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The Real Reason some Republicans Hate Trump
By: Gary Bourgeault
It’s become clearer as the Trump presidency goes on, that the Republican Party is being exposed to be part of the bi-factional ruling party that now dominates America.
For some time the neocons have been infiltrating the Republican Party in order to bend it to their will. They are nothing more than Democrat operatives that have worked to permeate the Party with their ideology. This has, in turn, reduced the nation to being run by one party under two different names.
There are some exceptions to the rule on an individual basis, but overall, America no longer has a two-party system. This is why the rise of President Trump has created such a firestorm from both Parties, as they are under assault from his antics which in reality may be part of a larger strategy being used to expose the sewage in the swamp, in order to justify draining it, i.e., getting rid of those that have worked against the will of the people that have voted them in.
After all, how conservative is it for some Republicans to castigate the President because he doesn’t want mentally ill transgenders in the armed forces? What about those that voted against repealing Obamacare, or even repealing some of it? These people are traitors to the Party, and need to be identified as such.
Also of importance is the way many Republicans have jumped on the Russia bandwagon, even though no proof has been offered in regard to interference in the elections, it’s being treated as if interference is irrefutable.
This comes from the neocons and RINOs that are tying to take the attention of Americans off of the issues that drove Trump to the presidency.
Here’s what Trump needs to do. Ignore all the ancillary distractions, and focus almost entirely on building the wall. That’s what concerned his base, and if he refuses to get caught up into the manufactured issues from those trying to stop that, he’ll find himself winning the next election as well.
It will result in one of the most significant victories for the country as it was birthed to be, and shrink the number of immigrants that have little or no interest in what the nation stands for.
As most of us know, if their nations were so great, they wouldn’t be coming here. The problem is, once they get here, they start to turn it into the very thing they were fleeing from, while draining taxpayers of revenue in order to support them. That and much of the violence associated with their arrival are extremely detrimental to the survival of the nation.
Many Republicans hate Trump because he is exposing them as one side of the same coin of the bi-factional ruling party. The illogical fierceness of their opposition reveals this is something far beyond the norm, and the American people need to look beneath the hood of this unnatural response to see and understand what is happening, and what the implications are.
H.R. McMaster Promised Susan Rice She Could Keep Security Clearance in Secret Letter
President Donald Trump’s National Security adviser H.R. McMaster allowed former President Obama’s national security adviser Susan Rice to maintain her security clearance to access classified information — despite reservations Trump had about her motives.
McMaster sent an official letter to Rice informing her that she would maintain unfettered access to classified information, according to a report from Circa’s Sara Carter.
The president was not aware of his actions, according to two senior White House officials and an intelligence official.
The letter H.R. McMaster sent to Susan Rice about keeping her security clearance via @SaraCarterDC http://ift.tt/2uosYg7 …
One official questioned Rice’s access despite an ongoing investigation into her activities in reportedly unmasking Trump officials’ conversations with Russia during the presidential transition.
As Bloomberg’s Eli Lake reported, McMaster also concluded that Rice did nothing wrong by unmasking Trump transition officials.
Rice celebrated the exit of former national security advisor Michael Flynn and welcomed Trump’s decision to hire McMaster.
“Congrats to Lt Gen McMaster. I wish you every success as National Security Advisor,” she wrote on Twitter. “Hope you will be able to choose your team, have direct reporting and daily access to POTUS, and can eliminate Strategic Initiatives Group.”
Trump Administration Redacted Information About Lynch-Clinton Tarmac Meeting
As we all remember, former Attorney General Loretta Lynch recused herself from the investigation into Clinton’s use of a private email server after a private meeting at an airport with President Bill Clinton last summer. We only learned of the meeting between the two because a freelance journalist was tipped off to it.
It wasn’t long after that Clinton met with the FBI for a lengthy private interview… and promptly got off the hook just days later.
It seemed more than just a bit suspect to everyone, including now-President Donald Trump.
Even Dianne Feinstein called for an investigation into Lynch over her suspicious involvement in the FBI’s investigation.
Now, there’s a new development in the case….
The Justice Department released a redacted version of talking points it created about last year’s tarmac meeting between then-Attorney General Loretta Lynch and former President Bill Clinton, and claimed that the information could be withheld because of the government’s “deliberative process” privilege.
The conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch filed a Freedom of Information Act request to obtain numerous documents related to the meeting, and eventually had to sue the Department of Justice to obtain the documents, which included the redacted talking points.
“It is jaw-dropping that the Trump administration is blacking out key information about how the Obama Justice Department tried to spin Loretta Lynch’s scandalous meeting with Bill Clinton,” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton in a press release. “President Trump should order the full and immediate release of these materials.”
The tarmac meeting became a major campaign issue in 2016, and was reignited thanks to recent testimony from former FBI Director James Comey.
In his June testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee, Comey said Lynch had asked him to refer to matters about Hillary Clinton’s email server as a “matter” instead of an “investigation.”
It’s all in President Trump’s hands now. If he wants to truly expose Loretta Lynch and the Clinton campaign as a whole, all he has to do is un-redact those documents.
Then we’ll finally learn the truth about that meeting.
Let’s hope President Trump does the right thing.
West Virginia governor, a Democrat, to switch to Republican
BILL BARROW
West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice is switching parties to join Republicans as President Donald Trump plans a visit to the increasingly conservative state.
Justice's plans were confirmed to The Associated Press on Thursday by a Democratic Party official with knowledge of his plans. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to discuss the decision before the announcement.
The governor is expected to publicly announce his decision Thursday evening at a campaign rally with the president.
Justice was elected in November with just 49 percent of the vote, 20 percentage points behind Trump's total in the presidential contest in the state. Trump won 77 percent of West Virginia's Republican primary voters in May.
The president promised throughout the campaign to resurrect the lagging coal industry that has declined amid changing energy markets, leaving many West Virginia communities devastated. The industry and many of its workers have blamed the decline mostly on former President Barack Obama and his environmental policies.
Justice's defection leaves Democrats with just 15 governors among 50 states.
In West Virginia, his jump is another blow for Democrats in a state they once ran without opposition. U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin and state Treasurer John Perdue will be the remaining statewide elected Democrats. Manchin is up for reelection in 2018, one of 10 Democratic senators running in states Trump won, a dynamic that gives Democrats an uphill path to reclaiming a Senate majority.
New Calls for Criminal Investigation of Obama Aides in ‘Unmasking’ Scandal
By Daily Caller
Richard Pollock
Richard Pollock
New calls are coming for the Justice Department to launch a criminal investigation into the “unmasking” scandal swirling around a cluster of former Obama administration officials, The Daily Caller News Foundation Investigative Group has learned.
The calls came as House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes identified a fourth Obama national security official as a “person of interest” who improperly “unmasked” Trump officials and leaked the information to the news media.
In a letter Tuesday to the National Security Agency (NSA), the California Republican requested the agency report on improper “unmasking” requests made by Ben Rhodes, former President Barack Obama’s deputy national security advisor for strategic communications, according to Circa. As such, he was the number two ranking official on the National Security Council (NSC).
Rhodes’ name is now added to three other top Obama national security officials who are accused of improperly requesting the identities of Trump officials whose phone calls were intercepted by the NSA. Those names were later leaked to the media.
The three individuals are Susan Rice, Obama’s national security advisor, CIA Director John Brennan and U.N. Ambassador Samantha Power.
Unmasking or identifying U.S. citizens who are communicating with foreign governments or foreign principals for genuine intelligence purposes is legal, but obtaining the identity of U.S. citizens for partisan political purposes is not permitted under any circumstances. The leaking of “unmasked” U.S. citizens to the news media is unlawful.
Former U.S. Attorney Joseph DiGenova told TheDCNF Wednesday that now is the time for the Justice Department to launch an official criminal investigation. The latest revelation about Rhodes “demands a federal criminal investigation with a grand jury and subpoenas.”
“It is obvious that Obama, Brennan, Rice, Power and Rhodes were involved in massive — underscore massive — unmasking of Trump people, friends and associates after Trump’s nomination and after the election,” DiGenova said.
Nunes last week also asked Daniel Coats, Trump’s Director of National Intelligence (DNI), to look into the unmasking charges and accused the Obama administration of improperly seeking information on “hundreds” of Trump campaign and transition officials.
In the letter released by The Hill, Nunes said the committee “found evidence that current and former government officials had easy access to U.S. person information and that it is possible that they used this information to achieve partisan political purposes, including the selective, anonymous leaking of such information.”
