Trump – Putin Summit Moves Forward

Despite Protests,
Media and the Left Freak Out!

The 2017 Trump

Presidency - #39
July 15th, 2018 to July 25tthh, 2018

Trump – Putin Summit Happens,

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 ‘Cannot Be Trusted’:
CNN Promotes Conspiracies After
Slamming Liar Trump
By Nicholas Fondacaro
July 15, 2018 3:21 PM EDT

What President Trump says is so frequently false or

nonsensical that his words don't have the same meaning,
the same power, the same impact as past presidents. It's a
shame but it's true. Trump simply cannot be trusted. He
has proven this himself time and time again. It's his own
lies and his own contradictions that have proven it.

Interestingly enough, if you swapped out the references to

Trump and replaced them with references to the media, it
still worked.

President Trump was set to meet with Russian President

Vladimir Putin on Monday, and the liberal media were in
full campaign mode as they pushed speculation the
President was a Russian agent meeting with his handler.

CNN’s Brian Stelter admitted as much during Sunday’s

Reliable Sources, saying,

“Trump opponents will speculate that

he's really a Russian agent, having a
meeting with his handler, betraying
America.”
While Stelter proceeded to rail against the President and
While he did say that, Stelter also declared that no one
could trust the President’s account of the meeting and gave “Trump partisans who will proclaim him
those conspiracy theories room to grow. to be a strong leader, improving the
U.S./Russia relationship”
Stelter kicked off the program by casting doubt over
whether or not the President was trustworthy enough for us in the vacuum of trusted accounts, he leaned on those
to believe his account of the one-on-one meeting Putin. liberal conspiracy theorists to drive his message home.

“No aides, no note-takers. So, we'll
never really know what is said because,
really, can we trust either man? No. We
can't,” he bitterly spat.
The CNN host bemoaned about how long-gone were the
days of presidents who spoke only in truth and
commanded power.
First up was, CNN national security analyst Samantha
Vinograd who asserted that Trump and Putin had a lot in
common since they were both “propaganda machines”.
“And Donald Trump has proven himself
to be a tool, a Russian tool for
spreading that misinformation and
disinformation,” she declared.

“But not now. Not anymore,” he decried: Stelter failed to mention she was a former Obama official,
which meant her analysis was biased.

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Appearing not at all bothered by the assertion and not one
to miss a chance to attack Fox News, Stelter tried to slime
Chris Wallace for being the one who managed to snag a
Putin interview for the powerhouse network.
“Exactly. He knows that Fox is the
president's preferred outlet. And he
knows how to play his asset. And
Donald Trump, either wittingly or
unwittingly, is an asset of the Russian
government,” Vinograd agreed.
Stelter seized onto her accusation of Trump being a
Russian spy asset and turned to fringe conspiracy theorist
and New York magazine writer, Jonathan Chait to share his
wild accusation that Trump had been helping Russia in the
U.S. since the late 1980’s.
“Well, what I was trying to do in this
story is to make the case that we've
been behind the facts on the Russia
story since the beginning,” he argued.
“We keep catching up, we keep
assuming the truth is just one or two
steps ahead of us. And there's so much
incriminating information. Much of it
has been forgotten.”
Chait appeared to hang his accusation on the claims of
anti-Trump, former CIA-Director John Brennan. And he
begged for people to believe him.
Clearly into the craziness, Stelter was
fearful that “these conversations end up
sounding like they’re conspiracy
theories in the same way that, you
know, I say Sean Hannity is engaging in
that kind of behavior”.
Reliable Sources had become a place where media-
televangelist Brian Stelter could sing the praises of the
cult. It’s a place where hypocrisy could flourish. It’s a
place where he could denounce the President for the lies he
told while telling his own. Contrary to the network’s
slogan, facts were not first there.
This is CNN.
The transcript is below:
CNN
Reliable Sources
July 15, 2018
11:00:45 AM Eastern [1 minute 38 seconds]
(…)
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BRIAN STELTER: But first, one of the world's big mysteries. How
will we know what really happens when Trump and Putin get
together? Right now, hundreds of journalists are descending on
Helsinki. 1,500 reporters from 61 countries have applied for
credentials to cover the U.S./Russia meeting. But they're going to
have very little access to the key events. Putin and Trump plan to
meet for a private conversation one-on-one conversation before
official talks begin. No aides, no note-takers. So, we'll never
really know what is said because, really, can we trust either
man? No. We can't.
In the past, the U.S. President's words have projected power and
shaped global decisions. What the president said meant
something. It meant a lot. But not now. Not anymore. What
President Trump says is so frequently false or nonsensical that
his words don't have the same meaning, the same power, the
same impact as past presidents. It's a shame but it's true. Trump
simply cannot be trusted. He has proven this himself time and
time again. It's his own lies and his own contradictions that have
proven it. And that is why this is a profound test for journalists.
How do you cover a person who twists truth like it's a game? Just
saying, oh, well the president said, that is not sufficient anymore,
if it ever was.
(…)
11:03:38 AM Eastern [33 seconds]
STELTER: Typically, usually, the truth comes out. But it might not
this time. Not when Trump and Putin meet privately. Of course,
nature and the media both abhor a vacuum. So the unknowns
are going to be filled up by Trump partisans who will proclaim him
to be a strong leader, improving the U.S./Russia relationship. At
the same time, Trump opponents will speculate that he's really a
Russian agent, having a meeting with his handler, betraying
America. The divide is that stark.
(…)
11:05:53 AM Eastern [4 minutes 39 seconds]
STELTER: With regards to all the reporting that has been done,
about Trump’s views of Putin and views of Russia, Samantha
Vinograd, what do we know for sure about he's walking into?
What do we know for sure about Trump’s attitude?
SAMANTHA VINOGRAD: Well, we definitely know that Trump
and Vladimir Putin have a few things in common when it comes
to the media. Both of them happen to be propaganda machines.
They spread misinformation, disinformation, and sow divisions in
the United States. That’s Russia’s mission we know from the
intelligence community. And Donald Trump has proven himself to
be a tool, a Russian tool for spreading that misinformation and
disinformation.
(…)
STELTER: I wonder what it means, if anything, that Putin has
selected Fox's Chris Wallace to sit down with, to have an
exclusive conversation after the meeting. It seems like Putin
knows to go to Fox. But at the same time, Wallace is a really
tough interviewer.
VINOGRAD: Exactly. He knows that Fox is the president's
preferred outlet. And he knows how to play his asset. And Donald
Trump, either wittingly or unwittingly, is an asset of the Russian
government. If you're Vladimir Putin, you're going into this
meeting and you’re thinking, “Okay, I have my playbook, I'm
going to flatter President Trump, he likes compliments. I'm going
to talk to him about conspiracies within the United States. And
I'm going to talk about things that he likes and things that he
trusts, like Fox News."
Imagine if Putin had said, “No, I'm going to go give an interview
to CNN or MSNBC.” President Trump's spine would have been
up, he would have been worried that Putin was going to say
something that he didn't like. This way, President Trump is
incredibly comfortable going into this meeting. To use president
trump's words from a few days ago, he's easy. President Trump
is an easy target.
STELTER: You talked about him being an unwitting Russian
asset. Jonathan Chait, you went a step further in your cover story
for New York magazine this week. If we could put in on screen, I
think. You talked about whether President Trump has actually
been a Russian asset for decades! Now, you acknowledge this is
unlikely, but you're making the point that it's possible.
JONATHAN CHAIT: Yeah.
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STELTER: Talk us through it.
CHAIT: Well, what I was trying to do in this story is to make the
case that we've been behind the facts on the Russia story since
the beginning. When the hack was first reported, nobody thought
that Russia was actually trying to help Donald Trump. We keep
catching up, we keep assuming the truth is just one or two steps
ahead of us. And there's so much incriminating information.
Much of it has been forgotten.
One of the things I begin with is the fact that the former CIA
director, John Brennan, received intercepts from European
intelligence agencies of Russian officials talking about their
connections to the Trump campaign. And then Brennan came out
and said that he thinks Putin has something secret, some
blackmail leverage over the President of the United States.
That's an astonishing charge. And it's made by someone who
actually has some information at his disposal and I think we
should actually take it seriously.
STELTER: Is there a risk, Jonathan, these conversations end up
sounding like they’re conspiracy theories in the same way that,
you know, I say Sean Hannity is engaging in that kind of
behavior?
CHAIT: There certainly is a risk. I mean, I think you have to be
cautious about what the facts show. You can't get ahead of the
facts, you can't say this definitely happened when you think
possibly it just happened. You have to look at other possibilities,
as I do. In every step, I try to show where there could be innocent
explanations. Sometimes when someone does something that
doesn't make sense, sometimes people do things that don't make
sense, and you have to be open to that.
But look, when you have serious information and you’ve got
serious figures making these charges, I think you actually have
to, not just blind yourself to the outcomes that they're putting right
in front of your face, but say, this is one of the things that might
actually be where the story is going.
(…)
 Rudy Giuliani: Latest Russian Indictments
Are Good News For President Trump –
Time To End Mueller Probe
By Jim Hoft
July 13, 2018, 3:28 Pm

Dirty Cop Rosenstein said the DNC was not a victim of

hacking (the FBI never inspected the DNC servers!) and
were the victims of spear-phishing instead.

On Friday afternoon Trump attorney Rudy

Giuliani cheered the news that once again
shows NO COLLUSION between any
American and the Russians.

The indictments Rod Rosenstein announced

On Friday Dirty Cop Robert Mueller indicted are good news for all Americans. The Russians
12 Russian military officers for conspiring to are nailed. No Americans are involved. Time for
interfere with the 2016 US election. Mueller to end this pursuit of the President and
say President Trump is completely innocent.
It was the latest junk indictment by the
Mueller witch hunt. — Mayor Rudy Giuliani (@RudyGiuliani) July
13, 2018
This comes two days before President
Trump is to meet with Russian President Rudy is right.
Vladimir Putin
Shut the witch hunt down.
This also comes a day after the
horrendous testimony by Deep State
operative, liar and cheater Peter Strzok.
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 Gowdy: Strzok’s ‘The Only Person
In America Who Doesn’t Think He Was Biased’
Mike Brest | Contributor
3:32 PM 07/13/2018
Republican South Carolina Rep. Trey Gowdy continued
his pressure on FBI agent Peter Strzok after his testimony
in front of the House Judiciary Committee while on
“Hannity” Thursday night.
WATCH:
“He’s the only person in America who
doesn’t think he was biased. He’s the only
person in America that does not
understand how incredibly detrimental
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those texts are to any kind of serious
investigation,” Gowdy stated.
“Before he ever begin investigating alleged
collusion between the Trump campaign
and Russia, he’d already made up his mind
that President Trump would be
destabilizing for the country,” he added.
“And he hadn’t even begun to interview the
first person in August. He said, we will stop
it. We need an insurance policy, and then
he began talking about impeachment one
day after Bob Mueller’s investigation
began.”
FBI’s Strzok’s 10-hour hearing in front of the House
Judiciary Committee got very heated at times on Thursday.
“I don’t give a damn what you appreciate,
Agent Strzok,” Gowdy responded to Strzok.
The South Carolina congressman was one of many who
got heated during the hearing.
 Hillary Comes Unhinged Over Trump SCOTUS Nominee
Kavanaugh ‘They Want To Take Us Back To The 1850’s’
(VIDEO)
By Cristina Laila
July 13, 2018, 4:03 Pm

Hillary went on to say the Trump administration is

attempting to reverse decades of progress by nominating
Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court.

Hillary came totally unhinged and said she worries the

Trump admin with their conservative majority SCOTUS
will take us back to the 1850’s.

“You know, I used to worry that they wanted to

On Friday, twice-failed presidential hopeful, Hillary
Clinton, was honored with a ‘Women’s Rights Award’ by
the (AFT) American Federation of Teachers.
Hillary Clinton attacked President Trump’s SCOTUS
nominee, Brett Kavanaugh in her long-winded speech
riddled with lies and demagoguery.
Crooked Hillary’s message was not one of optimism or
hope, rather she fear-mongered in an effort to get people to
the voting booths in November.
turn the clock back to the 1950’s, now I worry
they want to take it back to the 1850’s,” Hillary
continued.
Hillary Clinton learned nothing from her 2016 election
failure; identity politics and fear-mongering is not a
winning message.
The Deep State and Dems are desperate to stop the
confirmation of Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court. In an
unusual request, DAG Rosenstein just asked 100 federal
prosecutors to help with Kavanaugh’s paperwork.
VIDEO:

Hillary said that Trump’s SCOTUS nominee, Brett

Kavanaugh is an attack on civil rights, women’s rights and
the LGBT community.

“This nomination holds out a threat for

devastating consequences for workers rights,
civil rights, LGBT rights, women’s rights,
including those to make our own health
decisions,” Hillary said.

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 NY Times Cuts Up SCOTUS Pick Kavanaugh:
'Son of Privilege,' Father a ‘Swamp Creature’
By Clay Waters
July 15, 2018 4:27 PM EDT
The front page of Sunday’s New York Times brought the
expected comprehensive dissection of President Trump’s
second Supreme Court justice nominee, Judge Brett
Kavanaugh, in 4,500 words: “Trump’s Choice: Beltway
Insider Born And Bred – Father Was A Lobbyist –
Supreme Court Nominee Is Being Promoted as Business
Friendly.”
Five reporters were responsible for the story, led by Scott
Shane and including legal reporters Adam Liptak and
Charlie Savage. Even the more flattering online headline
couldn’t skip the ideological labeling: “Influential Judge,
Loyal Friend, Conservative Warrior -- and D.C. Insider.”
A photo caption online made the story's ideological tone
clear: “The Supreme Court nomination of Judge Brett M.
Kavanaugh, center with Senate Majority Leader Mitch
McConnell and Vice President Mike Pence, is the
culmination of a 30-year conservative movement to shift
the judiciary to the right.”
The article includes 17 conservative labels, not counting
quoted material, with either Kavanaugh himself or his
political positions labeled conservative three times, while
his background and associates garnering the remaining 14
instances. Successful Obama nominees Sonia Sotomayor
and Elena Kagan were introduced quite differently before
their own confirmation hearings, as shown in the 2010
Media Research Center study Supremely Slanted. In
contrast, there were a total of five liberal labels in the 85
stories the Times ran on the Sonia Sotomayor
confirmation, and just four for Elena Kagan in 43 stories!
The worst came first in Sunday’s Kavanaugh report:
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When Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh
introduced himself to the American people
on Monday, with a beaming President
Trump beside him, he had a lot to say
about his mother, a former high school
teacher and a Maryland judge. He
accorded his father strikingly less attention
-- just 34 words, compared with 132 about
his mother -- mentioning his “unparalleled
work ethic” while not saying exactly what
work he did.
Yet Ed Kavanaugh’s career may shed
light on his son’s hostility to
government regulation, a major reason
conservatives are so enthralled by his
nomination to the Supreme Court. He
spent more than two decades in
Washington as a top lobbyist for the
cosmetics industry, courting Congress
and combating regulations from the
Food and Drug Administration and other
agencies. (Among his hires for legal
work: John G. Roberts Jr., now the chief
justice.)
In current parlance, as an old friend put
it, the elder Mr. Kavanaugh and his
associates were “swamp creatures,”
using money and connections to fend
off demands for safer products and
greater transparency about ingredients.
He was a golf partner of Tip O’Neill, the longtime
Democratic House speaker, who weighed in to support
Martha Kavanaugh’s nomination to a judgeship. He was
paid $13 million, including his retirement package, in
2005, his last year at the Cosmetics, Toiletry and
Fragrance Association, records show.
Now Brett Kavanaugh, should he be
confirmed, will cement a solid pro-
business majority on the nation’s
highest court, advancing Mr. Trump’s
aim of dismantling the regulatory state,
liberating industry from what he sees as
burdensome rules. With critical battles
over the environment and consumer
protection headed for the courts, his
ascent would likely achieve for industry
 incomparably more than all his father’s
years of lobbying.
That is clearly the White House’s hope: An official fact
sheet declares that “Judge Kavanaugh protects American
businesses from illegal job-killing regulations” and -- in an
unusual claim about a judge -- “has led the effort to rein in
unaccountable independent agencies.”
It is also one reason his confirmation is
opposed by many advocates for
consumers, environmental protection
and workers.
....
They do not let on that Judge Kavanaugh is by legacy and
experience a charter member of elite Washington.... Nor
do they note that Judge Kavanaugh’s nomination is the
culmination of a 30-year conservative movement to shift
the judiciary to the right.
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From there the tone softened, somewhat.
Yet by many accounts, the conservative combatant of the
Bill Clinton investigation and the 2000 Florida recount
who has spent a dozen years as an appellate judge is also a
generous friend, including to many Democrats; an
authentic sports fanatic who keeps a beat-up basketball in
his chambers; and a warmhearted family man.
....
Still, he was a son of privilege, at least
by his teenage years, when his parents’
careers took off.
His parents were featured in a 1985 Washington Post
Magazine article about working with an interior designer
to redecorate their brick Colonial, using tiles Ed
Kavanaugh picked up in Portugal for a custom-made
dining table and purchasing vases and a gilt wood carving
from Hong Kong.
 CNN's Tapper Asks Obama Aide:
Was Obama 'Asleep At The Switch' On
Russian Meddling?
By Ryan Foley
July 15, 2018 5:05 PM EDT
On Sunday's Reliable Sources, CNN analyst (and former
Obama national-security aide) Samantha Vinograd
arrogantly denounced President Trump as a "tool" of
Russian disinformation. But during Friday's extended
edition of The Lead With Jake Tapper, the CNN host
actually confronted Vinograd with the Obama
administration's record. After Robert Mueller handed down
his latest indictments, Vinograd said the intelligence keeps
getting better, that the Russian GRU "was sanctioned back
in 2016; we know that they were up to no good."
Tapper came back with a classic devil's advocate question,
something too few TV hosts do:
JAKE TAPPER: I have to say and it’s unfair, I suppose, to
like hold you responsible for the entire Obama
Administration, but you really, you read this indictment
and you think,
boy, the Obama Administration they
really kind of missed the ball on this.
I mean, yes, they issued that report, but President Obama
said…what did he say, he told Putin to cut it out or knock
it off, it wasn’t particularly strong. And then there was all
this hesitation about warning the American people for fear
of looking partisan. In retrospect,
doesn’t it seem to you that perhaps the
Obama Administration was at least to a
degree asleep at the switch?
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For her part, Vinograd tried to spin "don't blame me, I was
gone" -- but wait, didn't she just say "we" knew they were
up to no good in 2016? Then she tried to claim no
president has figured this out -- but wait, isn't Obama
supposed to far smarter than Trump?
SAM VINOGRAD: Well, I’m not here to be
an apologist for the Obama
Administration, I was gone when this,
when this happened....
And we’re still ineffective; we know from various sources,
public and private, that this attack hasn’t stopped, there’s
bipartisan agreement on that.
And not one President, whether it be
Obama or President Trump, has figured
out how to deter Vladimir Putin.
So it’s not a question in Helsinki about whether Donald
Trump raises election meddling. He can raise it is… has he
prepared enough to figure out how to deter President Putin
from continuing doing what he’s doing?
Of all of the people at CNN, Tapper has perhaps more
consistently shown a willingness to buck the popular trend
and go after Democrats, as evidenced by his recent
confrontation with Rep. Keith Ellison (D-MN) over his ties
to the controversial Nation of Islam Leader Louis
Farrakhan in addition to calling out the leaders of the
Women’s March and members of the Congressional Black
Caucus for failing to condemn Farrakhan’s anti-semitism.
The Lead With Jake Tapper
07/13/18
03:37 PM
JAKE TAPPER: I want to bring in CNN National Security Analyst
Samantha Vinograd, who is also a former Senior Advisor to the
National Security Advisor in the Obama Administration. And to
the left side of our screen there we see live pictures of President
Trump arriving in Glasgow, Scotland. Samantha, you dealt with
Russians under President Obama. Is there anything in the
indictment today that surprises you or is that pretty much what
the Obama Administration suspected was happening?
SAMANTHA VINOGRAD: Well, I think what we learned from the
indictments today is that intelligence collection gets better over
time, and not worse. These indictments contain so much
information, much more detailed information on these individuals
and on the reach of the GRU. Remember, the GRU, the Russian
military intelligence unit, was sanctioned back in 2016; we know
that they were up to no good. The intelligence community
referenced the GRO, GRU in the January intelligence
assessment that they issued. And what we’re learning in these
various indictments is exactly what the GRU did and the
intelligence is building on itself, so that we get even more
information over time.
TAPPER: I have to say and it’s unfair, I
suppose, to like hold you responsible
for the entire Obama Administration, but
you really, you read this indictment and
you think, boy, the Obama
Administration, they really kind of
missed the ball on this. I mean, yes,
they issued that report, but President
Obama said…what did he say, he told
Putin to cut it out or knock it off, it
wasn’t particularly strong. And then there
was all this hesitation about warning the
American people for fear of looking
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partisan. In retrospect, doesn’t it seem to
you that perhaps the Obama
Administration was at least to a degree
asleep at the switch?
VINOGRAD: Well, I’m not here to be an apologist for the Obama
Administration, I was gone when this, when this happened. But I
think we have two separate things here. We have, one, what
intelligence did we have when this attack started so, 2016, 2015,
2014, when did we start to know what the Russians were up to,
that’s question number one. Question number two is why were
we ineffective in deterring that ongoing attack? And we’re still
ineffective; we know from various sources, public and private,
that this attack hasn’t stopped, there’s bipartisan agreement on
that. And not one President, whether it be Obama or President
Trump, has figured out how to deter Vladimir Putin. So it’s not a
question in Helsinki about whether Donald Trump raises election
meddling. He can raise it is… has he prepared enough to figure
out how to deter President Putin from continuing doing what he’s
doing?
TAPPER: What would you have him do, President Trump, if you
could? What would you have him say to President Putin in
Helsinki?
VINOGRAD: I can tell you what I would not have him do and that
is to approach this as an easy meeting. President Trump
described this as easy a few days ago. He said that he’s going to
be loose with President Putin. And history has shown that a
charm offensive with President Putin doesn’t work. He does not
respond to flattery. We know that President Trump does. So, if
you’re in Russia and you’re prepping Putin, you’re telling him to
flatter Donald Trump, to talk about his successes. But being nice
to Putin is not a recipe for success. It is what Donald Trump has
done to date. It’s not deterring him. We know that President Putin
cares about remaining economically strong, having a military
that’s able to invade countries like Ukraine and Crimea. So I
would lay out costs for President Putin on the financial side and
even on the diplomatic stage of continued misbehavior.
TAPPER: All right, Sam Vinograd, thanks so much. Appreciate
it.
 Rep. Meadows Drops Bombshell:
DOJ Had Not Notified Lisa Page Of Congress’ Outstanding
Interview Requests For Over 7 Months
By Cristina Laila
July 13, 2018, 5:57 Pm
Lisa Page appeared on Capitol Hill Friday for
a closed-door deposition.
Fox News’ Catherine Herridge tried to ask Lisa Page
questions as the former FBI lawyer briskly walked into her
deposition.
Lisa Page refused to answer questions. “She basically just
plowed through the reporters,” Catherine Herridge said.
VIDEO:
Former FBI lawyer Lisa Page arrives to face
lawmakers over anti-Trump texts; Catherine
Herridge reports. pic.twitter.com/yMZvVAfnjh
— Fox News (@FoxNews) July 13, 2018
Freedom Caucus Chairman Mark Meadows
said on Friday afternoon it appears the DOJ
is continuing their efforts to keep material
facts and even witnesses from Congress.
Meadows tweeted: Remarkably, we learned new
information today suggesting the DOJ had not notified
Lisa Page of Congress’ outstanding interview requests for
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over 7 months now. The DOJ/FBI appear to be continuing
their efforts to keep material facts, and perhaps even
witnesses, from Congress.
Remarkably, we learned new information today
suggesting the DOJ had not notified Lisa Page
of Congress’ outstanding interview requests for
over 7 months now. The DOJ/FBI appear to be
continuing their efforts to keep material facts,
and perhaps even witnesses, from Congress.
— Mark Meadows (@RepMarkMeadows) July
13, 2018
On Tuesday night Trump-hating FBI lawyer Lisa Page and
her legal counsel announced she will not appear before the
House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday despite a
Congressional subpoena.
The House Judiciary Committee subpoenaed Lisa Page to
appear in a closed-door interview Wednesday.
Page’s lawyer previously argued her client wasn’t given
enough time to prepare for the interview and was not
allowed to review requested documents at the FBI on
Tuesday.
House Speaker Paul Ryan and House Judiciary Chairman
Bob Goodlatte threatened Lisa Page with contempt charges
if she continued to defy the Congressional subpoena.
Friday we find out the DOJ had never even notified Lisa
Page of Congress’ outstanding interview requests for over
7 months!
AG Sessions is a disgrace! The DOJ is a complete disaster
because the Deep State is still running the department.
PBS's Mark Shields Jokes Summit Is 'Campaign Reunion';
Putin Is Trump's 'Favorite Absentee Voter'
By Tim Graham
July 15, 2018 6:02 PM EDT
Liberals try to play quite a game with special counsel
Robert Mueller. When he indicts Russians, analysts like
Mark Shields on PBS start making jokes about how
Trump's summit with Putin will be a "campaign reunion"
with Trump's "favorite absentee voter." But when anyone
suggests Mueller's probe is partisan -- or leads to partisan
smack-talk -- they suggest it's nonsense, that "there's not a
partisan corpuscle in Bob Mueller's system."
On Friday's NewsHour week-in-politics segment, PBS
anchor Judy Woodruff asked how significant the latest
indictments of 12 Russian military officers is:
MARK SHIELDS: It’s quite significant, Judy, and traces it
right back to the Russian government. I know we’re
talking about 12 intelligence agents from — on Russian
espionage associated with the military, with GRU, their
official agency. And I think it’s —
any talk about a witch-hunt or anything
of the sort, it turns out that Monday in
Helsinki will be a campaign reunion of
sorts for Donald Trump and his favorite
absentee voter.
For contrast, Reihan Salam of National Review agreed the
news was significant, but the process is flawed: "The
problem now is that we are not treating this as a national
emergency. We’re treating this as a partisan investigation.
And I think that’s been a problem from the start. We really
need an independent commission to understand our
vulnerabilities."
Shields rejected that proposal:
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SHIELDS: The partisan angle on this is
solely on the part of the administration and
Republicans in Congress. There is not a
partisan corpuscle in Bob Mueller’s system.
There really isn’t. This is a man who has
been a Republican, appointed by a
Republican president, whose appointment
was widely lauded from Republicans,
including Newt Gingrich, across the board.
Any lack of credibility or erosion of confidence is solely as
a part of the concentrated effort from the administration.
Shields also tried to argue
"Nobody knows what Bob Mueller is doing.
He has been full of fastidiousness and
secrecy."
How do we really know that when the sources are
anonymous? And the indictments tell us what he's doing.
Salam offered "a great deal of respect" to Mueller, but
"there aren’t necessarily prosecutable crimes at work.
What we’re dealing with is a larger systemic failure. And
when that is the case, when you’re seeing this solely
through the lens of who can and cannot be prosecuted, you
might actually wind up missing some of those
vulnerabilities."
Salam also offered a rare network-TV take on Trump's
actual policy with Russia:
SALAM: One thing that we shouldn’t forget
is that, for the last 18 months, the United
States government and the Trump
administration has actually put in place
sanctions against Russian oligarchs, has
actually hardened NATO’s eastern flank,
has taken many steps that are, in fact, very
tough on the Russians, when you look at
the substance of his agenda.
So we can’t lose sight of the fact that, when it comes to
actual policies, the Trump administration has actually been
very tough on Russia.
 FLASHBACK: Guccifer (Marcel Lehel Lazar) Says
Guccifer 2.0 Is Creation Of NSA And US State Dept.
– It Was An “Inside Job”
By Jim Hoft
July 13, 2018, 6:20 Pm
On Friday Crooked Cop Rod Rosenstein
announced that Guccifer 2.0 broke into the
Democratic servers.
12 Russian intelligence officers were
indicted.
This comes 4 months after the Mueller
Special Counsel took over the investigation
of Guccifer 2.0.
Crooked and corrupt Assistant US AG Rod
Rosenstein held a cyber law enforcement
announcement in March to announce that
the corrupt Mueller investigation was taking
over the Guccifer 2.0 investigation.
But Guccifer (1) — Marcel Lehel Lazar —
says that Guccifer 2 is a creation of the NSA
and US State Department!?!
In August of 2017, the Eastern European
hacker known as “Guccifer” reached out to
US reporters from prison in Romania to
claim that Guccifer 2.0 is a scheme
orchestrated by the National Security
Agency and US State Department.
Guccifer, whose real name is Marcel Lehel Lazar, was
arrested in 2014 for hacking Hillary Clinton’s former
political aide Sidney Blumenthal.
Lazar first revealed to the world that Clinton
was using a non-secure private email
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address while serving as the US Secretary
of State.
Lazar admitted to accessing personal email and social
media accounts of approximately 100 American citizens
by using Russian proxy servers because they were “the
fastest.” In 2016 he was sentenced to 52 months in US
prison after he finishes a seven-year sentence in Romania
for hacking crimes committed there.
Lazar told Fox News senior executive producer Pamela
Browne that –
…he believed Guccifer 2.0, the hacker
behind multiple US Democratic National
Committee (DNC) leaks, to be a fabrication
by the US government — an “inside job.” He
said the idea came from one of his State
Department handlers during his extradition
plane ride to the US in spring 2016. The
government employee, assigned to make sure
Lazar arrived safely to an American jail,
mentioned: “What would your opinion be if
another Guccifer showed up?”
“I think Guccifer two-zero is something
made from some guys at the State
Department. Some guys from the cyber
command of the NSA, and some guys
from the Vault, Vault 7 of the CIA…I’m in this
business for sort of 15 years now, this is my
take,” Lazar said.
Guccifer argued that –
“The Russians are more skillful
than this to let tracks in the
documents [point] to them…so
this is made by the other guys
who wanted [to point] to the
Russians.”
In an exclusive interview with FOX’s Catherine Herridge
in May of 2016, Romanian hacker “Guccifer” said that he
hacked Hillary Clinton’s server and that it was easy. The
44-year-old Lazar said he first compromised Clinton Guccifer told Herridge that
confidant Sidney Blumenthal’s AOL account, in March from evidence he came across
2013, and used that as a stepping stone to the Clinton
server. there were at least 10 other
groups or individuals who also
breached Hillary’s private
server.

Will Crooked Rosenstein and

Mueller mention today that Guccifer 2 is
make believe just like Trump-Russia
collusion? Will they note that at least 10
entities or individuals obtained access to
Hillary Clinton’s private server? Or will they
say that Guccifer 2 is actually Russia and
they worked with Trump to steal the
election? Crooks Rosenstein and Mueller
are insane!
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 Trump Baby Blimp In
London Turns Out To Be HUGE FLOP
By Cristina Laila
July 13, 2018, 7:37 Pm

The baby Trump blimp did not hover high in the sky,
rather it was closer to the ground.

EPIC FAIL.

One Twitter user perfectly described the flop

as “when you order it online and it comes in
the mail”

when you order it online vs when it comes in the

mail pic.twitter.com/J4aZ01PieC
Trump baby blimp expectation vs. reality

— june 👄 (@shoe0nhead) July 13, 2018

The Muslim Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, approved an
‘angry baby’ Trump blimp to fly near the Parliament for
Take a look at the crowd of lunatics
two hours on July 13th during the President’s visit to the
surrounding the Trump baby blimp:
United Kingdom.

I can’t quite put my finger on it but I get the distinct

Ironically, the group behind this angry baby Trump blimp
feeling everyone in this photo might be a lunatic…
refer to themselves as ‘anti-fascists.’

Only in 2018 could this be described as “the

Sadiq Khan’s spokesman said the Mayor approved the
Resistance!” pic.twitter.com/MQQT3QcA9I
blimp because he supports the right to peaceful protest.

— Robby Starbuck (@robbystarbuck) July 13,

The photos of the baby Trump blimp had
2018
people expecting it to fly over Parliament
with authority.
Paul Joseph Watson mocked the baby
blimp.

Can’t work out which is more pathetic – the size

of the Trump balloon or the size of the protests.
#TrumpBabyBlimp
pic.twitter.com/WHzSNYagFG

— Paul Joseph Watson (@PrisonPlanet) July

13, 2018

Others piled on…

LOL. Now this is funny. Remember the Hindenburg sized

blimp of Trump over London that was going to rock his
world?

In reality, the balloon was much smaller than expected and This is it.
barely hovered above the crowd of liberal lunatics.

