of the proposed changes was made public by the
Wilderness Society. Although the White House did not
comment on the president's monuments plan, the Interior
Department said the leaked maps were accurate but not
final.
The president is scheduled to make an announcement on
the monuments during an appearance Monday in Salt Lake
City.
Though presidents have trimmed boundaries 14 times
since President Theodore Roosevelt established the first
national monument under the 1906 Antiquities Act, no
president has ever revoked a national monument or
proposed such large changes in a monument's acreage.
The map of proposed changes suggests that the president is
prepared to reduce the 1.9-million-acre Grand Staircase-
Escalante monument to under 1 million acres and split the
remaining acreage into three new monuments — Grand
Staircase National Monument, Kaiparowits National
Monument and Escalante Canyons National Monument.
Under the new plan, the 1.35-million-acre Bears Ears
National Monument also will be eliminated. Some of its
acreage, reduced to just over 200,000 acres, would be
placed in two new smaller entities, the Indian Creek
National Monument and the Shash Jaa National
Monument.
Utah Gov. Gary Herbert said the reported decision
suggested Trump was “willing to listen to those who are
(Los Angeles Times )
“They are in totally uncharted territory,”
said New Mexico Democratic Sen. Tom
Udall. “They don’t have any authority to do
this. There is no authority under the
Antiquities Act for anyone to modify,
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most impacted by these monument designations …
[including] those who live next to the monuments.”
"It seems to me he is trying to make sure that we're
following the law of the Antiquities Act," Herbert said on
the sidelines of a gathering of Western governors in
Phoenix.
Utah’s senior Republican senator, Orrin G. Hatch, who
objected to the establishment of both monuments in his
state, issued this statement: “The details of the president’s
announcement are his to make, but I appreciate his
willingness to listen to my advice, and even more
importantly, to give the people of Utah a voice in the
process.”
The proposed changes in Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-
Escalante were met with vehement opposition by
Democratic lawmakers, Native American leaders and
environmental groups. All asserted that the president does
not have the legal authority to make such dramatic
boundary changes or revoke a national monument
designation. That authority lies exclusively with Congress,
they said.
eliminate or reduce national monuments
nor delegate that authority to anyone other
than the U.S. Congress. This interpretation
was supported by a 1938 opinion by Atty.
Gen. Homer Cummings. This 80-year-old
 opinion has stood the test of time. No
president has ever attempted to revoke a
national monument.”
The Antiquities Act provides broad authority to presidents
to establish national monuments. More than 150 national
monuments safeguard roughly 77 million acres of
historical, cultural sites and wildlands across the country,
according to the Interior Department.
Trump’s actions follow an executive order in April that
directed Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke to review all
national monuments established since 1996.
In August, Zinke recommended diminishing the
boundaries of Bears Ears and Grand-Escalante and
changing the management of several other monuments. In
October, the president alerted Hatch that he planned to
shrink the boundaries of the two monuments.
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Congress in 1976 approved the Federal Land Policy and
Management Act, which asserted congressional authority
to oversee public lands, including boundary changes in
national monuments.
Five Native American tribes proposed establishing Bears
Ears to protect 100,000 historic and cultural sites on the
high mesa and deep canyons of southeast Utah. They
worked with President Obama to establish the monument
almost a year ago.
Tribal leaders said they were prepared to defend the Bears
Ears boundaries in court.
"It is absolutely shocking. It is so
disrespectful of the work that went into the
monument," said Ethel Branch, the attorney
general of the Navajo Nation. "We will lead
this lawsuit, which we call Navajo Nation
vs. Trump."
 Insiders: Why Not Prosecute
Obama’s Secret Back Channel To Iran?
Patrick Howley
Dec 1, 2017
Barack Obama, Facebook
WASHINGTON — National security insiders are trying to
claim treason for the fact that President Donald Trump’s
transition team discussed potentially setting up a phone
call with the Russian ambassador to the United States.
Trump and Russian president Vladimir Putin have met
publicly on several occasions, and Russia maintains an
active embassy in the Dupont Circle neighborhood of
Washington, D.C.
The Hill reported:
Former national security adviser Michael
Flynn spoke with a “senior official” in
President Trump’s transition team at the
Mar-a-Lago resort to discuss what he
should communicate to the Russian
ambassador in a highly-scrutinized series
of phone calls in December of 2016,
according to federal prosecutors.
Flynn and the senior officials discussed
both the recently implemented U.S.
sanctions on Russia as well as the fact that
they did not want Russia to escalate friction
between the two nations, lawyers on
special counsel Robert Mueller’s team told
a federal judge Friday. After the discussion,
Flynn telephoned the Russian ambassador,
Sergey Kislyak. Afterwards, he called the
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senior transition official and reported the
sanctions discussion, prosecutors said…”
But sources say Flynn, who pled guilty to lying to the FBI,
and other Trump allies are under persecution for raising
alarms about President Obama’s back channel to Iran. That
back channel was a lot more secretive than Team Trump’s
conversations with Russia.
Mary Fanning and Alan Jones exclusively reported for Big
League Politics:
General Michael Hayden (USAF Ret.), who
served as CIA director and NSA director, is
certainly well aware of Barack Obama’s
secret, off-the-books, pre-election
diplomatic mission to the Iranian mullahs
during which Obama’s emissary promised
that Iran would receive a better deal than it
might receive from the sitting president —
George W. Bush. The Obama campaign’s
message: the Islamic Republic would be far
happier with Obama’s policies if it would
wait until the election was over.
“What manner of ignorance, chaos, hubris,
suspicion, contempt, would you have to
have to think that doing this with the
Russian ambassador was a good or an
appropriate idea?,” Hayden said.
Senator Obama’s team set up the Iranian back channel not
only before Barack Obama was sworn in as president, but
before the 2008 election was even held.
Senator Obama’s team sent former U.S. Ambassador to
Ukraine William Green Miller to meet with Islamic regime
officials inside Iran, circumventing NSA surveillance. In
other words, the Obama campaign had its own private
emissary on the ground inside Iran, secretly negotiating
with a sworn enemy of the United States that was involved
in a dispute.
General Hayden pretends to be oblivious of this pre-
election Obama-Tehran communication arrangement. Why
is General Hayden misrepresenting these facts to the
American people? Is this part of the ongoing “Deep
State” seditious campaign to take down a duly elected
president — Donald J. Trump?
President Obama would later repeat this scenario with
another one of America’s major military adversaries when
he was famously caught by a “hot mic” telling Russia’s
President Dmitri Medvedev that he would have “more
flexibility” on missile defense after the 2012 election.
The Obama team’s back channel to Tehran was William
Green Miller, the U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine under
President Bill Clinton, according to Michael Ladeen
writing for PJ Media in 2014.
Ladeen, who claims to have spoken to
Ambassador Miller for his article “Obama’s
Latest Big Lie: ‘We Have No Strategy,“
Ambassador Miller confirmed to me his
conversations with Iranian leaders during
the 2008 campaign.”
Such conversations would have constituted a clear
violation of the Logan Act. The “Washington Post” is now
claiming Kushner could have been guilty of the same
violation had he followed through with establishing a
secret communication channel with Russia.
Ambassador Miller was appointed by President Clinton as
ambassador to Ukraine after Miller’s decades-long absence
from the State Department. Miller had years earlier left the
State Department as a form of protest against the Vietnam
War, according to an interview archived at the Library of
Congress.
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Miller, whose grandfather is from Ukraine, once expressed
that he was so appalled by McCarthyism that he was
fearful of a career in diplomacy. Miller initially took the
foreign service exam in 1955, but chose not to pursue a
career with the State Department during the height of
communist investigations at the House and Senate. Miller
instead embarked on a doctoral journey at Harvard
University.
“I did not want to go into the Foreign
Service because of the taint of McCarthy.”
– Ambassador William Green Miller.
In 1959, as the McCarthy era investigations were winding
down, someone inside the State Department signaled to
Miller that the time to join the State Department was now
or never.
Like President Obama himself, who was mentored in
Hawaii by suspected KGB officer and known CPUSA
member Frank Marshall Davis, Obama’s secret envoy to
Iran, William Green Miller, was mentored by
revolutionary marxist, communist labor organizer, and
literary critic Frederick Wilcox Dupee. Dupee was an
associate of Soviet spy Whittaker Chambers, who at one
time worked for the GRU but eventually switched sides
and became an anticommunist.
Like Frank Marshall Davis, Ambassador Miller’s mentor
Dupee joined the CPUSA and handed out communist
literature to the longshoremen’s union — Davis in
Honolulu and Dupee in New York City, where Miller grew
up. Davis and Dupee were fellow members of CPUSA’s
League of American Writers.
 Reports: Jared Kushner
Ordered The Call That Sunk Michael Flynn
By Ian Mason
1 Dec 2017
UPDATE: The Associated Press
appeared to confirm these reports later,
saying Kushner is the “very senior”
official named in Flynn’s guilty plea.
BREAKING: AP source: Jared Kushner is
'very senior' Trump transition official who
directed Flynn to contact Russians on UN
vote.
— The Associated Press (@AP) December
1, 2017
The original story follows below:
Reports in multiple outlets Friday claim
White House Advisor and presidential son-
in-law Jared Kushner is responsible for
directing then-candidate for National
Security Advisor Micheal Flynn to make the
phone call about which he later lied to the
FBI.
UPDATE: The Associated Press appeared
to confirm these reports later, saying
Kushner is the “very senior” official named
in Flynn’s guilty plea.
BREAKING: AP source: Jared Kushner is
'very senior' Trump transition official who
directed Flynn to contact Russians on UN
vote.
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— The Associated Press (@AP) December
1, 2017
Bloomberg News cites “[t]wo former officials with the
Trump transition team” claiming that Flynn was acting on
Kushner’s say-so when he called diplomatic officials of
other United Nations Security Council members, including
Russia, and asked them to delay an expected vote
condemning Israeli settlements.
“On or about December 22, 2016, Flynn did
not ask the Russian Ambassador to delay
the vote on or defeat a pending United
Nations Security Council resolution,” reads
one of the statements to the FBI that Flynn
has now admitted is false, pleading guilty to
a felony in the process.
Flynn, according to these sources, did make such a call,
and he did so because Jared asked him to intervene to
prevent the Security Counsel vote coming up while Barack
Obama was still president. The Obama administration had
made clear its intention to abstain from the vote after a 36-
year-long U.S. policy of vetoing condemnations of Israel’s
settlements, despite President-elect Trump’s stated
opposition. Obama’s Ambassador to the UN Samantha
Power did, in fact, abstain, allowing the resolution to pass
in a major international embarrassment for Israel.
At the time a senior Israeli official told Breitbart News:
President Obama and Secretary Kerry are
behind this shameful move against Israel at
the UN. The US administration secretly
cooked up with the Palestinians an extreme
anti Israeli resolution behind Israel’s back
which would be a tailwind for terror and
boycotts and effectively make the Western
Wall occupied Palestinian territory.
“Jared called Flynn and told him you need
to get on the phone to every member of the
Security Council and tell them to delay the
vote,” Buzzfeed News quotes a source that
may be the same as those cited by
Bloomberg.
Kushner allegedly called Flynn at the Trump transition
team’s headquarters in Washington, DC, claiming that
“this was a top priority for the president.”
Flynn then told the room that “the president
wants this done ASAP.”
Kushner’s lawyers responded to neither Bloomberg or
Buzzfeed’s requests for comment.
If the sources cited in these reports are correct, they would
represent yet another example of the president’s son-in-law
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playing a central role in a major setback for the
administration. Kushner’s tenure at the White House has
included a series of missteps that have undermined the
administration’s credibility and effectiveness.
Referred to in his family’s investment materials as “Mr.
Perfect” and one half of “Javanka,” along with first
daughter Ivanka Trump, Kushner is reportedly taking a
smaller and smaller role in the White House after initially
being given a massive, wide-reaching portfolio. A Friday
Reuters report suggested he may be on the way out of the
administration after tax reform is passed.
 Kushner Is "Senior Official"
Who Ordered Flynn To Contact Russia
By Tyler Durden
Dec 1, 2017 11:45 PM
When commenting on the Flynn plea deal with Mueller,
we said that while hardly evidence of collusion between
Trump and Russia, especially since all events took place
after the election, the real question is who was the "senior
member of the transition team" that instructed Flynn to
call Russia. Now, according to Bloomberg's Eli Lake we
may have the answer: none other than Jared Kushner,
who as Lake says, "could be one of the next dominoes to
fall."
According to the Bloomberg report,
"one of Flynn’s lies to the FBI was when he
said that he never asked Russia's
ambassador to Washington, Sergey
Kislyak, to delay the vote for the U.N.
Security Council resolution. The indictment
released today from the office of special
prosecutor Robert Mueller describes this
lie:
"On or about December 22, 2016, Flynn
did not ask the Russian Ambassador to
delay the vote on or defeat a pending
United Nations Security Council resolution."
At the time, the U.N. Security Council resolution on Israeli
settlements was a big deal. Even though the Obama
administration had less than a month left in office, the
president instructed his ambassador to the United Nations
to abstain from a resolution, breaking a precedent that
went back to 1980 when it came to one-sided anti-Israel
resolutions at the U.N.
This was the context of Kushner's
instruction to Flynn last December. One
transition official at the time said
Kushner called Flynn to tell him he
needed to get every foreign minister or
ambassador from a country on the U.N.
Security Council to delay or vote
against the resolution.
Much of this appeared to be coordinated also with Israeli
prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, whose envoys shared
their own intelligence about the Obama administration's
lobbying efforts to get member stats to support the
resolution with the Trump transition team.
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As Lake correctly notes,
"for now it's unclear what to make of all of
this" especially since the most important
part of a case is missing:
Motive.
We also know from Flynn's "statement of the offense" that
he lied to FBI agents as the bureau was investigating
Russia's meddling in the 2016 election and any links
between Russia and the Trump campaign in this period.
Nonetheless, nothing in the Flynn plea sheds any light on
whether the Trump campaign actually colluded with
Russia to influence the election.
Here there are two possibilities: one bad for Trump, and
one innocuous. As ABC News reported on Friday, Flynn is
prepared to tell Mueller's team that Trump had instructed
him to make contact with Russia during the campaign
itself.
"If those contacts involved the emails
the U.S. intelligence community charges
Russia stole from leading Democrats,
then Mueller will have uncovered
evidence of actual collusion between
the president and a foreign adversary
during the election. Impeachment could
then be in the cards."
That's the bad case. But, Lake concedes, it's also possible
that the Justice Department became interested in Flynn's
initial conversation with Kislyak on other, less explosive
grounds.
One leading theory pushed Friday by Democrats involves
a violation of a 1799 statute known as the Logan Act. A
relic of the John Adams administration, this discredited
law makes it illegal for a private U.S. citizen to undermine
the foreign policy of a sitting president in contact with a
foreign power. No American has ever been successfully
prosecuted under that law.
This path is likely a dead end:
Some conservatives urged the George W.
Bush administration to prosecute former
 House speaker Nancy Pelosi under the
Logan Act in 2007 when she visited the
Syrian dictator, Bashar al-Assad, when the
White House was trying to isolate him.
Nothing ever came of that.
Still, a Logan Act investigation would explain the bureau's
interest in Flynn's conversations about the U.N. Security
Council resolution on Israel. This is what Senator Dianne
Feinstein, the ranking Democrat on the Senate Judiciary
Committee, said on Friday:
If that is the extent of Mueller's charges, it's nothing and
Trump walks away scott free. As Lake notes, "if that's all
there is, then the whispers of collusion will look foolish.
Nonetheless, it may be enough to take out
not only Flynn, but also the man who
married the president's daughter."
Of course, if Kushner is the last casualty of all this, it is
likely safe to say that not many tears will be shed.

"This shows a Trump associate

negotiating with the Russians against
U.S. policy and interests before Donald
Trump took office and after it was
announced that Russia had interfered in
our election. That’s a stunning
revelation and could be a violation of
the Logan Act, which forbids
unauthorized U.S. citizens from
negotiating with a foreign power."
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 UN Resolution Against Israeli
Settlements At Center Of Flynn Guilty Plea
By Seth J. Frantzman
December 1, 2017 20:06
UN security council votes on resolution 2334. (photo credit: REUTERS)
In the lead up to the anti-settlement resolution
which angered Jerusalem, Trump’s team had
urged the US to veto the resolution.
The December 2016 anti-settlements UN Security Council
Resolution 2334 is at the heart of the guilty plea former
National Security Advisor Michael Flynn entered on
Friday. Flynn is accused of making false statements about
his conversations with Russian Ambassador to the US
Sergey Kislyak. One of the two statements is allegedly
about the UN resolution which condemned Israel's
settlements as a "flagrant violation" of international law
and which Trump's team sought to have vetoed.
Since May 2017 Special Counsel Robert Mueller has been
investigating links between Russia and the presidential
campaign of Donald Trump. Michael Flynn resigned as
National Security Advisor in February 2017 after having
misled vice-president Mike Pence about the nature of his
conversations with Kislyak.
The December 1 court filing notes that
“on or about December 22nd Flynn did not ask
the Russian Ambassador to delay the vote on
or defeat a pending United Nationals Security
Council resolution and that the Russian
Ambassador subsequently never described to
Flynn Russia’s response to the request.”
The filing says that Flynn misled the FBI about this and
that would mean he allegedly did ask the Russian
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ambassador to delay the vote or defeat the resolution. He is
accused of a false statement about that conversation and
any subsequent Russian responses to it.
In the lead up to the anti-settlement resolution which
angered Jerusalem, Trump’s team had urged the US to
veto the resolution. On December 22nd Trump tweeted
“the resolution being considered in the UN
Security Council regarding Israel should be
vetoed.”
Egypt postponed the vote on December 22nd. However it
passed on December 23rd with 14 in favor and the US
abstaining. According to an article at Foreign Policy in
February 2017 Michael Flynn played a key role attempting
to scupper the UN vote.
“Flynn…and other members of the president’s
transition team launched a vigorous diplomatic
bid to heed off a UN Security Council vote
condemning Israel’s settlements.”
They reached out to the UK, Egypt, Russia, Uruguay and
Malaysia according to the report.
According to reports a "very senior senior member" of
Trump's team was responsible for asking Flynn to reach
out to the Russians and other Security Council members
regarding the settlements vote. A CNN report notes that
according to "sources familiar with the matter," Jared
Kushner may be that senior member of the team. On
November 22 The Wall Street Journal reported that
Mueller's team had mentioned Kushner in relation to his
role in attempting to block the UN resolution. The Flynn
plea now appears to explain Mueller's focus on Kushner
and the resolution.
We now know that attempts to influence Russia as part of
that campaign to derail the vote was apparently the heart
some of the FBI conversations with Flynn days after
Trump’s inauguration. We also know that Vitaly Churkin,
Russian Ambassador to the UN, said on Friday December
23 before the vote that he was “puzzled by the process
around the resolution and by the haste with which it had
been ‘pushed’ to the vote.” Churkin had been in favor of
postponing the vote, which dovetails now with the
revelations in the guilty plea about Flynn’s alleged
.
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misleading statements. Churkin died of a heart attack on
February 20th, 2017, six days after Flynn resigned as
National Security advisor.
US Senator Dianne Feinstein condemned Flynn in a
statement Friday.
“Flynn’s guilty plea is about more than just lying
to the FBI. What he lied about and when he did
it are of even greater significance. His shows a
Trump associate negotiating with the Russians
against US policy and interests before Donald
Trump took office.”
 Michael Flynn Charged With Lying To The FBI While
Deep State Obama Operative James Clapper Is Allowed To
Commit “Brazen Perjury” On National TV
Alex Thomas
December 1st, 2017

“No, sir,” responded Clapper.

In what the entire mainstream media is reporting as a
“bombshell”, former Trump national security adviser
Michael Flynn has been charged with lying to the FBI
about a series of legal conversations he had with the
Russian ambassador that included talk on how better to
take out ISIS.
“The charging document states that Flynn
made a false statement to the FBI when he
stated that in December 2016 he did not
ask Kislyak “to refrain from escalating the
situation in response to sanctions that the
United States had imposed against Russia
that same day; and Flynn did not recall the
Russian ambassador subsequently telling
him that Russia had chosen to moderate its
response to those sanctions as a result of
his request,” reported CNN.
Senator Wyden asked “It does not?”
Director Clapper responded “Not wittingly.
There are cases where they could
inadvertently perhaps collect, but not
wittingly.”
This was proven to be completely
fraudulent three months later when
whistleblower Edward Snowden revealed
that the NSA was deliberately collecting
tens of millions of Americans’ phone call
records as well as browsing histories, chat
logs, email usage, as well as their physical
locations.
Clapper would have had a level of security
clearance to know that this was taking
place. He committed clear perjury by lying
under oath, yet faced no consequences at
all.
That’s right, there is clear and obvious evidence that
Clapper broke the law and committed perjury yet he
remains untouched by anyone within the FBI. This is clear
bias on the part of the Federal Bureau of Investigations and
should be immediately investigated.

In comparison, Obama and deep state operative James

Clapper has committed open perjury multiple times over
the years and literally nothing has happened to him. I guess
being a globalist operative has its perks.

As Paul Joseph Watson reported:

“In summary, it appears that lying under
During testimony in 2013 in front of a
oath is perfectly acceptable if you’re a
congressional inquiry, Clapper was asked
member of the deep state, and Clapper,
by Senator Ron Wyden if the NSA was
unlike General Flynn, is enjoying the
collecting “any type of data at all on millions
privilege of having that special distinction.”
or hundreds of millions of Americans.”
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 If Trump And Pence Are Taken Down By Russia
Investigation, Here’s Who The Next President Is
By Cristina Maza
12/1/17 At 2:18 PM

"If Trump and Pence get removed, Paul Ryan

becomes president. We’re fucked no matter
what," tweeted @anthagiox, saying what many
were tweeting on Friday.

Vice President Mike Pence laughs as U.S. President Donald Trump

holds a baseball bat.
The prospect of a Ryan administration gained traction
If Donald Trump and Mike Pence are ousted, get ready for Friday after former Trump national security adviser
President Paul Ryan. Michael Flynn pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI about his
contacts with foreign agents. Flynn, a key figure in special
The speaker of the House of Representatives is next in line counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into the Trump
if both the president and the vice president are removed campaign’s alleged collusion with the Russian government
from office simultaneously. And that may sound enticing during the 2016 presidential election, is widely believed to
for critics of the administration, until
have agreed to testify in exchange for a plea deal.
they remember Ryan's record.

As speaker, Ryan has failed to push through any important

legislation at a time when Republicans control the House,
the Senate and the White House. But if he could, he has
made it clear he’d like to slash funding for Medicaid,
Medicare and food stamps. Some of his most noteworthy
ideas over the years have included privatizing Social
Security and abolishing the corporate income tax. He
often blames the poor for their problems.

“We have got this tailspin of culture, in our inner cities in

particular, of men not working and just generations of men
not even thinking about working or learning the value and
the culture of work,” he told a conservative radio host in
2014. “There is a real culture problem here that has to be
dealt with."
ABC News reported on Friday that Flynn will testify that
Others have called the Wisconsin representative an Trump instructed him to contact Russian officials during
opportunist who condemned Trump during the campaign, the 2016 campaign. If true, the information Flynn provides
saying he could not support him after the notorious Access could lead to an indictment or the impeachment of
Hollywood video came out, but has failed to criticize Trump. Vice President Mike Pence would be the next in
Trump since he took office. line for the presidency, but it's also possible that Pence
could be implicated in the Russia scandal. Federal
prosecutors revealed Friday that a senior Trump transition
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official directed Flynn to speak to a Russian ambassador. And Thursday, news broke that Trump ally Roger Stone
That person could very likely be Pence, who also led had been communicating with WikiLeaks founder Julian
Flynn's vetting process. Assange with the help of a New York radio host. Stone,
who is in regular communication with the president, has
Pence has a history of denying his knowledge of the bragged about his ties to WikiLeaks. Given the extent of
Trump campaign's activities during the 2016
the Trump campaign’s contact with WikiLeaks during the
campaign. Last year, Pence publicly denied that the Trump
campaign had ever been in touch with WikiLeaks, a 2016 election, it’s hard to believe Pence had no knowledge
statement that turned out to be false. In November, Donald of these incidents.
Trump Jr., the president’s son, admitted that he had
exchanged messages with WikiLeaks, the organization that
leaked information stolen from the Democratic Party by
Russian hackers.

Pence may also be implicated in obstruction of justice in

relation to the firing of former FBI Director James Comey.

So it all points to Ryan—unless, of course, Trump is

impeached and President Pence gets his own vice president
confirmed before he's ousted, too.

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 Unbelievable: The Deep State Is Now
Going After Michael Flynn And Donald Trump For
Wanting To TAKE OUT ISIS Terrorists
Alex Thomas
December 1st, 2017
In a move that has the entire liberal media establishment
up in arms with claims that this could bring down the
president, former Trump national security adviser Michael
Flynn has pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI about
conversations he had with the Russian ambassador.
Despite the fact that outlets such as CNN and ABC News
are breathlessly reporting that the charges against Flynn
have to do with Russia, it has actually been revealed that
the reason for the calls to the Russians was to coordinate
the FIGHT AGAINST ISIS.
CNBC reports:
ABC News reported that Flynn, the former
national security adviser, would testify that
he was directed to make contact with
Russians during the presidential campaign
in 2016. Flynn pleaded guilty to lying to the
FBI about his postelection contacts with
Russia’s ambassador to the U.S.
ABC said later in an updated report that
Flynn will say Trump asked him to make
contact with Russia “initially as a way to
work together to fight ISIS in Syria.”
In a statement, Flynn said he agreed to
“cooperate with the Special Counsel’s
Office reflect a decision I made in the best
interests of my family and of our country.”
That’s right, Michael Flynn, and President Trump by
extension, are now being attacked by Mueller and the
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entire deep state simply for seeking to work closer with
Russia in order to take out literal terrorists!
Paul Joseph Watson reports:
As news broke that Michael Flynn would
testify that Donald Trump ordered him to
talk to the Russians during the transition
phase between administrations, the left
exploded with glee that actual evidence of
“Russian collusion” was in sight and it
could bring down Trump.
The reality turned out to be somewhat
disappointing for them.
ABC News reported that Trump directed
Flynn to speak with the Russians “initially
as a way to work together to fight ISIS in
Syria.”
In other words, Trump committed the
grievous sin of attempting to work
diplomatically with another super power to
defeat Islamic terrorism.
This is hardly the damaging revelation
Trump’s enemies had been hoping for.
[…]
Talking to ambassadors is not a criminal
offense, it’s a routine procedure for
incoming administrations. Obama
campaign officials responsible for the “reset
policy” with Russia met with Russian
officials back in 2008 before the election
had even taken place.
The real reason Flynn was brought down
on a technicality is because he made an
enemy out of the deep state by directing
exposing them for failing to fight ISIS and
to some extent actually helping the spread
of radical Islam.
At this point one has to wonder if Mueller himself is
actually running cover for a terrorist organization as he has
done in the past.
The National Review’s Andrew McCarthy also destroyed So there you have it. These entire “bombshell revelations
the notion that this is some big bombshell: against Flynn” are literally NOTHING but two politicians
trying to reach out to another country in order to FIGHT
It remains unclear why the Obama Justice ACTUAL TERRORISTS.
Department chose to investigate Flynn.
There was nothing wrong with the incoming I repeat, Flynn and Trump are being
national-security adviser’s having meetings attacked for reaching out to a Russian
with foreign counterparts or discussing
such matters as the sanctions in those ambassador about FIGHTING ISIS.
meetings. Plus, if the FBI had FISA
recordings of Flynn’s conversations with It truly doesn’t get any more bizarre than the establishment
Kislyak, there was no need to ask Flynn media attacking Americans who want to take out ISIS.
what the conversations entailed.
[…]
Flynn is prepared to testify that Trump
directed him to make contact with the
Russians — initially to lay the groundwork
for mutual efforts against ISIS in Syria.
That, however, is exactly the sort of thing
the incoming national-security adviser is
supposed to do in a transition phase
between administrations. If it were part of
the basis for a “collusion” case arising out
of Russia’s election meddling, then Flynn
would not be pleading guilty to a process
crime — he’d be pleading guilty to an
espionage conspiracy.
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 The GOP Plan Is the Biggest
Tax Increase in American History, By Far
Ryan Grim
December 1 2017, 12:07 p.m.
The tax bill moving its way through Congress is routinely
referred to as a $1.5 trillion tax cut. And, in some ways,
that’s true: on net, it would reduce the amount of taxes
collected by the federal treasury by about $1.5 trillion
over 10 years.
But that figure masks the eye-popping scale and audacity
of the GOP’s rushed restructuring of the economy. Most
immediately, the plan will take a large chunk out of state
and local revenue that isn’t factored into that total. But
more broadly, the bill cuts taxes by a full $6 trillion over a
decade.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said
Friday afternoon Senate Republicans have the votes to
pass the plan, which gets referred to as only a $1.5 trillion
cut because it raises $4.5 trillion in taxes elsewhere. But
the key question is who gets a tax hike and who gets a tax
cut. Put simply, the bulk of the tax cut is going toward the
rich, while the tax increases go to everybody else.
And so the bill, properly described, is two things: the
largest tax cut — and also the biggest tax increase — in
American history.
Republicans have spent years describing the Affordable
Care Act as the largest tax increase in U.S. history,
ignoring the fact that the tax increases were balanced out
by subsidies to pay for health coverage. In that respect, the
ACA was a significant transfer of wealth from the top to
the middle and bottom, which earned it the ire of the GOP.
But all told, it raised less than $1 trillion in taxes over 10
years to pay for all that. The relative stinginess, in fact, is
what fueled its unpopularity, as premiums and deductibles
remained too high. But what Republicans lambasted as a
historic tax hike represents just one-fifth of the tax increase
of the new GOP bill.
Where’s that money going?
The Tax Policy Center estimated that about 80 percent of
the benefit of the tax plan will go to the top 1 percent, who
will enjoy the following elements of the tax cut:
A full $1.5 trillion alone is going to slash the
corporate tax rate. CEOs have said
repeatedly they plan to pocket that money
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rather than invest it or give workers higher
wages.
The alternative minimum tax, paid almost exclusively by
the rich, is also eliminated. That’s a $700 billion giveaway.
Another $150 billion goes to repealing the estate tax,
which currently exempts the first $11 million of the
deceased’s estate, so nobody even remotely middle class
pays it. The repeal benefits so few people you can
practically list them out.
More than $200 billion in cuts goes to a provision that
allows a greater deduction for dividends on foreign
earnings. That’s not for you.
Roughly $600 billion goes to reducing taxes on “pass-
throughs” and other businesses not set up as corporations,
which law firms, lobby shops, and doctors’ offices often
benefit from. Poor and middle-class people do not tend to
set themselves up as pass-throughs.
Under current law, many tax credits phase out at low-
income thresholds. The GOP plan changes that by raising
the threshold so richer people can also claim the credit.
That provision alone is, by definition, a $200 billion tax
cut for the wealthy.
Individual and family tax rates are cut by about $1 trillion,
and some regular people will indeed see some of that
money as a tax cut — but not much. As the New York
Times noted, by 2027, people making between $40,000
and $50,000 would see a combined increase of $5.3 billion
in taxes. Where would that money go? Folks earning more
than $1 million would see their taxes collectively cut by
$5.8 billion a year.
The list above brings the total well close to $5 trillion in
tax cuts almost exclusively for the wealthy. The last major
element of the bill, the doubling of the standard deduction,
would benefit a broader range of people, but it comes at
the expense of states, cities, and towns.
Where does the money to pay for all of this come from?
While Obamacare was a transfer of wealth from the top to
the bottom, this bill sends money back the other way.
Even some of the ways the plan “raises” taxes on the rich
wind up being a tax cut. Some $300 billion is raised by
allowing companies who stashed profits offshore to
repatriate it at a much lower rate. That repatriated cash will
go straight to dividends for shareholders and stock
buybacks — but it gets counted as a tax increase, which
then allows the GOP to give an equal $300 billion cut on
the other side of the ledger. It’s neat how that works.
The bill raises $1.6 trillion by repealing the personal
exemption everybody gets on their tax returns. Getting rid
of it across the board is extraordinarily regressive, since it
gives the same benefit to the likes of Jared Kushner as it
gives to people who have much less money than he does,
so they’re hit much harder.
It raises another $1.3 trillion by going after deductions for
state and local taxes, mortgage interest, charitable
contributions, interest on student loans, medical expenses,
teachers’ out-of-pocket expenses for paper and pencils for
students, and a bunch of other nickel-and-diming of the
middle class. No change drawer in the car, couch cushion,
or plastic piggy bank is going untouched in the hunt for
money to pay for the tax cut.
(The state and local deduction is effectively a subsidy for
state and local spending on things like schools, roads, and
police departments. Removing that will pressure states and
cities to cut spending, so future teacher layoffs at your
neighborhood school will be used to pay for the tax cuts,
but because that happens at the state and local level, it isn’t
factored into the Congressional Budget Office or Joint
Committee on Taxation analyses.)
The plan gradually raises $128 billion in taxes by changing
the way inflation is tabulated, so that your taxes slowly
creep up over the years as the brackets come down.
And then, of course, the plan adds about $1.5 trillion to the
debt over 10 years. That gets you most of the way to $6
trillion, with a handful of smaller tax hikes thrown in,
some of which won’t obviously hurt the middle class.
.
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The domestic production deduction, a $96 billion
boondoggle, is repealed, for instance, and $54 billion is
saved by ending the credit for testing cures for rare
diseases.
House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., went on NPR on
Friday morning to try to defend the largest tax hike in
American history.
“What does it say that — in practice
according to independent analyses, I mean
you do have winners and losers, not
everybody gains, businesses gain, people
with large estates to leave to their heirs
gain, high-income people gain — but a lot
of middle-income people do not gain in
terms of money,” NPR’s Steve Inskeep
said.
“I disagree with that. The average tax cut
for a middle-class family is going to be
$1,182,” Ryan responded.
Inskeep pushed back.
“Lily Batchelder of New York University
took some numbers from the Joint
Committee of Taxation, bipartisan part of
Congress as you know very well, and
concluded that something like 100 million
households in this country under the House
bill, and even more under the Senate bill,
would either get no tax cut or would get a
tax increase,” Inskeep said. “Does that
sound right to you?”
It didn’t sound right to Ryan.
“No, it doesn’t sound right unless it’s a
person that’s not paying taxes already,” he
said. “I think some people are cherry
picking statistics.”
 Michael Flynn’s Guilty Plea
Much Ado About Nothing
By Stephen Lendman - Stephenlendman.Org
12-2-2017

The media hullabaloo over Flynn’s plea is more proof of
the colossal Russiagate scam.
He pleaded guilty to making false statements to the FBI,
relating to conversations he had during the transition
period with former Russia ambassador to Washington
Sergey Kislyak.
Many congressional members had personal contact with
him, part of their job and Flynn’s as a key member of
Trump’s transition team at the time.
Through its ambassador, he reportedly tried urging Russia
to hold off expelling US diplomats in retaliation for
Obama administration expulsions, along with opposing last
December’s SC Res. 2334, declaring Israeli settlements
illegal, flagrantly violating international law.
The vote was 14 - 0 with Washington abstaining. It broke
longstanding US tradition, vetoing over 40 SC resolutions
hostile to Israeli interests.
Flynn technically violated the 1799 Logan Act, amended
in 1994. It prohibits unauthorized citizens from negotiating
with foreign governments - considered an attempt to
influence bilateral relations.
The act remained unused since passage, no one prosecuted
under the law in over 200 years. Legal experts suggest it’s
unconstitutional. It’s been used more as a threat than
justification for prosecution.
Why did the FBI question Flynn about anything relating to
his transition team job, specifically contacts with foreign
officials, namely Kislyak?
His only offense was telling what amounts to a white lie,
nothing warranting the witch-hunt investigation he was put
through, resulting in his guilty plea over nothing.
The aim, of course, was trying to build a case for
nonexistent Russian inference in America’s political
process, along with anything suggesting illegal or
improper Trump dealings with Moscow.
After months of House, Senate and special council Mueller
investigations, not a shred of proof was found making
either case - just baseless allegations and accusations, no
evidence supporting them.
The neocon/CIA-connected Washington
Post jumped on Flynn’s plea, ludicrously
saying “the Russia affair just got bigger,”
falsely claiming “Flynn…sought help from
the Russian ambassador in undermining
the Obama administration’s policies.”
His contacts with Kislyak had nothing to do with
“undermining” anyone. Reportedly, Jared Kushner asked
Flynn to urge Russian opposition to SC 2334, not a crime
by either individual.
WaPo:
“In negotiating with the Kremlin before Mr.
Trump’s inauguration, the Trump transition
team undermined the foreign policy of the
sitting president.”
“What’s more, the Obama administration
designed its sanctions against Russia as
retaliation for election interference.”
“Mr. Flynn apparently promised that the
next administration would review those
sanctions - meaning Mr. Trump’s advisers
sought to weaken the US attempt to hold
Russia accountable for its meddling.”
Fact:
Nothing was done by Flynn or any other
Trump transition member to undermine
Obama.
Fact:
No Russian US election interference
occurred.
Fact:
Unilaterally imposed US sanctions on
Russia or any other countries are illegal,
flagrantly violating international law.
Fact:
If Flynn supported lifting them, he warrants
praise, not condemnation.
Endless witch-hunt investigations continue, wasting time
and money, proving nothing except more evidence of
America’s deeply corrupted political system - far too
debauched to fix.
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 New Documents Reveal
FBI's Clinton Cover-Up
By Tom Fitton | Fox News
December 2, 2017
In Washington, the ostensible story is rarely the real story.
We know, for example, that former President Clinton
engineered a meeting with President Obama’s attorney
general, Loretta Lynch, on the tarmac of the Phoenix
Airport on June 27, 2016.
That’s the official story, replete with the charming and
intentionally disarming detail that all they talked about was
their grandchildren. It was just coincidental, don’t you
know, that at the time the FBI was looking into Hillary
Clinton’s use of a “personal” email server to send, receive
and store classified information.
And it was also simply coincidental that just a few days
later, the director of the FBI – who served under Attorney
General Lynch – announced that he wouldn’t recommend
a prosecution of Hillary Clinton.
Richard Nixon must be rolling over in his grave.
What we haven’t known, until now, is that a frantic
scramble erupted in the halls of the FBI to cover up this
meeting. In fact, the FBI turned its sharp light not on the
scandalous meeting between the attorney general and Bill
Clinton – but rather on one of the whistleblowers who got
the word out.
.
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The organization I head, Judicial Watch, asked the FBI on
July 7, 2016, for any records that might pertain to the
infamous tarmac meeting. We had to sue after we were
ignored by the agency.
Then the FBI told us flat-out that it couldn’t find any
records. And we now know that was flat-out untrue.
Because, in responding to another one of our Freedom of
Information Act (FOIA) lawsuits, the Justice Department
gave us heavily redacted documents that showed there
were additional documents tucked away at the FBI
headquarters.
If not for Judicial Watch's lawsuits these documents would
still be hidden today.
Because of the revelation in our other lawsuit, the FBI –
without our knowledge—"reopened" our FOIA request.
The agency supposedly found about 30 pages of
information, which it needed six weeks to review. The FBI
finally gave them to us late Thursday.
Now we know why the FBI played shell games. The
documents show that FBI officials were concerned solely
about the leaking of details of the tarmac meeting. None of
the documents show top agency officials cared one whit
about the propriety of the meeting itself, but only about
who blew the whistle on the covert tête-à-tête.
In one email, an FBI official writes
“we need to find that guy.”
And in another we learn that the Phoenix FBI office was
contacted
“in an attempt to stem any further damage.”
An FBI official working on Lynch’s security detail even
goes so far as to suggest non-disclosure agreements to
keep the full facts from coming forth.
No wonder the FBI didn’t turn these documents over until
we caught it red-handed, hiding and lying about them.
Simply put, the FBI appears to be fully complicit in a
cover-up that attempted to influence a presidential election
for a favored candidate – Hillary Clinton. And the truth
was trampled on a Phoenix tarmac.
 Gloves Off: Now Even Mainstream Media
Calls Trump ‘Idiot,’ ‘Hated,’ ‘Unhinged’
© AP Photo/ Susan Walsh - US
22:17 02.12.2017(Updated 22:26 02.12.2017) G

Founded in 1851, America's august media outlet The New

York Times has now ceased to pull punches regarding
Trump's ability to govern, posting that he appears to "be
cracking up," while observing a growing avalanche
of reports from within his own administration pointing
to the US president's "increasingly unhinged and chaotic"
speech, behavior, and actions.

The Guardian, a frequent publisher of anti-Trump rhetoric,

has taken to actively detailing the dissolution of the US
Republican party and its "miserable choice" of leadership,
continually hammering on the fact that "No president has
The conversation has become increasingly pointed as even ever polled anywhere near as low as Trump."
mainstream media outlets are shining a light on Trump’s
consistently ‘irrational’ behavior.
Even US military stalwart Defense One is taking the
plunge, as a recent piece strongly suggested that the
Donald Trump, the 45th president of the United States, has
president's favorite means of communication, Twitter, Inc.,
repeatedly been shown to be the country's most polarizing
address what the media outlet refers to as the "ongoing
and disliked leader in national polling, and now the world's
national security threat" presented by Trump's often
high-profile media institutions are acknowledging what
incomprehensible, and regularly bullying, tweets.
many have pointed out since the beginning of his term:
that the president is mentally unfit to hold his post.
Lawmakers, military chiefs and those in business and
finance, as well anyone with access to the internet, appear
In recent articles posted from such diverse legacy outlets
to be watching with eager interest as — to quote comedian
as The New York Times, The South China Morning Post,
John Oliver — Trump's method of communication
The Guardian and even US military watchdog Defense
increasingly resembles "a drunk driver crashing a pickup
One, the language regarding the US president's mental
truck."
health has shifted from offering the opinions of third
parties to throwing down original content suggesting that
Trump's behavior is "an emergency situation." If the increasingly likely possibility of impeachment does
occur, however, the US would get Mike Pence as its 46th
president, a man described as "quite possibly more
The South China Morning Post, Hong Kong's newspaper
dangerous" than Trump, cited by the Huffington Post.
of record since 1903 and an ordinarily cautious voice, took
the unusual step of asking "Is Trump an Idiot?" and,
answering its own question, stating that "yes" appears to be
the correct response, affirming: "monumentally so."

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 ABC Makes "Epic Mistake",
Retracts Bombshell Flynn Story
By Tyler Durden
Dec 2, 2017 11:55 PM

Having caused chaos in financial markets briefly, set the
liberal media on fire with 'I told you so's, and sparked a
renewed round of #ImpeachTrump demands,
ABC News issued a 'clarification' to
their bombshell Flynn report that not
only negates the entire story but
provides President Trump with another
round of ammunition to fire against the
'fake news' media.
contact Russian officials on topics that
included working jointly against ISIS.
So to clarify - just as President Trump had stated, there
was no contact with Russians during his time as a
candidate but in fact it was in transition as he attempted to
mend broken bridges with another world super-power in
his role as president-elect - this in no way a criminal act at
all.
In fact, reaching out to foreign
governments during transitions is
standard procedure.

CNN is embarrassed...

Critically, ABC News reports, correcting

their earlier report, that Michael Flynn is
prepared to testify that Donald Trump
directed him to contact the Russians as
president-elect, not as a candidate.
Here is the full 'clarification'
Axios apologizes for its use of the story...
(We regret highlighting a story that had
one source making an astonishing
allegation.)

During a live Special Report, ABC News
reported that a confidant of Lt. Gen.
Michael Flynn said Flynn was prepared
to testify that then-candidate Donald
Trump instructed him to contact
Russian officials during the campaign.
And maybe Brian Ross, so-called journalist and ABC News
Chief Investigative Correspondent, who wrote the ABC
article, will explain himself and his 'sources' for this
nothingburger of a story.

That source later clarified that during the campaign, Trump

assigned Flynn and a small circle of other senior advisers
to find ways to repair relations with Russia and other
hot spots.

It was shortly after the election, that

President-elect Trump directed Flynn to

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One wonder what the consequences are, or should be, for Which for those still confused, can be summarized as
such an obvious error. follows:

The original tweet published by ABC

News containing Ross' initial report had
been retweeted more than 25,000 times
and embedded in various news stories
online before it was deleted.
But the clarification - issued at
7:53pmET - has just 2600 RTs...
CLARIFICATION of ABC News Special
Report: Flynn prepared to testify that
President-elect Donald Trump directed him
to make contact with the Russians *during
the transition* -- initially as a way to work
together to fight ISIS in Syria, confidant Is it any wonder trust in the mainstream
now says. https://t.co/ewrkVZBTbc media is at rock bottom?
pic.twitter.com/GQAKwT1Eda
— ABC News (@ABC) December 2, 2017 How long before Dianne Feinstein retracts her angry
statement aimed at President Trump "negotiating with
Ironically, that tweet was also deleted, and this is the latest Russia against US interests"?
retraction, even if ABC still indends on calling it a
correction: We look forward to President Trump's tirade over this.

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 Michael Flynn’s Guilty Plea Sparks
Zany Reactions From Resistance Pundits
Published Time: 2 Dec, 2017 01:09 Edited Time: 2 Dec, 2017 17:18

— The View (@TheView) December 1,

2017

The gravity of the development was surely felt beyond The

View.

“I’m quoting the one and only Flo Rida: It’s

going down for real,” said MSNBC host
Stephanie Ruhle.

Former US National Security Adviser Michael Flynn © Jonathan

Ernst / Reuters

Liberal and neoconservative pundits overflowed with glee

at the news of former National Security Advisor Michael
Flynn’s deal to plead guilty to lying to FBI investigators
about his contacts with foreign officials.

Leading the way was Joy Behar of the morning talk show,
“The View.” After cheerfully reading the news of Flynn’s
plea deal aloud to her studio audience, Behar threw her
hands in the air as the audience erupted in cheers.

“Yay,” Behar shouted, “This is the

antithesis of election night!”

When her fellow panelist Meghan McCain commented that

the collective reaction resembled an Oprah Winfrey-style This shows that Mueller is going up the
show giveaway, Behar pointed her finger around the room food chain and Trump is going to have an
and shouted, explosion,” neoconservative commentator
Max Boot told MSNBC’s Stephanie Ruhle.
“He goes to jail! He goes to jail! He goes to
jail! Lock ‘em up! Lock them up!” Former FBI Director James Comey tweeted a Bible verse
following the announcement:
Sunny Hostin, another panelist, hyped the news, but
offered no analysis. “‘But justice roll down like waters and
righteousness like an ever-flowing stream’
“Does everyone understand how significant Amos 5:24”
that is?” she asked.
FLYNN PROMISES 'FULL
COOPERATION': The co-hosts react to
breaking news that Michael Flynn promised
"full cooperation," prepared to testify that
Donald Trump "directed him to make
contact with the Russians" during
campaign. pic.twitter.com/KtmDGuyqfy

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 “I don't think Hillary is gloating, because
she's not that person, and none of this is
good for America. But I think she's smiling
at how fate is playing out.” tweeted former
Clinton campaign aide Peter Daou.
“I do think the larger interest here is served,
as to try to understand exactly what was
going on with the transition, the campaign
and the Russians,” Clapper continued.
“And we need to get to the bottom of what
today remains still a mystery to me, is this
singular indifference to the threat posed by
Russia.”

Representative Adam Schiff (D-California) of the House

Intelligence Committee said Trump has lied about contacts
with Russia

“abundantly and frequently and in just

about every way.”

Rejoicing that “the rule of law does prevail,”

former director of national intelligence
James Clapper said Flynn’s plea carries
“huge implications for the White House.”

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 In Major Victory For Trump, Senate Passes "Sweeping"
Tax Bill Which Nobody Read: Here's What's In It
By Tyler Durden
Dec 2, 2017 3:53 PM

Shortly before 2am on Saturday, the Senate passed "the
most sweeping rewrite of the U.S. tax code in three
decades, slashing the corporate tax rate and providing
temporary tax-rate cuts for most Americans" handing
Republicans a badly needed legislative and political
victory. Senators voted across party lines in a 51-49
vote, ending days of debate and "hand wringing" as
leadership worked frantically behind the scenes to win
over holdouts and get the proposal in line with the
chamber’s rules.
The bill would lower tax rates for individuals through 2025
and permanently cut the corporate tax rate from 35% to
20% (more details below). The bill’s tax cuts for
individuals are temporary in order to comply with budget
rules that the measure can’t add to the deficit after 10
years. The bill would also repeal ObamaCare’s individual
mandate, a priority for President Trump and many
Republicans.
***

Tennessee Senator Bob Corker, who had cited concerns
over the bill’s effects on federal deficits, was the only
Republican dissenter. Corker, who is retiring after 2018,
said in a statement ahead of the vote that he "wanted to get
to yes" on the tax plan. "But at the end of the day, I am not
able to cast aside my fiscal concerns and vote for
legislation that I believe, based on the information I
currently have, could deepen the debt burden on future
generations,” he said.
The vote brings the GOP close to delivering a much-
needed policy win for their party and President Donald
Trump. After the vote, Trump said on Twitter that he looks
forward to signing a final bill before Christmas. The
president expressed gratitude to McConnell and Finance
Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch for steering the measure
through the Senate. “We are one step closer to delivering
MASSIVE tax cuts for working families across America,”
Trump wrote on Twitter.

Corker's dissent however was not enough to halt passage,

and shortly thereafter Vice President Mike Pence presided
over the final passage vote. GOP senators, who stayed on
the Senate floor until the vote closed after midnight, broke
out into applause after Pence announced the bill had
passed.

"This is a great day for the country," Majority Leader

Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said during a 2 a.m. press
conference after the vote. "We have an opportunity now to
make America more competitive, to keep jobs from being
shipped off shore and to provide substantial relief for the
middle class."
On Saturday morning, Trump followed up his praise to the
Senate GOP, tweeting the "Biggest Tax Bill and Tax Cuts
in history just passed in the Senate. Now these great
Republicans will be going for final passage. Thank you to

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House and Senate Republicans for your hard work and like something on the back of a
commitment!" napkin?”

However, McConnell said the bill, the first text of which

was introduced on Nov. 20, went

“through the regular order.” He dismissed

complaints like Schumer’s. “You complain
about process when you’re losing,”
McConnell said.

NY Governor Andrew Cuomo showed what the

"handwritten notes on the page" looked like:
***

Amid the republican jubilation over the passage of a bill

which is heavily weighted to benefit corporations and
pass-throughs, and will encourage all self-employed
businesses to become LLCs, there was just one problem:

nobody actually read the 479-page bill.

As Montana Senator Jon Tester wrote late on Friday:

Bottom line:
Commenting on this, Senate Democrat Charles Schumer
noted that a set of last-minute revisions to the bill changed
The chaotic process was similar to how
it in ways that had yet to be analyzed by the Joint
Obamacare was passed on Christmas Eve
Committee on Taxation, Congress’s official scorekeeper
in 2009: in fact maybe a slight
for the effects of tax legislation.
improvement:
“Is this really how Republicans are At least this time Congress didn't have to
going to rewrite the tax code? Scrawled "pass the bill to find out what is in it." And

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 it's not like anyone reads these bills
anyway.
So what happens next?
Before it goes to Trump, lawmakers will have to reconcile
differences between the Senate bill and one the House
passed last month, a process that will begin Monday.
Although both versions share common topline elements,
negotiations on individual provisions inserted to win votes,
particularly in the Senate, may be protracted and difficult.
The final product will end up being a central issue in the
2018 elections that will determine control of Congress.
“We’re going to take this message to the
American people a year from now,” Senate
Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said after
the vote.
***
Among the major overhauls,
both the House and Senate measures
would cut the corporate tax rate to 20%
from 35% - though the Senate version
would set that lower rate in 2019, a year
later than the House bill would.
Also, the Senate bill, unlike the House version, would
provide only temporary tax relief to individuals, ending tax
cuts for them in 2026.
Both bills are expected to add more
than $1.4 trillion to the federal deficit
over 10 years,
before accounting for any economic growth. Bloomberg
reported that last minute revisions to help shore up GOP
support added about $32.5bn to the measure’s 10-year
cost, according to a one-page analysis from the
Congressional Budget Office.
The House and Senate bills also align on the contentious
issue of individual deductions for state and local taxes:
They’d eliminate all but a deduction for property taxes,
which would be capped at $10,000. They differ on the
home mortgage-interest deduction; the House bill would
restrict that break to loans of $500,000 or less with regard
to new purchases of homes. The Senate legislation would
leave the current $1 million cap in place.
According to Bloomberg, the bills also differ on the tax
rates they’d apply to multinational companies’
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accumulated offshore earnings. The House bill would tax
those profits at 14 percent for earnings held as cash and 7
percent for less-liquid assets. The revised Senate bill
contains a lengthy section that has no direct mention of the
rates, but a person familiar with the Senate plan said they’d
be 14.5 percent for cash and 7.5 percent for less-liquid
assets.
The Senate also approved a 23% tax
deduction on business income earned
from partnerships, limited liabilities and
other so-called pass-through
businesses.
The House version would create a 25% tax rate for such
business income, with restrictions on which businesses
could qualify. Small businesses would get extra relief
under the House legislation as well.
The House bill would also eliminate the estate tax, while
the Senate version would limit the tax to fewer
multimillion-dollar estates, but leave it in place. And after
2025, the limits would lift. Under current law, the estate
tax applies a 40% levy to estates worth more than $5.49
million for individuals and $10.98 million for married
couples. The Senate bill would temporarily double the
exemption thresholds. The House bill would double the
exemption thresholds, and then repeal the tax entirely in
2025.
As discussed previously,
the House bill would consolidate the
current seven individual tax brackets to
four, leaving the top tax rate at 39.6%.
The Senate bill would have seven brackets - with lower
rates, and a top rate of 38.5 percent. As Bloomberg notes,
"studies have shown that many of the
tax bill’s benefits would go to the
highest earners - and some middle-
class taxpayers might actually pay more
- a finding that could impact the House-
Senate talks."
Most importantly, perhaps, the Senate bill includes a
repeal of Obamacare’s mandate that most Americans have
health insurance or pay a penalty. The House bill does not.
Here is a side-by-side comparison of the two plans thanks
to the WSJ:
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 Opinion: The US-Israeli Gang Of Trump,
Netanyahu And Kushner
By Hans Stehling
December 02, 2017
Not satisfied with rigging the election of the presidency of
the world’s super- state, the Trump and Netanyahu
families now intend to manipulate global politics to suit
their own agendas.
Those agendas include control of Middle East oil/gas
reserves, the building up of nuclear weapon arsenals in
both the US and Israel and the isolation of the European
Union in terms of international trade and influence.
They intend to accomplish this by the deployment of
hundreds of nuclear-armed, F-35 strike aircraft: the use of
.
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the US veto in the Security Council and the weakening of
the authority of the United Nations. This will be achieved
by the cutting-off of funds to all UN departments and the
increase in the numbers and deployment of US forces in
Israel and other key strategic sites around the world in
order to reinforce American domination of world affairs.
That is the agenda – the reality will be somewhat different.
The American president will be impeached, various family
members will be prosecuted for offences against the state
and for endangering national security and the Israeli prime
minister will be indicted and imprisoned for bribery and
corruption.
As for Saudi Arabia, there will be a revolution that will
reverberate throughout the Middle East as a popular
uprising will consign the House of Saud to history. That
will uncover a multitude of secret deals between the
previous regime and various Western governments,
including the United Kingdom and America that were
designed to bolster the status quo ante to their own
political advantage.
Then Russia, China, Iran, Syria, Egypt and probably
Turkey will make their play. And Trump, Netanyahu and
their respective families will be just history.
 Trump: I Had To Fire Flynn Because He Lied To VP And
FBI, But His Actions Were Lawful
Published Time: 2 Dec, 2017 17:20 Edited Time: 2 Dec, 2017 18:15
Michael Flynn © Joshua Roberts / Reuters
US President Donald Trump has defended the actions of
his former national security adviser Michael Flynn, saying
they were “lawful.” He added, however, that he fired
Flynn because he lied to the Vice President and the FBI.
"I had to fire General Flynn because he lied
to the Vice President and the FBI. He has
pled guilty to those lies. It is a shame
because his actions during the transition
were lawful. There was nothing to hide!"
Trump said in a tweet.
Earlier on Saturday, Trump also told reporters that his
election campaign was not engaged in any collusion with
Russia. He made his comment after Flynn pleaded guilty
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to lying to the FBI about a phone call he had with the
former Russian ambassador. At that time, Trump,
however, did not give any definitive answer to the question
of whether he would stand by his former advisor.
At issue was the phone call between Flynn and then-
Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak at the end of
December 2016, after the outgoing president, Barack
Obama, ordered a number of Russian diplomats to leave
the US and closed two Russian diplomatic properties.
Flynn reportedly asked Moscow to restrain its reaction to
anti-Russian sanctions at that time, but later told FBI that
he did not do that.
US intelligence services listened in on the phone call.
Information about it was leaked to the media in January,
after Trump’s inauguration. Flynn resigned in February,
less than a month into Trump's term of office.
Flynn’s plea came as part of an investigation into the
alleged collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia
ahead of the 2016 presidential elections led by Special
Counsel Robert Mueller. However, a year after the vote,
the inquiry still is unable to provide any solid evidence of
any interference in the electoral process by Moscow.
Instead, the investigators have so far managed to catch two
lobbyists with ties to Ukraine.
 Flynn's Guilty Plea Not
The Smoking Gun In Mueller Investigation
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10:26 02.12.2017(Updated 17:31 02.12.2017)
Even taking into account Michael Flynn’s guilty plea, the
investigation led by Robert Mueller is unlikely to lead to a
significant political outcome for the Trump administration,
according to media reports.
Former security adviser to US President Donald Trump,
Michael Flynn has pleaded guilty to charges that he made
false statements to the FBI about his contacts with then
Russian ambassador to the US Sergei Kislyak. The move
was initially portrayed as one the most important turns
in special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe into the Trump
team’s alleged collusion with Russia and their attempts
to obstruct the investigations.
"There was always smoke. Mueller's recent
moves suggest he believes he has found fire,"
an article in The Sydney Morning Herald noted.
According to the newspaper, although Mueller’s
plan is optimistic at best, including possibly
leveling more charges against people in the
White House, the investigation is likely to end
before Christmas "without more revelations."
Specifically, the newspaper suggests, that Mueller believes
people even closer to the president – or even Trump
himself – could have broken the law in colluding
with Russia and attempting to derail the subsequent
investigation.
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However, according to the article, the results of the
investigation – no matter how far it could go – will not
trigger Trump’s impeachment.
"These would be impeachable offenses,
but impeachment is a political rather than a
judicial process, one that would need to be
conducted by a Republican-controlled
congress," the article read, emphasizing that
Trump continues to enjoy support in the
Republican base and Republican lawmakers
"have so far proved unwilling to challenge him."
In an article for National Review, American journalist
Andrew McCarthy pointed out that in fact Flynn’s guilty
plea is not a breakthrough in Mueller’s investigation.
"There was nothing wrong with the incoming
national-security adviser’s having meetings
with foreign counterparts or discussing such
matters as the sanctions in those meetings.
Plus, if the FBI had FISA recordings of Flynn’s
conversations with Kislyak, there was no need
to ask Flynn what the conversations entailed,"
McCarthy wrote on Friday.
According to the journalist, if there were reals of signs
of collusion or "Russian meddling in the US election" and
Flynn had been involved he would be pleading guilty to an
espionage conspiracy.
"That is not happening in Flynn’s situation.
Instead, like [former foreign policy adviser
George] Papadopoulos, he is being permitted
to plead guilty to a mere process crime," he
wrote.
 Who Is Jared Kushner:
Trump Loyalist Or Kissinger Protege?
Robert Bridge
Edited Time: 2 Dec, 2017 15:29
White House senior adviser Jared Kushner sits behind U.S. President
Donald Trump © Kevin Lamarque / Reuters
Never before in the annals of US politics has a top
presidential adviser had more of an inside track for
influencing the White House than Donald Trump's son-in-
law Jared Kushner. Will this turn out to be a problem for
Trump in the future?
Name any major event over the course of Trump's first
year in office and you will undoubtedly find the doleful
face of Jared Kushner lurking somewhere in the crowd,
gazing on with rapt attention (or is it somber satisfaction?),
a bit like an apprentice trapped in the floodlights of
ultimate power.
Beyond the question of Jared's omnipresence is his
apparent knack for political survival. Although Trump
tends to go through officials as rapidly as tweets, Jared has
managed thus far to ride out the storm. Yet firing Jared –
husband of Trump's daughter, Ivanka – would be more
than your average political decision, which is probably
why Trump should never have dabbled in nepotism to
begin with. Or perhaps Jared Kushner remains in his top-
level position not because he is the son-in-law of Donald
Trump, or because he is so politically astute (thus far it
would seem he is not), but precisely because some high-
ranking people in the establishment want him there.
Whatever the case may be, it is notable that while Trump's
main allies – guys like Mike Flynn, Steve Bannon and
Reince Priebus (all of whom were loathed by the
establishment folks, incidentally) – fell to the wayside one
after another, Kushner is one of the only top officials left
over from the original Trump lineup. And his popularity
among the establishment elite appears untarnished.
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Reminiscent of the day when Barack Obama was awarded
the Nobel Peace Prize without ever negotiating a single
peace deal, Time magazine recently named Jared Kushner
among its '100 Most Influential People'. And it was none
other than Henry Kissinger, 94, the fiercely criticized
former US statesman, who penned the blurb that
accompanied Jared's honorable mention.
Kissinger, expert practitioner of the
"strategic lie", says he first met Kushner
"about 18 months ago, when he introduced
himself after a foreign policy lecture I had
given." The very next line suggests that
Kissinger is lurking in the shadows of the
Trump administration. "We have
sporadically exchanged views since."
Really? That brief comment should have triggered some
alarms. What exactly does Kissinger mean by
"sporadically," and what is it that he and Jared chat about?
Somehow I doubt the weather. And is Trump aware of the
content of these "sporadic" conversations, or is he content
to get the Cliff Notes courtesy of Kushner?
Considering Henry Kissinger's extremely checkered past –
for starters, he convinced Nixon to bomb Cambodia and
Laos, and replace the democratically elected government
of Chile with a brutal military dictatorship – these are no
idle questions. And as it turns out, there is already some
whiff of mischief in the air that directly involves Jared
Kushner, and, indirectly or otherwise, Henry Kissinger.
The Art of The Dumb
To date, President Trump has made two critical decisions
that, for many analysts, defied all logic and even common
sense. In fact, they were disastrous. The first involved the
firing of Michael Flynn less than a month after he was
named national security adviser. The stated reason for that
decision was due to conversations Flynn had with former
Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak a month before
Trump formally took office. However, Flynn was doing
nothing more 'subversive' than attempting to tamp down
Russia's understandable fury at being treated so brusquely
by the Obama administration.

In the tidal wave of Russophobia that swept through
Washington following Hillary Clinton's dramatic defeat,
Barack Obama – after originally acknowledging the
election to have been fair – suddenly changed his tune.
Apparently somebody had a talk with him, and on
December 29, based on the groundless claims of Russian
tampering the elections, Obama expelled 35 Russian
embassy staff, as well as imposing sanctions – all just days
before the New Year.
It was in the course of this dramatic diplomatic meltdown
between the world's two nuclear powers that Flynn and
Kislyak spoke on the telephone on several occasions in an
effort to repair the damage (It should be noted that Jared
Kushner also participated in an earlier meeting at Trump
Tower with Michael Flynn and Sergey Kislyak. The
purpose of that meeting was to “establish a line of
communication” between the soon-to-be Trump
administration and the Kremlin, the White House told the
New York Times). All things considered, it was the
honorable thing to do. Others, of course, saw things
differently. Yet Flynn got the sack, while Kushner
continues in his post relatively unscathed.
When the wolves in the Democratic Party came a
knocking, Trump probably thought he could satisfy those
who were hell-bent on sabotaging US-Russia relations by
sacrificing Flynn like an easily disposable pawn. The
maverick of Manhattan seems to have gambled wrong.
Trump now reportedly"regrets" firing Flynn, who he says
got a "very bad deal" from the media.
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This week, Flynn pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI about
conversations he had with former Russian Ambassador to
the US, Sergey Kislyak. However, the talks occurred while
Trump was President-elect, and as the Obama
administration was working overtime to sabotage any hope
the Trump administration might have had in building a
working relationship with the Russians, indeed, as Trump
had pledge to do on the campaign trail. So the question as
to why the FBI was even questioning Flynn about such
contacts remains unknown.
At the same time, ABC News put out the fake news that
Flynn was ordered by Donald Trump to make contact with
the Russians during the election campaign. ABC News later
“clarified” that the report was about Trump giving the
order as President-elect.
The second even more mysterious ‘mistake’ involved the
firing of James Comey, the FBI Director who was in the
process of investigating claims of collusion between
Trump and Russia in the course of the 2016 presidential
election. It did not take a political genius to understand that
firing Comey while he was investigating those claims
would only serve to fortify that very myth – and worse,
appear as an attempt at a Trump cover-up. The US
president, understandably at wits end over the never-
ending witch-hunt, now seemed guilty of attempting to get
rid of the nosy Comey. What he got instead was just more
barbarians at the gate.
Former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon, yet
another dedicated Trump loyalist who got served a pink
slip, told Charlie Rose in an interview that President
Trump's decision to fire James Comey was
"the biggest mistake in modern political
history."
So who gave Trump such horrible advice? Some
Washington insiders are pointing to Kushner.
According to a report in Vanity Fair,
"Trump blamed Jared Kushner for his role
in decisions, specifically the firings of Mike
Flynn and James Comey, that led to
Mueller’s appointment."
That comment was allegedly based on a phone call
between Bannon and Trump. In another conversation,
political analyst Roger Stone supposedly told Trump that
Kushner was giving him bad political advice, and Trump
agreed.
“Jared is the worst political adviser in the
White House in modern history,” former
Trump campaign aide Sam Nunberg told
the magazine. “I’m only saying publicly
 what everyone says behind the scenes at
Fox News, in conservative media, and the
Senate and Congress.”
However, Nunberg's judgment is only true if we assume
that Kushner is really dedicated to faithfully serving
Donald Trump, but is just awful at his job. Or,
alternatively, if he is instead accepting the demands and
advice being given to him from people like Henry
Kissinger, representatives of the establishment. In that
case, it could be argued he is doing a remarkable job.
Welcome back, Henry Kissinger
Keeping in mind Mark Twain's observation that "history
does not repeat itself, but it does rhyme," it was impossible
to miss the historical coincidence of Kissinger appearing
next to Donald Trump in May shortly after the latter
unceremoniously canned Comey. Why was it a
coincidence?
Because decades earlier, Henry Kissinger, while serving
under Richard Nixon as National Security Adviser and
Secretary of State, played a major role in the so-called
'Saturday Night Massacre,' which saw Nixon fire
Watergate special prosecutor Archibald Cox, who was
attempting to retrieve telephone recordings connected to
the case.
What followed from that disastrous decision was Nixon
being eventually forced to resign in disgrace, a political
calamity that some experts say could eventually happen to
Trump if 'Russiagate' gets any more out of control.
"The unexpected firing of a high-profile
investigator looking into potential political
malfeasance connected to the White
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House, followed by a visit by Henry
Kissinger to the Oval Office. No, this is not
October 1973,"began an ABC News report
detailing Kissinger's strangely timed
invitation to the White House.
Trump said the meeting with Kissinger focused on Russia,
Syria and
"various other matters," calling Kissinger a
"friend for a long time."
Coincidence or otherwise, Kissinger was one of Nixon's
closest confidants and also met with him after the Saturday
Night Massacre.
"I don't think we can read too much into
that, but it would be interesting if they were
consulting him on troubleshooting, in which
case, Kissinger wouldn't be the first person
I would turn to," David Greenberg, a
professor of history and journalism and
media studies at Rutgers University in New
Jersey, told ABC News.
In any case, if it really was Jared Kushner who advised
Trump to dump both Flynn and Comey, as many analysts
suggest, then the sudden appearance of geopolitical guru
Kissinger in the White House shortly afterwards is peculiar
to say the least.
1001 Arabian arrests
Just recently, we may have witnessed, albeit from second-
hand accounts, Jared Kushner taking his first steps as a
Kissinger geopolitical protégé.
On November 3, Saudi Arabia placed a call to Lebanon's
then Prime Minister Saad Hariri, demanding that he pay a
visit to Riyadh. Hariri wasted no time at all, reportedly
flying to Saudi Arabia without his regular staff. The next
day, Hariri did something completely out of the ordinary:
In a televised appearance, from the Saudi capital, he
announced that he was resigning from his post as prime
minister.
Western media greatly played down the fact that Hariri
made his announcement on foreign soil, not least of all
Saudi soil, while giving extra attention to Hariri's
explanation for his sudden retirement: Iran and Hezbollah,
which just helped Syria liberate itself from ISIS terrorists.
“Wherever Iran settles, it sows discord,
devastation and destruction, proven by its
interference in the internal affairs of Arab
countries,” he said in his prepared
 statement. He also said he feared for his
life.
That evening, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman
arrested 11 Saudi princes, 4 government officials and
dozens of businessmen, while also claiming that Saudi
Arabia had intercepted a ballistic missile launched by
Houthi rebels in Yemen. The blame for that unconfirmed
event naturally went to Iran as well.
Iran’s Foreign Ministry said Hariri’s resignation was a
ploy to “create tension in Lebanon and the region.”
“Hariri’s resignation was done with planning
by Donald Trump, the president of
America, and Mohammed bin Salman
(MbS), the crown prince of Saudi
Arabia,”said Hussein Sheikh al-Islam,
adviser to Iran’s supreme leader.
However, Iran’s foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif
took the blame game one step further, pointing to Jared
Kushner as the cause of the spectacle.
“Visits by Kushner & Lebanese PM led to
[Saad] Hariri’s bizarre resignation while
abroad,” Mohammad Javad Zarif tweeted.
“Of course, Iran is accused of interference.”
Today, Hariri, following a whirlwind tour that took him to
Paris following his stay in Riyadh is back in Lebanon
where he remains the Prime Minister.
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Indeed, Kushner paid a visit to Saudi Arabia in October as
part of a four-day trip that also included stops in Israel,
Jordan and Egypt.
The Washington Post provided some scant details on
Kushner's secretive meeting with MbS:
"MBS is emboldened by strong support
from President Trump and his inner circle...
It was probably no accident that last month,
Jared Kushner, Trump’s senior adviser and
son-in-law, made a personal visit to
Riyadh. The two princes are said to have
stayed up until nearly 4 a.m. several nights,
swapping stories and planning strategy."
Meanwhile, Israel's interest in what transpires between
Saudi Arabia and Lebanon is also of no small concern,
given its wariness of Iranian moves in the region, as noted
by The Spectator:
"The Jewish state is hardly a natural ally for
Saudi Arabia, but they have long shared a
common enemy: Iran. Both fear the latter is
exploiting the opening created by the fall of
Isis, and the triumph of the Assad regime in
Syria, to dominate the region..."
The question, however, comes down to what role Jared
Kushner has been playing in all of this, and to what end? Is
he loyally and dutifully serving the interests of Donald
Trump, while - at the same time - being quietly groomed
as the next Henry Kissinger, possibly and eventually
moving seamlessly between consecutive administrations,
as Kissinger did when he survived the downfall of Nixon
and went on to serve under Gerald Ford?
Or is Jared Kushner, despite being the son-in-law and top
adviser of Donald Trump, heeding the demands of a
different master?
 ‘This Is Obviously Not A Hack’:
Dems Ignore Technical Evidence In DNC Leak Case
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"So all I did was look at that and say this is obviously not a
hack," he added, noting that his findings flew in the face
of the establishment narrative about what happened.

