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Tuesday, May 30, 2017
Memorial Day message. Outstanding!!
It’s hard to tell by the look on her face when German Chancellor Angela Merkel isn’t a happy camper because…well, she always looks like she just bit into a lemon-infused dill pickle.
But Merkel is clearly unhappy with President Donald Trump’s message to NATO, delivered in person last week at the summit in Brussels.
Trump’s message remains consistent with positions he took during last year’s election: We remain allies, but European nations must pay their fair share for defense. No more free ride on the backs of U.S. taxpayers.
Merkel appears to have finally gotten the message, declaring that Europe “really must take our fate into our own hands.”
It’s a simple concept. If you own a business and want security services, you hire a security company. And you pay them for their service. Even if all you do is buy a guard dog, you still have to pay to feed him every day.
President George W. Bush talked a lot about establishing a “new world order.” President Trump is actually creating one. But this one is to America’s benefit. So let it be written; so let it be done.
Cheers.
Dr. Chuck Muth, PsD
Professor of Psephology (homeschooled)
Nevada’s #1 Irritator of Liberals and RINOs
P.S. On this Memorial Day, as the world continues to wrestle with the barbaric scourge of radical Islamic terrorism, this famous quote by Thomas Paine, written on December 23, 1776, bears remembrance…
“THESE are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives everything its value. . . .
“I call not upon a few, but upon all: not on this state or that state, but on every state: up and help us; lay your shoulders to the wheel; better have too much force than too little, when so great an object is at stake. Let it be told to the future world that in the depth of winter, when nothing but hope and virtue could survive, that the city and the country, alarmed at one common danger, came forth to meet and to repulse it.”
Or as President Ronald Reagan famously said in his tribute to fallen World War II soldiers in a speech at Omaha Beach on the 40th Anniversary of D-Day in 1984…
“We will always remember. We will always be proud. We will always be prepared, so we may always be free.”
President Trump is About to STICK it to the Climate Change Scammers
Breitbart News by: Michelle Moons
U.S. President Donald Trump has informed multiple individuals, including EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt, that he intends to remove the United States from the Paris Climate Agreement, according several sources.
On Saturday night, Axios reported the news based on “three sources with direct knowledge.”
Breitbart News has independently confirmed this reporting and that Trump has told others the same thing: that he plans to withdraw the U.S. from the agreement.
Earlier on Saturday, the President tweeted from Italy that he would make his final decision next week as to whether the U.S. will remain in the Paris Accord. He was in Italy for the G7 summit at the end of his first overseas trip, which was preceded by visits to Saudi Arabia, Israel, the Vatican, and Brussels.
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Trump Pushing Big White House Changes as Russia Crisis Grows
Meetings are set for next week as the president returns from his overseas trip
White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer at a news conference at the White House on May 18. Replacing Mr. Spicer is one of the changes under discussion. PHOTO: CARLOS BARRIA/REUTEBy Michael C. Bender and Peter Nicholas
WASHINGTON—President Donald Trump is actively discussing major changes in the White House, including having lawyers vet his tweets and shaking up his top staff, as he grapples with the fallout from probes into his campaign’s dealings with Russia, according to several senior administration officials and outside advisers.
Other revisions on the table include adding a roster of outside lawyers to help deal with the legal ramifications of the Russia investigation, officials and allies said. “Everything is in play,” one Trump adviser said.
Meetings devoted to White House operations are scheduled for next week, after the president returns from his overseas trip, officials said. The anticipated moves are the latest sign of how the probe into Russia’s interference in last year’s election, and the circumstances of the president’s firing of FBI Director James Comey, is defining the new administration.
“We have nothing to announce,” White House spokesman Sean Spicer said Friday.
Mr. Trump has previously queried advisers about major changes, only to stick by his current staff and leave in place internal processes. But as he prepares to return from the nine-day foreign trip this weekend, the situation at home is threatening to consume his administration, his allies said. Before he left, the Justice Department appointed former Federal Bureau of Investigation Director Robert Mueller as a special counsel to oversee the probe, which is focused on whether there was any collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia during the election and may also include looking into the firing of Mr. Comey earlier this month.
“He’s 100% focused on this,” said a White House official, noting that the president slept only two hours in Saudi Arabia the night before his widely anticipated speech on Islam that he spent little time rehearsing.
Mr. Trump has denied any collusion between his campaign and Russia and has said he fired Mr. Comey because he was doing a bad job. He also said he had been a “showboat.”
One major change under consideration would see the president’s social media posts vetted by a team of lawyers, who would decide if any needed to be adjusted or curtailed. The idea, said one of Mr. Trump’s advisers, is to create a system so that tweets “don’t go from the president’s mind out to the universe.”
Some of Mr. Trump’s tweets—from hinting that he may have taped conversations with Mr. Comey to suggesting without any evidence that former President Barack Obama wire-tapped Trump Tower—have opened him to criticism and at times confounded his communications team.
Trump aides have long attempted to rein in his tweeting, and some saw any type of legal vetting as difficult to implement. “I would be shocked if he would agree to that,” said Barry Bennett, a former Trump campaign aide.
Mr. Trump is set to speak to several teams of high-powered attorneys to add to a roster of outside counsel around Marc Kasowitz, who will be helping coordinate the legal response, advisers say. The White House is also expected to hire several lawyers who will focus on the investigation in the legal office run by Don McGahn, White House counsel. Some senior administration officials said they are considering hiring their own private attorneys.
White House officials said the president may also bring back a trio of former campaign officials: Corey Lewandowski and David Bossie, to handle communications and political duties related to the investigation, and David Urban, for a senior White House job.
Mr. Lewandowski was fired as the first of three Trump campaign managers. Mr. Bossie, the deputy campaign manager, is a long-time political operative who worked for the House oversight committee in the 1990s. Mr. Urban worked as a top Republican Senate aide in the late 1990s during the Bill Clinton impeachment proceedings.
“The most important thing is Trump listens to them,” one senior administration official said. “And it will free up the rest of the White House to focus on health care, taxes and the things we should be worrying about.”
Mr. Lewandowski’s return may prove awkward internally. He was accused of assaulting a reporter at a campaign event—charges were eventually dropped—and Trump family members believed he was peddling negative stories about Mr. Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner, campaign officials said at the time. He was pushed out at the behest of Mr. Trump’s children. Mr. Lewandowski declined to comment.
Other changes under discussion include removing communications director Mike Dubke and installing Sarah Sanders as the main spokesman instead of Mr. Spicer. Another consideration is scaling back on daily press briefings.
Mr. Spicer, one of the only practicing Catholics among Mr. Trump’s senior staff, was a last-minute scratch from the president’s meeting with Pope Francis this week, a move that shocked some senior administration officials.
Mr. Spicer and Ms. Sanders didn’t respond to further questions on any coming changes.
One White House official said that Mr. Spicer, parodied by comedian Melissa McCarthy on “Saturday Night Live,” has taken on an unwanted celebrity status that threatens to undercut his effectiveness as a spokesman. “I wouldn’t wish being parodied on Saturday Night Live on anybody,” the official said.
The raft of potential changes are aimed at freeing other staff to focus on securing legislative victories before the August recess, a tall order even without the Russia investigation. It is also being planned amid a backdrop of internal conflict in the West Wing. Last month, Mr. Trump said he sat down two of his top aides, Mr. Kushner and chief strategist Steve Bannon, and ordered them to work out their differences. But tensions remain, according to White House staff.
Mr. Trump consulted Mr. Kushner on the firing of Mr. Comey, officials say. Mr. Bannon opposed the move and was absent from the inner circle who advised the president on the move.
Mr. Bannon’s critics say they suspect him of leaking to the press and regard him as too much of a firebrand to massage the president’s agenda through Washington’s traditional processes. Mr. Kushner’s detractors in the West Wing refer to him as the “young princeling.”