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 Blimey… it’s not even the size of a Bouncy miles around, blocking out both The Shard and
castle. Trust the socialists to cock up The Wembley Arch from the skyline. This will
everything. Mock them mercilessly over this. finish his Presidency! #TrumpBaby
pic.twitter.com/Owo5zX1vep pic.twitter.com/Ay3a4TLJFd

— DJSmith (@davidjacksmith) July 13, 2018 — Toilet Seat Becky 💋 (@ToiletSeatBecky)

July 13, 2018
The Trump Effigy is flying high over London,
casting long dark shadows and can be seen for
.

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 It Seems Like It Was Just Yesterday That Hillary
Threatened War With Russia
By Jim Hoft
July 13, 2018, 8:01 Pm
On Friday Rod Rosenstein interrupted
President Trump’s historic trip to Europe to
drop some new charges on Russian
generals who will never be formally charged
in the US because they live in Russia.
President Trump is planning on meeting with Vladimir
Putin on Monday.
Democrats and their media want Trump to cancel the talks.
If only Chuck Schumer and Democrats had Crooked
Hillary as president– The talks would be cancelled and the
bombs would be dropping.
Hillary Clinton threatened to wage war against Russia
over cyber security issues this week at the American
Legion Convention.
Hillary Clinton: “You’ve seen the reports. Russia’s
hacked into a lot of things, China’s hacked into a lot of
things. Russia even hacked into the Democratic National
Committee. Maybe even some state election systems? So
.
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we gotta step up our game. Make sure we are well
defended and make sure we are able to take the fight to
those who go after us.
As president I will make it clear that the
United States will treat cyber attacks just
like any other attack. We will be ready with
serious political, economic and military
responses.“
For some reason that threat of war did not make any
headlines??
Paul Joseph Watson reported on this on Friday.
Of course, the American media ignored this
shocking threat of war by Hillary Clinton.
Wikileaks wants to know why:
Hillary Clinton threatens war with Russia
(should WikiLeaks keep publishing true
information about her campaign)
https://t.co/4XmMbehmJk
— WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) September 3, 2016
 REPORT: House Conservatives Prepare
To Impeach Rosenstein As Soon As Monday
By Cristina Laila
July 13, 2018, 9:30 Pm
House GOP lawmakers are preparing to push to impeach
Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein as soon as
Monday, according to three conservative Capitol Hill
sources.
Freedom Caucus Chairman Mark Meadows previously
drafted the impeachment documents, however nothing has
been filed yet.
GOP Congressmen are fed up with Rosenstein’s continued
stonewalling of their probe of the FBI’s and DOJ’s
corruption, Spygate and Russiagate during the 2016
election.
Politico reported:
House conservatives are preparing a new
push to oust Deputy Attorney General Rod
Rosenstein, according to three conservative
Capitol Hill sources — putting the finishing
touches on an impeachment filing even as
Rosenstein announced the indictment of 12
Russian intelligence officers for interfering
in the 2016 election.
House Freedom Caucus Chairman Mark
Meadows, in fact, had the impeachment
document on the floor of the House at the very
moment that Rosenstein spoke to reporters and
TV cameras Friday.
Conservative sources say they could file the impeachment
document as soon as Monday, as Meadows and Freedom
Caucus founder Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) look to build
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Republican support in the House. One source cautioned,
however, that the timing was still fluid.
“It has not been filed today,” was all Meadows
spokesman Ben Williamson would say.
Williamson declined to rule out whether
Meadows intended to file the document next
week.
Republicans could also try to hold Rosenstein in contempt
of Congress, if they want to go a step before impeachment.
Friday, Rep. Mark Meadows hinted once again Rosenstein
attempted to obstruct oversight.
Ex-FBI lawyer Lisa Page appeared on
Capitol Hill Friday for a closed-door
deposition.
Freedom Caucus Chairman Mark Meadows
dropped a bombshell Friday afternoon and
said it appears the DOJ is continuing their
efforts to keep material facts and even
witnesses from Congress.
Meadows tweeted: Remarkably, we learned new
information today suggesting the DOJ had not notified
Lisa Page of Congress’ outstanding interview requests for
over 7 months now. The DOJ/FBI appear to be continuing
their efforts to keep material facts, and perhaps even
witnesses, from Congress.
Remarkably, we learned new information today
suggesting the DOJ had not notified Lisa Page
of Congress’ outstanding interview requests for
over 7 months now. The DOJ/FBI appear to be
continuing their efforts to keep material facts,
and perhaps even witnesses, from Congress.
— Mark Meadows (@RepMarkMeadows) July
13, 2018
Rosenstein was defiant, smug and laughed off lawmakers
during a recent Congressional hearing and refused to
answer many pertinent Spygate questions.
The Deputy Attorney General has been working overtime Friday’s revelation the DOJ had not notified Lisa Page of
to obstruct House conservatives from oversight while Congress’ outstanding interview requests for over 7
running offense for the Deep State with the Mueller witch months may be the last straw for GOP lawmakers; it’s way
hunt. past time to get rid of Rod Rosenstein.

Both Mueller and Rosenstein are out of control and need to

be prosecuted and thrown in prison.

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 Updated List Of Mueller Indictments:
More Than 80% Are Russians Who (If They Are Real
People) Will Never Face US Courts
By Jim Hoft
July 13, 2018, 9:51 Pm
The Mueller witch hunt is reaching new
heights. With the 12 Russians indicted
today, the corrupt Mueller team has now
indicted 31 individuals and 3 companies,
with more than 80% of the indictments
related to Russians who we really don’t even
know if they are real or whether they did
anything to interfere in our 2016 election.
These indictments today only diminish the
validity of the ‘witch hunt’ by adding more
‘fake indictments’ to the already pitiful list.
Dirty and Corrupt Cop Robert Mueller and his team of
conflicted liberal attorneys and investigators are seeing
their unconstitutional witch hunt fall apart. It seems like
on a daily basis more and more information becomes
available of the entire gang’s unlawful acts. In spite of
this, they charge forward hiring more troops while working
with their mainstream media (MSM) to report their
unlawful and phony leaks planned to keep their criminal
conspiracy alive. Today’s actions were no different.
Corrupt and dirty cop Mueller started the ‘witch hunt’
more than one year ago, on May 17, 2017, and began
looking into individuals with any relationship with
President Trump. Mueller’s team were not interested in
crimes that President Trump committed. There are none.
Instead, Mueller went after anyone with any relationship to
the President and any other ‘fake indictments’ with
Russians they can create. Mueller’s entire team has
serious conflicts of interest and his investigation is
unconstitutional, but this has not deterred Mueller.
Dirty Cop Mueller and his team went ahead
and indicted some individuals related to the
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President and then he apparently made up
other individuals out of thin air and indicted
them too. Here’s an updated list of the
indictments and their current status.
12 Russian Intelligence Officers
FOX News reported today –
The Justice Department on July 13 announced
that 12 Russian intelligence officers were
indicted for allegedly hacking the Democratic
National Committee, the Democratic
Congressional Campaign Committee and
Hillary Clinton’s campaign during the 2016
election.
All 12 are members of GRU, the Russian intelligence
agency.
The indictments, which stem from the Special Counsel
Robert Mueller’s probe into Russia’s efforts to interfere in
the 2016 presidential election, were announced by Deputy
Attorney General Rod Rosenstein.
These 12 individuals will never be prosecuted. We really
have no information that they did anything to disrupt the
2016 election. The FBI and DOJ cannot be trusted in
anything related to the Mueller investigation so it is not a
stretch to believe these indictments are made up like the
other Russians indicted previously. The only thing is this
time the individuals indictment may be real people, but
who really knows if they had anything to do with our 2016
election.
The 13 Russians ‘Made Up’ by the Mueller Team
In an effort to tie their corrupt investigation to Russia, the
Mueller team indicted 13 Russians after presenting their
cases to a grand jury in February of this year.
Immediately, these indictments were suspect as everyone
on to the corrupt Mueller team knew that these ‘Russians’
would never be brought to justice, even if they were real,
because they would never come to the US to stand trial and
risk being put in jail.
Unfortunately for Mueller however, this too has turned
into a royal mess. Lawyers defending one of three Russian
companies indicted with the 13 Russians, Concord
Management, showed up for court. Mueller’s team was
caught off guard and never expected this. They
immediately asked the judge for more time but the judge
denied their pleas noting that they were the ones who
indicted the Russian company in the first place.
When the case proceeded, the Concord attorney’s noted
that another of the three companies indicted by Mueller
was not in existence at the time of Mueller’s indictment.
They called this a case of Mueller indicting the proverbial
‘ham sandwich’.
At a following court appearance, the attorneys representing
Concord stated that the corrupt Mueller team’s allegations
of 13 Russian individuals impacting the 2016 election
were “made up” nonsense. The individuals were not even
real.
Concord Management’s lawyers revealed that Mueller’s
team had ignored over 70 discovery requests they had
made for information in the case. In response Mueller’s
team offered to give Concord Management’s lawyers a
massive amount of social media data from those dangerous
trolls who sought to influence the US election and the
majority of the data was in RUSSIAN.
Mueller’s lawyers then admitted that they don’t even have
English translations for the Russian social media posts.
Mueller’s lawyers don’t have English translations of the
Russian social media posts but somehow Americans were
influenced by these Russian language posts?
It was reported that Mueller’s team didn’t want to hand
over the data that had been accumulated related to the
Russians because the Russians would then use the
information to spy on Americans (ignoring that they
supposedly already had).
The case of the Russians has quickly turned into a big
joke. The Mueller team should be ashamed for bringing it
to the court and indicted for making the whole thing up.
In total now, 25 of the 31 indictments made by the Mueller
team are related to Russians that were most likely made up
that will never be brought to justice if they were by chance
legit.
General Mike Flynn
The biggest indictment to date by the dirty cops and
attorneys on the Mueller team was the indictment of
General Flynn for lying to the FBI. One of the two
individuals that Flynn apparently lied to was Peter Strzok
in a discussion at the White House shortly after the
inauguration. Strzok was the lead investigator who took
Hillary Clinton’s testimony in her email scandal and
Strzok was apparently fine when with Hillary destroyed
her server, 30,000 emails, numerous phones with hammers
and lied to him and all of America. However, shortly after
Flynn spoke with Strzok, former Attorney General Sally
Yates went to the White House and told the President the
General had lied.
Flynn was fired by the President and then when Mueller
started his witch hunt he charged Flynn for lying to the
FBI. Flynn eventually pled guilty but the judge overseeing
his plea was recused. We later found out that the recused
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Judge, Rudolph Contreras was also a FISA Court judge
and a friend of Strzok’s.
To date Flynn has not been sentenced after the new judge
demanded Mueller provide the General with all
information related to his case. Also, new evidence has
unfolded of Sally Yates and/or former FBI Head Andrew
McCabe doctoring and destroying evidence that led to
Flynn’s conviction. The Senate has asked the FBI and
DOJ for this support but it has not been provided to date
because some expect it is not there (it was destroyed).
They have also asked for the other FBI Agent who
interviewed Flynn with Strzok but to date the FBI will not
allow him to be interviewed by the Senate.
The entire Flynn case is now not only falling
apart but it appears Strzok, Yates, McCabe,
Mueller and possibly others may be involved in
crimes in doctoring and destroying evidence
and charging Flynn for a crime as a result.
Recently the judge overseeing this case demanded that
Mueller’s team and General Flynn appear in front of the
court at a status hearing on July 10th. National Review’s
Andrew McCarthy believes that Flynn’s plea is not going
away, but we are more hopeful. General Flynn was
innocent and evidence supports this. Mueller’s team of
dirty cops framed him using corrupted information and the
FBI probably spied on him illegally during the campaign.
He apparently was forced into a plea by Mueller’s dirty
cops who most likely leveraged attacking his son for a
guilty plea. This should not happen in America. Sure
Trump can and will pardon him if convicted, but Flynn
should not be charged for a crime he did not commit.
Mueller’s team has been postponing the sentencing on
Flynn and the best guess is that the band of dirty cops has
been trying to delay the embarrassment of Flynn’s plea
being overturned until after the 2018 elections. The judge
is not buying this.
Paul Manafort
Paul Manafort was President Trump’s campaign manager
for a short time during the 2016 election. The Mueller
team initially charged him with multiple counts of not
filling in forms required by the law starting in 2005. In an
effort to pay his legal fees, Manafort borrowed money
using personal collateral or real estate. Mueller and his
team then charged Manafort with bank fraud claiming
these loans overstated the value of his properties. This
past week Mueller’s team then charged Manafort with
trying to tamper with witnesses.
Manafort’s attorneys have argued that the entire case was
unconstitutional based on the fact that no crime was
committed by Trump which is required to set up a Special
Counsel and based on the scope of the case being
unlimited and therefore also against the law related to
Special Counsels. However, the judge on one of
Manafort’s cases is Obama appointed Judge Jackson.
With her record it is doubtful that Manafort will receive a
fair trial and she already has disagreed with these
arguments from Manafort’s legal team.
Fortunate for Manafort another judge overseeing one of his
cases, Judge T. S. Ellis, has asked Mueller’s team for the
scope document of the Special Counsel investigation.
When the Mueller team said it was classified, the judge
said he would be the judge of that. Judge Ellis recently
hammered the Mueller team for its clear motive not to
bring justice in the Manafort case, but to bring down
President Trump.
Mueller petitioned the court to have Manafort thrown in
jail and corrupt Judge Jackson complied. The abuse that
Mueller his Obama cronies have perpetrated on Manafort
will go down in history as some of the most inappropriate
actions of an American citizen in history.
Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani said he wouldn’t be surprised
if Judge Ellis dismisses Manafort’s cases for government
misconduct. If justice is to be served, then this will be the
case.
Rick Gates
Richard Gates pleaded not guilty to all charges against him
by Mueller, many related to years before the election.
Rick Gates was named alongside Manafort in the recent
charges brought by the special counsel. He’s accused of 11
counts related to filing false income tax returns and three
counts of failure to report foreign bank and financial
accounts.
Gates pleaded guilty on February 23 to federal conspiracy
and false-statements charges.
In wake of the guilty plea, Mueller moved to drop the 22
bank and tax fraud charges against him. The decision to
drop the more expansive charges against Gates could
suggest that the former Trump campaign official is
cooperating and providing good information to Mueller’s
team.
Manafort has challenged the court as to the
constitutionality of indictments for activities before the
2016 election. He has a valid argument which would no
doubt relate to Gates’ case as well.
George Papadopoulos
Papadopoulos has a questionable background. He was a
young man who traveled to the UK and apparently was set
up by spies inserted into the Trump campaign by the FBI
in early 2016.
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A former foreign policy adviser to Trump’s presidential
campaign, George Papadopoulos pleaded guilty in 2017 to
making false statements to the FBI regarding “the timing,
extent and nature of his relationships and interactions with
certain foreign nationals whom he understood to have
close connections with senior Russian government
officials,” according to court documents.
Papadopoulos, like the others indicted, is under gag orders
so we really don’t know what he did or said to the FBI. If
he was set up as has been implied in the recent news
stories, he too may have a chance to have his case
overturned.
Alex van der Zwaan and Richard Pinedo
These are two individuals no one has ever heard of or will
ever remember. van der Zwan was charged with lying to
the FBI and Pinedo was charged for selling bank accounts
to Russians, even though Pinedo said he didn’t know he
was selling accounts to Russians. Both cases sound
suspect and more related to abuse of power by the Mueller
team than actual crimes being committed.
In Summary
In spite of the pitiful cases Mueller’s gang has put together
to date, they continue to spin the media with pro witch
hunt leaks almost daily. Today’s announcement of the
charges against 12 Russians is another suspect action.
The Mueller team continues to hide the numerous gang
members that have been removed from the team for
various legal reasons to the point that Congress has now
asked for a list of former and current witch hunt
participants. The gang also reportedly not only is
continuing to move forward but they are bringing more
crooked gang members on board.
As of today 25 of the 31 individuals indicted are Russians
who will never be held accountable if they are real people,
and if they are, they will never come to the US to face our
courts. What a joke!
Mueller and his team of corrupt and
conflicted deep state crooks should not only
have their cases thrown out, they should be
indicted for their actions and efforts to
overthrow the duly elected President of the
United States, Donald J. Trump. The Mueller
investigation is a ‘witch hunt’.
 Kim Dotcom: I Was Warned
Not To Turn Over Seth Rich Evidence To Mueller
By Jim Hoft
July 14, 2018, 7:00 Am
In late May 2017 internet entrepreneur Kim
DotCom claimed to have evidence that
former DNC worker Seth Rich was involved
in the leaked emails released by WikiLeaks.
Kim DotCom shared that he was willing to come to the US
and give testimony if it is required.
Then Kim DotCom’s lawyers sent a letter to Robert
Mueller saying he would come testify in the US and would
provide evidence to the Investigation.
Kim DotCom later said trusting Mueller was a mistake and
that the special counsel was out to destroy President
Trump.
On Friday Kim DotCom responded to the
latest Mueller indictments of another 12
Russian operatives.
Kim DotCom says the the evidence in the indictment
doesn’t survive a giggle test. Kim DotCom added today’s
indictment confirmed that Mueller cannot be trusted.
Kim DotCom: Deep State indictment against Russian
DNC hackers is so light on evidence that the DOJ should
place a Weight Watchers logo on the front page.
#ZeroCalories
Mueller knows that his PR stunt will never be tested in
Court. The ‘Russian Conspirators’ will never see a US
Court room.
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Deep State indictment against Russian DNC hackers is so
light on evidence that the DOJ should place a Weight
Watchers logo on the front page. #ZeroCalories
Mueller knows that his PR stunt will never be
tested in Court. The ‘Russian Conspirators’ will
never see a US Court room.
— Kim Dotcom (@KimDotcom) July 13, 2018
Any Google database containing “search evidence” of
alledged Russian DNC hackers is obviously backdoored by
the Deep State.
They can simply edit any evidence into any
Google database. The security community is
well aware of the Deep State ability and
readiness to edit evidence.
— Kim Dotcom (@KimDotcom) July 13, 2018
Kim DotCom: Deep State activities like this indictment
against 12 Russians confirm the advise of my legal team.
Special Counsel Mueller and the DOJ cannot be trusted.
My team asked me not to provide my Seth Rich evidence
without solid legal protections for me and my family. They
were right!
Deep State activities like this indictment against 12
Russians confirm the advise of my legal team. Special
Counsel Mueller and the DOJ cannot be trusted. My team
asked me not to provide my Seth Rich evidence without
solid legal protections for me and my family. They were
right!
— Kim Dotcom (@KimDotcom) July 13, 2018
Kim DotCom posted this out in March.
His name is Seth Rich.
And he will never be forgotten.
pic.twitter.com/Iyb3JkH9y9
— Kim Dotcom (@KimDotcom) March 30, 2018
Dirty Cop Mueller Hopes To Pin His Crap Investigation On
Roger Stone And His 24 Word Exchange With Guccifer 2.0
By Jim Hoft
July 14, 2018, 8:46 Am
Dirty cop Robert Mueller indicted 12 more Russians on
Friday in his ongoing witch hunt to discredit and bring
down the Trump administration in a phony collusion
scandal.
Mueller and accomplice Rosenstein waited to announce
the junk charges until the US president was on foreign soil
and just days before his meeting with Russian President
Vlad Putin.
To date 80% of Robert Mueller’s junk
indictments have been against Russians
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who will never face a US court because they
will never visit the United States.
After a year-and-a-half it is clear that there was no Russian
collusion between the Trump campaign and the Russian
government but there was collusion between Hillary
Clinton campaign and the Russians in creating a fictitious
story about Donald Trump.
Mueller and his gang of 13 angry Democrats are now stuck
with a junk investigation and nowhere to turn.
So these Democrat gangsters are hoping to pin their junk
investigation on one Trump acquaintance — Roger Stone.
Roger Stone exchange 24 words with
Guccifer 2.0 during the 2016 election.
Roger Stone posted the entire 24 word
exchange online before Twitter took down
his account.
It is becoming clear to Roger Stone that Corrupt Mueller
team of far left attorneys is after him. Roger is their last
shot. They have to somehow convince the American public
that Roger Stone and his 24 word exchange to Guccifer 2.0
changed the US election.
Roger Stone knows this.
Roger Stone exchanged 24 words with
Guccifer 2.0 after he left the Trump
campaign.
ABC reported:
A self-described “dirty trickster” in American
politics, Stone has taken credit for persuading
President Trump to get into politics. He initially
served as an adviser to Trump’s 2016
campaign but left amid controversy in 2015.
While Trump told the Washington Post at the
time that he “terminated Roger Stone…because
he no longer serves a useful function for my
campaign,” Stone told a different story,
explaining on Twitter their falling out was about
political messaging.
Stone for his part has rejected any notion he
was part of some grand conspiracy of collusion.
.
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When asked by ABC News in June whether he
believed that Guccifer 2.0 was an operative of
the Russian military intelligence, Stone denied
it.
“I’ve written a 5,000 word piece you can see it
stone cold truth that argues against that,” Stone
told ABC News in an interview last month. “But
even if he was, my communication with him is
ex post facto it happens weeks after the
WikiLeaks have already published the
Democratic National Committee emails and
therefore collusion would have to be, would
have to be chronological.”
“Leaking after the fact,” Stone added,
“impossible.”
It is going to be nearly impossible for the
FBI and DOJ to repair their damaged
reputation after Sessions, Rosenstein and
Mueller.
Honest and informed Americans will never
trust these corrupt groups again – nor
should they.
 Top Democrats Panic – Demand Trump Intel Chief Keep
Info Classified On Trump Campaign Spy Halper
By Jim Hoft
July 14, 2018, 9:52 Am
Top congressional Democrats wrote
National Intelligence Director Dan Coats to
demand the Trump administration keep
classified information on Trump campaign
spy Stefan Halper.
Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.),
House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), Senate
Intelligence Committee Vice Chairman Mark Warner (D-
Va.), and House Intelligence Committee Ranking Member
Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), said the wider sharing of the
information may put sources and methods at risk.
Democrat leaders are panicked that
information on the Obama administration’s
spying on the Trump campaign before the
summer of 2016 will be released to the
public.
Obama spy Stefan Halper, was paid a total of $411,575 in
2016 and 2017 for work with the US government that
included spying on the Trump campaign.
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Obama spy Stefan Halper was promoting
Hillary Clinton publicly while he spied on the
Trump Campaign.
Democrats do not want the American public
to discover that they spied on the Trump
campaign during the 2016 election and
afterwards.
The fact that the four top Democrats in
Congress are insisting this information
stays classified has been mostly ignored by
the liberal mainstream media.
The New York Times reported:
The White House has rebuffed concerns among
American intelligence and law enforcement
officials and ordered that more lawmakers be
given access to classified information about an
informant the F.B.I. used in 2016 to investigate
possible ties between the Trump campaign and
Russia, according to two American officials with
knowledge of the decision.
Both the director of national intelligence and the
director of the F.B.I. tried to keep the classified
documents tightly restricted, fearing that a
broader dissemination of operational reports
and other sensitive material could lead to more
leaks of detailed information about the role of
the confidential F.B.I. informant.
Some American officials believe, in fact, the reason the
White House made the decision was to provide political
ammunition to President Trump’s Republican allies who
have argued — without any evidence — that the F.B.I.
investigation was opened in July 2016 as an effort to keep
Mr. Trump from becoming president.
The White House declined to comment.
The F.B.I. files about the informant will now be available
to all members of the Senate and House Intelligence
Committees, instead of to just a group of congressional
leaders known as the Gang of Eight. It is unclear whether
Mr. Trump or a lower-level White House official
authorized the move.
The controversy over the F.B.I. informant is one skirmish
in a searing political battle that was renewed on Thursday
during a contentious hearing convened by the House
Judiciary and Oversight Committees that heard testimony
from Peter Strzok, an F.B.I. agent who once ran the
bureau’s investigation into the Trump campaign.
During the summer of 2016, the F.B.I. sent an informant to
meet with two Trump campaign advisers after the bureau
had received information that the two men had suspicious
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contacts linked to Russia. The informant, Stefan Halper, an
American academic who teaches at Cambridge University
in England, had meetings with both Carter Page and
George Papadopoulos to gain a better understanding of
their contacts with Russians.
The New York Times did not originally name Mr. Halper
because of a general practice not to name confidential
F.B.I. informants to preserve their safety. Mr. Halper’s
name has now been widely reported.
 Rosenstein Found It Necessary To Interrupt Trump’s
Foreign Trip With Info That WAS ALL RELEASED In
Previous April House Intel Report
By Jim Hoft
July 14, 2018, 11:21 Am

It is all listed on the Summary of Findings in

the April House Intelligence Report.

Again — the full House Intel report is here

and includes all of the details from
Rosenstein’s urgent press conference on
Friday.

Rosenstein and Mueller did this on the last

Dirty cop Robert Mueller indicted 12 more Russians on
Friday in his ongoing witch hunt to discredit and bring
down the Trump administration in a phony collusion
scandal.
Mueller and accomplice Rosenstein waited to announce
the junk charges until the US president was on foreign soil
and just days before his meeting with Russian President
Vlad Putin.
To date 80% of Robert Mueller’s junk
indictments have been against Russians
who will never face a US court because they
will never visit the United States.
business day before the Trump-Putin
meeting in Helsinki.
Rosenstein interrupted President Trump’s
foreign trip to drop this information that was
PREVIOUSLY RELEASED by the House
Intelligence Committee.
House GOP lawmakers are preparing to
push to impeach Deputy Attorney General
Rod Rosenstein as soon as Monday,
according to three conservative Capitol Hill
sources.
It can’t come a day too soon.

It now appears that all of this new and

urgent information released by dirty cop
Rod Rosenstein on Friday was already
published months ago in the House Intel
report on Russian active measures released
by Rep. Devin Nunes.

Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) tweeted this out on Friday.

Devin Nunes tweeted out on Friday that his House Intel

panel report on Russian active measures uncovered
everything in the latest Mueller Russia indictments.

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 POTUS Trump Slams Mueller Junk Indictment
Of Russians – Where’s The DNC Server?
By Cristina Laila
July 14, 2018, 11:39 Am
On Friday, dirty cop Robert Mueller rolled
out another junk indictment of Russians
who will never show up to court as a PR
stunt to justify his witch hunt and salary.
This comes a day before President Trump is to meet with
Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein confirmed that
the DNC server was never actually hacked.
Rather, the emails were obtained through a “spear
phishing” email scam which THOUSANDS of others,
including Republicans fell for.
“The defendants used two techniques to steal
information. First they used a scheme known as
spear phishing, which involves sending
misleading emails and tricking the users of
disclosing their passwords and security
information,” Rosenstein said.
“Secondly, the defendants hacked into
computer networks and installed malicious
software and allowed them to spy on users,”
Rosenstein continued.
The computer networks Rosenstein was referring to was a
Congressional campaign, not the DNC server.
Furthermore, the so-called Russian interference did not
change the vote count nor did it affect the outcome of the
election.
Interestingly, Rosenstein also did not name the political
parties affected by the ‘hacking’ or ‘interference’….he
said to think “patriotically.”
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This means Republicans were also victims of the “spear
phishing,” however in an effort to make Hillary and the
Democrats the perpetual victims, Rosenstein purposely
withheld the political affiliations with most of the
‘hacking’ victims.
On Saturday, President Trump slammed the
Mueller junk indictment and hammered
Obama.
President Trump asked, where’s the DNC server and why
didn’t the FBI take possession of it?
….Where is the DNC Server, and why didn’t the
FBI take possession of it? Deep State?
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July
14, 2018
President Trump then slammed Obama for
doing nothing about the so-called Russian
hack even though he was informed by the
FBI in September before the election.
The stories you heard about the 12 Russians yesterday took
place during the Obama Administration, not the Trump
Administration. Why didn’t they do something about it,
especially when it was reported that President Obama was
informed by the FBI in September, before the Election?
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 14, 2018
Paul Sperry sums it up perfectly, no arrests, no American
co-conspirators, no seizure of servers or property, no raids
and no sourcing….none of the findings are even
attributed–not even to an FBI agent. It’s all made up; it’s
all a ruse!
Another strange Russia indictment by Mueller:
no arrests, no American co-conspirators,no
seizure of servers or property, no raids & no
sourcing–no informants or witnesses
named,nothing attributed to intercepts. In
fact,none of the findings is attributed–not even
to an FBI agent
— Paul Sperry (@paulsperry_) July 14, 2018
 GOP Lawmakers: Lisa Page Answered Many Questions
Peter Strzok Refused To – She’s A Credible
Witness And Cooperating
By Cristina Laila
July 14, 2018, 12:39 Pm
Ex-FBI lawyer Lisa Page appeared on
Capitol Hill Friday for a closed-door
deposition.
Fox News’ Catherine Herridge tried to ask Lisa Page
questions as the former FBI lawyer briskly walked into her
deposition.
Lisa Page refused to answer questions.
“She basically just plowed through the
reporters,” Catherine Herridge said.
VIDEO:
Former FBI lawyer Lisa Page arrives to face
lawmakers over anti-Trump texts; Catherine
Herridge reports. pic.twitter.com/yMZvVAfnjh
— Fox News (@FoxNews) July 13, 2018
Lisa Page did, however, answer questions during her
deposition that Peter Strzok refused to.
GOP lawmakers who were present at Page’s closed-door
deposition are saying they learned a lot of new information
from the ex-FBI lawyer.
Republican Lawmakers focused on the FBI’s
use of informants during the 2016 election
and the meaning of her text messages with
Peter Strzok, according to Politico Congress
reporter, Kyle Cheney.
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Source briefed on the Lisa Page deposition
says early focus of Republican questions was
on her awareness of FBI’s use of confidential
human sources, in addition to the meaning of
her text messages with Strzok.
— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) July 13, 2018
Rep. Ratcliffe (R-TX) says Lisa Page
answered many questions Strzok didn’t and
lawmakers learned a lot of new information.
No details were provided.
Rep. Ratcliffe says Lisa PAGE answered many
questions Strzok didn’t and that lawmakers
learned a lot of new information. He declined to
provide any other details.
— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) July 13, 2018
Rep. Gaetz (R-FL) says Lisa Page’s answers
heightened his concern about whether the
FBI was driving toward a “desired outcome”
it its Russia probe.
Rep. Gaetz says the questions Lisa Page answered — but
Strzok would not — heighten his concern about whether
the FBI was driving toward a “desired outcome” in its
Russia probe.
He said FBI counsel was still there and at times
intervened to prevent her from answering.
— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) July 13, 2018
Rep. Meadows (R-NC) says Page answered
more questions than Strzok because the FBI
counsel was less intrusive.
Rep. MEADOWS says Page was able to answer more than
Strzok because the FBI counsel was less intrusive and
seemed more permissive.
Republicans seem far more pleased with her
testimony than Strzok’s.
 Meadows/Gaetz/Ratcliffe all say they learned
good new info.
— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) July 13, 2018
All three GOP lawmakers declined to say
whether Page’s testimony was consistent
with Peter Strzok’s.
All three, though, declined to say whether her
testimony was consistent with Strzok’s. They
got *new* info but not necessarily inconsistent
testimony.
— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) July 13, 2018
Fox News Senate reporter, Chad Pergram
says Meadows claimed Lisa Page is a very
credible witness and falsely accused of not
being willing to cooperate.
Meadows: Lisa Page is a very credible
witness..she’s doing her best to help us find the
truth and I think in ways she’snbeen falsely
accused of not being willing to cooperate.
We’ve learned.. evidence..that would suggest
that she’s been willing to help in a spirit of
transparency
— Chad Pergram (@ChadPergram) July 14,
2018
Meadows also said public testimony from
Lisa Page is not on the horizon and that a
.
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public hearing will be a decision for
Chairman Goodlatte or Gowdy.
Meadows: Public testimony from Ms Page is not
on the horizon. I think we’ll have another side of
transcribed interviews on Monday
afternoon..Having a public hearing will certianly
be decision for Chairmen Goodlatte & Gowdy
— Chad Pergram (@ChadPergram) July 14,
2018
Freedom Caucus Chairman Mark Meadows
dropped a bombshell on Friday afternoon
and said it appears the DOJ is continuing
their efforts to keep material facts and even
witnesses from Congress.
Remarkably, we learned new information today
suggesting the DOJ had not notified Lisa Page
of Congress’ outstanding interview requests for
over 7 months now. The DOJ/FBI appear to be
continuing their efforts to keep material facts,
and perhaps even witnesses, from Congress.
— Mark Meadows (@RepMarkMeadows) July
13, 2018
Friday’s revelation the DOJ had not notified Lisa Page of
Congress’ outstanding interview requests for over 7
months may be the last straw for GOP lawmakers; it’s way
past time to get rid of Rod Rosenstein.
 Queen Of England Serves Sarah Sanders Tea
— Something Liberal Red Hen Refused To Do…
By Jim Hoft
July 14, 2018, 4:35 Pm

Sarah Huckabee Sanders was fortunate

enough to travel with President Trump
and First Lady Melania Trump to
Windsor on Friday to meet the Queen of
England.

She was served tea by the Queen and

her staff.

And to think it was only three weeks earlier that Sarah

Huckabee Sanders and her family were kicked out of the
little Red Hen Restaurant in Lexington, Virginia and then
stalked by the owner as they went to a nearby restaurant.