The U.S. government records “incidental” conversations with American and foreign principals, but keeps their identity anonymous unless a specific intelligence official requests their identification for genuine national security reasons. But Nunes says the unmasking was conducted to spy on Trump officials.
Former intelligence and national security officials agree it’s time to pursue a criminal investigation.
“When you’re dealing with the political use of intelligence methods and capabilities with regards to unmasking, you have suspected criminal activity,” said Col. James Waurishuk (Ret.) a 30-year senior intelligence officer who served on the NSC and later served as deputy director for intelligence at U.S. Central Command.
“To be using it or suspecting it’s been used for political purposes, that automatically transfers that whole effort into a criminal act. So that has to be investigated,” he said. Waurishuk also is vice president of the OPSEC foundation, a nonprofit that represents retired intelligence and military officials.
Col. James Williamson (Ret.), who served in the Army Special Forces for 32 years in the intelligence field, agreed.
“It’s clear to any layman that these requests were made for political reasons, not for national security reasons. It’s very unusual that there would be a request to unmask a U.S. citizen. If we are truly going to exercise the rule of law, then bring it on,” he told TheDCNF.
Williamson said the investigation should be extended to Clapper.
“I think Clapper from day one has been complicit and probably should be investigated as a co-conspirator himself,” Williamson said. “He knew what the constraints were. These hundreds of unmasking requests came after the election.”
In the last days of the Obama administration, Clapper permitted all 17 intelligence agencies to share raw intelligence that once was exclusively held by the NSA, including unmasking information, for the first time. This may have permitted many previously unauthorized officials, including other Obama political appointees, to access NSA telephone intercepts of Trump officials with foreign leaders.
DiGenova also points to Clapper’s culpability. He said there was a massive expansion in unmasking after the election.
“There was a gigantic uptick in unmasking after the election. The combination of that with Clapper’s loosening of the number of people who could ask for unmasking requires, demands a federal criminal investigation with a grand jury and subpoenas,” he said.
The emergence of Rhodes in the growing scandal reopens an embarrassing chapter for the Obama administration, spotlighting his staff’s lack of experience in national security affairs.
Before joining the number two spot at the NSC, Rhodes had no military or foreign policy experience.
“I put a special note on Ben Rhodes,” says Waurishuk. “Here’s a man who was brought on board with zero experience in the national security arena. Zero.”
Thomas Ricks, a former Pulitzer Prize military affairs reporter for the Washington Post, wrote a scathing March 6, 2016 article on Rhodes in Foreign Policy Magazine, where he now serves as contributing editor.
Foreign Policy, normally a staid publication, titled Ricks article “A stunning profile of Ben Rhodes, the asshole who is the president’s foreign policy guru.”
Ricks opened his article on Rhodes by quoting from a devastating New York Times Magazine profile that appeared the day before.
“Perhaps the key sentence is this,” Ricks wrote. “His lack of conventional real-world experience of the kind that normally precedes responsibility for the fate of nations — like military or diplomatic service, or even a master’s degree in international relations, rather than creative writing — is still startling.”
Rhodes once saw himself as a literary writer and in 2001 was in his second year of the MFA program at New York University, writing short stories when the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks occurred. He was majoring in creative writing.
Ricks was not impressed with the young man. “Rhodes comes off like a real asshole. This is not a matter of politics — I have voted for Obama twice,” he wrote.
Rhodes also came under attack after he boasted in the same NYTimes Magazine article he duped all the White House reporters on the Iran nuclear deal.
“The average reporter we talk to is 27 years old, and their only reporting experience consists of being around political campaigns. That’s a sea change. They literally know nothing,” Rhodes claimed.
Williamson says the appointment of Rhodes to the NSC was “beyond comprehension.”
“Rhodes was a failed fiction writer,” he told TheDCNF. “But how he got the job in the Obama administration — it is beyond comprehension of somebody with the lack of national security background and the appointment to the NSC staff in any capacity.”
Conway: Leakers Had to Have Revealed Mueller's Grand Jury
(Fox News/"Fox & Friends")
By Sandy Fitzgerald
Grand jury investigations are "meant to remain secret," so the news that special counsel Robert Mueller had empaneled a grand jury to investigate allegations into Russian interference had to have been leaked, White House counselor Kellyanne Conway said Friday.
"It could be anybody that's on the grand jury," Conway told Fox News' "Fox & Friends" program. "It could be one of the lawyers; it could be anyone, I suppose."