Some Trump advisers have also questioned the judgment of communications officials, citing as an example the rollout of a tax-plan outline in April that featured Goldman Sachs alumni Steven Mnuchin, the Treasury secretary, and Gary Cohn, the National Economic Council director.
“The left is automatically going to say the tax plan is tailored to the rich and to Wall Street. And we just gave them an image of the rich and of Wall Street,” one Trump former campaign official said.
Mr. Trump’s return to Washington will mark the end of a period which, White House staffers said, brought some relief from the hectic pace of the news surrounding the administration and the Russia investigation. Some noted that it gave them a rare time to eat dinner at home.
Write to Michael C. Bender at Mike.Bender@wsj.com and Peter Nicholas at peter.nicholas@wsj.com
This Ridiculous Attack On Trump Was Obama’s Biggest Betrayal Yet
So much for tradition.
Former President’s do not criticize the current occupant of the Oval Office.
But Barack Obama threw that out the window and launched his biggest betrayal of Donald Trump to date.
In addition to not attacking current Presidents, Obama broke two more traditions – criticizing the current President while he was traveling abroad, and doing so while he himself was on foreign soil.
While in Berlin of all places, Obama claimed we “can’t hide behind walls.”
Politico reports:
“Barack Obama brought his post-presidency campaign for continued globalism and openness to Berlin on Thursday, urging youth leaders and others not to give up and turn in on themselves.
“In this new world we live in, we can’t isolate ourselves. We can’t hide behind a wall,” Obama said, sitting on stage next to German Chancellor Angela Merkel in front of the Brandenburg Gate at an event that’s part of “Kirchentag,” a multi-day meeting sponsored by the Protestant church in Germany.
Obama made the comment as President Donald Trump, in Brussels for his first NATO leaders summit, was meeting with European Council leaders Donald Tusk and Jean-Claude Juncker.
Obama addressed a rapt crowd of Germans lining the streets from blocks away, some holding signs like, “Welcome Home,” “You’re Looking Great,” and “Du Bist Ein Berliner.”
Obama attended the event at Merkel’s invitation—there’s no foreign leader that he was closer with during his time in the White House, and she’s hoping for a boost from his still sky-high popularity in Germany in her own re-election campaign in the fall. “
The obvious symbolism of Obama’s remarks was comparing Trump’s proposed border wall, which is meant to stop illegal immigration – to the Berlin Wall, the symbol of Soviet oppression during the Cold War.
But the outrageous analogy falls short.
Trump’s wall is to keep illegal immigration out and protect America’s clearly defined borders and sovereignty.
The Berlin Wall divided a unified nation and prevented free movement of a native population.
In addition, by appearing with Merkel – who is running for re-election this fall – Obama is meddling in a foreign election to help a leader whose vision for the world is at odds with President Trump.
Merkel is the high priestess of globalism who opened Germany’s borders to over one million Syrian refugees, which in turn ignited the nationalist movements across the Western world.
Obama is trying to help her put them down by aiding her re-election campaign.
His appearance also came just days before Merkel was set to have dinner with Trump.
It was a stunning act of betrayal.
But for the American left – who sees their sole purpose as destroying Trump’s legitimacy – it was all part of the plan.
Police Dept. Honors Daughter of Fallen Officer at Prom Photo Shoot
BY TIFFANI GREY
When Indianapolis teen Sierra Bradway got ready for her prom earlier this month, there was one thing she knew she wanted for her special night. Photos with her father, a fallen police officer who was killed in the line of duty.
However, when Sierra headed to the cemetery to pay her respects and take her prom pictures, she had no idea what was waiting for her.
Sierra’s father, Officer Rod Lee Bradway was killed after he responded to a domestic violence disturbance on September 20, 2013. According to Independent Journal Review, Sierra’s father was rescuing a mother and her child when he was shot six times.
That was why it was so important for Sierra to honor her father and make him a part of her prom night. It would be just her, the photographer and her date, Brock Spayd.
However, Spayd’s mother heard about the plan and wanted to do something special for Sierra. Fox News reported, “The plan was set in motion by Brock’s mother, a captain in the Marion County Sheriff’s Office, who learned of Sierra’s cemetery visit and called upon officers from the Indianapolis Police Department and other regional departments to help make the teen’s prom more special.”
The Indianapolis Police Department were able to make this moment so much more beautiful when its officers showed up at the cemetery to surprise Sierra. When she arrived at the site, there were two police officers on horseback and a dozen more lined up waiting for her.
USA Today reported that the photos were truly spectacular, “By Sierra’s side in her prom photos is IMPD Chief Bryan Roach. She smiles, cradling a photo of her father in her hands. And in other photos, she’s surrounded by dozens of police officers and sheriff’s deputies.”
Here’s the video...
However, when Sierra headed to the cemetery to pay her respects and take her prom pictures, she had no idea what was waiting for her.
Sierra’s father, Officer Rod Lee Bradway was killed after he responded to a domestic violence disturbance on September 20, 2013. According to Independent Journal Review, Sierra’s father was rescuing a mother and her child when he was shot six times.
That was why it was so important for Sierra to honor her father and make him a part of her prom night. It would be just her, the photographer and her date, Brock Spayd.
However, Spayd’s mother heard about the plan and wanted to do something special for Sierra. Fox News reported, “The plan was set in motion by Brock’s mother, a captain in the Marion County Sheriff’s Office, who learned of Sierra’s cemetery visit and called upon officers from the Indianapolis Police Department and other regional departments to help make the teen’s prom more special.”
The Indianapolis Police Department were able to make this moment so much more beautiful when its officers showed up at the cemetery to surprise Sierra. When she arrived at the site, there were two police officers on horseback and a dozen more lined up waiting for her.
USA Today reported that the photos were truly spectacular, “By Sierra’s side in her prom photos is IMPD Chief Bryan Roach. She smiles, cradling a photo of her father in her hands. And in other photos, she’s surrounded by dozens of police officers and sheriff’s deputies.”
Here’s the video...
“There were a lot of laughs, some tears, but most importantly, there was love,” a video, posted by Indianapolis Police said. “Sierra, we know your father is smiling from heaven. Know that your Blue Line Family will always be here for you.”
After the past few years of ignorant police bashing, when even efforts to honor cops can run into trouble, a story like this is just what the doctor ordered.
After the past few years of ignorant police bashing, when even efforts to honor cops can run into trouble, a story like this is just what the doctor ordered.
News Alert: German Chancellor Angela Merkel says US no longer a reliable partner
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The partnership between Europe and the U.S. has been strained, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said the day after President Trump returned from the G7 summit.
"The times when we could fully rely on others are to some extent over — I experienced that in the last few days," Merkel told her supporters, according to Bloomberg. "We Europeans must really take our destiny into our own hands."
"Of course we need to have friendly relations with the U.S. and with the U.K. and with other neighbors, including Russia," she continued. "We have to fight for our own future ourselves."
During a meeting with European Council President Donald Tusk and European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker on Thursday, Trump said the Germans are "very bad" on trade.
"Look at the millions of cars they sell in the U.S., and we'll stop that," Trump said.
Trump's national economic adviser Gary Cohn clarified Trump "doesn't have a problem with Germany."
Germany, France, Canada, Italy, Japan and the U.K. reaffirmed their "strong" support to the agreement on Saturday, which seeks to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions.
Peter Schweizer: FBI Naming Kushner ‘Person of Interest’ Marks ‘Major Shift in the Russian Investigation’
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by JOHN HAYWARD
On Friday’s Breitbart News Daily, Breitbart News Senior Editor-at-Large Peter Schweizer looked forward to the G7 summit in Sicily as President Trump’s “first big meeting where he’s dealing with major allies and very complex issues.”