Sarah Sanders tweeted about the unforgettable experience

on Friday.

Via The Donald Reddit

It’s the difference between class and no

class.
But at least you made Maxine Waters
proud!
.

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 Dem Senator Says Schumer Can Kiss His ‘You Know
What’ Regarding Kavanaugh Vote
By Cassandra Fairbanks
July 14, 2018, 5:07 Pm

Democrat Senator Joe Manchin is not holding back his “I’ll be 71 years old in August, you’re
rejection of Charles Schumer’s efforts to rally the party going to whip me? Kiss my you know
against President Trump’s Supreme Court pick, saying that what,” Manchin said.
the Senate Minority Leader can kiss his “you know what.”
Manchin is not the only one who doesn’t take Schumer
very seriously. Senators Joe Donnelly and Claire
McCaskill have no time for him either.

“My decision won’t have anything to do with

Chuck Schumer,” Sen. Donnelly told
Politico.

McCaskill said that if he attempted to rally her to vote a

certain way she would tell him to take a “flyin’ leap.”

“He doesn’t come to me and say: ‘You’ve

got to vote with us on this.’ He knows I’ll tell
him to take a flyin’ leap,” she said. “I’m
going to do what I think is right. It has
nothing to do with the party.”

Speaking to Politico, Manchin said that Schumer will have Schumer has vowed to fight Kavanaugh’s nomination with
no influence over which way he votes when it comes to “everything he has,” but it looks like he doesn’t even have
Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination. his entire party.

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 BREAKING: President Trump Sees No Viable Liberal
Candidate – Intends To Run In 2020
By Jim Hoft
July 14, 2018, 5:33 Pm

“They do not have the right candidate.”

Russia Today reported:

Donald Trump has confirmed that he is

President Trump held an interview with Piers Morgan from The
Daily Mail aboard Air Force One on Friday.
Trump baldly reiterated that, at the moment, he could not
name a single Democrat who could potentially beat him.
President Donald Trump told British
reporter Piers Morgan he sees no viable
liberal competition and plans on
running for reelection in 2020.
Trump told Piers,
planning to run for president in 2020, not
only because “everybody wants him to,” but
also because there doesn’t seem to be any
viable competition in the liberal Democratic
camp.
“They do not have the right candidate,”
Trump told Piers Morgan in an interview for
the Mail on Sunday, when asked if the
“liberals could be facing not two more years
of you but potentially six.”
“I don’t see anybody. I know them all and I
don’t see anybody,” the US President said
on board Air Force One, which he
reportedly plans to re-decorate with “more
American” colors and fit with bigger beds.

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 White House Cancels Bolton’s Sunday CNN Interview
After Acosta Outburst At Friday Trump-May Presser
(VIDEO)
By Jim Hoft
July 14, 2018, 7:04 Pm

On Saturday the Trump White House

cancelled the Sunday interview John
Bolton had planned with CNN.
White House spokesperson said the
Trump administration would not honor
the disrespectful behavior by Jim
Acosta during the press conference.

President Donald Trump held a press

conference on Friday with British Prime
Minister Theresa May in Great Britain.
During the presser liberal CNN reporter
Jim Acosta disrupted the press
conference like he has done several
times in the past two years.
Trump responded by calling CNN fake
news.

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 Rep. Gohmert Reveals Govt Watchdog Found Clinton
Emails Were Sent To ‘Foreign Entity’ (VIDEO)
By Cristina Laila
July 14, 2018, 8:59 Pm
Inspector General Horowitz was also notified about
Hillary’s emails going to a foreign entity, however he did
nothing about it either.
Transcription of the exchange via Luke Rosiak of The
Daily Caller:
Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX), a member of the House
Judiciary Committee, revealed in the hearing on Thursday
that the Intelligence Community Inspector General (ICIG)
found that nearly all of Hillary Clinton’s 30,000 emails
were sent to a foreign entity and the FBI did nothing about
it.
The ICIG found an “anomaly on Hillary Clinton’s emails
going through their private server, and when they had done
the forensic analysis, they found that her emails, every
single one except four, over 30,000, were going to an
address that was not on the distribution list,” Gohmert said
to Strzok during the hearing on Thursday.
“It was going to an unauthorized source
that was a foreign entity unrelated to
Russia,” Gohmert continued.
Gohmert revealed the ICIG investigator, Frank Rucker met
Peter Strzok and presented the anomaly to him, yet he did
nothing about it.
Peter Strzok only admitted to meeting with Rucker,
however he claimed he could not recall “specific content”
discussed.
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“Mr. Horowitz got a call four times from
someone wanting to brief him about this,
and he never returned the call,” Gohmert
said.
Gohmert: You said earlier in this hearing
you were concerned about a hostile foreign
power affecting the election. Do you recall
the former Intelligence Community
Inspector General Chuck McCullough
having an investigation into an anomaly
found on Hillary Clinton’s emails?
Let me refresh your memory. The
Intelligence Community Inspector General
Chuck McCullough sent his investigator
Frank Rucker along with an IGIC attorney
Janette McMillan to brief you and Dean
Chapelle and two other FBI personnel who
I won’t name at this time, about an anomaly
they had found on Hillary Clinton’s emails
that were going to the private unauthorized
server that you were supposed to be
investigating?
Strzok: I remember meeting Mr. Rucker on
either one or two occasions. I do not recall
the specific content or discussions.
Gohmert: Mr. Rucker reported to those of
you, the four of you there, in the presence
of the ICIG attorney, that they had found
this anomaly on Hillary Clinton’s emails
going through their private server, and
when they had done the forensic analysis,
they found that her emails, every single
one except four, over 30,000, were going to
an address that was not on the distribution
list. It was a compartmentalized bit of
information that was sending it to an
unauthorized source. Do you recall that?
Strzok: Sir, I don’t.
 Gohmert: He went on the explain it. And private server act like they care about cyber-security with
you didn’t say anything, you thanked him, their bogus Russian election hacking investigation.
you shook his hand. The problem is it was
going to an unauthorized source that was a The FBI wasn’t even doing their job to protect our nation;
foreign entity unrelated to Russia and from their politics and desire to protect Hillary Clinton from
what you’ve said here, you did nothing consequences destroyed the integrity of the bureau.
more than nod and shake the man’s hand
when you didn’t seem to be all that
VIDEO:
concerned about our national integrity of
our election when it was involving Hillary
Clinton. So the forensic examination was
done by the ICIG — and they can
document that — but you were given that
information and you did nothing with it. And
one of the things I found most egregious
with Mr. Horowitz’s testimony, and — by
the way Mr. Horowitz got a call four times
from someone wanting to brief him about
this, and he never returned the call.

It’s pathetic to watch the same FBI agents and watchdogs

who did nothing about Hillary Clinton’s compromised
.

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 Former DNC Chair Brazile:
DNC Allowed Russian Hackers To Steal Data
By Jim Hoft
July 15, 2018, 12:24 Am

But dirty cop Rosenstein forgot to

mention the DNC allowed the Russians
to infiltrate their servers.

In her 2017 book, “Hacks: The Inside Story of the

Break-ins and Breakdowns that Put Donald Trump in
the White House,” Democrat operative Donna Brazile
admitted the DNC allowed alleged Russian hackers to steal
data from the party’s servers.

Donna Brazile says in her new book the Democratic

Rod Rosenstein and Robert Mueller National Committee (DNC) went against professional
indicted 12 Russian military officials advice and sat idly for a month while Russians stole data
days before President Trump’s meeting because primaries were still underway in a number of
with Russian President Vladimir Putin. states.

In May, when CrowdStrike recommended that we take

down our system and rebuild it, the DNC told them to wait
a month, because the state primaries for the presidential
election were still underway, and the party and the staff
needed to be at their computers to manage these efforts,”
Brazile wrote in her new book, “Hacks.”

And in June left-leaning Mother Jones reported in March

that President Barack Obama’s National Security Advisor,
Susan Rice, ordered officials to ‘stand down’ as Russia
allegedly attempted to meddle in the 2016 presidential
election.

Rosenstein also planned his press conference at the same In June whistle-blower Michael Daniel testified before
time President Trump was meeting with the Queen of Congress that Susan Rice ordered him and his staff in the
England. White House cybersecurity team to “stand down” in regard
to Russian attempts to meddle with the 2016 election.
With the 12 Russians indicted Friday, the corrupt Mueller
team has now indicted 31 individuals and 3 companies,
with more than 80% of the indictments related to Russians
who will never be prosecuted.

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 On NPR, E.J. Dionne Loves Mueller's
'Exquisite' Timing Of Indictments Before Putin Summit
By Tim Graham
July 15, 2018 7:42 AM EDT
On the Week in Review segment on Friday night's All
Things Considered on NPR, anchor Ailsa Chang asked
about the timing of Robert Mueller's indictment of more
Russians, just days before Trump's meeting with Russian
leader Vladimir Putin. Conservative Ben Domenech of the
Federalist suggested it was a "clearly purposeful" act to
color how this summit is judged.
To her credit, Chang questioned if Mueller's timing was a
"coincidence." Liberal journalists rarely question Mueller's
tactics. Domenech underlined "the fact that this indictment
deals with 12 people who are never going to see the inside
of an American courtroom, too, factors into the idea that
this is about making a particular point on the eve of this
meeting as opposed to something that would have a
tangible result." Then she turned to Dionne:
CHANG: What do you think, E.J. - the
timing was deliberate?
DIONNE: Well, I don't know who did what
deliberately, but I would say the timing is
exquisite...
CHANG: (Laughter).
DIONNE: ...Because it really puts the
president on the line. I mean, it's - think
about what you just played on the air. It
really hurts our relationship with Russia.
That really shows where Trump's priorities
are. He doesn't want to push back against
this. He wants a good relationship with
Vladimir Putin.
This puts people who call it a witch hunt
in a terrible position. It makes those -
that hearing yesterday with Peter Strzok
.
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- it makes the House Republicans I think
look very bad. They...
CHANG: Peter Strzok being the agent at
the center - all these allegations of FBI bias
against President Trump.
DIONNE: Right. And this suggests, no, this
is a very serious investigation. And I can
imagine some late night comedian tonight
asking if Trump and Putin will put out a joint
statement declaring that this is a witch
hunt. But the fact that I can say that
suggests I think the kind of trouble this
creates for people who have been trying to
create the witch hunt narrative because
nothing here rules out that there will be
more.
This line of reasoning sounds counter-intuitive. Mueller
looks more like he's conducting a partisan witch hunt when
he indicts Russians right before a meeting with Putin.
Delighting E.J. Dionne (and obviously, Peter Strzok)
makes it look more rigged, not less. It looks like Mueller is
a political actor, trying to embarrass Trump on the world
stage, indicting people he is wildly unlikely to prosecute.
This is how Domenech pushed back:
"you're still talking about an indictment
in which so much of it is taken up by the
numbers of times people were posting
memes on the Internet.
I mean, this is not something that indicates
the level of success that would be
necessary for tilting an election at all!"
He added that for all the talk of Trump being soft on
Russia,
"under the Obama administration, we saw
the Russians annex Crimea, invade
Ukraine, intervene in Syria and effectively
do all of the things that are talked about in
this indictment."
 Schiff Expects Trump To Take
'Disastrous Approach' On Meddling In
Meeting With Putin
By Brett Samuels
07/15/18 08:39 AM EDT
Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) said Sunday that he expects
President Trump to take a "disastrous approach" on
election meddling during his meeting with Russian
President Vladimir Putin, pointing to Trump’s repeated
refusal to condemn Putin for interfering.
Schiff, the top Democrat on the House Intelligence
Committee, appeared on CNN’s “State of the Union” less
than a day before the Trump-Putin summit, and two days
after the Justice Department indicted 12 Russians for
allegedly hacking into U.S. systems during the 2016
campaign.
Schiff said he has no expectation Trump will do anything
more than ask Putin if he interfered in the U.S. election.
“There’s no reason to expect this won’t be,
frankly, a disastrous approach,” Schiff said.
“He’s sitting down with a man who just
ordered intervention in our election, and
rewarding him for doing so, there’s no way
that brings about a successful result.”
Schiff noted that Trump was briefed on the indictments
before leaving for Europe last week, and the president still
remarked that he expected his summit with Putin may be
“easier” than meetings with U.S. allies.
In the days since the indictment of the 12 Russians, Trump
has declined to condemn Putin. Instead, he has cast blame
on the Obama administration for failing to take a stronger
stance against Russian meddling.
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The president has in the past drawn criticism from
lawmakers on both sides of the aisle for his reluctance to
confront Putin.
“Part of the reason for this indictment is to
stigmatize those interfering with our
elections,” Schiff said Sunday. “[Putin is]
the ringmaster of this conspiracy, and he’s
going to be sitting down at the table with
Donald Trump, and Donald Trump is
basically saying that indictment is a witch
hunt. That's a great gift for Putin.”
“I think if Kim Jong Un can eat the
president’s lunch, which I think he clearly
did, it will be a very easy matter for Vladimir
Putin,” Schiff said, referring to Trump’s
meeting last month with the North Korean
leader.
Special counsel Robert Mueller handed down indictments
on Friday against 12 Russian intelligence officers, alleging
they interfered in the 2016 U.S. elections. Mueller charged
11 of the officers with conspiring to hack into the
Democratic National Committee and Democratic
Congressional Campaign Committee networks.
The other officer was charged with conspiring to hack into
election systems, including a state elections board website.
Several Democrats, including Schiff, have called on the
White House to cancel the meeting in light of the
indictments.
— This report was updated at 10:54 a.m.
 House Intel Chair Devin Nunes: Mueller Indictment Left
Out Russians Also Targeted Republicans (VIDEO)
By Jim Hoft
July 15, 2018, 9:50 Am

House Intelligence Committee Chairman joined Maria

Bartiromo on Sunday Morning Futures to discuss
Mueller’s junk indictments on Friday.

Rep. Nunes told Maria Bartiromo every

bit of the Mueller Special Counsel
indictments were already published by
the House Intelligence Committee in
April.
Dirty cop Robert Mueller indicted 12 more Russians on
Friday in his ongoing witch hunt to discredit and bring
down the Trump administration in a phony collusion
scandal.
Mueller and accomplice Rosenstein waited to announce
the junk charges until the US president was on foreign soil
and just days before his meeting with Russian President
Vlad Putin.
To date 80% of Robert Mueller’s junk
indictments have been against Russians
who will never face a US court because
they will never visit the United States.
It now appears that all of this new and
urgent information released by dirty cop
Rod Rosenstein on Friday was already
published months ago in the House Intel
report on Russian active measures
released by Rep. Devin Nunes.
Devin Nunes tweeted out on Friday that his House Intel
panel report on Russian active measures uncovered
everything in the latest Mueller Russia indictments.
Again — the full House Intel report is
here and includes all of the details from
Rosenstein’s urgent press conference
on Friday.
Rosenstein and Mueller did this on the
last business day before the Trump-
Putin meeting in Helsinki.
Rosenstein interrupted President
Trump’s foreign trip to drop this
information that was PREVIOUSLY
RELEASED by the House Intelligence
Committee.
Rep. Nunes told Maria Bartiromo
Mueller and Rosenstein left out the fact
that the Russians also targeted the
Republican Party in their report.
Gee, why would that be?
Via Sunday Morning Futures:

Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) tweeted this out on Friday.

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 It is all listed on the Summary of
Findings in the April House Intelligence
Report.

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 Mueller Swiped Content From Podesta
Court Case In Latest Junk Russian Indictment
By Jim Hoft
July 15, 2018, 9:59 Am

crimes were supposedly committed. Mueller’s team

associated the list of Russians who they also indicted with
one of the companies which that company had never heard
of. Mueller’s team also claimed that the Facebook posts
supposedly created by these Russians had somehow
impacted the 2016 election but it was uncovered that the
posts were in Russian and that Mueller’s team never had
them translated. The lawyers in that case representing
Concord Management eventually noted that ‘fake law’ is
worse than fake news.

Then again on Friday, the Mueller misfits decided that the

The corrupt Mueller team and their ‘fake
indictments’ are falling apart. Their
efforts to generate bogus crimes
against President Trump and his team
and the American people were too
outlandish and too dishonest and were
bound to fail. They ain’t as smart as
their chief investigator Peter Strzok and
all the rest of the corrupt cabal thought
they were. The latest indictment which
appears hurriedly put together is
another example of the Mueller
investigation showing it is more of a
circus than a legitimate legal initiate.
first Russian case wasn’t bad enough and they were
coming back for more. They clearly feel the need to
connect their criminal investigation that has led to
indictments which nearly all are suspect, to Russia.
Friday’s indictments may be worse than the first batch of
Russian indictments.
Already there are many observations that have destroyed
Friday’s indictments. The information released was nearly
all released in an April House report. The case mostly was
an indictment of the Mueller team’s party, the DNC, which
reportedly allowed Russian hackers to steal data from the
DNC before the 2016 election with no counter measures
from the DNC. The entire case is another sham with
Mueller’s gang apparently relying on an external party
(Crowdstrike) to provide evidence that the DNC was
hacked by Russians –

On Friday, dirty cop Mueller announced through their

creator, the corrupt and now disgraced and dishonest
Deputy Attorney General (DAG) Rod Rosenstein, that
they were indicting another group of Russians related to
the phony scandal. The last group of indictments against
Russians have turned into a courtroom fiasco as the
Mueller team made the mistake to include three Russian
companies in that indictment. When one of the Russian
companies indicted, Concord Management, showed up to
court the Mueller team was totally caught of guard.
Mueller’s corrupt legal team led by a former Clinton
Foundation attorney, asked for more time to put together
their case in order to come up with support for their John Cardillo on Twitter also pointed out the lunacy in the
outlandish indictments. report –

During the course of the first Russian case, it’s been

uncovered that Mueller indicted a company for crimes,
Concord Catering, that was not even in existence when the
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 account was labeled Actblue.com which was changed to
Actblues.com.

Now today more information on the phony scandal is

being uncovered. One Internet sleuth noted that one of the
points in Friday’s indictment related to the Mueller team
reporting that it had uncovered a scheme where the
Russians apparently had set up fake accounts and
redirected donations to the DNC to one of their accounts
presumably to receive these donations – In Friday’s indictment against the Russians, the Mueller
team states basically the same thing, so much so that
Friday’s indictment looks plagiarized. Mueller’s gang
states that the Russians did the same thing in changing the
Actblue.com account to Actblues.com.

It makes no sense that the Russians would have allegedly

stolen funds from the DNC. It’s more likely that Mueller’s
goons copied information from the Podesta case to bolster
their indictment, not knowing how silly their allegation is.

By the way, the judge presiding over the Podesta lawsuit

was FISA Court Judge Rudolph Contreras who also is a
friend of corrupt Mueller investigator Peter Strzok. You
can’t make this stuff up.
What’s even more shocking is that this
paragraph in Mueller’s indictment So we are supposed to believe that the
mirrors wording from a case against
Russians, lacking money, were trying to
Clinton’s former Campaign Manager
creepy John Podesta. steal from the DNC to fund one of their
many national initiatives? This doesn’t
In a case in Washington DC (SWEIGERT et al v. make any sense. It’s as if the Mueller
PODESTA et al) which shows a number of defendants team copied an paragraph from another
represented by the Democrats favorite law firm, Perkins case and inserted it into Friday’s fake
Coie LLP, there was wording very similar to the wording indictment – and that’s exactly what it
in Friday’s Mueller indictment. In paragraph 44 of the appears!
Complaint, Sweigert notes that the DNC had created a
phishing scheme to divert donations away from the Bernie
Sanders Campaign to a different account controlled by
Debbie Wasserman-Schultz and/or Imran Awan. The
.

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 President Trump SHREDS
Obama For Failing To Take On Russian Hackers
By Emily Zanotti
July 15, 2018
President Donald Trump responded Saturday to a series of
indictments made against Russian hackers as part of
Robert Mueller's ongoing investigation by laying the
blame squarely at the feet of former President Barack
Obama.
Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein issued a dozen
indictments Friday against "Russian intelligence officers"
connected to a cyber warfare operation that hacked a DNC
server in 2016, and breached several state election
systems, exposing the information of around 50,000
voters.
It's not clear whether the Department of Justice will be
able to bring the 12 individuals, who called themselves
"Guccifer 2.0," to justice in the United States.
What is clear, Trump said Saturday, is that Barack
Obama's administration was remiss in handling the
hacking threat from Russia, giving the Russians license to
meddle in American elections.
.
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His statement follows a White House missive from Friday
blaming Obama for not doing enough to combat Russia as
a geopolitical foe.
"As Deputy Attorney General Rod
Rosenstein said today: 'There is no
allegation in this indictment that Americans
knew that they were corresponding with
Russians. There is no allegation in this
indictment that any American citizen
committed a crime. There is no allegation
that the conspiracy changed the vote count
or affected any election result,'" Deputy
White House Press Secretary Lindsay
Walters said in a statement Friday, CBS
News reports.
Special Counsel Robert Mueller has, so far, issued several
indictments, but as the White House points out, few (and
none against Americans) in connection with actual Russian
election meddling. So far, Mueller has indicted several
Trump officials, but for crimes that predate the 2016
presidential election.
 President Trump Hammers Fake News And Dems As He
Heads To Putin Summit ‘Media Is Enemy Of The People’
By Cristina Laila
July 15, 2018, 11:45 Am

Trump: …over the years, I would return to criticism that it

wasn’t good enough – that I should have gotten Saint
Petersburg in addition! Much of our news media is indeed
the enemy of the people and all the Dems…

President Trump is heading to Helsinki, Finland to meet

with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
The Democrats are demanding President Trump cancel his
meeting with Putin because Mueller decided to roll out
another junk indictment of Russians.
Trump: …know how to do is resist and obstruct! This is
why there is such hatred and dissension in our country –
but at some point, it will heal!

Trump refuses to bow down to the lunatics on the left.

On Sunday, President Trump called the fake news media

“the enemy of the people” and said all Democrats know
how to do is resist and obstruct.

Trump: Heading to Helsinki, Finland – looking forward to

meeting with President Putin tomorrow. Unfortunately, no
matter how well I do at the Summit, if I was given the
great city of Moscow as retribution for all of the sins and President Trump is correct. The fake news media is the
evils committed by Russia… enemy of the American people.

The fake news media is the propaganda arm of the

Democrat party. All they do is manufacture one crisis after
another in order to divide the American people and
undermine President Trump.

Mueller and Rosenstein purposely rolled out another fake

indictment of Russians who will never see the inside of a
US courtroom as the President was heading to Helsinki to
meet with Putin in an effort to embarrass and undermine
Trump.
.

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 FBI Veterans Blast Strzok ‘How Is He Under Office Of
Professional Responsibility Investigation And Protected By
FBI Counsel At The Same Time?’
By Cristina Laila
July 15, 2018, 3:23 Pm

McCabe, is apparent: I’m smarter than

you. Elitist arrogance. The Bureau is in
this plot over their head,” an FBI veteran
said to investigative reporter, Paul
Sperry.

Peter Strzok; face of the swamp

FBI veterans blasted Peter Strzok this week after his

disastrous Congressional hearing on Thursday.

FBI counsel has been working very hard to aid and protect
the disgraced former top bureau official.

During Strzok’s closed-door deposition a couple weeks

ago, FBI counsel intervened and prevented Strzok from
answering many many questions, according to House
Judiciary Chair Bob Goodlatte.

On Thursday, FBI counsel continued to protect the smug,

smirking Peter Strzok as he defiantly refused to answer
lawmakers’ questions.

House Judiciary Chair Bob Goodlatte became so frustrated

with Strzok refusing to answer his questions at one point
he threatened the former FBI official with contempt
charges.

One FBI veteran wants to know how it’s

possible Peter Strzok is under an Office
of Professional Responsibility
investigation yet have FBI counsel at
the same time. “How does that
work???”
Another FBI veteran called ‘elitist’
Strzok arrogant and obnoxious.
“In 27 yrs in the Bureau, I have never In June, Inspector General Michael Horowitz referred
known, worked, associated, trained with Strzok’s findings to the Office of Professional
any agent as obnoxious as Strzok. The Responsibility for investigation and possible disciplinary
common trait among he, Comey, action.

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Shockingly, Peter Strzok is still employed by the FBI and
even though he was previously escorted out of the FBI
building and he still has top security clearance.

AG Sessions previously claimed in a radio interview that

Strzok lost his security clearance; it appears Sessions is
clueless about what is really going on. What a disgrace.

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 Democrats And Deep State Terrified
Of What Putin May Tell Trump At Helsinki Meeting
By Jim Hoft
July 15, 2018, 4:47 Pm

Far left VOX goes as far as to call the meeting a gift for
Putin.

Corrupt Rosenstein came out Friday with a quickly

The Democrats, Deep State Mueller and
Rosenstein and their MSM are doing all
they can to prevent President Donald
Trump from meeting with Russian
President Putin.
Why are they so persistent in stopping
the President of the US from meeting
with Putin? You would think this was a
good thing, right?
President Trump is planning on meeting with Russian
President Putin over the next few days in Finland. These
will be the first scheduled meetings between the US
President, accused by the Democrats and the Deep State
and their MSM of the fake story of colluding with the
Russians during the 2016 campaign.
scheduled presser to announce the indictment of another
12 Russians supposedly who interfered in the 2016
election. The case however, like the prior indictments
against Russians, appears weak at best. Numerous
observations already over the weekend show the
indictments are suspect.
So why are the Democrats, the Deep
State and the MSM so petrified of
President Trump meeting with Putin?
The answer is because they are deathly
afraid of not what Putin might tell Trump
but what evidence Putin might have that
would indict their leaders in prior
criminal actions.
Representative Louie Gohmert from Texas says that
Robert Mueller and Rod Rosenstein should be fired due to
their involvement with Russia and the Uranium One
scandal where Russia paid the Clinton foundation over
$140 million and in return the Obama Administration
provided 20% of US uranium to Russia.

The Deep State is going crazy – CNN reports the

following –

“President Trump should cancel his

meeting with Vladimir Putin until Russia
takes demonstrable and transparent steps
to prove that they won’t interfere in future
elections. Glad-handing with Vladimir Putin
on the heels of these indictments would be
an insult to our democracy,” Senate
Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said in a
statement.
Mueller, Rosenstein, Obama, the
Clintons and many more have
The top Democrat in the House, Rep. Nancy Pelosi of
questionable actions in the past related
California, tweeted,
to Russia. These people do not want
Trump to obtain evidence of their sordid
“@realDonaldTrump must immediately actions with Russia. They are trying to
cancel his meeting with Putin.” prevent Trump from meeting Putin and
finding out.

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 Flashback Obama In 2016:
Russian Hacking Was Not Some Elaborate,
Complicated Espionage Scheme (VIDEO)
By Jim Hoft
July 15, 2018, 8:45 Pm

In December 2016 President Barack Obama admitted to

reporters that the DNC “hacking” by the Russians was “not
particularly sophisticated.” Obama added,

“This was not some elaborate, complicated

espionage scheme.”

And yet 14 months later the spear-phishing by the

Russians is all the Democrats and liberal media can talk
about.
And what it rarely, if ever, mentioned is that the DNC
allowed the Russians to infiltrate their servers.
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 Sore Loser Hillary Clinton Trolls Pres. Trump On Eve Of
Putin Summit, Questions His Loyalty To US
By Kristinn Taylor
July 15, 2018, 9:00 Pm

Heading to Helsinki, Finland – looking forward to meeting

with President Putin tomorrow. Unfortunately, no matter
how well I do at the Summit, if I was given the great city
of Moscow as retribution for all of the sins and evils
committed by Russia…

…over the years, I would return to criticism

Sore loser Hillary Clinton still cannot get over being
defeated by Donald Trump for the presidency nearly two
years ago now. Sunday night, on the eve of President
Trump’s summit in Finland with Russian President
Vladimir Putin, Clinton trolled Trump on Twitter,
questioning his loyalty to the Unites States.
“Great World Cup. Question for President
Trump as he meets Putin: Do you know
which team you play for?”
that it wasn’t good enough – that I should
have gotten Saint Petersburg in addition!
Much of our news media is indeed the
enemy of the people and all the Dems…
…know how to do is resist and obstruct!
This is why there is such hatred and
dissension in our country – but at some
point, it will heal!
Congratulations to France, who played extraordinary
soccer, on winning the 2018 World Cup. Additionally,
congratulations to President Putin and Russia for putting
on a truly great World Cup Tournament — one of the best
ever!”

For this question to be asked, Clinton must ignore the

humiliating slaughter of several hundred attacking Russian
mercenaries by U.S. forces in Syria earlier this year that
Putin did (could) not retaliate for; Trump authorizing
sending lethal weapons to Ukraine–which Obama refused
to do; Trump authorizing sending Patriot Missiles to
Poland; U.S. Marines in Ukraine right now training
Ukraine marines; Trump administration diplomatic and
economic sanctions against Russia and Russia figures; the
massive increase in U.S. defense spending under Trump
and Trump’s commitment to modernizing US nuclear
weapons systems.

Earlier on Sunday, Trump predicted reactions to the

summit:

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 American high-tech and missile technology, nor about the
$500,000 speech Bill gave in Russia nor the millions given
to the Clinton Foundation by Uranium One investors
during Hillary’s tenure as President Obama’s secretary of
State.

Update: Sebastian Gorka responded to Hillary tonight.

With Hillary Clinton and the media, it’s as if President and

Mrs. Clinton never took campaign cash from communist
China for their 1996 reelection and China was given

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 Body Language Expert On Crazy Peter Strzok During
Hearing – His Constant Snarl Shows Disdain For
Republicans (VIDEO)
By Jim Hoft
July 15, 2018, 11:05 Pm

Remember if they believe they’re king, they’re not

oppressing, they’re standing their ground.

The body language expert at Body

Language Ghost provides another solid
review of the body language that One segment not noted specifically in the video was
disgraced and criminal FBI Agent Peter related to the moment caught on camera where it looks like
Strzok is possessed.
Strzok exhibited last week at the House
Hearing regarding his actions in the
Hillary email scandal, the Trump-Russia
investigation and the Mueller
investigation.

According to the body language expert, Strzok’s actions

show a belief system that he knows best, like a king over
his subjects, and therefore he lacks guilt for any of the
criminal actions he took over the past few years.

FBI Investigator Peter Strzok showed his true colors

through his body language –

So you’re watching him get read, basically the riot act. Ha

– he’s such a turd. We saw his body wiggle. His facial
expressions are comical, indeed. It’s like he has a
permanent snarl on his face. You sit there and if you can
kind of imagine in your mind and do it as you sit here, put
a snarl in your nose around your upper lip and just think of
the mindset that you would have to be in to keep it there.
This creepy, corrupt and criminal
Your only friends and the only people you let into your
box are the only people that think like you,and so everyone investigator should have never seen the
else is going to get that snarl and disdain. light of day in the FBI, let alone at its
upper echelons.
This is the power of belief systems. It’s what’s wrong with
the DOJ and the FBI. They are in a belief system.
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 Russia Charges Alleged CIA Mole With Treason — Could
Face 20 Years In Prison (VIDEO)
By Jim Hoft
July 15, 2018, 11:47 Pm
A top Russian cyber-crimes agent was
arrested on treason charges in
December 2016 and now faces 20 years
in prison.
The story is making the rounds again
the night before the Trump-Putin
meetings in Helsinki, Finland.
Sergei Mikhailov served in the FSB’s Center for
Information Security, the agency’s cyberintelligence
branch, which has been implicated by US intelligence in
the American election “hacking.”
Sergei Mikhailov and his associate Dmitry Dokuchayev
were both arrested in late 2016.
Russian media claims they found $12
million in Mikhailov’s apartment when
he was arrested.
The Daily Mail reported:
Russian spycatchers are scrambling to
figure out how long an accused double-
agent was working for the CIA after a
‘dramatic’ discovery about his shady past.
Sergei Mikhailov faces treason changes in
Moscow evidently linked to leaks giving US
investigators the knowledge that Vladimir
Putin’s intelligence services hacked and
meddled in the American presidential
election.
The colonel – a department head in the
FSB security agency’s Center for
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Information Security, pictured here – was
arrested in December during a meeting of
senior officers at the agency’s Lubyanka
HQ,and could face 20 years in jail.
A bag was placed over his head and he
was frogmarched from the room in
handcuffs.
Mikhailov – apparently a high level cyber asset – was
originally recruited by the Americans during a vacation in
a Mediterranean country, according to TV channel REN,
citing security service sources.
The suspected mole “Sergei Mikhailov”
may not have even been using his real
name.
No further details were given of this version of a case that
is seen to have been highly damaging to Russia and the
FSB, known in Soviet times as the KGB.
Other sources say a probe into Mikhailov started after
sensational evidence came to light that he has long used a
fake identity, even raising the specter that he could have
been planted on Moscow.
‘It was suspected that perhaps Mikhailov is
not really called Mikhailov,’ stated
investigative newspaper Novaya Gazeta.
‘Two sources pointed to him being ‘a
foreign intelligence mole inside the FSB’, it
was reported.
Radio Free Europe-Radio Liberty
released a video on the alleged double
agents in February of last year.
 President Trump To Vladimir Putin:
‘The World Wants To See Us Get Along’
By Cassandra Fairbanks
July 16, 2018, 6:54 Am

President Donald Trump and Russian
President Vladimir Putin appeared to
have a positive meeting in a room at the
Presidential Palace in Helsinki, Finland.
The leader of the free world said “we
will end up having an extraordinary
relationship” with Russia.
Listing the topics they will be discussing, President Trump
said that trade, arms control and China will be on the table.
He did not mention the alleged Russian meddling or Syria.
“We are the two great nuclear powers.
It’s not a good thing, its a bad thing. So
we’ll be talking about that among other
things,” Trump said.
Prior to the meeting, Trump tweeted about the witch hunt.