Even with the best technology available, experts could not

match the speed of the alleged breach that occurred in July
2016. These facts, Binney concluded, show the data
transfer must have been "local" — that is, copied from the
DNC servers onto an external source such as a thumb
drive.

The firm hired to investigate DNC's servers, CrowdStrike,

One year after Republican Donald Trump’s unexpected
claims that, beyond the shadow of a doubt, it was Russia
victory in the US presidential race, the Russiagate
that hacked the servers, despite not providing clear
narrative - that Trump colluded with Russia - continues
evidence of the packet transfer.
unabated.

The same cybersecurity firm also famously reported

One of the most pivotal parts of the story, that Russians
in 2016 that Russian malware had led to the destruction
hacked the DNC under the guise of notorious hacker
of Ukrainian howitzer artillery units, a claim the Ukrainian
Guccifer 2, has never been proven. However, the US
armed forces themselves denied, causing CrowdStrike
intelligence apparatus has the ability to do just that, a
to issue a major retraction.
former National Security Agency analyst told Sputnik
Radio.
Indeed, the FBI never actually looked at the DNC's servers
to conduct their own forensic analysis. Despite "multiple
To follow information transfers, say from the Democratic
requests at different levels" to access the allegedly
National Committee to a hacker's computer, technical
compromised servers, former FBI Director James Comey
specialists track the data "packet," which can lead them
told the Senate Intelligence Committee in January, the FBI
to the data's final destination, Bill Binney, a three-decade
was blocked from looking at the servers and instead had
veteran of the NSA, said during an interview with Fault
to rely on a "highly respected private company":
Lines on Radio Sputnik Friday.
CrowdStrike.
Binney explained that a team of specialists from the
"We'd prefer to have access hands-on ourselves if that's
Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity tried
possible," Comey said, adding that he didn't know the
to download data from the East Coast of the US to Eastern
reason the DNC rebuked the FBI's requests.
Europe to simulate parts of the hack.

So while technical evidence presumably exists,

"Guccifer 2 put out a bunch of data that this was the hack
unexplored, to prove or disprove Moscow's connection
of the DNC on the fifth of July. So my task was simply
to the Trump campaign, many lawmakers and pundits
to say, ‘Okay, was this a hack or what is it?' So I looked
in Washington are content to merely spread fear about
at the technical data along with a half-dozen other
"Russian interference." Some of the Democrats who say
people — technical people, all of us — and we looked
Trump epitomizes the post-truth era have themselves
at that and said this is coming down too fast, it can't be
overlooked this avenue leading to technical evidence
hacked, there's no way it can go across the internet at that
about explosive assertions made about Russia, accusations
speed," Binney said.
denied by Moscow.

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"The real winners in this New McCarthyism appear to be
the neoconservatives who have leveraged the
Democratic/liberal hatred of Trump to draw much of the
Left into the political hysteria that sees the controversy
.
over alleged Russian political meddling' as an opportunity
to ‘get Trump,'" Robert Parry, a George Polk Award
winner, wrote in September.

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 From The Archives: Obama Administration Confirms "No
Problem" With Flynn Contacting Foreign Officials
By Tyler Durden
Dec 2, 2017 5:30 PM

As we detailed yesterday, ABC was forced to retract an

epic mistake in their reporting that claimed contact
between Trump staff (Flynn) and Russian officials 'druing
the campaign' - correcting it to point out that it was in fact
'during the transition'.

President Trump tweeted his perspective, confirming the

new 'facts' from ABC...

Confused yet?

So, given all the confusion, here is a clarifying source free

of all possible bias - the Obama administration's State
Department - confirming Trump and Flynn's story, and
crushing Clapper's continued lies...from the archives:

CNN were quick to mock the White House for saying

that the Obama administration approved Flynn's
contacts (and found someone all too eager to go on TV
and attack their claims)... (via The Hill)

The White House said on Friday that it was the Obama

administration that authorized former national security
adviser Michael Flynn's contacts with Russian
Ambassador Sergey Kislyak during President Trump's
transition, according to CNN.

Flynn pleaded guilty on Friday to lying to the FBI about
his contacts with Kislyak in the month before Trump took
office, the first current or former Trump White House
official brought down by special counsel Robert Mueller's
investigation into Russia's election meddling.
James Clapper, who served as the Director of National
Intelligence under Obama, said that the claim that the
Obama administration authorized Flynn's contacts
with Kislyak was "absurd," adding that the
administration was concerned by the communications at
the time.
Transcript for the hard of hearing:
REPORTER: "This building [the Obama State
Department] doesn't see anything necessarily
inapprorpiate in contact between members of the
incoming [Trump] administration and foreign officials,
no matter what country they're from?"
OBAMA STATE DEPT SPOKESPERSON: "No,
no...and again this has been ongoing. We have no
problem with them doing such on their own."

“That’s absurd. That’s absolutely absurd," Clapper said Well, that's going to ruin a few talking points for
on CNN. tomorrow's Sunday morning political shows.

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 House Republicans Prepare
Contempt Action Against FBI, DOJ
By Billy House
December 3, 2017, 12:42 AM CST Updated On December 3, 2017, 1:48 PM CST
U.S. House Republicans are drafting a contempt of
Congress resolution against Deputy Attorney General Rod
Rosenstein and FBI Director Christopher Wray, claiming
stonewalling in producing material related to the Russia-
Trump probes and other matters.
Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes and other committee
Republicans, after considering such action for several
weeks, decided to move after media including the New
York Times reported Saturday on why a top FBI official
assigned to Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s probe of
Russia-Trump election collusion had been removed from
the investigation.
Republicans, including the president, pointed to the reports
as evidence that the entire probe into Russian meddling has
been politically motivated.
“Now it all starts to make sense,” Trump
said on Twitter Sunday.
In his statement Saturday, Nunes pointed to the reports that
the official, Peter Strzok, was removed after allegedly
having exchanged anti-Trump and pro-Hillary Clinton text
messages with his mistress, who was an FBI lawyer
working for Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe.
Another Trump tweet referred to the agent
as “tainted (no, very dishonest?).” The
president added that the FBI’s reputation
“is in Tatters - worst in History!” In a busy
morning of notes to his 44 million followers,
Trump earlier said that “I never asked”
former FBI Director James Comey “to stop
investigating Flynn. Just more Fake News
covering another Comey lie!”
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Agent’s Dismissal
Until now, Nunes said, the FBI and Department of Justice
have failed to sufficiently comply with an Aug. 24
committee subpoena -- including by refusing repeated
demands
“for an explanation of Peter Strzok’s
dismissal from the Mueller probe.”
“In light of today’s press reports, we now
know why Strzok was dismissed, why the
FBI and DOJ refused to provide us this
explanation, and at least one reason why
they previously refused to make Deputy
Director McCabe available to the
Committee for an interview,” Nunes said.
“By hiding from Congress, and from the
American people, documented political bias
by a key FBI head investigator for both the
Russia collusion probe and the Clinton
email investigation, the FBI and DOJ
engaged in a willful attempt to thwart
Congress’ constitutional oversight
responsibility,” he said.
‘Fully Met’
Nunes, in the statement, said the committee will move on a
resolution by the end of the month unless it demands are
“fully met” by the close of business Dec. 4.
He cited “a months-long pattern by the DOJ and FBI of
stonewalling and obstructing this Committee’s oversight
work,” including also withholding subpoenaed information
about their use of an opposition research dossier that
targeted Trump in the 2016 election.
Attorney General Jeff Sessions would not be a target of
any contempt action by the committee, Nunes has said,
because he recused himself from any investigation into
charges that Russia meddled in the election.
Justice Department spokeswoman Sara Isgur Flores said in
an email that
 “we disagree with the chairman’s
characterization and will continue to work
with congressional committees to provide
the information they request consistent with
our national security responsibilities.”
Documents and Briefings
The department has already provided members of House
leadership and the Intelligence Committee with “several
hundred pages of classified documents” and multiple
briefings -- including whether any FBI payments were
made related to the dossier -- and has cleared witnesses
including McCabe and Strzok to testify, she said.
The House committee’s top Democrat, Representative
Adam Schiff of California, responded in a statement that
the Department of Justice inspector general is “properly
investigating the handling of the investigation, including
the current allegation of bias” by Strzok.
“I am concerned, however, that our
chairman is willing to use the subpoena
and contempt power of the House, not to
determine how the Russians interfered in
our election or whether the president
obstructed Justice, but only to distract from
the core of our investigation,” Schiff said.
Salacious Allegations
The dossier, which included salacious allegations about
Trump, was paid for in part by the Democratic National
Committee and Clinton through a law firm. Nunes and
other committee Republicans -- backed by Speaker Paul
Ryan -- say they want to investigate whether the Justice
Department and FBI may have improperly relied on the
dossier to kick-start federal surveillance that caught up
Trump associates, without independently confirming the
information they used to justify such spying.
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“The DOJ has now expressed -- on a
Saturday, just hours after the press reports
on Strzok’s dismissal appeared -- sudden
willingness to comply with some of the
Committee’s long-standing demands,”
Nunes said. “This attempted 11th-hour
accommodation is neither credible nor
believable, and in fact is yet another
example of the DOJ’s disingenuousness
and obstruction.”
Those agencies “should be investigating themselves,” he
said.
If Nunes and Republicans do follow through with the
contempt action, it would be a latest blow against
bipartisanship on a committee that had until recently been
one of the last bastions of comity in a polarized House.
Democrats complain Republicans are increasingly shifting
attention and limited resources in the Russian investigation
away from a main focus of election interference and
potential Trump campaign collusion.
The committee’s infighting has stepped up since October,
coinciding with Democratic complaints that Nunes has
returned to a more active capacity for Republicans in the
committee’s Russia investigation.
Nunes said April 6 he was stepping back amid criticism of
his handling of classified material, reportedly obtained
from White House officials, that he said showed officials
of former President Barack Obama’s administration
“unmasked” the identities of people close to Trump who
were mentioned in legal surveillance of foreign
individuals.
Representative Michael Conaway of Texas officially has
taken over the Republican reins from Nunes on the
investigation. But Nunes’s statement Saturday is another
signal he’s returned to a leading role.
 ABC’s Fake News About
Flynn & Russia Causes Stocks To Crash
Published Time: 2 Dec, 2017 10:38 Edited Time: 3 Dec, 2017 07:55

apology. Calling false reporting a ‘clarification’ is a cop

out and just another reason for the decline in trust of the
media.”

ABC News falsely claimed that then-presidential candidate

Donald Trump ordered Lt Gen Michael Flynn to contact Former TV anchor and political commentator Greta Van
Russian officials during the 2016 campaign. Following the Sustern had a similar reaction to the flawed bombshell
report, the stock market tumbled and many people called report by ABC News, and wrote: “Blunders like this are
out the network on Twitter. why so few trust media”

The initial report from ABC News investigative reporter

Brian Ross, which aired during the “Special Report”
program at about 11am on Friday, stated that an
anonymous source told the reporter a close associate of
Flynn was ready to testify that Trump had “directed him to
make contact with the Russians” during the 2016
presidential campaign.

Ross later corrected the report on ABC News’ Friday night

edition of “World News Tonight,” telling audiences that
the source who had provided the initial information told A Twitter user named Josh Jordan suggested in a tweet
him later on that President Trump was actually president- that “ABC News and Brian Ross” helped Trump more than
elect when he asked Flynn to contact Russia. the president could have asked for with their
“irresponsible Flynn plea deal reporting.”
ABC News subsequently reported that then-President Elect
Trump ordered Flynn to contact Russia in order to find
ways to repair relations between the two countries.

In any event, the news appeared to have done some

damage, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average
plummeting more than 350 points. It recovered by the end
of the day.

Unfortunately for ABC, that wasn’t the end of the fallout

from the faulty reporting: Twitter later erupted in reaction
to the initial report.
Former White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer took to
his Twitter, saying that “ABC ‘news’ owes it viewers an
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This is not the first time a flawed report about alleged
Russian election meddling has hit the airwaves. In
September, NBC News also falsely reported on such
alleged interference.
In late September, Homeland Security spokesman Scott
McConnell notified 21 states that the department told “the
Secretary of State or other chief election officer in each
state of any potential targeting we were aware of in their
state leading up to the 2016 election.”
NBC Politics later sent out what they called a clarification,
but Pro Publica election reporter Jessica Huseman was
quick to criticize the news outlet’s errors and said: “You
do not ‘clarify’ false information. You delete and correct.”

The notification from the DHS did not mention any

election hacking, but NBC Politics tweeted out the story as
“JUST IN: ‘Russian government cyber actors’
unsuccessfully attempted to hack 2016 election results in
Wisconsin, DHS tells state officials.”

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 Obama FBI Tried Silencing Whistleblower
On Clinton-Lynch Tarmac Meeting, Documents Reveal
By Joshua Philipp, The Epoch Times
December 1, 2017 7:44 Pm Last Updated: December 3, 2017 11:20 Am
Susan Rice (C) looks on as Former President Barack Obama (L) and
US Trade Representative Michael Froman (R) meet with Vietnam's
Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc in Hanoi on May 23, 2016. (JIM
WATSON/AFP/Getty Images)
The FBI tried covering up a secret meeting between former
President Bill Clinton and former Attorney General Loretta
Lynch on June 27, 2016, in Phoenix, Arizona. The meeting
took place just six days before former FBI director James
Comey cleared Hillary Clinton of charges in her email
scandal.
During testimony in May, Comey said he believed the
tarmac meeting undermined the Justice Department’s
credibility on the Clinton email case; and Comey also
revealed Lynch directed him to describe the investigation
into Clinton a “matter,” wording that aligned with the
Clinton campaign’s framing.
Judicial Watch, a conservative, non-partisan watchdog
group, filed a freedom of information requests with the
FBI and Department of Justice (DOJ) for records on the
meeting. The FBI initially claimed there were no records,
but after DOJ documents revealed communications on the
meeting with the FBI, the FBI agreed to release the
documents.
On Nov. 29, the FBI provided the 29-page report to
Judicial Watch, which the watchdog group published on its
website the same day.
The documents are mainly emails from after the meeting
and reveal that the FBI tried covering up the secret
meeting by silencing a whistleblower who had revealed it
to the public.
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In an email, the FBI cites a July 1, 2016, news article from
the Observer, which cites an unnamed “security source”
who was allegedly present during the nearly-half-hour
meeting between Clinton and Lynch, and who said Bill
Clinton
“talked in her plane for at least 20 to 25
minutes and the FBI is standing face to
face with the Secret Service and just
chatting on the hot tarmac like, ‘what the
hell.’”
The FBI urged what appears to be 22 agents, whose names
are redacted, to read the Observer article, and states that
the unnamed source in the article may be a Phoenix police
officer who helped with the motorcades, and that the FBI
contacted “the Phoenix office” and would contact the
locals “who assisted” in what it described as “an attempt to
stem any further damage.”
It states incidents like this are why their discretion and
judgment are the “foundations” of the
“AG’s trust in our team, which is why we
can never violate that trust, like the source
did in this article.”
The “AG” presumably refers to former attorney general
Lynch.
The emails revealed the FBI aimed to punish and silence
the alleged police officer, first stating “We need to find
that guy and bring him or her before a supervisor and opr,”
and also suggests they should require personnel to sign
non-disclosure agreements in the future.
The mention of “opr” presumably refers to an Office of
Professional Responsibility, which would investigate
misconduct by law enforcement.
Another email says that an affiliate in
Phoenix said the meeting between Lynch
and Clinton lasted for “close to an hour”
and that “They seem to think it’s somehow
connected to the Benghazi report released
today.”
The June 28, 2016, Benghazi report from House
Republicans detailed the Sept. 11, 2012, attacks on U.S.
embassy in Libya, which killed Ambassador Chris
Stevens, U.S. Foreign Service officer Sean Smith, and CIA
contractors Tyrone Woods and Glen Doherty. The incident
sparked the investigations into then-Secretary of State
Hillary Clinton’s emails.
According to a Judicial Watch release, the Clinton-Lynch
tarmac meeting
“came just days before former FBI Director
James Comey held the July 5, 2016, press
conference in which he announced that no
charges would be filed against Mrs.
Clinton.”
It adds that in his May 3 testimony before the Senate
Judicial Committee,
“Comey said the Lynch-Clinton tarmac
meeting was the ‘capper’ among ‘a number
of things’ that had caused him to determine
that Department of Justice leadership
.
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‘could not credibly complete the
investigation and decline prosecution
without grievous damage to the American
people’s confidence in the justice system.'”
Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton said in the release
that the new documents show
“the FBI was more concerned about a
whistleblower who told the truth about the
infamous Clinton-Lynch tarmac meeting
than the scandalous meeting itself.”
“The documents show the FBI worked to
make sure no more details of the meeting
would be revealed to the American people.
No wonder the FBI didn’t turn these
documents over until Judicial Watch caught
the agency red-handed hiding them,” Fitton
said. “These new documents confirm the
urgent need to reopen the Clinton email
scandal and criminally investigate the
resulting Obama FBI/DOJ sham
investigation.”
 Who’s Behind ABC’s Fake News About Flynn?
Brian Ross’s Journalistic Blunders
Published Time: 2 Dec, 2017 20:09 Edited Time: 3 Dec, 2017 07:57
Journalist Brian Ross © Brad Barket / AFP
Journalist Brian Ross’s inaccurate report on Mike Flynn’s
guilty plea on Friday caused stocks to plummet and forced
ABC to issue a correction, but this isn’t the first time he’s
been caught making fake news.
Citing anonymous officials, Ross claimed Flynn agreed to
testify that candidate Trump told him to contact the
Russians during the election on ABC’s “Special Report.”
However, the source told Ross that the order came when
Trump had already won the election and was president-
elect.
ABC News has now announced it has suspended Brian
Ross for four weeks without pay, following the faulty
reporting.
Ross, an award-winning investigative reporter working for
ABC for more than two decades, has made something of a
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career of explosive reports that later transpire to be
inaccurate, or “fake news.”
ANTHRAX
In 2001, Ross reported that anthrax attacks in the US were
likely the work of Iraq. Citing four anonymous sources,
Ross claimed the anthrax contained bentonite, which was
“known to have been used by only one country in
producing biochemical weapons - Iraq."
At the time, Ross was in good company, with Senator John
McCain also suggesting the anthrax was the work of Iraqi
leader Saddam Hussein. The White House, on the other
hand, said“no tests ever found or even suggested the
presence of bentonite.” The FBI later concluded that the
attacks were carried out by US Army biodefense expert
Brucer Ivins, and not Hussein, who at that stage was long
dead following the 2003 US Iraq invasion.
AURORA SHOOTER
Following the Aurora, Colorado, theater shooting in 2012,
Ross told “Good Morning America” that he had
discovered that shooter Jim Holmes may be a member of The footage showed the car’s tachometer going from 1,000
the Colorado Tea Party. RPM to 6,000 RPM in one second, but the dashboard
lights also revealed the car was parked with the doors open
His investigation amounted to finding someone with the
at the time. This was then spliced into scenes of Ross
same name on a Tea Party Patriots website. ABC later
driving the car in the report, Gawker reports.
issued a correction.
FORT HOOD SHOOTER
In 2009, Ross claimed he had uncovered how Fort Hood
shooter Nidal Malik Hasan had attempted to reach out to
“people associated with al Qaeda.” His report sparked
theories that the Fort Hood shooting which left 13 dead
was part of a larger terrorist plot.
Ross’ scoop was based on Hasan’s emails to one
individual, Anwar al-Awlaki, a cleric living in Yemen who
used to be the iman of Hasan’s mosque in Virginia. The
FBI was already aware of these emails, which consisted of
conversation about academic research, and had found they
didn’t warrant investigation. When pressed on his claims,
Ross admitted that the “people” he was referring to was
just Awlaki.
Hasan later told the court that he was attempting to defend
the leaders of the Taliban.
FAKE TOYOTA
Ross reported in 2010 that Toyota cars had “unintended
acceleration.” Ross demonstrated this in an on-air report
showing him driving one of the cars going out of control.
.

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 ABC News Suspends Brian Ross
Over 'Serious Error' In Trump-Flynn Report
By Samuel Chamberlain | Fox News
December 3, 2017
ABC NEWS - 7/18/16 - Coverage of the 2016 Republican National
Convention from the Convention Center in Cleveland, Ohio, which
airs on all ABC News programs and platforms. (Photo by Ida Mae
Astute/ABC via Getty Images) BRIAN ROSS (2016 American
Broadcasting Companies, Inc.)
ABC News announced Saturday that Chief Investigative
Correspondent Brian Ross would be suspended for four
weeks without pay over a botched "exclusive" about
former national security adviser Michael Flynn.
.
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During a live "special report" Friday morning, Ross
reported that Flynn would testify that Donald Trump had
ordered him to make contact with Russians about foreign
policy while he was still a candidate. The report raised the
specter of Trump's impeachment and sent the stock market
plummeting.
Later in the day, ABC issued a "clarification" to Ross's
report, saying that Trump's alleged directive came after
he'd been elected president. Ross himself appeared on
"World News Tonight," several hours after the initial
report, to clarify his error.
In a statement, ABC News said Ross' report "had not been
fully vetted through our editorial standards process."
"It is vital we get the story right and retain
the trust we have built with our audience,"
ABC's statement added. "These are our
core principles. We fell far short of that
yesterday."
 Trump Calls Out ‘Double Standard’
At DOJ, Compares Mike Flynn To ‘Crooked Hillary’ For
Some Weekend Fireworks
Tom Tillison
December 3, 2017

President Donald Trump called into question Saturday how
former national security adviser Michael Flynn was treated
by the Justice Department when compared to the kid
gloves treatment Hillary Clinton saw.
Resurrecting the infamous “Crooked Hillary” moniker,
Trump took to social media in response to the news that
Flynn pleaded guilty on Friday to lying to the FBI about
his communications with Russia, saying Flynn is being
held to a higher standard than Clinton was during the FBI
investigation into her email server.
after receiving a congressional subpoena for all Benghazi-
related emails — the Clinton camp claimed relevant emails
had already been turned over to the State Department.
President Trump tweeted: “Many people in our Country
are asking what the “Justice” Department is going to do
about the fact that totally Crooked Hillary, AFTER
receiving a subpoena from the United States Congress,
deleted and ‘acid washed’ 33,000 Emails? No justice!”

“So General Flynn lies to the FBI and his

life is destroyed, while Crooked Hillary
Clinton, on that now famous FBI holiday
‘interrogation’ with no swearing-in and no
recording, lies many times…and nothing
happens to her? Rigged system, or just a
double standard?” the president tweeted.

The quotation marks around the word Justice not lost on

those who will note that it’s his DOJ — it would not be the
first time Attorney General Jeff Sessions, who oversees the
department, has faced criticism from his boss.

And while the anti-Trump crowd is crying foul over the

Inexplicably, the bureau does not have a complete
transcript of the interview. Former FBI Director James
Comey also told Congress that Clinton was NOT under
oath at the time.
Driving home his point, Trump reminded the nation that a
Clinton employee deleted 33,000 emails three weeks
.
quotation marks, bemoaning the department’s proud
tradition and its respected employees, the country saw
under former Attorney General Eric Holder that Lady
Justice peeked beneath her blindfold a time or two.
In yet another tweet Saturday, Trump praised ABC News
after the network suspended anchor Brian Ross for falsely
reporting that candidate Trump ordered Flynn to make
contact with Russia — ABC News later clarified that the
direction came AFTER Trump had already been elected.

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 CIA Faces Backlash After
Tweeting Vague Threat At Wikileaks Sources
Cassandra Fairbanks
Dec 3, 2017

staffer Seth Rich, who many believe was the source of the
leaked emails published by WikiLeaks in 2016.

In a bizarre tweet on Saturday evening, the CIA sent a

vague threat to WikiLeaks and their potential sources.

Just after 8:30 p.m., the official account of the CIA sent
out a tweet warning that

“WikiLeaks may think they are protecting

those who provide them with classified
information & other secrets, but they should
not be certain of that.”

The tweet received hundreds of responses from people

questioning if they were threatening the publisher — and
others invoking slain Democratic National Committee

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Rich was shot in the back in the early morning hours of
July 10, 2016, near his home while he was on the phone
with his girlfriend — 12 days before the publication of the
DNC emails by the controversial publisher. The police
initially ruled that it was a botched robbery — but his
wallet, watch, and necklace were still on his person when
he was discovered by police.
WikiLeaks made headlines in 2016 when they offered a
$20,000 reward for information on the murderer of the
slain DNC staffer. The website’s founder Julian Assange
also mentioned Rich during an appearance on Dutch
television.
“Whistleblowers go to significant efforts to
get us material and often significant risks.
There was a 27-year old that works for the
DNC who was shot in the back…
murdered.. for unknown reasons as he was
walking down the street in Washington,”
.
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Assange said during an interview with
Dutch TV last year. When asked by the
host if he would suggest that Rich was
involved, he stated that “we have to
understand how high the stakes are in the
United States and that our sources face
serious risks… that’s why they come to us
so we can protect their anonymity.”
The murder remains unsolved and no suspects have ever
been named.
While members of the mainstream media often pretend to
be champions of a free press there has been radio silence
from them on the threat against WikiLeaks sources. It is
hard to imagine that there would not be outrage from all
corners of the press if a tweet like this had been directed at
the Washington Post or New York Times — who obviously
also rely on leaks for their reporting.
 Holder, Comey Fight
Trump's FBI Slam: 'Not Letting This Go'
By Nicole Darrah | Fox News
December 3, 2017

running the FBI, its reputation is in Tatters

– worst in history! But fear not, we will bring
it back to greatness.”

Former Attorney General Eric Holder and ex-FBI Director
James Comey fired back Sunday at President Trump, who
claimed the FBI’s reputation is in “tatters” after
its handling of the Hillary Clinton email investigation.
“Nope. Not letting this go. The FBI’s
reputation is not in 'tatters,'” Holder, who
served as attorney general under President
Obama, tweeted. “It’s composed of the
same dedicated men and women who have
always worked there and who do a great,
apolitical job.”
The president’s tweet followed news that FBI agent Peter
Strzok was removed from special counsel Robert
Mueller’s investigation into possible collusion between the
Trump campaign and Russia because of anti-Trump text
messages he may have sent.
Meanwhile, Comey tweeted what seemed to be a response
of his own, quoting a statement he gave to the Senate
Intelligence Committee last June:
“I want the American people to know this
truth: The FBI is honest. The FBI is strong.
And the FBI is, and always will be,
independent.”

Holder added,

“You’ll find integrity and honesty at FBI

headquarters and not at 1600 Penn Ave
right now,” referring to the White House.

Trump earlier Sunday said that

“after years of Comey, with the phony and

dishonest Clinton investigation (and more),
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 Former Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates, who was
fired by Trump after she sent a memo instructing Justice
Department attorneys not to defend the administration's
refugee ban, tweeted Sunday night:

"The FBI is in 'tatters?' No. The only thing

in tatters is the President’s respect for the
rule of law. The dedicated men and women
of the FBI deserve better."
The FBI Agents Association also chimed in. FBIAA
President Thomas O’Connor said:

“Every day, FBI Special Agents put their

lives on the line to protect the American
public from national security and criminal
threats. Agents perform these duties with
unwavering integrity and professionalism
and a focus on complying with the law and
the Constitution.”
Trump frequently has asked why the FBI and the Justice
Department haven’t filed criminal charges against Clinton.

Later Sunday, he tweeted,

“Now it all starts to make sense!”

in response to word that the Justice Department’s Office of

the Inspector General is reviewing the role Strzok played
in the Clinton email investigation.

O’Connor continued,

”This is why the FBI continues to be the

premier law enforcement agency in the
world. FBI Agents are dedicated to their
mission; suggesting otherwise is simply
false.”
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 Jared Kushner Failed To Disclose He Led A Foundation
Funding Illegal Israeli Settlements Before U.N. Vote
By Chris Riotta
On 12/3/17 At 6:00 AM

"Every successive failure to disclose his

financial holdings makes it harder and
harder to believe Jared Kushner isn't trying
to intentionally deceive the American
people," Pat Dennis, the group’s research
director, told Newsweek. "At the very least,
his security clearance needs to be revoked
immediately. He has no business
accessing sensitive national security
information."

Jared Kushner failed to disclose his role as a co-director of

the Charles and Seryl Kushner Foundation from 2006 to
2015, a time when the group funded an Israeli settlement
considered to be illegal under international law, on
financial records he filed with the Office of Government
Ethics earlier this year.

The latest development follows reports on Friday

indicating the White House senior adviser attempted to
sway a United Nations Security Council vote against an
anti-settlement resolution passed just before Donald
Trump took office, which condemned the structure of West
Bank settlements. The failure to disclose his role in the
foundation—at a time when he was being tasked with Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump making their way to board Air
serving as the president’s Middle East peace envoy— Force One before departing from Ben Gurion International Airport
in Tel Aviv on May 23. Mandel Ngan, Getty
follows a pattern of egregious omissions that would bar
any other official from continuing to serve in the West
Wing, experts and officials told Newsweek. The foundation donated at least $38,000 between 2011 and
2013 to a fundraising group building a Jewish seminary in
a West Bank settlement known as Beit El. During that
The first son-in-law has repeatedly amended his financial
period, Kushner’s foundation also donated an additional
records since his initial filing in March, along with three
$20,000 to Jewish and educational institutions in
separate revisions to his security clearance application.
settlements throughout the region, the Associated Press
Despite correcting his financial history on multiple
reported. Had Kushner included the role in his financial
occasions, he has yet to include his role as co-director to
records, his involvement in such donations—and the
the family foundation.
following conflicts of interest that could possibly arise in
his government position—may have been considered by
The omission was first discovered by a team of researchers the Office of Government Ethics.
at American Bridge, a progressive research and
communications organization, and shared exclusively with
Despite the U.S.’s long-standing policy to diplomatically
Newsweek on Friday afternoon. The researchers suggested
reject the construction of Israeli settlements, Kushner
Kushner’s failure may have been more than an inadvertent
seemed to wave in a new diplomatic era among members
mistake, but instead an attempt to avoid "potential
of Trump’s transition team working on foreign issues,
conflicts with his job negotiating Middle East peace."
according to sources who spoke with The Washington
Newsweek later independently confirmed Kushner's
Post, NBC, BuzzFeed and Bloomberg. Each of those
omission on his multiple financial disclosures.
reports pointed at Kushner as being the "very senior

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member" of the transition team mentioned in charging
documents special counsel Robert Mueller filed Friday.
Kushner demanded future national security adviser
Michael Flynn "get on the phone to every member of the
Security Council and tell them to delay the vote" on the
West Bank settlement resolution, BuzzFeed reported
Friday. The move may have violated the 200-years-old law
called the Logan Act, which bars "unauthorized
citizens" from negotiating with "foreign governments
having a dispute with the United States."
Flynn’s guilty plea appears to indicate he’s cooperating
with Mueller’s team and could be willing to shed more
light on how critical decisions were made throughout the
transition, as well as on Russia’s impact in the 2016
presidential election.
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"My guilty plea and agreement to cooperate
with the Special Counsel’s Office reflect a
decision I made in the best interests of my
family and of our country," Flynn said in a
statement. "I accept full responsibility for
my actions."
Kushner stated that he was a member of the board of
directors of the Kushner Family Foundation from 2010 to
2017, though publicly available financial records for that
foundation do not include his name on the board. Instead,
Kushner’s role as a director for one of his family
foundations can be found in the Charles and Seryl Kushner
Foundation’s financial records from 2015—the last year of
which such documents are currently available to the
public.
Whether Kushner’s latest discovered omission was
intentional or not remained a mystery on Friday afternoon,
as news was exploding surrounding his involvement in the
U.N. Security Council vote, which ultimately approved the
resolution condemning West Bank settlements.
Representatives for the Office of Government Ethics,
Jared Kushner, and the Charles and Seryl Kushner
Foundation did not immediately respond to requests for
comment.
"He’s revised his forms several times
already," Dennis said. "There’s no reason
his lawyers couldn’t have done what our
researchers did. It wasn’t rocket science."
 Trump Says FBI’s Reputation
‘Worst In History’, Blames Comey
© AP Photo/ Mark Schiefelbein - US
23:59 03.12.2017(Updated 00:00 04.12.2017)
President Trump slammed Federal Bureau of
Investigation's reputation in his Twitter post, promising
however to "bring it back to greatness."
MOSCOW (Sputnik) — The US Federal Bureau
of Investigation has discredited its reputation after years
of fired FBI director James Comey’s leadership, US
President Donald Trump said on Sunday, pointing to
"dishonest" investigation into former US State Secretary
Hillary Clinton's handling of classified information on her
private email account among other issues.
"After years of Comey, with the phony and
dishonest Clinton investigation (and more),
running the FBI, its reputation is
in Tatters…" Trump wrote on Twitter.
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Clinton used a private server and email accounts
for official business during her tenure as secretary of state
from 2009 to 2013 contrary to US regulations and
established practice. The investigation into the case was
closed in July 2015 after the FBI concluded that Clinton
was "extremely careless" in handling her email system
but recommended that no charges be filed against her.
The FBI reopened the probe prior to the November 8 US
presidential election over newly discovered emails that
may be pertinent to the case. However, the agency stood
by its earlier conclusion.
In May, Trump fired Comey over the poor handling of the
investigation into the Clinton private server and email
scandal. On November 14, US Attorney General Jeff
Sessions said that the US Department of Justice will
conduct a thorough, unbiased investigation into Clinton's
mishandling of classified information, in a congressional
hearing on Tuesday.
 Feinstein: Senate Judiciary Now
Sees Possibility Of Trump Obstruction Case
By Joseph Weber | Fox News
December 3, 2017

California Sen. Dianne Feinstein, the top Democrat on the
Senate Judiciary Committee, said Sunday the panel has
started to see "the putting together of a case of obstruction
of justice" against President Trump.
The senator told NBC’s “Meet the Press” that her
analysis is based on Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s
Russia collusion probe that has recently resulted in
indictments against former Trump campaign officials Paul
Manafort and Rick Gates and guilty pleas by former
National Security Adviser Michael Flynn and former
campaign adviser George Papadopoulos.
Feinstein also said she believed Trump's firing of FBI
Director James Comey came
"directly because he did not agree to lift the
cloud of the Russia investigation," saying,
"That's obstruction of justice."
She also suggested she had a revelation last month that
Trump is not fit to do the job, after saying in August that
he could be “a good president,” which sparked outrage
from the party’s progressive wing and a 2018 primary
challenge for her Senate seat.

She also pointed to "the continual tweets" from the White The Associated Press contributed to this report.
House on the matter. However, she provided no specific
information that the Senate panel had to suggest its
members have been piecing together an obstruction case.

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 Trump Twitter Meltdown: President Goes
To War With FBI, Urges Suing ABC For "Bad Reporting"
By Tyler Durden
Dec 3, 2017 11:50 AM
This weekend may set a new record for number of Trump
tweets and retweets. Starting with his Saturday
congratulations on the Senate's passage of Tax Reform,
Trump has interacted no less than 17 times with his
favorite social platform, although things seemed to
accelerate following his Saturday noon tweet in which
Trump responded to Flynn's plea agreement in which the
president said that
"I had to fire General Flynn because he lied
to the Vice President and the FBI. He has
pled guilty to those lies. It is a shame
because his actions during the transition
were lawful. There was nothing to hide!"
The odd wording of that tweet - that he knew Flynn had
lied to the FBI at the time of his firing - prompted many to
speculate that it was prima facie admission of obstruction
and interference - something Mueller is tasked with
proving - and led to the unprecedented comment by
Trump's personal lawyer, John Dowd, who said he drafted
the president's Saturday morning. Dowd told ABC News
he wrote those words and had done so in a "sloppy"
manner.
The reason for Dowd's comment is that Trump's tweet
seemed to "add a potentially explosive new dimension" to
the ongoing investigation, because as ABC notes, if what
Trump, or his lawyer, said is true, why then would Trump
ask the FBI director to go easy on Flynn, as former FBI
Director James Comey later testified? The message set off
renewed talk of potential evidence of obstruction of
justice.
As ABC further adds this morning, Dowd's acknow-
ledgment of involvement in the tweet means it is not clear
whether the president did in fact know Flynn had lied to
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the FBI at the time of firing him -- though one source
familiar with the president’s thinking said Trump did not
know. Administration officials have declined to comment
on that matter, as well.
The unusual clarification by Dowd –-revealing that
someone other than Trump himself had authored a tweet
from his official account - could also be an attempt to tamp
down on potential legal exposure from the message.
The president did not respond to shouted questions
Saturday evening about Flynn’s firing as he returned home
from campaign fundraisers in New York City.
While we expect Trump's Saturday tweet to once again
shape the news cycle for the next several days, at least
until the inevitable and "distracting" war with North Korea
finally begins, even as the debate rages what tweets does
Trump personally publish and which are drafted by his
lawyers, in what appears to have been an attempt to
distract from the "confession" fallout, Trump went on a
veritable twitter rampage on Saturday night, which has
since continued into Sunday morning.
Late on Saturday, Trump launched a new attack on Hillary
and the Justice Department over Hillary's mishandling of
emails, writing,
"So General Flynn lies to the FBI and his
life is destroyed, while Crooked Hillary
Clinton, on that now famous FBI holiday
“interrogation” with no swearing in and no
recording, lies many times...and nothing
happens to her? Rigged system, or just a
double standard?"
He then continued:
"Many people in our Country are asking
what the “Justice” Department is going to
do about the fact that totally Crooked
Hillary, AFTER receiving a subpoena from
the United States Congress, deleted and
“acid washed” 33,000 Emails? No justice!"
 STRZOK actually LED the Hillary email
probe & recommended clearing her; then
was tapped to SUPERVISE the Trump
Russia probe!

Wray needs to clean house. Now we know the

politicization even worse than McCabe's ties to
McAuliffe/Clinton. It also infected his top investigator
PETER STRZOK, who sent texts bashing Trump &
praising Hillary during campaign. Strzok led Hillary probe
& supervised Trump probe!

In response, Trump then lashed out at the FBI in general,

and Comey in particular, with a barrage of tweets, the most
comprehensive of which was

"Report: “ANTI-TRUMP FBI AGENT LED

CLINTON EMAIL PROBE” Now it all
starts to make sense!"

He then proceeded with the previously discussed slam of

ABC News' Brian Ross, congratulating the network for

"suspending Brian Ross for his

horrendously inaccurate and dishonest
report on the Russia, Russia, Russia Witch
Hunt. More Networks and “papers” should
do the same with their Fake News!"
preceded by

"Tainted (no, very dishonest?) FBI

“agent’s role in Clinton probe under
review.” Led Clinton Email probe.
@foxandfriends Clinton money going to
wife of another FBI agent in charge."...

And while that concluded the Saturday night tweetstorm,

Trump was back this morning and angrier than ever, when
he discovered the story about the "tainted" FBI agent, Peter
Strzok, who as we reported yesterday, was said to have
been "removed" from the Mueller probe (and who
previously was tasked with investigating the Clinton email
server), after anti-Trump text messages were discovered in Ultimately, Trump slammed of both the agency and its
his communications to a fellow FBI officer, with whom he former head
had an extramarital affair.
"After years of Comey, with the phony and
Trump started by retweeting IBD's Paul Sperry, who dishonest Clinton investigation (and more),
recapped the situation as follows: running the FBI, its reputation is in Tatters -
worst in History! But fear not, we will bring
BREAKING: top FBI investigator for it back to greatness."
Mueller--PETER STRZOK--busted sending
political text messages bashing Trump &
praising Hillary during the 2016 campaign.

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 Trump wasn't done, however, and shortly after his last
tweet on the FBI, he shifted attention to last week's "Kate's
Law" ruling in San Francisco, tweeting

"Such a total miscarriage of Justice in

San Francisco!"...

And speaking of Comey, it was before 6 am when Trump,

seeming concerned about the implications of the Dowd
tweet snafu, tweeted

"I never asked Comey to stop investigating

Flynn. Just more Fake News covering
another Comey lie!" ... before reverting once again to the ABC reporting snafu,
urging

"People who lost money when the Stock

Market went down 350 points based on
the False and Dishonest reporting of
Brian Ross of @ABC News (he has been
suspended), should consider hiring a
lawyer and suing ABC for the damages
this bad reporting has caused - many
millions of dollars!"
The BBC's Paul Danager perhaps summarized the ongoing
fracture in the realtionship between Trump and the FBI:

"Not since Nixon has a US President

been this at war with the FBI. It’s
destructive for both arms of
government."

And since Gen. Kelly has clearly given up any hope of

controlling Trump's twitter account, we can only expect
more, perhaps self-destructive, tweets to come out as
Trump's tweetstorm appears to be nowhere near over.
It still remains to be seen who will win this war.

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 McMaster Speaks To Trump's Tweets,
North Korea And Middle East Peace
By Bradford Betz | Fox News
December 3, 2017
National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster says neither the
American people nor U.S. allies should question the
stability of the Trump administration amid his predecessor
Michael Flynn’s guilty plea and rumors Secretary of State
Rex Tillerson is stepping down.
“No, I don't think our allies need any
reassurance,” McMaster told Chris Wallace
on “Fox News Sunday.” “In fact, what we're
doing is continuing to work with them on all
the key challenges we face today -- from
North Korea, to the defeat of ISIS across
the Greater Middle East -- the ongoing
efforts in Afghanistan, Pakistan, too.”
McMaster reiterated that President Trump’s main priority
is to protect American interests at home and abroad.
Tillerson will continue to be a part of that effort, McMaster
said.
“I'm not aware of any plan at all” for
Tillerson to resign, he said.
Wallace also asked McMaster about the president’s recent
retweets of online posts linked to “Britain First,” a far-
right group in the United Kingdom.
Last week, Trump retweeted a video that purported to
show Muslim immigrants committing acts of violence.
Those depicted in the footage reportedly were European-
born.
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Wallace noted that many British leaders – including Prime
Minister Theresa May – voiced outrage at Trump, saying
the president had “got it wrong” and risked needlessly
stirring racial and ethnic discord.
“General, why did President Trump send
out those videos?” Wallace asked.
“Well, President Trump is the best judge of
why he did that,” McMaster said. “I know it
was his intention to highlight the
importance of creating safe and secure
environments for our citizens -- to make
sure that we have the right laws in place,
enforcement mechanisms in place.”
Wallace then suggested that between the Britain First
retweets and Trump’s support for recognizing Jerusalem as
Israel’s capital, the president might be tossing away any
hope of achieving Middle East peace during his
presidency.
“No, the president's not giving up on the
Mideast peace agreement at all,” McMaster
said.
“There are options involving the move of an
embassy at some point in the future, which
I think, you know, could be used to gain
momentum toward a -- toward a peace
agreement, and a solution that works both
for Israelis and for Palestinians,” McMaster
added.
McMaster also addressed North Korea.
Last week, North Korea launched its longest-range
intercontinental ballistic missile – a provocation to which
President Trump replied,
“I will only tell you that we will take care of
it.”
How exactly would the president “take care of it” given
China and Russia’s complicity in propping up the regime,
Wallace asked.
“Well, the president's going to take care of
it by, if we have to, doing more ourselves,”
McMaster said. “But what we want to do is
convince others it is in their interest to do
more.
“China, as you know, has taken some
unprecedented actions. And what we're
asking China to do is, not do us or anybody
else a favor, but to act in China's interest.
“There's a real grave danger to China, to
Russia, to all nations, by -- you know, from
a North Korea that's armed with nuclear
weapons. And of course, you have that
direct threat, but you also have the threat of
.
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-- the potential of Japan, South Korea,
others, arming themselves, possibly even
with nuclear weapons. That is not in
China's interest; it's not in Russia's interest.
“And so, what the president's saying is, we
all need to take care of it. If necessary, the
president and the United States will have to
take care of it, because he has said he's
not going to allow this murderous, rogue
regime to threaten the United States with
the most destructive weapons on the
planet.”
 Boom: Michael Flynn Pleads Guilty To Lying To The FBI;
But An Obama Aide Went To Russia And Huddled With
Russian Officials BEFORE Obama Was Even Elected
By Jon Rappoport
December 3, 2017
Michael Flynn has pled guilty to lying to the FBI about his
conversation with the Russian Ambassador to the United
States, Sergey Kislyak.
The conversation occurred AFTER Trump won the 2016
election and before he was inaugurated. The conversation
involved US sanctions against Russia and a UN resolution
concerning Israel.
Why did Flynn lie? There was nothing wrong with him
speaking to the Ambassador during the presidential
transition phase. Claims that he was undermining Obama’s
policy toward Russia are nonsense. It’s common practice
for an incoming president’s staff to speak with foreign
officials, in order to set up future goals and policies.
The prosecution against Flynn is of the so-called “process”
variety.
That means, in this case, he lied to federal officials about a
matter that was itself inconsequential.
It’s probable the FBI was holding other charges over
Flynn’s head—relating to his private-sector work on behalf
of the Turkish government. A deal was struck: the FBI
would forget all about that, if Flynn pled guilty to lying
about his conversation with the Russian ambassador, and if
he cooperated by rolling over on other members of the
Trump team.
Michael Flynn is now (ridiculously) seen as having
interfered with President Obama’s policy toward Russia
during Obama’s last days in the White House, in 2016.
But what about CANDIDATE Obama interfering in
President Bush’s policy toward Russia in the fall of 2008,
BEFORE the election?
Geohistory.today has an article, dated October 27, 2008, a
few days before Obama won the presidential election for
the first time, titled, “US Elections Come to Moscow,” by
Anna Wiesfieler:
“Last week [before the 2008 presidential
election] saw the release of Obama’s book,
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The Audacity of Hope, in Russian
translation to Russian markets. One of his
foreign policy advisors, Mike McFaul, also
made a trip to Moscow to meet with various
Russian officials and interest groups,
speaking off the record and answering
questions.”
“McFaul addressed how US relations with
Ukraine and Georgia might affect US-
Russia relations in the future [!]. Speaking
at the Peking Hotel in Moscow at an event
organized by Democrats Abroad Russia for
Americans living in Russia, McFaul
established that this is potentially a major
campaign issue for Senator Obama. There
are a large number of swing voters (several
million) whose heritage comes from
Eastern Europe or the Caucasus region.
For these voters, US-Russia relations and
relations with states in those regions has
become a vital issue that could potentially
swing votes to one candidate or the other.”
“The day before, at the Carnegie
Endowment Center in Moscow, McFaul
also fielded questions ranging from
explanations of the primary and general
election process to the August crisis in
Georgia and Russia’s concerns about
Ukraine and Georgia receiving NATO
membership action plans.”
“Pointing to a number of Senator Obama’s
statements, including one from April 2008
(before the crisis) where Senator Obama
was concerned that violence may erupt in
the southern part of the Republic of
Georgia, McFaul conveyed concern about
the situation in the Caucasus. Speaking to
NATO enlargement, he noted, as have
many others, that both US candidates for
president support NATO expansion.
However, Senator Obama has consistently
referred to NATO rules whereby the people
of a candidate state must support entry into
NATO and that NATO rules state that not
only must territorial disputes be resolved
before entry into the Alliance, but that a
 member state cannot use violence against
its own people.”
Talk about sticking fingers in the foreign policy of the
US—and BEFORE Obama was elected!
Contrast Obama’s and McFaul’s 2008 actions to Mike
Flynn’s in 2016.
Imagine what the press would be screaming now, if
CANDIDATE Trump had sent Mike Flynn to Russia,
BEFORE the 2016 election, to chat with officials about
Trump’s future policy goals regarding Russia.
In 2008, the compliant US press, fawning over Obama,
saw nothing that rose to the level of a scandal.
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The current blow-up about Flynn is coming out of
pretended media shock, playing to a naïve public encased
in a television bubble. Since the American Revolution of
1776, US politicians, military men, business leaders,
intelligence operatives, and financiers have been traveling
to foreign countries, seeking and coercing front-door and
back-door and side-door deals. To say George
Washington’s warning about “entangling foreign
alliances” has been ignored is a vast understatement. Mike
Flynn’s recent conversation with the Russian ambassador
is a sub-atomic ripple in the pond.
Police Captain Renault (“Casablanca,” 1942):
“I’m shocked, shocked to find that gambling
is going on in here!” A croupier hands
Renault a pile of money. Croupier: “Your
winnings, sir.”
 Trump Reloads On FBI's Clinton Email Probe,
After Reports Of 'Tainted' Anti-Trump Agent
By Joseph Weber | Fox News
December 3, 2017

President Trump suggested Sunday that news reports about “Tainted (no, very dishonest?) FBI ‘agent’s
an FBI agent on the agency’s Hillary Clinton email role in Clinton probe under review.’ Led
investigation who also opposed Trump explains why the Clinton Email probe.
Clinton case was closed without criminal charges.
@foxandfriends Clinton money going to
“Report: ‘ANTI-TRUMP FBI AGENT LED wife of another FBI agent in charge,”
CLINTON EMAIL PROBE’ Now it all Trump said in one of the other tweets
starts to make sense!” Trump said in one Sunday.
of three tweets Sunday on the issue.

The office of Special Counsel Robert Mueller confirmed

with Fox News on Saturday that agent Peter Strzok had
been removed from Mueller’s investigation into Russia
collusion after the Justice Department’s inspector general
started examining Strzok's electronic messages with a
colleague, which reportedly included ones that were anti-
Trump and pro-Hillary Clinton.

“After years of Comey, with the phony

Strzok worked on the FBI investigation last year into and dishonest Clinton investigation
whether Clinton, then the Democratic presidential (and more), running the FBI, its
nominee, mishandled classified information through her reputation is in Tatters - worst in
use of private email servers while secretary of state. History! But fear not, we will bring it
back to greatness, Trump added.”
The federal investigation was led by then-FBI Director
James Comey, who concluded the probe in July 2016,
about four months before Election Day. Comey said
Clinton had been “extremely careless,” but recommend to
then-Attorney General Loretta Lynch that she not pursue
criminal charges.

Lynch had recused herself from the investigation after

talking privately with Clinton’s husband, former President
Bill Clinton.

Two senior Justice Department officials confirmed to Fox

News last Saturday that the agency’s Office of Inspector Obama-era Attorney General Eric Holder responded:
General is reviewing the role played by Strzok in the
Clinton investigation.
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“Nope. Not letting this go. The FBI’s
reputation is not in 'tatters'. It’s composed
of the same dedicated men and women
who have always worked there and who do
a great, apolitical job. You’ll find integrity
.
and honesty at FBI headquarters and not at
1600 Penn Ave right now.”
Strzok was a former deputy director for counterintelligence
at the FBI who has been reassigned.

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 MSNBC Kommissar Maddow: Flynn Should Have Been
Manhandled, Made To Disappear
By Jack Coleman
December 3, 2017 5:03 PM EST
In May 2010, a determined but hapless jihadist tried and
failed to set off a bomb on a busy Saturday night in Times
Square. Looking back at that botched terrorist attack in the
heart of midtown Manhattan, two things stand out -- the
magnitude of the explosion had it been detonated, and
Rachel Maddow's hand-wringing for the alleged Miranda
rights of the suspected bomber.
I say "alleged" because there is a public safety exception to
Miranda that was invoked by the FBI, just in case the
accused was part of a wider plot and might be compelled
to spill his guts and thereby prevent the slaughter of
innocent people, instead of being promptly told upon his
arrest that he could clam up and hide behind a lawyer.
All of this came to mind after watching Maddow on Friday
night reporting on Mike Flynn pleading guilty to providing
false information to the FBI. As she's done with tiresome
repetition since President Trump took office, Maddow
revisited Flynn's journey from Trump campaign advocate
to national security adviser, focusing on his lobbying for
the Turkish government.
MADDOW: During the transition, the transition knew
about it. Congress notified the transition that Mike Flynn
appeared to be on a foreign government payroll during the
transition and Flynn himself and his attorneys told the
transition that he was A, on a foreign payroll and B, in
trouble for it, under investigation. And once again, the
Trump transition appears to have just had no reaction to
that information whatsoever, despite the fact they were in
the process of installing him as national security adviser.
Flynn was "appointed" national security adviser. He was
not "installed" as pope --
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MADDOW: Your national security adviser is on a foreign
payroll. Oh yeah? Huh (Maddow acting mock non-
chalant). And then immediately after the inauguration, they
got more alarming and intense and unusual warnings about
Mike Flynn when the acting attorney general of the United
States came to the White House in person, twice, to have
detailed discussions with the White House counsel about
the fact that national security adviser Mike Flynn was
believed to be compromised by the Russian government,
vulnerable to blackmail, and dishonest in an ongoing way
about his covert communications with a foreign
government.
I mean, if you found out information like
that concerning somebody who is like
working in the White House mailroom,
you'd expect the White House version of
a SWAT team to come in, grab that
person by the armpits, and you never
see them again after they ran them out
the door, right?
"You'd expect" that, would you? Speak for yourself,
comrade. Comes across as more than a tad authoritarian to
these ears. It also sounds eerily familiar. When have I
previously heard Maddow describe government agents
roughly hauling a suspect into custody? What follows are
two excerpts from her show on Jan. 26, 2017.
MADDOW: Novaya Gazeta reports today
that in early December there was a high-
level FSB meeting underway. Again, FSB
is what the KGB became. It was a high-
level FSB meeting underway, it was a
regular meeting that included the deputy
chief of the cyber unit of the FSB. That unit
 was called the Information Security
Department (Center) of the FSB and the
deputy chief of that unit was at that meeting
sitting at a table when officers burst into the
room, grabbed him, they grabbed the
deputy chief of the cyber unit at the FSB,
they grabbed him at this meeting in
front of all the other people at the
meeting. They put a bag over his head
and they bodily dragged him out of the
room. And that's the last time anybody's
ever seen him. ...
I mean, imagine if the head of the cyber
unit in the CIA or the FBI, sitting there in a
meeting at the CIA or the FBI and officers
come in, throw a bag over his head,
drag him away and nobody hears about
it for more than a month and nobody
sees him since. But this dramatic thing
that happened in Russia -- it's dramatic
for Russia -- it may also be important for
. The federal investigation was led by then-FBI Director
President Trump suggested Sunday that news reports about
an FBI agent on the agency’s Hillary Clinton email
investigation who also opposed Trump explains why the
Clinton case was closed without criminal charges.
“Report: ‘ANTI-TRUMP FBI AGENT LED
CLINTON EMAIL PROBE’ Now it all starts
to make sense!” Trump said in one of three
tweets Sunday on the issue.
The office of Special Counsel Robert Mueller confirmed
with Fox News on Saturday that agent Peter Strzok had
been removed from Mueller’s investigation into Russia
collusion after the Justice Department’s inspector general
started examining Strzok's electronic messages with a
colleague, which reportedly included ones that were anti-
Trump and pro-Hillary Clinton.
Strzok worked on the FBI investigation last year into
whether Clinton, then the Democratic presidential
nominee, mishandled classified information through her
use of private email servers while secretary of state.
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what's going on in our country right
now.
"But this dramatic thing that happened in Russia" -- and
according to Maddow, "you'd expect" something nearly
identical to happen in this country, especially when the
suspect is a high-level adviser to a loathed Republican
politician. And when Maddow says "you'd expect," she
doesn't mean you, dear reader, devoted as you are to due
process and the rule of law. Maddow means what she and
her comparably unhinged viewers would expect. Sigh, if
only things could be like they are in Russia, which must
otherwise be demonized on an hourly basis since Trump
took office, which comes across as truly hilarious after
leftists for decades swooned at the very mention of the
Soviet Union.
If it were up to Maddow, Flynn would be publicly
humiliated and disappear without a trace like an accused
traitor in Putin's Russia -- while terrorists plotting mass
murder are duly accorded the benefit of a doubt.
James Comey, who concluded the probe in July 2016,
about four months before Election Day. Comey said
Clinton had been “extremely careless,” but recommend to
then-Attorney General Loretta Lynch that she not pursue
criminal charges.
Lynch had recused herself from the investigation after
talking privately with Clinton’s husband, former President
Bill Clinton.
Two senior Justice Department officials confirmed to Fox
News last Saturday that the agency’s Office of Inspector
General is reviewing the role played by Strzok in the
Clinton investigation.
“Tainted (no, very dishonest?) FBI ‘agent’s
role in Clinton probe under review.’ Led
Clinton Email
probe. @foxandfriends Clinton money
going to wife of another FBI agent in
charge,” Trump said in one of the other
tweets Sunday.

“After years of Comey, with the phony and
dishonest Clinton investigation (and more),
running the FBI, its reputation is in Tatters -
worst in History! But fear not, we will bring
it back to greatness, Trump added.”
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Obama-era Attorney General Eric Holder responded:
“Nope. Not letting this go. The FBI’s
reputation is not in 'tatters'. It’s composed
of the same dedicated men and women
who have always worked there and who do
a great, apolitical job. You’ll find integrity
and honesty at FBI headquarters and not at
1600 Penn Ave right now.”
Strzok was a former deputy director for counterintelligence
at the FBI who has been reassigned.
 Mueller Reassigned Top FBI Agent
From Russia 'Witch Hunt' Probe - Reports
© AFP 2017/ YURI GRIPAS - US
01:12 03.12.2017(Updated 09:07 03.12.2017)
US President Donald Trump has repeatedly called the
probe headed by Special Prosecutor Robert Mueller a
"witch hunt."
MOSCOW (Sputnik) — Top FBI agent, Peter Strzok was
removed from the investigation in the summer after text
messages, in which he expressed opinions that could be
construed as critical of Trump, were discovered, the New
York Times newspaper reported, citing people "briefed
on the matter."
The Department of Justice Office of the Inspector General
said in a statement on Saturday that, as it stated in January,
it was reviewing allegations regarding DOJ and FBI
actions and aimed to determine, in particular, "whether
certain underlying investigative decisions were based
on improper considerations."
"The OIG has been reviewing allegations involving
communications between certain individuals, and will
report its findings regarding those allegations promptly
upon completion of the review of them," the Office of the
Inspector General said.
Strzok, FBI deputy head of counterintelligence, is
reportedly considered one of the top FBI investigators. He
had been actively involved in the investigation into Hillary
.
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Clinton's handling of classified information via her private
email account.
The FBI and Mueller haven't yet commented on the media
report.
While Trump has called the investigation into his
campaign team alleged collusion with Russia conducted
separately by Mueller and the Senate a "witch hunt,"
numerous Russian officials, including President Vladimir
Putin, have repeatedly refuted the claims of Moscow's
alleged inteference in the US presidential election,
pointing out that they remain unsubstantiated.
So far Mueller charges four members of the Trump
campaign, with former National Security Adviser Michael
Flynn pleading guilty this week over lying to the FBI. As a
result of the first charges brought by the special prosecutor
as part of the Russia probe, former campaign manager Paul
Manafort and his business associate Rick Gates placed
under house arrest over charges on 12 counts, including
tax evasion. In addition, former foreign policy adviser
George Papadopolous admitted lying to the FBI over a
meeting with a London-based professor, who had allegedly
promised to put him in contact with people allegedly
possessing "dirt" on Hillary Clinton.
 Trump Compares Flynn To Hillary,
Asks 'Rigged System' Or 'Double Standard?'
Fox News
December 3, 2017
President Donald Trump again took up the cause of former
national security adviser Mike Flynn Saturday night,
complaining that Flynn's "life is destroyed" while Hillary
Clinton escaped legal reckoning.
Trump tweeted:
"So General Flynn lies to the FBI and his
life is destroyed, while Crooked Hillary
Clinton, on that now famous FBI holiday
"interrogation" with no swearing in and no
recording, lies many times...and nothing
happens to her? Rigged system, or just a
double standard?"
He then added:
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"Many people in our Country are asking
what the "Justice" Department is going to
do about the fact that totally Crooked
Hillary, AFTER receiving a subpoena from
the United States Congress, deleted and
"acid washed" 33,000 Emails? No justice!"
Clinton was interviewed for more than three hours at FBI
headquarters over the July 4 weekend in 2016. Because
she was not in custody, her interview was not recorded.
Former FBI Director James Comey has said that
Clinton did not lie to the FBI during her interview.
Earlier Saturday, Trump argued that there was nothing
improper in Flynn's conversations with Russian
Ambassador to the U.S. Sergey Kislyak in December
2016. Flynn pleaded guilty Friday to lying to the FBI about
those conversations.
The president tweeted that he fired Flynn because the
retired Army lieutenant general lied about those
conversations to Vice President Mike Pence as well as the
FBI. That suggested that Trump may have known Flynn
lied to the FBI when he fired him.
Trump associates tried to put distance Saturday evening
between the president himself and the tweet. One person
familiar with the situation said the morning tweet was
actually crafted by John Dowd, one of the president's
personal attorneys. Dowd declined to comment when
reached by The Associated Press on Saturday night.
It's unclear why Trump would cite lying to the FBI as a
reason for firing Flynn. Doing so suggests the president
knew at the time that Flynn had done something that is
against the law, and therefore the investigation could not
be as frivolous as he's been portraying.
It's also unclear how he would know that, if information
about Russian contacts had not reached him, as he has
been implying in his own defense.
Flynn left the White House in February, only
acknowledging that he had given an incomplete account to
Pence of his conversations with Kislyak. After Trump
forced Flynn out, he asked FBI Director James Comey to
end the bureau's probe in the matter, according to Comey's
account. Comey refused, and Trump fired him, too.
Then-White House spokesman Sean Spicer said after
Flynn's firing that it was the result of a "trust issue" and the
White House counsel's office had determined there was not
a legal issue.
"Whether or not he actually misled the vice
president was the issue, and that was
ultimately what led to the president asking
for and accepting the resignation of Gen.
Flynn," Spicer told reporters on Feb. 14.
"That's it, pure and simple. It was a matter
of trust."
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Trump has been publicly dismissive of Comey and of
special counsel Robert Mueller's continuing investigation,
and was often generous in his appraisal of Flynn, except to
say his adviser could not stay on the job after misleading
his vice president.
At the time, Pence said Trump was justified in firing Flynn
because Flynn had lied to him. Neither Trump nor Pence
indicated concern then that the FBI had not been told the
true story.
Pence, who served as head of Trump's transition, has not
publicly commented on Flynn's plea.
 ‘I Never Asked Comey To
Stop Investigating Flynn’ - Trump
Published Time: 3 Dec, 2017 13:18 Edited Time: 4 Dec, 2017 07:11

U.S. President Trump speaks to reporters before departing the White

House © James Lawler Duggan / Reuters

President Donald Trump says he never asked James

Comey to drop an investigation into then-national security
advisor Michael Flynn. Trump’s tweet on the issue comes
soon after Flynn admitted lying to the Bureau about his
contact with Russian officials.
The president said on Twitter Saturday that he fired Flynn
because he “lied to the Vice President and the FBI.” What
it amounts to is Trump calling the former head of the FBI a
liar.
The president had earlier applauded ABC News for
suspending its journalist Brian Ross over his
“horrendously inaccurate and dishonest report” on Flynn.
During a live “Special Report” on Friday, Ross cited
anonymous sources in claiming that Flynn allegedly
agreed to testify that during the 2016 election campaign
then-candidate Trump told him to contact Russian
officials. However, Ross’ source later told the journalist
that the order came when Trump had already won the
election and was president-elect.

Weeks after being removed from his post, former FBI

director James Comey told the Senate Intelligence
Committee in June that Trump had ordered him to stop
investigating Flynn.

"What he wanted me to do is drop any

investigation connected to Flynn’s account
of his contacts with the Russians," Comey
said.

In a tweet Sunday, Trump said the claim is

“another Comey lie”.

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Meanwhile, Comey has been posting cryptic messages on
his social media accounts, quoting the bible and
referencing Buddha.

Comey said in an Instagram post that truth

is one of three “things which cannot be long
hidden”, the other two being the sun and
the moon.
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 Suspending ABC News
ReporterBrian Ross Over Misreporting?
By Stephen Lendman - Stephenlendman.Org
12-3-2017
Suspending him had nothing to do with falsifying a report
on Trump and Michael Flynn, everything to do with
getting caught red-handed, causing a furor at the same time
- the network uncomfortable about making news about its
fake news reporting.
All Western media operate the same way - disinformation,
Big Lies and fake news standard practice on major issues,
especially geopolitical ones, notably covering US-
dominated NATO imperial wars of aggression, claiming
they’re liberating ones, along with anything relating to
Trump and Russia.
Ross is ABC’s chief investigative reporter, suspended for
four weeks without pay - a meaningless slap on the wrist.
He falsely claimed former Trump national security advisor
Michael Flynn would testify that candidate Trump directed
him to make contact with Russia - his disinformation
report typical of how Western media operate, why I call
them scoundrels.
They suppress vital news, information, and analysis
everyone has a right to know, operating as press agents for
wealth, power and privilege, sanitizing their print, on air
and online reporting.
What’s not reported is most important of all - why it’s
suppressed.
In testimony given special council Robert Mueller’s witch-
hunt inquiry, Flynn explained president-elect (not
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candidate) Trump instructed him to contact Russia, aiming
to initiate a process for improving relations.
It was undermined by false accusations of Kremlin
interference in America’s electoral process, along with
phony claims of “Russian aggression” in Ukraine and
nonexistent threats against other countries.
The fabricated Russiagate case hinges on proving illegal or
improper Trump team collusion with Moscow during the
presidential campaign. Not a shred of evidence suggests it.
Post-election, presidents and administration officials have
direct contacts with numerous countries - part of their jobs,
the way most nations operate.
ABC retracted the story when caught red-handed lying.
Otherwise, it would have stood as misreported.
Ross is no outlier. All establishment on air and print
reporters operate the same way - suppressing hard truths
on vital issues, lying to viewers and readers, what they’re
instructed to do.
Suspending Ross for four weeks was laughable. He’ll be
back in short order to misreport again. If he and others like
him diverged from the official narrative, they’d be fired
and replaced straightaway.
Western media lack credibility, alternative sources the
only reliable ones, especially online, reporting real news,
information and analysis - the antidote to media
scoundrels’ misreporting.
 Trump Welcomes ABC Suspending ‘Russia Witch Hunt’
Reporter For ‘Horrendously Inaccurate’ Flynn Story
Published Time: 3 Dec, 2017 08:10 Edited Time: 3 Dec, 2017 14:28

Then-US presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks at Republican

debate sponsored by ABC News on February 6, 2016 © Carlo Allegri
/ Reuters

Donald Trump has welcomed ABC’s move to suspend its

chief investigative journalist Brian Ross for what the US
president branded a “horrendously inaccurate and
dishonest” report on Mike Flynn’s guilty plea. The report
temporarily caused stocks to plummet.
“Congratulations to @ABC News for
suspending Brian Ross for his
horrendously inaccurate and dishonest The channel was forced to issue a
report on the Russia, Russia, Russia Witch “clarification” that stated that “it was shortly
Hunt. More Networks and “papers” should after the election that President-elect
do the same with their Fake News!” the Trump directed Flynn to contact Russian
president tweeted. officials on topics that included working
jointly against ISIS [Islamic State, IS].”
ABC News added in a statement that it
“deeply regretted and apologized for the
serious error” made by Ross. “The
reporting conveyed by Brian Ross during
the special report had not been fully vetted
through our editorial standards process. As
a result of our continued reporting over the
next several hours ultimately we
ABC News made headlines again on Saturday when it determined the information was wrong and
announced that the network had suspended Ross for four we corrected the mistake on air and
weeks without pay for a “serious error” in his reporting online.”
about former National Security Adviser (NSA) Michael
Flynn’s guilty plea. During a live “Special Report” on
Friday Ross said, citing anonymous sources, that Flynn
allegedly agreed to testify that during the 2016 election
campaign then-candidate Trump told him to contact
Russian officials. However, Ross’ source later told the
journalist that the order came when Trump had already
won the election and was president-elect.