“A lot of times, if you look at presidents in the past, these first meetings take on extreme importance because they set the tone for how the relationship is going to go later on,” Schweizer told SiriusXM host Alex Marlow.
“The audience is probably well-acquainted with during the Cold War how Soviet leaders would test the resolve of people like President Kennedy and Ronald Reagan, to see what they were made of,” he recalled.
“Well, our allies kind of do the same thing – not with the same hostility, but when you have contentious issues they’re going to be looking, in their interactions with Donald Trump, at how wedded is he to the positions he staked out on climate change? How wedded is he on issues of immigration? Is there flexibility, is he going to move? And if he is going to move, how best to do it?” he anticipated.
Schweizer said it would be interesting to watch the reaction from world leaders to their interactions with Trump, looking for indications they are willing to move toward his position on contentious issues, or that they believe he is willing to move toward theirs.
“We’ll get a pretty good sense in the next couple of days precisely what their assessment is of the new American president,” he predicted.
Marlow asked for Schweizer’s take on the news that President Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner has become a focus of the investigation into possible Russian interference with the 2016 election.
“First of all, Jared Kushner has significant ties to people in Russia, meaning financial ties, deals that have been done,” Schweizer responded. “Some of those are direct ties with investors where he shares investments in a company. In other instances, they’re people that perhaps are investors that are now based out of Israel, but are very tied commercially to Russia. That’s the first part of it.”
“The second part of it, though, is what’s kind of emerged is that some of the individuals that popped up initially in the Russia investigation – Paul Manafort, for example – we now know that actually Paul Manafort, one of the reasons he was hired or brought into the Trump circle was in part because Jared Kushner thought it would be a good idea,” he continued.
“That’s really the main reason why the FBI is looking,” he said. “To be very clear, when the FBI uses the term ‘person of interest,’ that does not mean that they’re saying they’ve committed a crime. What they’re looking for is for him to talk and share with them about what he knows, as it relates to individuals, actions, deals that might have been done. They’re simply saying, ‘this is a guy that is going to have interesting things to say to us, and will help us in the investigation.’”
“We want to be clear and make sure people know it does not mean that there’s guilt. It does not mean that he is obstructing or not cooperating. They are simply saying, ‘this is an individual that we are talking to,’” Schweizer stressed. “I think the accounts are so far that he is talking to them and trying to be cooperative.”
“But it’s a major change and shift in the investigation, really for a couple of reasons,” he noted. “First of all, it means they’ve moved away from simply looking at Paul Manafort and Carter Page – people that are no longer part of Trump’s inner circle, that were essentially let go during the campaign. It second of all means that you now have a family member that they are saying played some kind of role, in some way, in negotiations or discussions with individuals that might be tied to the Russians.”
Marlow asked if it was surprising to see the media swarm on Kushner when “by all accounts, he seems like a guy who agrees mostly with the worldview of the establishment press.”
Schweizer saw it as important evidence against the notion that “if you appease the political Left on certain political views, they’re going to leave you alone.”
“It doesn’t work that way, because the political Left wants everything,” he contended. “They don’t want something, they want everything, which means they want their people in there. That’s how the game is played.”
“I think the reason that Jared Kushner is getting a lot of attention is simply because he is viewed by many people as perhaps the most powerful person in the White House, other than the president himself,” Schweizer speculated. “Now, that of course is subject to debate, but that I think is the perception. Part of that is not just because of the real power, but because he’s related to the president. You can’t fire your son-in-law, per se. He’s always going to have a seat at the table.”
Referring to a New York Times piece on Kushner’s real estate holdings, Schweizer observed that Kushner owns a large number of low-rent residential properties.
“The company that he owns has a reputation for being very, very tough on renters. If their rent payment is a couple of hours late, they will get a notice of eviction; claims from tenants that they’re not very responsive to repairs,” Schweizer observed.
“But something that I think is overlooked in this very long article is really one sentence, which talks about the fact that he procured thousands of these apartments in 2011, really at fire-house prices, with the financial backing of Freddie Mac – which is the federal government’s financing agency,” he said.
“To me, that sets off alarm bells because you have an instance here where it looks like Jared Kushner benefited from this sort of crony capitalism government program. A business professional who benefits from these kinds of programs, it automatically raises concerns that they now become advocates for those types of government programs,” he noted.
“I think part of it is, you do have this issue with low-rent apartments, people complaining about draconian management agencies and the unfairness. Of course, there’s two sides to those stories. We don’t know where the truth lies. But the issue of the crony capitalism to me is the bigger concern, because again when it comes to the very difficult question of cutting government programs, particularly crony capitalism programs, perhaps there’s going to be more reluctance for supporting those initiatives by Jared Kushner because he’s benefited from them,” said Schweizer.
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Former CIA Officer Says Media May Have Published Leaked Information To Hurt Trump
"... a grave threat to our national security."
By Jack Davis
A former CIA officer told Fox News host Neil Cavuto on Friday that the recent leak of information that caused Britain to stop sharing intelligence with the United States could have been part of the media’s effort to make the Trump administration look bad.
“It’s a possibility” the New York Times knew what it was doing when it used sensitive information about the terrorist bombing in Manchester, England, and used it to take a shot at President Donald Trump, former CIA officer Mike Baker told Fox News host Neil Cavuto on Cavuto’s Your World show.
Trump and American intelligence agencies were castigated in Britain when the New York Times published details of the attack that, at the time, were only known to British and American intelligence agencies.
Baker said the leaks will only stop “if there are consequences.”
Baker said officials who have access to the material being leaked should be “hauled in” and made to take a lie detector test, if necessary.
That sentiment was shared by a former FBI official.
“If we start to punish, other people will get the message,” said Ron Hosko, a former assistant director of the FBI, who talked to Cavuto on Thursday.
Trump has said he will work to identify the source of the leak.
“The alleged leaks coming out of government agencies are deeply troubling,” Trump said. “These leaks have been going on for a long time, and my administration will get to the bottom of this. The leaks of sensitive information pose a grave threat to our national security. I am asking the Department of Justice and other relevant agencies to launch a complete review of this matter, and if appropriate, the culprit should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.”
Failure to punish will embolden future leakers, Baker said.
“When you continue to lower the bar and you continue to normalize the idea that, you know, people can’t keep their pie holes shut, and it’s OK because there’s ultimately no consequences, then sure, you create this environment where suddenly you have news articles that contain only anonymous sources,” Baker said.
One analyst said publication of the level of detail the New York Times published could help other terrorists.
“Once we start coming down to very specific photographs and details of the bomber and the device used, if you’re a perpetrator who’s aiming to make similar devices in the future — or indeed you’re the person who made that device — you can learn something about its effectiveness and what is left by looking at the photographs in the New York Times. That is information you would not usually be able to come by,” said Chris Westcott, a visiting senior research fellow at the International Centre for Security Analysis.
“It’s a possibility” the New York Times knew what it was doing when it used sensitive information about the terrorist bombing in Manchester, England, and used it to take a shot at President Donald Trump, former CIA officer Mike Baker told Fox News host Neil Cavuto on Cavuto’s Your World show.
Trump and American intelligence agencies were castigated in Britain when the New York Times published details of the attack that, at the time, were only known to British and American intelligence agencies.
Baker said the leaks will only stop “if there are consequences.”
Baker said officials who have access to the material being leaked should be “hauled in” and made to take a lie detector test, if necessary.
That sentiment was shared by a former FBI official.
“If we start to punish, other people will get the message,” said Ron Hosko, a former assistant director of the FBI, who talked to Cavuto on Thursday.
Trump has said he will work to identify the source of the leak.