“Our relationship with Russia has NEVER

been worse thanks to many years of U.S.
foolishness and stupidity and now, the
Rigged Witch Hunt!” Trump tweeted.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia quote tweeted

him stating that they agree.

PHOTO: President Donald Trump and Russia’s President

Vladimir Putin shake hands as they meet in Helsinki,
Finland, July 16, 2018. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters)

“I think we will end up having an

extraordinary relationship,” Trump said.
“I really think the world wants to see us
get along.”

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 SICK. NY Times Reposts Homophobic Cartoon Of
President Trump Making Out With Putin
On Day Of Helsinki Meeting
By Cassandra Fairbanks
July 16, 2018, 8:18 Am

The “failing” New York Times has again bedroom, where the fantasies of this
shared an intensely homophobic forbidden romance come to life,” the
cartoon of President Donald Trump Times explained.
making out with Russian President
Vladimir Putin ahead of their highly
anticipated meeting.
The New York Times reposted this anti-
gay cartoon on the day of the Trump-
Putin meetings.

Plympton used real audio of the president in his perverted

tale that makes a mockery of gay relationships.

The disgusting cartoon, titled ‘Trump and Putin: A Love

Story’, focuses on a lovesick President Trump fantasizing
about the Russian President. It is part of a series
by cartoonist Bill Plympton that, as the Gateway Pundit
previously reported, was originally released last month.
The newspaper tweeted it out again just before the meeting
of the two leaders.
Plympton claims that his work is meant to “riff on Mr.
Trump’s absurd utterances to illustrate the president’s
tumultuous inner life of paranoia, narcissism and
xenophobia.” It is always a bit amusing when a conspiracy
theorist who thinks Russians are hiding under every bed
calls anyone else xenophobic.

“In Episode Two of ‘Trump Bites,’ According to the Times, the series is produced by Billy
above, Mr. Trump’s not-so-secret Shebar and David Roberts of 110th Street Films, and they
admiration for President Vladimir Putin are currently crowdfunding to produce additional
of Russia plays out in a teenager’s dispatches.

.
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 BUSTED: FAKE NEWS Media Mocks Trump For His
Comments To Finnish President — Then Photos FROM
LAST WEEK Prove Trump Right
By Jim Hoft
July 16, 2018, 9:11 Am

The liberal fake news media lost their His remarks were retweeted by CNN’s Manu Raju.
minds today when President Trump told
President Sauli Niinisto of Finland that
he enjoyed seeing him last week at
NATO.

That’s when Mollie Hemingway from The Federalist

corrected the reporters by pointing out that Niinisto was at
the NATO conference in Belgium.

US President Donald Trump with President Sauli Niinisto of Finland

and President Vladimir Putin from Russia.

President Trump told Niinisto he

enjoyed seeing him last week in
Belgium.
That’s when the liberal media lost their
mind.
Finland is NOT a member of NATO.

New York Times reporter Julie Davis tweeted:

Josh Rogin from the Washington Post chimed in.

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Niinisto attended the NATO conference last week and
tweeted about it.

Here is the Finnish leader at NATO with

Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau.

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TRUMP Attacks “Foolishness” Of Democrat-Media
“Witch Hunt” … MEDIA AND #NEVERTRUMP
GOES INSANE!
By Jim Hoft
July 16, 2018, 9:55 Am

Liberal Julian Sanchez:

President Donald Trump headed into his

first summit with Vladimir Putin on
Monday determined to forge a personal
bond with the Kremlin chief.

Before their meeting President Trump

lashed out at previous US policy. Greg Sargent from Washington Post.

Trump also slammed the ongoing

Democrat witch hunt of his campaign
and administration.

Of course, this caused the liberal media Radley Balko from WaPo.
and Never Trumpers to go insane!
CNN hack Manu Raju tweeted.

Jake Tapper from CNN.

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 And Bill Kristol.

And, of course, Never Trumper Ben Sasse went off before

the Trump meeting.

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 VIDEO=> UNHINGED FAR LEFT PROTESTER Sam
Husseini Dragged Out Of Press Conference Before
Trump-Putin Enter Room
By Jim Hoft
July 16, 2018, 10:24 Am

An unhinged screaming protester was dragged from the
press room today in Helsinki before President Trump and
President Putin’s joint press conference.
How a protester was able to get into the room is still a
question.
The Mirror identified the protester as reporter Sam
Husseini from the far left Nation magazine..

The protester tried to show a flag or sign before he was

dragged out of the room by the Russian security.
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 NBC: ‘Putin Has The Upper Hand’ With ‘Propaganda
Victory’; We Rise Above His ‘Fake News’
By Curtis Houck
July 16, 2018 10:37 AM EDT
In NBC’s Monday morning Special Report in the 9:00 a.m.
Eastern hour on the Trump-Putin summit, the peacock
network had already broken the panic button from hitting it
too many times, blasting the President for praising the
Russian-hosted World Cup, giving him “the upper hand,”
sending out “such a damaging tweet” on the Mueller
probe, and insinuated that he’s doing the bidding of Russia
and the former Soviet Union by criticizing the news media.
NBC Nightly News anchor Lester Holt observed that, last
week, Trump
“left behind...a trail of disappointment
and bewilderment among Europeans,
capping it off with that parting shot
yesterday that the E.U. is a foe,” so they
will “be watching carefully to see if this
president has cozied up — is treating —
is treating Putin in a way he is not
treating them any longer.”
White House correspondent Kristen Welker used the
occasion to rehash her clash with the President at Friday’s
press conference in Chequers, England and fretted that
Trump would dare to praise Putin for having a successful
World Cup. It’s not like he praised Putin for all the Soviet
gulags, but it sure seemed like that’s what Trump did in
the eyes of the press.
“Looking at — what everything we saw
leading up to the moment with this
handshake occurs, is it clear who has
the upper hand here? Keeping in mind
that Vladimir Putin would like to see
some of the sanctions backed off,” Holt
wondered next to chief foreign affairs
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correspondent and MSNBC host Andrea
Mitchell.
Mitchell came loaded for bear, shredding
Trump for giving Putin “the upper hand”
for no reason other than “the optics of it.”
Here’s Mitchell’s possible future Notable
Quotable in all it’s glory [emphasis mine]:
It’s very clear to me that Vladimir Putin
has the upper hand, just from the optics
of it and the fact that the President went
in praising him saying how important
better relations were and no one would
argue about that, but he had just on Twitter
blamed the worsening relationship — he
called it on the worst in years and blamed it
on past stupidity by prior administrations
and what he called the rigged witch hunt, in
other words the Mueller probe. So, he has
already handed Vladimir Putin a
propaganda victory. That tweet — that’s
such a damaging tweet and it was
retweeted by Lavrov’s Ministry of
Foreign Affairs and they wrote, “we
agree” in retweeting it. So, they have now
taken up President Trump's comments
going into the summit and then he came in
for that one-on-one meeting went more
than two hours without note takers and no
official record praising Putin, as Kristen
said, for the success of the World Cup
and also talking about how important it was
to improve relations on a number of issues.
Nuclear and the like, but never mentioning
the Mueller investigation.
Shifting gears to the upcoming joint press conference, Holt
again brought up Friday’s contentious press conference in
the U.K. He hilariously claimed that, speaking on behalf of
NBC News,
“we don't talk about the fake news stuff
because it’s, you know, we rise above
it.”
Umm, hello? Lester, do Joy Reid and Brian Williams ring
any bells for you? What about Dateline and exploding
cars? Or just anything Chris Matthews says?
 “However, he'll be standing next to a
man who has been no friend of the
media in his own country. I think we’re
all going to be watching very carefully
to see how he handles that issue, which
is a fundamental freedom in our
country,” Holt continued.
Mitchell replied with more fear and trepidation about
Trump channeling Stalin by criticizing the press and
clashing with Welker as if she were a victim we should
feel sorry for:
And, in fact, the President tweeted that the news media are
the enemy of the people which is a Joe Stalin phrase in one
of his tweets this weekend coming into this summit.
Kristen, of course, was at that important news conference
in the U.K. at Chequers and what first hand what it feels to
be a target of the President.
To see the relevant transcript from the July 16 NBC News
Special Report in the 9:00 a.m. Eastern hour.
NBC News Special Report
July 16, 2018
9:33 a.m. Eastern
LESTER HOLT: And the question of what it
at stake is a broad one since they came in
with no agenda and Kristen, I will turn to
you on this. Part of the impact is how this is
seen from the Europeans. They have —
the President left behind in this week a trail
of disappointment and bewilderment
among Europeans, capping it off with that
parting shot yesterday that the E.U. is a
foe. They’re going to be watching carefully
to see if this president has cozied up — is
treating — is treating Putin in a way he is
not treating them any longer.
KRISTEN WELKER: You’re absolutely right
and, Lester, it was just stunning to be at the
NATO summit with President Trump last
week. He roiled allies, clashed with them at
the NATO summit and then he went to the
Britain to meet with the Prime Minister
there, Theresa May, criticized her on her
home turf. So, he went into this summit
with that tone. Really sort of looking like he
wasn't unified with some of America's
closest allies. You mentioned that, during
that interview, he referred to the E.U. as a
foe. Well, the President of the European
Council said anyone who refers to the E.U.
as a foe is spreading fake new, so he’s
already gotten a sharp rebuke. You had the
prime minister of Great Brtain say, look, it’s
critical that President trump is reunified with
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his allies going into this meeting. I asked
the President during a press conference
last week if he’s effectively giving Putin the
upper hand. He lashed out of me. He said
the mere inference of that is fake news in
of itself, but bottom line. He never
answered the question, Lester, so that is
going to be critical heading into the summit
and think about the optics for President
Putin. He is coming off of a PR victory
himself. He’s just finishing the World Cup.
President Trump said it was one of the best
world cups in history, really praising
president Putin. There's a lot of concerns
amongst allies and Democrats and
Republicans on capitol hill that the
president is looking to reorder some of
these traditional alliances.
HOLT: Let's bring in Andrea Mitchell, chief
foreign affairs correspondent. Looking at —
what everything we saw leading up to the
moment with this handshake occurs, is it
clear who has the upper hand here?
Keeping in mind that Vladimir Putin would
like to see some of the sanctions backed
off.
ANDREA MITCHELL: It’s very clear to me
that Vladimir Putin has the upper hand, just
from the optics of it and the fact that the
President went in praising him saying how
important better relations were and no one
would argue about that, but he had just on
Twitter blamed the worsening relationship
— he called it on the worst in years and
blamed it on past stupidity by prior
administrations and what he called the
rigged witch hunt, in other words the
Mueller probe. So, he has already handed
Vladimir Putin a propaganda victory. That
tweet — that’s such a damaging tweet and
it was retweeted by Lavrov’s Ministry of
Foreign Affairs and they wrote, “we agree”
in retweeting it. So, they have now taken
up president trump's comments going into
the summit and then he came in for that
one-on-one meeting went more than two
hours without note takers and no official
 record praising Putin, as Kristen said, for
the success of the World Cup and also
talking about how important it was to
improve relations on a number of issues.
Nuclear and the like, but never mentioning
the Mueller investigation.
HOLT: The next big moment we expect to
see is the news conference, which could be
within the next couple of hours. The
schedule’s all over the place right now, so
I'm not going to commit to a time. But they
will appear together. Given from what we
heard from the President. We saw the
news conference in England the other day.
And keeping in mind, we don't talk about
the fake news stuff
.
WELKER: Right.
HOLT: — because it’s, you know, we rise
above it. However, he'll be standing next to
a man who has been no friend of the media
in his own country. I think we’re all going to
be watching very carefully to see how he
handles that issue, which is a fundamental
freedom in our country.
MITCHELL: And, in fact, the President
tweeted that the news media are the
enemy of the people which is a Joe Stalin
phrase in one of his tweets this weekend
coming into this summit. Kristen, of course,
was at that important news conference in
the U.K. at Chequers and what first hand
what it feels to be a target of the President.

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 ABC Whines Trump Leaving America Vulnerable In
Meeting Putin: 'America First' Means 'America Alone'
By Kristine Marsh
July 16, 2018 10:48 AM EDT
Monday morning, ABC’s Good Morning America bashed
President Trump for daring to keep his meeting with
Russia’s Vladimir Putin after 12 Russian intelligence
officers were indicted by Special Counsel Robert Mueller
on Friday, for interfering in the 2016 presidential election.
Touting the Democrats’ argument, ABC anchors and
reporters slammed Trump for continuing to go ahead with
the “dangerous” pre-planned summit that started today in
Helsinki, Finland, and complained that the meeting was a
failure already.
Reporting live from Helsinki, anchor George
Stephanopoulos set the pessimistic tone for the meeting’s
outcome, complaining to ABC’s foreign correspondent
Terry Moran, that President Trump was already “echoing
Putin’s line” by referring to the Mueller investigation as a
“witch hunt” in a tweet earlier this morning.
Moran agreed, gushing that Trump was siding with Putin
against their critics, mistakenly calling President Trump,
President Bush:
MORAN: President Bush [sic] and
Vladimir Putin pushing back here
against those expectations and against
the line that this meeting is dangerous
for President Trump because of the
Russian attack on American democracy.
Saying that relations have never been worse between
Russia and the United States. That's what President Trump
said. That would come as surprise and President Kennedy
and Khrushchev who almost went to nuclear war. That is a
sign of how much they want that issue off the table. These
two men came to this city to do business.
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Turning to World News Tonight anchor David Muir,
Stephanopoulos pessimistically predicted that Trump
wouldn’t press Putin about interfering in our election.
“One thing we can be sure of, he's
[Trump’s] not going to come off that line
denying interference in our elections,”
he bemoaned.
Muir agreed, touting the “anxiety” among Democrats and
“some Republicans” over Trump’s soft take on Russia.
Referring again to Trump’s tweets this morning,
Stephanopoulos complained that Trump wasn’t calling out
Putin on the recent indictment. “He seems very reluctant to
do it so far,” he said.
Like a broken record, Stephanopoulos gushed again to
Chief White House Correspondent Jonathan Karl, “No
word on those indictments of Russian intelligence.” Karl
continued slamming Trump for “lashing out” at everyone
but Putin:
KARL: [T]here is absolutely no
indication from the president's own
words that he is truly concerned about
this, concerned about the Russian side
of this. He's lashing out at Democrats.
He's lashing out at Robert Mueller. But
he is not criticizing Vladimir Putin.
Karl continued touting Democrats’ complaints about
having a meeting to begin with, snarking that he doubted
that Trump would bring up the indictments:
KARL: Democrats across the board are
saying this meeting should have been
canceled once that indictment dropped,
once we saw its stark detail, exactly
what the Russians did to interfere with
the U.S. election. Stark detail, what they
did to hack into the emails of the
Democratic National Committee and the
Clinton campaign. That's obviously not
going to happen. So now the question
is, will the president directly bring this
up in the meeting and as we've heard
from his advisers that is supposedly on
the agenda.
ABC then aired the brief public meeting between Trump
and Putin, before the two leaders continued their meeting
privately behind closed doors with just translators. Despite
just the few minutes on camera, ABC’s journalists decided
the meeting was already a failure because Trump opened
by congratulating Putin on the World Cup.
“Did not mention at all, Russian
meddling into our elections!”
Stephanopoulos gushed to Moran, in the aftermath. Moran
hyped that Trump was making America vulnerable by
taking us away from our allies. “America first sometimes
maybe means America alone,” he gushed:
what used to be called the free world
with the nations of Europe and many
other nations at their back having heft in
those discussions because it wasn't just
the American president. America first
sometimes maybe means America alone
in that room because President Trump
spent the last several days pushing
back against the European Union and
other close allies...

MORAN: He did not. He promises he will but this is a sign

of just how seriously President Trump wants to rebuild the
relationship with Moscow.

Most U.S. presidents have come to

meetings with Russian or Soviet leaders
speaking for the West, speaking for

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 PUTIN DROPS BOMB AT HELSINKI PRESSER:
Says Russian Critic Bill Browder Gave $400,000,000
To HILLARY CLINTON!! (VIDEO)
By Jim Hoft
July 16, 2018, 10:58 Am
President Donald Trump and President
Vladimir Putin held a joint press
conference Monday in Helsinki, Finland.
During the press conference Putin dropped a bomb!
Putin accused a Bill Browder of
donating $400,000,000 to HILLARY
CLINTON!!!
Vladimir Putin: Last year there was one extradition case by
the United States… Mueller can use this treaty as an
official request to us… in this case this kind of effort
should be a reciprical one… For instance we can bring up
Mr. Browder… They sent a huge amount of money
$400,000,000 to Hillary Clinton!
Putin offered permitting officials in the US, including
Mueller, to Russia to assist in their investigation of the
supposed Trump-Russia collusion story. Then Putin
dropped his bomb where the US could reciprocate Russia
in one of their investigations –
For instance, we can bring up Mr. Browder, in this
particular case. Business associates of Mr. Browder have
earned over $1.5 billion in Russia and never paid any taxes
neither in Russia or the United States and yet the money
escaped the country. They were transferred to the United
States. They sent [a] huge amount of money,
$400,000,000, as a contribution to the campaign of Hillary
Clinton. Well that’s their personal case. It might have
been legal, the contribution itself but the way the money
was earned was illegal.
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So we have solid reason to
believe that some [US]
intelligence offers
accompanied and guided these
transactions. So we have an
interest in questioning them.
MORE on Bill Browder… Browder is an
American-born British financier. He is the
CEO and co-founder of Hermitage Capital
Management, an investment fund that at
one time was the largest foreign portfolio
investor in Russia.
The Russian government put Browder on the Interpol most
wanted list in 2017.
The Washington Post reported:
Browder appeared before the Senate
Judiciary Committee, where he testified
that Prevezon “hired Glenn Simpson of the
firm Fusion GPS to conduct a smear
campaign against me and Sergei
Magnitsky. . . . He contacted a number of
major newspapers and other publications
to spread false information that Sergei
Magnitsky was not murdered, was not a
whistleblower and was instead a criminal.”
As a former Wall Street Journal reporter,
Simpson had extensive contacts with his
former media colleagues he could use to
spread anti-Magnitsky propaganda.
Browder alleged that “Glenn Simpson was
trying, on behalf of the Putin regime, to
cover up the murder of Sergei Magnitsky,
knowingly lying to journalists in Washington
to write false stories. . . . Natalia
Veselnitskaya hired him to lie, and Natalia
Veselnitskaya was working for Putin. So it’s
pretty clear to me that this was a major
Putin operation.” (In a statement, Fusion
GPS counsel Joshua Levy strongly denied
Browder’s claims: “William Browder has an
ax to grind with Fusion GPS. His retaliatory
attacks on the company are not supported
by a shred of evidence. His latest claim that
 Fusion GPS was hired by the Kremlin to Yet today, there is barely a peep in the mainstream media
cover up the murder of Sergei Magnitsky — about the Clinton-Fusion-Putin connection.
five years after it occurred — is untrue and
defamatory. His death was a tragedy, and Browder spoke out against Trump
no one at Fusion GPS has ever said meeting with Putin on Sunday.
anything to the contrary.”)
Earlier this year, Browder filed a complaint
with the Justice Department accusing
Fusion GPS and others involved in the anti-
Magnitsky campaign of unlawfully lobbying
on behalf of Russian interests in violation of
the Foreign Agents Registration Act. In a
letter to the department, Senate Judiciary
Committee Chairman Charles E. Grassley
(R-Iowa) wrote, “The issue is of particular
concern to the Committee given that when
Fusion GPS reportedly was acting as an
unregistered agent of Russian interests, it
appears to have been simultaneously
overseeing the creation of the
unsubstantiated dossier of allegations of a
conspiracy between the Trump campaign
and the Russians.”

Here’s the bottom line:

We have congressional testimony, under

oath, that Clinton hired the same firm to
smear Trump that Putin reportedly used to
smear Magnitsky. Moreover, we also know
that the Fusion GPS dossier relied on
senior Russian government officials for
much of the dirt it compiled, including “a
senior Russian Foreign Ministry figure” and
a “former top level intelligence officer still
active in the Kremlin.” Together, those are
bombshell revelations.

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Stephanopoulos Touts Vladimir ‘Victory’ In ‘Helping Elect'
Trump, Hypes Obama, Hillary Toughness On Russia
By Kristine Marsh
July 16, 2018 11:59 AM EDT
All three networks broke in with live coverage of the
presidential press conference in Helsinki, Finland this
morning, as President Trump met with Russian leader
Vladimir Putin. After setting the stage with pessimistic
predictions and whining during their morning shows today,
ABC broke in shortly before to compare Trump to Obama
and Hillary Clinton, arguing that they were much tougher
on Russia than Trump has been. Jonathan Karl even
quoted a factually untrue smear tweet from an Obama
official and used it to play up the former president’s record
with Putin.
About twenty minutes before the press conference started,
anchor George Stephanopoulos reported live from Finland,
rehashing Democrats’ complaints about Trump and
stressing that he didn’t bring up election meddling during
the brief public meeting earlier. Turning to Chief White
House Correspondent Jonathan Karl, he touted former
Obama official John Brennan’s “questions” for the
president. Karl read the smear tweet from Brennan, noting
it wasn’t exactly true, but amazingly using the false tweet
to hype how great Obama was on calling out Vladimir
Putin:
GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS: The president facing
questions back home, including from John Brennan, about
why he met alone with Vladimir Putin and whether they
can be trusted.
JON KARL: It's highly unusual to have
the American president to sit with a
foreign head of state one on one. John
Brennan, CIA director for Barack
Obama, tweeted “why did Trump meet
one on one with Putin, what might he
will hiding from Bolton, Pompeo, Kelly,
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and the American public?” It's
interesting George, Barack Obama did
actually meet one on one with Putin as
well. It was in September of 2016. A
much briefer encounter. It was when he
directly confronted Putin on the
evidence they were just beginning to
see that the Russians were attempting
to interfere with the U.S. elections. So it
has happened. And President Trump
from time to time, does meet one on
one. He met of course as you remember
with Kim Jong-un one on one as well.
The ABC anchor gushed over the “famous” picture of
Obama, “looking sternly at Vladimir Putin,” adding
that Obama also cancelled a meeting with the Russian
leader in 2013 after learning he was protecting Edward
Snowden.
Karl then did actually acknowledge that President Trump’s
policies were “much tougher” on Russia than the Obama
administration’s were. But Karl slammed Trump for not
using his words to match his policies:
Over and over again, the president's
words seem to run counter to the
policies of his own government when it
comes to Russia. George, if you look at
the Trump administration's policies
towards Russia, you could argue, and
argue persuasively, that he's been
tougher on Russia in terms of the
policies of this administration than the
Obama administration.
They have sold lethal weapons to Ukraine. Something
Obama refused to do. They’ve imposed a whole range of
new sanctions on individuals and entities in Russia. Twice
air strikes against Russia ally Syria. Something that Obama
refused to do.
You have the policies of the
administration standing in stark
contrast to the words of the president
who seems to be incapable of unwilling
to say anything whatsoever critical of
Vladimir Putin's Russia.
But it wasn’t just our former president the ABC team used Vladimir Putin decided he wanted to
to bash our current president. They even appealed to failed hurt Hillary Clinton and they discovered
presidential candidate Hillary Clinton as someone who as they got closer to the election,
would’ve done a better job at this summit, than Trump. Donald Trump might actually have a
chance to win,and then they moved in
Touting liberal conspiracy theories, World News Tonight more aggressively trying to help him
anchor David Muir and Stephanopoulos gushed about how win.
Putin “went after” Clinton, trying to get her to lose,
because she “stood up” to him in 2011. “Vladimir Putin Later on speaking to a Russian specialist, Stephanopoulos
never really got over that,” Muir hyped. Stephanopoulos again repeated that Putin had succeeded in his “goal” by
even claimed that Putin went in “aggressively” to “help “helping elect” Trump as President.
Trump win” the election.
“We know his goal, by interfering in our
DAVID MUIR: You know, the shadow of elections, was to hurt Hillary Clinton,
the 2016 election hangs over this-- help elect Donald Trump. So he's
looms large here George, As you know. already had two substantial victories,”
One of the reasons, that Vladimir Putin he gushed.
went after Hillary Clinton in the way that
he did and the Russians intervening the
way they did, meddling, had a lot to do
with Hillary Clinton standing up to Putin
about fair and free elections back in
2011. If you remember the protests in
Russia. Vladimir Putin never really got
over that. He pointed a lot of the blame
to Hillary Clinton for speaking up about
that.
STEPHANOPOULOS: Right, and that's
why our intelligence agencies
concluded that at the beginning
.

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 Trump Brings Up Pakistani
Imran Awan During Helsinki Presser (VIDEO)
By Cristina Laila
July 16, 2018, 12:04 Pm

Two weeks ago, the Justice Department charged Imran

Awan of making a false statement on a loan application
and shut down everything related to the Democrat server
scandal.

A House official previously told Circa News that Imran

Awan may have sold information he uploaded to Dropbox
to spies; Awan also remotely accessed the House server
from Pakistan.

Although Imran Awan was not directly working for the

DNC, he may have easily accessed the DNC servers
President Donald Trump and President because he worked for Chairwoman of the DNC, Debbie
Vladimir Putin held a joint press Wasserman Schultz and had access to her laptop.
conference Monday in Helsinki, Finland.
VIDEO:
The President brought up Hillary Clinton’s 33,000 missing
emails, the DNC server and Debbie Wasserman Schultz’s
Pakistani IT staffer, Imran Awan.

“What happened to the server? What

happened to the servers of the Pakistani
gentlemen that worked on the DNC. Where
are those servers?” President Trump
asked. “They’re missing. Where are they?
What happened to Hillary Clinton’s emails?
33,000 emails gone!” Trump continued.

To this day, the FBI has never done a forensic examination

of the DNC server so we have no proof it was even
hacked, and if hacked by whom?

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 Ex-CIA Chief John Brennan Unhinged:
Trump’s Press Conference ‘Exceeds High Crimes And
Misdemeanors, Nothing Short Of Treasonous’
By Cristina Laila
July 16, 2018, 12:34 Pm

The presser was explosive!

Former CIA Director-turned-Twitter-troll, John Brennan

went way off the rails Monday, calling Trump’s presser
with Putin an impeachable offense.

John Brennan tweeted: Donald Trump’s press conference

performance in Helsinki rises to & exceeds the threshold
of “high crimes & misdemeanors.” It was nothing short of
treasonous. Not only were Trump’s comments imbecilic,
he is wholly in the pocket of Putin. Republican Patriots:
Where are you???
President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir
Putin held a joint press conference Monday in Helsinki,
Finland.

The left is losing their minds calling the meeting a

‘Treason Summit.’

President Donald Trump headed into his

first summit with Vladimir Putin on
Monday determined to forge a personal
bond with the Kremlin chief.

Before their meeting President Trump John Brennan was involved in this attempted coup which
lashed out at previous US policy. is why he’s lashing out on his Twitter account.

Trump also slammed the ongoing
Democrat witch hunt of his campaign
and administration.
In fact, Chairman Nunes is currently investigating
whether John Brennan perjured himself in a public
testimony about the dossier.

Then President Trump brought up Hillary Clinton’s 33,000

missing emails, the DNC server and Debbie Wasserman
Schultz’s Pakistani IT staffer, Imran Awan.