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 Trump Suggests Investors Sue
ABC Over ‘False and Dishonest’ Report
By Jack Phillips
December 3, 2017 11:46 am Last Updated: December 4, 2017 12:04 am

report had not been fully vetted through our

editorial standards process. As a result of
our continued reporting over the next
several hours, ultimately we determined the
information was wrong and we corrected
the mistake on air and online.”

President Donald Trump departs the White House for St. Louis on
Nov. 29, 2017. (Samira Bouaou/The Epoch Times)

President Donald Trump suggested that investors who

“lost money” when the Dow Jones went down 350 points
due to an ABC News report that was later corrected should
sue the network.

“People who lost money when the Stock

Market went down 350 points based on the
False and Dishonest reporting of Brian
Ross of @ABC News (he has been
suspended), should consider hiring a
lawyer and suing ABC for the damages this
bad reporting has caused – many millions
of dollars!”, Trump tweeted.
“It is vital we get the story right and retain
the trust we have built with our audience —
these are our core principles. We fell far
short of that yesterday. Effective
immediately, Brian Ross will be suspended
for four weeks without pay.”

Trump quickly responded to ABC’s announcement.

“Congratulations to @ABC News for suspending Brian

Ross for his horrendously inaccurate and dishonest report
on the Russia, Russia, Russia Witch Hunt. More Networks
and ‘papers’ should do the same with their Fake News!” he
tweeted on Saturday.

Ross, 69, was suspended Saturday by the network for four

weeks over his erroneous report on Michael Flynn, the
former national security adviser. He said that Trump had
directed Flynn to make contact with the Russian
government when he was a candidate.

“We deeply regret and apologize for the

serious error we made yesterday,” the
network said in a statement. “The reporting
conveyed by Brian Ross during the special
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Ross had been accused of politicizing news stories in the For his part, Flynn pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI on
past. In 2012, ABC apologized when he reported on the Friday.
Aurora, Colorado, theater shooting, saying that suspect
James Holmes was connected to the Tea Party. It turned
out to be a different “Jim Holmes.”

On Friday, when the report broke, the stock market

dropped 350 points at one point, but it closed down 40
points by the day’s end.

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 ABC’s Error On Trump-Russia Investigation
Shows Why Public Faith In Media Is At Rock Bottom
Danielle Ryan
Published Time: 3 Dec, 2017 20:03 Edited Time: 4 Dec, 2017 09:55
If members of the American media are still wondering why
US President Donald Trump gets away with shamelessly
calling all media critical of his presidency “fake news,”
they need look no further than ABC’s misreporting of a
crucial story last Friday.
ABC’s Brian Ross reported the latest supposed bombshell
in the never-ending saga over as yet unproven claims of
collusion between Trump’s campaign and Russian officials
to tarnish opponent Hillary Clinton’s image and swing the
election in his favor.
Ross incorrectly reported that Gen. Michael Flynn,
formerly Trump’s national security adviser, would testify
that Trump had directed him to contact Russian officials
during the presidential campaign. This would indeed have
been a big story, had it been true. ABC later reported,
however, that its source – a confidant of Flynn’s – had
clarified that Flynn would testify that Trump had directed
him to contact Russian officials during the transition
period after the election, while Trump was president-
elect – not during the campaign, as Ross had first
erroneously reported.
There is a world of difference between these two claims,
so to mix them up or fail to clarify them with absolute
certainty was a huge mistake on ABC’s part. What’s more,
the specific contact Trump had ordered Flynn to initiate,
according to the source, was about finding ways the US
and Russia could work together to fight ISIS and solve the
Syrian crisis.
But the channel’s initial and far more sinister version of
events sent Russiagaters into gleeful frenzy on Friday
afternoon. It was their long-awaited “We got him!”
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moment. On ABC’s daytime liberal talk show The View,
co-host Joy Behar threw her hands up in the air shouting,
“Yay!” while her audience erupted into wild applause. She
then shouted “Lock them up! Lock them up!” to more
cheers. ABC’s tweet corresponding to their huge scoop
was retweeted more than 25,000 times before it was
deleted. The stock market even briefly tanked on the news.
Perhaps even worse than the mistake, though, was ABC’s
initial reaction to it. Instead of immediately retracting the
story once it had become clear an error had been made, the
channel opted to issue a “clarification” as though the error
had been minor or inconsequential.
ABC later upgraded the “clarification” to a “serious error”
and admitted that the report had “not been fully vetted.”
The channel then suspended Ross for four weeks without
pay.
But the gravity of the error should have been immediately
clear. As Erik Wemple wrote in the Washington Post:
“Never have the stakes been higher for utter factual
integrity regarding national politics, and in particular
Trump’s ties to Russia.” Wemple later called ABC’s initial
lackluster attempt to correct the record, “the most cowardly
'clarification' in modern journalism.”
New York Magazine journalist Yashar Ali noted later on
Twitter that ABC’s correction only came after a CNN
journalist Oliver Darcy asked the network why what Ross
had said on air never made it into the channel’s online
report. That, Ali said, begs the question: Would ABC have
even bothered to correct its on-air mistake if Darcy had not
asked them to explain the discrepancy?
Mistakes like this, repeated time and again, particularly
where Russia is concerned, are why the public faith and
trust in media is at rock bottom. They are why Trump gets
away with labeling any reporting he doesn’t like as “fake
news.”
Nonetheless, Russiagaters are eager to move past ABC’s
mistake and are trying to make Flynn’s contacts with
Russian officials during the transition period out to be
almost treasonous. In the spotlight now is the Logan Act,
an 18th century law which prohibits private American
citizens from working with a foreign government against
the US. The accusation is that Flynn’s request to Russian
officials that Moscow hold off on retaliating against
Barack Obama’s December 2016 sanctions amounts to a
violation of this law. But there are a few problems with
this interpretation.
For one, the law deals with private citizens. It’s unclear
that it could apply to someone like Flynn who was a
member of a presidential transition team with national
security clearance. Flynn surely did not count as a private
citizen at that point? In fact, Ty Cobb, the White House
lawyer handling the Russia investigation, told the New
York Times that “the presidential transition guide
specifically encourages contact with and outreach to
foreign dignitaries.”
The second problem with the Democrats’ attempt to nail
Trump with this law is that even one of Obama’s State
Department spokespeople, Mark Toner, had told the
Associated Press that there was nothing necessarily
inappropriate about contact between members of the
incoming administration and foreign officials, including
Russia. Toner even offered the State Department’s help
with such contact – but explicitly said there would be no
problem with Trump’s team making that contact on its
own.
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The third problem with the Logan Act accusation is that no
one has been convicted under the law in 200 years. If the
Democrats need to resort to using such an obscure law in
their attempts to prove Trump colluded with Russia, they
are grasping at straws.
Particularly since, as we’ve seen, an incoming
administration talking to Russians about working together
to solve conflicts can hardly be seen as collusion. Indeed,
resorting to something like the Logan Act speaks to how
desperate Democrats have become, in the absence of real
proof, to pin Trump for collusion.
Here’s what we know: Flynn has acknowledged that he
lied to the FBI about the details of calls he made to foreign
officials. He has taken a plea deal and is cooperating with
the investigation into alleged collusion between Trump and
Russia. He will reportedly testify that Trump ordered him
to contact Russian officials while he was president-elect.
It is perfectly plausible that Flynn might have some true
bombshell to share with investigators and that we might
hear about it in due course. But as of yet, we still have no
proof that there was any collusion between the Trump
campaign and Moscow – no matter how much the
Russiagate true believers, or ABC News, would like there
to be.
 Trump Backing Flynn When
'Nothing Happens To Crooked Hillary' Sets Twitter Afire
© AP Photo/ Patrick Semansky - Viral
12:47 03.12.2017(Updated 17:04 04.12.2017)

Later in the day, the US president emphasized that he had

never asked Comey to stop investigating Flynn.

Twitter users have reacted, with many slamming Trump's

newest Twitter crusade against his former rival. Clinton,
who is yet to comment on the latest statement, previously
accused Trump of being "obsessed" with her.

Twitter users were quick to react to Donald Trump's tweets

in defense of his former National Security Adviser
Michael Flynn, who has recently pleaded guilty to lying to
the FBI.

After making his first — and rather reserved — official

statement on his former National Security Adviser Michael
Flynn's guilty plea, saying that there was "no collusion"
with Russia, US President Donald Trump took to Twitter
to defend his former team member, reminding people that
"nothing happened" to former Democratic Party
presidential hopeful "Crooked Hillary Clinton" as result
of the FBI probe into her private email account.

"Many people in our Country are asking

what the “Justice” Department is going
to do about the fact that totally Crooked
Hillary, AFTER receiving a subpoena
from the United States Congress, deleted
and “acid washed” 33,000 Emails? No
justice!" Trump said in a Twitter statement,
which followed his remark, insisting that
Flynn's actions during the transition period
were "lawful."

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However, others have voiced support for the president's
point of view.

Some preferred to react not with words, but by posting

memes.

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 Michael Flynn pleaded guilty on Friday to charges that he
made false statements to the FBI about his contacts
with then-Russian ambassador to the US Sergei Kislyak.
The move was initially portrayed as one the most
important turns in special counsel Robert Mueller’s
probe into the Trump team’s alleged "collusion"
with Russia, a claim repeatedly denied by the US president
and Moscow.

Flynn is the fourth member of the Trump campaign to face

charges in what has been dubbed a "witch hunt"
by President Donald Trump, with former campaign
manager Paul Manafort and his business associate Rick
Gates placed under house arrest over charges on 12 counts,
and former foreign policy adviser George Papadopolous,
who had admitted lying to the FBI.

Interestingly, during the presidential campaign, Flynn

chanted referring to Clinton,

"Lock Her Up," stating that if he had done

"a tenth of what she did, I would be in jail
today."

The Justice Department and the FBI closed the Clinton

investigation in July 2015 without filing criminal charges
even though then FBI Director James Comey revealed that
Clinton had communicated classified information
on numerous occasions via the private server.

The FBI reopened the probe prior to the November 8, 2016

presidential election. However, the agency stood by its
earlier decision not to prosecute Clinton, who later blamed
Comey, alongside Russia, for her election loss.

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 CBS Rants: Hard To Justify
Tax Cut ‘Tilted Towards Corporations’
By Scott Whitlock
December 4, 2017 1:30 PM EST

Why does the tax bill promoted by the President and Republicans as uncaring for repealing the individual
Republicans have low polling support? Maybe because mandate:
journalists are constantly trashing it. On CBS This
Morning, Monday, analyst Jill Schlesinger declared, “I
think it's becoming clear that [the tax bill is] very much
tilted toward corporations and the wealthiest Americans.”

She then argued that the legislation wasn’t justified: “I

think when Americans hear that corporations, which have
seen great profitability over the last seven years, stock
markets at all-time highs, it's hard to really understand in
your belly why did corporations need this tax cut?”

GAYLE KING: Now, the Senate bill would repeal the

ObamaCare individual mandate. That’s something that the
CBO says would leave 13 million Americans without
insurance. Is the President okay with that?

MICK MULVANEY: Think about that for a second. So

Not discussed was one possible reason: The United States
has the highest corporate tax rate in the world.
Yet, Schlesinger sneered, “But an actual gift to
corporations at a moment where we are right now, second
longest bull market in the history of the United States
economy, it's hard to reconcile that.”
Baffled co-host Bianna Golodryga wondered:
what the CBO is telling you as soon as the government
tells you you don't have to buy something, you're not going
to. Is that necessarily a bad thing? I mean, do we want to
have some law on the books? This goes back to underlying
issue of health care and the fact that Democrats have
pitched health care as a tax. So it's entirely appropriate to
be dealing with that now. Should the government really be
telling you, forcing you to buy something you don't want
to buy? We're absolutely comfortable with that.
A transcript of the earlier segment is below:

Tax cuts historically are very going to say tax cuts

historically are very popular with both Republicans and
Democrats. This one is at 30 percent approval. Why do
you think so many Americans disapprove of this tax
cut? Tax bill?

With all the hammering from journalists, it’s not hard to

understand.

Later, co-host Gayle King talked to the Director of the

Office of Management and Budget and spun the

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CBS This Morning
12/4/17
7:12:52 to 7:16:12
NORAH O’DONNELL: CBS news business analyst Jill
Schlesinger is here to try and break down what the tax bill could
mean for families. Jill, good morning. This is so important. Let's
talk about how it affects individual families first.
JILL SCHLESINGER: So, it’s really important to understand this
is a bill that's very nuanced. So, it matters not just who you are
and how much money you do earn. But how do you earn that
money? Do you have a pass-through organization or do you live
in a state where you're losing your state and local tax deduction?
Do you have a mortgage? How much? Do you want to? So, it's a
very strange bill that in the packet when we've done tax reform
and deductions, and unfortunately, I remember 30 years ago, it
was a much clearer, “This is a winner. this is a loser.” This is
going to take a long time to really understand who wins and who
loses.
O’DONNELL: Okay, the big differences in the two plans.
SCHLESINGER: Okay, well, the big differences are going down.
We know that the tax brackets are very important. So in the
House plan they have four tax brackets. They maintain that top
bracket at 39.6 The Senate plan — I’m sorry, the House plan
goes to four brackets and the Senate maintains seven brackets,
but the top bracket goes down. Mortgage interest deduction.
House plans say you can only deduct up to half a million of
mortgage interest. The Senate plan says no. “We're going to
leave it at a million.” What we really know is the big, huge change
in the tax code is around corporations. In corporations, they both
are slashing the corporate rate. It goes from 35 to 20 percent.
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GAYLE KING: Go ahead.
BIANNA GOLODRYGA: Tax cuts historically are very going to
say tax cuts historically are very popular with both Republicans
and Democrats. This one is at 30 percent approval. Why do you
think so many Americans disapprove of this tax cut? Tax bill?
SCHLESINGER: I think it's becoming clear that it's very much
tilted toward corporations and the wealthiest Americans. You
know, if you're upper middle class, you could actually be a loser
in this bill and that's very important to put out there and if you're
very poor you would be a loser. And I think when Americans hear
that corporations, which have seen great profitability over the last
seven years, stock markets at all-time highs, it's hard to really
understand in your belly why did corporations need this tax cut?
Tax reform is one thing. Making a tax code better, simpler,
plainer. But an actual gift to corporations at a moment where we
are right now, second longest bull market in the history of the
United States economy, it's hard to reconcile that.
GAYLE KING: It still seems very confusing. Even the people who
pass it are still trying to read it and figure out exactly what they
passed it.
Who really wins and who loses? I heard you talking about two
losing situations. Who are the losers?
SCHLESINGER: If you're tenth of one percent of the earner,
you're a huge winner. Because we are going to get rid of the
state taxation. The tax brackets are going to go down. I think
those people win. I think corporations, huge winners. Pass-
through organizations. That means you have a big law firm.
There’s 200 partners. They have all their money flow through as
a pass through. That is going to be a big winners. Whether those
folks who are winners who take the money that they save and
recycle it into the economy and boost the economy substantially,
I think that is a huge question yet to be answered. A lot of
academics say they don't believe this is a long-term growth
incentive.
O’DONNELL: Randall Stevens the head of AT&T has promises
more jobs. You have them on the record saying they'll have more
jobs.
SCHLESINGER: So, we'll see where they come up with the
jobs.
 Trump Lawyer: Not Possible
For ‘President To Obstruct Justice’
By Usafeaturesmedia
Posted On December 4, 2017
“The tweet did not admit obstruction”
(National Sentinel) Executive Branch: President Donald
J. Trump’s private lawyer said Monday as Democrats and
liberal pundits claimed he obstructed justice in his
handling of the James Comey firing that it isn’t possible
for a president to do such a thing.
A “president cannot obstruct justice
because he is the chief law enforcement
officer under [the Constitution’s Article II]
and has every right to express his view of
any case,” attorney John Dowd told Axios
in an exclusive exchange.
That, the web site noted, is “a new and highly
controversial defense/theory” as the Russia probe
continues.
Down went on to say that he was the one who actually
drafted a Trump tweet this weekend some pundits believe
strengthened the case for obstruction. The tweet appeared
to suggest that Trump knew his former national security
advisor, Michael Flynn, lied to the FBI when he was fired,
which raised new questions regarding Trump’s firing of
Comey.
Dowd, however, dismissed the notion.
“The tweet did not admit obstruction. That
is an ignorant and arrogant assertion,” he
told Axios.
The site noted further:
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Trump’s legal team is clearly setting the
stage to say the president cannot be
charged with any of the core crimes
discussed in the Russia probe: collusion
and obstruction. Presumably, you wouldn’t
preemptively make these arguments unless
you felt there was a chance charges are
coming.
Some lawmakers and other pundits have suggested that
Trump’s actions are indicative of obstruction of justice,
including Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., the ranking
Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee.
She told “Meet the Press” over the weekend that the she
could see “the putting together of a case of obstruction of
justice” by the panel against the president.
She said she believed Trump’s firing of Comey came
“directly because he did not agree to lift the
cloud of the Russia investigation,” added,
“That’s obstruction of justice.”
Other legal experts don’t see it that way, including former
federal prosecutor Andrew McCarthy. While he believes
special counsel Robert Mueller is ultimately aiming to
produce a report recommending Congress impeach Trump,
he wrote in National Review on Monday that president’s
have carte blanche power to fire Executive Branch
employees.
“…[T]he president had undeniable power to
fire the FBI director. You can argue that his
reason was corrupt, but the truth is that he
didn’t need a reason at all — he could have
done it because it was Tuesday and he felt
like firing someone; he could have done it
because he figured that the Justice
Department’s criticism of Comey’s handling
of the Clinton emails investigation gave him
the political cover he needed to dispense
with a subordinate he found nettlesome,”
he wrote.
 “The point is that even if the president
hoped that cashiering Comey would derail
an investigation he was addled by, it was
wholly in Trump’s discretion to fire the
director,” he added.
“The president may not be prosecuted in a
criminal judicial proceeding for exercising
his discretion, however objectionably, in
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executive matters over which the courts
have no power of review. If Mueller tried to
indict him, Trump would have unfettered
discretion to fire Mueller and to direct the
Justice Department to drop the case.
“You may not like that, but that’s the way it
is,” he wrote, adding that Congress could
still consider the matter for impeachment.
 MSNBC Guest: ‘We Must Act Soon’
Against Mentally Ill Trump Or Risk Him Going ‘Violent’
By Curtis Houck
December 4, 2017 12:21 PM EST
Late Sunday afternoon on MSNBC, Yale School of
Medicine forensic psychologist Bandy Lee seemed to hint
at the need for the overthrow of Presidents Trump,
proclaiming that he’s so mentally unstable that “[w]e must
act soon” or risk him turning violent with catastrophic
consequences for all of us.
Host Yasmin Vossoughian introduced Lee as both the co-
author of a book warning about Trump’s mental state and
“an opinion piece in The New York
Times this week where you say that the
President was showing what you call, ‘a
pattern of decompensation.’”
Vossoughian admitted that Lee’s language
was “pretty strong,” adding another quote
from Lee’s Times piece about the President
“increasingly losing touch with reality.”
Speaking very softly, Lee tacitly argued for Trump’s
removal from office:
Well, what we're seeing is what is
happening is serious, it is dangerous and
we must act soon. Much of what we as
mental health professionals predicted in the
book seven months ago is coming true.
What we are now saying is that things will
get worse and get worse more rapidly.
Yikes. Whether Lee realizes it or not, but calling for
Trump’s removal won’t win over anyone who’s not
already firmly entrenched in The Resistance. In fact, such
talk would only cause most Trump supporters or even
occasional Trump skeptics to steer clear of this viewpoint.
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Vossoughian pushed back, wondering if
“it's fair to question the sort of
competency and the mental health of
the sitting President of the United
States,” but Lee replied that she and her
fellow lefties “wouldn't be speaking out if
it were very serious in terms of the
manifestations.”
“What we're seeing is someone mentally
falling apart. This is what we mean when
someone is coming unglued or
unhinged. With stress, they will be less
able to tell apart what is real from what
is unreal, become more bizarre and, in
the case of Mr. Trump, will likely
become violent,” Lee continued.
She concluded by opining that Trump
“will have thoughts and reasoning that
will be hard for us to follow because he
is pulled more by his internal
processes, what's going on in his
head.”
To his credit, CNBC’s John Harwood tried to put the
brakes on the hysteria, correctly pointing out
“that words don't mean that much to the
President from one moment to the
other” and “[w]hat he says at any given
moment may be completely at odds with
what he says subsequently and
remember, there's a long history of
this.”
“This is somebody who used to call up
reporters under an assumed name and
talk about himself and tell the reporter
from People magazine that a beautiful
model had dumped Mick Jagger for
Donald Trump....How you judge between
somebody who is deliberately saying
things that are untrue for the purpose of
misleading followers versus has
somehow persuaded himself that some
of these things are true, that's very
 difficult for a layman like me who’s not a
doctor to tell,” Harwood added.
Here’s the relevant transcript from December 3's MSNBC
Live:
MSNBC Live
December 3, 2017
4:50 p.m. Eastern
YASMIN VOSSOUGHIAN: Bandy, you wrote an opinion piece in
The New York Times this week where you say that the President
was showing what you call, “a pattern of decompensation” and
I’m quoting your exact words, “increasing loss of touch with
reality.” That’s pretty — that's some pretty strong words there.
What did you mean by that?
BANDY LEE: Well, what we're seeing is what is happening is
serious, it is dangerous and we must act soon. Much of what we
as mental health professionals predicted in the book seven
months ago is coming true. What we are now saying is that
things will get worse and get worse more rapidly.
VOSSOUGHIAN: But do you think it's fair to question the sort of
competency and the mental health of the sitting President of the
United States?
LEE: We wouldn't be speaking out if it were very serious in terms
of the manifestations.
VOSSOUGHIAN: What was the impetus to speak out then? Why
did you feel the need to speak out?
LEE: What we're seeing is someone mentally falling apart. This is
what we mean when someone is coming unglued or unhinged.
With stress, they will be less able to tell apart what is real from
what is unreal, become more bizarre and, in the case of Mr.
Trump, will likely become violent. He will have thoughts and
reasoning that will be hard for us to follow because he is pulled
more by his internal processes, what's going on in his head, be
they fantasies, conspiracy theories or imaginary threats than
what is going on in the real world.
VOSSOUGHIAN: Harwood, I want to get you on this and I’m
calling you Harwood because, obviously, we have two Johns on
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the panel this afternoon. How do I make sense of what to take of
the President's word and what sort of stream of consciousness,
not only the American public but those overseas who use the
President's word to shape their own policy? They are seeing
these tweets go out one after the other as we sort of been
covering them in the media and they see them first hand as we
do.
JOHN HARWOOD: Well, we’ve seen —
VOSSOUGHIAN: And there's really no filter to that.
HARWOOD: That's right, but we've seen for a long time that
words don't mean that much to the President from one moment
to the other. What he says at any given moment may be
completely at odds with what he says subsequently and
remember, there's a long history of this. This is somebody who
used to call up reporters under an assumed name and talk about
himself and tell the reporter from People magazine that a
beautiful model had dumped Mick Jagger for Donald Trump. I
mean, this kind of stuff is very bizarre. The most bizarre of all the
things we've been talking about , I think, is the President's claim
that the voice on the Access Hollywood tape was not him since
as you noted, Yasmin, he acknowledged, apologized for that, and
it's perfectly obvious that it's his voice. How you judge between
somebody who is deliberately saying things that are untrue for
the purpose of misleading followers versus has somehow
persuaded himself that some of these things are true, that's very
difficult for a layman like me who’s not a doctor to tell, but what
we do know is that the President, in many circumstances, pretty
constantly says things that simply aren't true.
VOSSOUGHIAN: Is there sort of like this veering away from the
truth, Harwood, and I’m sticking with you on this one, also
enabling others governments along with the U.S. government
and people in the U.S. to treat the press unfairly, especially with
this whole idea of fake news?
HARWOOD: I suppose we will hear that term and we have heard
that term, fake news, that the President has popularized, but I
don't know, Yasmin. I have a little bit more confidence in human
nature and the fact that people want to know what's true and
want to act on what's true. Yes, there's partisanship and
polarization and people can misuse information, but I'm a little bit
more confident that, ultimately, the truth wins out.
VOSSOUGHIAN: I mean, we were once seen this country as
upholding the freedom of press, of being the pinnacle of
upholding the freedom of press and it seems as we’re no longer
holding —
HARWOOD: Well, but I think the country does. What the
President — one of the great things about this country is, the
government doesn't define the country and so, if the United
States favors freedom of the press, that will be true whether or
not any given president does.
VOSSOUGHIAN: It's a fantastic point.
 Former Asst. FBI Director Says
Mueller Has ‘Huge Conflict Of Interest’
By Usafeaturesmedia
Posted On December 4, 2017
“If they used the phony dossier as the
predicate for the FISA order they obtained,
that could be a huge problem”
(National Sentinel) Deep State: A former assistant director
of the FBI said Sunday that special counsel Robert Mueller
has a “huge conflict of interest” in handling the
investigation into the Trump administration’s alleged
activities including obstruction of justice and Russian
collusion.
“Bob Mueller should have never been offered
nor accepted the job as special counsel as he
has a huge conflict of interest,” said Jim
Kallstrom in an interview with Breitbart News.
“He should have recused himself.”
Kallstrom said that Mueller’s primary conflict is that part
of his investigation is tied to fired FBI Director James
Comey, who was let go by President Donald J. Trump
reportedly for botching the investigation into Hillary
Clinton’s mishandling of classified emails.
It’s known in Washington circles that Mueller and Comey,
once associates in the Justice Department, are also close or
even best friends. Kallstrom said it is difficult to imagine
how Mueller can maintain objectivity in that situation,
especially when he has hired several lawyers who have
contributed to or otherwise supported anti-Trump
Democrats (including Clinton) in the past as part of his
special counsel probe.
In addition, Kallstrom told Breitbart he sees potential legal
problems for Mueller in terms of how investigators
obtained some of their information and what constituted
probable cause in order to get it.
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“The Obama administration apparently, had the
advantage of using electronic surveillance,
collecting information on the Trump campaign,”
Kallstrom said. “That collection, in my view, may
be found to be unlawful.”
Should investigatory methods used by the Obama
administration to put Trump’s campaign under
surveillance prove to be dubious or even unlawful, Mueller
would be put in the position of having to scrutinize a
former close associate.
“If they used the phony dossier as the predicate
for the FISA order they obtained, that could be
a huge problem,” said Kallstrom. “If they knew
the information was phony, that is a felony. If
they did not know it was phony, they were
incompetent.”
Congressional committees including the House and Senate
intelligence committees are trying to determine if the FBI,
under Comey, used the dossier to obtain a secret FISA
court warrant for surveillance of Trump and his campaign
officials.
Also, Republicans want to know if Comey’s FBI was
paying or wanted to keep Christopher Steele, the author of
the dossier, on the FBI’s payroll, perhaps to continue
gathering potentially damaging information on the Trump
campaign and transition team.
“This whole matter with the dossier and the
investigations that ensued, including FISA
surveillance and the unmasking of hundreds of
names, in my view, will prove to be violations of
the rules set down by the Congress for
unmasking, or worse, will be found to be
violations of federal law,” Kallstrom noted.
“The Justice Department should find out if the
FBI paid for this phony dossier and should
inspect the affidavit that was given to the FISA
court to determine the accuracy of their
probable cause.”
 Chuck Todd Fears Removal Of Anti-Trump
FBI Agent Is ‘Thought Police Territory’
By Kyle Drennen
December 4, 2017 11:46 AM EST
During the political panel discussion on NBC’s Meet the
Press on Sunday, moderator Chuck Todd fretted that the
removal of an FBI agent from Robert Mueller’s Russia
investigation for sending anti-Trump text messages might
be “bordering into thought police territory.” The group
proceeded to worry that the President would use the
incident to discredit the probe.
“Horrible 48 hours for the President with
this investigation, but he was handed
one helpful PR moment here....an FBI
agent was just removed from Bob
Mueller’s team for anti-Trump texts,”
Todd proclaimed. He revealed his concern
over the move: “I have to say, part of me
thought, wait a minute, are we bordering
into thought police territory?”
Todd again sneered about how it would help Trump:
“But it does give the President a PR tool
here and to at least throw to his
supporters saying, ‘Aha! Bias in the
Mueller probe.’”
Moments later, political analyst Mike Murphy complained
that the President would rightfully point out the removal:
The President is a genius at taking
something like this and blowing it up to
titanic size. We are going to hear so
much about this now.
It will eclipse the investigation for a while, at least on the
conservative side of the media.
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Liberal Princeton University Professor Eddia Glaude Jr.
chimed in with his own whining:
“And it’s always designed to really
undermine the value – the truth value of
the press, the truth value of the
investigation,
to leave doubt once the conclusions are drawn.”
Speaking of undermining “the truth value of the press,” the
Sunday show completely ignored reporter Brian Ross
being suspended from ABC News for getting a scoop about
former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn’s guilty
plea completely wrong. Monday’s network morning shows
all avoided reporting on their colleague’s temporary
dismissal.
In these two instances, federal authorities and the liberal
media discredited themselves, regardless of Trump’s
remarks.
On Monday’s Today show, reporter Hallie Jackson
immediately attempted to discredit the President’s reaction
by citing an Obama administration official blasting Trump:
Now, it’s another tweet from the President raising
eyebrows, after reports an FBI agent was taken off Special
Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation for reportedly
sending anti-Trump texts, President Trump tweeting,
“The agency’s reputation is in Tatters –
worst in History!” That’s not sitting well with
Eric Holder, the former attorney general,
firing back, “You’ll find integrity and honesty
at FBI headquarters and not at 1600
Pennsylvania Avenue right now.”
Meanwhile, ABC’s Good Morning America skipped the
news completely.
The biased conversation on Meet the Press was brought to
viewers by Merrill Lynch, Neutrogena, and FedEx.
Here is a full transcript of the December 3 segment:
11:01 AM ET
(...) though, a problem because you want the perception, just as
Dianne Feinstein was extraordinarily careful to preserve that
impartiality, “I’m waiting for the evidence.” When you have an
investigator who obviously has an axe to grind against the
president, you want to get rid of him. Mueller is being very careful
and I applaud him for doing that.

TODD: I was just going to say, if he made one error here, Doris,
it was it seems as if they just didn’t let everybody know
immediately that they had done this, that they discovered it.

DORIS KEARNS GOODWIN: Right, after the fact.

TODD: It was after the fact that the public learned.

CHUCK TODD: Horrible 48 hours for the President with this
investigation, but he was handed one helpful PR moment here. MIKE MURPHY: The President is a genius at taking something
Let me throw up these headlines, an FBI agent was just removed like this and blowing it up to titanic size.
from Bob Mueller’s team for anti-Trump texts. Now, when you
read the details of this, Danielle, I have to say, part of me
TODD: Yeah.
thought, wait a minute, are we bordering into thought police
territory? Number one. But we can set that aside here. But it
does give the President a PR tool here and to at least throw to MURPHY: We are going to hear so much about this now. It will
his supporters saying, “Aha! Bias in the Mueller probe.” eclipse the investigation for a while, at least on the conservative
side of the media.
DANIELLE PLETKA: He just tweeted about it this morning.
EDDIE GLAUDE JR. [PRINCETON UNIVERSITY]: And it’s
always designed to really undermine the value – the truth value
TODD: Shocking! I’m shocked.
of the press, the truth value of the investigation, to leave doubt
once the conclusions are drawn.
PLETKA: I know, shocking to see, maybe his lawyer tweeted that
too. I’m not sure who tweeted it, but you know. No, look, this is,
(...)
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 Republicans Prepare For War With FBI, DOJ:
To File Contempt Action Over Anti-Trump Bias
By Tyler Durden
Dec 4, 2017 4:33 AM
Five weeks ago, House Speaker Paul Ryan accused the
DOJ and FBI of “stonewalling” the House Intelligence
Committee’s wide-ranging subpoena for all pertinent
information about how the largely unsubstantiated “Trump
dossier” played into the DOJ’s decision to launch the
infamous Trump collusion investigation.
At the time, the speaker said the agency
was preparing to turn over the
information requested by the
committee, but despite his assurances,
the promised documents never
materialized.
Then yesterday, thanks to a series of coordinated media
leaks,
Nunes learned – at the same time as the
broader public - about the reassignment of
Peter Strzok, a senior Mueller aide who
had played a critical role in the DOJ’s
original collusion investigation. And
before that, Strzok helped lead the FBI’s
probe into Hillary Clinton’s mishandling
of classified information.
As it turns out, the agent had been
reassigned for expressing anti-Trump
sentiments in a series of text messages
to FBI attorney Lisa Page while the two
were having an affair. The bureau, it
appears, had willfully tried to conceal
this fact from Nunes and his committee.
Upon being blindsided with this information and publicly
embarassed, the Intel committee chairman was
understandably less than pleased.
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So in a statement issued Sunday, Nunes
announced a serious escalation: His
committee, he said, is preparing to hold
Andrew McCabe and assistant AG Rod
Rosenstein in contempt for the DOJ's
failure to comply with Nunes's
subpoena.
Strzok was reassigned in July, shortly before Nunes issued
the request for the bureau to turn over all documents
relating to the Trump dossier. In a transparent attempt to
save face, the bureau contacted Nnes shortly after the
Strzok news broke on Saturday to say they were ready to
comply with the subpoena. But Nunes rightly repudiated
this offer, saying it was too little, too late. He laid out his
argument for preparing the order of contempt in a
statement released Sunday offering details of the
committee's unsuccessful push to convince the FBI to turn
over the documents it had requested.
Here’s a timeline of Nunes' contact with the Department of
Justice courtesy of the Washington Examiner:
 On Oct. 11, Nunes met with deputy attorney general
Rod Rosenstein. In that meeting, Nunes specifically
discussed the committee's request for information
about Strzok.
 In an Oct. 31 committee staff meeting with the FBI,
bureau officials refused a request for information about
Strzok.
 On Nov. 20, the committee again requested an
interview with Strzok. (Three days earlier, on
November 17, Strzok met with the Senate Intelligence
Committee.)
 On Nov. 29, Nunes again spoke to Rosenstein, and
again discussed Strzok.
 On Dec. 1, the committee again requested to speak
with Strzok.
Republicans, including President Trump, pointed to the
news as evidence that the entire probe into Russian
meddling had been politically motivated.

Unsurprisingly, both the FBI and House Democrats have
been silent on the issue, according to Bloomberg:
A Justice Department spokesman, Sarah
Isgur Flores, couldn’t be immediately
reached for comment by telephone or text.
There was no immediate response Sunday
from a spokesman for the committee’s top
Democrat, Representative Adam Schiff of
California.
In his statement, included in full below, Nunes accused the
FBI and the Department of Justice of willfully refusing to
comply with an Aug. 24 committee subpoena in part by
refusing the committee's request “for an explanation of
Peter Strzok’s dismissal from the Mueller probe.” Nunes is
giving the FBI until end of business day tomorrow to fully
comply with the committee's requests, or face a contempt
order before the end of the month.
Washington, D.C. – House Permanent Select Committee
on Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes issued the
following statement today amid press reports that Peter
Strzok, the top FBI official assigned to Special Counsel
Robert Mueller’s probe of collusion between Russia and
Trump officials, had been removed from the probe after
exchanging anti-Trump and pro-Hillary Clinton text
messages with his mistress, who was an FBI lawyer
working for Deputy Director Andrew McCabe:
“The FBI and Department of Justice have
failed to sufficiently cooperate with the
Committee’s August 24 subpoena, and
have specifically refused repeated
demands from the House Intelligence
Committee for an explanation of Pete
Strzok’s dismissal from the Mueller probe.
In light of today’s press reports, we now
know why Strzok was dismissed, why the
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FBI and DOJ refused to provide us this
explanation, and at least one reason why
they previously refused to make Deputy
Director McCabe available to the
Committee for an interview.
“By hiding from Congress, and from
the American people, documented
political bias by a key FBI head
investigator for both the Russia
collusion probe and the Clinton email
investigation, the FBI and DOJ engaged
in a willful attempt to thwart Congress’
constitutional oversight responsibility.
This is part of a months-long pattern by the
DOJ and FBI of stonewalling and
obstructing this Committee’s oversight
work, particularly oversight of their use of
the Steele dossier. At this point, these
agencies should be investigating
themselves.
“The DOJ has now expressed—on a
Saturday, just hours after the press
reports on Strzok’s dismissal
appeared—a sudden willingness to
comply with some of the Committee’s
long-standing demands. This attempted
11th-hour accommodation is neither
credible nor believable, and in fact is yet
another example of the DOJ’s
disingenuousness and obstruction.
Therefore, I have instructed House
Intelligence Committee staff to begin
drawing up a contempt of Congress
resolution for DOJ Deputy Attorney
General Rod Rosenstein and FBI
Director Christopher Wray. Unless all our
outstanding demands are fully met by close
of business on Monday, December 4,
2017, the committee will have the
opportunity to move this resolution before
the end of the month."
In the statement, Nunes pointed to
“a months-long pattern by the DOJ and FBI
of stonewalling and obstructing this
Committee’s oversight work,”
including also withholding subpoenaed information about
their use of an opposition research dossier that targeted
Trump in the 2016 election.
In targeting McCabe and Rosenstein, Nunes explained that
Attorney General Jeff Sessions was being excused from
any contempt action by the committee because the AG had
recused himself from the investigation into Russia
meddling.
In addition to the threat of contempt, Strzok is also facing
an internal review for his role in the investigation into
Clinton's handling of classified information on her private
email server. It has already been revealed that then-FBI
Director James Comey drafted his letter excusing Clinton
before she had even been interviewed. The Office of the
Inspector General probe into Strzok will examine his role
in a number of "politically sensitive" cases this year,
according to Fox News.
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At the FBI, senior managers are facing a serious dilemma:
It's probable that the information pertaining to Strzok is
only some of what the bureau has tried to keep from Nunes
and the committee. Now, the FBI is facing a dilemma:
Either rush to comply without having the
time to screen all the documents that have
been supplied to the committee, or
continue to resist, and face a
Congressional subpoeana. Either way,
we're certain this isn't the last of the story.
 ABC Fails To Report FBI Investigator
Removed From Russia Probe Over Anti-Trump Texts
By Kristine Marsh
December 4, 2017 11:20 AM EST
Saturday, The Washington Post and The New York Times
reported that Special Counsel Robert Mueller removed a
top FBI investigator from the Russia probe, after it was
discovered the agent had sent anti-Trump text messages.
Not only that, but this same agent also led the Clinton e-
mail investigation.
According to The Times:
The agent, Peter Strzok, is considered one
of the most experienced and trusted F.B.I.
counterintelligence investigators. He
helped lead the investigation into
whether Hillary Clinton had mishandled
classified information on her private
email account, and then played a major
role in the investigation into links
between President Trump’s campaign
and Russia...
Mr. Strzok’s reassignment shows that Mr. Mueller moved
swiftly in the face of what could be perceived as bias by
one of his agents amid a politically charged inquiry into
Mr. Trump’s campaign and administration. But the
existence of the text messages is likely to fuel claims by
Mr. Trump that he is the target of a witch hunt.
While President Trump touted the reports on Twitter over
the weekend, CBS News was the only broadcast network
to give story a full report, Monday morning.
CBS This Morning Anchor Bianna Golodryga explained,
before handing off to correspondent Paula Reid:
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Special Counsel Robert Mueller removed one of his lead
investigators over potential bias. The agent was reassigned
last summer after it was discovered he sent text messages
that may have criticized the president.
Reid reported that this agent, Peter Strzok, was also
“a key player in the investigation into
Hillary Clinton's use of a private email
server,” which has led Republicans and
President Trump to “question the
credibility of both the Clinton e-mail
probe and the ongoing Mueller
investigations.”
She explained the gravity of the development:
This was such a significant
development the special counsel's
office actually issued a statement
saying, ‘Immediately upon learning of
the allegations, it removed Peter Strzok
from the investigation.'
NBC’s Kristen Welker also briefly mentioned the story on
Monday’s Today, at the 8am EST hour, but only to make a
jab at Trump:
Now, it's another tweet from the
president, raising eyebrows, after reports
an FBI agent was taken off special counsel
Robert Mueller's investigation for reportedly
sending anti-Trump texts. President Trump
tweeting, “The agency’s reputation is in
tatters, worst in history.
Peter Alexander also spun the story as bad for Trump in
the 7am EST hour of Today:
President Trump pouncing on revelations
that Robert Mueller removed an FBI officer
from the Russia probe, for sending anti-
Trump text messages.
Neither Today correspondents mentioned that this same
agent also led the Clinton email probe.
But at least they mentioned the story. ABC’s Good ABC did find plenty of time to question whether President
Morning America didn’t cover the story at all on Trump had “obstructed justice” in one of his tweets over
Monday’s show. the weekend, while they ignored multiple Trump tweets
about the biased FBI agent.

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 Trump Gives Roy Moore Full Endorsement
By Usafeaturesmedia
Posted On December 4, 2017
Moore defeated incumbent Sen. Luther Strange in a
primary earlier this year
(National Sentinel) Special Election: President Donald J.
Trump has voiced his full support for GOP Senate
candidate Judge Roy Moore ahead of a special election to
be held Dec. 12 to fill Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ old
seat.
Trump tweeted several reasons for supporting Moore,
including that his opponent, Democrat Doug Jones, is a
“puppet” of Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer as
well as House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi.
“Democrats refusal to give even one vote for
massive Tax Cuts is why we need Republican
Roy Moore to win in Alabama,” Trump tweeted.
“We need his vote on stopping crime, illegal
immigration, Border Wall, Military, Pro Life,
V.A., Judges 2nd Amendment and more. No to
Jones, a Pelosi/Schumer Puppet!”
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Previously, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-
Ky., and other GOP members of the Senate had called on
Moore to drop out of the race after he became engulfed in
a sexual harassment scandal last month.
The Washington Post reported that he attempted to date
teenage girls when he was an adult. The paper also
reported that Moore, then 32, kissed and fondled a 14-
year-old, based on her account.
Moore has strenuously denied all charges and has said he
may sue the Post and his accusers. Also, some holes have
appeared in witnesses’ accounts and other allegations since
the Post’s report.
Moore defeated incumbent Sen. Luther Strange in a
primary earlier this year.
Since Moore’s allegations surfaced, several allegations of
sexual harassment and inappropriate sexual behavior
among many Democrats have surfaced as well.
Sen. Al Franken, D-Minn., was accused by Los Angeles
journalist Leeann Tweeden, a morning news
anchor for TalkRadio 790 KABC, of kissing and groping
her in 2006 without her consent as they returned from a
USO event in the Middle East.
She also published a photo showing Franken appearing to
grope her breasts. He has since been accused by an Army
vet who claims he groped her in 2003.
Also, Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich., has been accused by
former staffers of sexually harassing and abusing them.
Conyers has settled with some of the women using a
special taxpayer-funded congressional account that few
Americans knew existed before these scandals surfaced.
Neither man has expressed any interest in resigning.
 All 3 Networks Ignore ABC’s
Brian Ross Suspension Over False Report
By Kristine Marsh
December 4, 2017 9:43 AM EST
Monday morning all three major broadcast networks, ABC,
NBC and CBS failed to update their viewers with the news
that ABC correspondent Brian Ross had been suspended
over the weekend for his false “bombshell” report that led
media reports Friday morning.
That false “scoop” took the networks by storm shortly
before 11am EST last Friday morning and was talked
about endlessly until the evening newscast on ABC News
that night, several hours later.
Here’s what Ross originally reported that sent the media
into a feeding frenzy:
[Michael Flynn’s] prepared to testify that
President Trump, as a candidate, Donald
Trump, ordered him — directed him to
make contact with the Russians which
contradicts all that Donald Trump has said
to this point.
As Ross later had to shamefully admit to viewers that
evening, his sources were incorrect. In reality, Flynn said
that President Trump as president-elect had ordered him to
speak with the Russians.
Saturday evening, ABC released a statement online, and
correspondent Cecilia Vega apologized to viewers for the
.
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mistake on World News Tonight, though she didn’t
acknowledge Ross’s suspension.
Neither Ross’s suspension, nor the fact
that the “scoop” was false, was
reported on any of the networks by their
journalists Monday morning.
While none of the journalists themselves brought up the
update, pro-Trump guests Corey Lewandowski and David
Bossie did briefly mention it on Monday’s Today show. In
response to anchor Savannah Guthrie grilling the Trump
campaign aides on Billy Bush’s comments about President
Trump, the pair called out Ross, and the media, for
“making up stories:”
LEWANDOWSKI: What we've seen time
and time again is people want to make up a
story that isn't true. We saw it this week
with an ABC news reporter. They want to
make up a story about the administration
and the president which isn't true. It then
becomes the news of the day, and
everyone is forced to respond to a story
that is not true.
BOSSIE: They set a narrative that is
negative for the president. Brian Ross did
it. And it was obviously wrong.
 'The Odds Of Impeachment Are Dropping'
By P.J. Gladnick
December 4, 2017 12:15 PM EST

Times, “portends the likelihood of

impeachable charges being brought
against the president of the United States.”

That may be true. But bringing impeachment charges

against Trump, and actually forcing him from office, are
two vastly different things. And while the former may be
more likely today than it was half a year ago, the latter is
actually less likely.

Since Robert Mueller became special

counsel in May, the chances of the
House of Representatives passing
The mainstream media has been busy over the past year articles of impeachment—and the
engineering the narrative that the removal from office via Senate ratifying them—have probably
impeachment of President Donald Trump is almost gone down.
inevitable. Although they have had a few bumps on the
road to this possible future, which caused them to Killjoy! How dare you take away the impeachment joy
temporarily switch to removal from office via the 25th from Joy Behar!
Amendment fantasy, their impeachment dream is back on
track. This concept reached a fevered pitch last week on
That’s because impeachment is less a
Friday when many liberals went into a state of ecstasy,
legal process than a political one.
most notably Joy Behar, over the fake news report by
Brian Ross of ABC News about "candidate" Trump
contacting the Russians which later that day had to be Passing articles of impeachment requires a majority of the
retracted. House. Were such a vote held today—even if every
Democrat voted yes—it would still require 22
Republicans. If Democrats take the House next fall, they
Despite the many setbacks in the impeachment push, most
could then pass articles of impeachment on their own. But
liberals seem to continue yearning for it as if Trump
ratifying those articles would require two-thirds of the
remaining in office would destroy their souls. Tom Steyer
Senate, which would probably require at least 15
even blew $20 million in impeachment ads in pursuit of it.
Republican votes.
Unfortunately for Steyer and his fellow impeachment
demanding liberals, contributing editor (and very very
liberal) Peter Beinart of Atlantic magazine has tossed cold That kind of mass Republican defection has grown harder,
water upon their future of impeachment on December 3 in not easier, to imagine. It’s grown harder because the last
six months have demonstrated that GOP voters will stick
with Trump despite his lunacy, and punish those
'The Odds of Impeachment Are Dropping.'
Republican politicians who do not.
Now that Michael Flynn has pleaded guilty to lying to the
Not to worry. Tom Steyer will continue to blow his money
FBI, and agreed to dish on his former boss, some Trump-
on his impeachment white whale.
watchers are suggesting that impeachment may be around
the corner.
Could Mueller or some enterprising
journalist uncover revelations so epic
“It’s time to start talking about
that they shake Trump’s hold on the
impeachment,” announced a Saturday
GOP, and give Republican senators
column on CNN.com. The Flynn deal,
cover to support his removal? It’s
declared former Deputy Assistant Attorney
unlikely.
General Harry Litman in Friday’s New York

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After all, the vast majority of Alabama Republicans still
support Roy Moore. Most conservatives consume pro-
Trump media, which will downplay or distort virtually
anything Mueller or the mainstream press discovers. And
the more aggressively Democrats push for Trump’s
removal, the easier it will be for Breitbart and Sean
Hannity to rally Republicans against a “left-wing coup.”
that means removing a president is
virtually impossible, even when he’s
Donald Trump.
And yet the MSM narrative engineers are sure to continue
constructing their beloved scenario of the inevitability of
Trump removal from office via impeachment.

...But removing a president requires bipartisanship. And in

this ultra-partisan age,
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 Expert: Mueller ‘Now Conducting
An Impeachment Investigation’ Of Trump
By Usafeaturesmedia
Posted On December 4, 2017
“That means it is, as it has always been, an
impeachment investigation”
(National Sentinel) Deep Swamp: A former federal
prosecutor and expert in counterintelligence probes said
following Michael Flynn’s guilty plea means special
counsel Robert Mueller is no longer conducting a Russian
“collusion” investigation but rather “an impeachment
investigation.”
Writing at National Review, Andrew McCarthy said that
Mueller’s strategy all along has been to build a case for
impeaching President Donald J. Trump built primarily on
obstruction of justice regarding the firing of former FBI
Director James Comey.
“For all practical purposes, the collusion probe
is over. While the ‘counterintelligence’ cover will
continue to be exploited so that no jurisdictional
limits are placed on Special Counsel Robert
Mueller, this is now an obstruction
investigation,” he wrote.
“That means it is, as it has always been, an
impeachment investigation,” he added.
McCarthy went on to say that analysts who believe
Mueller is attempting to build a “major case” against
Trump by accepting guilty pleas from Flynn and George
Papadopoulos for making false statements, and by
indicting former campaign manager Paul Manafort on
charges unrelated to the 2016 election are incorrect.
“That is simply not how it works, strategically or
legally,” he wrote.
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McCarthy noted further that if Mueller had evidence Flynn
and others were involved in a scheme — in this case, a
scheme to collude with the Russian government to
undermine Democrat Hillary Clinton’s campaign — then
Mueller would have charged them with that crime, not
allowing them to plead guilty to a minor “process crime”
of lying to FBI agents.
He said federal prosecutors are instructed under Justice
Department policy to charge defendants with the most
serious, yet provable, crimes.
So that means that, after more than a year’s worth of
investigating, there simply is no collusion to be found,
McCarthy said, which means trying to prove collusion was
never Mueller’s focal point or strategy to begin with.
“Bottom line: If the FBI had a collusion case of
some kind, after well over a year of intensive
investigation, Flynn and Papadopoulos would
have been pressured to plead guilty to very
serious charges — and those serious offenses
would be reflected in the charges lodged
against Manafort,” he wrote.
“Obviously, the pleas and the indictment have
nothing to do with collusion because Mueller
has no collusion case,” he added. “Since there
is no collusion case, we can safely assume
Mueller is primarily scrutinizing President Trump
with an eye toward making a case of
obstructing an FBI investigation. This also
makes sense in light of the pleas that have
been taken.”
McCarthy, a senior fellow at the National Review Institute,
further explained that even if Trump fired Comey and
pressured others in the Justice Department in an effort to
protect Flynn and end the Russian investigation, it would
have been within his power as president to do so.
But, he added, Trump is disputing Comey’s sworn
testimony that the president pressured him, and the Russia
investigation never did end — it has been continued by
Comey’s predecessor, Christopher Wray.
 “Assuming I am correct about Mueller’s theory,
its fatal flaw as a vehicle for prosecution is the
same as it has always been: As president,
Trump had incontestable power to exercise
prosecutorial discretion and to fire the FBI
director,” McCarthy wrote.
“For argument’s sake, let’s assume the worst:
Trump knew Flynn had lied to the FBI (i.e., that
Flynn had committed at least one felony), and
he leaned on Comey to close the FBI’s probe.
Even with those assumptions, there is still no
obstruction case.”
McCarthy suggests that Mueller, himself a former federal
prosecutor and FBI director, understands all of that and is
instead pushing for the appearance of impropriety by
Trump — so much that it compels Congress to begin
impeachment proceedings against him.
“Any powers can be abused. When executive
powers are abused, Congress retains the
constitutional authority to impeach and remove
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the president,” McCarthy wrote. “Obstruction of
an FBI investigation may not be realistically
prosecutable in court, but there is congressional
precedent — in the Nixon and Clinton situations
— for obstruction to be a “high crime and
misdemeanor” triggering impeachment.
Undoubtedly, abuse of the pardon power would
also be an impeachable offense, even though it
is not reviewable by the courts.
“I continue to believe that this is the real danger
for President Trump: A report by the special
counsel, either through the grand jury or some
other vehicle, concluding a) that the president
had obstructed the FBI’s investigation of Flynn
and of Trump-campaign collusion with Russia,
and (b) recommending that the matter be
referred to Congress for consideration of next
steps, potentially including impeachment and
removal.
 WashPost's Rubin Complains
Media Were Not Tough Enough on Trump
By Brad Wilmouth
December 4, 2017 11:25 AM EST
On Sunday's AM Joy on MSNBC, as host Joy Reid held a
discussion which tried to tie accusations of sexual
misbehavior against big media figures like NBC's Matt
Lauer with the dominant media allegedly being biased
against Hillary Clinton, Washington Post columnist
Jennifer Rubin claimed that the media were not tough
enough on Donald Trump, and suggested they could have
done more to throw the election to Clinton.
Without offering any evidence that the dominant media
skimped on informing viewers of sexual harassment
accusations against Trump, Rubin complained that the
media did not spend as much time reporting on Trump's
sexual misbehavior as on Clinton's handling of classified
information with her work email.
After the group discussed Lauer pressing Clinton on her
email, host Reid turned to Rubin and posed:
There's just the level of disrespect for the
opinion of women that's one level of it all
the way up to the disrespect of women's
bodies, you know, along that range, but is it
too much to conflate those two things and
say, "Wait a minute, this could actually
swing an election."
Rubin suggested that the media could have changed the
outcome of the presidential election if it had spent more
time on Trump's sexual misbehavior as she began:
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Well, I don't think it's too much to conflate
it, and it happens also in what's not shown.
If there was enough coverage of Trump's --
I don't even want to say "dalliances"
because that sounds trivial -- but really
predatory behavior with women which was
known before Access Hollywood -- if there
was as much coverage of that as it was of
Hillary Clinton's emails, do we think the
election would have come out the same? I
don't.
She then complained that the media had allowed Trump's
"normalization" as she continued:
It was the willingness to ignore -- say, "Ah,
it's just about sex -- it's just about his
private life -- it doesn't have any relevance"
-- that contributed to Donald Trump's
normalization which was, I think, the
greatest sin of the media in the election --
treating him like a normal person running a
normal campaign saying normal things.
And the red light should have been flashing
on, and they should have been
investigating, you know, down to the 14-
year-olds who he was ogling outside the
Trump Tower, but it wasn't.
The Washington Post columnist concluded:
And part of that is because of these misogynistic men, and
part of it is simply because there are not enough women in
positions of authority. If you had more women at the top, it
would have been less harassment, and it would have been
more coverage in a more gender neutral way.
Before moving to her next question, Reid agreed:
"You're getting amens from here."
 In Major Victory For Trump,
Supreme Court Lets Travel Ban Take Full Effect
By Tyler Durden
Dec 4, 2017 5:12 PM
In a major victory for President Trump, the Supreme Court
allowed his controversial travel ban to take full effect
while legal challenges go forward, suggesting the court
ultimately will uphold the restrictions, Bloomberg reports.
Previously, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals and a federal
district court in Maryland had said the president could only
block nationals from the six majority Muslim countries -
Iran, Libya, Syria, Yemen, Somalia and Chad - if they
lacked a bona fide relationship with a person or entity in
the United States. The high court’s decision now puts
those rulings on hold. As a result, Trump will now be
allowed to bar entry by people from six mostly Muslim
countries - even if they have a relationship with a U.S.-
based person or institution, but more importantly, and the
reason why Trump is about to gloat on Twitter, this marks
the first time the Supreme Court has let his entry
restrictions take full effect.
In two identical orders, Supreme Court justices effectively
superseded a compromise reached in June, when they
allowed an earlier version of the ban take partial effect
while exempting people with a "bona fide" U.S.
connection.
As Bloomberg adds, the new orders apply for
the remainder of the appeals process,
including possible Supreme Court review.
In its orders Monday, the Supreme Court said it expects
the appeals courts to rule "with appropriate dispatch."
Only justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Sonia Sotomayor
said they would have denied the government’s request,
without giving an explanation.
As The Hill writes,
"the state of Hawaii and the International
Refugee Assistance Project challenged Trump’s
latest ban, arguing the Supreme Court
carved out the same bona fide relationship
.
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exemption in June when it partially
reinstated Trump’s 90-day ban on nationals
from Iran, Libya, Somalia, Syria, Sudan and
Yemen. "
When that order expired on Sept. 24, Trump issued new
restrictions that eliminated Sudan but added Chad, North
Korea and individuals affiliated with certain government
agencies in Venezuela. The lower court bans did not block
the restrictions on Venezuelan officials or immigrants from
North Korea.
The Trump administration argued that a lot has changed
since June, with Solicitor General Noel Francisco arguing
that
“multiple government agencies have conducted
a comprehensive, worldwide review of the
information shared by foreign governments that
is used to screen aliens seeking entry to the
United States.”
“Based on that review, the proclamation adopts
tailored entry restrictions to address extensive
findings that a handful of particular foreign
governments have deficient information-sharing
and identity-management practices, or other
risk factors.”
The administration argued that the newest version of the
ban, announced on Sept. 24, was put in place only after
national security officials thoroughly reviewed vetting
procedures on a country-by-country basis. The Department
of Homeland Security would be able to add or remove
travel restrictions on countries as conditions change.
Not all hope is lost for the resistance however: the new
Supreme Court orders does not directly address the merits
of the legal challenges. Separately, two federal appeals
courts are scheduled to hear arguments this week. The high
court could agree to consider appeals later, perhaps soon
enough for a ruling during the current term that ends in
June.
 Washington Examiner’s ‘Mainstream
Media Scream’ With The MRC’s Assessment
By Brent Baker
December 4, 2017 5:07 PM EST
Since late January of 2012, the Washington Examiner’s
Paul Bedard has once a week featured a “Mainstream
Media Scream” selection in his “Washington Secrets”
column. For each pick, usually posted online on Monday, I
provide an explanation and recommend a “scream” rating
(scale of one to five).
This post contains the “Mainstream Media Screams”
starting in July 2017.
“Mainstream Media Screams” for:
 January through June 2017;
 July to December 2016;
 for January to June 2016;
 for July to December 2015;
 for January to June 2015.
 (2012-2014 are featured on MRC.org:
 For 2014; for June 17,
 2013 through the end of 2013.
 And for January 31,
 2012 through June 11, 2013, when the Washington
Examiner was both online and a printed daily
newspaper distributed around the Washington, DC
area.)
Check Bedard’s “Washington Secrets” blog for the latest
choice and his other Washington insider posts. Each week,
this page will be updated with Bedard’s latest example of
the worst bias of the week.
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(For more of the worst liberal media bias, browse the
MRC's Notable Quotables with an every other week
compilation of the latest outrageous, sometimes humorous,
quotes in the liberal media.)
■ New on December 4: Mainstream Scream: ‘The
View’ cheers false story on Trump, ‘Lock him up!’
I’ll add text and video here next week, but so
the Washington Examiner gets the traffic for their post
when it’s fresh, please read Paul Bedard’s post on their site
where you can watch the video and add a comment to
share your assessment.
■ November 27: Mainstream Scream: MSNBC features
pollster calling GOP ‘domestic terror group’
(Washington Examiner post)
This week’s Mainstream Media Scream features
MSNBC’s AM Joy show giving airtime to a Democratic,
pro-Clinton consultant and pollster that called the
Republican Party “pro-pedophilia,” “anti-children,” and
ultimately a “domestic terror group.”
The trifecta of hate on the GOP came from Fernand
Amandi who was on Saturday’s AM Joy reacting to
supposed Republican resistance to extending a health
insurance program for children.
Amandi:
“Is it any surprise that the party that is pro-
pay-for-play, pro-Putin, and now with Roy
Moore, pro-pedophilia, the fact that they’re
anti-children, is that any surprise? I don’t
think it is. And I think, Joy, this is
emblematic — this CHIP [Children’s Health
Insurance Program] scenario where you
mentioned nine million children -- children -
- without health insurance.
“I think if you take a step back, one has to
ask themselves -- and I think the American
people should ask themselves the broader
question: What has the Republican party,
in the last ten years, done to help the
American people? What have they done?
 This is not a political party -- this is a
domestic terror group. And I think what the
American people should consider when
they ask themselves that question -- with a
party that has done nothing to help the
American people -- is to vote them out and
consider possibly afterwards locking them
up, Joy.”
Media Research Center Vice President of Research Brent
Baker explains our weekly pick:
“MSNBC has outdone itself, allowing a
guest, whom host Joy Reid did not
challenge, to characterize the political party
in power as a ‘terror group.’ That’s just
plain revolting and one more piece of
evidence MSNBC is more of a left-wing
political operation than any kind of
journalistic enterprise.”
Rating: Five out of five screams.
■ November 20: Mainstream Scream: Andrea Mitchell,
‘I Have No Political Axe to Grind’
(Washington Examiner post)
This week’s Mainstream Media Scream features NBC’s
Andrea Mitchell, hosting Sunday’s Meet the Press, and
insisting that she has “no political axe to grind” during
contentious questioning of White House budget director
Mick Mulvaney over the tax reform package and Alabama
Republican senatorial candidate Roy Moore.
Mulvaney challenged her bias, and she said
“we’re not taking a political point of view
here” and “I have no political axe to grind.”
Excerpt 1
Mick Mulvaney:
“So I laugh every time I come on networks
like this, they accuse us of cutting taxes on
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the rich. Every time I go on different
networks, and you may understand who
those are, they accuse us of raising taxes
on the rich. So I think it looks — depends
on how you want to look at it.”
Andrea Mitchell:
“We’re not taking a political point of view
here. We are actually going by nonpartisan
groups like the Committee for a
Responsible Federal Budget, all the impact
on the exploding deficit which will impact
future generations.”
Excerpt 2
Mitchell:
“Do you believe that the women who’ve
come out against Roy Moore are credible?”
Mulvaney:
“I believe they’re credible. I don’t know who
to believe. Again, I'm at the Office of
Management and Budget–”
Mitchell:
“You don’t believe them?”
Mulvaney:
“No, I said they’re credible. I don’t know
who to believe. And I do think, as the
president said, that voters should decide.”
Mitchell: “If they’re credible. Why wouldn’t
you believe them?”
Mulvaney:
“Andrea, I run the Office of Management
and Budget in Washington, D.C. You work
for NBC News in Washington, D.C. My
guess is we’ve not spent that much time
looking at the specifics of these allegations.
You’ve arrived at a certain conclusion
because of a certain political persuasion.
We’re simply–”
Mitchell:
“Not because of a political persuasion at
all. I’m -- I am simply asking whether you
believe that they are credible. They have
been out in public. They have spoken on
the record. Some were brought, some
stories were brought out by Alabama
journalists in the local newspapers down
there, not just by the Washington Post. And
I have no political axe to grind here other
than to ask you whether you believe they
are credible.”
 administration announced its pullout from
the Paris climate deal. There is an
enthusiastic American delegation at this
U.N. conference, but Washington didn’t
send it. State and city governments and
businessmen like Michael Bloomberg
did....”

Media Research Center Vice President of Research Brent

Baker explains our weekly pick:

“No one is buying Mitchell’s denials. She’s

just upset that a guest called her out on her
obvious political agenda, with her
questioning exactly matching Democratic
talking points. Score one for the Trump
team in highlighting an all too typical media Media Research Center Vice President of Research Brent
Baker explains our weekly pick:
misdeed.”

Rating: Four out of five screams. “As if the world must really be ‘saved’ and
one action by Trump impedes that. This
kind of story makes it much harder to take
■ November 14: Mainstream Scream: CBS says ‘saving journalists seriously, with such an over the
the world’ harder under Trump top fear-mongering about an unenforced
international deal instead of a little
(Washington Examiner post) skepticism directed at the presumptions of
liberal scaremongers.”
This week’s Mainstream Media Scream features a CBS
anchor and reporter blaming President Trump, in office for Rating: Three out of five screams.
a little over seven months, for destroying the earth with his
environmental plans. ■ November 6: Mainstream Scream: Brokaw frets
Donna Brazile’s expose ‘beyond counterproductive’
From the top of a story on Monday’s CBS Evening News:
(Washington Examiner post)
Anchor Anthony Mason:
This week’s Mainstream Media Scream was probably
“At a U.N. climate conference in Germany pretty easy to predict after former Democratic Party Chair
today, the Trump administration talked up Donna Brazile spilled the beans on the the party’s
fossil fuels, including coal. That puts the disfunction and 2016 rigging for Hillary Rodham Clinton.
U.S. at odds with 194 other nations, but
some American entrepreneurs and On cue, the mainstream media, especially on network TV,
politicians want to make sure the portrayed the long-time Democratic strategist and former
administration does not have the final word. Al Gore campaign manager as hurting the party.
Mark Phillips reports.”
Leading the charge was NBC News journalist Tom
Video of a group of kids: Brokaw who fretted over how the “internecine fight”
would hurt Democrats. He tried to discredit Brazile as
“Save the world! Save the World!” someone known for “ready, fire, aim” attacks and, noting
how Democrats are “trying to win congressional races,” he
Reporter Mark Phillips: called her timing “beyond counterproductive.”