“The alleged leaks coming out of government agencies are deeply troubling,” Trump said. “These leaks have been going on for a long time, and my administration will get to the bottom of this. The leaks of sensitive information pose a grave threat to our national security. I am asking the Department of Justice and other relevant agencies to launch a complete review of this matter, and if appropriate, the culprit should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.”
Failure to punish will embolden future leakers, Baker said.
“When you continue to lower the bar and you continue to normalize the idea that, you know, people can’t keep their pie holes shut, and it’s OK because there’s ultimately no consequences, then sure, you create this environment where suddenly you have news articles that contain only anonymous sources,” Baker said.
One analyst said publication of the level of detail the New York Times published could help other terrorists.
“Once we start coming down to very specific photographs and details of the bomber and the device used, if you’re a perpetrator who’s aiming to make similar devices in the future — or indeed you’re the person who made that device — you can learn something about its effectiveness and what is left by looking at the photographs in the New York Times. That is information you would not usually be able to come by,” said Chris Westcott, a visiting senior research fellow at the International Centre for Security Analysis.
5 Things Comey Did that Left the President with No Choice but to Fire Him
The Director of the FBI was fired. Since this has only happened twice in the nation’s history, it is a newsworthy event. Unfortunately, being newsworthy has attracted the media storm, and there is no surer or faster way to obfuscate a simple situation.
The media has confused and distracted from every possible angle making it difficult to understand exactly why Comey was fired. In an attempt to get to a little truth, we’re going to take a hard look at Comey’s career as FBI Director and weight Trump’s decision. You’ll find that Comey was actually far worse than your expectations, and in the end Trump did right by America with this decision.
Loretta Lynch
Any analysis of Comey’s tenure with the FBI should probably start here. While the shadiness of her interactions with Hillary Clinton and subsequent investigations is reasonably documented, Comey’s side of the story is less public. Private statements made by Comey have been released.
He was quoted saying “[Lynch] was trying to cover for Clinton.” Despite his misgivings, he never pursued action on the matter. He could have easily sought her recusal without making it a political issue, and eventually Lynch made public concessions.
Clearly there was at least a conflict of interest, but Comey had no intention of pushing for an unbiased investigation. Despite her obviously illicit meeting with Bill Clinton and countless evidence that Lynch was corrupting the probe, Comey left it alone, and she was never actually removed from the decision-making process.
Information Handling
One might think that the director of the FBI would understand the importance and application of discretion. Comey has not lived up to that expectation. In multiple instances he has been the source of information leaks and protocol breaches. Even recently he leaked information regarding his dinner with President Trump, and that is only the tip of the iceberg. If for no other reason, these leaks gave the president no choice when it came to firing Comey.
Unfortunately, Comey went farther than just leaking information. He provided false testimony to Congress while under oath. He gratuitously misquoted the number of classified emails under review in Clinton’s case, and he used that false report to justify taking political action.
Even after leaving his post he continues to spread false information. The “Comey memos” cited by the New York Times may not even exist. The story claims that Comey recorded being asked to drop the Russian investigations, but when the sources were verified by third parties, they couldn’t produce any such memo. Furthermore, recording protocol provided by the White House is unable to corroborate a number of claims that appear in these alleged memos.
In time, they may turn up in an investigation, but their physical absence so far is very suspect. Even if they do emerge, there reliability will be as tainted as the reputation of the man who wrote them.
Politics
The worst aspect of Comey’s failures is political. He used his position to politicize the FBI far beyond anything seen before, and it came back to haunt him. Can you find another example of an FBI director corrupting an investigation and then trying to strongarm the judicial branch into dropping everything?
If that wasn’t enough, he publicly reopened the case that he himself abandoned at a time that was clearly timed to affect a major election. Regardless of the outcome, there is no question that Comey was testing the limits of his political clout. He seemed to conveniently forget that the FBI is supposed to be a neutral agency.
If he hadn’t gone so far, he might have had an opportunity to leave the bureau with some dignity. Instead, he made his position a political statement, and he backed Trump into a corner. Draining the swamp requires action, and Comey made it unmistakable that he was an integral part of the swamp as a whole. Now, instead of leaving with honor and maintaining a career, Comey will be disgraced in the political backlash of this overblown situation.
It’s easy to assume that Trump made his decision from a personal stance. But, if you remember that Trump’s success isn’t tied to a political career (that is only months old), you can see that he is the only major player in Washington with the freedom to treat Comey objectively.
A review of the facts show that Trump only had one reasonable options. He had to fire the man who had abused his position, broke laws and corrupted the primary branch of federal law enforcement.
~ American Liberty Report
Liberal State Finally Reaches Health Care Law… But There’s No Way to
A California Senate committee that oversees bills that spend state money passed a $400 billion universal health care proposal on Thursday — with no plan of how to pay for it.
According to The Sacramento Bee, Senate Appropriations chairman Senator Ricardo Lara, a Democrat, introduced SB 62 in an effort to overhaul the health insurance market in the state. The bill was approved 5-2 after a nearly three-hour session, opening the door for it to be considered in the Senate next week.
Despite the fact the bill is on its way to the Senate, as with the problem-plagued Obamacare, there is no solution in sight as to how it will be funded.
While the bill has been amended to include verbiage that it cannot be put in force before a funding plan is generated, opponents of the plan say the funding question should have been resolved at the committee level — and even question the sanity of such a bill in the first place.
“Why would you just mindlessly pass that through without more details?” asked Davide Wolfe, legislative director for the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association, a taxpayer advocacy group. “The lack of transparency here is stunning.”
According to The Sacramento Bee, Senate Appropriations chairman Senator Ricardo Lara, a Democrat, introduced SB 62 in an effort to overhaul the health insurance market in the state. The bill was approved 5-2 after a nearly three-hour session, opening the door for it to be considered in the Senate next week.
Despite the fact the bill is on its way to the Senate, as with the problem-plagued Obamacare, there is no solution in sight as to how it will be funded.
While the bill has been amended to include verbiage that it cannot be put in force before a funding plan is generated, opponents of the plan say the funding question should have been resolved at the committee level — and even question the sanity of such a bill in the first place.
“Why would you just mindlessly pass that through without more details?” asked Davide Wolfe, legislative director for the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association, a taxpayer advocacy group. “The lack of transparency here is stunning.”
“How can we go forward with this bill without a fiscal analysis, a detailed financing plan?” asked Senator Janet Nguyen, a Republican.
The Los Angeles Times reported in April that Lara said a financial study will be conducted in May to determine how it should be funded. However, the month is almost over, and currently, the bill simply states that the plan would be funded by “broad-based revenue.”
The Los Angeles Times reported in April that Lara said a financial study will be conducted in May to determine how it should be funded. However, the month is almost over, and currently, the bill simply states that the plan would be funded by “broad-based revenue.”
The new health care bill — which is more than the entire state budget — would significantly reduce the role of insurance companies and be a single-payer system. The state would pay for all medical, dental and vision services in addition to nursing home and mental health care for all California residents, including illegal immigrants.
California lawmakers don't know how to pay for universal healthcare. But they advanced the bill anyway http://sacb.ee/9Vhw
No funding plan doesn’t stop lawmakers from moving health care bill alongThe Senate Appropriations committee passed Senate Bill 562, which establishes a single-payer health care system in California, on Thursday, May 25, 2017.
When it didn’t seem possible for California to sink deeper into the abyss that is liberal ideology, these lawmakers just did. Not only is this newest bill one of the most socialized forms of healthcare reform in America, it’s been approved without any thought given as to how it will be paid for.
It’s stunning and shocking that California lawmakers would pass a bill that exceeds their own state’s entire budget without considering how they might pay for it.
Truly, this is the epitome of the “dog that caught the car” scenario. Hopefully, the bill will be struck down before it’s too late for California taxpayers.