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 CNN’s Cooper: Helsinki ‘One Of The
Most Disgraceful Performances By An American President’
By Curtis Houck
July 16, 2018 12:41 PM EDT
Reacting to the late Monday morning joint press
conference (U.S. time) between Donald Trump and
Vladimir Putin, CNN’s Anderson Cooper declared that he
had just witnessed
“perhaps one of the most disgraceful
performances by an American president
at a summit in front of a Russian leader
certainly that I've ever seen” at “[a]n
extraordinary press conference.”
“You have been watching perhaps one
of the most disgraceful performances
by an American president at a summit in
front of a Russian leader certainly that
I've ever seen. An extraordinary press
conference,”
Cooper stated, providing the network’s first reaction to the
presser.
As a reminder, Cooper is a news anchor, not a CNN
contributor, political analyst or commentator. He’ll sure
draw (and did draw) amens from his CNN colleagues, but
that’s not exactly a quote you’d want from someone who’s
job is not to provide analysis but report the news.
Nonetheless, Cooper turned to CNN International and PBS
host Christiane Amanpour and observed that, when asked
by the Associated Press’s Jonathan Lemire about whom he
trusts more on the issue of Russian election meddling,
“he blinked and he went to Hillary
Clinton's e-mail server” plus blamed both
countries for 2016.
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Amanpour responded that “it really was quite
extraordinary actually” and “an incredible statement”
that the President didn’t forcefully condemn what’s
undeniably proven as fact, which is that Russia was behind
the hacking of the DNC and Hillary Clinton’s e-mail
server.
Asked by Cooper if he’s
“ever seen anything like this,”
senior political analyst David Gergen:
GEREGEN: No and it's a struggle to put it
all together, isn’t? And to comprehend what
we've just heard. I've never heard an
American President talk that way, but I
think it's especially true that when he's with
someone like Putin, who is a thug, a world
class thug, that he sides with him again
and again against his own country's
interests, his own institutions that he runs,
that he's in charge of the federal
government, he's in charge of these
intelligence agencies and he basically
dismisses them and he retreats into this —
you know, we've heard this again and
again on an international stage to be
talking about Hillary's server and what
happened and how it was —
COOPER: It's embarrassing.
GERGEN: — campaign. It's embarrassing.
Jim Acosta was locked and loaded to jump in, so he
immediately agreed with Cooper about Trump being an
all-time embarrassment, stating that it “sums it up nicely”
as he correctly asserted that Trump took the word of Putin
over his own country’s intelligence.
Here’s more of Acosta’s long-winded response (emphasis
mine and, again, click “expand” for more):
But I will tell you, it was astonishing,
just astonishing to be in the room with
the U.S. President and with the Russian
President on this critical question of
 election interference and to hear the
President of the United States retreat
back to these talking points about DNC
servers and Hillary Clinton's e-mails when
he had a chance right there in front of
us, right there in front of the world to
confront Vladimir Putin and tell him to
stay the hell out of American
democracy, and he just didn't do it. It
was one of those moments, I think,
obviously we all think this is a very big deal
right now and sometimes these sorts of
things can fade away. But I don't think this
is one of those moments. This is one of
those moments, Anderson, I think really
crystallizes a very critical problem for
the United States right now in that you
have the Prresident, the leader of the
free world, taking the word of Vladimir
Putin who from all accounts inside the
U.S. government, the U.S. intelligence
community, the law enforcement
community, attacked American
democracy in 2016. You know, when
Vladimir Putin was asked whether he
wanted Trump to win, that might have been
the only honest moment of this news
conference when Vladimir Putin said yes,
he did want President Trump to win and
then shortly after that handed him that
soccer ball.
Acosta concluded that Trump and Putin
“came across as play mates on a soccer
field more than they did international
rivals” and thus Trump “very much
yield[ed] the field on this day to Vladimir
Putin.”
For more from Cooper and reaction by The New Yorker’s
Susan Glasser, check out the transcript below.
To see the relevant transcript from CNN’s coverage of the
Helsinki summit on July 16, click “expand.”
CNN’s Trump-Putin summit coverage
July 16, 2018
11:56 a.m. Eastern
ANDERSON COOPER: You have been
watching perhaps one of the most
disgraceful performances by an American
president at a summit in front of a Russian
leader certainly that I've ever seen. An
extraordinary press conference. I'm back
with CNN global affairs analyst Susan
Glasser, CNN senior political analyst David
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Gergen, CNN chief international anchor
Christian Amanpour. Christiane, the
President, given the opportunity, asked by
a reporter — an American reporter who he
trusted on the issue of Russian meddling,
the U.S. intelligence community or Vladimir
Putin, he blinked and he went to Hillary
Clinton's e-mail server. As to who he holds
responsible, he says I hold both countries. I
think we are all to blame. We have a
chance to make some great things. Made
no mention of Georgia, shootdown down of
a Malaysian plane, Crimea, Ukraine, and
election interference. In fact, he went onto
say all he can do is ask the question about
election interference, that Vladimir Putin
was very powerful in his denial of it and the
President went on to say he doesn't see
any reason why it would have been Russia
who interfered in the election.
CHRISTIANE AMANPOUR: I think that
was the nut graph. I don't see any reason
why it would have been Russia hacking
into our election and, as you say, went on
to talk about the server and the 30,000 e-
mails, et cetera and he basically said in
Russia, they would never have let this stuff
happen. I mean it really was quite
extraordinary actually. I thought we were
going to get out of that press conference,
with a minimum of damage and that was
really, really extraordinary as you just said.
And he then said that Putin came up with a
great offer as to how to figure this out,
which of course Putin responded as he
always does with the sort of obfuscation.
Yes, we have a sort of treaty on various
issues, but you have to send us a formal
letter and then we'll respond and then we'll
reciprocate but only in kind. We need to
have people of interest, etc. So it's very
typical Putin response. But that was an
incredible statement.
COOPER: David Gergen, have you ever
seen anything like this?
DAVID GEREGEN: No and it's a struggle
to put it all together, isn’t? And to
comprehend what we've just heard. I've
never heard an American President talk
that way, but I think it's especially true that
when he's with someone like Putin, who is
a thug, a world class thug, that he sides
with him again and again against his own
country's interests, his own institutions that
he runs, that he's in charge of the federal
government, he's in charge of these
intelligence agencies and he basically
dismisses them and he retreats into this —
you know, we've heard this again and
again on an international stage to be
talking about Hillary's server and what
happened and how it was —
COOPER: It's embarrassing.
GERGEN: — campaign. It's embarrassing.
COOPER: I want to go to Jim Acosta,
who's in the room. Jim, your thoughts.
JIM ACOSTA: Yeah, Anderson. I think
what you were just saying there a few
moments ago, I think that sums it up nicely.
I mean, this was the President of the
United States essentially taking the word of
the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, over
his own intelligence community, over his
own law enforcement community on this
critical question of Russian interference in
the 2016 election and I think when Vladimir
Putin was asked that question by Jonathan
Lemire of the Associated Press at the very
end whether or not the Russians had
compromising information on President
Trump, I thought it was very interesting that
Vladimir Putin paused for a few moments,
seeming to understand the question but not
exactly sure how to answer it and there
was some nervous laughter in the room. I
don't know if you could hear that on the
microphones in the room, but there was
some nervous laughter.
It took all of us by surprise. It sounded as if
Vladimir Putin was trying at that point to
come up with a good answer and he didn't
really have one. I thought it was striking,
Anderson, that the Russian president did
offer to allow Robert Mueller's team to
come over Russia to continue his
investigation. I'm not sure that would be
greeted by President Trump, given that that
would probably extend the life of the
Russia investigation. But I will tell you, it
was astonishing, just astonishing to be in
the room with the U.S. President and with
the Russian President on this critical
question of election interference and to
hear the President of the United States
retreat back to these talking points about
DNC servers and Hillary Clinton's e-mails
when he had a chance right there in front of
us, right there in front of the world to
confront Vladimir Putin and tell him to stay
the hell out of American democracy, and he
just didn't do it. It was one of those
moments, I think, obviously we all think this
is a very big deal right now and sometimes
these sorts of things can fade away.
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But I don't think this is one of those
moments. This is one of those moments,
Anderson, I think really crystallizes a very
critical problem for the United States right
now in that you have the Prresident, the
leader of the free world, taking the word of
Vladimir Putin who from all accounts inside
the U.S. government, the U.S. intelligence
community, the law enforcement
community, attacked American democracy
in 2016. You know, when Vladimir Putin
was asked whether he wanted Trump to
win, that might have been the only honest
moment of this news conference when
Vladimir Putin said yes, he did want
President Trump to win and then shortly
after that handed him that soccer ball. They
came across as play mates on a soccer
field more than they did international rivals,
Anderson. The President of the United
States very much yielding the field on this
day to Vladimir Putin. Anderson.
COOPER: Yeah. Susan, have you ever
seen anything like this?
SUSAN GLASSER: You know, it's really —
I think we are going to remember this day
for a long time. Sometimes, there are
indelible images that come out, certainly
George W. Bush talking about Vladimir
Putin's soul. I think this moment is going to
go down with that moment, for me at least,
to hear the President of the United States
attacking Robert Mueller's investigation,
questioning the U.S. intelligence agencies,
the work of his own Justice Department,
while standing literally next to Vladimir
Putin. He called the probe a disaster for our
country as Russia's leader looked on. He
began the summit meeting this morning
with that extraordinary tweet in which he
said that, essentially, the United States is
to blame for the bad state of relations with
Russia, Crimea, and the illegal annexation
of territory in Europe, the first such armed
takeover since the end of World War II was
never mentioned until the very last question
of the campaign — of the press
conference. I think this is one of those
moments where, you know, we heard Rod
Rosenstein on Friday say this is not
partisan, this investigation. Well, President
Trump has made the most partisan press
conference I've ever seen between an
American leader and the leader of Russia.
COOPER: He was tougher on Democrats
and the intelligence community in this
press conference. I mean, he was given
the opportunity by an American reporter to
 just turn to Vladimir Putin and say
something to him about Russia's meddling
in the United States democracy, which is
ongoing, and he refused to do that and
instead, went after Democrats.
GLASSER: This was a worst-case scenario
going into this. You know, many people
were hoping the Hippocratic oath would
apply here of do no harm and the first half
of the press conference the two leaders'
statements made it clear they didn't
actually come out with some grand new
bargain, there were no initiatives that would
cause alarm back on Capitol Hill among
.
Republicans or Democrats and then
President Trump basically exploded all of
that in the second half of the press
conference. And you know, one year ago
his national security advisor wrote an
article in which he said the Russian
election interference was an act of war
against the United States. Well, John
Bolton was in room today at lunch today
with Vladimir Putin. Does he still think that's
an act of war? How can he serve a
President who spoke the way that he did
today?

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Pelosi Freaks Over Trump-Putin Summit – Orders Speaker
Paul Ryan To ‘Stop Protecting President Trump’
By Cristina Laila
July 16, 2018, 1:07 Pm

The presser was explosive!

Former CIA Director-turned-Twitter-troll, John Brennan

went way off the rails and called Trump’s presser with
Putin an impeachable offense.

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi lashed out at

President Trump as well and ordered House Speaker Paul
Ryan to stop protecting the President.

Is Pelosi calling on House Republicans to begin

President Trump held a presser with Russian President
Vladimir Putin Monday in Helsinki, Finland and the left
lost their minds.
Leftists are calling the meeting a ‘Treason Summit.’
impeachment proceedings?
Pelosi tweeted: At the same time, the @HouseGOP has
refused to seriously confront Russia’s threat to our
democracy, instead holding sham hearings designed to
distract from attacks on our elections. @SpeakerRyan, stop
protecting @realDonaldTrump & #ProtectOurDemocracy.
#TrumpPutin

President Trump didn’t hold back; he slammed the

ongoing Democrat witch hunt of his campaign and
administration.

Then President Trump brought up Hillary Clinton’s 33,000

missing emails, the DNC server and Debbie Wasserman
Schultz’s Pakistani IT staffer, Imran Awan.

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 Putin Destroys Deep State – Blows Up
Mueller’s Indictment Of Concord Management
By Jim Hoft
July 16, 2018, 1:36 Pm

posture of the United States. No it does not. Well it’s the

same case. There is the issue of trying a case in the court
and the final say is for the court to deliver. We’re now
talking about the individuals and not about particular
states.

Corrupt Assistant Attorney General Rod Rosenstein

announced on February 16, 2017, that his counterparts in
the corrupt Mueller team had indicted 13 Russian
individuals and three Russian companies for scheme to
interfere in the US political system.
PHOTO: President Donald Trump and Russia’s President Vladimir
Putin shake hands as they meet in Helsinki, Finland, July 16, 2018. The Mueller team later released information on the
(Kevin Lamarque/Reuters) companies and individuals indicted including information
on the activities they participated in during the 2016
Russian President Putin today in his
Presidential election. The Mueller team accused the
press conference with President Donald
Russians of
Trump destroyed the Mueller
investigation. He pointed out numerous
“supporting the presidential campaign of
items, including that he provided the US
then-candidate Donald J. Trump … and
information on the Russian company
disparaging Hillary Clinton.”
Mueller indicted, Concord Management,
and that the courts should decide the
But this was another far left liberal lie. TGP reported that
fate of the Mueller investigation and not
of the events promoted by these Russians, a total of 31
the Deep State.
people attended the Trump rallies while the Hillary rallies
promoted by these Russians brought in 10,100 people
I’d like to add something to this. After all I was an
including big leftist Michael Moore.
intelligence officer myself. And I do know how dossiers
are made up. Just a second. That’s the first thing.
The indictments against Russians have turned into a
courtroom fiasco as the Mueller team made the mistake to
Now the second thing. I believe that Russia is a democratic
include three Russian companies in that indictment. When
state and I hope you’re not denying this right to your own
one of the Russian companies indicted, Concord
country. You’re not denying that the United States a
Management, showed up to court the Mueller team was
democracy. Do you believe the United States is a
totally caught of guard. Mueller’s corrupt legal team led by
democracy? And if so, if it is a democratic state then the
a former Clinton Foundation attorney, asked for more time
final conclusion in this kind of dispute can only be levered
to put together their case in order to come up with support
by trial, by the court, not by the, executed by the law
for their outlandish indictments.Last Friday, dirty cop
enforcement.
Mueller announced through the corrupt and now disgraced
and dishonest Deputy Attorney General (DAG) Rod
For instance the Concord Company that
Rosenstein, that they were indicting another group of
was brought up is being accused of
Russians related to the phony Trump – Russia scandal. No
interference but this company does not
doubt these indictments are phony too.
constitute the Russian state and does
not represent the Russian state and I
Today the President of Russia told the
brought several examples before.
American people that the Mueller
investigation is a farce and Deep State
Well, you have a lot of individuals in the United States,
is corrupt – something the American
take George Soros for instance, with multi billion capitals
MSM will not report.
but it doesn’t make him, his position, his posture, the

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 Trump Spends More Than Two Hours
In 1-1 Closed-Door Meeting With Putin
Saagar Enjeti | White House Correspondent
1:48 PM 07/16/2018

The summit is “off to a very good start,” Trump told

reporters very briefly before they were ushered out of the
room.

Trump first participated in an extended one-on-one

meeting with Putin behind closed doors, accompanied only
by his translator.

“We have a lot of good things to talk about,

President Donald Trump has begun an expanded bilateral and things to talk about. We have
meeting with his staff and Russian President Vladimir discussions on … trade to military to
Putin after a one-on-one meeting that lasted over two missiles to nuclear to China,” Trump said.
hours.
The president continued,

“We have not been getting along very well

for the last number of years … it’s getting
close to two years, but I think we will have
an extraordinary relationship. Getting along
with Russia is a good thing, not a bad
thing.”

He added,

“I really think the world wants to see us get

Trump’saccompanying staff includes U.S. Ambassador to
Russia Jon Huntsman, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo,
Chief of Staff John Kelly, and National Security Advisor
John Bolton, and NSC staffer Fiona Hill.
.
along. We are the two great nuclear
powers. We have 90 percent of the
nuclear; that’s not a good thing, that’s a
bad thing. And I think we hopefully can do
something about that. Because it’s not a
positive force, it’s a negative force.”

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 Transcript Of Trump
And Putin's Joint Press Conference
By Abigail Simon
Updated: July 16, 2018 1:49 PM ET
President Donald Trump met with Russian President
Vladimir Putin today in Helsinki. They gathered one-on-
one, in the presence of only translators, for over two hours
before they were then joined by a group of advisors.
“Our relationship has never been worse
than it is now,” Trump said. “However, that
changed as of about four hours ago. I really
believe that.”
In a joint press conference following their meeting, Trump
and Putin summarized the gist of what they had covered.
They addressed nuclear weapons, as two of the world’s
leading nuclear powers, and the push for denuclearization
in North Korea. They also recounted discussing the
ongoing crisis in Syria, where Russia has been criticized
for supporting President Assad’s regime, and the natural
gas pipeline between Russia and Germany, which Trump
has recently criticized.
On the subject of Russian interference in the U.S.
elections, a topic people are watching closely after special
counsel Robert Mueller indicted 12 Russian intelligence
operatives last week, Putin publicly denied “so-called
interference” allegations.
Read a transcript of the press conference below:
PUTIN (THROUGH TRANSLATOR): Thank you so much. Shall
we start working? I guess.
Distinguished Mr. President, ladies and gentlemen, negotiations
with the president of the United States, Donald Trump, took place
in a frank and business-like atmosphere. I think we can call it a
success and a very fruitful round of negotiations.
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We carefully analyzed the current status, the present and the
future of the Russia-United States relationship, key issues of the
global agenda.
PUTIN (THROUGH TRANSLATOR): It’s quite clear to everyone
that the bilateral relationship are going through a complicated
stage, and yet those impediments, the current tension, the tense
atmosphere, essentially have no solid reason behind it. The Cold
War is a thing of past, the era of acute ideological confrontation
of the two countries is a thing of remote past, is a vestige of the
past. The situation in the world changed dramatically.
Today, both Russia and the United States face a whole new set
of challenges. Those include a dangerous maladjustment of
mechanisms for maintaining international security and stability,
regional crises, the creeping threats of terrorism and
transnational crime, the snowballing problems in the economy,
environmental risks and other sets of challenges.
We can only cope with these challenges if we join ranks and
work together. Hopefully we will reach this understanding with
our American partners.
Today’s negotiations reflected our joint wish — our joint wish with
President Trump to readdress this negative situation in the
bilateral relationship.
I outlined first steps for improving this relationship, to restore the
acceptable level of trust and going back to the previous level of
interaction on all mutual interest issues.
As major nuclear powers, we bear special responsibility for
maintaining international security. (inaudible) vital — and we
mentioned this here in the negotiations — it’s crucial that we fine-
tune the dialogue on strategic stability and global security and
non-proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. We submitted
our American colleagues a note with a number of specific
suggestions.
We believe it necessary to work together further on — to interact
on the disarmament agenda, military and technical cooperation.
This includes the extension of the Strategic Offensive Arms
Limitation Treaty. It’s a dangerous situation with a global
American anti-missile defense system, it’s (ph) the
implementation issues with the INF treaty. And, of course, the
agenda of non-placement of weapons in space.
PUTIN (THROUGH TRANSLATOR): We favor the continued
cooperation in counter-terrorism and maintaining cyber-security.
And I’d like to point out specifically that our special services are
cooperating quite successfully together. The most recent
example is their operational cooperation within the recently
concluded World Football Cup.
In general, the context among the special services should be put
to a system-wide basis — should be brought to a systemic
framework. I recall I reminded President Trump about this
suggestion to re-establish the working group on anti-terrorism.
We also mentioned a plethora of regional crises. It’s not always
that our postures dovetail exactly, and yet the overlapping and
mutual interests abound. We have to look for points of contact
and interact closer in a variety of international forum.
Clearly, we mentioned the regional crisis, for instance Syria. As
far as Syria is concerned, the task of establishing peace and
reconciliation in this country could be the first showcase example
of the successful joint work.
Russia and the United States apparently can act proactively and
take considerable leadership on this issue, and organize the
interaction to overcome humanitarian crisis and help Syrian
refugees to go back to their homes.
PUTIN (THROUGH TRANSLATOR): In order to accomplish this
level of successful cooperation in Syria, we have all the required
components. Let me remind you of that.
Both Russian and American military have acquired the useful
experience of coordination of their action, established the
operational channels of communication which permit it to avoid
dangerous incidents and unintentional collisions in the air and in
the ground.
Also crushing (ph) terrorists in the southwest of Syria. The south
of Syria should be brought to the full compliance with the treaty of
1974, about the separation of forces — about separation of
forces of Israel and Syria. This will bring peace to Golan Heights,
and bring more peaceful relationship between Syria and Israel,
and also to provide security of the state of Israel.
Mr. President paid special attention to the issue during today’s
negotiations. And I would like to confirm that Russia is interested
in this development and will act accordingly.
Thus far, we will make a step toward creating a lasting peace in
compliance with the respective resolutions of Security Council,
for instance, the Resolution 338.
We are glad that the Korean Peninsula issue is starting to
resolve. To a great extent, it was possible thanks to the personal
engagement of President Trump, who opted for dialogue instead
of confrontation.
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We also mentioned our concern about the withdrawal of the
United States from the JCPOA. Well, the U.S. — our U.S.
counterparts are aware of our posture.
Let me remind you that thanks to the Iranian nuclear deal, Iran
became the most controlled country in the world. It submitted to
the control of IAEA. It effectively ensured the exclusively peaceful
nature of Iranian nuclear program and strengthened the
nonproliferation regime.
While we discussed the internal Ukrainian crisis, we paid special
attention to the bona fide implementation of Minsk Agreements
by Kiev. At the same time, United States could be more decisive
in nudging the Ukrainian leadership, and encourage it to work
actively on this.
We paid more attention to economic ties and economic
cooperation. It’s clear that both countries — the business of both
countries are interested in this.
American delegation was one of the largest delegations in the St.
Petersburg Economic Forum. It featured over 500
representatives from American businesses.
We agreed — me and President Trump — we agreed to create a
high-level working group that would bring together captains of
Russian and American business. After all, entrepreneurs and
businessmen know better how to articulate this successful
business cooperation. We’ll let them think and make their
proposals and suggestions in this regard.
Once again, President Trump mentioned the issue of the so-
called interference of Russia with the American elections, and I
had to reiterate things I said several times, including during our
personal contacts, that the Russian state has never interfered
and is not going to interfere into internal American affairs,
including election process.
PUTIN (THROUGH TRANSLATOR): Any specific material — if
such things arise — we are ready to analyze together. For
instance, we can analyze them through the joint working group
on cyber-security, the establishment of which we discussed
during our previous contacts.
And clearly, it’s past time we restore our cooperation in the
cultural area and the humanitarian area.
As far as — I think you know that recently we hosted the
American Congressman Delegation, and now it’s perceived and
portrayed almost as a historic event, while — although it should
have been just a current affairs, just business as usual. And in
this regard, we mentioned this proposal to the president, we have
to think about practicalities of our cooperation, but also about the
rationality of the underlying logic of it.
And we have to engage experts on bilateral relationship who
know history and the background of our relationship. The idea is
to create an expert council that would include political scientists,
prominent diplomats and former military experts from both
countries who would look for points of contact between the two
countries and would look for ways on putting the relationship on
the trajectory of growth.
In general, we are glad with the outcome of our first full-scale
meeting, because previously we only had a chance to talk briefly
on international fora. We had a good conversation with President
Trump, and I hope that we start to understand each other better.
And I’m grateful to Donald for it.
Clearly there are some challenges left when we were not able to
clear all the backlog, but I think that we made the first important
step in this direction.
And in conclusion, I want to point out that this atmosphere of
cooperation is something that we are especially grateful for to our
Finnish hosts. We are grateful for Finnish people and Finnish
leadership for what they’ve done. I know that we’ve caused some
inconvenience to Finland and we apologize for it.
Thank you for your attention.
TRUMP: Thank you very much.
Thank you.
I have just concluded a meeting with President Putin on a wide
range of critical issues for both of our countries. We had direct,
open, deeply productive dialogue. Went very well.
Before I begin, I want to thank President Niinisto of Finland for
graciously hosting today’s summit. President Putin and I were
saying how lovely it was and what a great job they did.
I also want to congratulate Russia and President Putin for having
done such an excellent job in hosting the World Cup. It was really
one of the best ever. And your team also did very well. It was a
great job.
I’m here today to continue the proud tradition of bold American
diplomacy. From the earliest days of our republic, American
leaders have understood that diplomacy and engagement is
preferable to conflict and hostility.
A productive dialogue is not only good for the United States and
good for Russia, but it is good for the world.
The disagreements between our two countries are well known
and President Putin and I discussed them at length today. But if
we’re going to solve many of the problems facing our world, then
we’re going to have to find ways to cooperate in pursuit of shared
interests.
TRUMP: Too often, in both recent past and long ago, we have
seen the consequences when diplomacy is left on the table.
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We’ve also seen the benefits of cooperation. In the last century,
our nations fought alongside one another in the Second World
War. Even during the tensions of the Cold War, when the world
looked much different than it does today, the United States and
Russia were able to maintain a strong dialogue.
But our relationship has never been worse than it is now.
However, that changed as of about four hours ago. I really
believe that.
Nothing would be easier politically than to refuse to meet, to
refuse to engage, but that would not accomplish anything.
As president, I cannot make decisions on foreign policy in a futile
effort to appease partisan critics, or the media, or Democrats who
want to do nothing but resist and obstruct.
Constructive dialogue between the United States and Russia
affords the opportunity to open new pathways toward peace and
stability in our world. I would rather take a political risk in pursuit
of peace than to risk peace in pursuit of politics. As president, I
will always put (sic) what is best for America and what is best for
the American people.
During today’s meeting, I addressed directly with President Putin
the issue of Russian interference in our elections. I felt this was a
message best delivered in person. Spent a great deal of time
talking about it. And President Putin may very well want to
address it, and very strongly, because he feels very strongly
about it, and he has an interesting idea.
We also discussed one of the most critical challenges facing
humanity: nuclear proliferation. I provided an update on my
meeting last month with Chairman Kim on the denuclearization of
North Korea. And after today, I am very sure that President Putin
and Russia want very much to end that problem, going to work
with us. And I appreciate that commitment.
The president and I also discussed the scourge of radical Islamic
terrorism. Both Russia and the United States has suffered horrific
terrorist attacks, and we have agreed to maintain open
communication between our security agencies to protect our
citizens from this global menace.
Last year, we told Russia about a planned attack in St.
Petersburg, and they were able to stop it cold. They found them.
They stopped them. There was no doubt about it. I appreciated
President Putin’s phone call afterwards to thank me.
I also emphasized the importance of placing pressure on Iran to
halt its nuclear ambitions, and to stop its campaign of violence
throughout the area, throughout the Middle East.
As we discussed at length, the crisis in Syria is a complex one.
Cooperation between our two countries has the potential to save
hundreds of thousands of lives.
I also made clear that the United States will not allow Iran to
benefit from our successful campaign against ISIS. We have just
about eradicated ISIS in the area.
TRUMP: We also agreed that representatives from our national
security councils will meet to follow up on all of the issues we
addressed today, and to continue the progress we have started
right here in Helsinki.
Today’s meeting is only the beginning of a longer process, but
we have taken the first step toward a brighter future and one with
a strong dialogue and a lot of thought.
Our expectations are grounded in realism, but our hopes are
grounded in America’s desire for friendship, cooperation and
peace. And I think I can speak on behalf of Russia, when I say
that, also.
President Putin, I want to thank you again for joining me for these
important discussions and for advancing open dialogue between
Russia and the United States. Our meeting carries on a long
tradition of diplomacy between Russia, the United States, for the
greater good of all. And this was a very constructive day, this was
a very constructive few hours that we spent together.
It’s in the interest of both of our countries to continue our
conversation, and we have agreed to do so. I’m sure we’ll be
meeting again in the future often, and hopefully we will solve
every one of the problems that we discussed today.
So again, President Putin, thank you very much.
STAFF (THROUGH TRANSLATOR): Distinguished presidents,
now the journalists would have a chance to ask two questions,
two sets of questions each. First the Russian journalist will ask
the question.
Please give your affiliation.
QUESTION (THROUGH TRANSLATOR): Good afternoon, my
name is Alex Amashkov (ph), Interfax Information Agency. I have
a question to President Trump.
During your recent European tour, you mentioned that
implementation of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline makes Europe
a hostage of Russia, and you suggested that you could free
Europe from this by supplying American LNG.
But this cold winter actually showed that the current modal —
current mechanism of supply of fuel to Europe is quite viable. At
the same time, as far as I know, U.S. had to buy even Russian
gas for Boston.
I have a question: The implementation of your idea has a political
tinge to it or is it a practical one? Because there will be a gap
formed in the supply-and-demand mechanism and the first is the
consuming countries who will fall into this gap.
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And the second question, before the meeting with President
Putin, you called him an adversary, a rival, and yet you
expressed hope that you will be able to bring this relationship to a
new level. Did you manage to do this?
TRUMP: Well, actually I called him a competitor. And a good
competitor he is. And I think the word “competitor” is a
compliment.
I think that we will be completing when you talk about the
pipeline. I’m not sure, necessarily, that it’s in the best interests of
Germany or not, but that was a decision that they made. We’ll be
competing — as you know, the United States is now — or soon
will be, but I think it actually is right now the largest in the oil and
gas world.
So we’re going to be selling LNG, and we’ll have to be competing
with the pipeline and I think will compete successfully, although
there is a little advantage locationally.
So I just wish them luck. I mean, I did. I discussed with Angela
Merkel in pretty strong tones. But I also know where they’re all
coming from and they have a very close source. So we’ll see how
that all works out.
TRUMP: But we have lots of sources now and the United States
is much different than it was a number of years ago when we
weren’t unable to extract what we could extract today. So today
we’re number one in the world at that, and I think we’ll be out
there competing very strongly.
Thank you very much.
PUTIN (THROUGH TRANSLATOR): If I may, I’d throw in some
two cents.
We talked to Mr. President, including this subject as well.
We are aware of the stance of President Trump, and I think that
we, as a major oil and gas power, and the United States as a
major oil and gas power as well, we could work together on
regulation of international markets, because neither of us is
actually interested in the plummeting of the prices. And the
consumers will suffer as well, and the consumers in the United
States will suffer as well. And the shale gas production will suffer.
Because beyond a sudden price breakup (ph), it’s no longer
profitable to — to produce gas.
But nor we are interested in driving prices up, because it will
drain just as — just as from all other sectors of the economy,
from (inaudible) building (ph), et cetera. So we do have space for
cooperation here. That’s the first thing.
Then about the Nord Stream 2, Mr. President voiced his
concerns about the possibility of disappearance of transit through
Ukraine. And I reassured Mr. President that Russia stands ready
to maintain this transit. Moreover, we stand ready to extend this
transit contract that’s about to expire next year in case — if the
dispute between the economic entitles — dispute will be settled
in the Stockholm arbitration court.
STAFF: (OFF-MIKE) goes to Jeff Mason from Reuters.
QUESTION: Thank you.
Mr. President, you tweeted this morning that it’s U.S. foolishness,
stupidity and the Mueller probe that is responsible for the decline
in U.S. relations with Russia.
Do you hold Russia at all accountable for anything in particular?
And if so, what would you — what would you consider them —
that they are responsible for?
TRUMP: Yes I do. I hold both countries responsible.
I think that the United States has been foolish. I think we’ve all
been foolish. We should’ve had this dialogue a long time ago; a
long time, frankly, before I got to office.
And I think we’re all to blame. I think that the United States now
has stepped forward along with Russia, and we’re getting
together and we have a chance to do some great things, whether
it’s nuclear proliferation in terms of stopping — you have to do it,
ultimately that’s probably the most important thing that we could
be working on.
But I do feel that we have both made some mistakes. I think that
the — the probe is a disaster for our country. I think it’s kept us
apart, it’s kept us separated.
There was no collusion at all. Everybody knows it. And people
are being brought out to the fore (ph). So far that I know, virtually
none of it related to the campaign. And they’re going to have to
try really hard to find somebody that did relate to the campaign.
That was a clean campaign. I beat Hillary Clinton easily. And,
frankly, we beat her — and I’m not even saying from the
standpoint — we won that race. And it’s a shame that there could
even be a little bit of a cloud over it. People know that, people
understand it. But the main thing — and we discussed this also
— zero collusion.
And it has had a negative impact upon the relationship of the two
largest nuclear powers in the world. We have 90 percent of
nuclear power between the two countries.
It’s ridiculous. It’s ridiculous what’s going on with the probe.
QUESTION: For President Putin, if I could follow up as well, why
should Americans and why should President Trump believe your
statement that Russia did not intervene in the 2016 election,
given the evidence that U.S. intelligence agencies have
provided?
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And will you consider extraditing the 12 Russian officials that
were indicted last week by a U.S. grand jury?
TRUMP: Well, I’m going to let the president answer the second
part of that question.
But, as you know, the whole concept of that came up perhaps a
little bit before, but it came out as a reason why the Democrats
lost an election which, frankly, they should have been able to win,
because the Electoral College is much more advantageous for
Democrats, as you know, than it is to Republicans.
We won the Electoral College by a lot: 306 to 223, I believe. And
that was a well-fought — that was a well-fought battle. We did a
great job.
And, frankly — I’m going to let the president speak to the second
part of your question — but just to say it one time again — and I
say it all the time — there was no collusion. I didn’t know the
president. There was nobody to collude with. There was no
collusion with the campaign.
And every time you hear all of these, you know, 12 and 14 — it’s
stuff that has nothing to do — and, frankly, they admit these are
not people involved in the campaign.
But to the average reader out there, they’re saying, “Well, maybe
that does.” It doesn’t.
And even the people involved, some, perhaps, told mis-stories
(ph). Or, in one case, the FBI said there was no lying. There was
no lying. Somebody else said there was.
We ran a brilliant campaign, and that’s why I’m president.
Thank you.
PUTIN (THROUGH TRANSLATOR): As to who is to be believed
and to who’s not to be believed, you can trust no one if you take
this.
Where did you get this idea that President Trump trusts me or I
trust him? He defends the interests of the United States of
America, and I do defend the interests of the Russian Federation.
We do have interests that are common. We are looking for points
of contact. There are issues where our postures diverge, and we
are looking for ways to reconcile our differences, how to make
our effort more meaningful.
We should not proceed from the immediate political interests that
guide certain political powers in our countries. We should be
guided by facts.
Could you name a single fact that would definitely prove the
collusion? This is utter nonsense, just like the president recently
mentioned.
Yes, the public at large in the United States had a certain
perceived opinion of the candidates during the campaign. But
there’s nothing particularly extraordinary about it. That’s the usual
thing.
President Trump, when he was a candidate, he mentioned the
need to restore the Russia-U.S. relationship. And it’s clear that
certain parts of American society felt sympathetic about it, and
different people could express their sympathies (ph) in different
ways.
But isn’t that natural? Isn’t it natural to be sympathetic towards a
person who is willing to restore the relationship with our country,
who wants to work with us?
We heard the accusations about a conquered (ph) country. Well,
as far as I know, this company hired American lawyers and the
accusations doesn’t have a fighting change in the American
courts.
So there’s no evidence when it comes to the actual facts. So we
have to be guided by facts and not by rumors.
Now let’s get back to the issue of these 12 alleged intelligence
officers of — of Russia.
PUTIN (THROUGH TRANSLATOR): I don’t know the full extent
of the situation, but President Trump mentioned this issue and I
will look into it. So far, I can say the following things off the top of
my head.
We have enacting (sic) an existing agreement between the
United States of America and the Russian Federation, an existing
treaty that dates back to 1999. The Mutual Assistance on
Criminal Cases. This treaty is in full effect. It works quite
efficiently.
On average, we initiate about 100, 150 criminal cases upon
request from foreign states. For instance, the last year there was
one extradition case upon the request sent by the United States.
So this treaty has specific legal procedures we can offer the
appropriate commission headed by Special Attorney Mueller. He
can use this treaty as a solid foundation and send a formal — an
official request to us so that we would interrogate — we want to
hold a questioning of these individuals who he believes are privy
to some crimes. And our law enforcement are perfectly able to do
this questioning and send the appropriate materials to the United
States.
Moreover, we can meet you halfway. We can make another step.
We can actually permit official representatives of the United
States, including the members of this very commission headed
by Mr. Mueller — we can let them into the country and they will
be present at this questioning.
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But in this case, there is a — there’s another condition. This kind
of effort should be a mutual one. Then we would expect that the
Americans would reciprocate, and that they would question
officials, including the officers of law enforcement and intelligence
service of the United States, whom we believe are — who have
something to do with illegal actions on the territory of Russia, and
we have to — to request the presence of our law enforcement.
For instance, we can bring up the Mr. Browder in this particular
case. Business associates of Mr. Browder have earned over $1.5
billion in Russia. They never paid any taxes, neither in Russia nor
in the United States, and yet the money escaped the country.
They were transferred to the United States. They sent huge
amount of money, $400 million as a contribution to the campaign
of Hillary Clinton. Well, that’s the personal case. It might have
been legal, the contribution itself, but the way the money was
earned was illegal.
So we have a solid reason to believe that some intelligence
officers accompanied and guided these transactions. So we have
a — an interest of questioning them. We can all — that — that
could be a first step, and we can also extend it. Options abound,
and they all can be found in an appropriate legal framework.
STAFF: (OFF-MIKE)
QUESTION: And did you direct any of your officials to help him
do that?
PUTIN: (THROUGH TRANSLATOR) Yes, I did. Yes, I did.
Because he talked about bringing the U.S.-Russia relationship
back to normal.
STAFF (THROUGH TRANSLATOR): I think there can be three
questions from the Russian pool.
Russia Today, you have the floor.
QUESTION (THROUGH TRANSLATOR): Thank you so much.
Good evening to everyone. My name is Ilya Petrenko, RT TV
channel.
(UNTRANSLATED) in English.
Mr. President, would you please go into the details of possibly
any specific arrangements for the U.S. to work together with
Russia in Syria, if any of these kind of arrangements were made
today or discussed?
(THROUGH TRANSLATOR): And my question to President Putin
in Russian.
Since we — we brought up the issue of football several times, I
ask — use the football language.
Mr. Pompeo mentioned that when we talk about the Syrian
cooperation, the ball is in the Syrian court. Mr. Putin — in the
Russian court — is it true? And how would you use this fact, the
— the — having the ball?
TRUMP: Well, I guess I’ll answer the first part of the question.
We’ve worked with Israel long and hard for many years, many
decades. I think we’ve never — never has anyone, any country
been closer than we are.
President Putin also is helping Israel. And we both spoke with
Bibi Netanyahu, and they would like to do certain things with
respect to Syria, having to do with the safety of Israel.
So in that respect, we absolutely would like to work in order to
help Israel. And Israel would be working with us. So both
countries would work jointly.
And I think that when you look at all of the progress that’s been
made in certain sections, with the eradication of ISIS, we’re about
98 percent, 99 percent there. And other things that have taken
place that we’ve done, and that, frankly, Russia has helped us
with in certain respects.
But I think that working with Israel is a great thing. And creating
safety for Israel is something that both President Putin and I
would like to see very much.
One little thing I might add to that is the helping of people.
Helping of people. Because you have such horrible — if you see
— and I’ve seen reports, I’ve seen pictures, I’ve seen just about
everything.
And if we can do something to help the people of Syria get back
into some form of shelter, and — on a humanitarian basis — and
that’s what the word was, really, a humanitarian basis — I think
that both of us would be very interested in doing that. And we
are. We will do that. OK?
Thank you very much.
QUESTION: Excuse me, but for now, no specific agreements, for
instance, between the militaries…
TRUMP: Well, our militaries do get along. In fact, our militaries
actually have gotten along probably better than our political
leaders, for years.
But our militaries do get along very well, and they do coordinate
in Syria and other places. OK?
Thank you.
PUTIN (THROUGH TRANSLATOR): Yes. We did mention this.
We mentioned the humanitarian track of this issue.
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Yesterday, I discussed this with French President Mr. Macron.
And we reached an agreement that, together with European
countries including France, we will step up this effort. On our
behalf, we provide military cargo aircraft to deliver the
humanitarian cargo.
And today, I brought up this issue with President Trump. I think
there is plenty of things to — to look into.
The crucial thing here is that a huge amount of refugees are in
Turkey, in Lebanon, in Jordan, in the states that border — are
adjacent to Syria.
PUTIN (THROUGH TRANSLATOR): If we help — help them, the
migratory pressure upon the European states will drop — will be
decreased many-fold. And I believe it’s crucial from any point of
view, from humanitarian point of view, from the point of view of —
of helping people, helping the refugees and in general.
I agree, I concur with President Trump, our military cooperate
quite successfully together. They do get along and I hope they
will be able to do so in future. And we will keep working in the
Astana format — I mean Russia, Turkey and Iran, which I
informed President Trump about.
But we do stand ready to link this effort through the so-called
small group of states so that the process would be a broader
one, it would be a multidimensional one, and so that we will be
able to maximize our fighting chance to get the ultimate success
in the issue of Syria.
And speaking about the — having the ball in our court in Syria,
President Trump has just mentioned that we’ve successfully
completed the World Football Cup. Speaking of the football
actually, Mr. President, I’ll give this ball to you and now the ball is
in your court. All the more that the United States will host the
World Cup in 2026.
TRUMP: Thank you very much. We do host it and we hope we
do as good a job.
That’s very nice. That will go to my son Barron. We have no
question. In fact (ph), Melania, here you go.
(LAUGHTER)
OK.
STAFF: Final question from the United States will go to Jonathan
Lemire from the AP.
QUESTION: Thank you.
A question for each president; President Trump, you first.
Just now, President Putin denied having anything to do with the
election interference in 2016. Every U.S. intelligence agency has
concluded that Russia did.
What — who — my first question for you, sir, is who do you
believe?
My second question is would you now, with the whole world
watching, tell President Putin, would you denounce what
happened in 2016 and would you warn him to never do it again?
TRUMP: So let me just say that we have two thoughts. You have
groups that are wondering why the FBI never took the server —
haven’t they taken the server. Why was the FBI told to leave the
office of the Democratic National Committee?
I’ve been wondering that, I’ve been asking that for months and
months and I’ve been tweeting it out and calling it out on social
media. Where is the server? I want to know where is the server
and what is the server saying?
With that being said, all I can do is ask the question. My people
came to me, Dan Coates came to me and some others, they said
they think it’s Russia. I have President Putin; he just said it’s not
Russia.
I will say this: I don’t see any reason why it would be. But I really
do want to see the server.
But I have — I have confidence in both parties. I — I really
believe that this will probably go on for a while, but I don’t think it
can go on without finding out what happened to the server. What
happened to the servers of the Pakistani gentleman that worked
on the DNC? Where are those servers? They’re missing; where
are they? What happened to Hillary Clinton’s e-mails? 33,000 e-
mails gone — just gone. I think in Russia they wouldn’t be gone
so easily. I think it’s a disgrace that we can’t get Hillary Clinton’s
33,000 e-mails.
TRUMP: So I have great confidence in my intelligence people,
but I will tell you that President Putin was extremely strong and
powerful in his denial today.
And what he did is an incredible offer. He offered to have the
people working on the case come and work with their
investigators with respect to the 12 people. I think that’s an
incredible offer. OK?
Thank you.
PUTIN: Mr. President?
TRUMP: Yes, please.
PUTIN (THROUGH TRANSLATOR): I’d like to add something to
this.
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After all, I was a intelligence officer myself, and I do know how
dossiers are made up. Just a — just a second. That’s the first
thing.
Now the second thing: I believe that Russia is a democratic state,
and I hope you are not denying this right to your own country,
you’re not denying that United States is a democracy. Do you
believe United States is a democracy? And if so, if it is a
democratic state, then the final conclusion in this kind of a
dispute can only be delivered by a trial, by the court, not by the
executive, by the law enforcement.
For instance, the Concord company that was brought up is being
accused, it’s been accused of interference. But this company
does not constitute the Russian state. It does not represent the
Russian state. And I brought several examples before.
Well, you have a lot of individuals in the United States — take
George Soros, for instance — with multibillion in capital, but does
it make him — his position, his posture the posture of the United
States? No, it does not. Well, it’s the same case.
There is the issue of trying a case in the court, and the final —
the — the final say is for the court to deliver.
We are now talking about the private — the — the individuals,
not about particular states. And as far as the most recent
allegation is concerned, about the Russian intelligence officers,
we do have an intergovernmental treaty. Please do send us the
request. We will analyze it properly, and we’ll send a formal
response.
And as I said, we can extend this cooperation, but we should do
it on a reciprocal basis, because we would await (ph) our
Russian counterparts to provide us access to the persons of
interest for us who — who we believe can have something to do
with the intelligence services.
Let’s discuss the specific issues, and not use the Russia and the
U.S. relationship as a loose change — the loose change for this
internal political struggle.
STAFF: (OFF-MIKE)
QUESTION: A question for President — for President Putin.
Thank you. Two questions for you, sir.
Can you tell me what President Trump may have indicated to you
about officially recognizing Crimea as part of Russia?
And then secondly, sir, do you, does the Russian government
have any compromising material on President Trump or his
family?
(LAUGHTER)
PUTIN (THROUGH TRANSLATOR): President Trump and — level ones. I don’t even remember the last names of each and
well, posture of President Trump on Crimea is well known, and every one of them. Well, do you remember — do you think that
he stands firmly by it. He continued to maintain that it was illegal we try to collect compromising material on each and every single
to annex it. one of them?