“Despite the kids’ demonstration, saving Brokaw on the Sunday, November 5 Meet the Press hosted
the world has been harder since the Trump by Chuck Todd:

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 “I think this is a manifestation of all that is
wrong with the Democratic Party, frankly. I
mean, this is a time they ought to be talking
about the future and they ought to be
organizing themselves about what they
want to do for the country. Except we go
back and we’ve got this internecine fight
going on about something that happened
some time ago. Donna is well-known, as
you all know, for kind of ‘ready, fire, aim’ on
a lot of the stuff that she does. [Chuck
Todd laughs] But to go back over this now
when they’re trying to win congressional
races and trying to get ready for ‘18 seems,
to me, to be beyond counterproductive.”
Media Research Center Vice President of Research Brent
Baker explains our weekly pick:
“Brokaw has demonstrated once again how
he’s more of a Democratic partisan than
any kind of independent journalist. When
Senator Bob Corker condemned President
Trump I don’t recall Brokaw lamenting how
that could hurt the Republican agenda.”
Rating: Four out of five screams.
■ October 30: Mainstream Scream: CNN raises the
Trump Media Conspiracy Theory
(Washington Examiner post)
This week’s Mainstream Media Scream features CNN
spelling out a Trump administration “campaign of
confusion” to obscure misdeeds.
From the Sunday, October 29 Reliable Sources on CNN.
Host Brian Stelter:
“Defending President Trump can be hard to
do, so some of his allies in the media don't
even bother trying. Instead, they just
change the subject. This is a campaign of
confusion. It is one of the most important
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things happening in American politics
today. I mean, if you watched the opinion
shows on Fox News this week, you might
have thought Hillary Clinton was president,
not Trump, Clinton.
“Here is how the campaign of confusion
works: First, The Hill newspaper revived a
relatively old story about Russian efforts to
gain influence in the American uranium
industry during the Obama administration.
Fox became fixated on this story and the
messaging was clear, the Russian
investigations were recast as a scandal for
Clinton and the Dems....
“Finally, Fox has found the real Russia
scandal. That’s how it’s portrayed.
Uranium, uranium, uranium. Now, Fox got
help from Republicans on Capitol Hill who
announced fresh investigations into the
uranium issue. And then President Trump
picked up on it. But Clinton is overall a
convenient boogie man.
“Look, there may be something
newsworthy here. I will leave that to the
experts.
“But in right-wing media, this uranium story
blotted out the sun! And it fit a pattern
we’ve seen before. Trump's media allies
downplay, deflect and deny stories that are
trouble for the White House. Instead, they
tell viewers and readers to hate Hillary
Clinton.”
Media Research Center Vice President of Research Brent
Baker explains our weekly pick:
“‘Look, there may be something
newsworthy here. I will leave that to the
experts.’ That’s quite an admission from
Stelter. But, apparently, if the investigative
reporting doesn’t match CNN’s narrow,
anti-Trump agenda, it’s a ‘campaign of
confusion’? This from a network which
spends entire prime times obsessed with
every minor news blip about Trump. Talk
about the pot calling the kettle black.”
Rating: Four out of five screams.
■ October 23: Mainstream Scream: ABC analyst
claims Reagan’s party ‘is gone’
(Washington Examiner post)
This week's Mainstream Media Scream features a top ABC
analyst who believes that the Republican Party would no
longer welcome its iconic leaders, Teddy Roosevelt,
Abraham Lincoln or Ronald Reagan.
Despite so many Republicans wrapping themselves in the
legacy of Reagan, ABC's Matthew Dowd said on Sunday's
This Week that the party is gone.
After we posted, Dowd tweeted us that it's the same on the
other side.
"More than two years ago I said Dems
wouldn't nominate JFK."
Dowd on This Week:
"I think that what has to be recognized now,
by Republicans and many conservatives
who have resisted Donald Trump, is that
the Republican Party as they know it is
gone. This is a party that would never
nominate Lincoln again, would never
nominate Teddy Roosevelt. Certainly
wouldn't nominate Ronald Reagan in this.
And that party is gone. They might as well
get H.G. Wells on the line, get back in a
time machine, and find the party that they
think still exists. It's gone."
Media Research Center Vice President of Research Brent
Baker explains our weekly pick:
"As if all political parties don't change over
time. Would today's Democratic Party
nominate John F. Kennedy, who was well
to the right of today's party? As for Reagan,
he won as a vocal conservative willing to
take on his opponents and with the help of
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‘Reagan Democrats,' both precursors of
how Trump won."
Rating: Three out of five screams.
■ October 16: Mainstream Scream: CNN’s Cuomo
dubs Trump ‘emperor’
(Washington Examiner post)
This week's Mainstream Media Scream features CNN
morning host Chris Cuomo pressing a top Republican to
say that President Trump is acting like "an emperor" with
his executive actions on Obamacare.
Noting that Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, once suggested that
Obama was an emperor for his actions, Cuomo demanded
the lawmaker to make the same claim about Trump.
He said on his Friday show: "Jim, why aren't you saying
that the president is acting like an emperor and that his job
is to execute laws that are passed, not write his own and
that Congress must hold him to account for doing so?"
Media Research Center Vice President of Research Brent
Baker explains our weekly pick:
"Cuomo seems oblivious to the obvious
difference between Obama imposing an
unconstitutional order, which appropriated
money without congressional approval, and
Trump undoing that improper action. If
anyone acted like an emperor, it was
Obama."
Rating: Four out of five screams.
■ October 9: Mainstream Scream: WaPo boss says
media not ‘cozy’ with Obama
(Washington Examiner post)
This week's Mainstream Media Scream features
Washington Post Executive Editor Marty Baron on CNN's
Reliable Sources on Sunday, October 8 decrying the "very
hostile atmosphere" with the Trump administration.
But he also argued that that the media's relationship with
the Obama administration wasn't "cozy" either.
"They've created a very hostile
atmosphere. It's not that we had such a
wonderful relationship with the previous
administration. There's sometimes an
assumption that the press had a warm,
cozy relationship with the Obama
administration. That wasn't the case.
"We had a lot of conflicts with the Obama
administration. And you may recall that
they had more leak investigations against --
involving the press than all previous
administrations combined. So, there wasn't
a warm relationship. But it' been, there's
been a hostility, I think, fomented by the
administration over the course of the
campaign, and certainly during the course
of the administration. That makes it
difficult."
Media Research Center Vice President of Research Brent
Baker explains our weekly pick: "So, per Baron, the
Obama administration was hostile to journalists and the
Trump team is too, but in his alternate universe the media
didn't have a ‘warm relationship' with Obama. Yet, it's the
Trump team's hostility to the press corps which has caused
the media's antagonism toward Trump. That's some
jujitsu."
Rating: Four out of five screams.
■ October 2: Mainstream Scream: Hardball Matthews’
delights in Sally Quinn’s hexes
(Washington Examiner post)
This week's Mainstream Media Scream features MSNBC
Hardball host Chris Matthews delighting in the revelation
from Washington Post's Sally Quinn in her new book,
Finding Magic: A Spiritual Memoir, that she put hexes on
people.
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Interviewing Quinn, the former wife of the late
Washington Post Executive Editor Ben Bradlee, and now a
blogger on religion for the newspaper, Matthews cackled:
"What I liked is the hexes of course. How can I not like the
fact you knocked off some people just by wishing them
evil?"
Matthews on the Friday, September 29 Hardball:
"Sally Quinn has always been one of the
most frightening people in Washington.
Glamorous, yes, I'll give you that -- but
when you wrote for the Washington Post,
when you went after people like Steve
Martindale or what's-his-name, Hamilton
Jordan -- they died. You wrote these huge -
- I used to read them on the bus, these
gigantic takeout pieces in the Washington
Post -- when your husband was running the
paper, which is a hugely successful paper -
- the Washington Post, it crackled with
excitement.
"And now you write a book where you say,
‘If you think I was scary as a reporter, I can
put a hex on you.' Talk about the spiritual
power of wishing someone to die. How's
that work? This is a book you got to read
because it's the only book I've read about
D.C. and the spiritual power that comes
alive with a really smart person with strong
focus...
"But the parts I liked to read -- I got them in
galley form -- what I liked is the hexes of
course. How can I not like the fact you
knocked off some people just by wishing
them evil?"
Media Research Center Vice President of Research Brent
Baker explains our weekly pick:
"No matter how lighthearted Matthews
treated the topic, in a time of such political
vitriol, how wise is it to laugh about a
journalist who boasts about putting deadly
hexes on political leaders? Matthews would
 have been better advised to have played a
little hardball with her on Hardball."
Rating: Three out of five screams.
■ September 25: Mainstream Scream: NBC guest calls
National Anthem ‘white supremacist’
(Washington Examiner post)
This week's Mainstream Media Scream features the
Trump-inspired debate over the National Anthem and NFL
players taking a knee to protest it.
It came Sunday on Meet the Press during an exchange
over President Trump's comments between National
Review editor Rich Lowry and Detroit Free Press editorial
page editor Stephen Henderson:
Rich Lowry of National Review: "He's not
randomly attacking these players. He is
attacking them because they're kneeling
during the national anthem. And the
national anthem is not a white supremacist
symbol. And the President has become-"
Stephen Henderson, Detroit Free Press:
"Some of the words of the national anthem
are white supremacist."
Lowry: "You think the national anthem is
racist?"
Henderson: "I think this is a country whose
history is racist, whose history is steeped in
white supremacy, and the anthem reflects
that in its very words, in verses we don't
sing anymore."
Media Research Center Vice President of Research Brent
Baker explains our weekly pick:
"Henderson well reflects the racial
obsession of those given such prominence
in the media, who see the bad in America
before the good, and see everything
through a racial prism. They have disdain
for the millions, for whom Trump speaks,
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who are angry millionaire players would
disrespect the national anthem of a nation
which has provided such opportunities."
Rating: Four out of five screams.
■ New on September 18: Mainstream Scream: CNN’s
Stelter sees victim in ESPN not Trump
(Washington Examiner post)
This week's Mainstream Media Scream features CNN
Reliable Sources host Brian Stelter suggesting that ESPN
and host Jemele Hill, who tweeted "white supremacist" at
Donald Trump were a victim of rivals.
On his Sunday show, he said:
"The world's biggest sports network, ESPN,
is in the crosshairs after SportsCenter host
Jemele Hill tweeted that President Trump is
a white supremacist. Hill prompted new
conversations about whether the U.S.
president is a racist. So, why did this
particular tweet back on Monday, made on
Hill's personal account, catch fire and
become a week-long story?
"After all, she's not the first to call Trump a
racist or white supremacist. And this is far
from the first time members of the media or
news outlets have questioned Trump's
complicated relationship with white
supremacy. You can see these recent
magazine covers all published in the wake
of the violence in Charlottesville, Virginia.
"There's a couple things going on here that
we should be honest about. Number one:
This controversy gave conservative media
like rival Fox Sports -- ESPN's wanna-be
rival Fox Sports – the opportunity to cast
ESPN as the liberal enemy. We also saw
President Trump and his White House
Press Secretary Sarah Sanders addressing
this controversy, being asked about it. It
seemed the White House embraced this
fight. Perhaps another example of media
bashing.
"So, there's a lot of dynamics at play here,
including ESPN's social media policies.
And we're going to get into that with two
top newsroom leaders. But maybe we
should call this was what it is: It's media
bashing of another color....”

Media Research Center Vice President of Research Brent
Baker explains our weekly pick: "Stelter holds himself as
some sort of independent media critic, but in framing
ESPN and Hill as the victims of unfair attacks from
conservatives, he placed himself clearly with those on the
left who presume an illegitimacy to media criticism from
those on the right. Looking at ESPN's liberal political
correctness, and hypocrisy in how they treat political
comments from staff, would have been the main focus for
a true media critic."
Rating: Four out of five screams.
■ September 11: Mainstream Scream: Whoopi
Goldberg asks if Clinton’s loss was ‘fair and square’
(Washington Examiner post)
2016 presidential runner-up Hillary Rodham Clinton still
can't get over losing to President Trump, and apparently
neither can her fans.
Whoopi Goldberg is first among them and is this week's
Mainstream Media Scream featured example of the
alternative thinking by the Left's media stars.
Ahead of the release of Hillary Clinton's book about why
she lost the 2016 presidential election, on ABC's The
View on Friday, Goldberg blamed Clinton's loss on Fox
News Channel attacks on former President Barack Obama
and offered a very confused history of when candidates
have succeeded a two-term president of their own party.
She then suggested nefarious things occurred as she
asserted "if this election happened in any other country the
way it happened here, we would have sent people to go
and check to see what was going on" before declaring:
"We don't know that she did lose fair and square."
Goldberg on ABC's The View on September 8:
"She's not the president. But let's be
realistic. Do you really think she was going
to win? Based on everything that the
Democrats did when they let Obama -- left
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him out there floating and the flotsam and
jetsam and all this stuff that Fox News did
and all those folks. You know, there have
been very few eight years of one party and
eight years of the same party. It doesn't
generally go back to back. The last time I
think was Nixon and whoever came in after
him was the last. Ford. And he pardoned.
That was the last time we had a long
stretch when it wasn't Democrat,
Republican, Democrat, Republican. So
given all the crap that Obama had to sort of
eat from his own party, I don't think Bernie
was going to -- I don't think any Democrat
was going to – people were going to vote...
"The truth of the matter is, if this election
happened in any other country the way it
happened here, we would have sent
people to go and check to see what was
going on. We will never know. We'll never
know. We'll never know....
"But we don't know that she did lose fair
and square. See that's the thing. That's
what I'm saying."
Media Research Center Vice President of Research Brent
Baker explains our weekly pick:
If Goldberg wants to convince anybody
there's anything to her unusual analysis
about how ‘we'll never know' if Hillary really
lost – blaming Fox News attacks on
Obama, for instance, for somehow leading
to Trump's victory – she should first bone
up on recent American history. Her big film,
Sister Act, was released during the
presidency of Republican George H.W.
Bush who had succeeded two-term
Republican President Ronald Reagan."
Rating: Four out of five screams.
■ September 5: Mainstream Scream: MSNBC guest
hits Trump’s ‘white supremacy agenda’
(Washington Examiner post)
This week's Mainstream Media Scream features an
MSNBC guest slapping President Trump's decision to end
the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals
program.
During Labor Day's MSNBC Live, frequent MSNBC guest
Karine Jean-Pierre, a lecturer at Columbia University,
national spokesman for MoveOn.org and ex-deputy
campaign manager for Barack Obama, tried to discredit
repealing DACA by charging:
"We're hearing tomorrow that he might, he
might do away with DACA, which is
another moral line that he would be
crossing, which is something that would be
enforcing -- advancing a white supremacy
agenda, and also against what the majority
of Americans want."
Media Research Center Vice President of Research Brent
Baker explains our weekly pick:
"‘White supremacy agenda' is the new way
to smear those holding views contrary to
the liberal/media narrowly-defined
‘diversity' agenda. Sad that MSNBC
welcomes those so eager to silence
opposition through baseless claims of
racism instead of addressing the specifics
of the policy."
Rating: Four out of five screams.
■ August 29: Mainstream Scream: Hurricane Harvey
was Trump’s fault
(Washington Examiner post)
This week's Mainstream Media Scream features a New
York Times reporter who concludes that Hurricane
Harvey, storming through the Gulf Coast, is hurting
President Trump's supporters and that he isn't helping them
in avoiding climate change policies.
On MSNBC Monday, Times reporter
Yamiche Alcindor discussed her story
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where she wrote, for example, that the
"unleashing of the fossil energy sector that
Mr. Trump has championed could have
repercussions more immediate than the
global climate. In Houston, predominantly
African-American neighborhoods like
Sunnyside and Pleasantville have been
dealing with pollution from the energy
sector for years."
On TV Monday, she added:
"I should say I just was reporting in
Galveston, Texas, and my story was
focused on climate change and on the idea
that middle class and poor people would be
some of the first people hurt by climate
change and there's this idea that these
storms, these hurricanes are getting worse
and worse, scientists say, and that working
class and poor people, poor people that
voted for Donald Trump, that are excited
about his presidency, that thought his
presidency was going to improve their
lives, that these are the same people who
can't afford to get in their car and drive four
or five hours or can't afford a hotel room to
try to escape these floods."
Media Research Center Vice President of Research Brent
Baker explains our weekly pick:
"Alcindor reminds me of the old headline
mocking the New York Times:
‘World to End Tomorrow, Minorities and
Poor Hardest Hit.' Her real article could be
headlined: ‘Climate Change to End the
World, Trump Voters Hardest Hit.' As if a
Hillary Clinton presidency, or different
policies from Trump, would have prevented
Hurricane Harvey or would really impact
hurricane formation in the foreseeable
future."
Rating: Five out of five screams.
■ August 21: Mainstream Scream: CNN doubts
Trump’s fitness, ‘crazy, unhinged’
(Washington Examiner post)
This week's Mainstream Media Scream features CNN's
media analyst wondering aloud if President Trump has an
illness that makes him unfit for office, crazy even.
Brian Stelter, host of CNN's Reliable Sources, opened
Sunday's show by maintaining
"this is not a normal week so this is not a
normal show. President Trump's actions
and inactions in the wake of Charlottesville
are provoking some uncomfortable
conversations, mostly off the air if we're
being honest."
He then contended:
"In discussions among friends and family
and debates on social media, people are
questioning the president's fitness. But
these conversations are happening in
newsrooms and TV studios as well. It's
usually after the microphones are off, of
after the stories been filed, after the paper
has been put to bed, people's concerns
and fears and questions come out.
Questions that often feel out of bounds, off
limits, too hot for TV.
Questions like these:
"Is the president of the United States a
racist? Is he suffering from some kind of
illness? Is he fit for office? [long pause] And
if he's unfit, then what?
"These are upsetting, polarizing questions
that are uncomfortable to ask. But we in the
national news media can't pretend like our
readers have viewers aren't already asking.
They are asking. This is how deep the
country's divide has really become.
"My impression is that since President
Trump's inauguration, there's been a lot of
tiptoeing going on. His actions have been
described as unpresidential, as unhinged,
and sometimes even crazy."
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Media Research Center Vice President of Research Brent
Baker explains our weekly pick:
"Can you say ‘projection'? The media have
hardly been ‘tiptoeing' around their
condemnation of the Trump presidency, but
he's still in office so, it seems, activist
journalists like Stelter think they've failed
and must prod their colleagues to step it up
by calling Trump ill and unfit. They're just
alienating themselves further from much of
America."
Rating: Five out of five screams.
■ August 14: Mainstream Scream: ABC’s Cokie
Roberts blames Trump, Sessions for violence
(Washington Examiner post)
This week's Mainstream Media Scream could have picked
any of dozens of media figures decrying President Trump's
words and his administration's actions for what happened
in Charlottesville, Va. But only one, ABC's Cokie Roberts
pointed the blame at the president and Attorney General
Jeff Sessions.
On the Sunday after Saturday's deadly clash, she claimed
that Trump "has to share responsibility." She also blamed
Attorney General Jeff Sessions for going "backward" on
race issues, charging:
"He's saying ‘let's keep voting rights
suppressed.' He's doing a lot of things that
send signals to these white supremacists."
During the roundtable on the August 13 This Week on
ABC:
"The president has to share responsibility. The fact is that
through that campaign, he blew all kind of whistles that
those of us who grew up in the Jim Crow south, like I did,
recognized immediately. It was just calling out to these
white supremacists who then felt empowered by it. And
the President now not calling them out....
 "This is also a really watershed moment for
the Justice Department. Because it's not
just categorizing these hate crimes. Jeff
Sessions has gone backwards on a lot of
these things having to do with race. Taking
a look at the Obama federal investigations
of how police treat people of color. He's
saying, ‘let's not do that anymore.' He's
saying ‘let's keep voting rights suppressed.'
He's doing a lot of things that send signals
to these white supremacists."
Media Research Center Vice President of Research Brent
Baker explains our weekly pick:
"Journalists, who are so anathema to tying
Democrats to far left violence, are all too
eager to blame Republicans for far right
violence, at least partly absolving those
who have committed the violent acts. In
this case, Roberts smeared Sessions for
promoting standard conservative policies,
thus trying to discredit them as somehow
racist."
Rating: Five out of five screams.
■ August 7: Mainstream Scream: Hardball’s Matthews
frets lack of Trump-Russia news
(Washington Examiner post)
This week's Mainstream Media Scream features MSNBC
Hardball host Chris Matthews worried that non urban
America, where big city liberal newspapers are AWOL, is
missing out on the Russia scandal because small local
papers cover, well, local news.
While all polls showing that most people get their news
from TV, where the Russia story is hot and heavy,
Matthews told of traveling out west where the newspapers
are thin on national news. That, he explained, is a reason
why Trump voters still support the president.
On his Thursday show, and after New York Times reporter
Jeremy Peters pointed out Republicans stuck with former
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President Richard Nixon during the Watergate scandal, so
no surprise Trump's base is sticking with him, Matthews
opined:
"I think part of that is the loss of
newspapers in many parts of the country. I
was out — no, I was just out in the west
with my wife. We were driving around, you
know, in Colorado and Utah and Wyoming.
There's no local big serious newspaper in
the — the Denver papers, they're — you
don't pick it up in the morning when you go
down the driveway or whatever, the
mailbox — there's not a newspaper that
tells you what's going to nationally. There
are local newspapers that are okay but the
days where people had a pretty good
newspaper to read. So, how are you going
to keep up with Russia? Even if you're
slightly interested it there's no story to read.
That's a fact."
Media Research Center Vice President of Research Brent
Baker explains our weekly pick:
"It took until 2017 for Matthews to notice
the decline in newspaper circulation which
has led to fewer and smaller printed
newspapers? And hasn't he heard of the
Internet? There's more news available than
ever to the people of Colorado, Utah and
Wyoming, so say nothing of channels like
CNN and MSNBC which are obsessed
withe the supposed Russia ‘scandal.' I
guess he realizes, correctly, few watch his
program."
Rating: Three out of five screams.
■ August 1: Mainstream Scream: Brian Williams hails
GOP ‘courage’ to keep Obamacare
(Washington Examiner post)
This week's Mainstream Media Scream features MSNBC
host Brian Williams as the example of the media cooing
over Sen. John McCain and the other GOP senators who
killed the party's promise to repeal and replace Obamacare.

After the defeat early Friday morning of the final

opportunity in the Senate to move toward repealing
Obamacare, Williams hailed McCain as a "profile in
courage" for voting no, despite the fact the Arizona senator
campaigned on a promise to repeal the law.

Later in the day, he touted McCain's "moment of moral

courage," and also praised the "courage" of the two other
Republican senators who voted no, wondering with some
hope: "Is that kind of courage, for people cheering them Media Research Center Vice President of Research Brent
on, going to be contagious?" Baker explains the pick:

Williams on MSNBC at 2 AM EDT Friday morning, just
after the vote:
"We'll leave this hour quoting Sen. Chris
Murphy, Democrat of Connecticut, saying ‘I
ran into John McCain as we walked
underground to the Senate for the final
vote. Someday, I'll get to tell my grandkids
what he said to me.' The words of John
McCain, who was indeed a profile in
courage tonight, along with two women in
the Republican caucus, Senator from
Maine, Murkowski — Senator from Alaska,
Murkowski — Senator from Maine, Collins."
"The very definition of outrageous liberal
bias. Can you imagine Williams heaping
such praise on McCain if his vote was the
one which enabled the Senate to repeal
Obamacare? Of course not. But betray a
promise made to your constituents in order
to advance a liberal goal and you earn the
media's adoration."
Rating: Five out of five screams.
■ July 24: Mainstream Scream: Now CNN says
Trump’s ‘rhetoric’ is a scandal

(Washington Examiner post)

Then, about 21 hours later, on MSNBC's The 11th Hour
with Brian Williams, he offered a dramatic recounting of
McCain's vote:
"In the well of the Senate, it came down to
one very dramatic moment. Senator John
McCain walks in, asks to be recognized,
raises that right arm broken three different
places in North Vietnam, a quick indicator
with a thumbs down. The Democrats briefly
react, Senator Schumer waives off any
verbal reaction. But with that, it was done.
Seven years of talk about repeal and
replace done in one hand gesture.
"Our panel remains with us and we'll go to
Charlie Sykes. Charlie, much was made of
that moment, a moment of moral courage,
a man staring down his own mortality yet
again, not the first time in his life. But let's
also talk about the courage of Murkowski of
Alaska and Collins of Maine, because
without those two women, there is no
moment like that for John McCain. My
question to you: Is that kind of courage, for
people cheering them on, going to be
contagious?"
This week's Mainstream Media Scream features a classic
TV duel between CNN "Reliable Sources" host Brian
Stelter and senior Trump counselor Kellyanne Conway.
Called out by presidential counselor Kellyanne Conway to
name the "big scandals" of the Trump administration,
Stelter, on Sunday's Reliable Sources, cited President
Trump's "demagogic behavior when it comes to the
media." The CNN host insisted that when Trump "calls
real news outlets fake news, he poisons our public
discourse" and "makes it harder for us to trust each other."
From the July 23 Reliable Sources on CNN, after Conway
complained about the media's obsession with Russia as
they undercover other important administration
achievements:
BRIAN STELTER: But journalists also
recognize there are big scandals going on.
KELLYANNE CONWAY: What scandals
are going on? Brian, name them. Go
ahead, I'll sit here, I want to hear about.
No, you can't get away with that. What are
the, quote, "big scandals" going on?
Please, name them for me.

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 STELTER: When you look at this
president's rhetoric, his demagogic
behavior when it comes to the media–
CONWAY: His rhetoric is a scandal?
STELTER: Yes, it actually is. But the more
important scandals–
CONWAY: It is? His rhetoric is a scandal?
STELTER: –are what happened before --
you don't think that his words against the
media are poison, Kellyanne, actually
hurting the country on a daily basis?
CONWAY: Wait, his rhetoric is a scandal?
STELTER: When he calls real news outlets
fake, when he calls real news outlets fake
news, he poisons our public discourse. It
makes it harder for us to communicate as a
country, it makes it harder for us to trust
each other.
Media Research Center Vice President of Research Brent
Baker explains the pick:
"Talk about a lack of self-awareness. CNN,
and the MSM, long ago lost the trust of
much of the public because they so
obviously favored liberals and denigrated
conservatives. Trump is not the cause of
distrust in the media or a poisoning of
discourse, but someone who successfully
exploited the table set by too many
politically-driven journalists."
Rating: Five out of five screams.
■ July 17: Mainstream Scream: WaPo vet hits scandal-
shunning ‘competing press’
(Washington Examiner post)
This week's Mainstream Media Scream features Len
Downie, former executive editor of the Washington Post
and an editor during the Watergate era, bemoaning how
the proliferation in media outlets means that now, unlike
during Watergate, coverage of supposed Trump scandals is
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being undermined because there's a "right wing press that
is not concerned about facts."
He appeared on Sunday's Reliable Sources show on CNN
to hit the media that isn't onboard with all the Post's
"scandal" reporting on President Trump.
Downie:
"There's so much more media now than
there was then. For a long time, the Post
was alone on the Watergate story. There
were — it was a whole string of editors,
including myself, who vetted all the stories,
who would challenge Bob and Carl on
whether or not the conclusions they were
drawing were the right conclusions to draw
from the facts.
"And we were able to do that without —
without other things going on. And there
was no Internet then. There was no cable
television. And there was no — there was
no competing press of the kind that there is
now. There's a sort of a right wing press
that is not concerned about facts. It
constantly attacks the legitimate reporting
that's going on. None of that was present
then."
Media Research Center Vice President of Research Brent
Baker explains the pick:
"Ah yes, the good old days when we few
media oligarchs controlled the news
agenda without those meddlesome
conservatives having any voice. What
chutzpah. Incredibly, Downie really seems
to believe the challenge to media credibility
does not come from any of the major media
outlets which distort news to the left, but
from a few conservative one which arose to
counter them."
Rating: Four out of five screams.
■ July 10: Mainstream Scream: Lupica says right now than Vladimir Putin is. If he gets
McConnell more a threat than Putin this thing through, it attacks so many
people in this country who will end up,
(Washington Examiner post) eventually, without health care and without
health insurance."
This week's Mainstream Media Scream features New York
Daily News and MSNBC regular Mike Lupica blasting the
GOP Obamacare repeal plan, claiming that Senate
Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is more dangerous than
Russian President Vladimir Putin.

On MSNBC Monday, he referenced his column in which

he wrote:

"To the 22 million Americans who will be

without health insurance by 2026 if this bill
passes, it actually makes McConnell and
all the 12 other angry men in the room who Media Research Center Vice President of Research Brent
helped him draft this bill a lot more Baker explains the pick:
dangerous than even a bum like Vladimir
Putin." "Lupica is a ‘sports' columnist in name only,
putting politics ahead of sports. In this
He repeated that while on MSNBC's Live with Stephanie case, enabled by MSNBC to espouse the
Ruhle on Monday morning July 10: all-too-common left-wing pretense that
Republican policies will kill people. He
"I think it is, and I actually wrote about this should stick to sports."
today. If you are an at-risk American, if you
are the poor or the elderly or somebody Rating: Four out of five screams.
with a pre-existing condition or somebody
who relies on a rural hospital, Mitch
McConnell is more of a danger to your life
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 Newly Uncovered Documents Reveal The FBI Is Nothing
More Than A Criminal Enterprise That Must Be Stopped
By J. D. Heyes
Posted On December 4, 2017
New documents have emerged that further prove just how
politicized and compromised the bureau became under
President Obama
(National Sentinel) Deep State: If ever Americans needed
a president like Donald J. Trump, now is the time, because
only a chief executive not owned by or beholden to the
stinky, disgusting D.C. swamp can fix what used to be one
of the world’s most competent, effective law enforcement
agencies: The FBI.
New documents have emerged that further prove just how
politicized and compromised the bureau became under
President Obama, one of the most scandal-ridden
presidents most Americans never knew about, thanks to
the equally disgusting (and biased) “mainstream” media.
According to 29 pages of documents obtained by Judicial
Watch, a government watchdog group that has doggedly
pursued Obama-era malfeasance, FBI agents on the ground
when former President Bill Clinton met then-Attorney
General Loretta Lynch on the tarmac of an Arizona airport
were more worried about covering it up than the
appearance of impropriety caused by the meeting itself.
For you see, if you remember, the “impromptu” meeting
between the AG and the former president just happened to
take place as the Department of Justice was conducting a
criminal investigation into Hillary Clinton, over her
illegal mishandling of classified documents via her
unsecured private home email server.
In a statement, Judicial Watch noted:
The new FBI documents show FBI officials
were concerned about a leak that Bill Clinton
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delayed his aircraft taking off in order to
“maneuver” a meeting with the attorney
general. The resulting story in the Observer is
seemingly confirmed and causes a flurry of
emails about the source of the article. FBI
official(s) write “we need to find that guy” and
that the Phoenix FBI office was contacted “in an
attempt to stem any further damage.” Another
FBI official, working on AG Lynch’s security
detail, suggests instituting non-disclosure
agreements. The names of the emails authors
are redacted. There are no documents showing
concern about the meeting itself.
“These new FBI documents show the FBI was
more concerned about a whistleblower who told
the truth about the infamous Clinton-Lynch
tarmac meeting than the scandalous meeting
itself,” said Judicial Watch President Tom
Fitton.
“The documents show the FBI worked to make
sure no more details of the meeting would be
revealed to the American people. No wonder
the FBI didn’t turn these documents over until
Judicial Watch caught the agency red-handed
hiding them,” he continued, in reference to the
time it took for the bureau to actually turn them
over.
“These new documents confirm the urgent need
to reopen the Clinton email scandal and
criminally investigate the resulting Obama
FBI/DOJ sham investigation,” Fitton added.
They also confirm that the FBI has been infested with
political careerists and agents who are more interested in
protecting the swamp than serving the American people.
None of this has been lost on Joe Hoft, a contributor at The
Gateway Pundit. In a Friday column decrying the
corruption, Host called on the Trump administration to
begin rooting out the bureau’s miscreants and, if
necessary, prosecute some of them for any criminal
behavior.
 “These documents confirm what has long been
suspected, that the FBI is a compromised entity
that no longer is engaged in law enforcement
but instead is a vehicle used by the deep state
and corrupt politicians to attack and besmirch
innocent American civilians,” he wrote.
He listed a litany of improper and illegal activity by
Swamp creatures from the past twoadministrations —
Obama’s and that of George W. Bush — as examples of
why the FBI is nothing more than a tool for the deep state,
since no one in the swamp ever seems to be held to
account, despite evidence of criminal activities.
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Many of those crimes occurred during then-FBI Director
Robert Mueller’s watch, but again, were not prosecuted.
Now Mueller is busying himself with jailing or trying to
jail Trump administration figures for major crimes like
fibbing to [corrupt] FBI agents. Meanwhile, people like
Hillary get to compromise our national security and put
every American in harm’s way, without any legal
repercussions. It’s pathetic, and it’s high time these people
were held to account.
Who watches the gatekeepers? I’m hoping the Trump
administration is.
 Travel Ban Back In Place,
SCOTUS Halts Lower Court Injunctions
By Ian Mason
4 Dec 2017
President Donald Trump’s travel ban is once
again to largely go back into effect after the
Supreme Court of the United States stayed
two lower courts’ injunctions Monday.
The orders come in response to filings by the Department
of Justice Friday, asking the Supreme Court to stay the
preliminary injunctions in the two main travel ban cases,
Hawaii v. Trump in the Ninth Circuit and International
Refugee Assistance Project v. Trump in the Fourth Circuit.
These cases have been proceeding up and down the federal
court system for months.
The district courts, especially that of Barack Obama-
appointed District of Hawaii Judge Derrick Watson, have
repeatedly ruled that the bans must be blocked from going
into effect or must, in the interim, be interpreted in such a
way as to have little effect on the list of mostly Muslim
majority countries from which travel is prohibited under
the orders.
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The petitions in the two cases were made to Justice
Anthony Kennedy and Chief Justice John Roberts
respectively. Only Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Sonia
Sotomayor declined to sign on to the orders staying the
Fourth and Ninth Circuits.
“This a substantial victory for the safety and
security of the American people,” Attorney
General Jeff Sessions said in statement after
the orders were announced.
He continued:
We are pleased to have defended this order
and heartened that a clear majority Supreme
Court has allowed the President’s lawful
proclamation protecting our country’s national
security to go into full effect. The Constitution
gives the President the responsibility and power
to protect this country from all threats foreign
and domestic, and this order remains vital to
accomplishing those goals.
With the order, the third – permanent – version of the
travel ban, promulgated in September after an interagency
review of the dangers posed by the different countries
included, will go back into effect while the case on the
merits works its way through the court system. The
Supreme Court had dismissed the earlier lawsuits based on
the earlier, temporary versions of the ban because they had
expired.
The government, represented by Solicitor General Noel
Francisco, asked the justices to re-instate the ban based in
part on the findings of the review, which provided new
security-based justifications for the inclusion of Chad,
Iran, Libya, North Korea, Syria, Venezuela, and Yemen
and, he argues, turns the likelihood of success against the
plaintiffs.
 Anti-Trump FBI Agent Changed Language Of Hillary
Email Scandal From "Grossly Negligent"
To "Extremely Careless"
By Tyler Durden
Dec 4, 2017 5:30 PM

Over the weekend we noted that Special Counsel Robert
Mueller's top FBI investigator into 'Russian meddling',
agent Peter Strzok, was removed from the probe due to the
discovery of anti-Trump text messages exchanged with a
colleague (a colleague whom he also happened to be
having an extra-marital affair with).
Not surprisingly, the discovery prompted a visceral
response from Trump via Twitter:
Hillary Clinton handled classified information, according
to US officials familiar with the matter.
Electronic records show Peter Strzok, who
led the investigation of Hillary Clinton's
private email server as the No. 2 official in
the counterintelligence division, changed
Comey's earlier draft language describing
Clinton's actions as "grossly negligent" to
"extremely careless," the source said.

The drafting process was a team effort, CNN is told, with a

handful of people reviewing the language as edits were
made, according to another US official familiar with the
matter.

But the news of Strzok's direct role in the statement that

ultimately cleared the former Democratic presidential
candidate of criminal wrongdoing, now combined with the
fact that he was dismissed from special counsel Robert
Mueller's team after exchanging private messages with an
FBI lawyer that could be seen as favoring Clinton
politically,

may give ammunition to those seeking ways

to discredit Mueller's Russia investigation.

Alas, as it turns out, Strzok, who was blatantly exposed as The FBI and the Justice Department declined to comment.
a political hack by his own wreckless text messages, also
had a leading role in the Hillary email investigation. And
wouldn't you know it, as CNN has apparently just
discovered,

Strzok not only held a leading role in that

investigation but potentially single-handedly
saved Hillary from prosecution by making
the now-infamous change in Comey's final
statement to describe her email abuses as
"extremely careless" rather than the original
language of "grossly negligent."

A former top counterintelligence expert at the FBI, now at

the center of a political uproar for exchanging private Of course, as we noted a month ago (see: First
messages that appeared to mock President Donald Trump, Comey Memo Concluded Hillary Was
changed a key phrase in former FBI Director James "Grossly Negligent," Punishable By Jail), the
Comey's description of how former secretary of state change in language was significant since

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 federal law states that "gross negligence" in illegally removed from its proper place of
handling the nation’s intelligence can be custody or delivered to anyone in violation of its
punished criminally with prison time or fines trust, or lost, or stolen, abstracted, or destroyed,
whereas "extreme carelessness" has no and fails to make prompt report of such loss,
such legal definition and/or ramifications. theft, abstraction, or destruction to his superior
officer— shall be fined under this title or
In fact, Section 793 of federal law states that imprisoned not more than ten years, or
"gross negligence" with respect to the handling both.”
of national defense documents is punishable
by a fine and up to 10 years in prison...so And just like that, the farce that has
you can see why that might present a problem heretofore been referred to as the "Russian
for Hillary. meddling probe" has been exposed for what
it really is...an extremely compromised
“Whoever, being entrusted with or having lawful political "witch hunt".
possession or control of any document, writing,
code book, signal book, sketch, photograph,
photographic negative, blueprint, plan, map,
model, instrument, appliance, note, or
information, relating to the national defense, (1)
through gross negligence permits the same to
be removed from its proper place of custody or
delivered to anyone in violation of his trust, or to
be lost, stolen, abstracted, or destroyed, or (2)
having knowledge that the same has been
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 She Just Won’t Go Away=> Hillary Clinton
Railroaded After Blasting Trump’s Tax Bill
By Cristina Laila
December 4, 2017

Hillary Clinton just won’t shut the hell up.
The failed presidential candidate blasted president
Trump’s tax plan, claiming ‘the tax bill is only going to get
worse as more people learn about it’.
We all know what Hillary does after a loss–she goes on a
world tour whining and blaming sexism and misogyny for
her failures.
Hillary got railroaded by Trump supporters!

After months of work and last minute

alterations, the US Senate passed President
Trump’s tax cuts in a vote of 51 – 49 Friday
night. No Democrats voted for the bill.
President Trump noted earlier this week,
Democrats only want to increase taxes on
working Americans.
The Democrats came unhinged as they come to grips with
the fact that they are no longer in charge.
Hillary Clinton continued to sow division by tweeting out
nonsense. According to delusional liberals like Hillary,
Pelosi and Schumer, this tax plan is the end of the world!
“Sometimes it’s hard to know what to do after a
loss. Not this time. This tax bill is only going to
get worse as people learn more about it. There
are 6 GOP Senators that have to run on it & 2
open seats in 2018. We all need to get to work,”
Hillary tweeted.

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 Kunstler: "Why Doesn't
Trump Fire Robert Mueller Now?"
James Howard
Dec 4, 2017 4:54 PM
“Contact with Russians.”
Grown men and women, doubling and re-doubling down
on a political fantasy, repeat this prayer hour after hour
on the cable channels and Web waves as if trying to
exorcise a nation possessed by the unholy hosts of Hell.
But such vicars of the news as Wolf Blitzer,
Rachel Maddow, Chuck Todd, and Dean
Baquet (of The New York Times) only shove
the country closer to a cliff of constitutional
crisis.
To a certain class of people - a class that
includes a lot of Intellectuals-Yet-Idiots, as
Nassim Taleb has dubbed them - President
Donald Trump is a figure of supernatural
malignity who must be ousted at all costs.
I did not vote for Donald Trump and I do not
admire him; but I rather resent the dishonesty
that is being marshaled against him,
especially the mis-use of judicial procedure and the
mendacious propagandizing of the nation in service to that
end.
This is what it comes down to:
General Mike Flynn, designated National
Security Advisor, conferred with Russian
Ambassador Sergey Kislyak after the 2016
election about two pressing matters: a vote in
the UN orchestrated against Israel, and
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sanctions imposed against Russia by outgoing
President Obama on December 28, two weeks
before the inauguration.
Both these matters could be viewed as bits of mischief
designed deliberately to create foreign policy problems for
the incoming administration.
Flynn’s discussions with Ambassador
Kislyak amounted to what are called “back
channel talks.”
These informal, probing communications occur all the
time and everywhere in American foreign policy,
especially the transitional months every four or eight years
when a new president comes in. They are necessarily
secret because they concern issues of high sensitivity.
Every incoming presidential staff in my lifetime (going
back to Dwight Eisenhower) has conducted back-channel
talks with foreign diplomats in order to directly assess
where things stand, minus public posturing and bloviating.
And so that is what Mike Flynn did, as
incoming National Security Advisor, after an
eight-year run of worsening relations with
Russia under Obama that Trump publicly
pledged to improve.
And now he’s been charged with lying to the FBI about it.
Which raises some enormous and troubling questions well
beyond the simple charge, questions that suggest a US
government at war against itself.
For instance, why exactly might Mike Flynn
lie about his discussions with Kislyak? That
ought to be self-evident as per what I said
above: back channel talks are necessarily
secret.
But why not let Vice-president Pence or the FBI in on it?
As for Pence,
not all government officials are in-the-loop
for back channel talks for the excellent reason
that the fewer people involved the less chance
of the talks becoming un-secret.
 And the FBI? Why, in December of 2016,
might Trump and his aides consider the FBI
to be an unreliable agency?
Because they knew that officials in the FBI under Director
James Comey had politicized the agency in favor of his
opponent in the election; that the agency had misbehaved
in the Clinton e-mail investigation, the meeting at the
Phoenix airport between Bill Clinton and Attorney General
Loretta Lynch, and the Christopher Steele Russian intel
file affair. We don’t know whether, at that point, Trump
and his staff knew about the FBI’s conduct in the Uranium
One deal. But there was plenty of evidence that the
permanent bureaucracy of Washington wanted to use a
politicized FBI against Trump in any way that it could to
get rid of him.
And over the weekend, news comes out that Peter Strzok,
the top FBI official assigned to Special Counsel Robert
Mueller’s probe of collusion between Russia and Trump
officials, had been removed from the probe after
exchanging anti-Trump and pro-Hillary Clinton text
messages with his mistress, who was an FBI lawyer
working for Deputy Director Andrew McCabe. This
.
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information was concealed from the congressional
oversight committee that had formally subpoenaed emails
from the FBI all year long, only to be stonewalled by the
agency. So, now the committee is threatening contempt
citations against the current FBI Director, Christopher Fry
and Rod Rosenstein, his deputy
Why should President Trump not fire
Special Prosecutor Robert Mueller now?
Mueller was James Comey’s mentor at the FBI when
Mueller was director. Is there not a train of association and
dishonesty that implicates criminal activity by the FBI
itself? And if and when Trump does this, and pardons
Mike Flynn for the non-crime of back channel negotiation,
should a new special prosecutor be appointed by the
Attorney General to investigate the activities of the FBI
through 2016 and 2017?
And after all that, will the Deep State find
some other way to go apeshit?
Keep your hats on for this.
 US Academic: 'There's Nothing Wrong
With Flynn's Meeting With The Russians'
© Ap Photo/ Drew Angerer / Getty Images North America - Opinion
21:05 04.12.2017(Updated 21:17 04.12.2017)
After former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn
pleaded guilty to making false statements to the FBI, US
President Donald Trump reiterated that there was no
"collusion" between Flynn and Moscow. Radio Sputnik has
discussed the matter with Daniel Franklin, an associate
professor of political science at Georgia State University.
Daniel Franklin: There is possibly illegality associated
with that. There is something called the Logan Act, which
forbids private citizens from conducting foreign policy.
There is nothing wrong with [Michael] Flynn's meeting
with the Russians or anybody else for that matter from a
foreign country, but if he begins to conduct foreign policy
as a private citizen, which is what they were either
during the campaign or during the transition, then they’re
not supposed to do that; then it is illegal.
Sputnik: Now we know that it is not the
first time the FBI has unsuccessfully
tried to create a link between President
[Donald] Trump's campaign and
Moscow. It's obviously a consistent and
constant campaign in terms of a Russia
witch hunt. What's your take on the
current situation? It doesn't seem to be
going away, does it?
Daniel Franklin: It's an ongoing investigation – it's not an
unsuccessful investigation, it's an ongoing investigation –
and the FBI is run by the attorney general, the attorney
general is hired by the president. If it’s a witch hunt I don't
know where it is coming from, because the law
enforcement, the federal law enforcement, is under the
control of the president. […] When the administration has
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to investigate itself we appoint a special counsel. A special
counsel is supposedly insulated, although in this case the
special counsel can be fired. If President Trump thinks this
is a witch hunt he can fire [Special Counsel] Mueller if he
wants to.
Sputnik: Daniel, do you think that these
failed attempts to find Russia's
involvement in the 2016 presidential
elections actually signal that there was
no collusion now, and this is all just the
conspiracy against Russia?
Daniel Franklin: I don't think there is a conspiracy
against Russia. I will say this: the United States has in the
past interfered in the internal affairs of other countries.
You know, we don’t have clean hands on this. And I now
would say that somebody in Moscow is probably getting a
medal right now for having performed very, very well. But
at the end of the day governments that we helped to install
in Iran, in Chile, in Cuba and Guatemala and places
like that were removed by their own people and punished.
I am not so much concerned about Russian involvement
in American elections.
I expect that Russia and before that the Soviet Union
would spy on the United States as we did on the Soviet
Union. But what I am concerned about is the Americans
who cooperated. It's not that much hostility towards Russia
as it is hostility towards the Americans who cooperated.
And it's pretty clear that somebody was buying ads on, say,
social medium Facebook and those contained false
information; so there’s something going on there and it
needs to be investigated. But I don't think it's really a witch
hunt, but I do think there was some evidence that
something was going on.
Sputnik: Let's switch over if we can
to President Trump's accusation: the
system of justice has double standards
because it did not prosecute Hillary
Clinton for her alleged misdeeds.
What’s your take on that and what effect
do you think the plea of guilt has for the
ongoing investigation surrounding the
Special Counsel Robert Mueller?
Daniel Franklin: The attorney general said in his
testimony before Congress that he had asked professional
prosecutors to look into Hillary Clinton’s affairs, but the
fact of the matter is that there is not as much urgency
to that as there is to investigations into the current
administration because Hillary Clinton is not in office. So I
don't think there is equivalence there at least in terms
of the urgency, and then in terms of what she's being
accused of – she did have her own personal email account
apparently and the question is whether or not there had
been some kind of breach of data, which I don't think
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anybody has demonstrated that it has, so therefore, it is not
entirely clear what crime she committed.
Now, there is the Uranium One deal, but I think if we talk
to the Russians, if we talk to you, you would say to us that
everything was about board on that deal. […]. But it can be
investigated I mean they can do it and they are doing it.
But we have a saying in the United States: the proof is
in the pudding. If she did something wrong I am sure that
they have an incentive to find out that she did something
wrong.
 ABC News President Goes Nuclear On Staff Over Brian
Ross’ #Fakenews Report About General Flynn
By Joshua Caplan
December 4, 2017

ABC News president James Goldston went
nuclear on the network’s staff following
Brian Ross’ fake news report about General
Flynn. “I don’t think ever in my career have I
felt more rage and disappointment and
frustration that I felt through this weekend
and through the last half of Friday,”
Goldston told network staffers.
story was. We would have not gone with that
story.”
As The Gateway Pundit’s Jim Hoft reported, stocks
crashed by 350 points on Friday after Ross
reported General Michael Flynn, the former national
security advisor, would testify that he was directed to
make contact with Russians during the presidential
campaign in 2016.

“CORRECTION of ABC News Special

Report: Flynn prepared to testify that
President-elect Donald Trump directed him
to make contact with the Russians *during
the transition* — initially as a way to work
together to fight ISIS in Syria, confidant now
says,” ABC News tweets hours later.

CNN reports:

During ABC News’ morning editorial call

Monday, audio of which was obtained by CNN,
Goldston excoriated his staff for the error. […] “I
don’t even know how many times we’ve talked
about this, how many times we have talked
about the need to get it right,” he added. “That
how we have to be right and not first. About
how in this particular moment, with the stakes
as high as these stakes are right now, we
cannot afford to get it wrong.” […] Goldston also
said, “If it isn’t obvious to everyone in this news
division, we have taken a huge hit and we have
made the job of every single person in this
news division harder as a result. It’s much,
much harder. We have people in Washington
who are going to bear the brunt of this today
and in the days forward. Very, very, very, very
unfortunate. Really, really angry about it.” [..] Hours later, ABC News announced it had suspended Ross.
“We just went on air with that information,” he
said. “We hadn’t approved doing that. And the “We deeply regret and apologize for the serious
thing that just kills me about this is all we had to error we made yesterday. The reporting
do was wait. We had to wait a few minutes. A conveyed by Brian Ross during the special
few minutes after that, the charging documents report had not been fully vetted through our
came out. We know that those charging editorial standards process. As a result of our
documents had come out, and we had looked to continued reporting over the next several hours
those charging documents, and the charging ultimately we determined the information was
documents didn’t match what we thought the wrong and we corrected the mistake on air and
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 online. It is vital we get the story right and retain
the trust we have built with our audience –-
these are our core principles. We fell far short of
that yesterday. Effective immediately, Brian
Ross will be suspended for four weeks without
pay.”

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 Wait… Was Flynn Tricked Into Interview
With Trump-Hating FBI Agent Without A Lawyer?
By Joshua Caplan
December 4, 2017
In yet another stunning twist to the ‘Trump-
Russia,’ witch hunt, Fox News host Sean
Hannity and Circa News reporter Sara A. Carter
have teamed up to reveal that Trump-hating FBI
agent Peter Strzok interviewed former National
Security advisor Michael Flynn.
Was President Trump’s National
Security Advisor tricked into meeting with
the FBI without a lawyer?
As The Gateway Pundit reported, Strzok was fired from
Mueller’s investigation after reports surfaced that he
exchanged ‘anti-Trump,’ text messages with Lisa Page, a
lawyer for FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe. Hannity
and Carter also suggest Flynn may have been tricked into
having the interview with Strzok without a lawyer:
According to another source, with direct knowledge of the
Jan. 24 interview, McCabe had contacted Flynn by phone
directly at the White House. White House officials had
spent the “earlier part of the week with the FBI overseeing
training and security measures associated with their new
roles so it was no surprise to Flynn that McCabe had
called,” the source said.
McCabe told Flynn “some agents were heading over (to
the White House) but Flynn thought it was part of the
routine work the FBI had been doing and said they would
be cleared at the gate,” the source said.
360
“It wasn’t until after they were already in
(Flynn’s) office that he realized he was being
formerly interviewed. He didn’t have an attorney
with him,” they added.
McCabe either failed or purposely refused to tell Flynn
that the FBI was heading over to the White House to see
him personally. Flynn, no doubt surprised by the interview,
did not have time to summon his attorney to help prepare
for the FBI. McCabe withholding the motive behind the
meeting raises questions of the FBI’s intentions to confuse
or rattle Flynn and begs the question if it was a tactic to
trip up the former National Security Advisor, ultimately
contributing to a false statement being made.
New details of the FBI-Flynn meeting come amid a CNN
report stating Strzok personally changed key language that
former Bureau Director James Comey used to
describe Hillary Clinton’s email conduct.
CNN reports:
A former top counterintelligence expert at the
FBI, now at the center of a political uproar
for exchanging private messages that appeared
to mock President Donald Trump, changed a
key phrase in former FBI Director James
Comey’s description of how former secretary of
state Hillary Clinton handled classified
information, according to US officials familiar
with the matter. Electronic records show Peter
Strzok, who led the investigation of Hillary
 Clinton’s private email server as the No. 2
official in the counterintelligence division,
changed Comey’s earlier draft language
describing Clinton’s actions as “grossly
negligent” to “extremely careless,” the source
said. The drafting process was a team effort,
CNN is told, with a handful of people reviewing
.
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the language as edits were made, according to
another US official familiar with the matter.
Michael Flynn, former National Security Adviser to
President Trump, pleaded guilty Friday to making false
statements to the FBI about contacting Russian
Ambassador Sergey Kislyak during the transition
 Is President Trump’s Legal Team Preparing
For An Imminent “Obstruction Of Justice” Charge?
Zero Hedge
December 4, 2017
President Trump set off a new wave of mainstream media
outrage over the weekend when he publicly admitted that
he was aware that Flynn had lied to the FBI and Vice
President when he made the decision to fire him. Not
surprisingly, the Left has used the admission to once again
suggest that Trump obstructed justice by firing Comey for
simply pursuing charges against someone who Trump
himself already knew to be guilty.
Of course, we know from Comey’s own testimony that he
was fired by Trump for repeatedly refusing to announce
publicly that the President was not under investigation, a
courtesy that he provided Hillary numerous times during
the campaign.
Be that as it may, comments from Trump’s legal team this
morning to Axios seem to imply that the White House may
be preparing a preemptive defense for an obstruction of
justice charge…
Why it matters:
Trump’s legal team is clearly setting the stage
to say the president cannot be charged with any
of the core crimes discussed in the Russia
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probe: collusion and obstruction. Presumably,
you wouldn’t preemptively make these
arguments unless you felt there was a chance
charges are coming.
The “President cannot obstruct justice because
he is the chief law enforcement officer under
[the Constitution’s Article II] and has every right
to express his view of any case,” Dowd claims.
Dowd:
“The tweet did not admit obstruction. That is an
ignorant and arrogant assertion.”
…a defense which Harvard Law professor Alan
Dershowitz has offered at least a hundred times
over the past year with the latest coming this
morning on Fox News.
“You cannot charge a president with obstruction
of justice for exercising his constitutional power
to fire Comey and his constitutional authority to
tell the Justice Department who to investigate,
who not to investigate. That’s what Thomas
Jefferson did, that’s what Lincoln did, that’s
what Roosevelt did. We have precedents that
clearly establish that.”
Not surprisingly, other left-leaning lawyers (you know,
because the application of law was always intended to be
political) tend to disagree with Trump’s legal team and the
famed Harvard law professor.
One top D.C. lawyer told me that obstruction is usually an “obstructed, and impeded the administration of
ancillary charge rather than a principal one, such as aquid justice.”
pro quo between the Trump campaign and Russians.
Of course, if the FBI truly is concerned about people in
But Dems will fight the Dowd theory. Bob Bauer, an NYU positions of power admitting to obstructing justice via
law professor and former White House counsel to Twitter then perhaps they should take a look at James
President Obama, told me: Comey’s latest Tweets which could easily be interpreted as
the former FBI director admitting some political bias and a
“It is certainly possible for a president to personal vendetta against the current administration…
obstruct justice. The case for immunity has its
adherents, but they based their position largely
on the consideration that a president subject to
prosecution would be unable to perform the
duties of the office, a result that they see as
constitutionally intolerable.”

Remember:

The Articles of Impeachment against Nixon began by

saying he
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 ‘SUPER EMBARRASSING’: BuzzFeed Reporter Shocked
That Lefty Academics, Media Historians Share More Fake
News Than Trump Supporters
By Kristinn Taylor
December 4, 2017

When your allies in the media and academia turn out to be

more gullible than you imagine Trump supporters are,
well, as the BuzzFeed reporter writes in all caps, it is
“SUPER EMBARRASSING”.

Anne Helen Petersen, who covers ‘culture and The West

for @BuzzfeedNews‘ wrote on Twitter Monday afternoon
about how her Facebook timleine is filled with Lefty
academics and media historians pushing fake news and
fake quotes–more so than Trump supporters, “The people
sharing the most Fake News in my FB feed aren’t Trump
Voters. They’re lefty academics. WHICH IS SUPER
EMBARRASSING.” “It’s even more embarrassing when
they’re MEDIA HISTORIANS indulging in wholly
unsubstantiated Mensch/Abramson Russia Fanfic”…”it’s
been very dispiriting!”

Anti-Trump conspiracy theorist, attorney and

University of New Hampshire professor Seth
Abramson is a regular guest on CNN, screen
image from October 31, 2017 appearance.

In response to a query,

“Is it the Seth Abramson threads? It’s the Seth

Abramson threads isn’t it? Ugh. EVERY DAY I
have to chastise some egghead who ought to
know better than to share that shit.,” Petersen
replies, “That’s definitely part of it.”

Anti-Trump conspiracy theorist Louise Mensch, screen image.

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Petersen explained her background as to where she is
coming from,
“I’m a former media studies professor, so it’s a
mix of media studies, English, Humanities. The
scientists I’m friends with don’t share this stuff.”
“I’m also an ex-academic, which is why I have
so many academics in my feed. And from
Idaho, so it’s not like I don’t have Trump voters
either.”
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The Chronicle of Higher Education profiled Seth
Abramson last May.
Seth Abramson wants you to know that he is not a
conspiracy theorist.
He also wants you to know that President Trump and his
advisers may have hatched, then covered up, a plot to
encourage Russia’s U.S. election meddling and to profit
from the mysterious sale of a Russian oil company in
exchange for a promise to ease U.S. sanctions against
Russia.
He wants you to note the “may” in that sentence.
Since November, Abramson — professor, experimental
poet, onetime lawyer — has been building a case against
Trump’s administration in the court of public opinion. His
weapon of choice: serialized tweets, billed as “mega
threads,” that purport to connect the dots on what he
suspects is an illegal conspiracy that brought the
administration to power, and which he hopes will be its
downfall.
On any given day, Abramson, who teaches English at the
University of New Hampshire at Manchester, might be one
of the most widely read scholars in the country. His
broadsides against the president have earned him a larger
audience than most academics or poets could ever hope
for: 116,000 Twitter followers, most of them in the past
five months.
It has also put him in the crosshairs of critics who object to
his prosecutorial style. They say he’s a self-righteous
amateur who is encouraging paranoia in the guise of
patriotism.
Abramson says he is not like those “self-investigators”
who thought Democrats were running a child-sex ring out
of a Washington pizzeria, or the Obama birthers and 9/11
truthers, or even the contemporary Trump-haters who cite
fringe websites and dismiss their critics as Kremlin
operatives. He prefers the term “curatorial journalist” and
relies on media that still traffic in real news. To fill in the
blanks, he applies his training as a lawyer and his English
professor’s penchant for reading between the lines.
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Trump’s angry, paranoid presidency has made for an
extraordinary political moment. When the president no
longer acts like a president, how should scholars act?
Some, Abramson included, are trying to negotiate a fine
line between hysteria and civic responsibility. These days,
nobody seems to know where that line is.”
End excerpt.
How unhinged is Abramson? Twitchy captured a couple of
his now deleted tweets going nuts over President Trump’s
‘covfefe’ tweet:
BREAKING: Trump now claims his “covfefe” tweet
contained *no typos*. This is sociopathy. He must be
impeached ASAP. https://t.co/flOJuhjgVI
— Seth Abramson (@SethAbramson) May 31, 2017
The president is unwell; he now says “covfefe” is
SECRET CODE. Please retweet if you think this
dangerous man must be IMPEACHED immediately.
pic.twitter.com/h2yqM7EiE5
— Seth Abramson (@SethAbramson) May 31, 2017
Welcome to the party, Anne.
 Trump’s National
Security Strategy (NSS)
By Stephen Lendman - stephenlendman.org
12-4-2017
It’s a work in progress, yet to be released. Prepared by
Trump’s national security team, it’s nearing completion,
expected out soon.
It’s designed as a blueprint for administration foreign
policy. Sources familiar with it call it “hard-nosed” and
“realistic.”
Reportedly, it’ll focus more on protecting the homeland
than strategies of previous administrations - despite the
nation facing no threats except ones it invents as pretexts
for endless wars of aggression.
It’ll stress economic competitiveness, America first,
calling it a national security imperative, especially
regarding Sino/US relations.
Trump mistakenly believes Beijing steals American jobs.
US corporations offshore them to China and other low-
wage countries for greater profits, notably over the past
few decades.
Blame them and US economic policies, not foreign nations
for what’s going on, hollowing out America, most
domestic jobs largely low-wage/low or no benefits service
ones today - world’s different from when the US was a
manufacturing powerhouse, no longer.
Trump’s NSS reportedly will also stress increasing
technological and cyber threats, including Russia’s hybrid
warfare capabilities and advances in the militarization of
space.
On December 3 at the Reagan National Defense Forum,
National Security Advisor HR McMaster hinted at what
his NSS will contain, saying:
It’ll represent “a dramatic rethinking of American foreign
policy from previous decades.”
“Today as we approach the unveiling of the
Trump administration’s national security
strategy, we are at a…crossroads” similar
to Reagan’s “rethinking of America’s role in
the world and a dramatic renewal of
American confidence.”
Paul Craig Roberts served as Reagan’s Assistant Secretary
of the Treasury for Economic Policy - no one in
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Washington like him today, not at Treasury or any other
branch of government.
He explained
“(t)he Cold War was a time when leaders
focused on reducing tensions between
nuclear powers”
- world’s apart from current US policies, hugely dangerous
ones, recklessly challenging Russia and China, risking
unthinkable nuclear war.
Roberts explained JFK
“worked with Khrushchev to defuse the
Cuban Missile Crisis.”
Nixon “negotiated SALT I” and the ABM treaty, along
with opening China, major constructive policies.
SALT II came under Jimmy Carter. Reagan and
Gorbachev ended the Cold War. World tensions were
easing under these leaders.
Today they’re heading toward spinning out-of-control,
beginning in the neoliberal 90s with the Gulf War and rape
of Yugoslavia, accelerated post-9/11 by Bush/Cheney,
Obama and Trump.
US foreign policy features endless imperial wars, all
sovereign independent countries threatened.
Russia and China are the final obstacles to be overcome
for Washington to achieve unchallenged global dominance
- perhaps nuclear war on both countries the strategy to
accomplish its objective.
Madness under bipartisan neocons defines America’s
agenda, undemocratic Dems as bloodthirsty as
Republicans.
Obama waged wars of aggression on seven nations
threatening no one, supported by cheerleading media
scoundrels.
Trump escalated what he began, threatening new conflicts
against North Korea and Iran. Claiming a nonexistent
“Russian threat” is part of gaining public acceptance for
unthinkable war on the country.
 Saying ISIS and other jihadist groups “threaten all
McMaster turned truth on its head, claiming Russia and civilized people in every corner of the world,” McMaster
China are “revisionist powers subverting the post-WW II failed to explain Washington created them for use as
political and security orders” at our expense. imperial foot soldiers in Syria, Iraq and elsewhere.

Both countries seek cooperative relations with all other America is a pariah state, losing, not gaining influence,
nations. They’re not advancing their own interests at the perpetually at war, disdaining peace, Trump’s NSS a
expense of America, as McMaster falsely claimed. policy agenda for more of the same.

Nor are North Korea and Iran. Neither country threatens its Possible catastrophic US nuclear war against one or more
neighbors. Nor do they violate their sovereignty or export countries is ominously real. If launched, we all may be
terror, as McMaster claimed - US specialties, not theirs. doomed.
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 Republicans Prepare For War With FBI, DOJ:
To File Contempt Action Over Anti-Trump Bias
By Tyler Durden
Dec 4, 2017 4:33 AM
Five weeks ago, House Speaker Paul Ryan accused the
DOJ and FBI of “stonewalling” the House Intelligence
Committee’s wide-ranging subpoena for all pertinent
information about how the largely unsubstantiated “Trump
dossier” played into the DOJ’s decision to launch the
infamous Trump collusion investigation.
At the time, the speaker said the agency
was preparing to turn over the
information requested by the
committee, but despite his assurances,
the promised documents never
materialized.
Then yesterday, thanks to a series of
coordinated media leaks, Nunes learned –
at the same time as the broader public -
about the reassignment of Peter Strzok, a
senior Mueller aide who had played a
critical role in the DOJ’s original
collusion investigation. And before that,
Strzok helped lead the FBI’s probe into
Hillary Clinton’s mishandling of
classified information.
As it turns out, the agent had been
reassigned for expressing anti-Trump
sentiments in a series of text messages
to FBI attorney Lisa Page while the two
were having an affair. The bureau, it
appears, had willfully tried to conceal
this fact from Nunes and his committee.
Upon being blindsided with this information and publicly
embarassed, the Intel committee chairman was
understandably less than pleased.
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So in a statement issued Sunday, Nunes
announced a serious escalation: His
committee, he said, is preparing to hold
Andrew McCabe and assistant AG Rod
Rosenstein in contempt for the DOJ's
failure to comply with Nunes's
subpoena.
Strzok was reassigned in July, shortly before Nunes issued
the request for the bureau to turn over all documents
relating to the Trump dossier. In a transparent attempt to
save face, the bureau contacted Nnes shortly after the
Strzok news broke on Saturday to say they were ready to
comply with the subpoena. But Nunes rightly repudiated
this offer, saying it was too little, too late. He laid out his
argument for preparing the order of contempt in a
statement released Sunday offering details of the
committee's unsuccessful push to convince the FBI to turn
over the documents it had requested.
Here’s a timeline of Nunes' contact with the Department of
Justice courtesy of the Washington Examiner:
 On Oct. 11, Nunes met with deputy attorney general
Rod Rosenstein. In that meeting, Nunes specifically
discussed the committee's request for information
about Strzok.
 In an Oct. 31 committee staff meeting with the FBI,
bureau officials refused a request for information about
Strzok.
 On Nov. 20, the committee again requested an
interview with Strzok. (Three days earlier, on
November 17, Strzok met with the Senate Intelligence
Committee.)
 On Nov. 29, Nunes again spoke to Rosenstein, and
again discussed Strzok.
 On Dec. 1, the committee again requested to speak
with Strzok.
Republicans, including President Trump, pointed to the
news as evidence that the entire probe into Russian
meddling had been politically motivated.