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Tuesday, May 30, 2017
Memorial Day message. Outstanding!!
It’s hard to tell by the look on her face when German Chancellor Angela Merkel isn’t a happy camper because…well, she always looks like she just bit into a lemon-infused dill pickle.
But Merkel is clearly unhappy with President Donald Trump’s message to NATO, delivered in person last week at the summit in Brussels.
Trump’s message remains consistent with positions he took during last year’s election: We remain allies, but European nations must pay their fair share for defense. No more free ride on the backs of U.S. taxpayers.
Merkel appears to have finally gotten the message, declaring that Europe “really must take our fate into our own hands.”
It’s a simple concept. If you own a business and want security services, you hire a security company. And you pay them for their service. Even if all you do is buy a guard dog, you still have to pay to feed him every day.
President George W. Bush talked a lot about establishing a “new world order.” President Trump is actually creating one. But this one is to America’s benefit. So let it be written; so let it be done.
Cheers.
Dr. Chuck Muth, PsD
Professor of Psephology (homeschooled)
Nevada’s #1 Irritator of Liberals and RINOs
P.S. On this Memorial Day, as the world continues to wrestle with the barbaric scourge of radical Islamic terrorism, this famous quote by Thomas Paine, written on December 23, 1776, bears remembrance…
“THESE are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives everything its value. . . .
“I call not upon a few, but upon all: not on this state or that state, but on every state: up and help us; lay your shoulders to the wheel; better have too much force than too little, when so great an object is at stake. Let it be told to the future world that in the depth of winter, when nothing but hope and virtue could survive, that the city and the country, alarmed at one common danger, came forth to meet and to repulse it.”
Or as President Ronald Reagan famously said in his tribute to fallen World War II soldiers in a speech at Omaha Beach on the 40th Anniversary of D-Day in 1984…
“We will always remember. We will always be proud. We will always be prepared, so we may always be free.”
President Trump is About to STICK it to the Climate Change Scammers
Breitbart News by: Michelle Moons
U.S. President Donald Trump has informed multiple individuals, including EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt, that he intends to remove the United States from the Paris Climate Agreement, according several sources.
On Saturday night, Axios reported the news based on “three sources with direct knowledge.”
Breitbart News has independently confirmed this reporting and that Trump has told others the same thing: that he plans to withdraw the U.S. from the agreement.
Earlier on Saturday, the President tweeted from Italy that he would make his final decision next week as to whether the U.S. will remain in the Paris Accord. He was in Italy for the G7 summit at the end of his first overseas trip, which was preceded by visits to Saudi Arabia, Israel, the Vatican, and Brussels.
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Trump Pushing Big White House Changes as Russia Crisis Grows
Meetings are set for next week as the president returns from his overseas trip
White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer at a news conference at the White House on May 18. Replacing Mr. Spicer is one of the changes under discussion. PHOTO: CARLOS BARRIA/REUTEBy Michael C. Bender and Peter Nicholas
WASHINGTON—President Donald Trump is actively discussing major changes in the White House, including having lawyers vet his tweets and shaking up his top staff, as he grapples with the fallout from probes into his campaign’s dealings with Russia, according to several senior administration officials and outside advisers.
Other revisions on the table include adding a roster of outside lawyers to help deal with the legal ramifications of the Russia investigation, officials and allies said. “Everything is in play,” one Trump adviser said.
Meetings devoted to White House operations are scheduled for next week, after the president returns from his overseas trip, officials said. The anticipated moves are the latest sign of how the probe into Russia’s interference in last year’s election, and the circumstances of the president’s firing of FBI Director James Comey, is defining the new administration.
“We have nothing to announce,” White House spokesman Sean Spicer said Friday.
Mr. Trump has previously queried advisers about major changes, only to stick by his current staff and leave in place internal processes. But as he prepares to return from the nine-day foreign trip this weekend, the situation at home is threatening to consume his administration, his allies said. Before he left, the Justice Department appointed former Federal Bureau of Investigation Director Robert Mueller as a special counsel to oversee the probe, which is focused on whether there was any collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia during the election and may also include looking into the firing of Mr. Comey earlier this month.
“He’s 100% focused on this,” said a White House official, noting that the president slept only two hours in Saudi Arabia the night before his widely anticipated speech on Islam that he spent little time rehearsing.
Mr. Trump has denied any collusion between his campaign and Russia and has said he fired Mr. Comey because he was doing a bad job. He also said he had been a “showboat.”
One major change under consideration would see the president’s social media posts vetted by a team of lawyers, who would decide if any needed to be adjusted or curtailed. The idea, said one of Mr. Trump’s advisers, is to create a system so that tweets “don’t go from the president’s mind out to the universe.”
Some of Mr. Trump’s tweets—from hinting that he may have taped conversations with Mr. Comey to suggesting without any evidence that former President Barack Obama wire-tapped Trump Tower—have opened him to criticism and at times confounded his communications team.
Trump aides have long attempted to rein in his tweeting, and some saw any type of legal vetting as difficult to implement. “I would be shocked if he would agree to that,” said Barry Bennett, a former Trump campaign aide.
Mr. Trump is set to speak to several teams of high-powered attorneys to add to a roster of outside counsel around Marc Kasowitz, who will be helping coordinate the legal response, advisers say. The White House is also expected to hire several lawyers who will focus on the investigation in the legal office run by Don McGahn, White House counsel. Some senior administration officials said they are considering hiring their own private attorneys.
White House officials said the president may also bring back a trio of former campaign officials: Corey Lewandowski and David Bossie, to handle communications and political duties related to the investigation, and David Urban, for a senior White House job.
Mr. Lewandowski was fired as the first of three Trump campaign managers. Mr. Bossie, the deputy campaign manager, is a long-time political operative who worked for the House oversight committee in the 1990s. Mr. Urban worked as a top Republican Senate aide in the late 1990s during the Bill Clinton impeachment proceedings.
“The most important thing is Trump listens to them,” one senior administration official said. “And it will free up the rest of the White House to focus on health care, taxes and the things we should be worrying about.”
Mr. Lewandowski’s return may prove awkward internally. He was accused of assaulting a reporter at a campaign event—charges were eventually dropped—and Trump family members believed he was peddling negative stories about Mr. Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner, campaign officials said at the time. He was pushed out at the behest of Mr. Trump’s children. Mr. Lewandowski declined to comment.
Other changes under discussion include removing communications director Mike Dubke and installing Sarah Sanders as the main spokesman instead of Mr. Spicer. Another consideration is scaling back on daily press briefings.
Mr. Spicer, one of the only practicing Catholics among Mr. Trump’s senior staff, was a last-minute scratch from the president’s meeting with Pope Francis this week, a move that shocked some senior administration officials.
Mr. Spicer and Ms. Sanders didn’t respond to further questions on any coming changes.
One White House official said that Mr. Spicer, parodied by comedian Melissa McCarthy on “Saturday Night Live,” has taken on an unwanted celebrity status that threatens to undercut his effectiveness as a spokesman. “I wouldn’t wish being parodied on Saturday Night Live on anybody,” the official said.
The raft of potential changes are aimed at freeing other staff to focus on securing legislative victories before the August recess, a tall order even without the Russia investigation. It is also being planned amid a backdrop of internal conflict in the West Wing. Last month, Mr. Trump said he sat down two of his top aides, Mr. Kushner and chief strategist Steve Bannon, and ordered them to work out their differences. But tensions remain, according to White House staff.
Mr. Trump consulted Mr. Kushner on the firing of Mr. Comey, officials say. Mr. Bannon opposed the move and was absent from the inner circle who advised the president on the move.
Mr. Bannon’s critics say they suspect him of leaking to the press and regard him as too much of a firebrand to massage the president’s agenda through Washington’s traditional processes. Mr. Kushner’s detractors in the West Wing refer to him as the “young princeling.”