Our viewpoint is different. We held a referendum in strict Well, it’s difficult to imagine an utter nonsense of a bigger scale
compliance with the U.N. charter and the international legislation. than this.
For us, this issue — we put paid to this issue.
Well, please, just disregard these issues and don’t think about
PUTIN (THROUGH TRANSLATOR): And now, to the this anymore again.
compromising material. Yeah, I did hear these rumors that we
allegedly collected compromising material on Mr. Trump when he STAFF: (OFF-MIKE)
was visiting Moscow. Well, distinguished colleague, let me tell
you this: When President Trump was at Moscow back then, I
TRUMP: It would have been out long ago. And if anybody
didn’t even know that he was in Moscow. I treat President Trump
watched Peter Strzok testify over the last couple of days — and I
with utmost respect, but back then when he was a private
was in Brussels watching it — it was a disgrace to the FBI, it was
individual, a businessman, nobody informed me that he was in
a disgrace to our country, and you would say that was a total
Moscow.
witch hunt.

Well, let’s take St. Petersburg Economic Forum, for instance.

Thank you very much, everybody. Thank you.
There were over 500 American businessmen, high-ranking, high-
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 Foreign Policy Expert Ted Malloch:
Here Are The Two Realities From The
Trump-Putin Talks
By Jim Hoft
July 16, 2018, 2:07 Pm

The US is a superpower, alone in the world. Russia, by

contrast, is a middle-power aspiring to be greater.
Militarily the US is far stronger than Russia, has bases
around the world and is also far superior technologically. It
also has a robust alliance of allies, which Russia lacks.
Legally, institutionally, and freedom-wise, the US is in a
league far beyond Russia. The US is a vibrant democracy,
Russia is not. Economically the US is fifteen times larger
than Russia and Russia has been declining. The US ranks
far above Russia in education, technology, and intellectual
capital and is and remains – unsurpassed as the leader of
the free world.

#2 Russia has a complex.

Just after high noon on July 16th in historic Helsinki,
Finland, a meeting (not a summit) between the Presidents After its loss in the Cold War, under Putin, Russia has just
of the United States and Russia took place to repair what two but related goals.
some have called the “worst relations” between the two
countries ever. (Putin was an hour late; this is a diplomatic The first is to be respected as a proud nation, rooted in a
technique equivalent to icing the kicker in football!) long history as an important European power and as a
superpower.
President Trump blamed the “foolishness” of past US
administrations, particularly Obama’s, for the deplorable The country still has significant military might with
and dangerous state of current affairs with Russia. Down nuclear weapons, a thriving navy, and many troops.
playing expectations in advance, Trump said, he had “low
expectations” for the meeting, while the MSM media With 1 million active military and 2 million reserves,
castigated him for even holding such a session at all, Russia is a formidable fighting force.
condemning Trump for his supposed collusion and failure
to be “tougher” on Russia. Damned if you do, damned if The Commander in Chief is the Russian President.
you don’t, Trump strode confidently into the Finnish
Palace.
The navy consists of 4 fleets and a standing flotilla that
include nuclear submarines.
The results of the leaders time revolved around five items
that truthfully deserve more time and attention to detail
Some 1,765 deployed nuclear strategic warheads and
and an on-going structured working dialogue. They
another 2,700 non-deployed strategic warheads are ready
include: the extension of the START Treaty on nuclear
weapons after 2012; the end of the Syrian civil war; the for fire. Another 2,510 warheads are available but under
dismantlement.
annexation of Crimea; the hot violence in eastern Ukraine;
and, the “meddling” in US and other elections. All these
issues were discussed and Trump added one more, China Russia spends some $70 billion a year on its military
and by implication North Korean denuclearization. budget, a 20-fold increase in the last decade.

Through it all Trump made it abundantly clear that two The second goal is at times obscured and at others
realities color US thinking about Russia. ‘weaponized’ in an information war and not so secret
diplomatic and counter “active measures.”
#1 Russia is weak.
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That goal is simply: the demise of the West.
Moscow wants a reversal of the historical process begun in
1989 when Eastern and Central Europe peacefully
reclaimed freedom and eventually brought down the Soviet
empire.
As one pundit put it, “Shorn of Marxism-Leninism, the
Kremlin today is driven by a ideologically versatile
illiberalism willing to work with any political faction
amenable to its revisionist aims.”
Russia wants to reset the trans-Atlantic Alliance using
destabilizing efforts. Exploiting every crisis, Russia
exacerbates nearly every situation by its maligning
intentions.
Fomenting disintegration, its motives revolve around
predatory strategies to divide and conquer.
Using aggression and subversion, Russia no longer has to
depend on the deployment of the Red Army on its western
flank. The Communist ideology, equally, has no sway and
is out of fashion.
This means Russia meddles constantly to incite confusion
and the demise of Western governments and societies.
The plan is to supplant the West and achieve a restoration
of Russian power and influence because of its deep-seated
inferiority complex.
The meeting in Helsinki was not the huge breakthrough or
a disaster that many of Trump’s opponents had declared in
advance. It was instead a pragmatic entrepreneurial dose of
realism about the need for serious relations with Russia,
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where it is; and who it is. It offered ‘constructive dialogue’
as a way forward.
Trump, as always, put his own spin on the situation and
upset the global elite with his America First approach to
foreign relations. He called the meetings frank and fruitful
and very future oriented around facing up to new
challenges. Putin himself said, “The Cold War is over. `’
They both seemed desirous to jointly rebuild the bilateral
relationship around mutual interests.
Trump in a prepared opening statement said “diplomacy is
preferable” and that new pathways to improve stability
were tabled today.
The questions from reporters from both sides yielded
interesting replies on matters ranging from oil and gas
markets and supply to Russian accountability and on
collusion. Putin said Russia would allow Mueller’s team to
come and interview the intelligence agents they have
indicted using an existing treaty to do so. The leaders shed
light on Syria and said they want to help Israel and aid
humanitarian efforts.
In a football handoff, Putin gave Trump a soccer ball from
the World Cup and said, “the ball is now in your court.”
The most amazing part of the summitry however has been
the completely biased, vengeful CNN coverage. They
called it in conclusion, “the most disgraceful performance
by a US president ever.”
Acosta, Gergen, Cooper, Cuomo, Ammanpour — all
literally mugged the President for lacking so-called
western values and exhibited unprecedented anti-
Trumpism. They complained repeatedly about the survival
of the present order, i.e., the globalism that Trump is
eroding right in front of their very eyes!
BREAKING: Russian National Mariia Butina Arrested By
Deep State DOJ — “Conspiracy To Act As Russian Agent”
(On Day Of Trump-Putin Meeting)
By Cristina Laila
July 16, 2018, 2:23 Pm
McClatchy reported:
BREAKING NEWS.
On Monday, the DOJ announced the arrest of Russian
National Mariia Butina, age 29, for “infiltrating
organizations having influence in American politics, for
the purpose of advancing the interests of the Russian
Federation.”
Mariia Butina was arrested on Sunday.
Market Watch reported:
The Justice Department charged a Russian
national with conspiracy to act as an agent
of the Russian Federation within the United
States without prior notification. Mariia
Butina, 29, who lives in Washington, D.C.,
was arrested on Sunday and charged with
developing relationships with U.S. persons
and infiltrating organizations having
influence in American politics, for the
purpose of advancing the interests of the
Russian Federation. Butina ran a Russian
pro-gun group that was investigated over
whether it helped funnel money to
President Donald Trump via the National
Rifle Association, according to a McClatchy
report.
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On July 2nd, it was reported dirty cop
Robert Mueller likely acquired the NRA’s
tax filings as his never ending witch hunt
continues to expand.
For months, the National Rifle Association
has had a stock answer to queries about
an investigation into whether Russian
money was funneled to the gun rights
group to aid Donald Trump’s presidential
campaign.
The NRA, which spent $30 million-plus
backing Trump’s bid, has heard nothing
from the FBI or any other law enforcement
agency, spokesman Andrew Arulanandam
reiterated in an email the other day.
Legal experts, though, say there’s an easy
explanation for that. They say it would be
routine for Justice Department Special
Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigators,
who are looking at the NRA’s funding as
part of a broader inquiry into Russian
meddling in the 2016 U.S. elections, to
secretly gain access to the NRA’s tax
returns from the Internal Revenue Service.
On the returns, the group was required to
identify its so-called “dark money” donors
— companies and wealthy individuals who
financed $21 million of the group’s publicly
disclosed pro-Trump spending, as well as
its multimillion-dollar efforts to heighten
voter turnout. The NRA’s nonprofit status
allows it to shield those donors’ names
from the public, but not the IRS.
Dirty Cop Robert Mueller has now
collected information from Trump
donors, the RNC, all of the Trump
Campaign officials, Trump businesses,
Erik Prince and Blackwater, and now the
NRA.
 When does Mueller and Rosenstein get
arrested?

Here is the press release.

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 Mueller Spox “Declines To Comment” On Putin’s Offer
For Mueller To Send Reps To Russia To Observe
Questioning Of Indicted Military Officers
By Cristina Laila
July 16, 2018, 2:55 Pm

Watch Putin offer for Mueller to send

representatives to Russia to observe the
questioning of their military intel
officers indicted by the Special Counsel:

President Trump held a presser with Russian President

Vladimir Putin Monday in Helsinki, Finland and the left
lost their minds.

Leftists are calling the meeting a ‘Treason Summit.’

President Trump didn’t hold back; he slammed the

Mueller’s spokesman responded to Putin’s offer on
ongoing Democrat witch hunt of his campaign and
Monday and said the Office of Special Counsel will
administration.
“decline to comment.”
Then President Trump brought up Hillary Clinton’s 33,000
missing emails, the DNC server and Debbie Wasserman
Schultz’s Pakistani IT staffer, Imran Awan.

The presser was explosive!

Russian President Vladimir Putin today in his press

conference with President Donald Trump destroyed the
Mueller investigation.

Putin said in Monday’s presser that the Russian Federation

has an existing treaty with the United States dating back to
1999 which quite efficiently, mutually assists on criminal
cases.
The Russian president offered transparency following
Mueller’s indictment of 12 Russian military officers.
Of course Mueller isn’t interested in the truth. His latest
indictment was another PR stunt in an effort to undermine
President Trump and to justify the Special Counsel witch
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 Trump Has Raised More Than
$88 Million Ahead Of 2020 Bid
Robert Donachie | Capitol Hill And Health Care Reporter
2:57 PM 07/16/2018
President Donald Trump is raising an absurd amount of
money heading into the 2020 election cycle, giving him a
serious boon against Democrats.
Trump’s campaign arm has raised in excess of $88 million
over the past year and a half and, as of June, has roughly
$53.6 million in the bank, The New York Times reported.
The president has broken practice from other
administrations, beginning the fundraising and campaign
efforts immediately after Trump defeated former Secretary
of State Hillary Clinton. Many administration’s wait until
after the first midterm elections of their first term before
launching an official re-election campaign.
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Three prominent Trump committees have raised over $17
million in the second quarter of 2018. In total, the
committees spent in excess of $8.5 million during the
second quarter.
Democrats are still trying to find their candidate to take on
Trump in 2020, however, the 2018 midterms are their
primary focus.
Democratic members and candidates for the House are
bringing in huge donations heading into the November
midterm elections.
Democratic House nominees have raised over $1 million
in a quarter in the first six months of 2018. Democratic
candidates Gina Ortiz Jones, Lizzie Pannill Fletcher and
Andy Kim have all brought in over a million in one
quarter.
House Democrats’ campaign fund — the Democratic
Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) — has
raised over $162 million as of May 31.
The numbers may come as a shock to Republicans who are
desperately trying to maintain control of the lower
chamber in November. All campaigns were required to
release their second quarter fundraising figures to the
Federal Election Commission by July 15.
 Rand Paul Defends Trump’s Meeting With Putin
Molly Prince | Contributor
2:58 PM 07/16/2018
Kentucky Republican Sen. Rand Paul wrote an opinion
piece Monday defending President Donald Trump’s
decision to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Prior to Monday’s summit in Helsinki, Trump
faced criticism for meeting with Putin, ignoring calls to
cancel the one-on-one session in order to hold Russia
accountable for aggression against the United States and
other democracies around the world.
In the Politico piece, he explains the danger of politicizing
foreign relations, noting those who play politics have
forgotten that America’s security is achieved through
maintaining diplomacy with the countries, friend or
foe. (RELATED: Trump Sits Down With Putin In
Finland)
“Dialogue is especially important when
hundreds of millions of lives are at stake,
as in the case in relations between the
United States and nuclear-armed Russia,”
Paul wrote.
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“So I applaud President Trump for both
chiding out NATO allies and greeting its
expansion with skepticism, and I applaud
him for sitting down with President Putin.”
The Kentucky senator explained that even during the most
hostile of times, Russia and the United States have
engaged in open discussions and consistent diplomacy. It
was not until Trump was elected president that
“Russophobes” began inflaming an anti-Russian frenzy,
accusing Trump of “collusion” for partaking in ordinary
meetings with government officials.
“Of course, we don’t have to make
decision[s] based on whether they will or
will not make Russia mad. But we should at
the very least recognize the impact of our
actions before we take them. There seems
to be a lack of thought and rush to action
among some critics of the president’s
meeting with Putin.”
“Russia doesn’t need to be considered our
friend. But we certainly have overlapping
interests — Syria, Islamic terrorism and
energy — that require us to have an open
dialogue and relationship,” Paul continued.
Paul concluded the piece announcing an upcoming trip he
will take to Russia to discuss
“common ground with their leaders and
help prevent further, unnecessary
escalation of tensions.”
 Joe Scarborough Calls GOP Efforts To Impeach Rod
Rosenstein ‘Putin’s Bidding’
Nick Givas | Media And Politics Reporter
3:08 PM 07/16/2018
MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough said any Republican efforts to
impeach Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein are
tantamount to doing Russian President Vladimir Putin’s
“bidding.”
Scarborough was discussing the Helsinki summit between
Putin and President Donald Trump when he said it would
be detrimental to go after the man who shed light on
Russian interference in American elections.
“I think one of the more surprising things for me was the
fact that after Friday’s indictment, an indictment that
again, proved beyond a shadow of doubt, beyond any
reasonable doubt that Vladimir Putin tried to … subvert
American democracy and is still trying to subvert
American democracy — that after that indictment came
out with stunning detail, you actually had House
Republicans say they were going to move to try to
impeach Rod Rosenstein,” Scarborough said.
“Say what you will — it makes them look
like they’re doing Vladimir Putin’s bidding,”
he continued.
Scarborough said the whole situation is “depressing,” but
praised GOP Rep. Trey Gowdy of South Carolina for
refusing to join the Republican effort to impeach
Rosenstein.
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“Why in the world would you want to
impeach a man that brought forward
information on charges that proved to
Americans and proved to the world and
proved to Vladimir Putin that Russia has
tried to interfere in American democracy?”
Scarborough said. “That was depressing. I
will say there were some leading
Republicans including Trey Gowdy, who
can’t seem to pick a side, but at least he’s
on the side of protecting American
democracy this weekend.”
GOP Reps. Jim Jordan of Ohio and Mark Meadows of
North Carolina have repeatedly brought up the possibility
of impeaching Rosenstein and the Freedom Caucus
drafted articles of impeachment as what they referred to as
a “last resort” in April, according to Fox News.
Gowdy, however, threw water on the fire and went on
record over the weekend to say it’s unlikely to happen.
“I’m not convinced there is a movement [to
impeach Rosenstein], Gowdy said on
CBS’s “Face The Nation” Sunday. He also
said if Trump wants Rosenstein gone, he
could simply fire him in a tweet, as he
serves at the pleasure of the president.
“There were some Republicans that did not
kowtow to Vladimir Putin and Russia this
weekend. And I suppose we can take that
as a win,” Scarborough concluded.
 CNN’s Josh Rogin Tries To School
Trump On Finland And Ends Up Owning Himself
Julia Cohen | Contributor
3:26 PM 07/16/2018
CNN’s Josh Rogin tried to fact check President Donald
Trump on Finland, but it turned out he needed a fact
checker of his own.
“Trump told the Finnish President Just now
he enjoyed spending time with him at the
NATO summit. Finland is not part of
NATO,” Rogin tweeted Monday.
Trump told the Finnish President Just now
he enjoyed spending time with him at the
NATO summit. Finland is not part of NATO.
#awkward @jaketapper @camanpour
— Josh Rogin (@joshrogin) July 16, 2018
While Finland is not technically a part of NATO, it
is part of NATO’s Partnership for Peace, “a programme of
practical bilateral cooperation between individual Euro-
Atlantic partner countries and NATO,” according to the
organization. NATO Partnership for Peace members can
take advantage of NATO benefits, such as civil emergency
planning and disaster response, but have a contract
between that specific country and NATO rather than being
a part of the alliance overall. Even though Finland is not in
NATO, the country is part of the larger NATO
infrastructure of alliances.
Rogin acknowledged this in a later tweet and wrote that
“Finland is a member of NATO’s
Partnership for Peace.”
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Finland is a member of NATO’s
Partnership for Peace. But focusing on the
strength of NATO is still an odd choice of
things for Trump to focus on at his one
public meeting with Finland’s head of state.
— Josh Rogin (@joshrogin) July 16, 2018
Finland was also at the NATO summit in Brussels,
according to a press release from the president’s
office. Finnish President Sauli Niinisto attended a dinner
for heads of state that Trump also attended on July
11. (RELATED: Fact Check: Have NATO Allies
Increased Defense Spending By $34 Billion?)
Rogin also acknowledged this in a separate, later tweet:
The Finnish President did attend the NATO
summit in Brussels: https://t.co/Zl0oqIsRsZ
— Josh Rogin (@joshrogin) July 16, 2018
CNN political analyst Julie Davis made a similar mistake,
asking “Does [Trump] think Finland is in NATO?” on
Twitter Monday.
Trump to Finnish Pres Sauli Niinistö, per
pool: “I enjoyed being with you a couple of
days ago. NATO has, I think, never been
stronger. It was a little bit tough at the
beginning, but it turned out to be love. I
appreciated your support.” Does he think
Finland is in NATO?
— Julie Davis (@juliehdavis) July 16, 2018
Trump met Niinisto for breakfast ahead of his private
meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Helsinki
Monday.
 Attorney Gregg Jarrett CRUSHES Ex-CIA Chief John
Brennan For Claiming Trump’s Press Conference
“Nothing Short Of Treasonous”
By Cristina Laila
July 16, 2018, 3:26 Pm

Jarrett tweeted: Whenever John Brennan opens his mouth

or tweets he removes all doubt about his ignorance. He
clearly knows nothing about treason. The U.S. is not at war
with Russia. He should read professor Carlton Larson’s
excellent analysis of treason in @washingtonpost on 2-17-
17,

Former CIA Director-turned-Twitter-troll,

John Brennan went way off the rails
Monday, calling Trump’s presser with
Putin an impeachable offense.
Brennan claimed Trump’s presser with Putin exceeded the
threshold of “high crimes and misdemeanors” then said it
was “nothing short of treasonous.”
Brennan promptly got schooled by attorney Gregg Jarrett.
John Brennan tweeted: Donald Trump’s press conference
performance in Helsinki rises to & exceeds the threshold
of “high crimes & misdemeanors.” It was nothing short of
treasonous. Not only were Trump’s comments imbecilic,
he is wholly in the pocket of Putin. Republican Patriots:
Where are you???
John Brennan was involved in this attempted coup which
is why he’s lashing out on his Twitter account.
In fact, Chairman Nunes is currently investigating
whether John Brennan perjured himself in a public
testimony about the dossier.
Investigative reporter, Paul Sperry summed it up perfectly,
“In 1975, Putin was recruited into the KGB
upon graduating from St. Petersburg State
U. The next year, John Brennan voted for
Communist Party candidate for president of
US. Today, Brennan alleged the president
was treasonous for meeting with the
Russian president.Who’s treasonous?”

Fox News legal analyst, attorney Gregg

Jarrett CRUSHED John Brennan shortly
after he attacked President Trump’s
presser as “nothing short of
treasonous.”

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 Putin Calls Collusion ‘Utter Nonsense’
– Asks Reporter To Name A Single Fact To Prove It
Justin Caruso | Senior Media Reporter
3:53 PM 07/16/2018
Russian president Vladimir Putin called collusion between
Trump and Russia “utter nonsense” during a joint press
conference Monday.
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name a single fact that would definitively
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prove the collusion?” Putin asked a
reporter who asked about collusion.
“It is utter nonsense. Just like the president
recently mentioned. The public at large in
the United States had a certain perceived
opinion of the candidates during the
campaign, but there is nothing particularly
extraordinary about it,” he continued.
“That’s the usual thing. President Trump,
when he was a candidate–he mentioned
the need to restore the Russia-U.S.
relationship, and it’s clear that certain parts
of the American society felt sympathetic
about it, and different people could express
their sympathies in different ways, but isn’t
that natural? Isn’t it natural to be
sympathetic towards a person who is
willing to restore the relationship with our
country and who wants to work with us?”
 Putin Denies Having Any
Compromising Information On Trump
Saagar Enjeti | White House Correspondent
4:03 PM 07/16/2018

Russian President Vladimir Putin denied having any “I treat President Trump with utmost
compromising information on President Donald Trump respect, but when he was a private
during a joint press conference with the U.S. president individual — a businessman — nobody
Monday. informed me he was in Moscow. Let’s take
[the] St. Petersburg Economic Forum, for
instance. There were over 500 American
businessmen — high-level ones. I don’t
remember the last names of each and
every one of them.”

Trump also reacted angrily to the question, saying, “If they

had it, it would have been out a long time ago.”

Putin also admitted that he wanted President Donald

Trump to win the 2016 presidential election during
the joint press conference.

“I did hear those rumors that we allegedly
collected compromising material on Mr.
Trump when he was visiting Moscow. Let
me tell you this: When President Trump
[visited] Moscow back then, I didn’t even
know he was in Moscow,” Putin said.
“Yes, I did. Yes, I did. Because he talked
about bringing the U.S./Russia relationship
back to normal,” Putin said when asked
directly.

The Russian president continued,

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 Jason Chaffetz Claims FBI Should Have Pulled Peter
Strzok’s Security Clearance For Fear Of Blackmail
Nick Givas | Media And Politics Reporter
4:17 PM 07/16/2018

Former Republican Rep. Jason Chaffetz of Utah said the

FBI should have pulled agent Peter Strzok’s security
clearance for fear of blackmail arising from his
extramarital affair with FBI lawyer Lisa Page.

Chaffetz said Russia remains a threat when it comes to

intelligence and cyber-security, but thinks people should
be even more concerned about the vulnerabilities within
the FBI — especially considering how easy it would have
been for Strzok to have been blackmailed.

“Russia and some of the others, some of
the nefarious characters out there on the
world stage want to penetrate into the
counter intelligence and the operations
within the United States. That’s been going
on for decades,” Chaffetz said.
“What is concerning about what happened
with the Peter Strzok testimony is, a lot of
people serious about fixing the FBI want to
understand how is it that Peter Strzok had
to many vulnerabilities that would make
him susceptible to penetration by these
nefarious actors?”
“Misuse of his telephone. Using it in
insecure places. The sloppiness with which
he’s sending tens of thousands of texts. He
has some real issues in his personal life
that make him susceptible to potentially
being manipulated,” Chaffetz continued.
“So, those are really deep concerns. Why
weren’t there any warning bells going off
within the FBI?”
Chaffetz asked how someone like Strzok could have
stayed in power for so long without being dealt with by his
superiors and said he should have lost his security
clearance before any of this even happened.
“How did this person stay as the top
counter intelligence person in that position
for so long? That is a core issue,” he
continued. “I think if you just look at the
basic tenets of somebody that you need
who’s heading up counter intelligence for
the FBI, what would make that person
vulnerable? If he was having issues in his
personal life. If he was having an affair. If
he was carrying electronics that weren’t
secure. Was he sloppy in using GPS?”
“How does this person continue to have a
security clearance?” Chaffetz concluded. “If
you don’t have a security clearance, you
don’t have a job at the FBI.”