Unsurprisingly, both the FBI and House Democrats have
been silent on the issue, according to Bloomberg:
A Justice Department spokesman, Sarah
Isgur Flores, couldn’t be immediately
reached for comment by telephone or text.
There was no immediate response Sunday
from a spokesman for the committee’s top
Democrat, Representative Adam Schiff of
California.
In his statement, included in full below, Nunes accused the
FBI and the Department of Justice of willfully refusing to
comply with an Aug. 24 committee subpoena in part by
refusing the committee's request “for an explanation of
Peter Strzok’s dismissal from the Mueller probe.” Nunes is
giving the FBI until end of business day tomorrow to fully
comply with the committee's requests, or face a contempt
order before the end of the month.
Washington, D.C. – House Permanent Select Committee
on Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes issued the
following statement today amid press reports that Peter
Strzok, the top FBI official assigned to Special Counsel
Robert Mueller’s probe of collusion between Russia and
Trump officials, had been removed from the probe after
exchanging anti-Trump and pro-Hillary Clinton text
messages with his mistress, who was an FBI lawyer
working for Deputy Director Andrew McCabe:
“The FBI and Department of Justice have
failed to sufficiently cooperate with the
Committee’s August 24 subpoena, and
have specifically refused repeated
demands from the House Intelligence
Committee for an explanation of Pete
Strzok’s dismissal from the Mueller probe.
In light of today’s press reports, we now
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know why Strzok was dismissed, why the
FBI and DOJ refused to provide us this
explanation, and at least one reason why
they previously refused to make Deputy
Director McCabe available to the
Committee for an interview.
“By hiding from Congress, and from the
American people, documented political
bias by a key FBI head investigator for
both the Russia collusion probe and the
Clinton email investigation, the FBI and
DOJ engaged in a willful attempt to
thwart Congress’ constitutional
oversight responsibility.
This is part of a months-long pattern by the DOJ and FBI
of stonewalling and obstructing this Committee’s oversight
work, particularly oversight of their use of the Steele
dossier. At this point, these agencies should be
investigating themselves.
“The DOJ has now expressed—on a
Saturday, just hours after the press
reports on Strzok’s dismissal
appeared—a sudden willingness to
comply with some of the Committee’s
long-standing demands. This attempted
11th-hour accommodation is neither
credible nor believable, and in fact is yet
another example of the DOJ’s
disingenuousness and obstruction.
Therefore, I have instructed House
Intelligence Committee staff to begin
drawing up a contempt of Congress
resolution for DOJ Deputy Attorney
General Rod Rosenstein and FBI
Director Christopher Wray. Unless all our
outstanding demands are fully met by close
of business on Monday, December 4,
2017, the committee will have the
opportunity to move this resolution before
the end of the month."
In the statement, Nunes pointed to
“a months-long pattern by the DOJ and FBI
of stonewalling and obstructing this
Committee’s oversight work,”
including also withholding subpoenaed information about
their use of an opposition research dossier that targeted
Trump in the 2016 election.
In targeting McCabe and Rosenstein, Nunes explained that
Attorney General Jeff Sessions was being excused from
any contempt action by the committee because the AG had
recused himself from the investigation into Russia
meddling.
In addition to the threat of contempt, Strzok is also facing
an internal review for his role in the investigation into
Clinton's handling of classified information on her private
email server. It has already been revealed that then-FBI
Director James Comey drafted his letter excusing Clinton
before she had even been interviewed. The Office of the
Inspector General probe into Strzok will examine his role
in a number of "politically sensitive" cases this year,
according to Fox News.
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At the FBI, senior managers are facing a serious dilemma:
It's probable that the information pertaining to Strzok is
only some of what the bureau has tried to keep from Nunes
and the committee. Now, the FBI is facing a dilemma:
Either rush to comply without having the
time to screen all the documents that have
been supplied to the committee, or
continue to resist, and face a
Congressional subpoeana. Either way,
we're certain this isn't the last of the story.
 Idea That Flynn Could Ask
Anything Of Russia Or Putin 'Absurd,' Says Kremlin
Published Time: 4 Dec, 2017 12:11 Edited Time: 4 Dec, 2017 15:55
Gen. Michael Flynn(C), former national security adviser to US
President Donald Trump. © AFP
Moscow says the claim that conversations between Donald
Trump’s former national security adviser, Michael Flynn,
and the Russian ambassador to the US could have
influenced Russia’s response to US sanctions is “absurd.”
“Flynn was in no position to request
anything of Sergey Ivanovich [Kislyak,
Russia’s former US ambassador] let alone
to expect any requests to be relayed to
Vladimir Putin – the whole thing is
completely absurd,” said the Russian
President’s press secretary Dmitry Peskov
during a media briefing in Moscow.
In his capacity as part of Donald Trump’s transition team,
following Trump’s victory in last November’s presidential
election, Flynn has admitted lying to the FBI over the
nature of his contact with the Russian diplomat.
The US security services say that he lied when he told
them earlier this year that he did not ask Kislyak to
“refrain from escalating the situation in
response to sanctions”
adopted by the outgoing administration last December,
which included the expulsion of 35 diplomats.
In the end Russia did postpone its response, but Peskov
says that
“the decision was taken by Putin alone, and
cannot be attributed to any requests or
recommendations.”
“What information Putin receives from his
ambassadors is of no concern to anyone
else,” said Peskov. “The Russian president
makes all decisions independently on the
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basis, as he has said many times, of
Russia’s national interest.”
The purported contents of Flynn’s phone exchanges with
Kislyak were monitored by American intelligence
agencies, and he was interviewed by the FBI in January,
although the retired US Army general was not charged at
that time. The following month, Flynn resigned and
admitted that he had provided “incomplete information”
about his dealings with the Russian envoy to Vice
President Mike Pence.
Donald Trump insists that there was no reason for Flynn to
mislead the authorities.
“I had to fire General Flynn because he lied
to the Vice President and the FBI. He has
pled guilty to those lies. It is a shame
because his actions during the transition
were lawful. There was nothing to hide!”
Trump tweeted on Saturday.
On Monday, the US President accused the FBI of
"ruining" Flynn's life.
"I feel badly for General Flynn. I feel very
badly. He's led a very strong life, and I feel
very badly," he told the media prior to
boarding the presidential plane to Utah.
Flynn has entered into a plea agreement with Robert
Mueller, who is leading a wider federal investigation into
alleged Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential
campaign, and the current administration’s links with the
Kremlin.
As a result of the bargain, in which he may have
incriminated other White House officials, Mueller has
recommended that Flynn should face between zero and six
months in prison, and a fine of no more than $9,500.
 Did Mike Flynn Wear A Wire During
Conversations With Jared Kushner?
By Tyler Durden
Dec 4, 2017 6:55 AM
By now, other potential Trump administration officials
who might’ve interacted with Michael Flynn following his
Jan. 24 interview with FBI agents - where the former
general lied about the details of his conversation with then-
ambassador Kislyak - are probably tearing their hair out
trying to discern whether the former National Security
Adviser – who served in that post for less than a month
before being fired for allegedly misrepresenting these same
conversations to Vice President Pence – might’ve worn a
wire during their interactions.
Of course, there’s nothing in Flynn’s
Nov. 30 plea agreement that definitively
answers the question of whether Flynn
wore a wire.
So, in the interest of reading the tea leaves, the Guardian
spoke to a handful of experts about whether there was any
language in the plea agreement to suggest that Flynn –
who tried to cover up the fact that he intimated to then-
ambassador Kislyak that Trump would roll back some of
the sanctions against the Putin government while also
soliciting a Russian veto of a UN resolution condemning
Israeli settlements – might’ve been wired for sound.
Their conclusion? That certain language
in the Flynn plea about ‘covert actions’
suggests that, yes, he did wear a wire.
Section eight of the deal reached by
Donald Trump’s former national security
adviser in the inquiry into Russian
meddling in the US election is entitled
“cooperation”.
It specifies that as well as answering questions and
submitting to government-administered polygraph tests,
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Flynn’s cooperation “may include … participating in
covert law enforcement activities”.
Long-time students of federal law enforcement practices
agreed, speaking anonymously, that “covert law
enforcement activities” likely refers to the possibility of
wearing a concealed wire or recording telephone
conversations with other potential suspects. It is not known
whether Flynn has worn a wire at any time.
“If the other subjects of investigation
have had any conversations with Flynn
during the last few months, that phrase
must have all of them shaking in their
boots,” said John Flannery, a former
federal prosecutor in the southern district of
New York.
And if there’s one member of the Trump inner circle who
might have something to worry about thanks to Flynn, it’s
senior Trump adviser and son-in-law Jared Kushner.
“The one who must be particularly
terrified is [Trump son-in-law and
adviser] Jared Kushner, if he spoke to
the special counsel’s office without
immunity about the very matter that is
the subject of Flynn’s plea. I think he
must be paralyzed if he talked to Flynn
before or after the investigators
debriefed him."
But aside from the language about covert action, few other
details about what actions might’ve taken can be gleaned
from the plea. Even the date when Flynn began
cooperating with Mueller’s investigation remains a
mystery - though at least one prominent Republican donor
was telling friends in July this year that Flynn was already
helping the Mueller probe, the Guardian reported.
The exact nature of the information that Flynn provided to
Mueller also is not yet known (though we imagine, given
the sieve-like nature of the Mueller camp when it comes to
media leaks, some of these details will likely begin
appearing in the pages of the New York Times and
Washington Post). However, if there’s one clue as to the
magnitude of the assistance that Flynn provided to
Mueller, it’s the updated sentencing guidelines for the
single charge of obstruction that Flynn has chosen to eat
instead of trying his luck with a trial.
Considering the severity of Flynn’s crimes in the eyes of
the FBI (which doesn’t look kindly on people who
knowingly hinder investigations), the dramatic reduction in
the former general’s sentencing suggests that he is going to
help Mueller take down at least one other senior member
of the Trump inner circle.
The main clue in the plea agreement about the importance
of the information Flynn has already provided lies in the
discrepancy between the maximum penalty for the crime
he has admitted and the maximum sentence the special
counsel has promised to recommend.
According to the document made public
on Friday, Flynn could have been
sentenced to as much as five years in
prison and a $250,000 fine.
As long as he cooperates in full with all of the special
counsel’s requests, the document says the “estimated
sentencing guidelines” range from zero to six months, with
a possible fine of between $500 and $9,500. The proposed
sentencing reduction also partly takes into account the fact
Flynn has no criminal record.
“No prosecutor I know would agree to
reducing a sentence that dramatically
unless the witness had provided very
significant information about at least
one other target of his investigation,”
Flannery said. “You wouldn’t get such a low
sentence unless you had implicated a big
target. The person that you’re lifting up
allows you to sit on the ground.”
The exact language in the plea agreement requires Flynn to
cooperate
“fully, truthfully, completely and with this
Office and other Federal, state and local
law enforcement authorities identified by
this Office in any and all matters as to
which this Office deems the cooperation
relevant”.
If Flynn refuses to cooperate fully, “the agreement will be
considered breached by your client.” The agreement says
any breach will have a serious impact on Flynn’s sentence.
Experts told the Guardian it was notable Flynn pleaded
guilty before being indicted by a grand jury, though the
logic here is easy to spot. By sparing Flynn this very
public embarrassment, Flynn has more reason to feel
genuinely grateful toward the former FBI director. It also
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makes sense from a strategic perspective: By preserving
Flynn’s cover, the former National Security Adviser was
free to begin recording incriminating information that
could be useful for Mueller.
Whatever the nature of the agreement,
Flynn has every incentive to provide
Mueller with as much useful information
as he possibly can. According to the
agreement Flynn must cooperate “fully,
truthfully, completely and with this Office
and other Federal, state and local law
enforcement authorities identified by this
Office in any and all matters as to which
this Office deems the cooperation
relevant”.
If Flynn refuses or fails,
“the agreement will be considered
breached by your client.”
The agreement says any breach will have a serious impact
on Flynn’s sentence.
To be sure, the idea that Flynn – or even
Papadopoulos before him – wore a wire
is still, at this point, mere speculation.
While it sounds like prosecutors wanted both men to do so,
in Flynn’s case, Mueller may have included the suspicious
passage in his plea for another unrelated purpose: To scare
other potential witnesses or targets into being completely
truthful with investigators.
Since there was no legal requirement for Mueller to
include this information about covert law enforcement
activities in the plea agreement, Flannery believes it was
put there “to put the fear of God” into anyone who may
have given the special counsel answers that conflict with
Flynn’s information.
Of course, the nature of Flynn’s cooperation was
immediately overblown by ABC in an error that might cost
one senior correspondent his career – indeed, it has already
greatly damaged what little credibility he had left. ABC
suspended Brian Ross – who erroneously reported that
Flynn would testify Trump instructed him to contact the
Russians during the campaign.
Flynn was actually preparing to testify
that a senior Trump official 0 revealed to
be Kushner – ordered him to do so
during the transition. Outreach between
the transition and foreign regimes is
legal and common.
So, aside from undermining President Obama during the So why’d he do it?
waning days of his administration, Flynn’s conversation
with Kislyak was otherwise completely legitimate, which ***
begs the question: Why’d Flynn lie? His actions, of course,
were technically violations of a rarely enforced law against
Full Flynn Plea Agreement:
soliciting these types of quid-pro-quo arrangements. But
the risk of being caught in a lie was far greater than risking
possible punishment for his conversations with Kislyak.
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 Mueller’s Credibility Problem
The Special Counsel Is Stonewalling Congress
And Protecting The FBI.
By The Editorial Board
Dec. 4, 2017 7:05 P.M. ET
Donald Trump is his own worst enemy, as his many ill-
advised tweets on the weekend about Michael Flynn, the
FBI and Robert Mueller’s Russia probe demonstrate. But
that doesn’t mean that Mr. Mueller and the Federal Bureau
of Investigation deserve a pass about their motives and
methods, as new information raises troubling questions.
The Washington Post and the New York Times reported
Saturday that a lead FBI investigator on the Mueller probe,
Peter Strzok, was demoted this summer after it was
discovered he’d sent anti- Trump texts to a mistress. As
troubling, Mr. Mueller and the Justice Department kept
this information from House investigators, despite
Intelligence Committee subpoenas that would have
exposed those texts. They also refused to answer questions
about Mr. Strzok’s dismissal and refused to make him
available for an interview.
The news about Mr. Strzok leaked only when the Justice
Department concluded it couldn’t hold out any longer, and
the stories were full of spin that praised Mr. Mueller for
acting “swiftly” to remove the agent. Only after these
stories ran did Justice agree on Saturday to make Mr.
Strzok available to the House.
This is all the more notable because Mr. Strzok was a chief
lieutenant to former FBI Director James Comey and
played a lead role investigating alleged coordination
between the Trump campaign and Russia during the 2016
election. Mr. Mueller then gave him a top role in his
special-counsel probe. And before all this Mr. Strzok led
the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s emails and sat in on
the interview she gave to the FBI shortly before Mr.
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Comey publicly exonerated her in violation of Justice
Department practice.
Oh, and the woman with whom he supposedly exchanged
anti-Trump texts, FBI lawyer Lisa Page, worked for both
Mr. Mueller and deputy FBI director Andrew McCabe,
who was accused of a conflict of interest in the Clinton
probe when it came out that Clinton allies had donated to
the political campaign of Mr. McCabe’s wife. The texts
haven’t been publicly released, but it’s fair to assume their
anti-Trump bias must be clear for Mr. Mueller to reassign
such a senior agent.
There is no justification for withholding all of this from
Congress, which is also investigating Russian influence
and has constitutional oversight authority. Justice and the
FBI have continued to defy legal subpoenas for documents
pertaining to both surveillance warrants and the infamous
Steele dossier that was financed by the Clinton campaign
and relied on anonymous Russian sources.
While there is no evidence so far of Trump-Russia
collusion, House investigators have turned up enough
material to suggest that anti-Trump motives may have
driven Mr. Comey’s FBI investigation. The public has a
right to know whether the Steele dossier inspired the
Comey probe, and whether it led to intrusive government
eavesdropping on campaign satellites such as Carter Page.
All of this reinforces our doubts about Mr. Mueller’s
ability to conduct a fair and credible probe of the FBI’s
considerable part in the Russia-Trump drama. Mr. Mueller
ran the bureau for 12 years and is fast friends with Mr.
Comey, whose firing by Mr. Trump triggered his
appointment as special counsel. The reluctance to
cooperate with a congressional inquiry compounds doubts
related to this clear conflict of interest.
***
Mr. Mueller’s media protectorate argues that anyone
critical of the special counsel is trying to cover for Mr.
Trump. But the alleged Trump-Russia ties are the subject
of numerous probes—Mr. Mueller’s, and those of various
committees in the House and Senate. If there is any
evidence of collusion, Democrats and Mr. Mueller’s agents
will make sure it is spread far and wide.
Yet none of this means the public shouldn’t also know if,
and how, America’s most powerful law-enforcement
agency was influenced by Russia or partisan U.S. actors.
All the more so given Mr. Comey’s extraordinary
intervention in the 2016 campaign, which Mrs. Clinton
keeps saying turned the election against her. The history of
the FBI is hardly without taint.
Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, who appointed
Mr. Mueller, is also playing an increasingly questionable
role in resisting congressional oversight. Justice has
floated multiple reasons for ignoring House subpoenas,
none of them persuasive.
First it claimed cooperation would hurt the Mueller probe,
but his prosecutions are proceeding apace. Then Justice
claimed that providing House investigators with classified
material could hurt security or sources. But House
Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes has as broad a security
.
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clearance as nearly anyone in government. Recently
Justice said it can’t interfere with a probe by the Justice
Department Inspector General—as if an IG trumps
congressional oversight.
Mr. Nunes is understandably furious at the Strzok news, on
top of the other stonewalling. He asked Justice to meet the
rest of his committee’s demands by close of business
Monday, and if it refuses Congress needs to pursue
contempt citations against Mr. Rosenstein and new FBI
Director Christopher Wray.
The latest news supports our view that Mr. Mueller is too
conflicted to investigate the FBI and should step down in
favor of someone more credible. The investigation would
surely continue, though perhaps with someone who
doesn’t think his job includes protecting the FBI and Mr.
Comey from answering questions about their role in the
2016 election.
 If Michael Flynn's 'Crime'
Is All Robert Mueller Has, It Is Time To Move On
James S. Robbins, Opinion Columnist
Published 6:00 A.M. ET Dec. 4, 2017 | Updated 7:52 P.M. ET Dec. 4, 2017
Transitions include the president-elect
talking to foreign officials. That's not
treason; that's the job description.
On Friday, President Trump’s former national security
adviser, Michael Flynn, pleaded guilty to lying to federal
investigators about a perfectly legal conversation he had
during the presidential transition with then-Russian
Ambassador Sergey Kislyak.
Flynn should not have lied, and why he chose to remains a
mystery, but the substance of the single-count indictment
against Flynn shows that special counsel Robert Mueller’s
investigation has strayed far from its original purpose.
We have come down quite a way from the hyperventilation
about Russia “hacking the election” a year ago. What
happened to Democratic Sen. Mark Warner’s claim, later
promoted by Hillary Clinton, that there were 1,000
Russian agents planting anti-Hillary fake news stories in
key swing states? Or that Russians had delivered
Wisconsin to Trump? All the conspiracy theorists have so
far are a few Facebook ads that can’t credibly be shown to
have changed even one vote.
Flynn was fully in his rights making the call to Kislyak.
Despite the best efforts of the anti-Trumpers, it is still not
illegal to talk to Russians. Even Democratic former CIA
director and Defense secretary Leon Panetta said it was a
“stretch” to say these contacts broke the law.
The dust-up seems mainly to be about the decorum of
presidential transitions. Days after the 2016 election, the
Trump team cautioned the Obama administration against
pursuing new and damaging foreign policy initiatives that
did not align with Trump’s priorities.
“I don’t think it’s in keeping with the spirit of
the transition,” one of president-elect
Trump’s national security advisers told
Politico on Nov. 10, 2016, “to try to push
through agenda items that are contrary to
the president-elect’s positions.”
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The Trump transition team feared, for good reason, that the
lame-duck Obama administration was poisoning the well
with Russia, and pursuing spiteful anti-Israel policies on
the way out the door. Trump asked Flynn, his soon-to-be
national security adviser, to open a semi-official channel to
Russia through its ambassador to discuss future
cooperative efforts against the Islamic State and the United
Nations vote on an anti-Israel resolution. As lawyer Alan
Dershowitz argued,
“Not only was that request not criminal, it
was the right thing to do.”
The phone call to Kislyak, and any other such contacts
with foreign officials, should be viewed in that context.
This was not, for example, on the level of colluding with
shadowy Russian intelligence contacts to create
disinformation to try to swing the election, as the authors
of the Clinton-connected Trump smear dossier did.
There was ample precedent for the president-elect to put
out feelers to foreign leaders.
 A memo from the Podesta files released by WikiLeaks
shows that the Obama team had planned for the
“president-elect and senior officials (to) begin
confidential policy consultations with key actors in U.S.
and abroad” between Thanksgiving and Inauguration
Day.
 Obama also openly used emissaries and go-betweens
to meet with foreign leaders during his transition.
 And for overwrought members of “the resistance” who
think the unenforceable Logan Act is suddenly in play,
recall that in 2008 then-candidate Obama arranged
substantive foreign policy discussions with numerous
foreign dignitaries and leaders during an overseas
campaign trip before the election.
An erroneous ABC News report that Trump had dispatched
Flynn to make contact with Russia before the
election appears to have caused a massive stock market
selloff. The report was corrected, and reporter Brian Ross
was suspended. The important takeaway of ABC’s fake
news outbreak is that since the Trump team’s outreach to
Russia took place after the election, it implies there were
no channels to Moscow before the fact. This puts a stake in
the heart of the collusion theory.
A CNN analyst speculated that instead of outright
coordination, there was an implicit quid pro quo for Russia
getting Trump elected. This might be called the “grasping
at straws” gambit.
On Sunday, Sen. Diane Feinstein, D-Calif., resurrected the
notion that Trump obstructed justice by firing then-FBI
Director and Bible scholar James Comey. But again, this is
a weak and constitutionally suspect narrative.
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The real obstruction might be found in the Mueller
investigation itself. The legitimacy of the FBI witch hunt
against Trump was further damaged by reports that leading
FBI investigator Peter Strzok, who had spearheaded the
investigation into Hillary Clinton’s sketchy home-brew
email server, was demoted because of anti-Trump texts he
exchanged with co-worker Lisa Page, with whom he was
having an extramarital affair.
This is hardly an unbiased investigation. If the type of
process crime that Flynn was nailed for is all the Mueller
team can come up with, it is time to move on.
Spotlight On Mueller Investigation As Top FBI Investigator
Exchanged Anti-Trump Messages
Peter Hasson - Associate Editor
10:23 PM 12/04/2017

The revelation that Special Counsel Robert Mueller kept
secret that a top FBI investigator overseeing the Russia
investigation exchanged anti-Trump text messages with an
FBI attorney has fueled questions about Mueller’s
credibility and his ability to oversee an impartial
investigation.
Peter Strzok, the anti-Trump agent, is reported to be the
official who first signed the FBI’s Russia investigation into
existence and interviewed Michael Flynn. Strzok was also
reportedly the one who softened former FBI Director
James Comey’s language referring to Hillary Clinton’s
email investigation. (BOMBSHELL: Top Clinton Aides
Face No Charges After Making False Statements To
FBI)
In an appearance on “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” Judicial
Watch president Tom Fitton told the Daily Caller co-
founder that “both [the Clinton and Russia] investigations
in my view have been irredeemably compromised.”
(RELATED: Anti-Trump Text Messages Show Pattern
Of Bias On Mueller’s Team)
“The Clinton investigation needs to be reopened and the
Mueller investigation needs to be shut down until we
figure out how badly it’s been politicized,” Fitton said.
The Wall Street Journal’s editorial board said the Strzok
news “reinforces our doubts about Mr. Mueller’s ability to
conduct a fair and credible probe of the FBI’s considerable
part in the Russia-Trump drama” in a column for
Tuesday’s paper.
In a column for the Washington Post Monday night,
conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt called the Strzok
bombshell “a blockbuster revelation, carrying the
possibility of shattering public confidence in a number of
long-held assumptions about the criminal-justice system
generally and the FBI and the Justice Department
specifically.”
Hewitt called on the Department of Justice to “appoint a
special counsel to investigate Strzok’s actions as soon as
possible.”
Even before the latest bombshell, former US attorney
Andrew McCarthy was already warning about the
credibility of Mueller’s investigation, which he said
“started out as a fishing expedition.
“The ongoing Mueller probe is not a good-faith
investigation of suspected espionage or other crime,” he
wrote in National Review over the weekend.
“It is the exploitation of the executive’s intelligence-
gathering and law-enforcement powers in order to (a)
criminalize Trump political policies with which the Obama
administration disagreed and (b) frame Clinton’s electoral
defeat as the product of a traitorous scheme rather than a
rejection of Democratic-party priorities.”
WATCH: CNN ALLEGES TRUMP BASHING
COMEY WON’T HELP BECAUSE SPECIAL
COUNSEL MUELLER IS FRIENDS WITH THE
FORMER FBI DIRECTOR

The editors noted Mueller’s close friendship with Comey,

as well as his “reluctance to cooperate with” congressional
oversight of the Russia investigation.

“The latest news supports our view that Mr. Mueller is too
conflicted to investigate the FBI and should step down in
favor of someone more credible,” the WSJ editors
concluded. “The investigation would surely continue,
though perhaps with someone who doesn’t think his job
includes protecting the FBI and Mr. Comey from
answering questions about their role in the 2016 election.”

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 Trump Blasts ‘Double Standard’
In FBI Treatment Of Clinton And Flynn
By Kathryn Blackhurst
Updated 04 Dec 2017 At 7:29 AM

President Donald Trump ripped the “double standard” in

how 2016 Democratic presidential nominee Hillary
Clinton was treated and how Michael Flynn, his former
national security adviser, was treated.

As part of his probe into Russia’s interference in the 2016

U.S. presidential election, special counsel Robert Mueller
charged Flynn on Friday with one count of making false
statements to the FBI. Flynn, the former director of the
Defense Intelligence Agency, pleaded guilty that same
day.
Former FBI Director James Comey ultimately found that
Clinton engaged in no criminal conduct, although he
Noting that Flynn was charged with lying to the FBI
criticized her for being "extremely careless" in a statement
during the course of its investigation, Trump highlighted
issued in July 2016.
the investigation that dogged Clinton throughout her
presidential bid regarding her use of a private email server
while serving as secretary of state under former President "Although we did not find clear evidence
Barack Obama. that Secretary Clinton or her colleagues
intended to violate laws governing the
handling of classified information, there is
"So General Flynn lies to the FBI and his
evidence that they were extremely careless
life is destroyed, while Crooked Hillary
in their handling of very sensitive, highly
Clinton, on that now famous FBI holiday
classified information," Comey had said.
'interrogation' with no swearing in and no
recording, lies many times ... and nothing
happens to her? Rigged system, or just a For his own part, Flynn released a statement Saturday in
double standard?" Trump tweeted. which he highlighted that it had been "extraordinarily
painful" for him to endure "months of false accusations."

"After over 33 years of military service to

"Many people in our Country are asking
what the 'Justice' Department is going to do
about the fact that totally Crooked Hillary,
AFTER receiving a subpoena from the
United States Congress, deleted and 'acid
washed' 33,000 Emails? No justice!" the
president added.
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our country, including nearly five years in
combat away from my family, and then my
decision to continue to serve the United
States, it has been extraordinarily painful to
endure these many months of false
accusations of 'treason' and other
outrageous acts," Flynn said. "Such false
accusations are contrary to everything I
have ever done and stood for."
"But I recognize that the actions I
acknowledged in court today were wrong,
and, through my faith in God, I am working
to set things right," Flynn added. "My guilty
plea and agreement to cooperate with the
special counsel's office reflect a decision I
made in the best interests of my family and
of our country. I accept full responsibility for
my actions."
 RNC Reverses, Will Back
Roy Moore Following Trump Endorsement
By Tyler Durden
Dec 4, 2017 9:50 PM
Confirming an earlier report by Breitbart, the Hill reports
that the Republican National Committee has decided to
reinstate its support of Alabama Senate candidate Roy
Moore after initially cutting ties over allegations of sexual
misconduct, following Trump's official endorsement
earlier on Monday of the Alabama Judge after weeks of
silence. Breitbart first reported that the RNC had decided
to step back into the race.
Trump endorsed Moore in a tweet that blasted out to
millions of his followers as well as in a follow-up call
aboard Air Force One, in which the president said, "Go get
'em, Roy."
Last month Trump told reporters that “[Moore] denies it.
He totally denies it — that’s all I can say”, although he did
not endorse the controversial candidate until today.
The abrupt reversal comes after RNC officials told The
Associated Press last month that they would not support
Moore even after Trump stood by him. Subsequently, the
two GOP campaign groups cut ties with Moore in October,
halting their financial and field support for his bid as a
chorus of Republican lawmakers called on him to step
aside. Their decision to break ties with Moore came after
several women alleged that he made unwanted sexual
advances while they were underaged minors and he was in
his 30's.
While the RNC - which is President Trump’s political arm
- is backing Moore now, Breitbart notes that the National
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Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC), which is
controlled by Mitch McConnell, is still withholding
support. McConnell has pushed for Moore’s ouster after
spending more than $30 million in a failed effort to beat
him in the GOP primary and runoff.
It remains to be seen if the NRSC will join President
Trump in supporting the GOP nominee for the U.S. Senate
in Alabama in the final week of the election. Voters head
to the polls a week from Tuesday on Dec. 12.
While Moore's odds of winning took a hit after the
allegations first surfaced, his standing in the polls has risen
over the past two weeks., and Moore now holds a solid
five-point lead over Jones, according to the latest data
from RealClearPolitics.
Trump initially supported Luther Strange, who was
appointed by former Alabama Governor Robert Bentley to
temporarily fill the senate seat previously held by now-
Attorney General Jeff Sessions, in a primary race against
Moore, who handily won thanks to backing from Steve
Bannon. Moore is considered a hero among the
evangelicals of Alabama for refusing the remove a statue
of the ten commandments he had installed in the Alabama
Supreme Court when he was chief justice. The Alabama
Republican Party has stood by Moore, and while many
Republicans in initially tried to distance themselves, their
fervant opposition has since died down.
 The Price He Will Pay
President Donald Trump's Main Legacy Will Likely Be A Series Of New
Laws And Practices Designed To Prevent Someone Like Him From
Abusing Power Or Even Obtaining It In The First Place.
Seth Masket
Dec 4, 2017

features are consistent with a good year for Democrats.

Will that be enough for them to actually take control of
one or more chambers of Congress? Maybe, but not
necessarily; seats in the House of Representatives are safer
than they used to be, and the Senate map is bad for
Democrats.

But, more importantly, elections just aren't a great tool for

President Donald Trump steps off Air Force One upon arrival at
Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland on December 2nd, 2017.
(Photo: Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images)
A question I get a lot from friends and relatives is about
why Donald Trump never seems to pay a price for his
behavior as president. He makes overt racist insults, he
attacks our allies, he disparages the free press, he obstructs
justice, etc., and nothing changes—his poll numbers stay
the same, Republicans in Congress squirm but do nothing
(and sometimes hand him legislative wins), his staffers
defend him, and so forth. "How does he get away with it?,"
I am often asked.
punishing presidential norm violations or lawbreaking.
Even if Trump's Twitter account went silent tomorrow and
he behaved like a model president for the next 11 months,
his party would likely still suffer substantial losses next
year simply because that's what tends to happen in mid-
terms. Democrats will likely claim that their party's gains
are a response to Trump's abuses of the office, and
Republicans may interpret them as a sign that the media is
hopelessly biased against them, but such claims will likely
be produced no matter what happens in the elections.
What's more, Republicans may do better than expected,
even if many Americans are bothered by Trump's
behavior. There's little to suggest that election outcomes
are a response to the president's day-to-day behavior.

This is an important question that goes to some substantial

structural features of the American system of government.
Julia Azari dealt with some of this in a post over the
summer, but I'd like to delve in a bit more here.

The first thing to note is that the federal government is not

designed to mete out rewards and punishments to elected
officials in a rapid fashion. As Azari noted, it has built in
biases toward stability and a strong presidency. If you feel
that the government is not working because Trump's latest
norm violation hasn't resulted in impeachment or prison
time in his first year in office, you are holding the
government to a standard that neither it nor virtually any
other democratic government has ever met.

What about the mid-term elections? Could those be used to

punish Trump? That's tricky. As of now, 11 months before
the elections, the political environment is shaping up to be
Michael Flynn, former national security advisor to President Donald
a bad one for Republicans. Lots of Democrats are running Trump, leaves following his plea hearing at the Prettyman Federal
for office, several Republicans are choosing not to run for Courthouse on December 1st, 2017, in Washington, D.C. (Photo:
re-election, the president is unpopular, the president's party Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
historically tends to lose seats in mid-terms—all these

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There are some important ways in which Trump is paying
a price for his behavior, however, and these should not be
ignored simply because they move slowly. For one, there's
a very serious criminal investigation of this administration
moving ahead. Robert Mueller's investigation has now
produced four indictments this year, including that of the
president's former campaign manager and his choice for
national security advisor. In the legal world, this is fast,
and consequential, work, and could well end up as a case
for impeachment and removal.
What's more, we shouldn't ignore the fact that Trump is
highly unpopular. His approval ratings seem mired in the
30s during a period of solid economic growth, low crime,
low gas prices, low inflation, and a relatively peaceful
international environment. This unpopularity is costly to
him and his agenda and it could prove devastating for his
party.
Furthermore, presidential norm violations often lead to
substantial legal or constitutional pushback. Franklin
Roosevelt may have had reasonable justification for
running for a third and fourth term, but those were
significant departures from established presidential
tradition; the political system responded by enshrining the
two-term tradition in the Constitution. John Kennedy's
hiring of his brother as attorney general led to an anti-
.
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nepotism law. Richard Nixon's unorthodox uses of
campaign money led to new campaign finance laws.
Trump's own abuses, especially those involving
emoluments, conflicts of interests, and nepotism, have
shown some areas of federal law in need of clarification or
more substantial enforcement. States are already
considering requiring presidential candidates to release
federal tax returns if they want to appear on the ballot.
There's a strong chance we'll see such codifications in the
near future, if not during Trump's tenure.
Overall, it's worth remembering that Trump is just
finishing up what is usually the most productive year of
any presidency. The current GOP tax bill notwithstanding,
he doesn't have much of a record of accomplishment, he's
deeply unpopular, and he and his children are in
substantial legal jeopardy. His main legacy will likely be a
series of new laws and practices designed to prevent
someone like him from abusing power or even obtaining it
in the first place. This is what pushback looks like. It's no
doubt incomplete, dissatisfying, and slow for Trump's
critics, but rest assured that Trump is not "getting away
with it." He's paying a price for his behavior, and that price
is likely going up.
 Journalist Faces 61 Years
In Prison For Covering Anti-Trump Protests
By John Friend
December 4, 2017
Though AFP may disagree with the political
views apparently held by this
photojournalist and videographer who
provided embedded coverage of the D.C.
protests on the day of President Trump’s
inauguration, he has the right to attend and
report on controversial events.
Nov. 27 marked the beginning of a trial being watched
across the nation. Alexei Wood, a San Antonio-based
freelance photojournalist and videographer, is facing
multiple felony rioting and destruction of property charges
stemming from his coverage of the chaotic and violent
protests held in Washington, D.C. during President Donald
Trump’s inauguration ceremony. If convicted, Wood faces
up to 61 years in prison, according to his lawyer.
Numerous groups protested against Trump’s election on
the day of the inauguration, and many more protests
followed during the weekend. As this newspaper reported
at the time, as many as 50 of the groups involved with
organizing the protests, which turned violent, caused
massive property damage, and created disruption and
chaos in the nation’s capital, were directly connected to the
infamous plutocrat and top globalist George Soros. Soros
has a history of financing radical, subversive protest
groups around the world with the goal of undermining the
established order in a truly Bolshevik-style fashion.
During the D.C. protests, vehicles were damaged,
storefront windows were broken, and other private
property was vandalized. Over 200 of the protesters, many
of whom were affiliated with the DisruptJ20 activist
organization—a radical, anarchistic group—were arrested
for their participation in the violent chaos that consumed
the nation’s capital. Additionally, nine journalists,
including Wood, were arrested along with the protesters.
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Seven of the nine journalists have had all charges against
them dropped by prosecutors in Washington, D.C. Charges
against Wood and Aaron Cantu, a staff reporter at The
Santa Fe Reporter in New Mexico, were not dropped
despite First Amendment concerns from some of the
nation’s leading journalism and free speech experts.
Wood has a history of covering protests, particularly
during the heated 2016 presidential campaign. On his
personal website, Wood notes his history of “documenting
social justice issues and resistance movements,” for which
he appears to have sympathy.
Wood livestreamed his embedded coverage of the
Inauguration Day protests and can be heard expressing
what seems to be tacit approval of the actions of the
protesters, which included breaking windows and spray-
painting private property.
The Department of Justice, the entity pursuing the charges
against Wood, has not commented on the case.
“The government has not informed me as
to why Mr. Wood’s case involved any
greater degree of culpability than any of the
other journalists who were ultimately not
charged,” Brett E. Cohen, Wood’s attorney,
explained to The New York Times. The
indictment against Wood and 211 other
defendants, originally filed on April 3, “does
not single out Mr. Wood for anything arising
from the demonstration,” Cohen noted.
Lawyers and legal experts have questioned the indictment
against Wood and other journalists, arguing that a
journalist’s political perspective and personal attitude
toward an event they are covering is not relevant from a
legal perspective.
“Obviously, journalists are not above the
law—they can’t break windows,” Reed
Brody, who has represented other
journalists in controversial cases involving
coverage of major protests, explained to
the Times. “They can be sympathetic to the
people that they cover, and they can draw
attention to the people that they cover. But
 you can’t arrest and you can’t charge
journalists for covering events.”
At the end of Wood’s livestream, police are seen moving
in to confront and arrest many of the protesters. Wood
identifies himself as a journalist and member of the media
documenting the event, yet Washington Metropolitan
Police appear to ignore him and eventually arrest and
charge him with the same crimes as the radical, violent
protesters he was covering.
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Radical, violent protesters who commit crimes—whatever
their political leanings or affiliations—deserve to be
punished to the fullest extent of the law, and the federal
prosecutors pursuing criminal charges against the radical
extremists who targeted Washington, D.C. during Trump’s
inauguration should be applauded. However, journalists
covering controversial events, regardless of their political
leanings and affiliations must be protected by the First
Amendment.
 EXCLUSIVE: FBI Supervisor BOOTED
From Mueller Probe INTERVIEWED Mike Flynn
Posted By Sara Carter
December 5, 2017
A supervisory special agent who is now under scrutiny
after being removed from Robert Mueller’s Special
Counsel’s Office for alleged bias against President Trump
also oversaw the bureau’s interviews of embattled former
National Security advisor Michael Flynn, this reporter has
learned. Flynn recently pled guilty to one-count of lying to
the FBI last week.
FBI agent Peter Strzok was one of two FBI agents who
interviewed Flynn, which took place on Jan. 24, at the
White House, said several sources. The other FBI special
agent, who interviewed Flynn, is described by sources as a
field supervisor in the “Russian Squad, at the FBI’s
Washington Field Office,” according to a former
intelligence official, with knowledge of the interview.
Strzok was removed from his role in the Special Counsel’s
Office after it was discovered he had made disparaging
comments about President Trump in text messages
between him and his alleged lover FBI attorney Lisa Page,
according to the New York Times and Washington
Post, which first reported the stories. Strzok is also under
investigation by the Department of Justice Inspector
General for his role in Hillary Clinton’s email server and
the ongoing investigation into Russia’s election meddling.
On Saturday, the House Intelligence Committee’s
Chairman Devin Nunes chided the Justice Department and
the FBI for not disclosing why Strzok had been removed
from the Special Counsel three months ago, according to a
statement given by the Chairman.
The former U.S. intelligence official told this reporter,
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“with the recent revelation that Strzok was
removed from the Special Counsel investigation
for making anti-Trump text messages it seems
likely that the accuracy and veracity of the 302
of Flynn’s interview as a whole should be
reviewed and called into question.”
“The most logical thing to happen would be to
call the other FBI Special Agent present during
Flynn’s interview before the Grand Jury to
recount his version,” the former intelligence
official added.
The former official also said that “Strzok’s
allegiance to (Deputy Director Andrew) McCabe
was unwavering and very well known.”
Flynn, a retired three-star general, issued a statement on
Dec. 1, saying, “it has been extraordinarily painful to
endure these many months of false accusations of
“treason” and other outrageous acts. Such false accusations
are contrary to everything I have ever done and stood for.
But I recognize that the actions I acknowledged in court
today were wrong, and, through my faith in God, I am
working to set things right.”
According to another source, with direct knowledge of the
Jan. 24 interview, McCabe had contacted Flynn by phone
directly at the White House. White House officials had
spent the “earlier part of the week with the FBI overseeing
training and security measures associated with their new
roles so it was no surprise to Flynn that McCabe had
called,” the source said.
McCabe told Flynn
“some agents were heading over (to the White
House) but Flynn thought it was part of the
routine work the FBI had been doing and said
they would be cleared at the gate,” the source
said.
“It wasn’t until after they were already in
(Flynn’s) office that he realized he was being
formerly interviewed. He didn’t have an attorney
with him,” they added.
Flynn’s attorney Robert Kelner did not respond for
comment.
A former senior Trump administration official, however,
described Strzok as one of the
“best agents in the bureau. And has now
become the latest victim in the Russia
investigation.”
“He was the top counterintelligence agent and
an asset to the bureau and America,” said the
official, who disputed that Strozk would let his
political leanings influence his work, despite the
alleged anti-Trump text messages his sent
Page.
FBI spokeswoman Carol Cratty could not be immediately
reached for comment. Strzok could also not be reached for
comment.
A former FBI agent said the investigation into Strzok and
the reported text messages between him and Page, shows a
“bias that cannot be ignored particularly if he
had anything to do with Flynn’s interview and
his role in it.”
The former U.S. intelligence official questioned,
“how logical is it that Flynn is being charged for
lying to an agent whose character and neutrality
was called into question by the Special
Counsel.”
According to an anonymous source in The Washington
Post, Strzok’s and Page had exchanged a number of texts
that
“expressed anti-Trump sentiments and other
comments that appeared to favor Clinton.”
Nunes said Saturday that the mistress of Strzok, who was
the top FBI official assigned to Mueller’s Special Counsel,
was an FBI lawyer working for FBI Deputy Director
McCabe.
The FBI and Justice Department have
“failed to sufficiently cooperate with the
Committee’s August 24 subpoena, and have
specifically refused repeated demands from the
House Intelligence Committee for an
explanation of Pete Strzok’s dismissal from the
Mueller probe,” Nunes said.
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“We now know why Strzok was dismissed, why
the FBI and DOJ refused to provide us this
explanation, and at least one reason why they
previously refused to make Deputy Director
McCabe available to the Committee for an
interview,” the chairman added.
Justice Department spokewoman Sarah Isgur Flores said,
“we disagree with the Chairman’s
characterization and will continue to work with
congressional committees to provide the
information they request consistent with our
national security responsibilities.”
Isgur Flores said in a written statement to this reporter that
the Justice Department provided the House Intelligence
committee and leadership with
“several hundred pages of classified documents
and multiple briefings—including for example
clear answers as to whether any FBI payments
were made to a source in question related to
the dossier—and has more recently cleared key
witnesses they have requested to testify,
including Mr. McCabe, Mr. Strzok, and the
alleged handler in question.”
But Nunes said,
“by hiding from Congress, and from the
American people, documented political bias by
a key FBI head investigator for both the Russia
collusion probe and the Clinton email
investigation, the FBI and DOJ engaged in a
willful attempt to thwart Congress’ constitutional
oversight responsibility.”
He added
“this is part of a months-long pattern by the DOJ
and FBI of stonewalling and obstructing this
Committee’s oversight work, particularly
oversight of their use of the Steele dossier. At
this point, these agencies should be
investigating themselves.”
Nunes instructed the House Intelligence Committee staff
on Saturday
“to begin drawing up a contempt of Congress
resolution for DOJ Deputy Attorney General
Rod Rosenstein and FBI Director Christopher
Wray. Unless all our outstanding demands are
fully met by close of business on Monday,
December 4, 2017, the committee will have the
 opportunity to move this resolution before the
end of the month.”
A source familiar with the chairman’s request said Nunes
knows the answers to
“whether FBI paid for dossier, whether dossier
launched investigation, whether the dossier was
used as basis for FISA applications. what steps
FBI took to verify dossier upon receipt and
since in addition, DOJ has cleared every
witness he asked for. Period.”

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 The Democrats’ Dangerous
Obsession With Impeachment
The Party Needs To Focus On Winning Elections,
Not Removing Trump
By Jeet Heer
December 5, 2017
Amid a stream of revelations, arrests, and plea bargains
from Robert Mueller’s investigation of Donald Trump
campaign’s connections with Russia, liberals are becoming
giddy at the prospect of impeaching the president.
“Can Democrats finally start talking about
impeachment, Nancy Pelosi?”
Errol Louis asked in a column for CNN, referring to the
House minority leader. On The View, Joy Behar bubbled
with delight when she was handed the news, now revealed
to be inaccurate, that former National Security Advisor
Michael Flynn was willing to testify that then-candidate
Trump had instructed him to make contact with the
Russians. (The report was corrected to say that Trump had
done so as president-elect.) Some Trump opponents are
already looking upon impeachment as a done deal.
“He’s going to be impeached, I believe,”
Crispin Sartwell wrote at Splice. “I’ve
thought so since the election. Michael
Flynn is singing. Jared Kushner is likely to
be charged in the coming weeks.”
The impeachment frenzy has gone so far that even the
normally sober Ezra Klein, Vox’s founder, argued last
week that impeachment be normalized as a regular
procedure in American democracy. He implicitly
acknowledged that we haven’t yet reached the stage where
Trump’s impeachability is beyond reasonable dispute (as it
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was, for example, with Richard Nixon in 1974), but
wanted to redefine the rules for impeachment so they apply
to Trump, a president who has demonstrated that he is
manifestly unfit for office.
“Impeachment is not a power we should
take lightly,” Klein wrote. “Nor is it one we
should treat as too explosive to use. There
will be presidents who are neither criminals
nor mental incompetents but who are
wrong for the role, who pose a danger to
the country and the world.... Being
extremely bad at the job of president of the
United States should be enough to get you
fired.”
While it is true that Trump is “extremely bad at the job of
president,” using that as grounds for removing him from
office would be revolutionary, moving the criteria from the
constitutional requirement of “high crimes and
misdemeanors,” which is already vague, to the utterly
nebulous and subjective “extremely bad.” Klein
recognized that normalizing impeachment would turn it
into a political weapon, but didn’t wrestle with the fact that
this normalization already happened—with the spurious
impeachment of Bill Clinton in 1999. That precedent
suggests the dangers of further normalization:
It will worsen the extreme partisanship and
gridlock that is making American
ungovernable.
The impeachment enthusiasts should pull back. For both
practical and political reasons, this is the wrong remedy for
the Trump presidency, even if we stipulate that he has been
“extremely bad” and has committed “high crimes and
misdemeanors.”
The practical problem is that for impeachment to be
meaningful, Trump would not just have to be impeached
by the House of Representatives (which requires a simple
majority) but also removed by the Senate (requiring a two-
thirds vote). It’s easy to imagine a scenario where the
Democrats win the House of Representatives in 2018 and
have the necessary votes for impeachment. But even in
that best-case scenario, in which Democrats win every
toss-up race for the Senate, they would still be well short
of the votes they need in the Senate. Which means that
kicking Trump out of the White House by necessity has to
be a bipartisan effort with significant Republican buy-in.
As Peter Beinart pointed out Sunday in The Atlantic, the
possibility of Republicans co-operating in removing
Trump is dropping even as there’s more evidence emerges
that the Trump campaign colluded with the Russians.
Beinart correctly noted that “mass Republican defection”
from Trump “has grown harder, not easier, to imagine. It’s
grown harder because the last six months have
demonstrated that GOP voters will stick with Trump
despite his lunacy, and punish those Republican politicians
who do not.” Republican support for Trump has never
fallen below 79 percent since he became president.
Republicans who dare criticize Trump, such as senators
Jeff Flake and Bob Corker, have crashed in popularity
among the GOP base.
The Republican Party has proven that they will tolerate
just about anything from Trump. They continue to stand
with him despite his demented tweeting, the political
support he’s given to Roy Moore, his repeated expressions
of contempt for the justice system, and his cavalier threats
to launch a nuclear war. Unless Robert Mueller finds the
possibly apocryphal “pee tape,” Republicans are likely to
remain loyal to Trump. In fact, there’s a real possibility
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that even if the “pee tape” is real and widely viewed,
Trump would still remain politically sacrosanct among his
own party.
The most promising route for stopping Trump, then, is
through the ballot box. Democrats need a convincing
platform and effective organization to win elections at
every level. If the party can win back Congress in 2018, it
can immediately start hamstringing Trump’s presidency
without resorting to the unlikely path of impeachment.
Democrats can launch investigations into Trump’s many
improper acts. They can stall his nominees, especially in
the courts. They can also start laying down rules for
reining in the imperial presidency, including the
thermonuclear monarchy, so that no future commander-in-
chief has the dangerous power Trump possesses.
Impeachment fetishists seem to think that the overriding
problem of American politics is that Trump is president.
By this analysis, the president is a dangerous outlier whose
removal would restore America to normality. But the
problem isn’t just Trump; it’s also the Republican Party.
Trump is only dangerous because he’s the standard-bearer
of a party that has unified control of the government and is
willing to stand by Trump no matter what. A Democratic
agenda of reining in presidential power will give more
lasting victories than mere impeachment, which is unlikely
to succeed and would only address a symptom, not the
cause, of the cancer that’s ravaging American politics.
 CBS, NBC Ignore Role Of Anti-Trump
FBI Agent In Clinton E-Mail Probe
By Nicholas Fondacaro
December 5, 2017 12:22 AM EST
Over the weekend, it was discovered that Special Counsel
Robert Mueller kicked a veteran FBI agent, named Peter
Strzok, off his team for sending text messages that were
disparaging of President Trump. But on Monday, new
information broke about just who the agent actually was.
Apparently, he was responsible for toning down former
FBI Director Comey’s language when he was announced
he would not recommend charges be brought against
Hillary Clinton in her e-mail investigation. That interesting
tidbit was blacked out of the reports in the evening
broadcasts of CBS and NBC.
During their morning broadcasts, both CBS This Morning
and NBC’s Today mentioned Strzok’s removal from the
investigation team. But come Monday evening, NBC
Nightly News failed to mention the new development when
reporting on the agent’s removal, while CBS Evening News
didn’t mention the Special Counsel at all.
ABC’s World News Tonight was the only one in the big
three to report the new details of Strzok’s past.
“ABC News has also now confirmed
from a Source that Strzok played a key
role in how then FBI Director James
Comey announced the results of the
Hillary Clinton e-mail investigation,”
reported anchor David Muir after recalling
what broke over the weekend.
Surprisingly, Muir actually went on to explain what Strzok
did to lessen the political/legal blow to Clinton:
“Recommending that Comey describe
Clinton's actions as, quote, “extremely
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careless,” rather than, quote, ‘grossly
negligent.’ Now, the significance is that
it’s a felony to mishandle classified
information, quote, ‘in a grossly
negligent way.’”
Later in the night, after the networks were off the air,
The Daily Caller uncovered even more
damning information about Strzok. “The
FBI agent who was fired from Special
Counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia
investigation team for sending anti-
Donald Trump text messages conducted
the interviews with two Hillary Clinton
aides accused of giving false
statements about what they knew of the
former secretary of state’s private email
server,” reported Chuck Ross.
As Ross wrote, the differences in the results of Strzok’s
Trump investigation versus his Clinton one were shocking.
“The starkly different outcomes from
Strzok’s interviews — a felony charge
against Flynn and a free pass to Mills
and Abedin — are sure to raise
questions from Republicans about
double-standards in the FBI’s two most
prominent political investigations,” he
explained.
Since neither CBS nor NBC wanted to report Strzok’s
positive involvement the Clinton e-mail investigation, it
will be interesting to see if they decide to report on The
Daily Caller’s findings.
ABC being the one to actually mention Strzok's connection
to the Clinton e-mail investigation was indeed surprising.
But it might have something to do with the fact that ABC
News President James Goldston ripped into his staff
Monday morning for their abysmal reporting on former
National Security Adviser Michael Flynn’s plea deal.
Transcript below:
ABC
World News Tonight
December 4, 2017
6:36:22 PM Eastern [39 seconds]
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DAVID MUIR: And one more development tonight involving the
Special Counsel, Robert Mueller's team tonight. A veteran FBI
agent who was removed from the Russia investigation. We
learned that Robert Mueller removed Peter Strzok back in August
after learning that Strzok had sent potentially anti-Trump text
messages. ABC News has also now confirmed from a Source
that Strzok played a key role in how then FBI Director James
Comey announced the results of the Hillary Clinton e-mail
investigation. Recommending that Comey describe Clinton's
actions as, quote, “extremely careless,” rather than, quote,
“grossly negligent.” Now, the significance is that it’s a felony to
mishandle classified information, quote, “in a grossly negligent
way.”
 More Anti-Trump Messages Reportedly
Sent By Members Of Mueller's Team:
"A Lot More Is Going To Come Out"
By Tyler Durden
Dec 5, 2017 8:23 AM
Days after it emerged that former Special Counsel
investigator Peter Strzok was fired from Robert Mueller's
Trump-Russia probe in August for sending anti-Trump text
messages to his mistress while the two were working
together on the Clinton email investigation, Sara Carter of
Circa told a Fox News panel that there are more anti-
Trump messages sent by Mueller's team floating around.
Carter previously emerged as one of the handful of people
to review documents obtained by an undercover FBI
informant embedded in the Russian uranium industry.
Appearing on Hannity's show Monday night, Carter was
asked about rumors of more anti-Trump sentiment
expressed by Mueller's team:
Sean Hannity: I’m hearing rumors all
over the place Sara Carter that there are
other anti-Trump text-emails out there.
And we know about them.
Sara Carter: I think you’re hearing correctly
Sean and I think a lot more is going to
come out. In fact, I know a lot more is
going to come out based on the sources
I’ve spoken to.
The clip is below.
Tangentially, it has been widely reported that Mueller's
special counsel is stacked with investigators who have
donated to Obama, Clinton or other Democrat causes. As
Jessica McBride reported in Heavy:
 Andrew Weissmann: Weissmann is a Barack Obama
and Democratic campaign donor, according to federal
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records. “Weissmann, who led the Enron investigation,
previously gave $2,300 to Obama’s first presidential
campaign in 2008 and $2,000 to the Democratic
National Committee in 2006
 Jeannie 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
 Andrew Goldstein: According to Fox News, “Goldstein
contributed a combined $3,300 to Obama’s campaigns
in 2008 and 2012”
 Greg Andres: FEC records show that Andres has
donated at least $2,700 to Senator Kirsten Gillibrand
(D-NY)
 James Quarles: Donated thousands of dollars to the
campaigns of Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. He
has also donated money recently to other Democrats,
including Friends of Chuck Schumer and two other
Democrats. He has a lengthy donation history dating
back years. He did donate to two Republicans over the
years, however.
 Elizabeth Prelogar: A former law clerk to Justics Ruth
Bader Ginsburg and Elena Kagen, gave $250 to Hillary
Clinton in 2016, according to FEC records. She also
gave $500 total to Obama for America and the Obama
Victory Fund 2012.
 Brandon Van Grack: gave small amounts to ActBlue,
an effort to raise money for Democrats, and to a
Democratic candidate for Congress in 2012. In 2008,
he gave about $286 to Barack Obama.
 Rush Atkinson: donated $200 to Clinton’s campaign in
2016.
  Kyle Freeny: In 2012, Freeny gave $300 to Obama. In
2008, Freeny also gave $250 to Obama, FEC records
show.
To review:
Veteran FBI agent Peter Strzok, working
under James Comey, headed up both the
Clinton email investigation and the Trump-
Russia probe before Mueller's special
counsel was created to take the reigns.
Strzok - who was responsible for changing
the FBI's opinion of Clinton's mishandling
of classified info from "grossly negligent" to
"extremely careless," - had an extramarital
affair with FBI lawyer Lisa Page while the
two were working on the Clinton "matter."
During the investigation, Strzok sent Page
anti-Trump / pro-Clinton text messages,
which resulted in the dismissal of both
Strzok and Page from Mueller's Trump-
Russia probe. Strzok now works in the
FBI's HR department.
Strzok's conduct during the Clinton email investigation and
any other politically charged cases he's worked on, are
now being investigated by the DOJ's Office of Personel
Management the results of which, per Sara Carter of Circa,
will be coming out in December and January.
Moreover, as we reported earlier today, House Speaker
Paul Ryan accused the DOJ and FBI of "stonewalling" the
House Intelligence Committee's wide-ranging subpoena
related to the "Trump dossier," along with the fact that the
FBI appears to have willfully tried to conceal the reason
for Strzok's reassignment from the committee.
Meanwhile, upon being blindsided with this information
and publicly embarrassed, Intel committee chairman Devin
Nunes was understandably less than pleased.
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In a statement issued Sunday, Nunes announced a serious
escalation: His committee, he said, is preparing to hold
Andrew McCabe and assistant AG Rod Rosenstein in
contempt for the DOJ's failure to comply with Nunes's
subpoena. He also accused the FBI and the DOJ of
willfully refusing to comply with an Aug. 24 subpoena in
part by refusing the committee's request
"for an explanation of Peter Strzok's
dismissal from the mueller probe."
“By hiding from Congress, and from the
American people, documented political
bias by a key FBI head investigator for
both the Russia collusion probe and the
Clinton email investigation, the FBI and
DOJ engaged in a willful attempt to
thwart Congress’ constitutional
oversight responsibility.
This is part of a months-long pattern by the DOJ and FBI
of stonewalling and obstructing this Committee’s oversight
work, particularly oversight of their use of the Steele
dossier. At this point, these agencies should be
investigating themselves.
“The DOJ has now expressed—on a
Saturday, just hours after the press reports
on Strzok’s dismissal appeared—a sudden
willingness to comply with some of the
Committee’s long-standing demands. This
attempted 11th-hour accommodation is
neither credible nor believable, and in fact
is yet another example of the DOJ’s
disingenuousness and obstruction.
Therefore, I have instructed House
Intelligence Committee staff to begin
drawing up a contempt of Congress
resolution for DOJ Deputy Attorney
General Rod Rosenstein and FBI
Director Christopher Wray.
Unless all our outstanding demands are
fully met by close of business on Monday,
December 4, 2017, the committee will have
the opportunity to move this resolution
before the end of the month."
It now appears that the FBI will have even more
explaining to do as evidence of additional anti-Trump bias
among members of Mueller's investigation appear to be on
the horizon...
 Tom Hanks: Calling CNN ‘Fake News’
Is ‘Monkeying Around With Constitution’
By Corinne Weaver
December 5, 2017 10:26 AM EST
When did actors become the ultimate authority on the
constitution?
CNN’s David Axelrod (who, lest we forget, was Obama’s
political guru) interviewed actor Tom Hanks on The Axe
Files on December 2, and pushed Hanks to pontificate on
Donald Trump, the constitution, and fake news. When
Axelrod asked Hanks whether he was “concerned” by the
president “target[ing] news organizations,” Hanks
responded,
“As an American, it concerns me
because it’s monkeying around with our
Constitution.”
Again, this is David Axelrod, who worked for Barack
Obama. He now has a show on CNN. He’s asking
wonderfully leading questions about Donald Trump’s
criticism of … CNN. Is just a little self-awareness too
much to ask?
Anyway, according to Judge Hanks, media criticism is
meddling with the constitution. Where is that in the
amendments?
In the hour long interview, Hanks went on to talk about the
fake news phenomenon:
“It’s relatively obvious, I think, as what is
trying to go forward. When you tear down
these institutions to a level and say you
can’t believe anything that is in any of
them, that raises the stock of those
agenda-filled other institutions and what not
so that if you can’t believe them, well that
means you get to believe some of the other
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stuff that is in these and so what is
happening is that dilution, the dilution of the
great … they’re throwing dirt and oil into a
bucket of water. So it all becomes
undrinkable after a while,” he told Axelrod,
the former senior Obama official who now
has a show at … CNN.
The real problem, Hanks thought, were the “conspiracy
theorists.”
“And when conspiracy theorists end up
having the same amount of purchase as 27
reporters who are trying to get to the
bottom of some records somewhere, trying
to get to the bottom of what was said about
Vietnam in 1946 and 1957 and 1963, well,
then you’re monkeying around with what I
think the United States of America has
been based upon, which is the great
freedom to say what you want, assemble
with who you want to, and read and be
informed by those people that you want to
turn to.” Well, perhaps if journalists
adhered to the code of ethics, these
problems would not be so prevalent in the
media.
What the current administration is doing, is “subtle and
insidious,” he told Axelrod, an official of the last
administration, who now has a show on … CNN.
“I think what the current administration is
doing -- I don’t know that they’re saying we
have to shut them down so they don’t
publish anymore.
 What is happening is something that is
more subtle and more insidious and I
think has more fingerprints from other
totalit...other governments in the past
who have said look, we can’t shut them
down because that will cause outrage.
But we can denigrate them. We can, we
can, we can call them names. We can tell,
we can tell people that those are not the
facts. That’s what he’s saying.”
The horror.
At least he stopped himself from saying totalitarian. Where
that thought train was headed is unknown.
But Hanks found hope and comfort in the prospect of the
2018 elections, as he told Axelrod:
“We have an election coming up in less
than a year now. 2018 is going to send a
message that is going to reverberate much
more than any Senate hearings or
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congressional stuff. That election in 2018 is
going to prove one of two things. We will
continue along and we will have the
government we deserve. Or a lot of people
are going to show up and be motivated to
vote in order to send out the wave and say
we are not satisfied with the way things are
going right now. So if there is a turnout that
says, 'We’re not satisfied with this,' hey,
baby, that’s even better than going through
the machinations.”
Watching CNN turn to a celebrity to
reiterate the same groundless arguments
in CNN’s defense is somewhat pathetic.
Questioning a news source is part of free
speech; a news source that angrily claims
it cannot be wrong is dangerously close to
being a propaganda machine.
Did I mention who David Axelrod is?
 Trump Expected To Recognize
Jerusalem As Israel’s Capital
By Stephen Lendman - Stephenlendman.Org
12-5-2017

Rumors have been circulating for weeks. In late
November, Mike Pence said he’s “actively considering”
recognition.
He commented at an event, marking the 70th anniversary
of the UN vote, partitioning Palestine, Jerusalem declared
an international city under a world body protectorate - its
current status.
According to the New York Times last Friday, Trump
intends recognizing Jerusalem as Israel’s capitol short of
moving America’s embassy there - for now, maybe later,
trying to have things both ways, satisfying no one,
offending everyone, tiptoeing toward flagrantly violating
international law, continuing breaches since taking office.
Abbas’ spokesman Nabil Abu Rdainah refuted the Times,
saying Trump told Abbas he intends recognizing Jerusalem
as Israel’s capital, along with moving America’s embassy
to the city without naming a date for the move.
According to Abu Rhainah, Abbas warned of the
dangerous consequences this decision
“would have to the peace process and to
the peace, security and stability of the
region and of the world.”
White House press secretary Sanders said Trump spoke to
or intends speaking to Netanyahu and Jordan’s King
Abdullah ahead of his formal announcement.
Apparently it’s coming, fraught with dangers, an
unacceptable action if he follows through as expected,
flagrantly violating international law, infuriating
Palestinians and the Muslim world.
Turkey’s Deputy Prime Minister Bekir Bozdag warned
against the move. Taking it would be a
“major catastrophe…completely
destroy(ing) the fragile peace process in
the region, and lead to new conflicts, new
disputes and new unrest,” he said.
Abbas reportedly told Trump there’s no Palestinian state
without East Jerusalem as its capital.
On Monday, Trump delayed announcing his position on
Jerusalem, likely waiting for his Wednesday’s address to
declare his intention.
.
Abbas advisor Nabil Shaath said recognizing Jerusalem as
Israel’s capital
“totally destroys any chance that he will
play a role as an honest broker,” adding:
“(T)he mother of all the deals dies here on
the rocks in Jerusalem if he says tomorrow
that he recognizes a united Jerusalem as
the capital of Israel.”
Hamas called for an uprising to counter what it called a
“conspiracy” against Palestinians and the Muslim world.
Ahead of Trump’s expected announcement, Jewish Voices
for Peace executive director Rebecca Vilkomerson said the
following:
“For 70 years, the US has given Israel tacit
approval to steal Palestinian land, build
illegal Jewish settlements, and deny
Palestinians in East Jerusalem and
elsewhere their rights.”
“Trump’s decision takes these ongoing
policies to the next level and is reckless,
irresponsible and endangers the lives of
Palestinians and Israelis.”
JVP’s deputy director Rabbi Alissa Wise added:
“Jerusalem is a symbol of holiness and
hope for many people of many religions the
world over.”
“We want there to be a shared and
peaceful Jerusalem. Moving the US
embassy there not only flies in the face of
the international legal consensus, but also
furthers the agenda of those who seek to
re-cast a struggle for land, rights and
sovereignty into a religious conflict.”
I was interviewed twice today on this topic - suggesting
from reports that the move is coming, likely when Trump
delivers his Wednesday address.
The world community, Arab street and Palestinians will be
listening, reacting sharply if he announces what’s
expected.

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 Trump Administration Considering Private
Spy Network To Fight 'Deep State' Enemies: Report
By Caitlin Yilek
Dec 5, 2017, 8:38 AM
The Trump administration is reportedly weighing
proposals for a global, private spy network that would
evade U.S. intelligence agencies and report directly to the
White House and CIA Director Mike Pompeo.
The plans have been developed by Blackwater founder
Erik Prince and CIA veteran John R. Maguire, with help
from Oliver North, who played a prominent role in the Iran
Contra scandal, The Intercept reported late Monday.
Several current and former U.S. intelligence officials and
others familiar with the proposals said it's been pitched to
the White House as a way to combat “deep state” enemies
who want to undermine President Trump.
“Pompeo can’t trust the CIA bureaucracy,
so we need to create this thing that reports
just directly to him,” a former senior U.S.
intelligence official with firsthand
knowledge of the proposals told The
Intercept. “It is a direct-action arm, totally
off the books. The whole point is this is
supposed to report to the president and
Pompeo directly.”
National Security Council spokesman Michael N. Anton
said he was not aware of any such proposals.
“I can find no evidence that this ever came
to the attention of anyone at the NSC or
[White House] at all,” Anton said. “The
White House does not and would not
support such a proposal.”
Other senior Trump administration officials, including
Vice President Mike Pence, who were said to have been
briefed on the plans, denied knowing of the proposals. A
CIA spokesperson called the report “wildly inaccurate
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information by people peddling an agenda.” Prince has
also denied involvement.
But two former senior intelligence officials said Pompeo
has pressured the White House to move forward with the
contract that would buoy an army of spies with no
diplomatic cover abroad.
People involved in the plans secretly met with top Trump
donors to ask for assistance with financing, the report said.
“[Maguire] said there were people inside
the CIA who joined in the previous eight
years [under Obama] and inside the
government and they were failing to give
the president the intelligence he needed,” a
person said of Maguire’s pitch.
Maguire told at least two potential donors that Trump’s
national security adviser H.R. McMaster had authorized
surveillance of former White House chief strategist Steve
Bannon and Trump’s two eldest sons. He claimed
McMaster used a burner phone — usually a prepaid phone
that’s later disposed of — to send information to a facility
in Cyprus owned by George Soros.
Some potential donors were taken to a suite in Trump
International Hotel in Washington, D.C, which was set up
to conduct “secure communications” about the proposals.
The suite was referred to by White House staff and Trump
backers as “the tinfoil room.”
“John [Maguire] was certain that the deep
state was going to kick the president out of
office within a year,” said a person who
discussed the proposal with Maguire.
“These guys said they were protecting the
president.”
 Mueller Goes After Trump's
Bank Accounts, Subpoenas Deutsche Bank
By Tyler Durden
Dec 5, 2017 7:24 AM
Special Counsel Robert Mueller has subpoenaed Deutsche
Bank, demanding that it disclose details of transactions and
documents on accounts help by President Trump and
members of his family as the "Russian collusion" probe
now turns its attention to Trump's bank accounts.
According to Handelsblatt, which first reported the news,
the bank received the subpoena several weeks ago. Trump
has had a banking relationship with Deutsche Bank dating
back nearly two decades and the German lender's $300
million loan accounts for nearly half of his outstanding
debt (based on a July 2016 analysis by Bloomberg).
Trump's debt to Deutsche includes $170m relating to a
Washington hotel.
The media is taking the Deutsche Bank news as a sign that
Mueller’s investigation into alleged Russian interference in
the 2016 alleged campaign is “deepening”. However, it
was clear that a subpoena was coming more than four
months ago (see below) and, besides Michael Flynn,
Mueller’s investigation has included interviews with three
other former Trump aides recently, former Chief of Staff
Reince Priebus, former spokesman Sean Spicer and
National Security Council chief of staff Keith Kellogg,
according to people familiar with the investigation.
As Bloomberg adds,
"the news comes as Mueller’s investigation
appears to be entering a new phase, with
Trump’s former national security adviser,
Michael Flynn, pleading guilty Friday to
lying to FBI agents, becoming the fourth
associate of the president ensnared by
Mueller’s probe. More significantly, he also
is providing details to Mueller about the
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Trump campaign’s approach to Flynn’s
controversial meeting with a Russian envoy
during the presidential transition."
In June 2017, Deutsche Bank cited
privacy laws for rejecting a request from
US lawmakers to provide details of its
relationship with Trump.
The bank said that releasing information on Trump was
illegal unless it received a formal request – hence the
subpoena. The goal of the top Democrat on the House
Financial Services Committee, Maxine Waters, had been
to discover whether Russian entities had provided
guarantees – or were connected in any way - to the loans to
Trump or his family. According to The Guardian
newspaper, Deutsche had conducted an internal
investigation but.
The internal review found no evidence of any Russia link,
but Deutsche Bank is coming under pressure to appoint an
external and independent auditor to review its business
relationship with President Trump.
A Deutsche Bank executive told Bloomberg that
management was prepared to share information on its
business dealings with Trump in the hope that it will end
the series of inquiries. The news of the subpoena was
expected.
In our July post, “Deutsche Bank Faces DOJ Subpoena
Over Trump-Russia Probe", we noted the following:
Deutsche’s relationship with Trump and
questions about hundreds of millions in
loans have dogged the German bank and
the White House for months, and now,
'according to sources' reported by The
Guardian, Robert Mueller’s team and
Trump’s bankers have established informal
contacts and formal requests for
information are forthcoming.
According to an analysis by Bloomberg, Trump now owes
Deutsche, his biggest creditor, around $300m. He has four
large mortgages, all issued by Deutsche’s private bank.
The loans are guaranteed against the president’s properties:
a new deluxe hotel in Washington DC’s old post office
building, just around the corner from the White House; his
Chicago tower hotel; and the Trump National Doral Miami
resort.
The Guardian reports that executives inside Deutsche
Bank, Donald Trump’s personal bankers, are expecting
that the bank will soon be receiving subpoenas or other
requests for information from Robert Mueller, the special
counsel who is investigating possible collusion between
the Kremlin and the Trump campaign.
As we further noted, other financial institutions with links
to the Trump family were likely to receive requests for
information from Mueller and his team. One of these is
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Bank of America, so we might see more news on
subpoenas like the one issued to Deutsche Bank. In the
meantime, the “balanced” media reporting continues. Here
is Eugene Robinson, an opinion writer for the Washington
Post, writing yesterday.
We know that President Trump and his campaign either
colluded with the Russian effort to undermine U.S.
democracy or tried mightily to do so. We know that Trump
has apparently obstructed justice to try to halt investigation
into what happened. What we don’t know is whether
Congress, in the end, will do its sworn duty to protect the
Constitution.
We also don’t know what else special counsel Robert S.
Mueller III might have discovered, especially about the
Trump family’s international financial dealings. Or what
Mueller might be learning from Trump’s former national
security adviser, Michael Flynn, who pleaded guilty Friday
to lying to the FBI and is cooperating with investigators.
Or how far Trump, who is increasingly frantic, might yet
go to squash the Mueller probe.
Robinson serves as chair for the Pulitzer Prize board, so it
must be accurate.
 BUSTED: Hillary Aides Abedin And Mills LIED To Anti-
Trump FBI Agent, But Weren’t Charged
Like Michael Flynn Was
By Usafeaturesmedia
Posted On December 5, 2017
“The starkly different outcomes from
Strzok’s interviews — a felony charge
against Flynn and a free pass to Mills and
Abedin — are sure to raise questions from
Republicans about double-standards”
(National Sentinel) Corruption: Two of Hillary Clinton’s
most trusted aides made false statements to an FBI agent
who has since been identified as having exchanged anti-
Trump texts with an FBI lawyer, but neither of them were
charged with the same crime former national security
advisor Michael Flynn pleaded guilty to on Friday.
As reported by The Daily Caller, aides Huma Abedin and
Cheryl Mills told former FBI section chief Peter Strzok
neither had any knowledge of their boss’ illicit private
email server that she used to conduct official business
while serving as secretary of state to President Obama. But
email exchanges reviewed by the news site revealed that
both were aware of it and indeed sent their own emails
through it.
However, neither of them faced any legal consequences for
their false statements.
But another figure — Flynn — did after he made false
statements to the very same FBI investigator, Strzok. He
pleaded guilty last week to lying during an interview he
gave on Jan. 24 to Strzok and another FBI agent.
As noted by Circa News‘ Sara Carter and Fox News‘ Sean
Hannity, Strzok took part in interviewing Flynn. A
former U.S. intelligence official told Carter,
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“With the recent revelation that Strzok was
removed from the Special Counsel
investigation for making anti-Trump text
messages it seems likely that the accuracy
and veracity of the 302 of Flynn’s interview
as a whole should be reviewed and called
into question.”
Form 302 is a summary of an interview.
As to Clinton’s former aides,
“the starkly different outcomes from
Strzok’s interviews — a felony charge
against Flynn and a free pass to Mills and
Abedin — are sure to raise questions from
Republicans about double-standards in the
FBI’s two most prominent political
investigations,” The Daily Caller reported.
FBI Director Christopher Wray is scheduled to appear for
an oversight hearing before the House Judiciary
Committee on Thursday, where he will most likely be
questioned about the Strzok scandal.
In addition to being a principal actor in the collusion
investigation against Trump, Strzok was also the primary
investigator in the Clinton email probe.
“Along with Justice Department attorney
David Laufman, Strzok interviewed Clinton
herself on July 2, 2016. The pair also
interviewed Mills, Abedin and two other
Clinton aides, Jake Sullivan and Heather
Samuelson,” The DC noted.
A review of the 302s from the Abedin and Mills interviews
show that they told the FBI investigator and lawyer they
were not aware of Clinton’s private email server.
Mills did not learn Clinton was using a private server until
after Clinton’s [Department of State] tenure,” reads notes
from Mills’ April 9, 2016 interview.
“Mills stated she was not even sure she
knew what a server was at the time.”
But emails sent and received by both aides clearly show
they were aware of the server’s existence and were
actually using it to communicate back and forth.
“hrc email coming back — is server okay?”
Mills asked in a Feb. 27, 2010 email to
Abedin and Justin Cooper, the latter a
longtime aide to Bill Clinton and one who
helped set up the Clinton server.
“Ur funny. We are on the same server,”
Cooper replied.
Both aides were also involved in an Aug. 30, 2011, during
which State Department official Stephen Mull noted that
Clinton’s
“email server is down.”
Moreover, in a Jan. 9, 2011, exchange, Cooper told Abedin
he had to shut the server down because
“someone was trying to hack us.”
“Had to shut down the server,” wrote
Cooper, who also told the FBI in his
interviews that he talked about Clinton’s
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In addition, Abedin denied knowing about Clinton’s server
until leaving the State Department in 2013.
“Abedin did not know that Clinton had a
private server until about a year and a half
ago when it became public knowledge,” the
summary of Strzok’s interview with Abedin
says.
server with Abedin in 2009 as it was being
set up.
The misleading statements were excused by former FBI
Director James Comey during testimony before a House
Judiciary Committee hearing held on Sept. 28, 2016.
“Having done many investigations myself,
there’s always conflicting recollections of
facts, some of which are central [to the
investigation], some of which are
peripheral,” Comey told former Rep. Jason
Chaffetz, R-Utah, who was serving on the
committee last year.
Chaffetz was clear that he was not buying Comey’s
explanation.
“I think she lied to everybody,” Chaffetz
responded, adding there was “direct
evidence that she actually did know [about
the server].” He added that Comey’s
defense “makes no sense.”
Also on Monday, it was revealed that Strzok was
responsible for softening Comey’s language in the July
2016 statement to the media about why he was not
recommending Clinton be indicted for mishandling
classified information through her server.
Strzok edited a rough draft of Comey’s
statement, exchanging the phrase “grossly
negligent” — a term which has legal weight
— with a softer phrase, “extremely
careless.”