The Wall Street Journal, quoting sources close to the matter, first reported Mueller was using a grand jury as part of the investigation. The grand jury is separate from one being used in Alexandria, Va. to gather information on former national security adviser Michael Flynn.
Prosecutors often use grand juries in criminal investigations, and the use of one suggests Mueller and his investigative team will demand documents and subpoena witnesses as the probe continues. However, the presence of a grand jury does not suggest criminal charges are pending, or if they'll be sought.
"Let me remind everyone what the president has said about this," said Conway. "It's a witch-hunt. It's fake. Last night I believe he called it a fabrication."
Such investigations, she continued, become "fishing expeditions" in which prosecutors throw information against a wall in hopes it will stick.
The Trump administration has agreed to comply and share what information it could, she said, including with son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner's meeting last week with House and Senate officials.
"You have heard Don Jr. say he would share information he has" about a meeting involving a Russian attorney, she continued.
"What came of that meeting?" she said. "There was no consequence, no follow-up, no smoking gun. I became the campaign manager shortly after that."
Trump, she continued, defeated Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton by being a better candidate "who connected with people and didn't seem angry all the time."
Conway, however, said that "really what should concern everyone are those leaks that imperil national security," such as the leaks of President Donald Trump's phone calls with the president of Mexico and Australia's prime minister, The Washington Post reported on Thursday.
"Leaking the phone calls between our president and other heads of state is nothing short of a national disgrace," Conway said. "You know who agrees with that? Democratic senator from Virginia Mark Warner.
"He said so yesterday. He said governors, senators and indeed, presidents of the United States need to have confidence that they can engage in conversation with other heads of state. They can negotiate. They can discuss issues without the threat of it being leaked."
Conway, though, said the West Wing is a "small place" and that it will be "easier to figure out who is leaking than the leakers may realize. On this matter, I want there to be bipartisan outrage because we need people who understands this imperils national security."
Moviegoers Getting Fed Up With All The F****** Cursing
ANDREW MALCOLM
Americans have been treated to public profanity a number of times in recent years. Most notably this involved then-Vice President Joe Biden caught telling Barack Obama on national TV that his signing of ObamaCare was “a big f****** deal.”
As it turned out, of course, ObamaCare became a big f*****-up deal, as have Republican efforts this year to repeal that piece of, uh, paper.
Last year candidate Donald Trump let go some swear words on-stage. Supporters saw this as speaking truth to those a******* in power. Those g****** reporters feigned shock.
Then, out came an old audio tape of Trump crudely advising a TV host you can just grab women by the p-word. Since his public apology, Trump seems to have cleansed his public palate.
But also since then, some shell-shocked Democrats have tried to show their faux authenticity by picking up the public cursing habit. Democratic National Committee Chairman Tom Perez and senators Kirsten Gillibrand and Kamala Harris, among others, have demonstrated their linguistic liberation, mainly with the f-word.
But, turns out, they probably should be careful.
A new Harris Poll has revealed that Americans are growing pretty g***** tired of all this f****** cursing, at least those paying a nice chunk of change to be entertained in a movie theater.
Scriptwriters typically intend bad words to emphasize a character’s emotional intensity, as do lazy speakers in private conversations. But those words have really become so common they strike many as mere verbal crutches for bad actors and a sign of their weak f****** vocabularies.
The most offensive swear words, the Hollywood Reporter reports, are taking the name of Jesus Christ in vain. A third of respondents said they’d completely avoid a movie if they knew that was in there. A close second was g****** with f*** right behind.
It’s no f****** surprise that Republicans are more repulsed by swearing than are Democrats; 45% of them dislike the f-word in movies against only 25% of D***. More women (37%) are bothered by that than men (26%).
Younger people seem less bothered by cinematic cursing than seniors. In fact, more than half of those over 72 would skip a film with f*** and g****** in it. I said, MORE THAN HALF OF THOSE OVER 72 WOULD SKIP A MOVIE WITH F*** OR G****** IN IT.
Evangelicals appear the most sensitive to movie cursing. Seventy-four percent would not pay to see a movie using f*** while 90% would avoid a film using Jesus Christ in vain. Evangelicals were also bothered by s***, d**n, h***, p*** and c**p.