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 Putin Summit May Prove
To Be Trump's Finest Hour
By Roger L Simon
July 16, 2018
(AP Photo/RIA Novosti, Alexei Druzhinin, Government Press
Service, File)
What? Did you just read that headline correctly?
Yes, you did. Writing it I assumed people's heads would
explode. It's about as far as you can can get from today's
conventional wisdom (i.e. what David Gergen thinks).
Virtually every member of the smart set from Pelosi to
McCain to some ninety-five percent of the media,
including several cowards on Fox News, to, alas, Lindsey
Graham (who should know better) are going out of their
minds excoriating Trump for being soft on Putin, even for
being "owned" by the neo-Soviet strongman. John Brennan
-- once a communist himself, so he should know -- accused
Trump of treason.
Okay, time for that familiar cliche -- the thought
experiment. Suppose Trump had done the opposite,
exactly what these people demanded -- verbally and
viciously assaulted Putin for all his totalitarian tropes from
annexing the Crimea to humiliating John Podesta for being
so dumb as to fall for a phishing attack (all right -- I'll be
fair. For invading the computers of Democratic Party
operatives, allegedly to elect Trump) and so forth?
What would that have accomplished? The obvious answer
is zilch. Again the opposite would most likely have
occurred. Things, already bad, would have been set back
further. It's human nature. You don't have to be a personal
acquaintance of Vladimir Putin to know that. You only
have to be breathing.
But... but... then Trump shouldn't have held the summit in
the first place.
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Oh, really? Although Russia -- the largest nation on the
planet -- is in many ways a failing state with an economy
barely the size of Texas, it still has a huge percentage of
the world's nuclear weapons, about equal with ours, and
the capacity to deliver them (and to pass them along to
unreliable non-state actors). It behooves us to have a
relationship with them for our survival and everybody
else's, to keep our friends close and our enemies closer, as
the Godfather would put it. The obvious goal in this is to
limit nuclear proliferation and even to reduce, or at least
stabilize, the nuclear arsenals as agreements come up for
renewal.
If you look at Trump's actions in that context, what he says
and what he does aren't so strange. His strategy should be
clear by now to all those except those (unfortunately
many) who deliberately don't want to understand it. I wrote
about it earlier in "Trump's New Foreign Policy: The
Cooptation Doctrine."
He is, as Greg Gutfeld noted on The Five, his own good
cop and bad cop all rolled into one. The good cop part is
what we saw with Kim Jong-un and now with Putin --
complimenting tyrants to an almost uncomfortable degree.
It's oddly a Christian love-the-sinner-but-hate-the-sin kind
of thing.
The bad cop part is what Trump actually does concretely --
and, as Putin certainly knows, this is far more important
than photo ops and press conferences with all the attendant
words. Trump's actions vis-a-vis Russia have been
considerably more stringent than his predecessor's --
opening the energy spigots, increasing sanctions, arming
the Ukrainians, ejecting 60 Russian agents, etc. As Walter
Russell Mead pointed out, if Trump is in Putin's pocket,
he's doing a terrible job of it.
Barack Obama -- although the New York Times would burn
down its own building rather than admit it -- did an
abysmal job with Putin and was indeed the one who was
truly "owned" by the Russian. And it wasn't just the silly
reset button and the embarrassing video of Barack
whispering into Medvedev's ear to tell Vlad he -- Barack --
would be more flexible on missiles after the election.
(What a toady!) Even worse, in his Chamberlainesque
ardor to make a deal with Iran's mullahs, Obama let Putin
play him in Syria, agreeing not to honor his redline against
Assad's use of chemical weapons in order not to endanger
the deal. Trump never did anything nearly that pathetic.
Actually, he stands up strong.
But the David Gergens of the world yammer on that
Trump is doing everything wrong. He's certainly doing
some things wrong -- we all do -- but being gracious to
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Putin personally while actively opposing what the Russian
does in his actions, may be exactly the way to get results.
But Trump's opponents don't care about results.
Overwhelmed with hate, they would prefer to see the
president wounded and impeached than succeed with Putin
and bring about a world safer from nuclear armageddon. If
Trump achieves this, however, it will be his finest hour. It
would be for any president.
 Anderson Cooper: Trump-Putin
Presser Was ‘Disgraceful’
Amber Athey | Media And Breaking News Editor
4:24 PM 07/16/2018
CNN anchor Anderson Cooper called President Donald
Trump’s news conference with Russian president Vladimir
Putin
“perhaps one of the most disgraceful
performances by an American president at
a summit in front of a Russian leader.”
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After a meeting in Helsinki, Finland on Monday, Trump
and Putin talked to the press about election meddling and
the relationship between their respective countries. Trump
said he has “great confidence” in the U.S. intelligence
community but also pivoted away from directly blaming
Russia or Putin for interference.
“You have been watching perhaps one of
the most disgraceful performances by an
American president at a summit in front of
a Russian leader certainly that I’ve ever
seen,” Cooper said immediately after the
conference ended. “An extraordinary press
conference.”
The other panelists with Cooper were equally shocked at
what they had just witnessed and trashed Trump’s
performance during the presser.
“He basically said in Russia, they would
never have let this stuff happen. I mean, it
really was quite extraordinary actually,”
Christiane Amanpour agreed. “I thought we
were going to get out of that press
conference with a minimum of damage and
that was really, really extraordinary, as you
just said.”
 Comey Lashes Out At Trump After Putin
Drops Bombshell Claiming ‘US Intel Helped Move
$400,000,000 To Hillary Campaign’
By Cristina Laila
July 16, 2018, 4:25 Pm

Mr. Browder… They sent a huge amount of money

$400,000,000 to Hillary Clinton! …

So we have solid reason to

believe that some [US]
intelligence offers
accompanied and guided these
transactions. So we have an
interest in questioning them.

Obama’s corrupt intel officials lashed out over this Putin

President Donald Trump and Russian
President Vladimir Putin held a joint
press conference Monday in Helsinki,
Finland.
bombshell.
Ex-CIA Chief John Brennan lost it after this revelation that
US intel helped move $400 million to Hillary’s campaign,
accusing Trump’s presser of being “nothing short of
treasonous.”

The left lost their minds over the presser.
It appears leftists would rather settle the score with bombs
than civil discourse.
President Donald Trump headed into his first summit with
Vladimir Putin on Monday determined to forge a personal
bond with the Kremlin chief.
Fired FBI Director James Comey followed Brennan’s lead
and blasted Trump.
Comey tweeted: This was the day an American president
stood on foreign soil next to a murderous lying thug and
refused to back his own country. Patriots need to stand up
and reject the behavior of this president.

The President didn’t hold back; he called out the

Democrats and Deep State witch hunt and slammed
Hillary Clinton.

Then Putin dropped a bombshell!

Putin dropped a bomb and
claimed US Intel helped
American-born British financier,
Bill Browder, move $400 million No wonder why the Democrats and Deep State operatives
to Hillary Clinton’s campaign were doing everything possible to prevent Trump’s
meeting with Putin in Helsinki.
Vladimir Putin: Last year there was one extradition case
by the United States… Mueller can use this treaty as an The Deep State is terrified over what Putin will reveal
official request to us… in this case this kind of effort about Obama’s and Hillary’s corruption.
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 Establishment Media Stunned
By Trump, Putin Press Conference
Justin Caruso | Senior Media Reporter
4:29 PM 07/16/2018

A number of members of the establishment media were

stunned by President Trump and Russian President
Vladimir Putin’s dual press conference Monday.

MSNBC’s Katy Tur tweeted:

Tur wasn’t the only one to get upset. Dan Rather said:

Other journalists and commentators chimed in:

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 The Mueller Indictments And The Trump-Putin Summit:
Triumph Of The Deep State?
Ron Paul | Ronpaulinstitute.Org
July 16, 2018

presidential election should immediately raise some very

serious questions.

First the obvious: after more than a year of investigations

which have publicly revealed zero collusion between the
Trump campaign and Russia, why drop this bombshell of
an allegation at the end of the news cycle on the last
business day before the historic Trump/Putin meeting in
Helsinki? The indictment could not have been announced a
month ago or in two weeks? Is it not suspicious that now
no one is talking about reducing tensions with Russia but
is all of a sudden – thanks to Special Counsel Robert
The term “deep state” has been so over-used in the past Mueller – talking about increasing tensions?
few years that it may seem meaningless. It has become
standard practice to label one’s political adversaries as
Unfortunately most Americans don’t seem to understand
representing the “deep state” as a way of avoiding the
that indictments are not evidence. In fact they are often
defense of one’s positions. President Trump has often
evidence-free, as is this indictment.
blamed the “deep state” for his political troubles. Trump
supporters have created big conspiracies involving the
“deep state” to explain why the president places neocons in Did the Russian government seek to interfere in the 2016
key positions or fails to fulfill his campaign promises. US presidential elections? It’s certainly possible, however
we don’t know. None of the Justice Department’s
assertions have been tested in a court of law, as is
But the “deep state” is no vast and secret conspiracy
thankfully required by our legal system. It is not enough to
theory. The deep state is real, it operates out in the open,
make an allegation, as Mueller has done. You have to
and it is far from monolithic. The deep state is simply the
prove it.
permanent, unelected government that continues to expand
its power regardless of how Americans vote.
That is why we should be very suspicious of these new
indictments. Mueller knows he will never have to defend
There are factions of the deep state that are pleased with
his assertions in a court of law so he can make any
President Trump’s policies, and in fact we might say that
allegation he wants.
President Trump represents some factions of the deep
state.
It is interesting that one of the Russian companies indicted
by Mueller earlier this year surprised the world by actually
Other factions of the deep state are determined to
entering a “not guilty” plea and demanding to see
undermine any of President Trump’s actions they perceive
Mueller’s evidence. The Special Counsel proceeded to file
as threatening. Any move toward peace with Russia is
several motions to delay the hand-over of his evidence.
surely something they feel to be threatening. There are
What does Mueller have to hide?
hundreds of billions of reasons – otherwise known as
dollars – why the Beltway military-industrial complex is
terrified of peace breaking out with Russia and will do Meanwhile, why is no one talking about the estimated 100
whatever it takes to prevent that from happening. elections the US government has meddled in since World
War II? Maybe we need to get our own house in order?
That is why Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein’s
indictment on Friday of 12 Russian military intelligence
officers for allegedly interfering in the 2016 US
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 President Trump Has Spawned America’s
Best Economic Performance In Years,
Says Stuart Varney
Nick Givas | Media And Politics Reporter
4:37 PM 07/16/2018
Fox Business show “Varney & Company” host Stuart
Varney claimed President Donald Trump has helped
spawn one of greatest best economic booms America has
ever seen, Monday on “Fox & Friends.”
“I would use that word. It is a ‘booming’
economy,” Varney said. “Best performance
in years. Go beneath the big numbers. We
are going to get four percent growth. That’s
the big number that everybody pays
attention to.”
“That is extraordinary. Best performance in
many many years. Four percent growth.
Double what we got in the first
quarter,” Varney said.
“The lay off rate, at a record low. If you’re
an employer, you don’t lay people off in an
expanding economy,” he continued. “And
the hiring rate, that’s at a record high.
600,000 people came back into the
workforce last month because it’s an
expanding economy.”
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Varney also said people in the workforce are willing to
risk quitting their jobs because they are confident they can
find a better alternative in today’s job market.
“The job quitting rate — all-time high. Now,
why would you quit your job? Because you
think you can get something better
elsewhere. That’s a sense of
optimism,” Varney said. “The economy’s
expanding. Quit what you got because you
know, pretty sure you can get something
better over there.”
Varney, who has been a supporter of Trump’s Chinese
tariffs, said they’ve had little effect on America’s economy
thus far and thinks the main focus should be on the
country’s four percent growth.
“So far it has not [impacted America].
Maybe there’s some little peripheral areas
where prices have gone up but I repeat,
four percent growth. We get the official
numbers next week,” he declared. “All the
indicators suggest best growth rate in
years.”
Varney also commented on a possible trade deal with the
European Union and said the results of those talks will be a
factor in America’s economic prosperity.
“That’s where we get a sense of do we
have a deal or not? And that will make a
difference to the economy going forward,”
he concluded. “But right now, you’ve got
four percent growth. That’s a boom.”
Furious John McCain Blasts Pres. Trump In Statement On
Putin Meeting: ‘No President Has Ever Abased Himself
More Abjectly Before A Tyrant’
By Kristinn Taylor
July 16, 2018, 4:44 Pm
Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), who has been absent from the
Senate since late last year while fighting brain cancer that
was diagnosed one year ago this month, issued a statement
Monday blasting President Donald Trump over his
meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in
Helsinki, Finland.
Trump and Putin shake hands at Helsinki press conference
McCain’s statement was seething with melodramatic anger
at Trump for not dealing with Putin in the antagonistic
manner McCain wanted him treated.
Sen. McCain.
Statement as released by McCain’s office:
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SASC CHAIRMAN JOHN McCAIN ON TRUMP-PUTIN
MEETING
Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senator John McCain (R-AZ),
Chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee,
released the following statement today on President
Trump’s meeting and press conference with Vladimir
Putin in Helsinki:
“Today’s press conference in Helsinki was
one of the most disgraceful performances
by an American president in memory. The
damage inflicted by President Trump’s
naiveté, egotism, false equivalence, and
sympathy for autocrats is difficult to
calculate. But it is clear that the summit in
Helsinki was a tragic mistake.
“President Trump proved not only unable,
but unwilling to stand up to Putin. He and
Putin seemed to be speaking from the
same script as the president made a
conscious choice to defend a tyrant against
the fair questions of a free press, and to
grant Putin an uncontested platform to
spew propaganda and lies to the world.
“It is tempting to describe the press
conference as a pathetic rout – as an
illustration of the perils of under-preparation
and inexperience. But these were not the
errant tweets of a novice politician. These
were the deliberate choices of a president
who seems determined to realize his
delusions of a warm relationship with
Putin’s regime without any regard for the
true nature of his rule, his violent disregard
for the sovereignty of his neighbors, his
complicity in the slaughter of the Syrian
people, his violation of international
treaties, and his assault on democratic
institutions throughout the world.
“Coming close on the heels of President
Trump’s bombastic and erratic conduct
towards our closest friends and allies in
Brussels and Britain, today’s press
conference marks a recent low point in the
history of the American Presidency. That
 the president was attended in Helsinki by a
team of competent and patriotic advisors
makes his blunders and capitulations all
the more painful and inexplicable.
“No prior president has ever abased
himself more abjectly before a tyrant. Not
only did President Trump fail to speak the
truth about an adversary; but speaking for
America to the world, our president failed to
defend all that makes us who we are—a
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republic of free people dedicated to the
cause of liberty at home and abroad.
American presidents must be the
champions of that cause if it is to succeed.
Americans are waiting and hoping for
President Trump to embrace that sacred
responsibility. One can only hope they are
not waiting totally in vain.”
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 Ex-CIA Director John Brennan Accuses
Trump Of Treason Following Putin Summit
Chuck Ross | Reporter
4:44 PM 07/16/2018
President Donald Trump’s comments during a joint press
conference with Russian President Vladimir Putin on
Monday were “treasonous,” former CIA Director John
Brennan asserted.
“Donald Trump’s press conference
performance in Helsinki rises to & exceeds
the threshold of ‘high crimes &
misdemeanors,'” Brennan, a vocal Trump
critic, wrote on Twitter.
“It was nothing short of treasonous. Not
only were Trump’s comments imbecilic, he
is wholly in the pocket of Putin. Republican
Patriots: Where are you???”
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Trump and Putin fielded questions from reporters at a joint
summit in Helsinki following a one-on-one meeting earlier
in the day.
Trump praised Putin during Monday’s press conference
while criticizing the U.S. government and FBI over the
election meddling probe. Asked about his past comments
that Putin is a “competitor,” Trump told a reporter that
“competitor is a compliment.”
Trump also dismissed allegations that his campaign
colluded with Russian government agents, calling his
investigation into his campaign a “witch hunt.”
“The probe is a disaster for our country. It’s
kept us separated,” Trump said.
The comments come after special counsel Robert Mueller
indicted 12 Russian military intelligence officials for their
role in hacking and disseminating DNC and Clinton
campaign emails. The indictment did not identify any
Americans.
 Deep State Betrays, Undermines Congress:
Wants To Offer Turkey Patriot Missiles
By Hanna Bogorowski
July 16, 2018 At 4:44pm
The State Department is reportedly floating the idea of
selling Turkey the Raytheon Co Patriot missile defense
system in an effort to dissuade them from purchasing
Russia’s S-400 system.
Ambassador Tina Kaidanow, the Acting Assistant
Secretary of State for Political-Military Affairs, told
reporters on Monday that several U.S. government
officials at the Farnborough Airshow were meeting with
Turkey officials to discuss defense trade, Reuters reports.
Russia and Turkey made a deal in December 2017 to
supply Ankara with S-400 surface-to-air missile batteries,
a deal worth nearly $2.5 billion.
Kaidanow told reporters that officials were “trying to give
the Turks an understanding of what we can do with respect
to Patriot,” but did not give specific details of a trade deal.
The deal between Turkey and Russia worried Turkey’s
NATO allies because the S-400 system cannot be
integrated into NATO’s military architecture, which goes
against the alliance’s collective defense pledge.
NATO allies pledge to integrate their ships, weapons and
planes so that they can all work in tandem, however in a
statement by the Turkey’s Undersecretariat for Defense
Industries (SSM) in December, Turkey said the S-400
batteries would be independently operated by Turkey
personnel, not Russian advisors.
The Western allies of NATO were already wary of
Russia’s military presence in the Middle East, and this deal
between Ankara and Moscow worsened those relations.
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The U.S. Senate passed a $716 billion defense policy bill
in June that included an added bipartisan clause that blocks
the transfer of F-35 fighter jets to Turkey, citing the state’s
intention to acquire the Russian-made air defense systems
as one of the main reasons for removing them from the
fighter jet program.
The S-400 system is equipped with technology that is
capable of targeting stealth warplanes like Lockheed
Martin’s F-35, which experts say threatens the security and
data collection of the fighter jets.
Despite efforts by the House and Senate to remove Turkey
from the program over their Russian deal as well as their
current imprisonment of a U.S. citizen, Lockheed Martin
held their traditional roll out ceremony for the delivery of
jets in Texas on June 21.
Ultimately we are concerned that by purchasing these
systems from the Russians it will be supportive of some of
the least good behavior that we have seen from them
(Russia) in various places including Europe but also
elsewhere,” Kaidanow said.
This report comes at the same time U.S. President Donald
Trump meets with Russian President Vladimir Putin for
a historic summit in Helsinki, Finland.
Trump said he and Putin will have an “extraordinary
relationship” after the meeting.
A version of this article appeared on The Daily Caller
News Foundation website.
 Trump Takes Shot At Strzok
During Press Conference With Putin
Mike Brest | Contributor
4:53 PM 07/16/2018
President Donald Trump went after demoted FBI agent
Peter Strzok during his press conference with Russian
President Vladimir Putin, when the Russian leader was
asked if he had any dirt on POTUS on Monday morning.
WATCH:
A reporter asked if
“the Russian government have any
compromising material on President Trump
or his family?”
“Yeah, I did hear those rumors that we
allegedly collected compromising material
on Mr. Trump when he was visiting
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Moscow,” Putin responded to the reporter.
“Let me tell you this, when President Trump
visit Moscow back then, I didn’t even know
that he was in Moscow.”
After Putin’s comments, Trump jumped in.
“And I say if they had it, it would have been
out long ago,” Trump said. “And if anybody
watched Peter Strzok testify over the last
couple of days, and I was in Brussels
watching it, it was a disgrace to the FBI. It
was a disgrace to our country. And you
would say that was a total witch hunt.”
“Thank you very much, everybody. Thank
you,” the president said concluding the
press conference.
Putin also denied any Russian interference in the 2016
presidential election.
Strzok testified in front of the House Judicial Committee
last week for 10 hours. He was asked about the uncovered
text messages between him and his lover and colleague,
Lisa Page. Strzok was also asked about his biases and how
it effected his work, although he denied any compromised
work.
 Crooked Hillary Desperately Tries To
Deflect After Putin Drops Bombshell ‘US Intel Helped
Move $400,000,000 to Clinton Campaign’
By Cristina Laila
July 16, 2018, 5:14 pm

American-born British financier,

Bill Browder, move $400 million
to Hillary Clinton’s campaign.

Vladimir Putin: Last year there was one extradition case by

the United States… Mueller can use this treaty as an
official request to us… in this case this kind of effort
should be a reciprocal one… For instance we can bring up
Mr. Browder… They sent a huge amount of money
$400,000,000 to Hillary Clinton! …

So we have solid reason to

President Donald Trump and Russian believe that some [US]
President Vladimir Putin held a joint
intelligence offers
press conference Monday in Helsinki,
accompanied and guided these
Finland.
transactions. So we have an
interest in questioning them.
Crooked Hillary Clinton trolled the President prior to the
Trump-Putin summit.
Social media was set ablaze after Putin dropped this
On Sunday evening, Hillary asked Trump, bombshell and called Mueller’s bluff over his indictment
of 12 Russian military officers.
“Do you know which team you play for?”
Crooked Hillary desperately tried to deflect from the nuke
Putin dropped on her.
She had the nerve to tweet this after she paid millions of
dollars for a fake Russia dossier and sold 20% of our
Uranium to Russia in exchange for $150 million to the In a grotesque display of unabated hubris, Hillary Clinton
Clinton Foundation. attacked President Trump to deflect from her own
corruption.

Hillary tweeted in response to her previous troll, “Well,

now we know.” [which team you play for]

The President didn’t hold back at the press conference on

Monday; he called out the Democrats and Deep State
witch hunt and slammed Hillary Clinton.

Then Putin dropped a bombshell!

Putin dropped a bomb and
claimed US Intel helped

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Obama’s corrupt intel officials also lashed out over this accusing Trump’s presser of being “nothing short of
Putin bombshell. treasonous.”

Ex-CIA Chief John Brennan lost it after this revelation that Fired FBI Director James Comey then followed Brennan’s
US intel helped move $400 million to Hillary’s campaign, lead and blasted Trump.

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 BOOM! New Text Messages PROVE OBAMA WHITE
HOUSE Was Involved In Early Stages Of
Trump-Russia Investigation (VIDEO)
By Jim Hoft
July 16, 2018, 5:16 Pm

Lisa Page to McCabe: Just called. Apparently the DAG

now wants to be there, and the WH wants DOJ to host. So
we are setting that up now. We will very much need to get
Cohen’s view before we meet with her. Better have him
weigh in with her before the meeting.

NEW TEXT MESSAGES PROVE OBAMA

WHITE HOUSE WAS INVOLVED IN
Lisa Page to McCabe: Hey can you give me a call when
EARLY STAGES OF DEEP STATE
you get out? Meeting with the WH counsel is finally set up
TRUMP-RUSSIA PROBE and I want to talk about timing. Thanks.
Despite denials the Obama White House
was involved with the early stages of Via FOX Business Network:
the Trump-Russia investigation.
These text messages between Lisa Page
and then-Deputy Director of the FBI
Andrew McCabe were released today.

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 Democrat Rep. Steve Cohen Denies Calling For
Coup Against Pres. Trump After Asking,
‘Where Are Military Folks?’
By Kristinn Taylor
July 16, 2018, 5:34 Pm

“BREAKING: Trump just said he trusted

Putin over the American military and the
American intelligence services, in the
assessment of election interference. He
absolutely needs to resign. What a
complete and utter disgrace. Absolutely
disgusting. What a traitor.”

Rep. Steve Cohen.Cohen’s Twitter bio describes as a “Leader in

Effort to #ImpeachTrump”

Rep. Steve Cohen (D-TN), who last week said he wanted

to award a Purple Heart to anti-Trump FBI agent Peter
Strzok, posted a tweet Monday after President Donald
Trump’s meeting in Finland with Russian President
Vladimir Putin that many read as a call for a coup, asking,
Cohen later mocked those who read the plain language of
“Where are our military folks ? The his tweet as a call for a coup,
Commander in Chief is in the hands of our
enemy!” “Talk about jumping to conclusions without
talking to source. No coup called for . I
seriously doubt anyone would use twitter to
do .. one tweet if by land two if by
sea…Wow”

Cohen was commenting on a tweet by Democratic Party

activist Scott Dworkin who accused Trump of being a
traitor who should resign,
.

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 Republicans Are Outraged At Trump
For Failing To Stand Firm Against Putin
Robert Donachie | Capitol Hill And Health Care Reporter
5:35 PM 07/16/2018

Congressional Republicans are upset with President

Donald Trump for not taking a harder line against Russian
President Vladimir Putin during Monday’s joint press
conference, and they are letting him know.

Republicans in the House and Senate put out statements of

condemnation Monday following the press conference,
calling out the president for looking weak and throwing
their support behind special counsel Robert Mueller’s
investigation into Russian interference in the 2016
presidential election.

The president refused to acknowledge that Russian agents

attempted to interfere with the 2016 presidential election,
causing many within his own party to throw criticism his
way. Trump was expected to take a hard line against Putin
and address election interference and other topics, like the
Russian annexation of Crimea, during the press
conference.

Another GOP senator joined his colleagues to speak out

against the president’s remarks. GOP Sen. Ben Sasse of
Nebraska called the president’s remarks Monday “bizarre
and flat-out wrong.”

“The United States is not to blame.

America wants a good relationship with the
Russian people but Vladimir Putin and his
thugs are responsible for Soviet-style
aggression,” Sasse wrote in a statement
Monday. “When the President plays these
moral equivalence games, he gives Putin a
propaganda win he desperately needs.”

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 Schumer Joins The Chorus Of Democrats Insisting Putin
Has Damaging Information On Trump Following Summit
Julia Cohen | Contributor
5:55 PM 07/16/2018
Senate Democratic Minority Leader Chuck Schumer
joined the chorus of Democrats claiming that Russian
President Vladimir Putin has damaging information on
President Donald Trump following the two world leaders’
joint press conference Monday.
“A single, ominous question now hangs
over the White House: what could possibly
cause @realDonaldTrump to put the
interests of Russia over those of the United
States?” Schumer tweeted. “Millions of
Americans will continue to wonder if the
only possible explanation for this
dangerous behavior is the possibility that
President Putin holds damaging
information over President Trump.”
Millions of Americans will continue to
wonder if the only possible explanation for
this dangerous behavior is the possibility
that President Putin holds damaging
information over President Trump.
— Chuck Schumer (@SenSchumer) July
16, 2018
House Democratic Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi echoed
Schumer’s sentiment, tweeting
“Every single day, I find myself asking:
what do the Russians have on
@realDonaldTrump personally, financially,
& politically? The answer to that question is
that only thing that explains his behavior &
his refusal to stand up to Putin.”
Every single day, I find myself asking:
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what do the Russians have on
@realDonaldTrump personally, financially,
& politically? The answer to that question is
that only thing that explains his behavior &
his refusal to stand up to Putin.
#ABetterDeal
— Nancy Pelosi (@NancyPelosi) July 16,
2018
“Why did Trump meet 1 on 1 with Putin?
What might he be hiding from Bolton,
Pompeo, Kelly, & the American public?
How will Putin use whatever Trump could
be hiding to advantage Russia & hurt
America? Trump’s total lack of credibility
renders spurious whatever explanation he
gives,” CIA director under former President
Barack Obama John Brennan also
tweeted Monday.
Why did Trump meet 1 on 1 with Putin?
What might he be hiding from Bolton,
Pompeo, Kelly, & the American public?
How will Putin use whatever Trump could
be hiding to advantage Russia & hurt
America? Trump’s total lack of credibility
renders spurious whatever explanation he
gives.
— John O. Brennan (@JohnBrennan) July
16, 2018
“I wish I was surprised by Trump’s
deference to Putin, but it’s been clear that
the President would rather trust his
Russian “friend” than the US intelligence
community – the question that remains is
why. The Mueller investigation is no witch
hunt & that’s why he’s so scared of it,” New
York Democratic Rep. Carolyn Maloney
tweeted.
I wish I was surprised by Trump’s
deference to Putin, but it’s been clear that
the President would rather trust his
Russian “friend” than the US intelligence
community – the question that remains is
why. The Mueller investigation is no witch
hunt & that’s why he’s so scared of it
— Carolyn B. Maloney (@RepMaloney)
July 16, 2018
So far, there has been no public evidence that the Trump
campaign worked with Russia to interfere in the 2016
election. (RELATED: Trump Confronts Putin On
Election Meddling)
“President Trump’s priority seems to be
protecting himself over protecting the
nation. There is no other explanation for
siding with Putin over his own intelligence
agencies & continuing to denounce the
Special Counsel investigation,” Connecticut
Democratic Sen. Richard Blumenthal
tweeted.
President Trump’s priority seems to be
protecting himself over protecting the
nation. There is no other explanation for
.
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siding with Putin over his own intelligence
agencies & continuing to denounce the
Special Counsel investigation.
— Richard Blumenthal (@SenBlumenthal)
July 16, 2018
Putin denied having any incriminating evidence on Trump.
“I did hear those rumors that we allegedly
collected compromising material on Mr.
Trump when he was visiting Moscow. Let
me tell you this: When President Trump
[visited] Moscow back then, I didn’t even
know he was in Moscow,” Putin stated at
the Monday press conference.
 CNN’s Anderson Cooper Compares Trump To Autistic
‘Rain Man’ For Bringing Up Clinton Email Scandal
Nick Givas | Media And Politics Reporter
6:04 PM 07/16/2018

CNN anchor Anderson Cooper compared President

Donald Trump to Kim Peek, also known as “Rain Man,”
on CNN’s “Inside Politics” Monday, for continually
mentioning former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s “But to hear him on the world stage doing
email scandal. that standing next to Vladimir Putin, I mean
with all the research Putin’s done, it’s got to
have been a surreal moment for Vladimir
“I just can’t imagine being Vladimir Putin
Putin to actually hear him return to
and actually hearing the president of the
something he has just — it’s like some sort
United States go back to the well of Hillary
of — I mean it’s like Rain Man, going back
Clinton’s server and the 30,000 e-mails and
to this thing time after time,” Cooper
all this stuff, which he’s been you know, like
continued.
Rain Man, going back to time and time
again for years now,” Cooper said.
Cooper’s colleague Dana Bash agreed with his assessment
and called the Clinton email scandal Trump’s “go-to”
Peek was played by Dustin Hoffman in the 1988
issue, to avoid having to talk about Russia.
Academy Award winning film “Rain Man,” co-starring
Tom Cruise. It was about a gifted genius who also suffered
from debilitating autism and had a tendency to repeat “Right. It’s his go-to,” she replied. “We
thoughts out loud, over and over. cannot emphasize enough that in the
president’s mind, he hears Russia, he
hears election meddling, he hears my
Cooper failed to take his own advice on repetition.
presidency is illegitimate and that’s why he
the president does that.”
WATCH:
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 Paul Ryan Joins Growing
GOP Criticism Of Trump-Putin Summit
Saagar Enjeti | White House Correspondent
6:10 PM 07/16/2018

House Speaker Paul Ryan issued sharp criticism Monday

for President Donald Trump’s Helsinki press conference
with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

“There is no question that Russia interfered

in our election and continues attempts to
undermine democracy here and around the
world,” Ryan said in a press release,
adding “the president must appreciate that
Russia is not our ally. There is no moral
equivalence between the United States and
Russia, which remains hostile to our most
basic values and ideals. The United States
must be focused on holding Russia
accountable and putting an end to its vile
attacks on democracy.”

Trump appeared to give some credence to Putin’s claim

that he did not not interference in the 2016 presidential
election despite being told the opposite by his intelligence
community leaders.

“I have confidence in both parties,” Trump

said, adding that he didn’t see any reason
why Russia would interference on his
behalf.

Trump’s answer has been sharply criticized some

Republican lawmakers including Sens. Ben Sasse, Lindsey
Graham, Bob Corker, and Trey Gowdy.

“Russia is not our friend. Russia attempted

to undermine the fundamentals of our
democracy, impugn the reliability of the
2016 election, and sow the seeds of
discord among Americans,” Gowdy said.

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Adam Schiff Hits Panic Button After Trump-Putin Presser
Drops Bombshell On US Intel And Clinton Campaign
By Cristina Laila
July 16, 2018, 6:27 Pm

The left lost their collective minds after Putin called

Mueller’s bluff and revealed US intel may have helped to
move $400,000,000 to Hillary’s campaign.

Ranking member of the House Intel

Committee, Adam Schiff (D-CA) hit the
panic button on Monday.

Leaker and liar Adam Schiff is desperate to keep the

President Donald Trump and Russian
President Vladimir Putin held a joint
press conference Monday in Helsinki,
Finland.
Mueller witch hunt going; he has a lot to lose if the truth
about SpyGate gets out to the public.
Schiff was triggered after President Trump called out our
corrupt, Deep State intel agencies for refusing to examine
the DNC server.

The President didn’t hold back; he called out the Schiff tweeted:
Democrats and Deep State witch hunt and slammed
Hillary Clinton. “President Trump just attacked our
intelligence agencies and law enforcement
Then Putin dropped a bombshell! for doing their jobs while standing next to a
dictator who intervened in our election to
Putin dropped a bomb and help elect Trump. Putin will take this as a
claimed US Intel helped green light to interfere in 2018, and it is.
Cowardly and shameful.”
American-born British
financier, Bill Browder, move
$400 million to Hillary
Clinton’s campaign.

Vladimir Putin: Last year there was one extradition case

by the United States… Mueller can use this treaty as an
official request to us… in this case this kind of effort
should be a reciprocal one… For instance we can bring up
Mr. Browder… They sent a huge amount of money
$400,000,000 to Hillary Clinton! …

Schiff called Trump’s presser “the most

So we have solid reason to damaging and shameful surrender of
believe that some [US] American values and interest in modern
intelligence offers history.”
accompanied and guided
these transactions. So we
have an interest in
questioning them.