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 ‘Morning Joe’: Trump Team
‘Going To Jail ... For The Rest Of Their Lives’
‘But The Most Remarkable Thing About It Is That Even Now That He’s
President, It’s Still All About Money’
Dec 5, 2017
Here's a transcript from the exchange:
As the "noose" of Robert Mueller's probe into the Trump
team's contacts with Russia is "tightening," members of the
administration are starting to understand they're going "to
jail ... for the rest of their lives," MSNBC's Mika
Brzezinski said Tuesday.
"Knowing them, I think they're shocked that
the noose is tightening," Brzezinski said. "I
don't know if they were arrogant or
incredibly un-self aware and really dumb
about what the job was about, how
important it was, and how under the
microscope every move you made would
be. I think they just thought they'd go in
there and riff through it. And I think they're
shocked that the noose is tightening and
that people might go to jail."
"You're exactly right," her co-host and
fiancé, Joe Scarborough, agreed.
"For the rest of their lives," Brzezinski
added, perhaps hopefully.
Trump, Scarborough said, only ran for president as part of
a money-making scheme, and did not actually expect to
win.
"You know, the campaign — Trump didn't
think he was going to win even on Election
Day," he said. "But it was all about money.
It was all about making contacts. We've
said this before. But the most remarkable
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thing about it is that even now that he's
president, it's still all about money. Like,
he's not sitting there thinking what Barack
Obama or George W. Bush or Bill Clinton
or Ronald Reagan thought. Like, what is
my legacy going to be? He's thinking every
day, how can I leverage this so when I get
out of the White House I can make even
more money?"
GEIST: “The list has gotten so long of people who have
claimed they didn’t have a meeting with Ambassador
Kislyak or who left something off their disclosure form, or
said, ‘The meeting I had with Russians was about
adoption.’ You have to just, as a layman even, to see a
pattern, Donald Trump Jr., Jared Kushner, Jeff Sessions,
K.T. McFarland... I don’t know if it’s ignorance or
arrogance or some combination of the two to under
sworn testimony say, ‘I’m going to say this thing and
they’ll never find out about it.’”
SCARBOROUGH: “Again, they didn’t lie about their
contacts with the UAE or the contacts with the Saudis or
contacts with Japan or the contacts of China. They didn’t
lie about the contacts with everybody during the
transition or the campaign, but they always lied about
their contacts with Russia. And I want to follow up on
what Susan said. You know, the campaign — Trump
didn’t think he was going to win even on Election Day.”
EARNEST: “Right.”
SCARBOROUGH: “But it was all about money. It was all
about making contacts. We’ve said this before. But the
most remarkable thing about it is that even now that he’s
president, it’s still all about money. Like, he’s not sitting
there thinking what Barack Obama or George W. Bush
or Bill Clinton or Ronald Reagan thought. Like, what is
my legacy going to be? He’s thinking every day, ‘How
can I leverage this so when I get out of the White House
I can make even more money?’”
 BRZEZINSKI: “Knowing them, I think they’re shocked
that the noose is tightening. I don’t know if they were
arrogant or just incredibly un-self-aware and really dumb
about what the job was about, how important it was, and
how under the microscope every move you made would
be. I think they just thought they’d go in there and
flimflam and riff through it. And I think they’re shocked
that the noose is tightening and that people might go to
jail.”
SCARBOROUGH: “You’re exactly right.”
BRZEZINSKI: “For the rest of their lives.”
SCARBOROUGH: “What’s gotten them where they are
right now, Josh, is a gross misunderstanding of the rules
.
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of Washington, the laws surrounding public service and
constitutional norms. Coupled with the arrogance of New
York developers thinking — and I know, I talk to them —
thinking people in Washington were just dumb local
yokels, and they — ‘Just get out of our way. Listen,
listen, you guys have had your opportunity, and you guys
— come on. You’re just a bunch of hicks in Washington
D.C. Let the big city developers come in and we’re going
to show you.’ They wouldn’t listen to anybody, and they
stumbled into one possible crime after another possible
crime. And then Donald Trump goes into his mode. He
thinks taking on Bob Mueller is the same as taking on
Rosie O’Donnell. No, I’m dead serious.”
EARNEST: “I think that’s right.”
SCARBOROUGH: “He does. He thinks, ‘This worked
with Rosie. I’ll do with this Comey. I’ll do this with
Mueller.’ He has no idea that he’s going down.”
 Trump Now Said To Plan 6 Month
Delay On Jerusalem Embassy Move
By Tyler Durden
Dec 5, 2017 3:21 PM
Update: In a stunning reversal, Bloomberg
is now reporting that Trump is considering
a six-month waiver before moving the US
embassy to Jerusalem. The report doesn't
say anything about whether Trump still
plans to recognize Jerusalem as Israel's
capital tomorrow morning.
Meanwhile, Hamas is planning a "Day of Rage" protest of
Trump's impending decision. Leaders have called for a
confrontation with Israel after Friday morning prayers...
***
Update: CNN is reporting that Trump will officially
recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel during a
Wednesday announcement in Washington...
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***
Update: With local news reporting that
Trump and Egyptian President Abdel
Fattah el-Sisi, one of his most trusted allies
in the region, it's becoming clear that
Trump is calling leaders in the region to
prepare them for the US's decision to move
its embassy to Jerusalem - a decision that
will likely outrage much of the region.
According to Reuters, Trump told both
Palestinian and Jordanian leaders, as well
as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu of his intentions.
One by one, world leaders - most recently Jordna's King
Abdullah - have warned that such a move would have
"dangerous repercussions" for security and stability in the
region. Saudi King Salman said the decision would hurt
the Israeli-Palestine peace process.
Meanwhile, the State Department is warning consulates
across the world to prepare to boost security if Trump
decides to move the embassy. Trump promised to move
the embassy during his campaign but decided to delay
back in June, according to the Daily Caller.
State has urged consulates across the world to boost
security if President Donald Trump announces a relocation
of the embassy in Israel.
“The impending Jerusalem announcement
has me very worried about the possibility of
violent responses that could affect
embassies,” a State Department official
told Politico. “I hope I’m wrong."
The department is warning of violence against both
diplomats and US citizens, and is warning them to stay
away from the West Bank:
"US gov't employees & family restricted
from personal travel in Jerusalem’s Old
City & in the West Bank. US citizens
should avoid crowds and areas with
increased police and/or military
presence"
Israeli security agencies have met over the past few days to
prepare for riots and other attacks, according to the Ynet
news agency. Authorities believe Trump’s announcement
could spark attacks from established terror groups, as well
as so-called “lone wolf” terrorists.
***
After warning that he could officially recognize Jerusalem
as Israel's capital by the end of the week - an
announcement that drew vociferous objections from
Turkey and Saudi Arabia, who both warned that such a
declaration would irreparably damage US ties with the
Muslim world –
Palestinian sources are reporting that
President Donald Trump told Palestinian
Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas that
the US intends to eventually move its
embassy to Jerusalem - a contested city
that is claimed as a capital by both
Israel and the Palestinian territories.
As we noted earlier, the decision to recognize Jerusalem as
Israel's capital would infuriate Palestinians.
Majdi Khaldi, a diplomatic adviser of
President Mahmoud Abbas, said the
Palestinian leadership would "stop
contacts" with the US if Trump recognized
Jerusalem – making Jared Kushner’s job
.
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of solving the Israel-Palestine conflict
even more difficult than it already is.
Khaldi said the US would lose credibility as a mediator in
the Middle East if the US President went ahead with the
move. Kushner had earlier said Trump hadn't made a final
decision.
On the call with Abbas, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu and other regional leaders,
Abbas warned Trump that moving the
embassy could have "dangerous
consequences."
Readouts of the calls are expected later Tuesday.
Trump was expected to announce as soon as Wednesday
that the US would recognize Jerusalem as Israel's capital
and move its embassy there (though some expected that
he would delay the embassy move, but stress that he
would eventually like to do so, according to local Israeli
media.)
Israel considers Jerusalem its true capital, and the western
part of the city is host to many of the Israeli state's
administrative functions.
If Trump follows through with what he told
Abbas, his actions this week would be
considerably more dramatic than
anticipated.
 Mark Levin: ‘Not Possible’ For Trump To Commit
Obstruction Of Justice For Firing Comey
By Jeff Poor
5 Dec 2017

Monday on his CRTV “Levin TV” program, conservative
talker Mark Levin rejected the possibility President Donald
Trump committed obstruction of justice for firing then-FBI
Director James Comey.
Levin explained that the presidency is a constitutional
office and that those serving as his subordinates were not.
He also said before Comey’s firing, Democrats were
calling on Comey to be fired as well.
“As I said in June, a president is free to fire
any subordinate,” Levin said. “He is in the
Constitution. The subordinates are not. He
is free to fire any subordinate for any
reason. It’s not possible to be obstruction of
justice when you are complying with your
constitutional responsibilities. Moreover, as
I’ve said a thousand times — one second
before Trump fired Comey, the Democrats
were howling like a bunch of hyenas
demanding that Comey be fired. If Hillary
Clinton had been elected president of the
United States and fired Jim Comey, they’d
give her a ticker-tape parade.”

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 ‘MERICA! CNN’s Hot Scoop On Trump Is Actually The
‘BEST Re-Election Platform’ So Far [Pic]
By Sarah D.
Posted At 12:19 Pm On December 5, 2017

Donald Trump is certainly not without his flaws, but if this

scoop from CNN is supposed to showcase one of them,
they’re doing it wrong:

We fail to see the problem.

‘Merica!
.

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 Ingraham: Pro-Hillary Investigators
In Mueller Probe Unacceptable, Disgusting And Unfair
By Jeff Poor
5 Dec 2017
Tuesday on Fox News Channel’s “The Ingraham Angle,”
host Laura Ingraham chided special counsel Robert
Mueller’s probe of alleged Russian interference in the
2016 presidential election for enlisting an apparent anti-
Donald Trump investigator.
Ingraham called it “unacceptable,” “disgusting” and
“unfair” that backers of Trump’s 2016 election opponent
Hillary Clinton were parts of this investigation.
Partial transcript as follows:
All right, guys, we are loaded up tonight. You are not
going to want to miss one moment of this show. But first
— we’re only now learning why former FBI Director Jim
Comey contorted himself to not indict Hillary Clinton
regarding her use of a private email server during her time
as secretary of state.
Tonight, we can tell you that it appears that the FBI’s lead
investigator and deputy chief of counter-intel has been
revealed to be just another Clinton crony and Trump hater.
Peter Strzok was found to have exchanged anti-Trump
texts during the 2016 presidential debates with another
colleague at the Justice Department. This according to The
New York Times.
And get this, he attended Hillary’s pre-Fourth of July
interview that was never transcribed, and he reportedly
urged Comey to strike the phrase “grossly negligent” to
describe Hillary Clinton’s handling of classified
information. He softened it to “extremely careless.”
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
COMEY: Although we did not find clear
evidence that Secretary Clinton or her
colleagues intended to violate laws
governing the handling of classified
information, there is evidence that they
were extremely careless in their handling of
very sensitive highly classified information.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
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INGRAHAM: Unbelievable. And this gets
better. This same partisan official was one
of the lead investigators assigned to the
bureau’s Trump Russia inquiry. He was
very busy. And not only that, but he was
also part of the interview team that
questioned Trump National Security
Advisor Mike Flynn on January 24.
What a coincidence! This guy is just everywhere! But
wait, there’s more. Mr. Strzok is a pal of Comey’s. He
wasn’t taken off the case by special counsel Robert
Mueller until this past summer in July.
So why the heck didn’t Mueller inform the public given
the stakes involved and the need for public trust in this
investigation? Why didn’t he tell anybody? This guy was
writing anti-Trump texts during the debates. So much for
transparency.
And, of course, let’s not forget we have a gaggle of anti-
Trump, pro- Hillary prosecutors who are still working for
Mueller right now. My friends, this is unacceptable. It’s
disgusting. And it’s unfair.
Tonight, I urge the DOJ’s inspector general who seems
like a terrific guy, Michael Horowitz to release a full
transcript of Mr. Strzok’s text and maybe even those of
other key Clinton and Russia investigators.
Now, remember, this is the same man who helped lead the
investigation into the so-called Trump-Russia collusion,
this Mr. Strzok character. I have a question — how can
anyone at this point just learning this fact and the other
facts that we’ve cited on this show trust the Mueller office
at this point?
No transparency. They’re not telling us the truth about this.
And we’re only learning it when the inspector general
somehow releases this information to the public. Since the
Mike Flynn plea deal, just last week, the media experts are
predicting, it’s curtains. It’s over for the Trump
presidency.
R.I.P. Donald Trump’s political life. But I’ll tell you
what’s obvious. Here it is, although Flynn did lie, the
collusion case died. So now they’re on the so-called
obstruction of justice case against President Trump. The
experts think it’s all cut and dried.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
JOE SCARBOROUGH, host MSNBC’s
“Morning Joe”: Public record, there’s one
piece of evidence for obstruction of justice
after another, and this seems to be exhibit
one.
CNN’S JAKE TAPPER: That seems to be
in the territory of obstruction of justice.
SEN. DIANNE FEINSTEIN (D-CA): I think
that we’re beginning to see is the putting
together of a case of obstruction of justice.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
INGRAHAM: Move over, F. Lee Bailey.
Now, so how worried should Trump be at
this point? Well, time will tell. We don’t
really know at this point.
But consider that the media and legal and
political experts who are predicting Trump’s
impeachment, they also predicted this
about the president’s travel ban.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
CNN’S VAN JONES: There is a
discriminatory intent here and the
discriminatory intent of the Trump
administration is clear.
RICHARD PAINTER, LAWYER: It was
premised on religious discrimination. It’s
very clear that the president is acting
unconstitutional.
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HOUSE MINORITY LEADER NANCY
PELOSI (D-CA): You said we don’t want to
ban any — on the basis of religion. That’s
against our constitution. But that’s exactly
what they’re doing.
WAJAHAT ALI, MUSLIM-AMERICAN
PLAYWRIGHT: Thank you for calling it
what it is. I’m going to call it what it is. It’s a
Muslim ban.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
INGRAHAM: Well, today, a refreshingly
sane order by the Supreme Court on
President Trump’s so-called travel ban of
six mostly Muslim countries. Court declined
to halt the ban despite rulings in two
different lower courts.
This was a preliminary but nevertheless, a major victory
for President Trump who always had the constitutional
right to determine the classes of people who can and
cannot enter the country for security reasons.
Now, once again, the experts are wrong. And while the
media has a case of the vapors — a total meltdown over
Flynn’s cooperation with Mueller, the president is racking
up win after win.
Tax cuts are coming.
Retail is soaring this Christmas season.
The market is way up.
And now, a key win at the Supreme Court.
And it’s only Monday, my friends! And that’s “The
Angle.”
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 IT BEGINS: WSJ Demands “Too Conflicted”
Mueller To Resign From Russia Probe
By Joshua Caplan
Tuesday, December 5, 2017
D.C. was set ablaze following reports
that special counsel Robert Mueller was
forced to fire FBI agent Peter Strzok
from the Russia probe over anti-Trump
text messages.
On Monday, the editorial board of the Wall Street Journal
published an op-ed calling for Mueller to resign from the
probe.
WSJ reports:
The Washington Post and the New York
Times reported Saturday that a lead FBI
investigator on the Mueller probe, Peter
Strzok, was demoted this summer after it
was discovered he’d sent anti- Trump texts
to a mistress. As troubling, Mr. Mueller and
the Justice Department kept this
information from House investigators,
despite Intelligence Committee subpoenas
that would have exposed those texts. They
also refused to answer questions about Mr.
Strzok’s dismissal and refused to make him
available for an interview. […]
The latest news supports our view that Mr. Mueller is too
conflicted to investigate the FBI and should step down in
favor of someone more credible. The investigation would
surely continue, though perhaps with someone who
doesn’t think his job includes protecting the FBI and Mr.
Comey from answering questions about their role in the
2016 election.
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Unlike the mainstream media, The Gateway Pundit has
long believed the chief objective behind Special Counsel
Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation is to nullify the
results of the 2016 presidential election. In fact, while both
liberals and conservatives declared the ‘honorable,’
‘highly respected,’ Mueller was the correct man to lead the
Russia probe, this website expressed deep reservations
about the special counsel’s character and history as a
prosecutor.
Michael Flynn’s guilty plea, followed by a tweet sent out
by President Trump’s lawyer John Dowd, appearing to
imply the White House was aware of the former National
Security Advisor lied to the FBI, has brought an odd, new
focus to the mission behind Mueller’s probe. Former Chief
Assistant U.S. Attorney Andrew C. McCarthy writes in the
National Review that Mueller’s end game is now clear as
day; impeach the 45th President of the United States,
Donald J. Trump.
“It is now an obstruction investigation,”
McCarthy writes in reference to Mueller’s
probe, “Which means that it’s an
impeachment investigation.”
Assuming I am correct about Mueller’s theory, its fatal
flaw as a vehicle for prosecution is the same as it has
always been:
As president, Trump had incontestable
power to exercise prosecutorial discretion
and to fire the FBI director. […] The FBI
and the Justice Department are not a
separate branch of government; they are
subordinates of the president delegated to
exercise his power, not their own. Even on
Comey’s account, Trump did not order him
to shut down the Flynn investigation, even
though he could have. Trump could have
ordered an end of the Russia
counterintelligence investigation, but he did
not.
Michael Flynn, former National Security Advisor to
President Trump, pleaded guilty Friday to making false
statements to the FBI about contacting Russian
Ambassador Sergey Kislyak during the transition.
 ‘Hardball’: Collusion Case Happening
‘Piece by Piece’ Against ‘Enemy of the State’ Trump
By Curtis Houck
December 5, 2017 3:51 PM EST
On Monday’s Hardball, host Chris Matthews and his
assembled guests were still reveling in the Mueller
investigation’s indictment of Michael Flynn, swooning
over how it showed a collusion case being cemented
“piece by piece” against an “enemy of the state” in
President Trump.
USA Today reporter Heidi Przybyla was
one such character, ominously stating that
“we’re seeing that the collusion piece of
this, piece by piece, starting to be built
out and every week, it seems there’s a
new member of the team who knew
something about the discussions that
were going on with the Russians.”
Matthews interjected to argue that the President has gone
to
“war with the people that are the
national policemen in a sense, the
investigators, to get the facts to Robert
Mueller”
before going to MSNBC law enforcement analyst Clint
Watts.
Watts first lamented that Trump’s tweets
condemning the FBI were an example of
“Trump first, America second,” which he
saw coming “a year ago about Russia
tearing down democratic institutions.”
Similarly, Watts emphasized that he’s
“worried about our President tearing
down democratic institutions.”
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Even though the President and his team were being
investigated by the FBI’s Mueller probe,
Watts argued that Trump “should be the
one setting the tone for the FBI, he
should be supporting them, pushing
them in the right direction, if he does
believe they’re in tatters, which I think is
absolute nonsense, the best way to go
about that would be be a leader, set an
agenda.”
Watts then uncorked the line about Trump being an
“enemy of the state”:
It may solidify his base, but it’s also
undermining our country. He is actually
weakening the credibility of the federal law
enforcement agency for the entire United
States. He’s going to sow doubt in their
ability, and he is going to hurt the ability of
our law enforcement and judicial systems
with his claims. So he is an enemy of the
state whenever he is pushing against the
FBI in that way, and if he finds that the FBI
is in tatters, well I would sure like to know
how he would like to improve that because
he’s never offered anything as to why it’s
both in tatters or what he would do about it.
So, it’s a sad state of affairs.
Later in the show, Matthews had just introduced pro-
impeachment Vox founder Ezra Klein and Republican
strategist John Feehery when he suggested Trump was
acting like “an emperor”:
“Can we all agree that obstruction of
justice has to be impeachable? Because
if a president can do anything he wants
with the justice system, he is basically --
he is an emperor, if he can just ignore
the law.”
Feehery pointed out that “impeachment is a political
matter” that “politicians” decide on, but that wasn’t
enough for Matthews as he hit back that obstruction of
justice should be translated into impeachment by default.
Here’s the relevant transcript from MSNBC’s Hardball on
December 4:

MSNBC’s Hardball
December 4, 2017
7:05 p.m. Eastern

HEIDI PRZYBYLA: Well he’s — he’s — what he’s doing is he’s

creating his own news here with the obstruction case and the
question is, you know, we’ve — having these discussions all day
long on cable news about obstruction and how he’s building the
obstruction case, point valid, but why? The why is still the much
more important question, why was it worth it to tell all of these MATTHEWS: Can we all agree that obstruction of justice has to
lies? And now we’re seeing that the collusion piece of this, piece be impeachable? Because if a president can do anything he
by piece, starting to be built out and every week, it seems there’s wants with the justice system, he is basically -- he is an emperor,
a new member of the team who knew something about the if he can just ignore the law. Is that — can we agree on that?
discussions that were going on with the Russians.
EZRA KLEIN: I think so, yes.
CHRIS MATTHEWS: Clint, let’s go — let’s go to the law
enforcement part of this, Clint, and here’s the question. It seems
MATTHEWS: John?
to me he’s going at war with the people that are the national
policemen in a sense, the investigators, to get the facts to Robert
Mueller. Why would he go to people who have an incentive JOHN FEEHERY: Well —
already to go after him, because he may have broken the law,
but now may have an incentive institutionally, enforced for MATTHEWS: Obstruction of justice should be enough.
everyday by his attacks on the FBI?
FEEHERY: Well, impeachment — impeachment is a political
CLINT WATTS: This is more Trump first, America second. I matter.
mean, I was worried a year ago about Russia tearing down
democratic institutions, I’m more now worried about our MATTHEWS: But obstruction of justice —
President tearing down democratic institutions. He is the leader
of the executive branch, he should be the one setting the tone for FEEHERY: Well, that's for the politicians to decide. Well, I mean,
the FBI, he should be supporting them, pushing them in the right it's a political matter in our Constitution.
direction, if he does believe they’re in tatters, which I think is
absolute nonsense, the best way to go about that would be a
leader, set an agenda and instead, he’s going on the attack, and MATTHEWS: Suppose it's proven that there's obstruction of
that’s going to backfire on him. It may solidify his base, but it’s justice?
also undermining our country. He is actually weakening the
credibility of the federal law enforcement agency for the entire FEEHERY: Well, then that's a good case to make. You to make
United States. He’s going to sow doubt in their ability, and he is to it the politicians and it’s a political case.
going to hurt the ability of our law enforcement and judicial
systems with his claims. So he is an enemy of the state MATTHEWS: They have the right to ignore it?
whenever he is pushing against the FBI in that way, and if he
finds that the FBI is in tatters, well I would sure like to know how FEEHERY: They have the right to ignore it.
he would like to improve that because he’s never offered
anything as to why it’s both in tatters or what he would do about
[MATTHEWS LAUGHS]
it. So, it’s a sad state of affairs.
FEEHERY: They do, and especially in the Senate.
(....)
MATTHEWS: Well, I thought we were getting somewhere.

FEEHERY: I'm just saying, from a practical perspective.

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 Trump Reportedly Tells Mideast
Leaders He Intends To Move Embassy To Jerusalem
By Tyler Durden
Dec 5, 2017 12:47 PM
Update: With local news reporting that Trump and
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, one of his most
trusted allies in the region, it's becoming clear that Trump
is calling leaders in the region to prepare them for the US's
decision to move its embassy to Jerusalem - a decision that
will likely outrage much of the region. According to
Reuters, Trump told both Palestinian and Jordanian
leaders, as well as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu of his intentions.
One by one, world leaders - most recently Jordna's King
Abdullah - have warned that such a move would have
"dangerous repercussions" for security and stability in the
region.
Meanwhile, the State Department is warning consulates
across the world to prepare to boost security if Trump
decides to move the embassy. Trump promised to move
the embassy during his campaign but decided to delay
back in June, according to the Daily Caller.
State has urged consulates across the world to boost
security if President Donald Trump announces a relocation
of the embassy in Israel.
“The impending Jerusalem announcement
has me very worried about the possibility of
violent responses that could affect
embassies,” a State Department official
told Politico. “I hope I’m wrong."
Israeli security agencies have met over the past few days to
prepare for riots and other attacks, according to the Ynet
news agency. Authorities believe Trump’s announcement
could spark attacks from established terror groups, as well
as so-called “lone wolf” terrorists.
***
After warning that he could officially recognize Jerusalem
as Israel's capital by the end of the week - an
announcement that drew vociferous objections from
Turkey and Saudi Arabia, who both warned that such a
declaration would irreparably damage US ties with the
Muslim world –
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Palestinian sources are reporting that
President Donald Trump told Palestinian
Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas that
the US intends to eventually move its
embassy to Jerusalem - a contested city
that is claimed as a capital by both
Israel and the Palestinian territories.
As we noted earlier, the decision to recognize Jerusalem as
Israel's capital would infuriate Palestinians.
Majdi Khaldi, a diplomatic adviser of President Mahmoud
Abbas, said the Palestinian leadership would "stop
contacts" with the US if Trump recognized Jerusalem –
making Jared Kushner’s job of solving
the Israel-Palestine conflict even more
difficult than it already is.
Khaldi said the US would lose credibility as a mediator in
the Middle East if the US President went ahead with the
move. Kushner had earlier said Trump hadn't made a final
decision.
On the call with Abbas, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu and other regional leaders,
Abbas warned Trump that moving the
embassy could have "dangerous
consequences."
Readouts of the calls are expected later Tuesday.
Trump was expected to announce as soon
as Wednesday that the US would
recognize Jerusalem as Israel's capital and
move its embassy there (though some
expected that he would delay the
 embassy move, but stress that he would If Trump follows through with what he told Abbas,
eventually like to do so, according to local
Israeli media.) his actions this week would be
considerably more dramatic than
Israel considers Jerusalem its true capital, and the western anticipated.
part of the city is host to many of the Israeli state's
administrative functions.

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 CIA Director Pompeo: Trump's
Tweeting Has Actually Helped Us
By Debra Heine
December 5, 2017
CIA Director Mike Pompeo, Reagan National Defense, Forum. Image
Via YouTube
The mainstream media's usual hand-wringing about
President Trump's Twitter habit morphed into
hyperventilation last week after he shared several
"unverified" tweets about terrorism, but the director of the
Central Intelligence Agency surprisingly doesn't have a
problem with it.
CIA Director Mike Pompeo said at a national security
event in Simi Valley, California, over the weekend
that Trump's tweeting has actually yielded helpful
intelligence.
The current CIA director sat down with former CIA
director Leon Panetta and Fox News host Brett Baier for an
hour of discussion on world events from a security
perspective at The Reagan National Defense Forum on
Saturday.
Baier brought up Trump's tweets about the Muslim videos
and asked Panetta why he thought "it was like playing with
fire."
"When you tweet something like that out
there you don't know what the
consequences are going to be, and the
consequences could be lives," Panetta
replied solemnly. Baier turned to Pompeo:
"One account on Twitter makes your job
harder?" he asked. The CIA director's
answer was almost certainly not what the
host expected. "No, I don't know that that's
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the case," he replied. "I've actually seen it
help us."
"I have seen things the president has put
on his Twitter account actually have a real-
world impact on our capacity to understand
what's going on in other places of the
world," Pompeo said.
"That is, our adversaries responded to
those tweets in ways that were helpful to us
to understand command and control
issues, who's listening to what messages,
how those messages are resonating
around the world," he added.
Panetta seemed taken aback by Pompeo's answer.
"As a former chief-of-staff, I cannot imagine
what it'd like to serve a president who
tweets in the morning," he said. "The whole
purpose of the White House is to develop
some discipline."
Panetta went on to explain what most politicians --
especially Democrats -- mean by discipline:
"In terms of messaging, in terms of policy,
in terms of everybody being on the same
page," he said. (It's been painfully obvious
for decades that for Democrats,
"messaging" isn't just the most important
thing in politics -- it's the only thing. That's
why they always walk, talk and vote in
lockstep.)
Pompeo listened politely while Panetta shared his idea of
the perfectly run administration:
"When you get up, and everybody knows
what the message of the day is going to be,
and everybody is coordinated!" he
declared.
Panetta's advice for the president was to come up with
different policy objectives each day, and then "tweet the
hell out of it" instead of "tweeting by the seat of his pants."
He also suggested that the White House implement "a
check system" for every presidential tweet so that every
Trump tweet has to go through a fact-checking approval
process.
"We'd be a hell of a lot better off," Panetta
stated haughtily. He added that the
president's erratic Twitter habit "raises a
little concern about stability."
"What I mean is, we shouldn't over-attribute
the place we find ourselves in the world
today to things that may or may not have
as much impact as folks like to suggest
sometimes." Panetta flailed wildly in
response:
"You don't just roll a grenade in the room,
have things blow up, then not have a
strategy for how the hell you deal with it!"

Pompeo, as congenially as he could, went in for the kill.

Noting that the world is a dangerous place with more

flash-points than ever, he calmly noted that

"those all existed before January 20 of this

year. So 'message discipline' -- as you
referred to it -- got us to those places." I don't know about you, but my opinion of Mike Pompeo
went up a few notches after watching that.
The CIA director paused to let the slow burn hit those in
the audience, who reacted with nervous laughter and a
smattering of applause. He added,
.

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 White House: Mueller Has Not
Subpoenaed Trump’s Bank Records
By Jonathan Easley
12/05/17 03:43 PM EST

subpoenaed records from Deutsche Bank, where Trump is

believed to have a line of credit and to have conducted tens
of millions of dollars in transactions.

But Sanders said those reports are false and were another
example of the news media getting something wrong in the
frenzy to report on the investigation into Russian meddling
in the 2016 presidential election.

Sanders declined to say whether banks should comply with

White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders on
Tuesday disputed reports that special counsel Robert
Mueller has subpoenaed President Trump’s bank records.
“We confirmed that the news reports [that]
the special counsel had subpoenaed
financial records related to the
president are completely false,” Sanders
said during the daily press briefing.
“No subpoena has been issued or
received. We have confirmed this with
the bank and other sources. I think this is
another example of the media going too far
and too fast and we don't see it going in
that direction," she said.
subpoenas for records if they receive them.
“I'm not going to get into hypothetical
situations and try to determine everything
that could happen,” she said. “We know it
hasn't happened up until this point and that
the reports out were totally false and again
the media got ahead of their skis a little bit
pushing and driving that story that wasn't
true.”
Tuesday’s reports came on the heels of Trump’s former
national security adviser Michael Flynn pleading guilty
last week to lying to the FBI about his contacts with
Russians.

Citing an anonymous and unidentified official, Reuters

reported earlier Tuesday that Mueller’s team had
.

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 Morning Joe Smears President Trump
For Highlighting FBI Corruption Reports
By Chris Reeves
December 5, 2017 5:35 PM EST
This week on Morning Joe, the show’s liberal panelists
have been working overtime not to cover one of the most
significant stories that broke this past weekend. Namely,
multiple journalistic outlets have revealed significant
conflicts of interest at the FBI over the past two years that
could have directly impacted agents’ investigations into
Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, and their respective
associates.
However, you wouldn’t know this just from watching
MSNBC’s top morning show. On both Monday and
Tuesday, co-hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski
and their guest pundits repeatedly trashed President Trump
for drawing attention to this reporting about FBI
corruption. None of the show’s panelists bothered to bring
up recent stories from The Washington Post, The New York
Times, Reuters, Business Insider, Fox News, or any other
news organization that supported Trump’s claims. Instead,
they preferred to attack the President’s tweets as more
evidence of the threat that he purportedly poses to our
“democratic institutions.”
Morning Joe’s panel was especially disturbed by two
particular Trump tweets:
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As anyone following mainstream media sources would
know, Trump was referring to recent reports that one of the
top FBI officials involved in Mueller’s current
investigation of Trump was removed from his position this
summer after it was revealed that he had serious political
conflicts of interest related to the subjects of Mueller’s
probe. Peter Strzok, the official in question, was reportedly
caught sending politically charged texts to an FBI lawyer
that he was having an affair with. According to The
Washington Post, these texts indicated a clear animus
towards Trump and, on the other hand, strong support for
Hillary Clinton.
That wasn’t the worst of it though. According to The New
York Times, Strzok was not merely involved in going after
Trump –
he was also the lead agent in charge of
the FBI’s investigation into then-
candidate Clinton’s mishandling of
classified emails.
Yeah, THAT investigation.
Any reasonable person should be able to understand why
Trump would be upset by these revelations, right?
Well...wrong actually, at least in Morning Joe’s case.
After looking at Trump’s FBI tweets from this weekend,
Scarborough and company not only completely ignored the
substance of Trump’s criticisms and the journalism
backing him up, but more troublingly,
they grandstanded on the memories of
the 9/11 first responders to suggest that
Trump was being unpatriotic and labelled
Trump’s promotion of mainstream
journalism as an “attack” on
“democratic institutions” like the Intel
community, the military, and...the
press???
See the mental gymnastics for yourself (all times EST):

12/4/17
6:06 AM
MIKA BRZEZINSKI: I want to get David Ignatius and Michael
Schmidt to sort of frame exactly how, you know, Friday is in the
big picture. But first, President Trump also laced into the
Federal Bureau of Investigation in a string of tweets over the
weekend, writing: “So General Flynn lies to the FBI and his life is
destroyed, while Crooked Hillary Clinton,” wow, “on that now
famous FBI holiday “interrogation” with no swearing in and no
recording, lies many times...and nothing happens to her? Rigged
system, or just a double standard?” James Comey said they had
no basis to conclude that Clinton lied to the FBI. Trump tweeted
more attacks, putting the “Justice” in “Justice Department” in
quotation marks. And, quote: “After years of Comey, with the
phony and dishonest Clinton investigation (and more), running
the FBI, its reputation is in Tatters - worst in History! But fear not,
we will bring it back to greatness.”
JOE SCARBOROUGH: [starts talking over Mika after “Tatters”]
All right, all right. I’m not -- it, yeah. No. No, no, no.
[starts his own monologue]
David Ignatius, every time the President attack, attacks the
Federal Bureau Investigation [sic], I make sure to find a
picture of 9/11 and everything that those FBI agents did,
night and day and night and day, to investigate that and
work alongside other Intel agencies to track down the
people who were responsible for that, that heinous action.
And, you know, those people -- I'm proud and thankful for the
patriotic men and women who work in the FBI every day. Thank
you for your tireless dedication and service to America. I
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recommend every American that hears this goes on their Twitter
account or Facebook account and does the same thing. They
keep us safe. And you look at Bob Mueller and the threats that
Bob Mueller had to deal with in the days, weeks, and months
after September 11th. This is, this is just nothing, nothing
less than shameful from the President of the United States,
who now owns the, quote, Justice Department.
DAVID IGNATIUS: Joe, I had the same reaction as you did to
the “FBI in Tatters” tweet. Watching President Trump, you
have a sense of someone caught in a trap, and the more he tries
to get out of it, the deeper in he gets. If he flails one way and then
the next, uh -- the attack on the FBI and its professionalism drew
a very quick response from the person who represents FBI
agents, who I'm sure Clint knows well, drew response from Mike
Rogers, former FBI agent and well-known as a member of
Congress. I just feel as if, for Trump, though, it must feel as if this
is closing in on him week by week. And that's the only thing
that can account for these strange tweets.
(...)
12/5/17
6:53 AM
HEIDI PRZYBYLA: President says that the FBI's reputation is in
tatters. This is just the latest attack by this president on
democratic institutions, including the news media, including
the judiciary, as well as groups like scientists, even the
budget office. What connection do you see between this
president's rhetoric and the risk to our democratic
institutions?
ADM. JAMES STAVRIDIS: I think it's rising steadily. And
thank god for the FBI. You know, a lot of times people say to
me after 37 years in the military: Thank you for your service. I
appreciate it. There are a lot of ways to serve this country. Police,
firemen, FBI agents, CIA, and to the FBI, I say: Keep clanking
at Donald Trump like a Panzer tank, which is what Bob
Mueller reminds me of. Because, we need to know the truth.
Without fear or favor, we need to know the truth. I don't think
the FBI's reputation is in tatters at all, and I don't think most
Americans do either.
(...)
12/5/17
7:18 AM
JOSH EARNEST: So, look, I'm not suggesting that bureaucrats
are perfect or that bureaucrats are always effective in being able
to get the job done, but what I am saying is that there is a
common failure to appreciate that when you have a position of
responsibility like President of the United States, there are
consequences for your actions. When you're a real estate
developer and you do things that are irresponsible or you want to
attack people on Twitter, or you want to walk away from the
negotiating table, there are no consequences for all that, or if
there are, you can go back and fix them later.
BRZEZINSKI: Yeah.
EARNEST: But there are damaging consequences when
you're the President of the United States and you say: You
know what, I'm not gonna negotiate; I'm gonna walk away
from the negotiating table. Or, you want to defame the
intelligence community or FBI agents or our, uh,-
SCARBOROUGH: What has he done? He has gone to war
with the Intel community and he's gone to war with the
press.
If Morning Joe had simply looked at some of Trump’s other
tweets or retweets (such as the examples below), they would
have figured out pretty quickly why Trump was attacking the
FBI’s credibility – he was doing it based on perfectly mainstream
sources.

BRZEZINSKI: Oh my god. CIA.

EARNEST: -the senior military leadership of the United

States of America. There are consequences for that. And that’s,
that’s, that's the bigita- -- that’s the biggest difference.

(...)

12/5/17

7:19 AM

SCARBOROUGH: Um, we um, -- remember we warned Donald

Trump during the transition -- we had a very rough 2016, but
during the transition, there were a lot of people that went in, you
know, that, you know, followed Bob Gates's advice. He's the only
president we're gonna have. We all need to talk, pitch in, and see
what we can do. You remember the warnings we gave him? Two
warnings. I said: Listen, I know you like to fight people. I'm gonna
tell you two areas you don't fight. Don't go to war with the Intel
community and don't go to war with the press. You can be
angry with ‘em. You can push back, but it’s always -- you
always keep a detente with both of ‘em. And we told them that
repeatedly.
BRZEZINSKI: No, I couldn’t [inaudible].
.
Neither Trump nor the press orgs that he is citing are “going to
war with the Intel community” for calling the American public’s
attention to serious problems within our intelligence services, let
alone threatening any “democratic institutions.”
Morning Joe’s hyperbolic and hypocritical dismissal of
uncontested reporting by mainstream papers in this case shows
just how far Scarborough and his compatriots are willing to go to
demonize Trump.
Apparently, there are no limits in sight.

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 Trump To Recognize Jerusalem As Israel's Capital,
Forge Ahead With Moving US Embassy
By Alex Pappas | Fox News
December 5, 2017
President Trump on Wednesday will order the State
Department to begin moving the U.S. Embassy in Israel to
Jerusalem from Tel Aviv, senior administration officials
said, a move that fulfills a campaign promise made to
religious conservatives but one that could inflame tensions
across the Middle East.
In his announcement, Trump will say that the U.S.
government recognizes Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.
One official described it as an "honest" acknowledgement
of a "seven-decade old fact."
“While President Trump recognizes that the status of
Jerusalem is a highly sensitive issue, he does not think it
will be resolved by ignoring the simple truth that
Jerusalem is home to Israel’s legislature, its Supreme
Court, the prime minister and is such the capital of Israel,”
one official said.
The U.S. would be the first country to move its embassy to
Jerusalem, which is claimed by both Israelis and
Palestinians. Other countries who have diplomatic
relations with Israel keep their embassies in Tel Aviv.
But the embassy move would not be immediate and could
take at least three or four years.
The U.S. officials said there are currently about 1,000
personnel in the embassy in Tel Aviv. They added that
there is no facility in Jerusalem ready to serve as the
embassy site, and it will take time to address security,
design and cost concerns.
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"It will take some time to find a site, address security
concerns, design a new facility, fund a new facility --
working with Congress, obviously -- and build it," one
official said. "So this is not an instantaneous process."
Ahead of the announcement, Trump spoke Tuesday with
Palestinian President Mahmood Abbas, Jordanian King
Abdullah and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Netanyahu has said he supports the U.S. moving its
embassy. But Abbas has warned of the “gravity of
consequences” should the move become official for “the
peace process and security and stability in the region and
world.”
An international affairs adviser for Abbas said that the
move “totally destroys any chance that he can play a role
as an honest broker” in Middle East peace negotiations.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan warned that
moving the capital was a “red line” for Muslims, and such
an action could result in Turkey severing diplomatic ties
with Israel.
The controversy surrounding the move of the embassy
dates back decades. A law passed in 1995 under the
Clinton administration considers Jerusalem the capital, and
even mandates the move of the embassy there.
But the law allows for a loophole used by former
Presidents Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack
Obama – an option to issue waivers every six months to
delay the move from Tel Aviv.
Trump also took advantage of the loophole, which
Republicans have long called to be closed. Trump’s first
waiver was signed in June, which drew praise from the
Palestinians and some disappointment from Israel.
The administration officials said Tuesday that Trump will
still sign a waiver to keep from jeopardizing State
Department funding while the relocation process begins.
In January, Republican Sens. Dean Heller, Marco Rubio
and Ted Cruz introduced legislation that would move the
embassy to Jerusalem and recognize the city as Israel's U.N. Security Council vote to condemn Israeli settlement
capital, after the Obama administration abstained from a expansion in the West Bank.

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 Trump-Russia Collusion Does Not Exist,
I Was There: Corey Lewandowski
White House
Published December 05, 2017
No evidence of Trump-Russia collusion: Fmr. Trump campaign aide.
Former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski and former
Trump campaign aide David Bossie discuss special counsel Robert
Mueller's investigation into alleged Trump-Russia collusion during
the 2016 election.
As new details emerge in special counsel Robert Mueller’s
investigation into the alleged Russian meddling during the
2016 election, some are worried President Donald Trump
and his associates may be implicated.
Former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski
and Trump campaign aide David Bossie insist there is “not
one iota of evidence” of collusion.
“The ranking [Democrat] on the Senate
Judiciary Committee, and she’s on the
Intelligence Committee, has found no
evidence of [Trump-Russia] collusion,
cooperation or coordination because it
doesn’t exist. I was there, it doesn’t exist,”
.
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the former Trump campaign manager and
co-author of “Let Trump Be Trump” told
FBN’s Lou Dobbs on Tuesday.
Former Trump national security advisor Michael Flynn
resigned in February over questions surrounding his
dealings with Russia and there have been mixed reports
that Mueller has subpoenaed records from Deutsche Bank
related to the probe, though White House lawyers deny the
claim.
Lewandowski says there needs to be more accountability
in the FBI regarding the investigation and the
forthcomings related to the Hillary Clinton email scandal.
“It’s amazing to me that when the president
launched the campaign, they said ‘it wasn’t
a real campaign, he’ll never be successful.’
What’s also amazing to me is Dianne
Feinstein, the ranking Democrat on the
Senate Judiciary Committee has said there
is no evidence whatsoever that she has
seen that there has been any cooperation.
But the Democrats pooh-pooh her,”
Lewandowski said.
As for Trump’s progress in office, his former campaign
manager says that the mainstream media will never give
the president the credit he deserves regardless of his
economic accomplishments.
 Et Tu, Mike? Pence Plotted Coup Against Trump After
P****Gate Tape Was Revealed And His Wife Called
Candidate 'Reprehensible - Just Totally Vile'
 In October 2016 The Washington Post Published The 'Access Hollywood' Tape Of Donald Trump
Boasting About Grabbing Women 'By The P****'
 Republican Sources Say Mike Pence Was Considering A 'Coup' After The Tape Emerged
 Many Republicans Thought The Tape Would Be Devastating At The Time And Pence Told The
RNC He Was Ready To Replace Trump
 Former Campaign Aide Said Karen Pence Was 'Disgusted' By The Tape: 'She Finds Him
Reprehensible—Just Totally Vile'
By Geoff Earle, Deputy U.S. Political Editor For Dailymail.Com
Published: 14:06 EST, 5 December 2017 | Updated: 20:45 EST, 5 December 2017

The stunning release of the 'p****' tape in October 2016
had close advisors predicting it would lead to Donald
Trump's downfall and running mate Mike Pence plotting
a 'coup,' according to a new report on the vice president
Tuesday.
his running mate, was contemplating a 'coup' to replace
Trump at the top of the ticket after the release of the
'Access Hollywood' tape, according to a report

The release of the 'Access Hollywood' tape where Trump

boasted about using his celebrity and grabbing women 'by
the p***" rocked the campaign, and even persuaded some
leading Trump advisors that the candidate was through.

Pence, the religiously conservative former Indiana

governor who Trump selected as his running mate, was
contemplating a 'coup' to replace Trump at the top of the
ticket, the Atlantic reported.

With the party's chances in doubt after the revelations,

hours after the Washington Post broke news about the
tape, 'Pence made it clear to the Republican National Denial: Pence's office said Tuesday that the coup plot story
Committee that he was ready to take Trump’s place as the was not true and added an emoji
party’s nominee,' according to the report.

The Vice President's office denied the report

Vice President Mike Pence, the religiously conservative
former Indiana governor who Donald Trump selected as
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The maneuvering came at a time when official Washington
was rocked by the raw hot mic comments of the 'Access
Hollywood' tape, which soon led to the firing of Billy
Bush.

A former campaign aide said Pence's wife, Karen Pence,

was 'disgusted' by the tape.

'She finds him reprehensible—just totally

vile' the aide said of President Trump. The
couple was appalled by the video,
according to the report.
The tape shows Trump bragging to host Billy Bush about
Pence spokeswoman Alyssa Farah tweeted: using his celebrity and having the ability to grab women
'by the p****'
'Regarding The Atlantic’s tired, false claim
about the VP during the campaign -- we
denied this in the article and deny it again
today. Didn’t happen.'

She included a sleeping emoji.

In the aftermath, a Republican senator called the

Republican Party to take emergency steps to replace
Trump, who had already accepted his party's nomination at
the convention, according to the Atlantic.

It was at an urgent October 2016 Trump Tower meeting

where former RNC chair Reince Priebus, who went on to
become White House chief of staff, famously urged Trump
to get out of the race.
New York magazine reported that Priebus said if he didn't,
he would 'go down with a worse election loss than Barry
Goldwater’s.'
The candidate ultimately rejected pleas to get out, and hit
back hard during the second presidential debate, where he
brought along Bill Clinton's former accusers as a way to
needle rival Hillary Clinton.
There wasn't a ready mechanism for the party to replace a
potentially hobbled nominee. An RNC rule only
authorized the party to fill any vacancy created 'by death,
declination, or otherwise.'
There was pressure from some anti-Trump lawmakers,
such as Sen. Mark Kirk of Illinois, for Trump to step aside
at this point.
Despite the articles use of the term 'coup,' it does not
mention any plotters or a plan to confront the nominee or
otherwise force him out.

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 Clinton Aides Huma Abedin And Cheryl Mills Not
Charged After Making False Statements To FBI
By Jim E
December 5, 2017 10:59AM

Washington was rocked last evening by revelations that a

pro-Clinton mole in the FBI may have had a hand in
getting Hillary off the hook for her criminal behavior as
secretary of state and her use of a private email server.

As we reported last night, agent Peter Strzok was removed

from Special Counsel Mueller’s investigation team that’s
looking into possible Russia-Trump collusion. He was
removed for expressing anti-Trump sentiment in messages
to a mistress, an FBI lawyer.
Then the bombshell hit. Strzok was the very agent who
changed the FBI’s description of Hillary’s behavior with
the email server from “grossly negligent” to “extremely
careless,” thereby not triggering any criminal
repercussions.
CNN reported the following: “A former top
counterintelligence expert at the FBI, now at the center of
a political uproar for exchanging private messages that
appeared to mock President Donald Trump, changed a key
phrase in former FBI Director James Comey’s description
of how former secretary of state Hillary Clinton handled
classified information, according to US officials familiar
with the matter.”
Ben Shapiro succinctly summed up the shock many of us
had at this revelation:
But it gets worse. Not only did Strzok help Clinton in the
midst of her presidential campaign, he may have also let
Clinton aides get away with lying to the FBI.
The Daily Caller’s Chuck Ross reports: “The FBI agent
who was fired from Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s
Russia investigation team for sending anti-Donald Trump
text messages conducted the interviews with two Hillary
Clinton aides accused of giving false statements about
what they knew of the former secretary of state’s private
email server.”
More from the report: “Neither of the Clinton associates,
Cheryl Mills and Huma Abedin, faced legal consequences
for their misleading statements, which they made in
interviews last year with former FBI section chief Peter
Strzok.”
Yet again, Strzok lets the Clinton campaign get away with
committing crimes.

There is something very unseemly to all of this, and it

looks like the Justice Department needs to launch an
investigation of Mueller’s investigation! Just what the hell
is going on inside the FBI?
.

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The FBI's Forrest Gump: Agent Fired From Mueller Probe
For Sending Anti-Trump Texts To His Lover Interviewed
Mike Flynn Before His Guilty Plea AND Huma Abedin And
Cheryl Mills Before Hillary Was Cleared
 A Top FBI Official Who Was Tossed From The Russia Probe Was Behind FBI Director James
Comey's Use Of The Phrase 'Extremely Careless' About Hillary Clinton
 The Phrase Replaced Comey's 'Grossly Negligent' Wording, Which Would Have Mirrored A
Criminal Statute That Clinton Was Never Prosecuted For Violating
 Peter Strzok, The Partisan Agent, Was Also Involved In Questioning Michael Flynn Before He Was
Prosecuted For Lying To The Bureau
 And Strzok Also Helped Interrogate Hillary Clinton Lawyer Cheryl Mills And Top Aide Huma
Abedin, But That Case Produced No Criminal Charges
 Emails Show Mills And Abedin Referring To Clinton's Server, But They Told The FBI They Were
Unaware It Existed Until It Because Public Knowledge
 President Trump Has Tweeted About The Strzok Story, Suggesting Both The Flynn And Clinton
Investigations Were Tainted By Bias
By David Martosko, Us Political Editor For Dailymail.Com
Published: 15:14 EST, 5 December 2017 | Updated: 19:58 EST, 5 December 2017

Strzok, among the top officials investigating Clinton,

changed Comey's description of her conduct from 'grossly
negligent' – language that mirrors the criminal code – to
the softer words 'extremely careless.'

His photograph was revealed by Fox News.

Now it can be revealed that Strzok was also part of the

team that quizzed disgraced former National Security
Advisor Michael Flynn before he pleaded guilty to lying
during that interview.

And he participated in the FBI's sit-down interviews with

Forest Gump: Peter Strzok has been involved in both Trump and two Clinton insiders linked to her email scandal, both of
Clinton-focused probes - and texted his lover anti-Trump messages whom got a free pass despite making statements to agents
that were later challenged by other records.
The FBI agent who was dismissed from special counsel
Robert Mueller's Russia probe for sending his lover anti-
Trump text messages is turning into a Forrest Gump
character who figured in a number of key moments in the
Bureau's recent history.

Peter Strzok was reassigned to the FBI's human resources

department after the text messages between him and FBI
lawyer Lisa Page were uncovered. He was already known
to be the agent who who edited then-Director James
Comey's reprimand of Hillary Clinton for using an
unsecured private email server for classified messages.

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Clinton aide Huma Abedin was interviewed by Strzok, but
he didn't refer her for criminal charges despite proof she
was not forthcoming about what they knew of the
presidential candidate's classified email scandal
And Abedin told agents, they wrote, that she
'did not know that Clinton had a private
server until about a year and a half ago
when it became public knowledge.'

But in emails released by State, Mills and Abedin both

referred to Clinton's server specifically, The Daily Caller
reported Monday.

Then-FBI Director James Comey defended the Clinton

aides' contradictory statements when he testified in a
House Judiciary Committee hearing about six weeks
before the 2016 election.

'Having done many investigations myself,

An FBI agent already under scrutiny for sending anti-
Trump text messages was behind changing James Comey's
(left) description of Hillary Clinton's behavior in regards to
her private email server then went to work for Mueller's
Russia probe
there’s always conflicting recollections of
facts – some of which are central, some of
which are peripheral,' Comey said then.
President Trump railed against Strzok's actions on Sunday,
as the Washington Post and New York Times reported that
his text messages

'expressed anti-Trump sentiments and

other comments that appeared to favor
Clinton.'

ABC News had reported Strzok's departure from the Russia

probe in August, but without offering a reason.

Peter Strzok softened Comey's language on Hillary Now the controversy could taint not one, but two of the
Clinton, interviewed her top aide Cheryl Mills and biggest federal investigations in the last year.
recommended no action on her statements despite them
contradicting what she said elsewhere, but interviewed
Trump's national security adviser Mike Flynn before he
took a deal

The email probe included question-and-answer sessions

with several senior Clinton aides including lawyer Cheryl
Mills and chief of staff Huma Abedin.

And when those two friends-of-Hillary sat down for their

third-degree sessions, Strzok – the partisan anti-Trump
agent – was asking many of the questions.

Mills and Abedin both denied knowing of Clinton's

unorthodox email server setup, according to summaries of
their interviews that the Bureau released last year.

'Mills did not learn Clinton was using a

private server until after Clinton's [State
Department] tenure. Mills stated she was
not even sure she knew what a server was
President Trump latched onto news reports that said FBI
at the time,' one agent's interview notes
agent Peter Strzok was pulled off the Mueller probe after
read.
anti-Trump text messages were found. Strzok was also a

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lead investigator on the Hillary Clinton email probe, with The latter dig was meant for Deputy FBI Director Andrew
Trump now suggesting bias McCabe, whose wife took campaign donations from a
Clinton ally, the outgoing Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe.

The FBI has pointed out that McCabe had no role in the
Clinton investigation until months after his wife's political
campaign had concluded.

But Page, the lawyer who exchanged anti-Trump texts

with Strzok, was on McCabe's staff.

Trump went after Strzok again by writing,

'Report: "ANTI-TRUMP FBI AGENT LED

CLINTON EMAIL PROBE"'
'Tainted (no, very dishonest?) FBI "agent's 'Now it all starts to make sense,' Trump
role in Clinton probe under review,"' Trump said.
tweeted Sunday morning. 'Led Clinton
Email probe. @foxandfriend Clinton money
going to wife of another FBI agent in
charge.'
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 Turkey Threatens To Ax Diplomatic
Ties With Israel If US Recognizes Jerusalem As Capital
Published Time: 5 Dec, 2017 10:32 Edited Time: 6 Dec, 2017 13:12
© Murad Sezer / Reuters
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Tuesday
that US recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital would
be a “red line” for Muslims. He also warned such a step
would force Ankara to cut diplomatic ties with the Jewish
state.
“This could go as far as cutting our
diplomatic relations with Israel. You cannot
take such a step,” Erdogan told a
parliamentary group meeting of his ruling
Justice and Development Party.
The Turkish president also said he would call for a
meeting with the Organization for Islamic Cooperation to
oppose any move recognizing Jerusalem as Israel’s capital.
He said the measure would not only be a violation of
international law, but also
“a big blow to the conscience of the
humanity.”
US President Donald Trump was expected to weigh in on
the sensitive foreign policy matter Monday, but public
warnings from allies and private phone calls between
world leaders led to the White House delaying its decision.
Turkey has been a vocal critic of the proposed move.
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“If the [current] status of Jerusalem is
changed and another step is taken... that
would be a major catastrophe,” Deputy
Prime Minister Bekir Bozdag said during a
televised press conference on Monday, as
quoted by AFP. “It would completely
destroy the fragile peace process in the
region, and lead to new conflicts, new
disputes and new unrest.”
The decision has been postponed once already by the new
administration.
“The president has been clear on this
issue… It’s not a matter of if, it’s a matter of
when,” White House spokesman Hogan
Gidley said.
Israel regards Jerusalem as its capital, although the
international consensus is that the holy city’s status should
be determined in peace talks with the Palestinians.
Palestinian leaders hope to claim the eastern part of the
city as their own capital.
Israel has long insisted that Jerusalem is its capital, but all
foreign embassies are located in Tel Aviv. In October,
Trump temporarily waived a law requiring the US to
relocate its embassy to Jerusalem. The Jerusalem Embassy
Act was passed during Bill Clinton’s first term in 1995, but
has been waived every six months by US presidents ever
since.
Turkish-Israeli relations have faced setbacks in the past. In
2011, Turkey expelled the Israeli ambassador to Ankara
and downgraded diplomatic relations after Israel refuses to
apologize for the deaths of eight Turkish citizens and a
Turkish-American during a raid on a ship carrying aid to
Palestinians in Gaza. Full diplomatic relations were not
restored until 2016. More recently, Erdogan threatened to
cut ties with the Jewish state over its support for an
independent Kurdish state.
 Latest Revelations Make The Entire
‘Collusion’ Probe Look Like A Partisan Hit
By Post Editorial Board
December 5, 2017 | 6:48pm
So Peter Strzok wasn’t just a top investigator for special
counsel Robert Mueller until he was axed for anti-Trump
and pro-Clinton bias: He was also a major player in the
Hillary email probe and the FBI work that led to the
“collusion” investigation.
And Mueller and the FBI both dragged their feet on
sharing key info about all this with Congress.
Including the news that Strzok was the one who changed
then-FBI chief Jim Comey’s draft language on Clinton’s
use of that private server from “grossly negligent” to
“extremely careless” in the final version.
That’s huge, because the statute specifies that gross
negligence in the handling of classified info is itself a
crime, whatever the intent — though Comey declared that
Clinton shouldn’t face prosecution precisely because she
had no “intent” to break the law.
Strzok also conducted the FBI interviews of Clinton and
her top aides, Cheryl Mills and Huma Abedin, in the email
probe.
.
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More, he was reportedly one of the major FBI figures
urging investigations on the basis of the “Steele dossier” of
Russian-sourced scurrilous anti-Trump allegations, which
we now know was commissioned by the Clinton
campaign.
More, he signed the documents that opened the ensuing
“collusion” probe. And he led the FBI interview of Gen.
Mike Flynn, in which Flynn told the lies that eventually
forced him out as Trump’s national security adviser, and
for which he’s now pleaded guilty in a deal with Mueller.
Meanwhile, Mills and Abedin’s testimony in their
interviews has been shown false in one major regard:
Contrary to their denials, each had been well aware of
Clinton’s private server — they had to deal with the office
fallout whenever it went down. Unlike Flynn, though, they
never faced charges for lying to federal investigators.
Which makes President Trump’s request to Comey to go
easy on Flynn look reasonable enough.
The public doesn’t know just how egregious Strzok’s bias
was, and won’t until the release of his texts with his
mistress, an FBI lawyer who (sigh) was also on Mueller’s
team.
But as things stand, it now looks like the fix was well and
truly in on the Hillary probe. Far worse, it also looks like
the “collusion” probe was a partisan hit from the start —
which undermines the basis for Mueller’s own
investigation.
What a mess.
 Bozell & Graham Column:
Brian Ross Should Be Fired
By Brent Bozell And Tim Graham
December 5, 2017 10:51 PM EST
When you’re the source for “breaking news” but it turns
out to be “faking news,” you’re in trouble.
ABC “senior investigative correspondent”
Brian Ross greeted Gen. Michael Flynn’s
plea deal with Robert Mueller by claiming
Flynn is “prepared to testify that President
Trump, as a candidate, Donald Trump,
ordered him — directed him to make
contact with the Russians which contradicts
all that Donald Trump has said to this
point.”
It was a nuclear explosion. Within minutes the stock
market plunged 350 points.
It quickly became clear that it was flat wrong. Later, ABC
News added on the evening news what they
disingenuously called a “clarification” – actually, Trump
directed Flynn to contact the Russians after the election,
which not only isn’t scandalous, it’s completely expected
for a new president. After more uproar, they finally found
it to be a “serious error” and suspended Ross for four
weeks without pay.
It’s a classic journalistic mistake to try and be first to
report something before it’s verified. But in the Trump era,
when liberals believe the president is a uniquely dangerous
threat to America – even the world -- any news that could
lead to speculation about Trump’s impeachment or
resignation is like catnip. Journalists are prone to over-
hype anything that could spell “The End.”
This suspension might be an adequate punishment….if
Ross hasn’t made a long line of whopper mistakes.
Conservatives remember the movie-theater mass shooting
in Aurora, Colorado in 2012 and how Ross came on in
“breaking news” mode to announce there was a “Jim
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Holmes” on a list of Colorado Tea Party Patriots…as if
that was a perfect starting point to find mass shooters. It
wasn’t. But there are more.
 In 2001, Ross claimed the anthrax used in deadly
attacks after 9/11 in Washington and New York was
coated with bentonite, a chemical compound found
only in biological weapons made by Saddam Hussein’s
henchmen in Iraq. Former Bush press secretary Ari
Fleischer remembers “I explicitly told ABC News not to
go with the anthrax story because it was wrong. Brian
Ross went with it anyway -- and one week later issued
a murky, hard to understand correction.”
 In the first month of the Iraq War in 2003, Ross
reported Saddam’s cousin Ali Hassan Al Majid (or
“Chemical Ali”) had been killed. Several media outlets
forwarded that report. Six months later, U.S. officials
announced they had him in custody.
 In 2006, Ross claimed Pakistani officials had arrested
Matiur Rehman, an al-Qaeda explosives expert who
kept an “official” list of terrorist recruits, and could lead
to Osama bin Laden. Pakistanis denounced the report
as ‘fictitious.” ABC consultant Alexis Debat had warned
ABC it was not true a day after the report had initially
been broadcast.
 Also in 2006, Ross breathlessly relayed that then-
House Speaker Dennis Hastert was under FBI
investigation for bribery in the Jack Abramoff lobbying
scandal. “Justice Department officials describe the 64-
year-old Illinois Republican as very much in the mix of
the corruption investigation.” This prompted the Justice
Department to deny there was any federal probe of
Hastert, who demanded a retraction and threatened to
sue ABC.
None of these whoppers ever led to any suspension of
Ross, who’s been at ABC since 1994. His liberal
colleagues have given him six Peabody Awards and six
George Polk investigative reporting awards, so his
reputation inside the network was apparently unscathed by
his large errors.
It’s a little bizarre these days that sexual harassers like
Charlie Rose and Matt Lauer are dumped abruptly, while
Brian Williams has an hour-long nightly show on MSNBC
and Brian Ross gets a slap on the wrist. These supposed
guardians against “fake news” look like fact-mangling
isn’t really a serious offense. Brian Ross should be fired.
 Trump’s Potential Al-Quds
Move Sparks Global Opposition
Tue Dec 5, 2017 11:26AM

that Ankara could cut ties with Tel Aviv if the US formally
recognized al-Quds as Israel’s “capital.”

A picture taken on December 4, 2017 shows a general view of the

skyline of the old city of Jerusalem al-Quds, with the Dome of the
Rock (L) in the Aqsa Compound visible on the left. (By AFP)
US President Donald Trump’s expected
declaration of Jerusalem al-Quds as
Israel’s “capital” has drawn opposition
from various countries and international
bodies, including Turkey and the
European Union (EU).
Trump reportedly plans to recognize Jerusalem al-Quds as
the “capital” of Israel in a speech on Wednesday in an
apparent bid to justify his pledge to move the US embassy
from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem al-Quds.
A picture taken on November 19, 2017 shows a general view of the
Arab League headquarters during a meeting in the Egyptian capital,
Cairo. (By AFP)
“Mr. Trump, Jerusalem [al-Quds] is the red
line of Muslims. It is a violation of
international law to take a decision
supporting Israel while the Palestinian
society’s wounds are still bleeding,”
Erdogan said at a parliamentary meeting of
his ruling AK Party.

In reaction, Arab League Secretary General Ahmed Aboul

Gheit on Tuesday described the potential relocation of the
US embassy or the recognition of al-Quds as Israel’s
“capital” as “dangerous,” warning that the measures would
have repercussions across the region.