Some Trump advisers have also questioned the judgment of communications officials, citing as an example the rollout of a tax-plan outline in April that featured Goldman Sachs alumni Steven Mnuchin, the Treasury secretary, and Gary Cohn, the National Economic Council director.
“The left is automatically going to say the tax plan is tailored to the rich and to Wall Street. And we just gave them an image of the rich and of Wall Street,” one Trump former campaign official said.
Mr. Trump’s return to Washington will mark the end of a period which, White House staffers said, brought some relief from the hectic pace of the news surrounding the administration and the Russia investigation. Some noted that it gave them a rare time to eat dinner at home.
Write to Michael C. Bender at Mike.Bender@wsj.com and Peter Nicholas at peter.nicholas@wsj.com
This Ridiculous Attack On Trump Was Obama’s Biggest Betrayal Yet
So much for tradition.
Former President’s do not criticize the current occupant of the Oval Office.
But Barack Obama threw that out the window and launched his biggest betrayal of Donald Trump to date.
In addition to not attacking current Presidents, Obama broke two more traditions – criticizing the current President while he was traveling abroad, and doing so while he himself was on foreign soil.
While in Berlin of all places, Obama claimed we “can’t hide behind walls.”
Politico reports:
“Barack Obama brought his post-presidency campaign for continued globalism and openness to Berlin on Thursday, urging youth leaders and others not to give up and turn in on themselves.
“In this new world we live in, we can’t isolate ourselves. We can’t hide behind a wall,” Obama said, sitting on stage next to German Chancellor Angela Merkel in front of the Brandenburg Gate at an event that’s part of “Kirchentag,” a multi-day meeting sponsored by the Protestant church in Germany.
Obama made the comment as President Donald Trump, in Brussels for his first NATO leaders summit, was meeting with European Council leaders Donald Tusk and Jean-Claude Juncker.
Obama addressed a rapt crowd of Germans lining the streets from blocks away, some holding signs like, “Welcome Home,” “You’re Looking Great,” and “Du Bist Ein Berliner.”
Obama attended the event at Merkel’s invitation—there’s no foreign leader that he was closer with during his time in the White House, and she’s hoping for a boost from his still sky-high popularity in Germany in her own re-election campaign in the fall. “
The obvious symbolism of Obama’s remarks was comparing Trump’s proposed border wall, which is meant to stop illegal immigration – to the Berlin Wall, the symbol of Soviet oppression during the Cold War.
But the outrageous analogy falls short.
Trump’s wall is to keep illegal immigration out and protect America’s clearly defined borders and sovereignty.
The Berlin Wall divided a unified nation and prevented free movement of a native population.
In addition, by appearing with Merkel – who is running for re-election this fall – Obama is meddling in a foreign election to help a leader whose vision for the world is at odds with President Trump.
Merkel is the high priestess of globalism who opened Germany’s borders to over one million Syrian refugees, which in turn ignited the nationalist movements across the Western world.
Obama is trying to help her put them down by aiding her re-election campaign.
His appearance also came just days before Merkel was set to have dinner with Trump.
It was a stunning act of betrayal.
But for the American left – who sees their sole purpose as destroying Trump’s legitimacy – it was all part of the plan.
Police Dept. Honors Daughter of Fallen Officer at Prom Photo Shoot
BY TIFFANI GREY
When Indianapolis teen Sierra Bradway got ready for her prom earlier this month, there was one thing she knew she wanted for her special night. Photos with her father, a fallen police officer who was killed in the line of duty.
However, when Sierra headed to the cemetery to pay her respects and take her prom pictures, she had no idea what was waiting for her.
Sierra’s father, Officer Rod Lee Bradway was killed after he responded to a domestic violence disturbance on September 20, 2013. According to Independent Journal Review, Sierra’s father was rescuing a mother and her child when he was shot six times.
That was why it was so important for Sierra to honor her father and make him a part of her prom night. It would be just her, the photographer and her date, Brock Spayd.
However, Spayd’s mother heard about the plan and wanted to do something special for Sierra. Fox News reported, “The plan was set in motion by Brock’s mother, a captain in the Marion County Sheriff’s Office, who learned of Sierra’s cemetery visit and called upon officers from the Indianapolis Police Department and other regional departments to help make the teen’s prom more special.”
The Indianapolis Police Department were able to make this moment so much more beautiful when its officers showed up at the cemetery to surprise Sierra. When she arrived at the site, there were two police officers on horseback and a dozen more lined up waiting for her.
USA Today reported that the photos were truly spectacular, “By Sierra’s side in her prom photos is IMPD Chief Bryan Roach. She smiles, cradling a photo of her father in her hands. And in other photos, she’s surrounded by dozens of police officers and sheriff’s deputies.”
Here’s the video...
However, when Sierra headed to the cemetery to pay her respects and take her prom pictures, she had no idea what was waiting for her.
Sierra’s father, Officer Rod Lee Bradway was killed after he responded to a domestic violence disturbance on September 20, 2013. According to Independent Journal Review, Sierra’s father was rescuing a mother and her child when he was shot six times.
That was why it was so important for Sierra to honor her father and make him a part of her prom night. It would be just her, the photographer and her date, Brock Spayd.
However, Spayd’s mother heard about the plan and wanted to do something special for Sierra. Fox News reported, “The plan was set in motion by Brock’s mother, a captain in the Marion County Sheriff’s Office, who learned of Sierra’s cemetery visit and called upon officers from the Indianapolis Police Department and other regional departments to help make the teen’s prom more special.”
The Indianapolis Police Department were able to make this moment so much more beautiful when its officers showed up at the cemetery to surprise Sierra. When she arrived at the site, there were two police officers on horseback and a dozen more lined up waiting for her.
USA Today reported that the photos were truly spectacular, “By Sierra’s side in her prom photos is IMPD Chief Bryan Roach. She smiles, cradling a photo of her father in her hands. And in other photos, she’s surrounded by dozens of police officers and sheriff’s deputies.”
Here’s the video...
“There were a lot of laughs, some tears, but most importantly, there was love,” a video, posted by Indianapolis Police said. “Sierra, we know your father is smiling from heaven. Know that your Blue Line Family will always be here for you.”
After the past few years of ignorant police bashing, when even efforts to honor cops can run into trouble, a story like this is just what the doctor ordered.
After the past few years of ignorant police bashing, when even efforts to honor cops can run into trouble, a story like this is just what the doctor ordered.
News Alert: German Chancellor Angela Merkel says US no longer a reliable partner
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The partnership between Europe and the U.S. has been strained, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said the day after President Trump returned from the G7 summit.
"The times when we could fully rely on others are to some extent over — I experienced that in the last few days," Merkel told her supporters, according to Bloomberg. "We Europeans must really take our destiny into our own hands."
"Of course we need to have friendly relations with the U.S. and with the U.K. and with other neighbors, including Russia," she continued. "We have to fight for our own future ourselves."
During a meeting with European Council President Donald Tusk and European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker on Thursday, Trump said the Germans are "very bad" on trade.
"Look at the millions of cars they sell in the U.S., and we'll stop that," Trump said.
Trump's national economic adviser Gary Cohn clarified Trump "doesn't have a problem with Germany."
Germany, France, Canada, Italy, Japan and the U.K. reaffirmed their "strong" support to the agreement on Saturday, which seeks to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions.
Peter Schweizer: FBI Naming Kushner ‘Person of Interest’ Marks ‘Major Shift in the Russian Investigation’
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by JOHN HAYWARD
On Friday’s Breitbart News Daily, Breitbart News Senior Editor-at-Large Peter Schweizer looked forward to the G7 summit in Sicily as President Trump’s “first big meeting where he’s dealing with major allies and very complex issues.”