The poll was commissioned by filmmaker Spencer Folmar, director of “Generational Sins.” Folmar said the data helped him better understand the audience, adding, “We may create an alternate version for those who want to enjoy the story without all the language that comes naturally to our characters.”
That could create one version of “Generational Sins” with a PG-13 rating and another rated NFW (No F****** Way).
The Trump effect: Japanese carmakers adding 4,000 jobs at new car assembly plant
As the tectonic plates shift in the global auto industry, jobs are being added under President Trump. He was elected promising to reverse the deindustrialization of America, and the announcement today from Toyota and Mazda [i] that they are jointly building a $1.6-billion assembly plant at an American site to be determined shows that he is delivering.
Toyota said on Friday that it was taking a 5 percent stake in Mazda, another Japanese automaker, adding that the companies would jointly build a new assembly plant in the United States and pool resources on new technologies.
The factory's location has not been decided, but Toyota and Mazda said they hoped the first vehicles would roll off its production lines in 2021. The plant is expected to cost $1.6 billion and will employ about 4,000 workers, they said.
President Trump gets the credit, even the Times concedes:
Akio Toyoda, chief executive of Toyota, said in January that the carmaker would invest $10 billion in the United States over the next five years. Although plans for that spending predated the election of President Trump, the announcement was widely seen as a response to Mr. Trump's vows to promote American manufacturing, pushing back against countries like Japan that have large trade surpluses with the United States.
President Trump does not even bother taking credit in his tweet this morning.
Toyota & Mazda to build a new $1.6B plant here in the U.S.A. and create 4K new American jobs. A great investment in American manufacturing!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 4, 2017
It is not an exaggeration to say the world's auto industry faces an uncertain future. Soble's article lays out well the challenges forcing consolidation, particularly in the heavily fragmented Japanese auto industry. Given that context, the two Japanese automakers are operating on the assumption that continued access to the American market must be assured by matching production with demand over time.
It must be stipulated that Japanese auto plants in the United States, so-called "transplants," date to Honda's 1982 establishment of its Marysville, Ohio assembly plant, which has been a roaring success and expanded multiple times, and which inspired many other transplants.
But the current instance does appear to be the result of President Trump's rhetoric.
[i] Disclaimer: I was a consultant to both Toyota and Ford (which at the time controlled Mazda) for multiple years each. None of the views expressed here are based on confidential knowledge obtained in either company, and I have no continuing financial relationship with either.
As the tectonic plates shift in the global auto industry, jobs are being added under President Trump. He was elected promising to reverse the deindustrialization of America, and the announcement today from Toyota and Mazda [i] that they are jointly building a $1.6-billion assembly plant at an American site to be determined shows that he is delivering.
Toyota said on Friday that it was taking a 5 percent stake in Mazda, another Japanese automaker, adding that the companies would jointly build a new assembly plant in the United States and pool resources on new technologies.
The factory's location has not been decided, but Toyota and Mazda said they hoped the first vehicles would roll off its production lines in 2021. The plant is expected to cost $1.6 billion and will employ about 4,000 workers, they said.
Toyota Motor Corp. president Akio Toyoda, left, and Mazda Motor Corp. president Masamichi Kogai, right, pose for media. Eugene Hoshiko/AP.
President Trump gets the credit, even the Times concedes:
Akio Toyoda, chief executive of Toyota, said in January that the carmaker would invest $10 billion in the United States over the next five years. Although plans for that spending predated the election of President Trump, the announcement was widely seen as a response to Mr. Trump's vows to promote American manufacturing, pushing back against countries like Japan that have large trade surpluses with the United States.
President Trump does not even bother taking credit in his tweet this morning.
Toyota & Mazda to build a new $1.6B plant here in the U.S.A. and create 4K new American jobs. A great investment in American manufacturing!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 4, 2017
It is not an exaggeration to say the world's auto industry faces an uncertain future. Soble's article lays out well the challenges forcing consolidation, particularly in the heavily fragmented Japanese auto industry. Given that context, the two Japanese automakers are operating on the assumption that continued access to the American market must be assured by matching production with demand over time.
It must be stipulated that Japanese auto plants in the United States, so-called "transplants," date to Honda's 1982 establishment of its Marysville, Ohio assembly plant, which has been a roaring success and expanded multiple times, and which inspired many other transplants.
But the current instance does appear to be the result of President Trump's rhetoric.
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