He told Arab government delegates that they had decided

to meet in Cairo “given the danger of this matter, if it were
to happen, and the possible negative consequences not
only for the situation in Palestine but also for the Arab and
Islamic region.”
Aboul Gheit also urged Washington not to take any
measures that would change the legal and political status
of the holy city.
Turkey threatens to cut ties with Israel over al-Quds
Meanwhile, Turkish President Reccep Tayyip Erdogan has
described the move as a “red line” for Muslims, warning
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan gestures as he gives a
speech during an AK Party’s group meeting at the Grand National
Assembly of Turkey in Ankara, on December 5, 2017. (Photo by
AFP)
“This can go as far as severing Turkey’s
ties with Israel. I am warning the United
States not to take such a step, which will
deepen the problems in the region,” he
said.
Palestinians threaten to stop contacts with US

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A diplomatic adviser to Palestinian President Mahmoud
Abbas also said the Palestinian leadership would “stop
contacts” with Washington if Trump declared the
recognition.
Majdi Khaldi said on Tuesday that the US would lose
credibility as a Mideast mediator if Trump went ahead
with the move.
Macron expresses concern
Separately, French President Emmanuel Macron has
expressed his concern over the potential US move during a
phone call with Trump.
French President Emmanuel Macron addresses the media following a
meeting with his Bulgarian counterpart at the Elysee palace in Paris,
on December 4, 2017. (Photo by AFP)
“The French president has expressed his
concern at the possibility of the United
States unilaterally designating Jerusalem
[al-Quds]” as the capital of Israel, the
Elysee palace said in a statement, referring
to a Monday phone call between the two.
Macron stressed that any such decision must be
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“within the framework of negotiations
between Israelis and Palestinians.”
The entire Jerusalem al-Quds is currently under Israel’s
control, while the regime also claims the city’s eastern
part, which hosts the third holiest Muslim site.
The city has been designated as “occupied” under
international law since the 1967 Arab War, which
Palestinians want as the capital of their future state.
EU warns of ‘serious repercussions’
The European Union (EU) also warned of the “serious
repercussions” of the potential US move.
EU foreign policy director Federica Mogherini’s office
said in a statement on Tuesday,
“Since early this year, the European Union
was clear in its expectation that there can
be reflection on the consequences that any
decision or unilateral action affecting
Jerusalem [al-Quds]’s status could have.”
It warned that such moves “might have serious
repercussions on public opinion in large parts of the
world.”
The statement also called for focusing on
“the efforts to restart the peace process
and avoiding any action that would
undermine such efforts.”
 About That Lynch-Clinton Tarmac Meeting - Have You
Seen These 29 Documents Previously
Withheld By The DOJ?
Tim Brown
December 5, 2017
Many are still very suspicious about the infamous
tarmac meeting prior to the 2016 elections involving
former President Bill Clinton and former Attorney
General Loretta Lynch. However, at the end of
November, government watchdog Judicial Watch
released 29 pages of FBI Clinton-Lynch tarmac
meeting documents that were previously withheld by
the Justice Department.
The FBI originally informed Judicial Watch they did
not locate any records related to the tarmac meeting.
However, in a related case, the Justice Department
located emails in which Justice Department officials
communicated with the FBI and wrote that they had
communicated with the FBI, Judicial Watch found.
As a result, by letter dated August 10, 2017, from the
FBI stated, "Upon further review, we subsequently
determined potentially responsive documents may
exist. As a result, your [FOIA] request has been
reopened."
According to the documents obtained by Judicial
Watch via a Freedom of Information Act request, the
FBI seemed to be more concerned about leaks than
the actual meeting.
Judicial Watch reports:
The new FBI documents show FBI officials were
concerned about a leak that Bill Clinton delayed his
aircraft taking off in order to “maneuver” a meeting
with the attorney general. The resulting story in
the Observer is seemingly confirmed and causes a
flurry of emails about the source of the article. FBI
official(s) write “we need to find that guy” and that
the Phoenix FBI office was contacted “in an attempt
to stem any further damage.” Another FBI official,
working on AG Lynch’s security detail, suggests
instituting non-disclosure agreements. The names of
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the emails authors are redacted. There are no
documents showing concern about the meeting itself.
The FBI originally informed Judicial Watch
they could not locate any records related to the
tarmac meeting.  However, in a related FOIA lawsuit,
the Justice Department located emails in which
Justice Department officials communicated with the
FBI and wrote that they had communicated with the
FBI.  As a result, by letter dated August 10, 2017,
from the FBI stated, “Upon further review, we
subsequently determined potentially responsive
documents may exist. As a result, your [FOIA]
request has been reopened…”
On June 27, 2016, Attorney General Loretta
Lynch met with former President Bill Clinton on
board a parked plane at Sky Harbor International
Airport in Phoenix, Arizona. The meeting occurred
during the then-ongoing investigation of Mrs.
Clinton’s email server, and only a few days before
she was interviewed the Justice Department and FBI.
(Judicial Watch filed a request on June 30 that the
U.S. Department of Justice Office of the Inspector
General investigate that meeting.)
“These new FBI documents show the FBI was more
concerned about a whistleblower who told the truth
about the infamous Clinton-Lynch tarmac meeting
than the scandalous meeting itself,” said Judicial
Watch President Tom Fitton.
“The documents show the FBI worked to make sure
no more details of the meeting would be revealed to
the American people," he added.
"No wonder the FBI didn’t turn these documents over
until Judicial Watch caught the agency red-handed
hiding them," he continued. "These new documents
confirm the urgent need to reopen the Clinton email
scandal and criminally investigate the resulting
Obama FBI/DOJ sham investigation.”
The meeting occurred just before former FBI
Director James Comey held the July 5, 2016, press
conference in which he announced that no charges
would be filed against Hillary Clinton, even though
she clearly violated federal law with her private email
server.
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Where is the outcry over this clear coverup of the
meeting? Oh, that's right, we're still looking for
evidence of a Trump administration/Russia collusion
instead of investigating the real Russian colluder who
committed a crime against the people of the united
States.
 Fmr Rep David Stockman On Flynn:
FBI Interview Was 'Blatant Entrapment'
Chris Menahan
Dec. 05, 2017
If you were a Martian visitor just disembarked from of one
of Elon Musk’s rocket ships and were therefore uninfected
by earth-based fake news, the culprits in Washington’s
witch-hunt de jure would be damn obvious.
They include John Brennan, Jim Comey, Sally Yates, Peter
Strzok and a passel of deep state operatives – all of whom
baldly abused their offices. After Brennan had concocted
the whole Russian election meddling meme to sully the
Donald’s shocking election win, the latter three holdovers
– functioning as a political fifth column in the new
Administration – set a perjury trap designed to snare Mike
Flynn as a first step in relitigating and reversing the voters’
verdict.
The smoking gun on their guilt is so flamingly obvious
that the ability of the Trump-hating media to ignore it is
itself a wonder to behold.
After all, anyone fresh off Elon’s rocket ship would learn
upon even cursory investigation of the matter that the
National Security Agency (NSA) intercepts electronically
every single communication of the Russian Ambassador
with any person on US soil – whether by email, text or
phone call.
So the clear-minded visitor’s simple question would be:
What do the transcripts say?
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In fact, a Martian visitor would also quickly understand
that the entire world – friend, rival, foe and enemy, alike –
already knows of NSA’s giant digital spying operation
owing to Snowden’s leaks, and that therefore there are no
"sources and methods" on the SIGINT (signals
intelligence) front to protect.
Accordingly, the disinterested Martian would undoubtedly
insist: Declassify the NSA intercepts and publish them on
Facebook (and, for old timers, on the front page of the New
York Times) so that the truth would be known to all.
Of course, that would punch a deep hole in the entire
RussiaGate witchhunt because NSA, in fact, did record
Flynn’s late December conversations with Russian
Ambassador Kislyak. And there was not a single word in
them that related to alleged campaign collusion or
otherwise inappropriate communications by the incoming
national security adviser to a newly-elected President who
was three-weeks from inauguration.
Indeed, as explained below, Mueller has effectively told us
that Flynn’s communications with Kislyak were clean as a
whistle.
Accordingly, there was no reason
whatsoever – as in none, nichts, nada
and nugatory, too – for the FBI’s
January 24th interview of Flynn. Four
days after the inauguration, Acting
Attorney General Sally Yates and the
FBI were wasting the time of the new
President’s national security advisor for
no earthly reason except to administer a
"gotcha quiz" on what they knew from
the transcripts to be completely
innocent conversations with the
Russian Ambassador.
The content of the calls was entirely about pending policy
matters. That is, the UN security council resolution
condemning Israel’s settlements policy and Obama’s
belligerent new anti-Russia sanctions. With respect to both
of these matters, the incoming President had a publicly
known policy position different from the incumbent’s, and
about which his team was completely entitled to
communicate with official foreign ambassadors.
So the January 24th interview itself was a Nixonesque
abuse of the nation’s law enforcement machinery to strike
at a political enemy – albeit a mighty legitimate one who
had just become occupant of the Oval Office by will of the
American people.
These new-style Deep State "plumbers" who openly broke
into the White House that day, in fact, conducted a blatant
entrapment exercise with malice aforethought. Its only
possible purpose was to bait Flynn into contradicting the
word-for-word transcripts in the FBI’s possession –
intercepts which had been illegally "unmasked" by
Brennan’s political witch-hunt for Russian election
malefactors.
And we use the "illegal" word purposefully to underscore
that the only ultimate justice here is for Obama’s rogue
CIA director to be locked-up.
Brennan’s post-election leakathon of phony Russian
meddling accusations was so threadbare of valid national
security evidence that it even included falsehoods from the
completely discredited and ludicrous Steele dossier –
which was paid for by the DNC and Clinton campaign.
And it culminated in the evidence-free screed of January
6th that was nosily presented to Obama as an intelligence
community’s assessment but was actually a hatchet-job
authored by Brennan and a hand-picked silo of anti-Trump
analysts and fiction-writers like the now outed Peter Strzok
of the FBI.
Issued under cover of the CIA, FBI, NSA and Director of
National Intelligence (the confirmed liar, James Clapper),
this document amounted to a sweeping abuse of the
national security apparatus in furtherance of purely
political purposes and vengeance against Deep State
critics. It capped a 5-month long, Brennan led campaign of
naked political exploitation of the national security
machinery that made the Nixon White House look like a
Boy Scout Jamboree.
As we will demonstrate below, Brennan never had hard
proof of Trump campaign collusion with the Russians to
influence the election because if it existed it would have
leaked in full "smoking gun" splendor long ago.
We are referring here, again, to NSA digital intercept
evidence that Russian state actors used the internet to
remotely hack the Podesta and DNC servers in order to
steal and then disseminate their politically embarrassing
contents and thereby "influence" the US election in
Trump’s favor.
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Yet aside from the asinine claims about Russian troll farms
and trivial amounts of Facebook ads and other such social
media monkey business, that’s all she wrote. There has
been no other tangible allegations of election "meddling"
that rise to even minimal plausibility.
And you don’t have to be fresh off Musk’s Martian rocket
ship to recognize it; you can google it yourself, but nothing
– we mean – nothing comes up on the screen.
Yet as to the DNC emails, there has already been a
compelling demonstration by ex-NSA super SIGNET
sleuth, William Binney, that the DNC emails were
downloaded on a memory stick by a staff insider from his
own computer, not remotely hacked by Russian trolls.
That’s because the download speed of 22.7 megabytes per
second embedded in the Guccifer publication of the DNC
email trove was impossible to achieve from Russia or
Romania or anywhere else outside of the DNC offices in
July 2016 when the "hack" allegedly occurred. The highest
average ISP speeds in the US during the first-half of 2016
were achieved by Xfinity and Cox Communications at
15.6 megabytes per second and 14.7 megabytes per
second, respectively, while average speeds on US systems
were in the order of 11 megabytes per second.
In short, the embarrassing DNC emails about election-
rigging against Bernie Sanders by the Democratic Party
apparatus were almost surely sucked out of the DNC’s
servers by an insider with a thumb drive (which can
download at the indicated speeds), not some nefarious
Kremlin operative 3,000 miles away.
And as for Podesta’s emails, the Donald was surely right
all along: Any 400-pound slob on a couch could have
hacked an email account protected by a password called,
well, "password".
Stated differently, if either of these email
troves were "hacked" by remote
Russian agents the digital footprint of
that action is stored at one of the
massive NSA server farms.
Accordingly, it would have been unmasked at the get-go
by Brennan’s hand-picked apparatchiks, thereby giving
rise to another virtual certainty: Namely, such NSA
intercepts, if they actually existed, would be such
politically radioactive "proof" of Trump collusion that they
would have been leaked from the endlessly porous US
government long ago.
Moreover, any such digital evidence – which must exist or
there was never a hack in the first place – would have
drastically foreshortened Mueller’s investigation, too. That
is, Mueller would have gotten NSA’s digital logs the day
he opened up shop in May and would have had no other
investigative task than to track down any digital evidence
of Trump campaign involvement with such a Russian
hacking operation.
We say "digital evidence" because unless one of Trump’s
inner circle traveled to Moscow to secretly collude with
the Kremlin in an off-the-grid manner on the DNC/Podesta
hacks, NSA would also have the intercepts to prove it. To
wit, the schedules, phone calls, text messages and emails
of the Trump family and inner circle are all out there in the
NSA server farms. Every one of them.
Were there a shred of evidence on these digital logs
proving or even hinting at Trump campaign complicity in
the alleged DNC/Podesta hacks – it would not have been
overlooked by the Brennan’s inquisitors; and it would have
been dispatched by Mueller’s gunslingers in no time at all.
So let’s be clear on the matter. The Donald is the ultimate
seat-of-the-pants one man show who essentially relies
upon his four family members (Donald Jr., Eric, Ivanka
and Jared Kushner) and a few trusted advisors. Yet none of
them were sent to Russia during the relevant time frame –
and had they colluded in any other way Mueller would
have nailed them for any untoward digitized interactions
with the Russians in a heartbeat.
That’s right. Anyone disembarking from Elon’s rocket
ship could also google the fact that only two people –
Carter Page and George Papadopoulos – even remotely
involved with the Trump campaign went to Russia or tried
to go there.
But Carter Page was a no-count volunteer who went to
Moscow on his own dime and who never even met Trump.
Likewise, Baby George Papadopoulos was a 29-year old
kid who got drafted onto Trump’s foreign policy advisory
panel from, apparently, the phone book when the GOP
foreign policy establishment boycotted to nearly a
man/women the Trump campaign prior to the convention.
Accordingly, Baby George’s claim to fame is that he
appeared in exactly one photo with the Donald on the day
the foreign policy advisory committee was announced in
order to appease an endlessly nagging gaggle in the press
and among Trump’s legions of opponents.
If Papadopoulos had done anything more serious than sit
for a photo op designed to prove Trump got his foreign
policy advise other than from "watching TV", as the
Donald had previously averred, his guilty plea would have
hinted at it.
But, no, what Mueller’s high priced legal gunslingers got
him on was – again – technical perjury. So as we review
Mike Flynn’s alleged crimes just recall that the Baby
George’s sin was to say he meet some dufus UK professor
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– who was also a phony expert on Russian affairs – before
Papadopoulos was announced as a foreign policy advisor
on March 19, 2016.
As it happened, he actually meet him about a week earlier
and was therefore truthful with the FBI. But these modern-
day, hairsplitting Torquemada’s nailed him for the "crime"
of not mentioning that he knew on March 10 that he was to
be appointed to the Trump committee, and that knowledge
somehow colored his March 15 meeting with this no-count
English go-between.
You can’t make this stuff up!
In any event, how do we know that every word on the
Flynn transcripts were perfectly legal and appropriate and
did not in the slightest manner compromise so-called
national security?
Simple. Mueller’s "Statement Of The
Offense" tells us so.
In the case of the Russia sanctions conversation Flynn was
trying to make peace, and in the case of the UN censure
resolution against Israel he was trying to make trouble. But
the latter is what presidents and their advisors do all the
time, and the former is a wonderful idea that Washington
should try far more often.
In fact, just consider the words of Mueller’s charge:
"….FLYNN falsely stated that he did not
ask Russia’s Ambassador to the United
States ("Russian Ambassador") to refrain
from escalating in response to sanctions
that the United States has imposed against
Russia. FLYNN also falsely stated that he
did not remember a follow-up conversation
in which the Russian Ambassador stated
that Russia had chosen to moderate its
response to those sanctions as a result of
FLYNN’s request.
In fact, this criminal charge actually narrates the actual
tick-tock of a more peaceful world struggling to be born in
real time.
Accordingly, Mueller charges that on December 28th the
Russian Ambassador first called Flynn after the Obama
White House announced another spiteful round of petty
sanctions against Putin associates.
The incoming national security advisor, in turn, discussed
"what if anything, to communicate to the
Russian Ambassador" with a senior official
of the Trump transition; and according to
 Mueller’s criminal complaint, the two
agreed that "members of the Presidential
Transition Team a Mar-a-Lago did not want
Russia to escalate the situation".
Good for them!
There upon the very same day Flynn dialed-up Kislyak
and, as the felony charging document contends,
"requested that Russia not escalate the
situation and only respond to the U.S.
Sanctions in a reciprocal manner."
Self-evidently, the wheels of peace began to turn because
the complaint notes that on December 30
"Russian President Vladimir Putin released
a statement indicating that Russia would
not take retaliatory measures in response
to the US Sanctions at the time".
Indeed, Russia didn’t merely take "reciprocal" actions, as
Flynn requested, but did absolutely nothing at all. Even
more progress!
Then on the last day of the year, Kislyak called Flynn back
and
"informed him that Russia had chosen not
to retaliate in response to FLYNN’s
request".
And then there is just white space in the Russia-related
section of the charging document. Not a single word or
hint that the Kremlin was paying off the Trump
Administration for nefarious promises it had made in
return for Russia’s campaign help.
For crying out loud, that white space itself proves there
was not so much as a single clause or veiled code word in
the transcripts about pre-election collusion or other
untoward arrangements between the Trump campaign and
the Kremlin – or the FBI plumbers would have asked
about it on January 24, Flynn would have lied, and it
would be in the plea deal.
Indeed, the possibility that there is something untoward in
the Flynn intercepts which Mueller chose to keep under
wraps and did not stipulate in the plea is preposterous in
the extreme.
After more than one year of investigation that has
produced exactly zero hard evidence of pre-election
collusion it is beyond impossible that at long last Mueller
would have abjured. That is, refrained from putting a grain
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of content into what anyone getting off Musk’s Mars
rocket can see is an utterly bogus Russia meddling case.
At the end of the day, Mueller’s perjury did occur in the
context of a crime. But the felony was the Brennan-led
Russian meddling inquisition.
Especially after the shocking result on November 8, the
Deep State and its collaborators and shills in the
Democratic Party, official Washington and the mainstream
media were not about to be rebuked by the unwashed
demos of Flyover America.
Indeed, if you are not caught up in the RussiaGate hysteria
and witch-hunt, it’s as plain as the noise on your face
To be sure, the perjury trap sprung on Flynn was justified
by Hillary partisan, Sally Yates, on the grounds that
Flynn’s alleged "lie" to the Vice President left him
vulnerable to "blackmail" by the Russians.
What undiluted hogwash!
The best poker player on today’s international stage, Vlad
Putin, finally gets a US President with a rational attitude
about Russia, and he plans to burn him day one?
C’mon. Whether she intended it or not or had gamed it out
thoroughly, the history records will show that the
sanctimonious Hillary partisan and politically ambitious,
Sally Yates, then and there killed the best chance for peace
on earth since the Soviet Union fell in 1991.
Sally Yates, James Comey and John Brennan are the real
criminals here.
As Justin Raimondo so eloquently put it:
Think about it, folks: both the US and the
Russians possess enough nuclear
firepower to destroy all life on earth several
times over. This sword of Damocles is
hanging over us by a thread, just as it
loomed large during the last cold war with
Moscow. It’s a machinery of annihilation
that is set on hair-trigger alert, and any
number of events could unleash it: a
miscalculation, a foolish bluff, a
misunderstanding, a technical glitch, a
showdown similar to the Cuban missile
crisis. All that stands between us and utter
extinction is the hope that this apparatus of
death can be restrained by mutual
agreement. Bravo to the Trump
administration for making peace a priority.
If this is now a crime, and even “treason,”
as the mouth-breathers of #TheResistance
 would have it, well then let the Washington
Inquisition make the most of it.
The point was also underscored cogently by Andrew
McCarthy of the National Review.
As McCarthy argues below, differences on foreign policy
are essentially now being criminalized; and the Donald’s
justified desire to shutdown the Brennan-inspired political
witch-hunt called RussiaGate is being falsely characterized
as obstruction of justice rather than what it actually is – an
effort to prevent the Deep State’s insidious assault on
American democracy from going any further.
While all that plays out, though, behold the
frightening thing Mueller’s investigation has
become: a criminalization of politics. In the
new order of things, policy differences are
the grist for investigation and prosecution.
Nevertheless, Trump’s victory caused
consternation in the Obama administration
for two reasons. First, and most obviously,
Obama did not want his policies reversed.
Second, neither Obama nor his party could
abide a judgment of history holding that the
election of Trump, the bane of their
existence, was a result of the American
people’s rejection of the Obama agenda
and of Hillary Clinton, the hapless
candidate nominated by Democrats to
carry that agenda forward.
…….The ongoing Mueller probe is not a
good-faith investigation of suspected
espionage or other crime. It is the
exploitation of the executive’s intelligence-
gathering and law-enforcement powers in
order to (a) criminalize Trump political
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policies with which the Obama
administration disagreed and (b) frame
Clinton’s electoral defeat as the product of
a traitorous scheme rather than a rejection
of Democratic-party priorities.
Finally, we couldn’t agree more with McCarthy that
General Flynn is a very foolish man. He was not required
to speak to the FBI when agents came to interview him on
January 24.
Moreover, as the former head of the Defense Intelligence
Agency he surely knew that the FBI would have been
monitoring Kislyak and that the FBI had recordings of the
conversations the agents wanted to ask him about.
That he agreed to submit to the interview anyway, and then
to lie, is surely one of the stupidest acts coming out of
official Washington that we can recall from 47 years of
observation. But perhaps it does explain why America’s
legions of puffed-up generals have been such abysmal
failures for onwards of a half-century now.
So it is fair enough to say that Flynn has no one to blame
but himself, and that a person of such poor judgment
should never have been chosen to be the president’s
principal national security adviser in the first place.
Then again, the American people should also understand
why Flynn has gone down and why the Donald’s political
scalp is fairly waiting to be lofted from the Washington
Monument.
To wit, the Deep State has turned its own crimes during
and after the 2016 election into nothing less than a coup d’
etat against American democracy.
 Flashback: Wapo Reported In JANUARY That FBI Found
“Nothing Illicit” After Listening To Flynn’s Calls With
Russian Ambassador
By JD Heyes
Tuesday, December 05, 2017
The reasons why Michael Flynn, President Donald
Trump’s first national security advisor, lied to FBI agents
who interviewed him as part of special counsel Robert
Mueller’s probe into alleged Trump campaign “collusion”
with Russia is, thus far, a mystery.
But one thing was made clear more than 10 months ago:
No one at the FBI believed that Flynn had done anything
wrong as it pertained to his contacts with Russian
government officials as part of Trump transition team.
On Jan. 23, just a few days after Trump
was inaugurated, The Washington Post
reported that FBI agents reviewed
intercepts of communications between
Flynn and Russia’s Ambassador to the
United States Sergei Kislyak the previous
month but found nothing improper,
illegal or illicit about the conversations.
Nothing.
As the Post noted:
The FBI in late December reviewed
intercepts of communications between the
Russian ambassador to the United States
and retired Lt. Gen. Michael T. Flynn —
national security adviser to then-President-
elect Trump — but has not found any
evidence of wrongdoing or illicit ties to the
Russian government, U.S. officials said.
The calls were picked up as part of routine
electronic surveillance of Russian officials
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and agents in the United States, which is
one of the FBI’s responsibilities, according
to the U.S. officials, who spoke on the
condition of anonymity to discuss
counterintelligence operations.
Remember, this story appeared just as the “Russian
collusion” narrative was swinging into full gear,
compliments of the vanquished Hillary Clinton, former
Obama administration officials, and the Left-wing
Democratic Party. The purpose of the narrative was to
‘explain’ how it was that a ‘carnival barker reality TV
host’ could possibly have managed to beat ‘the smartest
women and most qualified presidential candidate ever’
(well, except Obama, of course).
You see, the Left was claiming that Trump
couldn’t win on his own, not with that
nativist, white nationalist platform of
“America first” and “Make America Great
Again.” He had to have had help, and the
only ones capable of lending that kind of
assistance was Mother Russia.
Except that in the months since no one has brought forth
any proof that is true. And despite the fact that Mueller
managed to get a guilty plea out of Flynn for lying to
federal agents, he isn’t any closer to proving the
“collusion” narrative.
In addition to the Post’s revelations that Flynn didn’t do or
say anything wrong or incriminating, the paper also
reported this:
Although Flynn’s contacts with Russian
Ambassador Sergey Kislyak were listened
to, Flynn himself is not the active target of
an investigation, U.S. officials said. The
Wall Street Journal reported Sunday that
U.S. counterintelligence agents had
investigated the communications between
Flynn and Kislyak.
So how does someone go from not being an “active target
of an investigation” to being an “active target” of a special
counsel investigation, if it’s already been learned that he
didn’t do anything or say anything wrong?
There are other questions about all of this as well that still
defy explanation. For instance, we know why U.S.
intelligence officials were spying on Kislyak; he’s a
foreign diplomat of a competitor nation and we spy on all
diplomats from competitor (and even non-competitor)
nations. They spy on our diplomats, too. (Related: Trump:
Dems ‘made up’ Russian interference claim.)
But the thing is, Mueller, as special
counsel, had access to the transcripts
and/or audio recordings of Flynn’s
conversation with the Russian diplomat;
why, then, would he still go after him?
What’s more, Flynn had to know he would be monitored
when he spoke to Kislyak; after all, Flynn is a former
three-star Army general who ran Obama’s Defense
Intelligence Agency for three years and had top
intelligence clearance.
He knew the Russian would be
monitored, and thus, he would be
monitored.
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He would never put himself in harm’s way by doing,
offering, or saying something illegal in that situation.
Between the Post’s previous reporting and the fact that
Flynn would never have allowed himself to get into a legal
jackpot involving violations of nationals security statutes,
his lying to FBI agents becomes all the more strange. Time
will tell what’s really going on.
But we do know this:
Flynn as part of the “Russian collusion”
narrative is bogus, as the Post told us
months ago. And in fact, as The New York
Times reported a week before last year’s
election — when everyone thought Hillary
Clinton would become the next president-
elect — that no evidence of collusion
between the Trump campaign and Russia
existed.
Still think this Mueller investigation is really about
‘collusion?’
 Mccarthy: Zero Evidence Of
Conspiracy Between Trump, Russia
Former Federal Prosecutor Says Mueller Is On 'Fishing
Expedition' To Find Criminal Behavior
Greg Corombos
December 5, 2017
Former federal prosecutor Andrew C. McCarthy says there
is still no discernible evidence of any conspiracy between
Russia and the Trump campaign, and he said special
counsel Robert Mueller is effectively on a “fishing
expedition” to find criminal behavior of some kind.
McCarthy is also explaining what a Trump attorney likely
meant when he suggesting the president cannot obstruct
justice.
Mueller, a former FBI director, was originally tasked with
an open-ended counterintelligence investigation to
determine whether any outside forces interfered with the
2016 presidential campaign. However, Mueller’s mandate
from Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein came with
no formal limits.
McCarthy told WND and Radio America that Mueller’s
task was the opposite of how prosecutions normally
function.
“The usual thing in the United States is that
there’s a crime, so we assign a
prosecutor,” he explained. “Here, there’s no
crime. We assign a prosecutor. We tell him
to go find a crime.”
And thus far, McCarthy said Mueller hasn’t found what he
was hired to find.
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“He’s gone about his investigation as a kind
of broad fishing expedition within those
very broad parameters,” McCarthy said. “If
they had a crime that was the predicate for
this investigation, it would have been
conducted a different way. But he wasn’t
directed to investigate a crime. He was
given this very broad mandate.”
The investigation is receiving enormous coverage in the
wake of Mueller indicting former National Security
Adviser Michael Flynn for making false statements to the
FBI in January.
McCarthy said many people assume this is a sign that
bigger charges are coming for the likes of Jared Kushner,
Donald Trump Jr., and possibly even the president himself
for colluding with Russia. He said that assumption is based
on a flawed understanding of law.
“Collusion is kind of a loaded word. All it
means is concerted activity. What
prosecutors care about is conspiracy, not
collusion. Conspiracy is an agreement to
violate a particular federal law. In this case,
the law that they’re most likely talking about
is some form of espionage by the Russians
targeting the 2016 election,” McCarthy
said.
“I never thought they had a case on that. I
haven’t seen anything to suggest it. What
we’ve seen with the three sets of charges
is quite the opposite.”
Listen to the WND/Radio America interview with Andrew
C. McCarthy
He said from Paul Manafort and Rick Gates to George
Papadopoulos and now Michael Flynn, there is still not a
single charge related to the 2016 election.
 “They’ve had charges against Manafort and
an associate, Rick Gates, that had nothing
to do with the 2016 election, and these two
guys, Flynn and George Papadopoulos,
who pleaded out to process crimes of lying
to the FBI, charges not having anything to
do with supposed collusion in the Russian
effort against the 2016 election,” McCarthy
said.
There were Trump campaign contacts with Russia, but
McCarthy said the lack of any related charges is telling. He
said Papadopoulos only being charged with making false
statements likely means there is no conspiracy case.
“With [the Papadopoulos indictment],
Mueller files a 14-page statement of facts
explaining the offense, and collusion pours
off every page of it. You have a meeting
with people who say they are agents of the
Russian government. He meets with
someone who represents herself,
apparently falsely, to be Putin’s niece.
They’re talking about setting up meetings
with the Russian regime, possibly setting
up meetings between Trump and Putin
themselves,” McCarthy said.
“Yet, after all of that, he pleads guilty to one
count of lying to the FBI about when his
first meeting with a Russian official was.
The case against him, even though it’s
immersed in collusion, doesn’t have
anything to do with collusion in the 2016
election. That’s the sort of thing that’s led
me to believe there’s no collusion case.”
The Mueller prosecutors, however, are now coming under
scrutiny. Peter Strzok was tossed from the team after anti-
Trump statements were made public. Andrew Weissman is
still on board despite a recently uncovered email in which
Weissman praises then-Acting Attorney General Sally
Yates for refusing to enforce President Trump’s first travel
ban.
McCarthy said we should not be shocked that federal
employees are politically liberal. He said that alone is not
evidence of corruption, at least in this investigation.
“I need to see a lot more about Strzok
before I jump to the conclusion that he let
his political opinions – we all have them –
interfere with the way he enforced the law,”
he said. “But I think there are a lot of very
questionable judgment calls that were
made in the Hillary Clinton case.”
Among those concerns are reports that Strzok changed
former FBI Director James Comey’s language so that
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Clinton was not labeled “grossly negligent” in the way she
handled her emails as secretary of state.
In addition, Strzok was the lead agent in the Clinton email
case, leaving the FBI’s decision not to charge Clinton
aides Cheryl Mills and Huma Abedin for making false
statements to the FBI during that probe in question.
As for the Russia investigation, other political and legal
experts disagree with the argument that there is no whiff of
a criminal conspiracy. They specifically point to the June
2016 meeting involving Trump Jr. and Manafort and
Russians who said they represented the Russian
government and promised damaging information on
Hillary Clinton.
Even though no damaging information was turned over,
the critics contend the Trump’s campaign’s willingness to
engage with the Russians that way proves it was willing
and eager to go down that path.
McCarthy said that sort of activity might be unseemly, but
it’s not criminal.
“What a prosecutor is interested in is not
collusion. A prosecutor is interested in
conspiracy. That means you have to have
an agreement to violate a law, and there’s
no against taking information from the
Russians about your political opponents,”
he said.
“Is it something you should do? No. Is it
something we should endorse? No. But the
narrow question for Mueller as a prosecutor
is not whether it’s unsavory behavior. It’s
whether it’s criminal behavior.”
Democrats and the media are also actively wondering
whether a recent Trump tweet suggests he knew about
Flynn’s lies to the FBI before he fired Comey in May.
Some believe it amounts to obstruction of justice, leading
Trump attorney John Dowd to declare that the president
cannot obstruct justice.
“The president cannot obstruct
justice because he is the chief law
enforcement officer under [the
Constitution’s Article II] and has every right
to express his view of any case,'” Dowd
told Axios.
McCarthy said, on one hand, it is “absurd” to claim a
president cannot obstruct justice, but he said the president
can legally derail virtually any investigation he wants,
including deciding who should be investigated and which
executive branch officials ought to be fired.
He said the issue gets complicated when a president
exercises those powers for what is perceived to be a
corrupt purpose. But even then, McCarthy said the proper
recourse is impeachment, not criminal prosecution,
because a sitting president can always make it go away.
“Practically speaking, the president holds
all of the Trump cards against being
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indicted,” McCarthy said. “He can pardon
himself and everybody else, which stops
the investigation in its tracks. He can order
the investigation to be dropped. He can fire
the prosecutor. He can do all sorts of things
to prevent him from ever being indicted.”
 Van Jones: Trump Doesn’t Like CNN
Because He Has An ‘Allergy To Facts’
By Kristine Marsh
December 6, 2017 10:40 AM EST

News, The Wall Street Journal, and the

New York Post shouldn't go, right?”

Continuing his theme that the White House was out to

murder reporters, Jones joked that he would be afraid to
eat anything at the party.

“I'm sure they have good hors d'oeuvres

but if I were a reporter, I wouldn't eat any of
them!” he chuckled.

CNN contributor Van Jones appeared on CBS’s The Late
Show with anti-Trump “resistance” host Stephen Colbert
Tuesday night, so naturally the president’s hostile
relationship with the "Facts First" network came up.
After introducing his guest, Colbert asked,
“How is the fake news network doing? How
fake is it? Do you guys get together and
decide how you're going to fake the
news every day?” Colbert snarked.
“I wish this news was fake, because you
can't make this stuff up!” Van Jones
responded.
Colbert explained how CNN was refusing to attend the
White House Christmas party this year, to the audience’s
delight.
Colbert claimed that Trump believed the press had “no
right” to ask him questions, so, he asked, what would the
point be of attending the party? Jones responded:
That is my view and that is why CNN is not
going. Honestly I think we're in a
situation where we have a president of
the United States who just doesn't
believe in the First Amendment. He has
like a peanut allergy to facts and I've
never seen anything like it. Literally, if
you just say things that are true, he gets
mad.
“CNN should have a label before every
show, 'Processed in a factory that also
processes information,' just as a
warning” Colbert cracked, as Jones
laughed and gave the host a high five.

Jones feared that the network’s reporters wouldn’t have

survived, if they had attended.

“I think we wouldn't have made it back

out alive. I think it would have been, like,
the ‘red wedding’ you know in Game of
Thrones?” he joked.

But Colbert was puzzled as to why any media outlet would

want to go in the first place.
Later on, Colbert snarked that Jones was the

“Why is any news organization willing to

“only Democrat in the room,” and asked
go to that party if they've been called
him to explain how the Democrats
fake, they've been called the enemy of
“screwed up so badly” that “a guy like
America by the president?” Colbert
Trump would win.”
snarked before clarifying: “Anybody but Fox

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 “How did you personally do it, Van Jones?”
Colbert teased.
Jones joked back that in 2008 and 2012,
the Dems had got in the “Obama bubble
bath” and “it just felt so good,” so when
2016 came, they were “ all wet and
wrinkly and not ready to fight,” he
chuckled.
After pretending to be more of a moderate Democrat this
year, it appears Jones is doubling down with his anti-
Trump rhetoric, that erupted on election night last year,
after he blamed Hillary losing on a “white-lash.”
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In October, he claimed to George Stephanopoulos that
Trump wanted to see Americans “die” just to get his way
on health care:
Listen, I've never seen a president of the
United States willing to hurt Americans
to get his way. Willing to have
Americans be sick. Willing to have
Americans, you know, possibly lose
their lives-- watch their children with
conditions, because he wants to get his
way.
 Trump Attorney: Docs Reveal Trump-Hating FBI Agent
Sent “Urgent” Emails To Comey Over Clinton-Lynch
Tarmac Meeting (VIDEO)
By Cristina Laila
Wednesday, December 6, 2017

An attorney for Trump and chief counsel “He (Strzok) sent an email within 8 minutes
for the ACLJ, Jay Sekulow said on his of the information hitting the DOJ about the
radio show Jay Sekulow Live Monday tarmac meeting. That went to people within
that docs reveal Trump-hating FBI agent the FBI and within 8 minutes it reached
Strzok sent an email to Comey marked James Comey..” Sekulow said.
‘urgent’ over the Clinton-Lynch tarmac
“It was marked ‘urgent’ and ‘high’,”
meeting.
Sekulow continued.
Once again we have evidence this Trump-hating FBI agent
The talking points are still redacted. Sekulow said he is
was working to protect Hillary Clinton and the Deep State.
going to back to court to sue for more documents.
An attorney for Trump and chief counsel
“There’s some serious legal issues here
for the ACLJ, Jay Sekulow said on his
and conflicts of interest,” Sekulow said.
radio show Jay Sekulow Live Monday
that docs reveal Trump-hating FBI agent VIDEO:
Strzok sent an email to Comey marked
‘urgent’ over the Clinton-Lynch tarmac
meeting.
Once again we have evidence this Trump-hating FBI agent
was working to protect Hillary Clinton and the Deep State.

Judicial Watch recently released 29 pages of Clinton-

As previously reported, Special Counsel
Mueller was forced to fire top FBI agent,
Peter Strzok after anti-Trump text
messages were discovered. Strzok was
also having an affair with another FBI
lawyer.
Lynch tarmac meeting docs which were previously
withheld by the Justice Department.
The FBI wasn’t even concerned about the scandalous
meeting, all they cared about was hiding the details from
the public!
FBI agents wanted to find the ‘whistleblower’ who outed
the tarmac meeting to local press. The whistleblower is
believed to be a law enforcement official.
FBI official(s) write

This anti-Trump FBI agent was not only bashing Trump “we need to find that guy” and that the
and praising Hillary, he was in charge of Hillary’s email Phoenix FBI office was contacted “in an
investigation! attempt to stem any further damage.”

Now this… No wonder why the Deep State is working so hard to

remove Trump from office. Look at all of the corruption
Jay Sekulow blasted the corrupt Mueller investigation as coming to the surface!
having too many conflicts of interest on his show Jay
Sekulow Live Monday and brought up the Trump-hating
FBI agent.
.

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 Trump's Approval Rating Jumps
To 45 Percent, Highest Since September
By Anna Giaritelli
Dec 6, 2017, 8:03 AM

The majority of voters, 51 percent, did not approve of

Trump's job in office. But his approval rating in the Dec.
1-3 survey is the highest since a Sept. 29-Oct. 1 poll in
which he was also at 45 percent. He has not been higher
than 45 percent since early July. He then dipped in August
in the wake of his reaction to violence in Charlottesville,
Va.

Three-in-five voters saw Trump as reckless and 54 percent

said he is sexist. Another 47 percent of respondents said he
is racist, but 39 percent said he is not.
The majority of voters, 51 percent, did not approve of Trump's job in
office. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
Forty-six percent viewed the billionaire businessman as
knowledgeable, and 44 percent disagreed.
President Trump's approval rating increased to 45 percent
in the first week of December, the highest mark he's
The online survey was conducted with 1,997 registered
received since September, according to a Morning
voters nationwide and had a 2 percentage point margin of
Consult/Politico poll released Wednesday.
error.

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Former Judge Sez If Flynn Did Not Know About FBI Agent
Being Removed For Bias, His Case Can Be Dismissed
By Usafeaturesmedia
Posted On December 6, 2017
“This has bothered me since I heard about
it’
(National Sentinel) Miscarriage of Justice: A noted law
professor who runs a popular blog says that former Trump
national security advisor Michael Flynn, who pleaded
guilty last week of lying to an FBI agent, could have his
conviction thrown out because the agent was dismissed
from his job over political bias.
Glenn Reynolds, creator of the InstaPundit blog at PJ
Media and a law professor at the University of Tennessee,
posted a comment from one of his readers — a former
judge a prosecutor — claiming that if Flynn was not aware
that FBI agent Peter Strzok, the main witness against him,
was removed for exchanging anti-Trump emails with a
colleague, his prosecution is flawed.
The email reads:
A READER WHO SAYS HE IS A FORMER
PROSECUTOR AND JUDGE EMAILS:
Did the prosecution tell Flynn’s lawyer that
their main witness against him was
removed for bias? Since Strzok led the
interview and his testimony would be
needed to establish untruthfulness, he is a
critical witness not just a prosecutor. If not
disclosed, would this not be a Giglio
violation? This is the kind of misconduct
that can get a case dismissed and a lawyer
disbarred. It is a Constitutional violation.
This has bothered me since I heard about
it.
Me too.
The Gateway Pundit noted that the Giglio versus United
States case
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“is a United States Supreme Court case in
which the Court held that the prosecution’s
failure to inform the jury that a witness had
been promised not to be prosecuted in
exchange for his testimony was a failure to
fulfill the duty to present all material
evidence to the jury, and constituted a
violation of due process, requiring a new
trial.”
Stories in the Washington Post and New York Times on
Saturday noted that Strzok, who was in a pivotal role
during the original FBI investigation into alleged Trump-
Russia collusion, and then in another key role in Mueller’s
investigation, and who earlier had played an equally
important role in the investigation of Hillary Clinton’s
email by the bureau, was moved out of Mueller’s office
over the summer following anti-Trump texts he exchanged
with a top FBI lawyer, Lisa Page, with whom Strzok was
also having an extramarital affair.
Strzok, a seasoned counterintelligence investigator, was
reassigned to the FBI’s office of human resources, an
obvious demotion, in July, the Washington Examiner
reported.
The Post noted that Strzok and Page sent each other tests
that
“expressed anti-Trump sentiments and
other comments that appeared to favor
[Hillary] Clinton.”
Strzok was present during Flynn’s questioning. He was
also the lead investigator in the criminal investigation into
Clinton’s mishandling of classified data via her personal
email server.
He was also the one who softened language in a
statement then-FBI Director James Comey read to the
press in July 2016.
The original language in Comey’s
statement described Clinton’s behavior as
“grossly negligent,” which is taken directly
from the statute, to “extremely careless,”
which has no legal weight, a source told
CNN.
 Russia Probe Tests Pence In-The-Dark Defense
By Elizabeth Landers, Kevin Liptak And Jeff Z
Updated 8:51 AM ET, Wed December 6, 2017

Pence -- who was in charge of Trump's transition -- knew

Flynn had contacted Russia, but was left unaware of the
sanctions discussion, according to transition officials. It's
led to anxiety within Pence's circle that he'll eventually be
called to sit for an interview with Mueller.

"They are preparing for that," a person in

Pence's orbit said, a sentiment echoed by
another source close to the Vice President:
"Chairing the transition would make it
possible regardless of who it was."

Pence's spokeswoman pushed back on the notion his office

Washington (CNN)New revelations about Michael Flynn's
is preparing for a potential interview.
lies to the FBI are laying bare Vice President Mike Pence's
in-the-dark strategy when it comes to Russia's election
meddling, raising new questions about whether he could "Nothing could be further from the truth.
have been left in the dark as he has argued for nearly a The vice president is focused on passing
the largest tax cut in American history,"
year.
Alyssa Farah, Pence's press secretary, told
CNN on Tuesday.
Advisers have long insisted that Pence was unaware Flynn
spoke to then-Russian Ambassador to the US Sergey
Lawmakers also say Pence owes them answers on what he
Kislyak about a new set of US sanctions on the day they
knew at the time.
were announced last December.
"I think he has new questions to answer,"
But court filings unsealed last week, paired with new
said Sen. Richard Blumenthal, a
details about President Donald Trump's own knowledge of
Connecticut Democrat, who said he wanted
events, indicate a wide circle of advisers were aware that
Pence to appear before the Senate
Flynn raised the issue when he spoke by phone to
Judiciary Committee to explain what he
Moscow's envoy -- even as Pence reportedly remained in
knew at the time about Flynn's
the dark.
conversations with Russian officials.
The new questions raised by special counsel Robert
In the days since Flynn's guilty plea was unveiled last
Mueller's investigation signal what could be a pivotal
week, seven people close to the vice president continue to
moment in Pence's careful calibration of trying to keep a
maintain that Pence did not know Flynn spoke with
safe distance from the Russia probe even while
Kislyak about Russian sanctions, despite being the head of
maintaining his credibility for being left out of the loop by
the Trump transition.
the West Wing.
But among top transition officials, Pence would have been
What he knew
largely alone in his lack of knowledge. According to court
filings released last week, Flynn spoke with "senior
members of the Presidential Transition Team" about his
conversations with Kislyak regarding the new US
sanctions.

And Trump himself was told in January by the White

House's chief lawyer that Flynn had misled the FBI and
lied to Pence about his conversations with Kislyak. Flynn
was fired on February 13.

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Political chops
An establishment Republican who served for 10 years as a
US representative prior to serving as Indiana governor,
Pence is among the most politically experienced members
of Trump's administration, and has taken on a wide swath
of responsibility, including maintaining relationships on
Capitol Hill and making frequent trips abroad.
But despite of -- or perhaps because of -- his political
acuity, Pence has remained largely oblivious to contacts
between Trump officials and Russian operatives, at least
according to his aides.
Aside from the Flynn episode, Pence's aides said he did not
know Donald Trump Jr. met with a Russian lawyer who
claimed to have damning information about Hillary
Clinton. And his office similarly claimed that Pence wasn't
aware of Trump Jr.'s contact with WikiLeaks in the closing
days of last year's presidential campaign. The President's
son is set to meet with congressional investigators
Wednesday.
In multiple conversations with CNN, the officials sought to
explain Pence's role in the transition, his reaction to the
news that Flynn had lied to him and why he wasn't aware
of Flynn's actions.
A former senior transition official explained that Pence
was mostly concerned with "human resources" and
personnel in his role as transition chairman, which
included oversight of major Cabinet appointments.
Another adviser to the vice president said he was focused
on interviewing candidates for Senate-confirmable posts.
Two senior transition officials mentioned to CNN that
Pence was slowly weened off of email during the transition
period, another step to prepare him for his new role as vice
president. One of the officials says that Pence's team
actively tried to protect him from the various characters in
Trump Tower and transition offices during that time
period.
"We definitely tried to cut down on the
unfettered access folks had to him but it
was more about allowing him to focus on
the task at hand," this official said.
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Transition roles
On the multiple days last December when Flynn was
speaking with Kislyak, Pence was thousands of miles
away, according to his travel records and a senior
transition official at the time, conducting transition
meetings in Washington and preparing for his son's
wedding in Indianapolis, where he was also busy packing
up his home to move to Washington.
One senior White House official said that while there was
"some" interaction between Pence and Flynn during the
transition, it was not "extensive."
"Mike was coming up with the process for
filling Cabinet posts. The Flynn thing was
out of his hands -- he's been on the
campaign from the start," this official said
when asked about Pence's level of trust in
the incoming national security adviser.
It's that argument -- Pence was more of a newcomer than
Flynn -- that people close to the vice president say bolsters
his claim that he didn't know about the extent of these
Russian calls. Yet that explanation will surely be tested
anew as Mueller's probe reaches closer to Trump's inner
circle.
Trump's national security team, who operated out of a
conference room in Trump Tower, was based in New York
during the transition, while Pence increasingly spent more
time in Washington at the presidential transition offices
blocks away from the White House. He even took up
temporary residence at a house in Chevy Chase while
Trump continued to live in his Manhattan apartment.
Two transition officials who prepared the vice president
for his television appearance on January 15 said that
questions about Flynn and Kislyak were not a surprise.
"We knew Pence would get asked about it,"
one senior transition official said.
Another transition official said Pence called Flynn on
January 14 specifically so he could say during his Sunday
show appearances that he'd spoken with the national
security adviser about his conversations with Kislyak.
Flynn insisted to Pence did not discuss sanctions with
Kislyak, and during his two television appearances, Pence
readily relayed that information -- which turned out to be a
lie. Pence discovered that Flynn lied to him through media
reports on February 9 as The Washington Post reported
that Flynn had in fact spoken with Kislyak about Russian
sanctions.
'Purposefully misled'
When asked if Pence as vice president-elect or vice
president ever had any reservations about Flynn, one
senior transition official says that Pence and Flynn didn't
really cross paths often during the campaign because Flynn
traveled with Trump on his campaign plane, but that Pence
and Flynn's relationship was "perfectly fine and cordial."
That changed after Flynn's untruths were outed.
"He was genuinely stunned and pissed
when he found out that Flynn misled him
and let him go out on national TV with
inaccurate information," one senior adviser
to Pence said. There was concern at the
time from Pence's staff that the vice
president had been purposefully misled
and that even White House officials had
kept the vice president in the dark.
One person close to the vice president told CNN in
February that they wanted to know who among the
President's staff made the decision to tell Trump but not
tell the man who went on television as the face of the
administration.
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The questions about what Pence knew -- or how he
managed to stay in the dark -- about the Russian contacts
aren't likely to subside. Yet Pence has not publicly
signaled any signs of worry.
He's carrying on with his duties and keeping his
connections with key Republicans. He invited about 80
guests to his official residence, the Naval Observatory, for
a Christmas party on Monday night, one of many that he
and Karen Pence are hosting this year. Republicans flew in
from across the country to attend.
Pence worked his way around the room, attendees said,
talking individually with guests for about 90 minutes. His
mood was upbeat and bright as he visited with old
Republican friends.
The vice president delivered no formal address nor did he
talk about the matter consuming much of Washington:
The Russia investigation.
 Something Big Is Happening In DC While Everyone Is
Distracted By President Trump's Jerusalem Decision
By Susan Duclos - All News Pipeline
December 6, 2017
While liberals on social media and the mainstream media
are distracted by, and literally having a meltdown over
President
Trump's decision to publicly acknowledge Jerusalem as
Israel's capital, and that plans are being made to finally
move the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem, both actions aligning
with the "Jerusalem Embassy Act of 1995," during
Clinton's presidency, something big is happening in
Washington DC.
As anyone not living under a rock are aware of, President
Trump likes to tweet, usually causing the media to cry out
in outrage and dedicate a whole news cycle to his social
media statements, but this morning instead of weighing in
on a variety of topics and offering his colorful opinions, at
10:00 am ET, he tweeted one statement, in caps, "MAKE
AMERICAN GREAT AGAIN."
While that was Trump's campaign war cry and we have
seen him and his son Don Jr. often tweet opinions using
the #MAGA hashtag, this limited tweet, without an
opinion on any actual news item along with the statement
is notable for a variety of reasons. First it came out right
after a short Fox 5 local report about unusual activity
occurring in Washington DC and Prince William County,
Virginia, which includes multiple federal agencies,
included but not limited to The Bureau of Alcohol,
Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and the Federal Bureau
of Investigation, along with local law enforcement
agencies, with what is described as a "police presence" in
VA. According to the report "exact locations of activity
have not been released nor have the nature of the
operations."
Via other sources we know that this activity is court
authorized, and that the VA police presence is believed to
be gang-related, which makes sense since Fairfax County,
which neighbors Prince William, has been reported to hold
1,400 MS-13 members, according to the Daily Caller.
SHAKEUP COMING............
Another report, published just a minute before the
President's MAGA tweet, details comments Circa's Sara
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Carter made about a huge shakeup that is coming as she
reveals that out of the 27 active and open investigations
being conducted by the DOJ into leaks of classified
information to the press for "political motive," some of
them are directly related to the FBI, and she has learned
that members of the FBI have had to take lie-detector tests.
"This is a big investigation. What I know is
that they have been running polygraphs on
people within the FBI. They are looking for
leakers and a lot more information is gonna
come out. I think there’s going to be a
shakeup," she said.
As we have noted on a number of occasions, President
Trump quite often gives clues, hints at what is coming,
sometimes months in advance and sometimes days, and on
December 3rd, as Stefan Stanford reported, the President
specifically highlighted that
"After years of Comey, with the phony and
dishonest Clinton investigation (and more)
running the FBI, its reputation is in Tatters -
worst in History! But fear not, we will bring
it back to greatness."
Following that on the same day, Trump said
"Report: ANTI-TRUMP FBI AGENT LED
CLINTON EMAIL PROBE" Now it all starts
to make sense!"
His reference was to Peter Strzok, an FBI agent that Robert
Mueller has demoted after discovering his anti-Trump
texts to his mistress, then Mueller refused to come clean
with Congress about the reason for his transfer off the
Mueller team. Since that bombshell dropped, much more
information has been discovered not only about his bias
against the President, but that he played key roles in
several major controversial scandals and investigations,
such as the Hillary Clinton email server investigation, as
well as being behind the key change in wording by former
FBI director James Comey, calling Clinton's actions
"extremely careless," instead of the original wording of
"grossly negligent" which could have caused Clinton to
suffer legal ramifications under federal law.
Strzok may have also used the Kremlin sourced "dossier"
in order to obtain FISA warrants to tap into Trump
campaign members communications, and Strokz was
behind the whole Russia collusion investigation from the
beginning.
To top it all off, new reports show that Strzok was not the
only high ranking member of Mueller's team who is
virulently anti-Trump, as Judicial Watch has obtained
emails from Andrew Weissmann, Mueller's deputy,
indicating his praise for former acting AG Sally Yates for
refusing to defend President Trump's travel ban in court, a
decision she was immediately terminated for, and since
then the Supreme Court has allowed it in full, where
Weissmann told her via email
"I am so proud. And in awe. Thank you so
much. All my deepest respects, Andrew
Weissmann."
In order to see exactly how corrupt Mueller, Strzok,
Weissmann and the entire special counsel team is, Sean
Hannity has done an outstanding job detailing it by
investigating the investigators, using a chart format to
show the connections.... in his must-watch opening
statement from December 5, 2017.
Following his opening statement, both Sara Carter, and
Tom Fitton from Judicial Watch, who uncovered the latest
emails between Weissmann and Yates, join Hannity to
weigh in on what is coming.
The corruption and rot goes so deep and is so blatant that
even the Wall Street Journal Editorial Board is addrressing
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"Mueller's Credibility Problem," accusing him of
"stonewalling Congress and protecting the FBI," which he
was the former Director of.
The latest news supports our view that Mr.
Mueller is too conflicted to investigate the
FBI and should step down in favor of
someone more credible. The investigation
would surely continue, though perhaps with
someone who doesn’t think his job includes
protecting the FBI and Mr. Comey from
answering questions about their role in the
2016 election.
Sidney Powell, former federal prosecutor in three districts
under nine U.S. attorneys from both political parties, then
in private practice now for more than 20 years, as well as
being a past president of the Bar Association of the 5th
Federal Circuit and of the American Academy of
Appellate Lawyers, writes a scathing article over at The
Daily Caller, shredding Mueller and his "hit squad," as she
concludes with
"Mueller’s hit squad epitomizes the swamp
that President Trump was elected to drain.
Its charges are irreparably tainted by its
members’ biases, corrupted evidence, and
intolerable conflicts of interest. Congress
cannot legitimately continue to waste
taxpayer dollars to fund this effort."
BOTTOM LINE
Throughout the campaign season we saw the then-
candidate Trump, as well as when he was the official GOP
nominee during the general election, consistently send the
MSM and liberals off to chase their tails in outrage, while
he went about his business of knocking 16 GOP primary
candidates out of the race, then going on to win the general
election, and as he has shown throughout this first year of
his presidency, he continues to do the same thing, and they
continue to fall for it.
So while he just delivered his campaign promise of
officially recognizing Jerusalem and starting his plan to
move the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem, we are noting there
is much going on behind the scenes, while the MSM and
liberals are distracted by raging over his recent Jerusalem
announcement, indicating that we are close to seeing a
huge drain of swamp monsters from some very high levels
of U.S. intelligence agencies.
The pressure on Mueller himself to step down is just
beginning, and as more dirt on him and his team continues
to be revealed, the decision may soon be taken out of his
hands.
 Chuck Grassley Demands FBI Produce All Strzok Text
Messages As Part Of Trump Anti-Bias Probe
By Tyler Durden
Dec 6, 2017 12:22 PM
Following this weekend's shocking disclosure that Peter
Strzok was removed from Special Counsel Robert
Mueller’s investigation of Russia-Trump election (having
previously handled the Clinton email server probe and
interviewing Michael Flynn) after allegedly having
exchanged anti-Trump and pro-Hillary Clinton text
messages with his mistress (who was an FBI lawyer
working for Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe), an
angry Senator Senator Grassley - who was previously
stonewalled by the FBI and DOJ from getting requested
information about Strzok's unexpected removal - has
issued a letter demanding FBI documents in advance of an
upcoming Senatorial interview with the anti-Trump FBI
agent.
In his letter to FBI director Christopher Wray, Grassley
writes:
The Committee has previously written to Mr. Strzok
requesting an interview to discuss his knowledge of
improper political influence or bias in Justice Department
or FBI activities during either the previous or current
administration, the removal of James Comey from his
position as Director of the FBI, the DOJ’s and FBI’s
activities related to Hillary Clinton, the DOJ’s and FBI’s
activities related to Donald J. Trump and his associates,
and the DOJ’s and FBI’s activities related to Russian
interference in the 2016 election. To date, the Committee
has received no letter in reply to that request.
In advance of Mr. Strzok’s interview, please provide the
following communications, in the form of text messages or
otherwise, to the Committee no later than December 11,
2017:
1. All communications sent to, received by, or copying Mr.
Strzok related to then Director Comey’s draft or final
statement closing the Clinton investigation, including all
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records related to the change in the portion of the draft
language describing Secretary Clinton’s and her
associates’ conduct regarding classified information
from “grossly negligent” to “extremely careless”;
2. All communications sent to, received by, or copying Mr.
Strzok regarding the decision to close the Clinton
investigation without recommending any charges;
3. All communications sent to, received by, or copying Mr.
Strzok related to opening the investigation into potential
collusion by the Trump campaign with the Russian
government, including any FBI electronic
communication (EC) authored or authorized by Mr.
Strzok and all records forming the basis for that EC;
4. All communications sent to, received by, or copying Mr.
Strzok related to the FBI’s interactions with Christopher
Steele relating to the investigation into potential
collusion by the Trump campaign with the Russian
government, including any communications regarding
potential or realized financial arrangements with Mr.
Steele;
5. All communications sent to, received by, or copying Mr.
Strzok related to any instance of the FBI relying on, or
referring to, information in Mr. Steele’s memoranda in
the course of seeking any FISA warrants, other search
warrants, or any other judicial process;
6. All FD-302s of FBI interviews of Lt. Gen. Flynn at which
Mr. Strzok was present, as well as all related 1A
documents (including any contemporaneous
handwritten notes); and
7. All communications sent to, received by, or copying Mr.
Strzok containing unfavorable statements about Donald
J. Trump or favorable statements about Hillary Clinton.
Since this will be the first - and so far only - glimpse inside
the ideological motivations inside Mueller's prosecutorial
team, the public will be greatly interested in finding what
they reveal, especially those which show any direct
communication between Strzok and Comey.
(Grassley's full letter on next page):
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 Democrat Lawmaker Will Try To
Force The House To Vote To Impeach Trump TODAY
Mac Slavo
December 6th, 2017
Texas representative, Al Green, a liberal lawmaker, says
he’ll force the House to vote Wednesday on impeaching
President Donald Trump. Despite suggestions from the
Republicans and Democrats that he let it go, Green says
he’s going to move forward anyway.
Green says in a letter that he’s wanting a vote on
impeachment because “we now have a bigot in the White
House who incites hatred and hostility.” But, even other
Democrats agree that there is no evidence of impeachable
offenses. House minority leader Nancy Pelosi even said
that any impeachment effort should await hard evidence
Trump has committed an impeachable offense.
According to USA Today, Green’s resolution accuses
Trump of causing “harm to American society.” It cites his
support for banning Muslim immigrants and comments
defending participants in a white supremacists’ rally after
this year’s riot in Charlottesville, Virginia. Green also
argued that Trump’s conduct in the White House (while
admittedly not criminal) had amounted to “high
misdemeanor” and warranted removal from the Oval
Office. “For too long, we have allowed our civility to
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prevent us from confronting the invidious incivility of
President Donald J. Trump,” he said.
But his impeachment vote doesn’t have a chance at
succeeding. Even if a majority of the House votes to
impeach the president, the Senate would need a 2/3
majority in order for the motion to pass. Republicans
control both houses right now.
Other Democrats have warned the prematurity of this vote
could hinder any future chances of impeachment. Isn’t it
fascinating how now Democrats are suddenly concerned
with the Constitution and Trump’s alleged violations
thereof? They gave Barack Obama unbridled power and
now that it’s in the hands of someone they dislike, they
melt down.
“In doing this, hatred disguised as acceptable political
correctness has festered in our body politic and polluted
our discourse to our detriment,” Green said. “It divides and
damages the social fabric of our country in ways that
obstruction of justice cannot. It causes unparalleled
destruction to our society in the long- and short-term that
will not easily heal.” Green had pressed for a vote on
articles of impeachment back in October, but pressure
from fellow Democrats stopped him from moving forward.
 Dirty Cop Mueller In 2013 Claimed The FBI Had
‘Integrity’ – We Now Know He Was Part Of The Criminal
‘Deep State’ At That Time
By Jim Hoft
Wednesday, December 6, 2017

Emailgate (2007):

Discovery that several top Bush

administration officials violated the
Presidential Records Act by using an RNC
server for email communications while
conducting official business, followed by
the deletion of millions of the same emails

Dirty Cop Robert Mueller bellowed that

‘integrity’ was at the heart and soul of
the FBI. By the time of this video
Mueller had already delivered uranium
to Russia for the Clintons, oversaw the
cover-up of his department’s
investigation into Russia and had let
the Clinton’s and Obama off of multiple
crimes.
Today he leads the most corrupt,
criminal and treasonous Coup D’état in
American history! What a nasty piece of
work.

In August of 2013, when Robert Mueller was ending his
career at the FBI he released a video about his time at the
FBI. At the end of the video he evangelizes –
We are an organization and entity where integrity is the
heart and soul of what we do and I think that is the
quintessential, ah, ah, core value that postures us for
success in the future.
Today the FBI that Mueller ran is in
shambles. No one with an ounce of
common sense believes that the FBI
exhibits integrity and this is in large part
because of the actions of Robert Mueller
and his close allies who recently led the
FBI.
Under former FBI Director Mueller the following major
scandals and likely crimes that Mueller did not
meaningfully investigate resulted in no arrests and no
consequences:
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IRS Targeting (2010-2013):
The IRS intentionally selected and then
delayed or denied tax-exempt 501(c)(3)
applications from conservative groups to
prevent them from participating in the 2012
election, followed by IRS agent Lois Lerner
invoking her Fifth Amendment privilege
against self-incrimination
Fast and Furious (2010):
This ATF program, which seems to have
served no rational purpose, allowed over
2,000 guns to be purchased illegally inside
the United States and then “walked” into
Mexico for use by criminals, one of which
was later used in the 2010 murder of
Border Agent Brian Terry by the member of
a Mexican cartel
Associated Press Spying (2012):
The Department of Justice illegally seized
the communications of AP reporters made
during April and May 2012, allowing the
DOJ to unmask journalists’ confidential
sources
Clinton Foundation Pay-for-Play (2009-2013):
During the period in which Hillary Clinton
held the office of Secretary of State, the
Clinton Foundation and Bill Clinton
received millions of dollars in paid speaking
fees and a million dollar “gift”from countries
involved in matters with the State
Department, many of which had ties to
terrorism and human rights abuses; some
of these funds were apparently diverted
from charitable causes to personal
expenses, such as Chelsea Clinton’s 2010
wedding
was said to be related to uranium the US obtained during a
crime bust but a few years before the delivery Russia
appeared not to care about the uranium. As the Uranium
One deal was coming down, this deal was concocted to
take place with Mueller as the delivery boy. What he
really delivered is now uncertain.
Last year Mueller was strategically placed in the position
of Special Counsel to investigate the Trump-Russia fake
news story by his former partner in crime Assistant
Attorney General Rod Rosenstein.
He brought in a team of individuals that
are all partisan hacks that worked for the
corrupt Clintons and Obama administration.
James Comey, who President Trump fired at the FBI,
opted to not charge Hillary Clinton with the multiple
charges she was guilty of last year only one week after
corrupt former President Bill Clinton met AG Lynch in
Arizona.

Russian Uranium Deal (2009-2013):

Hillary Clinton’s State Department

approved a deal allowing a Russian
company to control 20 percent of the
uranium mining production capacity inside
the United States, which was followed by
millions of dollars in donations to the
Clinton Foundation from people associated
with the transaction

Clinton Private Email Server (2009-2013):

During her entire tenure as Secretary of
State, Hillary Clinton dodged Freedom of
Information Act requirements by using a
private email server to conduct official
government business, as well as sent and
received classified information that was
Top Secret over an unsecured system—an
“extremely reckless” (and obviously illegal)
act.”
We reported in August this year that
Mueller is a dirty rotten cop.
Hillary Clinton picked Mueller to hand deliver uranium to
Russia on an airport tarmac. When he had other plans the
delivery was delayed so he could make it. The uranium
.
We also know now that the only thing the Mueller-Comey
led FBI was focused on after the Clinton-Lynch tarmac
meeting was to identify who notified the media about the
meeting rather than to look into the meeting itself.
Mueller clearly doesn’t care about
‘integrity’ or he would do the proper
thing and recuse himself from the fake
Trump investigation. It’s clear the
Clintons and Obama hand picked him
again but this time for his special role in
overturning the election of President
Donald Trump. What a nasty piece of
work!

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 NSA’s McMaster “Authorized
Surveillance Of Bannon And Trump Family.”
Intel Sent To George Soros
Intel Gathered Was Sent To Facility Owned By George Soros.
By Alex Christoforou
December 6, 2017, 17:44

Former CIA paramilitary officer and
member of the Trump transition
team, John R. Maguire, reportedly
revealed during a fund raising meeting
for an intelligence gathering operation
in Afghanistan, that National Security
Advisor H.R. McMaster “authorized
surveillance of Stephen Bannon and
Trump family members, including
Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump.”
members, including Donald Trump Jr.
and Eric Trump. Adding to these
unsubstantiated claims, Maguire told the
potential donors he also had evidence H.R.
McMaster used a burner phone to send
information gathered through the
surveillance to a facility in Cyprus
owned by George Soros.
As reported by The Gateway Pundit‘s Jon Hall, the Trump
administration is considering proposals developed by
Blackwater founder Erik Prince and John R. Maguire in an
effort to provide CIA Director Mike Pompeo and the
White House with a global, private spy network that would
go around the U.S.’s official SWAMP-INFESTED
intelligence agencies.

A former senior U.S. intel official with firsthand

knowledge of the proposals said:

Pompeo can’t trust the CIA bureaucracy, so we need to

The Intercept reports:
create this thing that reports just directly to him. It is a
direct-action arm, totally off the books. The whole point is
“[Maguire] said there were people inside this is supposed to report to the president and Pompeo
the CIA who joined in the previous eight directly.
years [under Obama] and inside the
government and they were failing to give
Reportedly, the proposals would see an army of spies with
the president the intelligence he needed,”
no official cover in numerous countries that are “denied
said a person who was pitched by Maguire
areas” for current American intelligence personnel – like
and other Amyntor personnel. To support
North Korea and Iran. Included in the proposals are the
his claim, Maguire told at least two
consideration of creating a new global rendition unit with
people that National Security Advisor
the goal of capturing terrorist suspects around the world. A
H.R. McMaster, in coordination with a
propaganda campaign in the Middle East and Europe to
top official at the National Security
combat Islamic extremism was considered in the proposals
Agency, authorized surveillance of
as well.
Steven Bannon and Trump family
.