“A lot of times, if you look at presidents in the past, these first meetings take on extreme importance because they set the tone for how the relationship is going to go later on,” Schweizer told SiriusXM host Alex Marlow.
“The audience is probably well-acquainted with during the Cold War how Soviet leaders would test the resolve of people like President Kennedy and Ronald Reagan, to see what they were made of,” he recalled.
“Well, our allies kind of do the same thing – not with the same hostility, but when you have contentious issues they’re going to be looking, in their interactions with Donald Trump, at how wedded is he to the positions he staked out on climate change? How wedded is he on issues of immigration? Is there flexibility, is he going to move? And if he is going to move, how best to do it?” he anticipated.
Schweizer said it would be interesting to watch the reaction from world leaders to their interactions with Trump, looking for indications they are willing to move toward his position on contentious issues, or that they believe he is willing to move toward theirs.
“We’ll get a pretty good sense in the next couple of days precisely what their assessment is of the new American president,” he predicted.
Marlow asked for Schweizer’s take on the news that President Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner has become a focus of the investigation into possible Russian interference with the 2016 election.
“First of all, Jared Kushner has significant ties to people in Russia, meaning financial ties, deals that have been done,” Schweizer responded. “Some of those are direct ties with investors where he shares investments in a company. In other instances, they’re people that perhaps are investors that are now based out of Israel, but are very tied commercially to Russia. That’s the first part of it.”
“The second part of it, though, is what’s kind of emerged is that some of the individuals that popped up initially in the Russia investigation – Paul Manafort, for example – we now know that actually Paul Manafort, one of the reasons he was hired or brought into the Trump circle was in part because Jared Kushner thought it would be a good idea,” he continued.
“That’s really the main reason why the FBI is looking,” he said. “To be very clear, when the FBI uses the term ‘person of interest,’ that does not mean that they’re saying they’ve committed a crime. What they’re looking for is for him to talk and share with them about what he knows, as it relates to individuals, actions, deals that might have been done. They’re simply saying, ‘this is a guy that is going to have interesting things to say to us, and will help us in the investigation.’”
“We want to be clear and make sure people know it does not mean that there’s guilt. It does not mean that he is obstructing or not cooperating. They are simply saying, ‘this is an individual that we are talking to,’” Schweizer stressed. “I think the accounts are so far that he is talking to them and trying to be cooperative.”
“But it’s a major change and shift in the investigation, really for a couple of reasons,” he noted. “First of all, it means they’ve moved away from simply looking at Paul Manafort and Carter Page – people that are no longer part of Trump’s inner circle, that were essentially let go during the campaign. It second of all means that you now have a family member that they are saying played some kind of role, in some way, in negotiations or discussions with individuals that might be tied to the Russians.”
Marlow asked if it was surprising to see the media swarm on Kushner when “by all accounts, he seems like a guy who agrees mostly with the worldview of the establishment press.”
Schweizer saw it as important evidence against the notion that “if you appease the political Left on certain political views, they’re going to leave you alone.”
“It doesn’t work that way, because the political Left wants everything,” he contended. “They don’t want something, they want everything, which means they want their people in there. That’s how the game is played.”
“I think the reason that Jared Kushner is getting a lot of attention is simply because he is viewed by many people as perhaps the most powerful person in the White House, other than the president himself,” Schweizer speculated. “Now, that of course is subject to debate, but that I think is the perception. Part of that is not just because of the real power, but because he’s related to the president. You can’t fire your son-in-law, per se. He’s always going to have a seat at the table.”
Referring to a New York Times piece on Kushner’s real estate holdings, Schweizer observed that Kushner owns a large number of low-rent residential properties.
“The company that he owns has a reputation for being very, very tough on renters. If their rent payment is a couple of hours late, they will get a notice of eviction; claims from tenants that they’re not very responsive to repairs,” Schweizer observed.
“But something that I think is overlooked in this very long article is really one sentence, which talks about the fact that he procured thousands of these apartments in 2011, really at fire-house prices, with the financial backing of Freddie Mac – which is the federal government’s financing agency,” he said.
“To me, that sets off alarm bells because you have an instance here where it looks like Jared Kushner benefited from this sort of crony capitalism government program. A business professional who benefits from these kinds of programs, it automatically raises concerns that they now become advocates for those types of government programs,” he noted.
“I think part of it is, you do have this issue with low-rent apartments, people complaining about draconian management agencies and the unfairness. Of course, there’s two sides to those stories. We don’t know where the truth lies. But the issue of the crony capitalism to me is the bigger concern, because again when it comes to the very difficult question of cutting government programs, particularly crony capitalism programs, perhaps there’s going to be more reluctance for supporting those initiatives by Jared Kushner because he’s benefited from them,” said Schweizer.
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Former CIA Officer Says Media May Have Published Leaked Information To Hurt Trump
"... a grave threat to our national security."
By Jack Davis
A former CIA officer told Fox News host Neil Cavuto on Friday that the recent leak of information that caused Britain to stop sharing intelligence with the United States could have been part of the media’s effort to make the Trump administration look bad.
“It’s a possibility” the New York Times knew what it was doing when it used sensitive information about the terrorist bombing in Manchester, England, and used it to take a shot at President Donald Trump, former CIA officer Mike Baker told Fox News host Neil Cavuto on Cavuto’s Your World show.
Trump and American intelligence agencies were castigated in Britain when the New York Times published details of the attack that, at the time, were only known to British and American intelligence agencies.
Baker said the leaks will only stop “if there are consequences.”
Baker said officials who have access to the material being leaked should be “hauled in” and made to take a lie detector test, if necessary.
That sentiment was shared by a former FBI official.
“If we start to punish, other people will get the message,” said Ron Hosko, a former assistant director of the FBI, who talked to Cavuto on Thursday.
Trump has said he will work to identify the source of the leak.
“The alleged leaks coming out of government agencies are deeply troubling,” Trump said. “These leaks have been going on for a long time, and my administration will get to the bottom of this. The leaks of sensitive information pose a grave threat to our national security. I am asking the Department of Justice and other relevant agencies to launch a complete review of this matter, and if appropriate, the culprit should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.”
Failure to punish will embolden future leakers, Baker said.
“When you continue to lower the bar and you continue to normalize the idea that, you know, people can’t keep their pie holes shut, and it’s OK because there’s ultimately no consequences, then sure, you create this environment where suddenly you have news articles that contain only anonymous sources,” Baker said.
One analyst said publication of the level of detail the New York Times published could help other terrorists.
“Once we start coming down to very specific photographs and details of the bomber and the device used, if you’re a perpetrator who’s aiming to make similar devices in the future — or indeed you’re the person who made that device — you can learn something about its effectiveness and what is left by looking at the photographs in the New York Times. That is information you would not usually be able to come by,” said Chris Westcott, a visiting senior research fellow at the International Centre for Security Analysis.
“It’s a possibility” the New York Times knew what it was doing when it used sensitive information about the terrorist bombing in Manchester, England, and used it to take a shot at President Donald Trump, former CIA officer Mike Baker told Fox News host Neil Cavuto on Cavuto’s Your World show.
Trump and American intelligence agencies were castigated in Britain when the New York Times published details of the attack that, at the time, were only known to British and American intelligence agencies.
Baker said the leaks will only stop “if there are consequences.”
Baker said officials who have access to the material being leaked should be “hauled in” and made to take a lie detector test, if necessary.
That sentiment was shared by a former FBI official.
“If we start to punish, other people will get the message,” said Ron Hosko, a former assistant director of the FBI, who talked to Cavuto on Thursday.
Trump has said he will work to identify the source of the leak.
“The alleged leaks coming out of government agencies are deeply troubling,” Trump said. “These leaks have been going on for a long time, and my administration will get to the bottom of this. The leaks of sensitive information pose a grave threat to our national security. I am asking the Department of Justice and other relevant agencies to launch a complete review of this matter, and if appropriate, the culprit should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.”
Failure to punish will embolden future leakers, Baker said.
“When you continue to lower the bar and you continue to normalize the idea that, you know, people can’t keep their pie holes shut, and it’s OK because there’s ultimately no consequences, then sure, you create this environment where suddenly you have news articles that contain only anonymous sources,” Baker said.
One analyst said publication of the level of detail the New York Times published could help other terrorists.
“Once we start coming down to very specific photographs and details of the bomber and the device used, if you’re a perpetrator who’s aiming to make similar devices in the future — or indeed you’re the person who made that device — you can learn something about its effectiveness and what is left by looking at the photographs in the New York Times. That is information you would not usually be able to come by,” said Chris Westcott, a visiting senior research fellow at the International Centre for Security Analysis.
5 Things Comey Did that Left the President with No Choice but to Fire Him
The Director of the FBI was fired. Since this has only happened twice in the nation’s history, it is a newsworthy event. Unfortunately, being newsworthy has attracted the media storm, and there is no surer or faster way to obfuscate a simple situation.
The media has confused and distracted from every possible angle making it difficult to understand exactly why Comey was fired. In an attempt to get to a little truth, we’re going to take a hard look at Comey’s career as FBI Director and weight Trump’s decision. You’ll find that Comey was actually far worse than your expectations, and in the end Trump did right by America with this decision.
Loretta Lynch
Any analysis of Comey’s tenure with the FBI should probably start here. While the shadiness of her interactions with Hillary Clinton and subsequent investigations is reasonably documented, Comey’s side of the story is less public. Private statements made by Comey have been released.
He was quoted saying “[Lynch] was trying to cover for Clinton.” Despite his misgivings, he never pursued action on the matter. He could have easily sought her recusal without making it a political issue, and eventually Lynch made public concessions.
Clearly there was at least a conflict of interest, but Comey had no intention of pushing for an unbiased investigation. Despite her obviously illicit meeting with Bill Clinton and countless evidence that Lynch was corrupting the probe, Comey left it alone, and she was never actually removed from the decision-making process.
Information Handling
One might think that the director of the FBI would understand the importance and application of discretion. Comey has not lived up to that expectation. In multiple instances he has been the source of information leaks and protocol breaches. Even recently he leaked information regarding his dinner with President Trump, and that is only the tip of the iceberg. If for no other reason, these leaks gave the president no choice when it came to firing Comey.
Unfortunately, Comey went farther than just leaking information. He provided false testimony to Congress while under oath. He gratuitously misquoted the number of classified emails under review in Clinton’s case, and he used that false report to justify taking political action.
Even after leaving his post he continues to spread false information. The “Comey memos” cited by the New York Times may not even exist. The story claims that Comey recorded being asked to drop the Russian investigations, but when the sources were verified by third parties, they couldn’t produce any such memo. Furthermore, recording protocol provided by the White House is unable to corroborate a number of claims that appear in these alleged memos.
In time, they may turn up in an investigation, but their physical absence so far is very suspect. Even if they do emerge, there reliability will be as tainted as the reputation of the man who wrote them.
Politics
The worst aspect of Comey’s failures is political. He used his position to politicize the FBI far beyond anything seen before, and it came back to haunt him. Can you find another example of an FBI director corrupting an investigation and then trying to strongarm the judicial branch into dropping everything?
If that wasn’t enough, he publicly reopened the case that he himself abandoned at a time that was clearly timed to affect a major election. Regardless of the outcome, there is no question that Comey was testing the limits of his political clout. He seemed to conveniently forget that the FBI is supposed to be a neutral agency.
If he hadn’t gone so far, he might have had an opportunity to leave the bureau with some dignity. Instead, he made his position a political statement, and he backed Trump into a corner. Draining the swamp requires action, and Comey made it unmistakable that he was an integral part of the swamp as a whole. Now, instead of leaving with honor and maintaining a career, Comey will be disgraced in the political backlash of this overblown situation.
It’s easy to assume that Trump made his decision from a personal stance. But, if you remember that Trump’s success isn’t tied to a political career (that is only months old), you can see that he is the only major player in Washington with the freedom to treat Comey objectively.
A review of the facts show that Trump only had one reasonable options. He had to fire the man who had abused his position, broke laws and corrupted the primary branch of federal law enforcement.
~ American Liberty Report
Liberal State Finally Reaches Health Care Law… But There’s No Way to
A California Senate committee that oversees bills that spend state money passed a $400 billion universal health care proposal on Thursday — with no plan of how to pay for it.
According to The Sacramento Bee, Senate Appropriations chairman Senator Ricardo Lara, a Democrat, introduced SB 62 in an effort to overhaul the health insurance market in the state. The bill was approved 5-2 after a nearly three-hour session, opening the door for it to be considered in the Senate next week.
Despite the fact the bill is on its way to the Senate, as with the problem-plagued Obamacare, there is no solution in sight as to how it will be funded.
While the bill has been amended to include verbiage that it cannot be put in force before a funding plan is generated, opponents of the plan say the funding question should have been resolved at the committee level — and even question the sanity of such a bill in the first place.
“Why would you just mindlessly pass that through without more details?” asked Davide Wolfe, legislative director for the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association, a taxpayer advocacy group. “The lack of transparency here is stunning.”
According to The Sacramento Bee, Senate Appropriations chairman Senator Ricardo Lara, a Democrat, introduced SB 62 in an effort to overhaul the health insurance market in the state. The bill was approved 5-2 after a nearly three-hour session, opening the door for it to be considered in the Senate next week.
Despite the fact the bill is on its way to the Senate, as with the problem-plagued Obamacare, there is no solution in sight as to how it will be funded.
While the bill has been amended to include verbiage that it cannot be put in force before a funding plan is generated, opponents of the plan say the funding question should have been resolved at the committee level — and even question the sanity of such a bill in the first place.
“Why would you just mindlessly pass that through without more details?” asked Davide Wolfe, legislative director for the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association, a taxpayer advocacy group. “The lack of transparency here is stunning.”
“How can we go forward with this bill without a fiscal analysis, a detailed financing plan?” asked Senator Janet Nguyen, a Republican.
The Los Angeles Times reported in April that Lara said a financial study will be conducted in May to determine how it should be funded. However, the month is almost over, and currently, the bill simply states that the plan would be funded by “broad-based revenue.”
The Los Angeles Times reported in April that Lara said a financial study will be conducted in May to determine how it should be funded. However, the month is almost over, and currently, the bill simply states that the plan would be funded by “broad-based revenue.”
The new health care bill — which is more than the entire state budget — would significantly reduce the role of insurance companies and be a single-payer system. The state would pay for all medical, dental and vision services in addition to nursing home and mental health care for all California residents, including illegal immigrants.
California lawmakers don't know how to pay for universal healthcare. But they advanced the bill anyway http://sacb.ee/9Vhw
No funding plan doesn’t stop lawmakers from moving health care bill alongThe Senate Appropriations committee passed Senate Bill 562, which establishes a single-payer health care system in California, on Thursday, May 25, 2017.
When it didn’t seem possible for California to sink deeper into the abyss that is liberal ideology, these lawmakers just did. Not only is this newest bill one of the most socialized forms of healthcare reform in America, it’s been approved without any thought given as to how it will be paid for.
It’s stunning and shocking that California lawmakers would pass a bill that exceeds their own state’s entire budget without considering how they might pay for it.
Truly, this is the epitome of the “dog that caught the car” scenario. Hopefully, the bill will be struck down before it’s too late for California taxpayers.
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