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 Obama Warns Trump Will Lead
America To Genocide Like Hitler, Media Yawn
By Kristine Marsh
December 6, 2017 2:51 PM EST
Hinz summarized Obama’s comments directed at Trump,
as follows:
In a friendly interview with CBS News financial analyst
Mellody Hobson, President Obama suggested we could
have an American genocide akin to what happened in Nazi
Germany with Donald Trump as President.
The former president was speaking to the Economic Club
of Chicago when he made the caustic remark, in comments
captured by Crain’s Chicago Business political columnist
Greg Hinz.
According to Hinz, Obama warned Trump’s
“nativism” and distrust of the press would
cause our “democracy to fall apart quickly.”
Obama then made the connection
between Trump and Hitler, warning “60
million people died,” when the world got
“complacent.”
As of this write-up, his anti-Trump comments have been
ignored by the media.
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Obama moved from that to talking about a
nativist mistrust and unease that has swept
around the world. He argued that such
things as the speed of technical change
and the uneven impact of globalization
have come too quickly to be absorbed in
many cultures, bringing strange new things
and people to areas in which "people didn't
(used to) challenge your assumptions." As
a result, "nothing feels solid," he said.
"Sadly, there's something in us that looks
for simple answers when we're agitated."
Still, the U.S. has survived tough times
before and will again, he noted,
particularly mentioning the days of
communist fighter Joseph McCarthy
and former President Richard Nixon.
But one reason the country survived is
because it had a free press to ask
questions, Obama added. Though he has
problems with the media just like Trump
has had, "what I understood was the
principle that the free press was vital."
The danger is "grow(ing) complacent,"
Obama said. "We have to tend to this
garden of democracy or else things
could fall apart quickly." That's what
happened in Germany in the 1930s
which, despite the democracy of the
Weimar Republic and centuries of high-
level cultural and scientific
achievements, Adolph Hitler rose to
dominate, Obama noted. "Sixty million
people died. . . .So, you've got to pay
attention. And vote."
No surprise either that Obama didn’t appear to get
pushback for this comment from his personal friend and
financial backer, who just happened to be his interviewer,
Mellody Hobson. Hobson is not just a financial contributor
for CBS, but is a close friend and high profile donor to
Obama’s two presidential campaigns. At a White House
event in 2013, Obama warmly described Hobson as a
“great great friend”:
Mellody was being very modest when she
said she had a front-row seat. Mellody was
one of my earliest supporters back when
nobody could pronounce my name. And
her and John Rogers at Arial Capital
helped to co-chair some of my first
fundraisers. And they’d have to drag some
straggly group in, kicking and screaming,
and write a check and listen to this young
senator who had a lot of ideas but not
necessarily any realistic prospects to win.
And she went through a lot of ups and
downs with me and my career and is just a
great, great friend. So I want to thank her
publicly for all the support that she’s given
us.
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Hobson is also married to billionaire George Lucas and has
donated over $100,000 to Obama’s presidential
campaigns. She is frequently quoted by the media, like in
this recent writeup by The New York Times where she
called Colin Kaepernick "a hero of mine."
Faced with such friendly interviewers and audiences, both
Obamas haven’t been sitting back quietly while President
Trump took office.
At two separate climate conferences this past week,
Obama blasted the current administration for opting out of
the Paris Climate Agreement. To a group of business
leaders in Paris, Obama lamented,
“We have a temporary absence of
American leadership” on climate change.
In September, Obama criticized Trump’s decision to
rescind DACA as “cruel” and “self-defeating.”
The former FLOTUS has also gone after Trump, making
snarky comments about his use of Twitter, to several
different audiences. In September, she slammed women
who didn’t vote for Clinton as betraying their sex,
characterizing them as weak-minded and sexist.
 Morning Joe: 'Hell To Pay' And 'Deaths
Are Coming' Because Of Trump's Jerusalem Speech
By Chris Reeves
December 6, 2017 1:24 PM EST
Wednesday’s Morning Joe devoted a significant portion of
its broadcast to covering President Trump’s speech today
that will officially recognize Jerusalem as the capital of
Israel. In response to reports that the Palestinian Authority
is reacting to this development by calling for potentially
violent protests and a “day of anger,” MSNBC’s top liberal
pundits knew precisely where the blame for any resultant
violence should fall – Trump, of course.
Guest Chris Matthews even fumed that
there would be “hell to pay” and that
“deaths are coming” because of the
move.
Astoundingly, none of the show’s liberal journalists
thought to blame any of the expected future perpetrators of
violence for any deaths or rioting that may follow Trump’s
speech.
Halfway through the first hour of the show, NBC news
contributor and former CIA intelligence officer Ned Price
raised the possibility that American civilians, soldiers, and
diplomats abroad will be targeted in the aftermath of
Trump’s Jerusalem speech:
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MIKE BARNICLE: Ned Price, Jordan, UAE,
Egypt, uh, what's happening in those
capitals today in this increasingly and
daily more volatile region?
PRICE : Well Mike, I think that's precisely
the concern, and that's one of the many
reasons why it's been reported that
Secretaries Mattis and Tillerson voiced
private opposition to this move. This is not
an “America First” foreign policy
gesture. This is a “Trump First” move, a
move that is predicated on a crass
political calculation and a crass
political, uh, pro-, campaign trail
promise. This will not make the
American people, diplomats, military
personnel, private citizens safer in the
countries that you just mentioned. And
as we saw, the consulate general in
Jerusalem put out a very stern message
essentially telling Americans in that part of
the world that they should be on lockdown.
We have seen similar broad warnings from
the State Department warning of violence.
This move will certainly lead to violence.
The question is: What will be the
ramifications of that violence and just
how deadly it will be [sic]?
But who would be responsible for any such violence? Co-
host Mika Brzezinski and MSNBC political contributor
Elise Jordan knew the answer to that:
BRZEZINSKI: Yeah. I mean, Elise, the
image in my mind as the President is
this massive drunk bull and the world is
a china shop?
ELISE JORDAN: This to me seems to have
more in terms of public diplomacy
implications than practical implications just
because this isn’t -- he's actually signing
another six month waiver to keep the
embassy in Tel Aviv. He's saying he's
moving it, but not really taking action
necessarily to build a new embassy in
Jerusalem and start that process of shifting
operations. So, I don't get what we gain
other than just inflaming people.
During the second hour of their broadcast, Morning Joe
returned to these same talking points in another segment
on Trump’s Jerusalem speech. Reporting live from the
holy city itself, MSNBC host Ayman Mohyeldin
repeatedly put the onus for any possible violence on
Trump’s choice of language:
BRZEZINSKI: Later today, President
Trump intends to announce that the United
States now recognizes Jerusalem as the
capital of Israel. Joining us live from just
outside the old city in East Jerusalem, co-
host of Morning Joe First Look, Ayman
Mohyeldin. Ayman, what's the
atmosphere on the ground there?
MOHYELDIN: Yeah, Mika, I mean, that is a
very good question because it is a very
tense atmosphere right now. And
everything is gonna come down really
to how President Trump delivers this
statement. This is, in some ways, a
diplomatic crisis, a potential diplomatic
crisis, that is the doing of the President
himself because this was something that
has been a longstanding policy of the
United States – not to touch the issue of
Jerusalem or move the embassy here. But
now, as we’ve seen in the last 24 hours,
world leaders are reacting and the t- -- the
mood on the street here is very tense.
On one hand, you have the Israeli side.
Security has been beefed up. On the other
side, you have the Palestinian authority
calling for massive protests and
demonstrations over the course of the
next three days. They've already labeled
it a day of anger over what could be an
explosive decision by the U.S. President
to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of
Israel.
But going back to the original point, Mika, it
is really gonna come down to how
President Trump delivers this
statement. Is he going to be very
provocative in the language that he
uses? Is he going to make it sound like
there is no open door for East Jerusalem to
be a part of a future Palestinian state? It’s
all gonna come down to the language
the President uses, and I think that is
what has a lot of people here somewhat
concerned, particularly on the Palestinian
or Arab streets, so to speak. They don't
necessarily have a lot of confidence that
the diplomatic niceties will be finessed into
that speech that can give them an
opportunity to find some kind of wiggle
room to say: We’re gonna be committed to
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the process, the peace process, and see
where this goes from here.
So, the same Palestinian Authority that pays Palestinian
and Israeli Arabs to kill Israelis in terrorist attacks is
calling for protests and demonstrations in response to
America recognizing the capital of a sovereign state, but
Trump is the one who needs to refrain from being too
provocative?
At least we know where MSNBC’s priorities are:
Trump = Bad
Terrorist murderers attacking Americans =
What? Huh?
Co-host Joe Scarborough’s conclusion from Mohyeldin’s
report was very similar to his fiancé’s take earlier:
“[Trump]'s not really doing anything
other than destabilizing the Middle East
with this announcement.”
So, again, terrorists threatening violence against their
political opponents for saying things they don’t like isn’t
the problem, but Trump is.
Has Trump existed in the Middle East for the past 1400
years? Is that really what has made the region so volatile
for so long? Maybe Morning Joe is really onto something
here.
Columnist George Will tried to respond to Scarborough’s
assertion by pointing out that no real peace process exists
at the moment for Trump to even disrupt, but MSNBC host
Chris Matthews had a very different reaction. Putting on
the mantle of a prophet of doom,
Matthews confidently proclaimed that
there would be “hell to pay” and
“deaths are coming now because of
[Trump’s speech]”:
MATTHEWS: I think the only hope for
peace is to give a portion of East
Jerusalem, maybe all of it, and that's what
Clinton tried to do at Taba at the end of his
second term. ‘Cause if you don't give the
Palestinians hope that they can have
national integrity and have a capital
where they believe it should be, you're
gonna have an unending problem. By
the way, deaths are coming now
because of this.
BRZEZINSKI: [loud sigh]
MATTHEWS: You can just bet that the
next few weeks, we’re gonna have hell
 to pay for this totally erratic decision by
this president. Every party that has had
the White House since ‘48 has recognized
you have to be careful over there. I lived
over there, right up Damascus Gate, right
where that picture was. And I gotta tell ya,
everything is intricate over there.
Bethlehem is intricate with the Armenian
church, and the Chri- -- and the Catholic
church. Everything is intricate. The guys
with the -- the ultra-religious people in the
.
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Jewish community and the Arab call to
prayer, it's all intermingled and intricately
combined. And to mess that up now
makes no sense for anybody to do that.
It's not in America's interests. And I
don't know whose interest in Israel it is.
Violent politicians and criminals are responsible for their
own evil intent and actions, not the people they are angry
at for political reasons. Is that really so hard for MSNBC
to understand?
 Decision Will Cause ‘Violence’ And Terrorism
By Kyle Drennen
December 6, 2017 1:33 PM EST
On Wednesday, all three network morning shows were in
full panic mode over President’s Trump’s upcoming
decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. In
the midst of the collective freak-out, hosts and
correspondents warned that the “dangerous” move could
lead to a “new wave of violence” across the Middle East
and even inspire “terrorist attacks in the west.”
Opening NBC’s Today, co-host Savannah Guthrie sounded
the alarm:
“Controversial Move. President Trump
set to recognize Jerusalem as the
capital of Israel today. Israeli officials
hailing the landmark decision, other
world leaders outraged. Could it lead to
a new wave of violence?”
Minutes later, fellow co-host Hoda Kotb fretted:
“It would up-end decades of U.S. policy
and is already being met with warnings that
could prompt new violence and disrupt the
peace process.”
Reporting from Jerusalem, Chief Foreign Correspondent
Richard Engel warned:
“There have already been some
demonstrations, they are expected to
intensify, with Palestinians calling for
three days of rage if President Trump
goes through with it.”
He added:
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“Palestinians took to the streets to oppose
what they say is a needless and
provocative move by President
Trump...”
Throughout the segment, the headline on screen blared:
“Trump to Recognize Jerusalem as Capital;
Controversial Decision Could Lead to
Upheaval.”
“Breaking news, bracing for violence. The
Middle East on edge this morning. Protests
erupting as President Trump prepares to
make that major announcement
recognizing Jerusalem as the capital of
Israel....World leaders call the decision
dangerous,” co-host George
Stephanopoulos proclaimed at the top of
ABC’s Good Morning America.
Talking to Chief Global Affairs Anchor Martha Raddatz
minutes later,
he touted “a growing chorus of world
leaders warning the President against
this move.”
Raddatz helpfully recited their objections:
Of course, indeed, George. The Turkish
foreign minister is calling it a grave
mistake that would bring chaos and
instability to the region. Britain’s foreign
minister is expressing concern. Jordan’s
king saying it will provoke Muslims and
Christians alike. And Palestinian
President Mahmoud Abbas called it
unacceptable. I could go on and on,
George, but the bottom line is no one else
in the world has an embassy in Jerusalem.
“So it’s safe to say this has alarmed
leaders around the globe, George,” she
concluded. Stephanopoulos agreed: “It
certainly has.”
Later in the discussion, Senior White House
Correspondent Cecilia Vega suggested that the President
was simply trying to appeal to “evangelicals” in his base
and Jewish “mega-donor” Sheldon Adelson.
Leading off CBS This Morning, co-host Gayle King joined
her network colleagues in the fearmongering:
“President Trump will announce a high-
stakes decision today to recognize
Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. U.S. allies
and leaders around the world say it’s a
big mistake that will torpedo any chance
of Middle East peace.”
Introducing the report minutes later, fellow co-host Norah
O’Donnell breathlessly declared:
“President Trump is set to reverse nearly
seven decades of U.S./Middle East policy
today.”
After playing a clip of Trump promising to recognize
Jerusalem as the Israeli capital, correspondent Margaret
Brennan scolded:
“That campaign pledge, popular with
evangelicals and hard-line Israel
supporters, is why President Trump will
recognize Jerusalem as Israeli territory
against the advice of allies and his
national security team.”
During a follow-up report early in the 8 a.m. ET hour,
Brennan again let the political labels fly:
“It’s going to be very, very popular with
some of the evangelical voters who helped
propel President Trump into this office. It’s
also going to be popular with some of
the harder, right-wing, pro-Israel
supporters, many of whom supported
the Trump campaign.”
In addition to Brennan’s reporting, fellow correspondent
Seth Doane joined the broadcast from Jerusalem and
predicted worldwide violence:
Recognizing Jerusalem as Israel’s capital
is of course popular with the Israeli
government because it strengthens their
hold on the city. The Palestinians say it
could damage the peace process and
we’re already starting to see protests in
Gaza City.
There are concerns about violence not
only here and across the Middle East,
but this also could provide rationale for
terrorist attacks in the west as well.
We spoke with one senior Palestinian
official who told us that there are plenty of
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extremists already in the world and this
provides a ready-made excuse.
Rather than provide calm, reasoned coverage of the foreign
policy decision, the liberal media instead decided to
escalate tensions by employing incendiary rhetoric.
Here are excerpts of the December 6 coverage:
Today
7:05 AM ET
HODA KOTB: Also breaking overnight, a controversial move by
President Trump. Later today he is expected to recognize
Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. It would up-end decades of U.S.
policy and is already being met with warnings that could prompt
new violence and disrupt the peace process. NBC’s Chief
Foreign Correspondent Richard Engel is in Jerusalem this
morning. Good morning, Richard.
RICHARD ENGEL: Good morning. This would be a significant
step, not just a symbolic step. And there is real tension in this city
this morning. There have already been some demonstrations,
they are expected to intensify, with Palestinians calling for three
days of rage if President Trump goes through with it.
[ON-SCREEN HEADLINE: Trump to Recognize Jerusalem as
Capital; Controversial Decision Could Lead to Upheaval]
Palestinians took to the streets to oppose what they say is a
needless and provocative move by President Trump, giving Israel
what it has long wanted, recognition of its claim to all of the city of
Jerusalem. U.S. Government employees and their families have
been ordered, for their safety, to stay out of Palestinian areas
today, including the center of Jerusalem and the nearby city of
Bethlehem. For Israelis, the U.S. is merely recognizing land they
already control.
AMALIA BEHAL [JERUSALEM NATIVE]: This is our country, this
is the promised land. This is the promised city. This is the capital
of Israel.
ENGEL: For Palestinians, however, it’s a sign the peace process
hasn’t worked for them.
DR. MOHAMMAD JAMAAL [JERUSALEM NATIVE]: We are the
landowners of this land. We are the owners of this place. We
were here before any other.
ENGEL: So, what’s the issue? Both Israelis and Palestinians
claim Jerusalem to be their capital. Israelis say the united city is
the heart of the Jewish state reaching back thousands of years.
Palestinians say east Jerusalem, home to Islam’s third-holiest
mosque, should be the capital of their future state. This was
never an easy dispute, sorting out who controls what in
Jerusalem was the core of the U.S.-sponsored peace process.
The subject of decades of talks. Talks now thrown into disarray.
White House officials say the President today will recognize
Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and order the State Department to
initiate the process of moving the U.S. embassy to the city from
Tel Aviv. U.S. officials say a location in Jerusalem has yet to be
chosen. And that the embassy move will take years. It’s a move
opposed by many across the Muslim world, who wonder why
President Trump’s first foray into Middle East diplomacy was to
upend it.
Turkey, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, China, Egypt, and a whole host of
other countries, including just this morning, the Vatican City, with
the Pope making the statement, have all expressed concern
about what this statement, this anticipated statement from
President Trump, could do. And several of the countries calling
on the President not to make it. Hoda, Savannah, back to you.
HODA KOTB: Alright, Richard Engel in Jerusalem. Richard,
thank you.
Good Morning America
7:09 AM ET
GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS: We’re going to move on now to
that major new move from President Trump. The Middle East on
edge this morning as the President set to become the first
American president to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of
Israel. He will also say he wants to move the U.S. embassy from
Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. So let’s bring in our Chief Global Affairs
Anchor Martha Raddatz, our Senior White House Correspondent
Cecilia Vega for the latest on all this. Martha, you’ve got this
growing chorus of world leaders warning the President against
this move.
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[ON-SCREEN HEADLINE: Trump’s Major Middle East
Announcement; President to Recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s
Capital]
MARTHA RADDATZ: Of course, indeed, George. The Turkish
foreign minister is calling it a grave mistake that would bring
chaos and instability to the region. Britain’s foreign minister is
expressing concern. Jordan’s king saying it will provoke Muslims
and Christians alike. And Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas
called it unacceptable. I could go on and on, George, but the
bottom line is no one else in the world has an embassy in
Jerusalem. So it’s safe to say this has alarmed leaders around
the globe, George.
STEPHANOPOULOS: It certainly has. But, Cecilia, the President
been itching to do this for a long time and getting a lot of
pressure behind the scenes.
CECILIA VEGA: Yeah, George, and I’m told that this really is
about making good on that campaign promise. Sources here tell
me that this is something the President actually wanted to do
right after he took office but there was – we talk about regularly
that learning curve, one source told me he basically realized you
can’t snap your fingers and move an embassy.
There has been pressure, strong pressure behind the scenes
from evangelicals and others like Sheldon Anderson [sic] that Las
Vegas casino magnate who’s a mega-donor to Donald Trump.
But I’m told today the White House has a conference call
scheduled with evangelicals, with pro-Israeli groups to really talk
about this plan.
But really it came down to the President not wanting to sign this
waiver today to extend – to keep the embassy in Tel Aviv, that
extension waiver without making it look like he’s made some
progress on this big campaign promise from him.
STEPHANOPOULOS: So he makes progress on the campaign
promise, but, Martha, the big question going forward is what does
this mean for the Middle East peace process. The President has
dispatched his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, to lead the U.S. effort
there.
RADDATZ: You know, I don’t know how this possibly helps any
peace initiative which, as you said, the President’s son-in-law,
Kushner, has been charged with. And I think it says a lot about
how little progress has been made.
As for violence there, George, Palestinians are calling for
protests throughout the region, Americans have been warned not
to go where crowds are gathered or into Jerusalem’s old city, and
the U.S. is sending in additional Marines to embassies
throughout the region. And even if there are not protests, nothing
public, this is something that will simmer for a very long time,
George.
STEPHANOPOULOS: Yeah, it could set off repercussions
across the region.
(...)
CBS This Morning
7:06 AM ET
NORAH O’DONNELL: President Trump is set to reverse nearly
seven decades of U.S./Middle East policy today. He's expected
to announce that Washington will recognize Jerusalem as Israel's
capital. The President plans to tell the State Department to begin
the process of moving the U.S. embassy from Tel Aviv. Seth
Doane is in Jerusalem where Israel’s Prime Minister did not
mention the issue this morning. But first, let’s go to Margaret
Brennan at the White House for more on this. Margaret, good
morning.
MARGARET BRENNAN: Good morning. No other country in the
world has an embassy in Jerusalem, but today President Trump
will make a major concession and recognize Jerusalem as the
political capital of Israel. He’ll promise that in the future a U.S.
embassy will be built there.
DONALD TRUMP: We will move the American embassy to the
eternal capital of the Jewish people, Jerusalem.
BRENNAN: That campaign pledge, popular with evangelicals
and hard-line Israel supporters, is why President Trump will
recognize Jerusalem as Israeli territory against the advice of
allies and his national security team.
TRUMP: If you can't produce peace in the Middle East, nobody
can.
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BRENNAN: It also undermines the peace process launched by
Jared Kushner as the status of Jerusalem is one of the most
incendiary issues in the conflict. For nearly 70 years, U.S. policy
has been to settle it through diplomacy.
TRUMP: My administration will always stand with Israel.
BRENNAN: Security alerts were sent to U.S. posts around the
world to brace for violence ahead of Mr. Trump's declaration.
President Trump has boasted about his chance at peace, but
four of the five world leaders he spoke with Tuesday said this
would be a setback. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas
cautioned it would have, quote, “detrimental consequences on
the peace process.” White House Press Secretary Sarah
Sanders downplayed it.
SARAH HUCKABEE SANDERS: He spoke with five leaders.
That’s hardly indicative of everybody across the globe.
BRENNAN: As for that peace plan, the Trump administration has
yet to present any proposal, saying Jared Kushner's team is still
figuring it out. For now, the U.S. embassy stays in Tel Aviv. The
White House says that building a new one will take at least four
years through the end of Mr. Trump's first term. Gayle?
(...)
7:08 AM ET
SETH DOANE: Recognizing Jerusalem as Israel’s capital is of
course popular with the Israeli government because it
strengthens their hold on the city. The Palestinians say it could
damage the peace process and we’re already starting to see
protests in Gaza City. There are concerns about violence not
only here and across the Middle East, but this also could provide
rationale for terrorist attacks in the west as well. We spoke with
one senior Palestinian official who told us that there are plenty of
extremists already in the world and this provides a ready-made
excuse.
(...)
 LOCK THEM UP: Why It’s Time To Arrest James Comey,
Robert Mueller, Peter Strzok And The Other Swamp
Creatures Staging An Attempted Coup
By Mike Adams
Wednesday, December 06, 2017
An attempted political coup is taking place in America
right now as sinister swamp creatures with names like
“James Comey” and “Peter Strzok” are attempting to
nullify the outcome of the presidential election and steal
the country away from the will of the voters. These very
same swamp creatures exonerated Hillary Clinton for her
role in a series of serious national security violations while
giving her a free pass on lying to the FBI (and the entire
country). Peter Strzok, for example — a rabid anti-Trump
swampster — is now credited with changing the FBI’s
assessment of Hillary Clinton’s offenses from “grossly
negligent” to “extremely careless,” a monumental
distinction in terms of legal liability. (See source links,
below.)
Peter Strzok has been a member of the extremely corrupt
Robert Mueller special counsel investigation team that’s
attempting to ensnare President Trump on anything they
can find (or fabricate) as a pretext to demand his
impeachment. That investigation has been illegal from the
start, as the Dept. of Justice regulations require a crime to
be named before a special counsel is appointed, yet no
crime was ever named to justify the appointment of the
special counsel in the first place. Instead, the Mueller
investigation was initiated as a witch hunt to try to find
some crimes or engineer them in the process of the
investigation. The General Flynn guilty plea, for example,
stems wholly from the FBI deceptively interviewing Flynn
under false pretenses, then catching him in a misstatement
when he didn’t even realize he was being interviewed as
part of a criminal trap. (Yes, you can be charged with a
felony for merely lying to the FBI in a casual conversation,
even though the government can lie to you with impunity.)
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The FBI has become a rogue criminal operation
Now, the FBI is engaged in a massive cover-up, blocking
information on Peter Strzok to make sure it doesn’t go
public.
“The FBI blocked all information on its
website about a top counterterrorism
official who was kicked off of Special
Counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia
investigation for sending politically-biased
text messages to an FBI lawyer,” reports
the Daily Caller.
Peter Strzok was a venomous anti-Trump swamp creature,
we now know, just like all the other members of the
Robert Mueller special counsel. As the Daily Caller
reports,
“It was revealed on Saturday that Strzok
was removed from Mueller’s team in
August after the Department of Justice’s
inspector general discovered that he
exchanged anti-Trump and pro-Hillary
Clinton text messages with his mistress, an
FBI lawyer named Lisa Page who also
worked on the Mueller team.”
Via Daily Caller:
The revelation of Strzok’s biased texts is
significant because of his central role in
both the Russia investigation and the
Clinton email probe. As the FBI’s No. 2
counter-terrorism official, Strzok helped
start both of the investigations. He also
conducted interviews with former national
security adviser Michael Flynn in the
Russia investigation and with Clinton and
several of her top aides in the email inquiry.
Fox News is now reporting that the FBI is facing a
contempt resolution from Congress for conspiring to
withhold details about Strzok that show him to be an anti-
Trump, pro-Clinton swamp creature working to ensnare
Trump at all costs.

“House Intelligence Committee Chairman

Devin Nunes, R-Calif., had demanded the
text messages between FBI
counterintelligence agent Peter Strzok and
Lisa Page, an FBI lawyer with whom Strzok
was romantically involved,” reports Fox
News. “House investigators have long
regarded him as a key figure in the chain of
events when the bureau, in 2016, received The FBI is “out of control”
the infamous anti-Trump ‘dossier’ and
launched a counterintelligence
investigation into Russian meddling in the Fox News’ Tucker Carlson added to the warnings about
election that ultimately came to encompass the FBI’s deep state corruption, saying in a tweet:
FISA surveillance of a Trump campaign
associate.” The point is clear: the FBI is out of control
and not just in the @realDonaldTrump
“Today [Robert Mueller] leads the most
investigation. An agency charged with
corrupt, criminal and treasonous Coup
enforcing the law clearly considers itself
D’état in American history,” warns The
above the law. That’s a threat to you, and
Gateway Pundit. “Today the FBI that
every American, no matter who you voted
Mueller ran is in shambles. No one with an
for.
ounce of common sense believes that the
FBI exhibits integrity and this is in large
part because of the actions of Robert
Mueller and his close allies who recently
led the FBI.”

Carlson recognizes that the Comey / Mueller / Clinton

deep state system known as the FBI — i.e. “Fake Bureau
of Investigation” — is demonstrating exactly how secret
police organizations often get started:
“President Donald Trump ripped the
‘double standard’ in how 2016 Democratic This is how secret police start, when law
presidential nominee Hillary Clinton was enforcement agencies decide to do the
treated and how Michael Flynn, his former bidding of politicians, rather than pursue
national security adviser, was treated,” impartial justice on behalf of the public.
reports Corruption.news. Let’s nip this nightmare in the bud right
now.
“So General Flynn lies to the FBI and his
life is destroyed, while Crooked Hillary “The FBI is a corrupt organization,” adds
Clinton, on that now famous FBI holiday The Gateway Pundit. “There is so much
‘interrogation’ with no swearing in and no corruption in the FBI that lawmakers are
recording, lies many times … and nothing preparing contempt of Congress resolution
happens to her? Rigged system, or just a against Deep State operatives for refusing
double standard?” to release material related to their Trump
probe to Congress.”
Trump tweeted:
On November 30th, Judicial Watch released 29 pages of
FBI documents related to the Loretta Lynch / Bill Clinton
tarmac meeting during which it is widely believed Bill

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Clinton ordered Lynch to back off any prosecution of
Hillary Clinton.
“The documents show that FBI officials
were more concerned about leaks than the
actual meeting itself,” reports Judicial
Watch.
Via JW:
The new FBI documents show FBI officials
were concerned about a leak that Bill
Clinton delayed his aircraft taking off in
order to “maneuver” a meeting with the
attorney general. The resulting story in
the Observer is seemingly confirmed and
causes a flurry of emails about the source
of the article. FBI official(s) write “we need
to find that guy” and that the Phoenix FBI
office was contacted “in an attempt to stem
any further damage.” Another FBI official,
working on AG Lynch’s security detail,
suggests instituting non-disclosure
agreements. The names of the emails
authors are redacted. There are no
documents showing concern about the
meeting itself.
The FBI originally informed Judicial Watch
they could not locate any records related to
the tarmac meeting.  However, in a
related FOIA lawsuit, the Justice
Department located emails in which Justice
Department officials communicated with
the FBI and wrote that they had
communicated with the FBI.  As a result,
by letter dated August 10, 2017, from the
FBI stated, “Upon further review, we
subsequently determined potentially
responsive documents may exist. As a
result, your [FOIA] request has been
reopened…”
Just days after that secretive tarmac meeting, FBI Director
James Comey exonerated Hillary Clinton from any
criminal prosecution.
“These new documents confirm the urgent
need to reopen the Clinton email scandal
and criminally investigate the resulting
Obama FBI/DOJ sham investigation,” adds
Judicial Watch.
Yes, it’s time to criminally investigate the FBI.
“We’ve been saying for months that the
investigation into alleged ‘collusion’
between the Trump campaign and Russia
to ‘steal the election’ from Hillary Clinton
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was nothing more than a politically
motivated scam,” writes JD Heyes for
DeepState.news. “We knew that the probe
was fake when, after more than a year’s
worth of investigating by Obama’s FBI and
Justice Department, no evidence
whatsoeverhad been found – nothing. Just
months of allegations, innuendo and
unsubstantiated charges.”
Continuing for The National Sentinel,
Heyes adds,
“An angry Rep. Devin Nunes, chairman of
the House Intelligence Committee, has
threatened the FBI and Department of
Justice with contempt over their refusal to
explain why special counsel Robert Mueller
demoted a senior FBI investigator now
believed to be a political enemy of
President Donald J. Trump.”
Robert Mueller was complicit in Hillary
Clinton’s approval of uranium sales to
Russia-linked companies
The FBI, we now know, has been part of
the cover-up from the very beginning.
When Robert Mueller was heading up the
FBI, he was complicit in covering up the
sale of uranium strategic resources to the
Russians. (See the Peter Schweizer book
Clinton Cash for full details.)
“Florida Republican Representative Matt
Gaetz introduced a resolution Friday that
called for former FBI Director Robert
Mueller to step down as special counsel for
the “Russia investigation” due to the fact
that he was directly involved with covering
up Russia’s “significant and illegal”
involvement with American uranium
companies,” reports The Daily Sheeple.
“[T]he man whose supposed job is to find
out whether or not the Trump campaign
colluded with Russia was actually the head
of the FBI when they covered up the fact
that the country was “corrupting” American
uranium companies while also purposefully
stopping a key witness from contacting
Congress about said corruption.”
“Mueller is a deep state operative,”
concludes The Daily Sheeple.
“[A]ttorneys who worked for Mueller as
head of the FBI during the Uranium One
deal signed off on it despite the fact that
the bureau had uncovered massive
evidence of criminality involving Russian
and American figures, up to and including
then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton,”
reports Trump News.
That article goes on to report:
According to Hannity, Fox News Legal
Contributor Gregg Jarrett discovered both
Deputy Attorney General Ron Rosenstein
and Mueller’s right-hand man, Andrew
Weissmann, former head of the fraud unit
at Obama/Holder’s Justice Department,
signed the plea agreement of the Russian
businessman embroiled in the Clinton-
Uranium One case.
…Weissmann ran the Department of
Justice’s fraud section at the time Russian
operatives were bribing Americans involved
with the company, and while vast sums of
money were flowing into the coffers of the
Clinton Foundation and former president
Bill Clinton’s pockets.
This was all going on when Robert Mueller ran the FBI
and James Comey was rising in the ranks. Now, the
Mueller / Comey / Strzok / McCabe criminal ring is
running the attempted political coup against Trump. And
they’re all dirty. They’re all political hacks connected to
Hillary Clinton, the Russians and the Uranium One
scandal.
“For Mueller to hire all of these people who
made so many contributions to Hillary
Clinton was a decision of such arrogance
and indifference to appearances. You just
can’t have the optics of that and not have
your work questioned. And [Peter] Strzok
has just brought it to the fore,” former
independent counsel Joseph diGenova told
Breitbart News.
“Former FBI investigator Peter Strzok, who
was pulled from Special Counsel Robert
Mueller’s team after it was revealed he
exchanged text messages mocking
President Trump, was reportedly behind
the decision to change then-FBI Director
James Comey’s description of Hillary
Clinton’s email use from “grossly negligent”
to “extremely careless,'” writes Adam Shaw
for Breitbart. “Also on Monday, the Sean
Hannity Radio Show published an
exclusive report by Circa’s Sara Carter on
the bureau’s interviews of former national
security advisor Michael Flynn—who last
week pled guilty to lying to the FBI during
those interviews. According to Carter,
Strzok was one of two agents who
interviewed Flynn in January at the White
House.”
“FBI agent Peter Strzok was one of two FBI
agents who interviewed Flynn, which took
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place on Jan. 24, at the White House,”
reports Hannity.com:
Strzok was removed from his role in the
Special Counsel’s Office after it was
discovered he had made disparaging
comments about President Trump in text
messages between him and his alleged
lover FBI attorney Lisa Page, according to
the New York Times and Washington
Post, which first reported the stories. Strzok
is also under investigation by the
Department of Justice Inspector General
for his role in Hillary Clinton’s email server
and the ongoing investigation into Russia’s
election meddling. On Saturday, the House
Intelligence Committee’s Chairman Devin
Nunes chided the Justice Department and
the FBI for not disclosing why Strzok had
been removed from the Special Counsel
three months ago, according to a statement
given by the Chairman.
In other words, under the influence of political hacks like
Peter Strzok, the FBI has been running a political watch
hunt to destroy President Trump while covering up the
serious crimes of Hillary Clinton and Robert Mueller.
How Hillary Clinton gets away with lying
to the FBI and everybody else
Hillary Clinton is an accomplished, expert liar. She’s so
experienced at lying that she has mastered the art of lying
while technically telling the truth. For example, when
asked whether she used her illegal email server to receive
and send classified information via unsecured email, her
answer is carefully parsed:
“I never sent or received any information
that was marked classified.”
Note the qualifier she uses:
“marked classified.”
As it turns out, most classified
information isn’t marked as classified.
And no markings are required for material to be deemed
classified. All sorts of information is qualified as
“classified” with no markings whatsoever, and this is the
kind of information she illegally sent and received on her
private email server. Yet technically she isn’t lying when
she says she never forwarded information that was
“marked classified” because it wasn’t marked. But it was
classified nonetheless.
To date, there isn’t a single journalist in the legacy media
that has challenged Hillary Clinton on this point. And the
FBI exonerated her from a long list of felony crimes with
the outrageous excuse that they couldn’t find “intent” on
her part to break the law. Yet simultaneously, General
Flynn is given no quarter for lack of “intent” when it
comes to lying to the FBI. He’s charged with the full force
of the law.
The FBI’s enforcement of laws is
directed solely at Trump administration
officials while granting absolute immunity
to Obama-era officials and Hillary Clinton
herself.
Former lawmaker Jason Chaffetz has confirmed that
Hillary Clinton lied during her July 2, 2016 interview with
the FBI, saying,
“Clearly Hillary Clinton did lie under oath.
When Roger Clemons supposedly lied
under oath the Department of Justice
indicted him, but Hillary Clinton not so
much…”
Conclusion: It’s time to ARREST
Robert Mueller, James Comey,
Hillary Clinton, Peter Strzok
and the rest of the lawless gang
trying to overthrow America
The deep state despises free elections, and if We the
People elect a candidate they don’t like, they will do
everything in their power to attempt to overthrow the
results of that election and install their own complicit deep
state operative (i.e. Hillary Clinton).
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Today, the FBI is not just waging a coup against the duly-
elected Trump administration;
it’s waging a coup against the will of the
people.
To pull off that coup, the FBI and its deep state gang are
fabricating everything from the so-called “Trump dossier”
to fake news “leaks” that get written up as facts by the
complicit Washington Post, a fake news rag that
knowingly fabricates false sources in its attempts to
destroy President Trump.
If the Mueller / Comey / Clinton deep state gang manages
to throw Trump out of office,
they will have successfully overthrown our
country and seized power through a
totalitarian political coup.
They will have also proven that elections are meaningless
— nothing more than theater — because when the people
elect a candidate the deep state doesn’t like, the
bureaucracy will find a way to nullify the election and
install their own criminal-in-chief.
That’s why it is crucial that We the People call for a
special investigation into the Robert Mueller investigators,
including James Comey, Peter Strzok and all the other
swamp creatures who are part of this staged theater of false
justice. These are the people who need to be locked up
behind bars, not well-meaning Americans like General
Flynn.
What’s at stake here is the future of our
nation and our individual freedoms.
If we don’t resist the deep state’s nefarious attempt to
nullify our democratic election outcomes, they will install
a totalitarian regime with absolute power, running a “secret
police”
FBI Stasi apparatus that criminalizes
political enemies of the corrupt regime in
power.
The FBI, in other words, has become to the new KGB.
The day is fast approaching when all Americans may be
called to action to defend their nation against the corrupt
deep state. Stay tuned to this website. A massive armed
citizens’ march on Washington D.C. to find and arrest
the deep state swamp creatures is a very likely result if
these anti-American tyrants manage to remove Trump
from office. It’s not hard to predict that civil war will
quickly follow. Let’s hope it doesn’t come to that. This is
why we must investigate and arrest the deep state swamp
creatures right now, before this escalates to open
bloodshed in the streets.

We the People will not tolerate our country

being stolen by corrupt, evil swamp
creatures like Mueller, Comey and Clinton.
LOCK THEM UP and drain the swamp in
the process.

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 House Rejects Trump Impeachment
Resolution After Dem Rep. Al Green Forces Vote
By Alex Pappas | Fox News
December 6, 2017
The House of Representatives overwhelmingly rejected an
attempt to impeach President Trump after a liberal Texas
congressman forced a vote on his effort.
Democratic Rep. Al Green, who has repeatedly called for
the president's removal, introduced two articles of
impeachment against Trump on Wednesday.
But lawmakers immediately voted to effectively kill his
resolution, with 364 voting to table it and 58 Democrats
voting to move ahead.
In a dramatic speech on the floor ahead of the vote, Green
called Trump “unfit” for office and accused him of "high
misdemeanors."
The symbolic vote had been expected to fail in the
Republican-controlled House. It put some lawmakers in
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competitive districts in a tough spot by forcing them on the
record about impeachment.
Lawmakers did not actually vote on the actual articles of
impeachment, but on a procedural measure that would
have led to a vote on them.
“As I have said before, this is not about
Democrats, it is about democracy,” Green
wrote in a memo to his colleagues. “It is not
about Republicans, it is about the fate of
our Republic. May everyone vote their
conscience knowing that history will judge
us all.”
Green has discussed his intention to impeach Trump since
last spring. In October, Green filed impeachment articles
that nearly forced a vote -- until House Democratic leaders
persuaded him to abandon the effort.
At the time, White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders
called the effort "pathetic.”
In his memo to lawmakers, Green didn’t allege
“obstruction of justice” or reference the ongoing
investigation into the 2016 presidential campaign’s
connection with Russia.
Instead, Green highlighted Trump’s supposed association
with “White Nationalism, Neo-Nazism and Hate,” as well
as “Inciting Hatred and Hostility,” as offenses worthy of
impeachment.
“Friends, whether we like it or not, we now
have a bigot in the White House who
incites hatred and hostility,” Green wrote in
a letter.
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., has
insisted that any impeachment effort should be put on hold
until there is evidence of an impeachable offense.
 Kellyanne Conway Blasts
Chris Cuomo And CNN: Stop The ‘Flat-Out Lies’
By Scott Whitlock
December 6, 2017 3:48 PM EST
Liberal CNN anchor Chris Cuomo and Donald Trump
adviser Kellyanne Conway battled it out again on New
Day, Tuesday. The Counselor to the President blasted
Cuomo and lobbied that he stop telling “flat-out lies.” At
one point, she jabbed,
“You work for the Cable News Network,
CNN. It's not the CON, C-O-N, Cable
Opinion Network.”
Typically, Cuomo accused the administration’s tax bill of
only helping the wealthy:
CUOMO: No, I'm saying [the middle class
are] not getting as good a treatment as the
upper tier, and this was sold as
advantaging them.
CONWAY: No. You know what's been
horrible treatment? Their taxes have been
steadily going up. They've been paying for
out-of-control spending. They've been
paying higher taxes.
Conway spat back at Cuomo’s claims:
“The tax code is longer than the Bible and
not quite as inspirational.”
A partial transcript is below:
New Day
12/6/17
7:49am ET
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CUOMO: The rich people are complaining because they're not
getting enough of a tax cut.
CONWAY: You said earlier in this interview that you don't know
quote, "a single person in American who wants their taxes to go
up." That's something —
CUOMO: I don't. That's why leadership is hard. That's why
leadership is hard —
CONWAY: Yes -- no, that's why this president — that's why this
—
CUOMO: -- because sometimes you have to make hard choices
instead of rewarding the haves all the times.
CONWAY: Excuse me. That's why this president -- the haves --
give me a break. That's why this President is cutting taxes. Lots
of people and promises. That's --
CUOMO: Not for the middle-class the way he is for the upper-
class.
CONWAY: That is not true and you know it.
CUOMO: It's true on every objective scoring.
CONWAY: That's a flat-out lie. That's a flat-out lie that middle-
class taxes aren't going down.
CUOMO: Well, it's not even close to a lie. It doesn't meet any of
the criteria of a lie.
CONWAY: That's just not true.
CUOMO: It's not meant to deceive. It's based on fact --
CONWAY: OK. Chris --
CUOMO: — and it's a straight tell on what an objective analysis
reveals.
CONWAY: Are you going to look — are you going to tell the
middle- class right now that none of them are getting a tax cut
over this package?
CUOMO: No, I'm saying they're not getting as good a treatment CUOMO: Getting rid of the AMT and you're getting rid of the
as the upper tier, and this was sold as advantaging them. estate tax.

CONWAY: No. You know what's been horrible treatment? Their CONWAY: The tax code is longer than the Bible and not quite as
taxes have been steadily going up. They've been paying for out- inspirational. It needs to be simplified --
of-control spending. They've been paying higher taxes.
CUOMO: Is this thing working?
And you know what? We know people all across this country —
we hear from them every — CONWAY: You spent six million --

CUOMO: And you want to get rid of the AMT and the estate tax CUOMO: You got rid of the AMT and you got --
but you want a tax tuition and loans.
CONWAY: You spent six million hours --
CONWAY: No. Here's what we want to get rid of.
CUOMO: -- rid of the estate tax.
CUOMO: Who's that helping?
CONWAY: You know, this is the Cable --
CONWAY: Here's what we got rid of in this -- here's what we got
rid of in this tax plan, if I may speak a full sentence here, please.
CUOMO: What does that help?

Here's what we got rid of in this tax plan. All the special interest
CONWAY: Excuse me. You work for the Cable News
stops. All the credits, and deductions, and exemptions that
Network, CNN. It's not the CON, C-O-N, Cable Opinion
benefit the wealthy and the well-connected, which the tax code
Network.
does already. The tax code --

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 Trump Impeachment Vote Fails Overwhelmingly
The Measure Drew The Support Of 58 House Democrats.
By KYLE CHENEY
12/06/2017 02:15 PM EST
The White House quickly dismissed the effort to impeach President
Donald Trump, labeling Rep. Al Green and his allies "extremists." |
Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP Photo
House Democrats overwhelmingly joined Republicans on
Wednesday to defeat an attempt to impeach President
Donald Trump. But 58 Democrats supported the bid to
consider impeachment over the objections of House
Democratic leaders, who viewed the measure as a
distraction in a Republican-controlled Congress.
The motion to sideline the measure — killing the effort —
was approved 364-58, with four Democrats voting present.
The vote was forced by Rep. Al Green (D-Texas), who
introduced articles of impeachment describing Trump as a
bigot who incites hate and has demeaned the presidency.
"Donald John Trump, by causing such
harm to the society of the United States is
unfit to be president and warrants
impeachment, trial and removal from
office," Green said on the House floor as
he introduced the articles.
But Green, a seven-term, Houston-area lawmaker, said his
conscience compelled him to push forward with the
measure, even though he acknowledged he was unlikely to
succeed.
“Now is not the time to consider articles of
impeachment,” Democratic leader Nancy
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Pelosi and Minority Whip Steny Hoyer said
in a joint statement, shortly after Green
introduced his articles of impeachment.
The White House quickly dismissed the effort, labeling
Green and his allies "extremists."
“It’s disappointing that extremists in
Congress still refuse to accept the
President’s decisive victory in last year’s
election," spokesman Raj Shah said in a
statement. "Their time would be better
spent focusing on tax relief for American
families and businesses, and working to
fund our troops and veterans through the
holiday season rather than threaten a
government shutdown.”
Pelosi and her top allies urged Democrats to help bottle up
the measure during a closed-door caucus meeting on
Wednesday morning.
But Green offered the proposal as a so-called privileged
motion, a procedural tactic that allows a single member to
force a vote. He had flirted with forcing a vote on articles
of impeachment in October but backed away amid
pressure from Democratic leaders at the time. Republican
leaders then moved to "table" the motion, a procedural step
to bottle it up indefinitely.
Green’s articles of impeachment cite Trump’s remarks in
the aftermath of a white supremacist rally in
Charlottesville, as well as his attacks on Rep. Frederica
Wilson (D-Fla.) and his repeated criticism of NFL players
who have protested abuses by police officers by kneeling
during the national anthem.
“Friends, whether we like it or not, we now
have a bigot in the White House who
incites hatred and hostility,” he wrote in a
letter to colleagues on Tuesday.
 Nets Omit Embarrassing Failure
To Impeach Trump By House Dem
By Nicholas Fondacaro
December 6, 2017 11:53 PM EST
In a brazen move on the floor of the House Wednesday,
Texas Democratic Representative Al Green introduced
Articles of Impeachment against President Trump. Citing
accusations of racism and the mocking of Florida
Democratic Rep. Frederica Wilson, the Congressman was
only able to rally 57 other members of his party to join
him. The embarrassing failure of the impeachment went
completely unreported during the evening newscasts of the
three major networks (ABC, CBS, and NBC).
Where the networks failed in their reporting, Fox News
Channel’s Bret Baier didn’t. In a news brief during Special
Report, he noted:
“The House overwhelmingly voted today to
kill a resolution from a liberal Democratic
lawmaker to impeach President Trump.”
“A majority of Democrats joined
Republicans in opposing the move.
Democratic Congressman Al Green of
Texas says President Trump has
associated his presidency with causes
rooted in bigotry and racism,” Baier
explained. “After Green's resolution was
read aloud, the House voted 364 to 58 to
table that measure.”
“Donald John Trump, by causing such
harm to the society of the United States is
unfit to be president and warrants
impeachment, trial, and removal from
office,” Green opined as he put his Articles
of Impeachment forward, which included
some laughable citations of “high
misdemeanors”:
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 Donald J. Trump issued a public statement referring to
Rep. Frederica Wilson (D-FL-24), a female, African-
American Member of Congress as “wacky” and called
her a liar.
 Donald J. Trump issued a public statement referring to
Rep. Frederica Wilson (D-FL-24), a female, African-
American Member of Congress as “wacky” a second
time.
 Donald J. Trump issued a public statement referring to
Rep. Frederica Wilson (D-FL-24), a female, African-
American Member of Congress as “wacky” a third time.
Green also cited the President’s temporary travel ban,
apparently oblivious to the Supreme Court recently
allowing for its enforcement by the Trump administration.
With the recent resignation of Michigan Democrat John
Conyers for sexual harassment, Democrats only had 193
members in the House. That meant 70 percent of Green’s
own party sided with Republicans against impeaching the
man they love to hate. In all, the impeachment attempt
basically added up to a good fundraising tool for those
who participated, so they can show their donors they’re
standing up to Trump.
Impeaching a president isn’t something that’s done lightly,
so it really should have been something they dedicated
some time too. That’s not to mention how liberal
politicians and the liberal media (AKA “The Resistance”)
have been dreaming of an impeachment to come down the
pike. But since the impeachment fell flat on its face, it’s
not surprising they don’t want to talk about it.
Transcript below:
Fox News Channel
Special Report
December 6, 2017
6:31:54 PM Eastern
BRET BAIER: The House overwhelmingly voted today to kill a
resolution from a liberal Democratic lawmaker to impeach
President Trump. A majority of Democrats joined Republicans in
opposing the move. Democratic Congressman Al Green of Texas
says President Trump has associated his presidency with causes
rooted in bigotry and racism. After Green's resolution was read
aloud, the House voted 364-58 to table that measure.
 Nets Freak: Trump ‘Reversing’
70 Years Of U.S. Policy With Embassy Move
By Nicholas Fondacaro
December 6, 2017 9:58 PM EST

The reporters on ABC’s World News Tonight came off as

acting the most distraught.

“And the other major news tonight,

The three network newscasts seemed to be doing their best
to stir the public up into a full-blown panic Wednesday
evening, feverishly slamming President Trump’s decision
to move the U.S. embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to
Jerusalem. They were clutching their pearls as they freaked
out about how Trump was “reversing nearly 70 years of
U.S. policy.” But they failed in their duty to report how in
1995 Congress passed a law requiring the U.S. to move the
embassy there.
As CBS Evening News came on the air, new anchor Jeff
Glor sounded out of breath when he hastily announced that
the State Department wanted diplomats to limit their travel
to the holy city.
President Trump reversing nearly seven
decades of U.S. Policy. Now recognizing
Jerusalem as Israel's capital,” declared
anchor David Muir, echoing Glore.
“He had promised this day would come,
but to hear these words from the White
House was jaw-dropping,” shuddered
ABC’s Chief Global Affairs Correspondent
Martha Raddatz.
“Not only signing a proclamation
reversing nearly 70 years of U.S. policy,
but starting plans to move the embassy
to Jerusalem. No one else on Earth has
an embassy there!”
Throughout her entire report, one would infer a sense of
great angst from her as if she was preparing for a
catastrophe.

“The department is concerned about any

possible violent reaction to President
Trump's announcement today that the
United States now recognizes
Jerusalem as the capital of Israel for the
first time since the Jewish state was
founded nearly 70 years ago,” he
reported.
“President Trump's recognition of
Raddatz highlighted the dire warnings of Palestinian
Jerusalem as the capital of Israel rejects
President and glorified terrorist Mahmoud Abbas who
the policy of previous presidents and
claimed the move would cause “wars that will never end.”
the recommendations of his secretaries
And when it came to those who supported the President’s
of state and defense,”
decision:
CBS White House Correspondent Major Garrett would go
“Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin
on to complain. CBS was the only network to begin with
Netanyahu, clearly relishing the move,”
the embassy move instead of the wildfires in California,
she spat.
which was rather interesting.

NBC Nightly News also focused on claiming the move

upended
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 “seven decades of US policy changed in
an instant.” The move “puts the U.S. on
an island. Every other country more
than 80 of them with an embassy in
Israel has theirs in Tel Aviv,” noted White
House Correspondent Hallie Jackson.
Jackson was the only one to recall that previous presidents
wanted to move the embassy.
But she claimed “widespread consensus
and United Nations policy that the fate
of Jerusalem should be one of the last
decisions negotiated between Israelis
and Palestinians,” changed their minds.
While they all parroted the assertion Trump was
destroying 70 years of U.S. policy, all three refused to
acknowledge the fact that what Trump was doing WAS
and HAD BEEN our policy since 1995. The law passed by
Congress was literally titled “Jerusalem Embassy Act of
1995.” The law’s directive stated that
“the United States Embassy in Israel
should be established in Jerusalem no later
than May 31, 1999.”
But ever since its passage, presidents have been signing
waivers to put it off.
The law was a crucial fact that the media were willfully
omitting. It was also a fact that was called out by HLN
host S.E. Cupp before the nets came on the air.
“Even though a 1995 act directed this
exact thing to happen 22 years ago and
prior presidents just signed waivers to
avoid doing it, Trump's announcement
is being framed as a controversial move
that could shake up the mid-east peace
process, undermine regional stability,
and lead to violence.”
Transcripts below:
CBS Evening News
December 6, 2017
6:31:23 PM Eastern
JEFF GLOR: Good evening. The State Department is asking
U.S. diplomats around the world to put off all non-eventual travel
to Israel, Jerusalem, and the West Bank until later this month.
The department is concerned about any possible violent reaction
to President Trump's announcement today that the United States
now recognizes Jerusalem as the capital of Israel for the first
time since the Jewish state was founded nearly 70 years ago. Mr.
Trump also ordered the State Department to begin planning to
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move the U.S. embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, a campaign
promise. Major Garrett is at the White House.
(…)
MAJOR GARRETT: President Trump's recognition of Jerusalem
as the capital of Israel rejects the policy of previous presidents
and the recommendations of his secretaries of state and
defense.
...
ABCWorld News Tonight
December 6, 2017
6:36:07 PM Eastern
DAVID MUIR: And the other major news tonight, President
Trump reversing nearly seven decades of U.S. Policy. Now
recognizing Jerusalem as Israel's capital, and planning to move
the American embassy there, saying it will advance the peace
process. But tonight, swift reaction from some of our key allies.
One calling it unhelpful, another calling it regrettable. Here's
ABC's Chief Global Affairs Correspondent Martha Raddatz again
tonight.
[Cuts to video]
MARTHA RADDATZ: He had promised this day would come, but
to hear these words from the White House was jaw-dropping.
(…)
RADDATZ: Not only signing a proclamation reversing nearly 70
years of U.S. policy, but starting plans to move the embassy to
Jerusalem. No one else on Earth has an embassy there.
(…)
RADDATZ: But the reaction, swift. Palestinian leader Mahmoud
Abbas saying it could lead to "Wars that will never end." The
Turkish foreign minister calling it "A grave mistake." Britain's
prime minister calling it "Unhelpful" to the peace process. French
President Macron saying it was "Regrettable." And protests.
Palestinians burning the U.S. and Israeli flag, declaring
Jerusalem their capital and saying the blood of martyrs won't be
wasted. The only positive comments overseas?
BENJAMIN NETANYAHU: This is a historic day.
RADDATZ: Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, clearly
relishing the move.
(…)
...
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JACKSON: Seven decades of US policy changed in an instant.

DONALD TRUMP: Today we finally acknowledge the obvious,

that Jerusalem is Israel's capital.

JACKSON: President Trump will also move the U.S. embassy to

Jerusalem, which could take three or four years, and which puts
the U.S. on an island. Every other country more than 80 of them
with an embassy in Israel has theirs in Tel Aviv.

NBC Nightly News TRUMP: While previous presidents have made this a major
December 6, 2017 campaign promise, they failed to deliver. Today I am delivering.
7:05:28 PM Eastern
JACKSON: There are reasons those other presidents changed
(...) their views. Like widespread consensus and United Nations
policy that the fate of Jerusalem should be one of the last
HALLIE JACKSON: Good evening, Lester. The President here is decisions negotiated between Israelis and Palestinians, but this
making a risky bet that doing something different will eventually president made a promise –
end up productive for peace talks, but he's about the only one
making that bet. This decision, which is not likely to be undone by (...)
future presidents, is one of the most controversial and potentially
consequential of his administration.
.

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 As Usual, CNN’s Chris Cillizza Misses The Point
By Frank Cannon
December 6, 2017 11:47 PM EST
If you’re a conservative supporter of Donald Trump, it’s
likely you have your own personal villain in the
mainstream media who you love to hate. For me, it’s CNN
politics reporter, Chris Cillizza.
That’s not to take away from the fine work many left-wing
activists masquerading as reporters are doing. But Cillizza
takes the cake. He is supposedly a politics reporter and
editor-at-large for CNN, but in reality, he has only one job,
which is continuously rewrite the same commentary
declaring that Donald Trump has yet again reached a new
low in his presidency. For this, he gets paid a great deal.
Monday’s shriek was about Trump’s desire to do the direct
opposite of what any other president has ever done. As
evidence, Cillizza presented an early-morning tweet sent
by the President and a brief comment he made toward
reporters before boarding Marine One on Monday
morning.
In the tweet, Trump endorsed Alabama Republican Roy
Moore for Senate in Alabama. Why? As Trump explained,
Moore supports his agenda — while Democrat Doug Jones
does not.
Cillizza squealed:
“For any other president -- literally any
other one -- doing [this] would be
considered so politically and legally risky
that they wouldn't even talk about it much
less actually say it in public.”
Literally any other one, you say? Now when have we ever
had a president who endorsed someone of his own party
who was accused of being involved in sexual impropriety?
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Maybe Cillizza isn’t as old as I am, but I seem to
remember this happening – oh, last year.
One need only think way back to 2016, when President
Barack Obama tweeted support and campaigned for a
woman who set the cause of combating sexual harassment
back two decades. There is not a single woman who
former President Bill Clinton allegedly groped, harassed,
or raped that Hillary Clinton didn’t seek to “destroy” or
ruin.
But let’s move on to Trump’s Monday morning comments.
Trump offered sympathy for his former National Security
Adviser Michael Flynn, who pleaded guilty last Friday to
lying to the FBI about his conversation with then-Russian
Ambassador to the U.S. Sergei Kislyak. As Trump pointed
out over the weekend, he did not believe that what Flynn
did in talking to Kislyak was in any way improper, and
expressed confusion as to why Flynn would lie about it.
Again, we would have to think as far back as President
Obama to see a president who showed support toward
people who were caught perjuring themselves. Picking on
Hillary Clinton here would be redundant, but what about
James Clapper? Susan Rice? Lois Lerner? Why didn’t
Cillizza shriek about those whoppers?
Cillizza continued:
Trump -- by his own admission -- sees
himself as a counter-puncher. He sees
what people do and then he strikes back by
doing the opposite. He is, by nature, a
reactive force -- someone defined by
opposition to things rather than support for
them.
Viewed that way, Trump's endorsement of Moore and his
praise for Flynn make total and complete sense. Up is
down. Down is up. “C-A-T” spells “dog.”
Ah, yes. Up is down! Trump’s totally crazy! Or, perhaps,
Trump’s “reaction” against the excesses of progressivism
was the very thing that launched him to the nomination of
his party and to winning the presidency of the United
States. Cillizza’s column is called “The Point.”
And, as usual, he completely misses it.
 Flynn Investigation PROVES Once And For All
That The FBI Has Been Transformed Into A Soviet-Style
Secret Police Force
By JD Heyes
Wednesday, December 06, 2017
If in fact former Trump national security advisor Michael
Flynn did lie to an FBI agent as he pleaded guilty to doing
last week, then that’s on him: There was no reason for him
to do so because he hadn’t done anything illegal or even
improper.
But because the agent he lied to — Peter Strzok — has
since been removed from special counsel Robert Mueller’s
staff for being a pro-Hillary Clinton hack, Flynn’s
admission and, indeed, the entire reason why he was
questioned about his conversations with a Russian
diplomat in the first place, go a long way towards proving
without a doubt just how corrupt and politicized the FBI
has become.
In other words, the FBI has been transformed into the kind
of political secret police force that used to terrorize Soviet
citizens:
The KGB.
That’s a very strong statement to make, but believe me
when I tell you I do not make it lightly. (Related:
Mueller’s entire “Russian collusion” probe of Team Trump
is a politically motivated SCAM and must be shut down.)
Consider all that we’ve learned in recent weeks regarding
just this one agent, Strzok:
 Though Flynn was charged with lying to the FBI, two of
Hillary Clinton’s closest aides — Huma Abedin and
Cheryl Mills — also made false statements to Strzok,
denying that they knew anything about their boss’ email
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server. Emails from long before Strzok interviewed
them both indicate that they did know, meaning they
lied to the FBI. But they were never charged.
 He was fingered by the Justice Department’s inspector
general for having exchanged “anti-Trump sentiments
and other comments that appeared to favor [Hillary]
Clinton” with FBI lawyer Lisa Page, with whom he was
also having an extramarital affair.
 He was the lead investigator in the criminal probe of
Hillary Clinton’s illegal mishandling of classified
materials via her home-brew email server — crimes
she most definitely committed, according to numerous
legal experts but for which she was never even
recommended for charges.
 He was also the one who softened language in a
statement then-FBI Director James Comey read to the
press in July 2016. The original language in Comey’s
statement described Clinton’s behavior as “grossly
negligent,” which is taken directly from the statute, to
“extremely careless,” which has no legal weight.
 And again, let’s not forget that he was on Mueller’s staff
and that Mueller is investigating Team Trump and the
president himself as a special counsel for “collusion,”
though that’s not even a violation of the law.
There are more examples of FBI malfeasance and
politicization: Enter, once again, James Comey:
 During his July 2016 press conference to lay out the
Clinton criminal investigation — which in and of itself
was outside of standard FBI procedure to not publicly
discuss an ongoing case — he laid out a list of criminal
activities she had engaged in, but then refused to
characterize the activities as criminal in nature (hence
the Strzok language alteration). Comey was a career
Justice Department and FBI official; he knew the
statute that Clinton had violated. He knew that her
behavior was “grossly negligent” (as he himself wrote
in his first draft) but then permitted that language (taken
directly from the criminal code) to be changed into
something no one had ever heard of.
We have also discovered that Comey was never
going to recommend Clinton be charged in the first
place. Reports earlier this year noted that Comey’s
memo exonerating her months in advance, while the
 investigation was still underway. The drafting of the
memo occurred even before Comey and FBI agents
had interviewed Clinton herself.
In addition to the FBI, the Office of Special Counsel and
the Justice Department have also been shown to be utterly
corrupt.
.
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“The agencies have, in the past, gone light
on Democrats such as Hillary Clinton, but
laid perjury traps for Trump officials like
Flynn, who served as national security
adviser for President Donald Trump for less
than a month,” Lifezette reports.
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Past articles about warning about Flynn.

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 Barack Obama 'Personally
Warned Donald Trump Not To Hire Michael Flynn'
Former Attorney General Sally Yates Is Also Expected To Testify On Her
Warnings About The Former National Security Adviser
Emily Shugerman New York
Monday 8 May 2017 15:30 BST

in February. "The evolving and eroding level of

trust as a result of this situation in a series of
other questionable instances is what led the
president to ask for Gen. Flynn's resignation."

The retired lieutenant general is now under

investigation by the inspector general of the Department of
Defence for taking payments from a foreign government
against Pentagon advisement.

Mr Spicer said Monday that is is "true" that Mr Obama did

not think favourably of Mr Flynn, but attributed this to
negative comments Mr Flynn made about the former
president during the 2016 campaign.
Former President Barack Obama personally warned
Donald Trump not to hire Michael Flynn less than 48
hours after the president’s November victory. "If President Obama was truly concerned about
General Flynn, why didn’t he suspend General
Flynn’s security clearance, which they had just
Three former Obama administration officials told NBC approved months earlier?" Mr Spicer asked.
News that Mr Obama told his successor not to hire Mr
Flynn as national security adviser in an Oval Office
Two US officials told NBC News, however, that the DIA
meeting last year. The Trump administration fired Mr
was not aware of the foreign payments at the time they
Flynn three months later, after it was revealed that he
renewed Mr Flynn's clearance. Mr Flynn has been accused
mislead Vice President Mike Pence about his
of concealing these payments from the DIA by members of
conversations with the Russian ambassador.
the House Committee on Oversight and Government
Reform. The inspector general of the Department of
Mr Flynn served the Obama administration as director of Defence is currently investigating whether Mr Flynn failed
the Defence Intelligence Agency starting in 2012. He to properly alert them of these payments.
resigned from his post in 2014, amid rumours that he had
been forced out because of his poor management skills.
Mr Spicer's comments echoed a tweet of Mr Trump's from
The Trump campaign hired Mr Flynn as an adviser in
this morning, in which the president asserted that Mr Flynn
2016.
was "given the highest security clearance by the Obama
Administration."
Mr Flynn was forced to resign for a second time in
February, after multiple reports claimed he had discussed
Mr Spicer said the Obama administration had re-approved
US sanctions against Russian with the country's
Mr Flynn's security clearance in April. The Trump
ambassador, Sergey Kislyak. It was later revealed that Mr
administration did not conduct an additional security
Flynn took payment from Russian state media outlet RT in
review before appointing him national security adviser.
2015, and received $500,000 from the Turkish government
last year.

"The president must have complete and

unwavering trust for the person in that position,"
White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer said
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 Ms Yates is said to have warned the White House as early
as 26 January that Mr Flynn's contacts with Russia
exceeded what he had disclosed. The White House has
said they reviewed Ms Yates' information, and found
nothing wrong with what Mr Flynn had said.

Officials did not specify why Mr Obama warned his

successor against hiring Mr Flynn, but said the warnings
predated concerns about his contact with the Russian
ambassador. One official told NBC that Mr Obama felt Mr
The news of Mr Obama's warning comes as his former Flynn was "not suitable for such a high-level post."
attorney general, Sally Yates, is set to testify in front of a
Senate subcommittee regarding Russian interference in the
US election.

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 Yates Warned White House That Trump's National
Security Advisor 'Could Be Blackmailed' By Moscow
By David S. Cloud
May 08, 2017
Former acting Atty. Gen. Sally Yates testified Monday for
the first time that she warned White House lawyers at least
twice in January that President Trump’s national security
advisor at the time, Michael Flynn, “could be blackmailed”
by Moscow, may have violated criminal statutes and had
misled Vice President Mike Pence about his dealings with
Russian officials.
“We believed that Gen. Flynn was
compromised,” Yates, a career prosecutor, told
a Senate Judiciary subcommittee investigating
Russia’s role in the 2016 election.
"To state the obvious, you don't want your
national security advisor compromised with the
Russians," she said. "You don't want the
Russians to have leverage over the national
security advisor."
Flynn, a retired Army three-star general, was forced to
resign as Trump's top national security aide 18 days after
Yates first alerted the White House on Jan. 26, but only
after news stories revealed the existence of a transcript of
Flynn's conversations with Russian Ambassador Sergey
Kislyak. The diplomat's calls were recorded as part of
routine U.S. intelligence monitoring of ranking foreign
officials.
At issue is whether Flynn improperly indicated to Kislyak
that the Trump administration would ease or reverse
economic sanctions that President Obama had imposed on
Moscow in retaliation for Russian interference in the U.S.
presidential campaign. Flynn denied doing so, and Pence
later issued a similar denial.
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Yates' detailed chronology of two meetings and several
calls with White House Counsel Donald McGahn about
Flynn's conduct conflicted with White House claims that
Flynn was not ordered to resign immediately because she
had only given a general "heads up" of a potential
problem.
Her testimony adds to Flynn’s potential legal problems,
outlining concerns at the highest level of the Justice
Department that Flynn’s conversations with the Russian
diplomat during the transition may have violated the law.
He has not been charged with a crime.
It also highlighted the mounting pressure the White House
faces from three congressional investigations into Russia's
interference in the election. In March, the FBI confirmed it
is conducting a separate counterintelligence investigation
into whether any of Trump's current or former aides
improperly coordinated with Russian intelligence.
Former Director of National Intelligence James R.
Clapper, who also testified Monday, warned that Russia’s
efforts to influence the election posed a threat to
democracy, and that the hacking and leaking of
Democratic Party emails were a worrying taste of the
future.
"I believe they are emboldened to now continue
such activities, both here and around the world,"
Clapper said. "And I believe they will continue to
do so."
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), who headed the hearing,
said it was vital to get to the bottom of Moscow’s role in
the election.
"The Democratic Party of 2016 were the victims
this time. It could be the Republican Party in the
future," Graham said. "We're all in the same
boat."
Yates, a career federal prosecutor, was named deputy
attorney general by Obama in 2015. She served as acting
attorney general for 10 days after Trump was inaugurated
on Jan. 20.
Yates testified that she and a senior official in the national
security division at the Justice Department met with
McGahn, the top White House lawyer, on two consecutive
days a week after the inauguration in a secure office at the
White House to discuss statements by Flynn and others
"that we knew not to be the truth."
"We weren't the only ones who knew of this,"
Yates said. "The Russians also knew."
Yates said that after FBI agents had interviewed Flynn on
Jan. 24 she believed it was
"critical that we get this information to the White
House in part because the vice president was
unknowingly making false statements to the
American public. And we believed Gen. Flynn
was compromised with regard to the Russians."
Yates refused to go into detail about Flynn's
communications with the Russians and did not refer to
transcripts of the intercepted calls, noting that it was
classified. In response to questions, she denied leaking any
classified information about the case to the news media.
But she laid out the timeline of her contacts
with the White House, saying she called
McGahn two days after the FBI had
interviewed Flynn to request a face-to-face
meeting.
She went over that afternoon "to warn the White
House of something we were very concerned
about, so they could take action," Yates said of
her Jan. 26 meeting in McGahn's office.
"We walked the White House counsel through
Flynn's underlying conduct in a fair amount of
detail — what Gen. Flynn had done and how it
been falsely reported," she said.
She said McGahn called her back the next morning and
asked her to return to his office that afternoon. In that
second meeting, she said, he asked,
"Why does it matter [to Justice] if one White
House official lies to another White House
official?"
She said Flynn's misstatements about his dealings with
Russian officials were "getting more and more specific,"
making him more vulnerable to potential blackmail.
She said that McGahn asked whether Flynn should be fired
and that she replied it was up to the White House. She said
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McGahn also asked whether disciplining Flynn could
interfere with the FBI case, and Yates said it would not.
He also asked her whether Flynn might be subject to
criminal prosecution, Yates recalled. She told him that the
"underlying conduct," referring to Flynn's conversations
with Kisylak, "was problematic."
McGahn also asked "to look at the underlying evidence
against Flynn." Since it was a Friday, Yates said she would
consider it over the weekend. On Monday, Jan. 30, she
called him back and agreed to his request.
Trump fired Yates, a holdover from the Obama
administration, that afternoon after she announced that the
Justice Department would not go to court to defend an
executive order seeking to bar travel from seven mostly
Muslim countries.
In her testimony Monday, Yates said that she had
concluded that the executive order was unlawful and that it
was her duty to say so. Since then, three federal courts
have blocked the order, and a similar subsequent order, as
unlawful.
The hearing opened hours after it emerged that Obama had
warned then-President-elect Trump two days after the
election in November against picking Flynn as his national
security advisor.
Obama delivered the warning, which first was disclosed by
NBC News, when he met Trump for 90 minutes in the
Oval Office, according to a former senior Obama
administration official.
Obama had not planned on saying anything about Flynn,
the former official said, but he told Trump he should
"think twice" about hiring him after they got into a
conversation about personnel.
White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer said Monday
that Obama made clear to Trump that he "wasn't exactly a
fan" of Flynn, who had criticized the Obama White House
policy on Iran after he left the Pentagon.
White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer responds to reports that
President Obama had warned Donald Trump about hiring Michael
Flynn two days after the election.
Ahead of the Senate hearing, Trump sought to distance
himself from Flynn, citing the decision by the Defense
Intelligence Agency to extend Flynn's security clearance
after he retired in 2014.
"General Flynn was given the highest security
clearance by the Obama Administration — but
the Fake News seldom likes talking about that,"
he tweeted Monday morning.
Other officials said Flynn's clearance as a retired general
was lower than he subsequently needed to be national
security advisor.
Trump also urged lawmakers to ask Yates about the leak
of information about Flynn.
"Ask Sally Yates, under oath, if she knows how
classified information got into the newspapers
soon after she explained it to W.H. Counsel," he
tweeted, referring to Yates' conversation with
McGahn.
Under questioning, Yates said she had not leaked the
information and did not know who did, because it occurred
after she was fired.
After the hearing, Trump issued several further tweets,
saying that Yates "made the fake media extremely
unhappy today — she said nothing but old news!"
"The Russia-Trump collusion story is a total
hoax, when will this taxpayer funded charade
end?" he said.
Flynn and Kislyak were in touch in late December,
including on the 29th, the day the Obama administration
.
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levied sanctions in response to a determination by U.S.
intelligence agencies that Russian President Vladimir
Putin's government had interfered in the U.S. campaign in
an effort aimed in part at helping Trump win.
In his testimony, Clapper repeated a previous statement, in
a TV interview, that he was not aware of evidence of
collusion between the Trump campaign and the Russian
government. But he also said that he had not been
informed of the FBI's counterintelligence investigation
before he left office, because it was a law enforcement
matter.
Republican lawmakers asked Clapper about reports that
the identities of some Trump aides might have been
improperly revealed in intelligence reports — a process
known as unmasking — despite rules requiring them to be
kept confidential in most cases.
"At no time did I ever submit a request" to
unmask Trump associates in intelligence
reports "for personal or political purposes,"
Clapper said. "Nor am I aware of such a request
by anyone else."
Yates gave a similar assurance that she did not seek to
unmask anyone on Trump's team and did not know who
did.
david.cloud@latimes.com
Twitter: @davidcloudLAT
UPDATES:
4:18 p.m.: This article was updated with additional details
from Clapper's testimony at the hearing.
1:45 p.m.: This article was updated with additional details
from the hearing and Yates' testimony.
 Chris Christie Says He Warned
Trump About Hiring Mike Flynn
By Melissa Quinn
May 22, 2017, 3:32 PM
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie said Monday he urged
President Trump not to give retired Lt. Gen. Mike Flynn a
job in the White House.
"I think it's safe to say that General Flynn and I
didn't see eye-to-eye," Christie told reporters
during a news conference. "I didn't think that he
was someone who would bring benefit to the
president or to the administration, and I made
that very clear to candidate Trump, and I made
it very clear to President-elect Trump."
Christie, the former chairman of Trump's transition team,
also said Flynn was "not my cup of tea."
"If I were president-elect of the United States, I
wouldn't let General Flynn into the White
House, let alone give him a job," the New
Jersey governor said.
Despite Christie's warning, Trump selected Flynn to serve
as his national security adviser. He fired him in February,
though, after the retired general misled Vice President
Mike Pence about conversations with Russian officials.
.
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Flynn is under investigation for foreign lobbying, and
federal prosecutors issued grand jury subpoenas to Flynn's
business associates this month as part of the investigation
into Russia' meddling in the 2016 election.
The New York Times reported last week Trump's transition
team knew Flynn was under investigation, but the retired
general was selected to serve as national security adviser
anyway.
The Senate Intelligence Committee also issued a subpoena
for documents from Flynn this month, but the retired
general's attorneys told the committee Flynn will invoke
his Fifth Amendment rights.
Flynn's lawyers said the "escalating public frenzy against
him" and the decision by Deputy Attorney General Rod
Rosenstein to appoint a special counsel to lead the
instigation have created a "legally dangerous environment"
for him to comply with the Senate Intelligence
Committee's subpoena, the Associated Press reported.