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 To this day, the FBI has not done a forensic inspection of
the DNC server so we have no proof it was hacked, and if
hacked, by whom?

Rosenstein confirmed in his press conference last week

Podesta’s emails were obtained through a “spearphishing”
technique, not from a hack of the DNC server.

The only threat to our democracy is coming from the Deep

State and Democrats who refuse to accept the results of the
2016 presidential election.
The entire Trump-Russia collusion narrative was
fabricated by Hillary Clinton and Obama’s weaponized
law enforcement agencies.

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 McMain: Trump Putin Presser Was
‘One Of The Most Disgraceful Performances By An
American President In History’
Robert Donachie | Capitol Hill And Health Care Reporter
7:05 PM 07/16/2018
GOP Sen. John McCain of Arizona took possibly the
hardest stance against President Donald Trump’s
performance at his joint press conference with Russian
President Vladimir Putin Monday, labeling it
“one of the most disgraceful performances
by an American president in recent
memory.”
“Today’s press conference in Helsinki was
one of the most disgraceful performances
by an American president in recent
memory,” McCain said in a statement
Monday. “The damage inflicted by
President Trump’s naiveté, egotism, false
equivalence, and sympathy for autocrats is
difficult to calculate. But it is clear that the
summit in Helsinki was a tragic mistake.”
The president is taking a lot of heat for refusing to
acknowledge that Russian agents attempted to interfere
with the 2016 presidential election. Trump was expected to
.
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take a hard line against Putin and address election
interference and other topics, like the Russian annexation
of Crimea, during the press conference.
“President Donald Trump proved not only
unable, but unwilling to stand up to Putin.
He and Putin seemed to be speaking from
the same script as the president made a
conscious choice to defend a tyrant against
the fair questions of a free press, and to
grant Putin an uncontested platform to
spew propaganda to the rest of the world,”
McCain said.
McCain continued to attack the president for what he
claims is a “warm relationship with Putin’s regime,”
pointing out Putin’s attempts to annex Crimea, attack the
Syrian people and “assault Democratic institutions
throughout the world.”
“Today’s press conference marks a recent
low in the history of the American
Presidency,” McCain said. “No prior
president has ever abased himself more
abjectly before a tyrant. Not only did
President Trump fail to speak the truth
about an adversary; but speaking for
America to the world, our president failed to
defend all that makes us who we are – a
republic of free people dedicated to the
cause of liberty at home and abroad.”
 Trump Asked About Russian Election Meddling —
Says, ‘I Beat Hillary Clinton Easily’
Benny Johnson | Reporter At Large
7:21 PM 07/16/2018

On the point of collusion, Trump was particularly blunt,

bringing up Hillary Clinton multiple times:

“There was no collusion at all. Everybody

knows it. It was a clean campaign. I beat
Hillary Clinton easily and frankly we beat
her … we won that race and it is a shame
that there can be a cloud over it.”

A tense and contentious press conference just concluded Trump then interrupted the next question asked of Putin,
between Russian and American leaders in Finland. saying,

The much-anticipated meeting was punctuated by Trump’s
answer to the question on Russian meddling in the 2016
election. Trump tweeted Monday,
“Our relationship with Russia has NEVER
been worse thanks to many years of U.S.
foolishness and stupidity and now, the
Rigged Witch Hunt!” in reference to the
Muller investigation into potential Russian
collusion with team Trump during the 2016
election.
At the joint presser, a reporter asked Trump, “Mr.
President, you tweeted this morning that it’s
U.S. foolishness, stupidity and the Mueller probe that
is responsible for the decline in U.S. Relations with
Russia. Do you hold Russia at all accountable for anything
in particular? If so, what would you consider them that
they are responsible for?”
“Democrats lost an election which frankly
they should have been able to win because
the electoral college is more advantageous
to Democrats than it is to Republicans. We
won the electoral college by a lot. 306 to
223 I believe. And that was a well-fought
battle.”
Trump concluded by saying again that there was no
collusion:
“We ran a brilliant campaign, and that’s
why I’m President.”
WATCH:

President Trump said that “both countries are responsible,”

for the breakdown of U.S.-Russian relations.

“I think the United States has been foolish.

I think we’ve all been foolish,” Trump said.
“We should have had this dialogue a long
time ago. A long time before I got to office,
and I think we’re all to blame.”
.

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 Dem Congressman Calls For
Military Coup To Remove Trump, Then Backtracks
Leftists In Total Meltdown After Trump-Putin Meeting
Paul Joseph Watson | Infowars.Com
July 17, 2018

US Rep. Steve Cohen (D-TN) appeared

to call for a military coup to remove
Donald Trump in response to Trump’s
meeting with Russian President
Vladimir Putin, before walking it back.
After former CIA director John Brennan called Trump’s
actions “treasonous,” only to be ridiculed by Rand Paul,
who pointed out that Brennan voted for the Communist
Party USA candidate in 1976, Cohen went one step
further.
“Where are our military folks? The
Commander in Chief is in the hands of our
enemy!” tweeted Cohen.
Last week, Cohen embarrassed himself by ludicrously
claiming that disgraced FBI agent Peter Strzok should
have been awarded a Purple Heart, a medal which is
usually only awarded to members of the U.S. military who
have been wounded or died in battle.
Support for President Trump amongst the U.S. military is
higher than his support amongst the general public, so any
kind of “coup” looks incredibly unlikely.
MSNBC contributor and top “resistance” activist Scott
Dworkin also responded to Trump’s meeting with Putin by
calling for Hillary Clinton to be installed as president.

“Trump and Pence should be removed

from office and we should either have a
new election, or Hillary Clinton should take
over. That’s how we beat Putin. There is no
other way,” tweeted Dworkin.

However, after receiving criticism for the tweet, Cohen

backed away and insisted that he wasn’t calling for a coup.

Quite how Hillary could be installed as president without

America going through some kind of devastating civil war
was not expanded upon.
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Dworkin and Cohen are by no means the first to call for our history, the President of the United
Hillary to be installed by means of some sort of military States and his staff are under investigation
coup. for espionage.”

Back in February 2017, far-left film maker Michael Moore

called on the the judicial system

“to rule either that the President is the

winner of the popular vote OR the election
must be held over.”

Just over a month later Moore re-iterated his insistence that

Trump be removed, writing,

“The Democratic Party needs to declare a

National Emergency. For the first time in
.

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 House Democrat Calls For
‘Military Folks’ To Stop Trump
Peter Hasson | Reporter
7:47 PM 07/16/2018
Democratic Tennessee Rep. Steve Cohen on Monday
called for the “military folks” to save America from
President Donald Trump after Trump’s much-criticized
press conference with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
“Where are our military folks? The
Commander in Chief is in the hands of our
enemy!” Cohen wrote on Twitter, using
language suggestive of a military coup.
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“Where are our military folks? The
Commander in Chief is in the hands of our
enemy!” (Screenshot/Twitter)
Cohen’s bizarre tweet was similar to one from former
Obama CIA Director John Brennan, who claimed on
Monday that Trump’s press conference was “treasonous.”
Trump claimed on Monday that he confronted Putin about
Russian election meddling but later sounded skeptical
about the U.S. Intelligence Community’s conclusion that
Russia was meddling in American politics during the 2016
presidential campaign.
Cohen’s tweet on Monday came just three days after the
congressman apologized for saying that disgraced anti-
Trump FBI agent Peter Strzok deserves a purple heart for
facing a tough congressional hearing.
FLASHBACK 2012: Putin Praises Obama, Hopes He Beats
Romney- Would “Be Easier To Work With” Obama
By Jim Hoft
July 16, 2018, 8:08 Pm

The Democrat media complex today blew a gasket today

after President Trump praised Vladimir Putin at their
Helsinki press conference.

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 The left lost their mind after the press Meanwhile, this won’t get any press
conference. today…

Vladimir Putin praised Barack Obama

back in 2012 and implied he preferred
Obama over Republican Mitt Romney.

Vladimir Putin: It would be easier to work with (Obama)

than the candidate who has described his country (Russia)
as America’s “number one geopolitical foe.”

Rep. Steve Cohen called for the military

on the street.

It was not a good day for the liberal

media.

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 Putin Offered To Help
Mueller With Russia Investigation
By Editor
July 16, 2018
The special counsel’s office declined to
comment…
(Chris Megerian, Los Angeles Times) WASHINGTON —
Before the end of Monday’s news conference, Russian
President Vladimir Putin offered to do a favor for special
counsel Robert S. Mueller III.
Russian authorities, Putin said, would be happy to
interview the dozen intelligence officers indicted on Friday
for hacking emails from Hillary Clinton’s campaign and
the Democratic Party.
After all, Moscow is “perfectly able to do this questioning
and send the appropriate materials to the United States,” he
said while standing next to President Donald Trump in
Helsinki, Finland.
That appeared to be the “interesting idea” of Putin’s that
Trump referred to during the session. The proposal,
however, almost certainly landed with a thud in the special
counsel’s office. Although some law enforcement
cooperation can occur even between adversarial countries
such as the United States and Russia, it’s unlikely that this
is one of those situations.
For starters, Putin’s idea falls far short of actually sending
any of the indicted Russians to the U.S. for trial.
Moreover, Putin has denied that his government worked to
undermine the 2016 presidential election, the very issue
Mueller is investigating. And the probe involves sensitive
counterintelligence work — not the kind of thing U.S.
officials would be eager to give Russia a peek into.
“Vladimir Putin would love to add a GRU
or FSB officer to Mueller’s team,” said
David Kris, a former assistant attorney
general for national security, referring to
two Russian intelligence agencies by their
acronyms.
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Kris, who founded the Culper Partners
consulting firm, said Putin’s offer is “not to
be taken seriously.”
The special counsel’s office declined to comment.
The indictment announced Friday named a dozen Russian
officers from the Main Intelligence Directorate, or GRU,
and charged them with conspiracy, identity theft and
money laundering. According to prosecutors, they used
specially designed malware to penetrate Democratic
computer networks and extract secret files. Then they
created a fictitious online persona, Guccifer 2.0, and
distributed the documents to organizations such as
Wikileaks.
U.S. intelligence agencies have said Putin personally
ordered the election operation, but he acted unaware of it
during Monday’s news conference.
“I don’t know the full extent of the situation,
but President Trump mentioned this issue,
and I will look into it,” he said.
Putin also elaborated on his proposal to help with the U.S.
investigation. If Mueller wanted, he could send
representatives “and they will be present for this
questioning” of the Russian intelligence officers.
But that deal would require a concession, Putin said, and
U.S. officials would have to help with cases that Moscow
is pursuing.
“We would expect that the Americans
would reciprocate and that they would
question officials including the officers of
law enforcement and intelligence services
of the United States, whom we believe
have something to do with illegal actions on
the territory of Russia,” he said. “And we
have to request the presence of our law
enforcement.”
 BOOM! Trump Accuses FBI Cheater
Peter Strzok Of Reporting To Barack Obama (VIDEO)
By Jim Hoft
July 16, 2018, 8:51 Pm

to find out who did Peter Strzok report to because it

was Comey and it was McCabe and there was also
probably Obama. If you think Obama didn’t know what
was going on, when you watch, and I said it today when
you watch Peter Strzok’s performance, the lover of Lisa
Page, the FBI, I tell you I know so many people… He’s a
disgrace to our country. He’s a disgrace to our great FBI.

Via Hannity:

President Trump held an interview Monday with Sean

Hannity from FOX News after his meeting and press
conference with Vladimir Putin.

President Trump told Sean Hannity that he believes Peter

Strzok was working with President Obama.

President Trump: Before I won he said this is nothing

and it can’t happen. It’s a very dishonest deal. We have

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 Reps. Demand DOJ
Investigate Rosenstein Over Threats To Staff
By Editor
July 16, 2018
Rosenstein allegedly threatened to use
his official investigative powers as
Deputy Attorney General to investigate
House Intel Comm staff…
Rod Rosenstein (screen shot: MSNBC/Youtube)
(Jeff Cirillo, CQ-Roll Call) WASHINGTON — Two
Freedom Caucus Republicans asked the Justice
Department’s inspector general Monday to investigate
allegations that Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein
threatened to subpoena the email and phone records of
House Intelligence Committee staff.
Freedom Caucus Chairman Mark Meadows of North
Carolina and caucus co-founder Jim Jordan of Ohio made
the request in a letter to Inspector General Michael
Horowitz, which alleges Rosenstein threatened the
subpoenas in a tense January meeting about oversight
requests from committee Republicans.
The Freedom Caucus leaders said two unidentified
witnesses of the incident can provide documentation and
sworn statements attesting to the encounter, which they say
.
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concerned oversight requests the committee sent to the
department.
“This notion Mr. Rosenstein threatened to
use his official investigative powers as
Deputy Attorney General to retaliate
against rank-and-file staff members for
sending written oversight requests raises
concerns he has abused his authority in the
context of this investigation,” they write in
the letter.
The Justice Department did not immediately respond to
requests for comment Monday night.
The staffers’ allegations against Rosenstein were first
raised in an article published by Fox News.
The letter is the latest in a series of efforts by House
Republicans to aggressively question the Justice
Department’s handling of investigations into Russian
interference in the 2016 election and possible coordination
with members of the Trump campaign.
Rosenstein denied the allegations after Jordan raised the
issue in an oversight hearing last month. Rosenstein said
the Fox News report was “mistaken,” that he did not
threaten to subpoena emails or calls, and “there’s no way
to subpoena phone calls.”
The Freedom Caucus is a hardline conservative group of
three dozen House members.
(Lindsey McPherson contributed to this report.)
 Gov. Mike Huckabee Drops A MOAB On Hillary Clinton
After She Questions Trump’s Loyalty To US
By Cristina Laila
July 16, 2018, 9:41 Pm

@POTUS never accepted $500K

dollars for 1 speech from
Russian bank, taken $140m for
his foundation from Russian
sources, or sold Russia 1/5 of
US uranium supply. Which team
are YOU on, Hillary?

As TGP’s Kristinn Taylor reported, sore loser Hillary

Clinton still cannot get over being defeated by Donald
Trump for the presidency nearly two years ago now.
Sunday night, on the eve of President Trump’s summit in
Finland with Russian President Vladimir Putin, Clinton
trolled Trump on Twitter, questioning his loyalty to the
Unites States.
The President didn’t hold back at the press conference on
Hillary had the nerve to tweet this after she paid millions Monday; he even slammed Hillary Clinton and brought up
of dollars for a fake Russia dossier and sold 20% of our her 33,000 bleached bit emails.
Uranium to Russia in exchange for $150 million to the
Clinton Foundation. Russian President VladimirPutin
dropped a bombshell and set social
Hillary tweeted, “Great World Cup. Question for President media ablaze.
Trump as he meets Putin: Do you know which team you
play for?”
Putin dropped a bomb and claimed US Intel helped
American-born British financier, Bill Browder, move $400
million to Hillary Clinton’s campaign.

Vladimir Putin:

Last year there was one extradition case by

the United States… Mueller can use this
treaty as an official request to us… in this
case this kind of effort should be a
Governor Mike Huckabee dropped a reciprocal one… For instance we can bring
MOAB on Hillary Monday in response to up Mr. Browder… They sent a huge
her questioning President Trump’s amount of money $400,000,000 to Hillary
loyalty to the US. Clinton! …So we have solid reason to
believe that some [US] intelligence offers
Via Gov. Mike Huckabee: accompanied and guided these
transactions. So we have an interest in
Hillary tweeted, “Q for Trump
questioning them.
as he meets Putin: Do U know
which team you play for?”

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In a grotesque display of unabated hubris, Hillary Clinton
attacked President Trump again to deflect from her own
corruption.
Hillary tweeted in response to her previous troll,
“Well, now we know.” [which team you play
for]
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If Hillary Clinton won the 2016 election, we would
probably be at war with Russia right now.
Hillary’s loyalty lies with whomever gives her money
which is why she used a private server to wheel and deal
with foreign factions while she was the head of the State
Department.
 Kevin Shipp:
‘Indictments Are Coming…Trump Cannot Be Bribed’
Mac Slavo
July 16th, 2018
Shipp continued saying,
Whistleblower and former CIA officer Kevin Shipp stated
clearly that indictments are coming for Hillary Clinton and
the deep state because Donald Trump cannot be bribed. In
an interview with USA Watchdog‘s Greg Hunter, Shipp
says this deep state espionage will eventually be exposed
to the public.
During his discussion with Hunter, Shipp says that what
Hillary Clinton did with her charity and Uranium One
while she was Secretary of State was a crime for the
history books. Shipp explains,
“Hillary Clinton used this to launder money
in foreign banks so it wasn’t subject to U.S.
laws, congressional subpoenas, or FOIA
demands for the evidence.
This was done to launder this money
globally into the Clinton Foundation so
the U.S. government could not examine
it at all.”
Hunter then brings up the concerns most Americans have:
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“Obviously [Hillary’s] not stupid, she is
diabolical,” says Shipp of Hillary Clinton’s
decision to have an unsecured server as
Secretary of State. “She knew darn well
what she was doing…the Clinton
Foundation is a global crime syndicate.”
“we just found out recently that…at least
30,000 of her emails went to a foreign
entity that was not on any of the distribution
lists…they’re trying to figure out who that is
now…this reeks of espionage to me.”
“The most bizarre thing is the people who
protected her from clear felonious activity
and violations of the Espionage Act.
James Clapper, Director of National
Intelligence, was protecting her and leaking
things to the media and lying. You had
John Brennan, Director of the CIA,
protecting her by starting a false
investigation (on Trump) and stirring things
up with this (false/unverified) dossier. You
had James Comey, Director of the FBI,
protecting her. . . . Then, you’ve got Peter
Strzok protecting her, and now it appears
the United Kingdom GCHQ was using NSA
information to target Donald Trump and
protect Hillary Clinton.
You have to ask yourself what kind of
power or connections does this woman
have to get all of these members of the
Deep State, Shadow Government to risk
their own criminal penalties to protect
her and try to get her elected? That is
the Shadow Government. That is the
Deep State. That is what is so chilling
about this whole thing. . . . This is deep.
This is dark. This is as dark as it gets,
and this is the biggest espionage case
involving government officials in the
history of this country.” -Kevin Shipp
 No one will go to jail because the will charges. They are going to be brought
government will never implicate to justice because Shipp says,
themselves. In response, Shipp points out
“indictments are coming because of
that, this time, it will not be business as
Donald Trump coming into the White
usual for the “Deep State and Shadow
House from the outside. Trump cannot
Government.” It is possible that the people
be bribed.”
involved in this massive espionage case
.

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Democrat Activist Calls For Hillary Clinton To ‘Take Over
‘ Presidency In Wake Of Trump-Putin Summit
By Kristinn Taylor
July 16, 2018, 10:25 Pm

“The nation’s largest grassroots Resistance

organization. We campaign for Democrats,
investigate Trump/GOP and we fight
foreign influence. #TheResistance”

Democrats are growing increasingly hysterical over

President Donald Trump’s meeting with Russian President
Vladimir Putin Monday. Some protested outside the White
House Monday night when Trump returned, while others,
like Scott Dworkin, called for the removal of Trump and Scott Dworkin, image via Twitter avatar.
Vice President Mike Pence from office and for defeated
2016 Democrat presidential nominee Hillary Clinton to
Dworkin has 359,000 followers on Twitter, the Democratic
“take over”.
Coalition has 163,000 followers.

Dworkin posted Monday night,

“Trump and Pence should be removed

from office and we should either have a
new election, or Hillary Clinton should take
over. That’s how we beat Putin. There is no
other way. #ImpeachTrump”

President Donald J. Trump and President Vladimir Putin of the

Russian Federation | July 16, 2018 (Official White House Photo by
Shealah Craighead)

Dworkin describes himself on Twitter,

“Co-Founder @TheDemCoalition. Video by Buzzfeed reporter Tarini Parti of protesters

#DworkinReport podcast host. #AMJoy on outside the White House Monday night.
MSNBC Contributor. Proud member of
#TheResistance. Helped uncover
#TrumpRussia scandal.”

The Democratic Coalition’s about on Twitter reads,

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 Hillary Clinton adviser Adam Parkhomenko says the
protesters will be back Tuesday night.

And by Alejandro Alvarez:

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 Trump Calls Off Cold War II
Pat Buchanan Responds To John Brennan Vitriol With Patrick Henry Quote
Patrick J. Buchanan
July 16, 2018
Beginning his joint press conference with Vladimir Putin,
President Trump declared that U.S. relations with Russia
have “never been worse.”
He then added pointedly, that just changed “about four
hours ago.”
It certainly did. With his remarks in Helsinki and at the
NATO summit in Brussels, Trump has signaled a historic
shift in U.S. foreign policy that may determine the future
of this nation and the fate of his presidency.
He has rejected the fundamental premises of American
foreign policy since the end of the Cold War and blamed
our wretched relations with Russia not on Vladimir Putin,
but squarely on the U.S. establishment.
In a tweet prior to the meeting, Trump indicted the elites of
both parties:
“Our relationship with Russia has NEVER
been worse thanks to many years of U.S.
foolishness and stupidity and now, the
Rigged Witch Hunt!”
Trump thereby repudiated the records and agendas of the
neocons and their liberal interventionist allies, as well as
the archipelago of War Party think tanks beavering away
inside the Beltway.
Looking back over the week, from Brussels to Britain to
Helsinki, Trump’s message has been clear, consistent and
startling.
NATO is obsolete. European allies have freeloaded off
U.S. defense while rolling up huge trade surpluses at our
expense. Those days are over. Europeans are going to stop
stealing our markets and start paying for their own
defense.
And there will be no Cold War II.
We are not going to let Putin’s annexation of Crimea or aid
to pro-Russian rebels in Ukraine prevent us from working
on a rapprochement and a partnership with him, Trump is
saying. We are going to negotiate arms treaties and talk out
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our differences as Ronald Reagan did with Mikhail
Gorbachev.
Helsinki showed that Trump meant what he said when he
declared repeatedly,
“Peace with Russia is a good thing, not a
bad thing.”
On Syria, Trump indicated that he and Putin are working
with Bibi Netanyahu, who wants all Iranian forces and
Iran-backed militias kept far from the Golan Heights. As
for U.S. troops in Syria, says Trump, they will be coming
out after ISIS is crushed, and we are 98 percent there.
That is another underlying message here: America is
coming home from foreign wars and will be shedding
foreign commitments.
Both before and after the Trump-Putin meeting, the cable
news coverage was as hostile and hateful toward the
president as any this writer has ever seen. The media may
not be the “enemy of the people” Trump says they are, but
many are implacable enemies of this president.
Some wanted Trump to emulate Nikita Khrushchev, who
blew up the Paris summit in May 1960 over a failed U.S.
intelligence operation – the U-2 spy plane shot down over
the Urals just weeks earlier.
Khrushchev had demanded that Ike apologize. Ike refused,
and Khrushchev exploded. Some media seemed to be
hoping for just such a confrontation.
When Trump spoke of the “foolishness and stupidity” of
the U.S. foreign policy establishment that contributed to
this era of animosity in U.S.-Russia relations, what might
he have had in mind?
Was it the U.S. provocatively moving NATO into Russia’s
front yard after the collapse of the USSR?
Was it the U.S. invasion of Iraq to strip Saddam Hussein of
weapons of mass destruction he did not have that plunged
us into endless wars of the Middle East?
Was it U.S. support of Syrian rebels determined to oust
Bashar Assad, leading to ISIS intervention and a seven-
year civil war with half a million dead, a war which Putin
eventually entered to save his Syrian ally?
Was it George W. Bush’s abrogation of Richard Nixon’s
ABM treaty and drive for a missile defense that caused
Putin to break out of the Reagan INF treaty and start
deploying cruise missiles to counter it?
Was it U.S. complicity in the Kiev coup that ousted the
elected pro-Russian regime that caused Putin to seize
Crimea to hold onto Russia’s Black Sea naval base at
Sevastopol?
Many Putin actions we condemn were reactions to what
we did.
Russia annexed Crimea bloodlessly. But did not the U.S.
bomb Serbia for 78 days to force Belgrade to surrender her
cradle province of Kosovo?
How was that more moral than what Putin did in Crimea?
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If Russian military intelligence hacked into the emails of
the DNC, exposing how they stuck it to Bernie Sanders,
Trump says he did not collude in it. Is there, after two
years, any proof that he did?
Trump insists Russian meddling had no effect on the
outcome in 2016 and he is not going to allow media
obsession with Russiagate to interfere with establishing
better relations.
Former CIA Director John Brennan rages that,
“Donald Trump’s press conference
performance in Helsinki … was …
treasonous. … He is wholly in the pocket of
Putin. Republican Patriots: Where are
you???”
Well, as Patrick Henry said long ago,
“If this be treason, make the most of it!”
 ‘American Patriot’:
Australian PM Backs Donald Trump,
Defends Putin Meeting
AP/Alex Brandon, Pablo Martinez Monsivais
17 Jul 2018
Australia’s Prime Minister Malcolm
Turnbull has come out in full support of
U.S. President Donald Trump and his
meeting with Russian President
Vladimir Putin, calling Mr. Trump an
“American patriot” who is loyally
serving his country to the utmost 0f his
ability.
Mr. Turnbull was speaking on the Miranda Devine Live
program on the Sydney Daily Telegraph website after
being asked if President Trump was a “traitor” for holding
a joint press conference with Mr. Putin in Helsinki. Mr.
Turnbull said:
Of course not. Donald Trump is a
patriot.
He’s an American patriot and his job is
representing his country and he’s doing
that to the best of his ability just like I
.
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represent my country Australia to the
best of my ability.
I think he’s doing exactly what he said he’s seeking to do,
he believes it’s better to talk to people and to engage with
them and again this obviously has been highly
controversial in America and I don’t run a commentary on
Australian politics let alone American Politics.
This is the second time this year Mr. Turnbull has backed
Mr. Trump on the world stage.
In January, the Australian leader said Mr. Trump’s
sweeping tax cuts combined with reforms in corporate
regulation benefit the global economy.
Mr. Turnbull pointed to the International Monetary Fund’s
strong predictions of global economic growth in the wake
of the Trump tax cuts as testament to his economic drive.
Speaking during a radio interview, Mr. Turnbull happily
declared:
“Donald Trump is delivering on economic
leadership, that’s for sure” before outlining
his own close personal relationship with the
president.
“You’ve only got to look at the IMF to see
they regard the American tax cuts as being
very pro-growth,” he said. “And, of course,
because the U.S. is such a big part of the
global economy, that has lifted global
growth forecasts as well.
“You get plenty of criticism in public life, I
think you’ve got to expect it, I’m sure he
expected it,” he said.
 CNN’s Lemon Doubts We Can
Continue To Call Trump The President
By Nicholas Fondacaro
July 17, 2018 12:29 AM EDT
Following President Trump’s Monday press conference
with Vladimir Putin, CNN had worked themselves into a
maddening rage. So much so, that by the time they got
deep into their prime-time lineup hours later, their
programming resembled a DNC campaign planning
session or telethon rather than an objective news
organization.
On CNN Tonight, the melodramatic Don Lemon
questioned if the American people could continue to
identify Trump as the President.
“Can we still call President Trump the
leader of the free world? Can we still
call him the leader of the United States,”
he angrily asked. “He has gone from
snarling alpha dog in Brussels, blasting
our allies, to Putin's lapdog in Helsinki.”
He lauded Tuesday’s cover of the New York Daily News
which depicted PRESIDENT Trump (yes, emphasis mine)
shooting Uncle Sam in the head with the words “Open
Treason” emblazoned above.
“There have been so many moments
over the past year and a half where we
all thought that “this is madness.” But
this time is different. This is not just
Trump-being-Trump. This is something
no president in repeat memory has
done,” Lemon decried.
It's quite disturbing that the liberal media was so easily
willing and eager to throw around accusations of treason,
especially since it carries the possibility of the death
penalty.
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“Why? Why? You have to ask yourself
why. In the wake of all of this, you've
also got to wonder what Trump and
Putin said to each other behind closed
doors,” Lemon wondered, alluding to the
worst possibilities. “But one thing is for
sure. What we all saw and heard from
President Trump today was shameful,
and it demeans the honor it is to be the
leader of a free world. Can we still call
him that?”
Meanwhile, during the hour prior to Lemon, a raging Chris
Cuomo kicked off the show by appearing to amp up his
cohorts in the Democratic base ahead of the midterms by
asserting the President had betrayed America.
“I never realized that it could be
anything but sunny in Helsinki at this
time of year, until today. As you see
behind me, there's a little bit of a gloom
right now. It set in right after the world
witnessed a betrayal the likes of which
we've never seen,” he opined.
In introducing his lineup of guests for the night, Cuomo
touted how he had former Obama intelligence official
Leon Panetta to answer,
“what does it mean when a president
betrays his own country?” Exposing his
electoral intentions, he welcomed on “a
man who could try to unseat him in
2020, Ohio Governor John Kasich.”
 “Now, whatever died today, something
may have been born as well. For all the
emotion of the moment, the most
powerful force is fact, and we're going
to lay out an absolutely truthful account
of a day that is unprecedented in world
history. My friends, let's get after it,”
Cuomo proclaimed as the title sequence
commenced.
As Cuomo began questioning Panetta, he turned the drama
up to 11. Sounding as though they just had witnessed a
nuclear war, Cuomo asked:
“What we lived through today, you ever
see anything else like it?”
Completely skipping over presidential-approved atrocities
like the Trail of Tears and the internment of Japanese-
Americans, Panetta suggested:
“[T]his is probably the most tragic day in
the history of the presidency”.
Yes, it’s true that Trump’s actions during the press
conference were problematic and troubling. But the
media’s reaction has been completely over the top and out
of control. Such examples included a CNN analyst calling
for a “shadow government” to rise up and while major
outlets pushed the accusation of treason. This was not
journalism, it was activism. This is CNN.
The transcripts are below:
CNN Tonight
July 16, 2018
10:01:27 PM Eastern
DON LEMON: This is CNN Tonight. I'm don lemon. And what we
all saw and heard in Helsinki today is really frightening. An
absolutely shameful display by an American president with the
whole world watching.
(…)
LEMON: That was stunning to watch. President Trump caving to
Vladimir Putin, refusing to side with his own country. His own
country. Against an attack by a foreign foe.
(…)
LEMON: Wow. That was deflection. That was President Trump
trying to deflect, more interested in talking about the Democrat's
server than about what Russia actually did. It is pure capitulation
for him to stand next to Vladimir Putin and say he doesn't see
any reason why Russia would attack our democracy.
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“All I can do is ask the question,” that's not true. He can do a lot
more than ask the question. He can stand up for the truth and
condemn what we all know Putin did, instead of siding with
Russia. He could be a strong, tough leader, the person he thinks
he is instead of quailing beside the Russian strongman.
His own director of national intelligence, Dan Coats, saying this
today: “We have been clear in our assessments of Russian
meddling in the 2016 election and they're ongoing persuasive
efforts to undermine our democracy. And we will continue to
provide unvarnished and objective intelligence in support of our
national security.”
Can we still call President Trump the leader of the free world?
Can we still call him the leader of the United States? He has
gone from snarling alpha dog in Brussels, blasting our allies to
Putin's lapdog in Helsinki. Just take a look at the front page, this
is the New York Daily News, that's tomorrow. Accusing the
President of showing him shooting Uncle Sam in the middle of
Fifth Avenue, accusing him of treason I should say and shooting
uncle Sam in the middle of Fifth Avenue.
There have been so many moments over the past year and a half
where we all thought that “this is madness.” But this time is
different. This is not just Trump-being-Trump. This is something
no president in repeat memory has done.
(…)
LEMON: That needs to be fact-checked. Putin knows exactly
what he's doing there though, standing next to Trump and not
quite denying he has kompromat. But tonight, telling Chris
Wallace of Fox News that he doesn't have anything on the
President and at the same time managing to sneak in an insult.
(…)
LEMON: Vladimir Putin out-foxing President Trump at every turn.
And remember Putin is the man who supports Bashar Al Assad's
bloody regime, annexed Crimea, who is meddling in Ukraine,
who has been blamed for a chemical weapons attack on British
soil. This is the man President Trump says he trusts over his own
intelligence people. Why? Why? You have to ask yourself why.
In the wake of all of this, you've also got to wonder what Trump
and Putin said to each other behind closed doors. But one thing
is for sure. What we all saw and heard from President Trump
today was shameful, and it demeans the honor it is to be the
leader of a free world. Can we still call him that?
(…)
CNN's Cuomo Prime Time
July 16, 2018
9:00:38 PM Eastern
CHRIS CUOMO: I am Chris Cuomo and I never realized that it CUOMO: What we lived through today, you ever see anything
could be anything but sunny in Helsinki at this time of year, until else like it?
today. As you see behind me, there's a little bit of a gloom right
now. It set in right after the world witnessed a betrayal the likes of LEON PANETTA: This is -- this is probably the most tragic day in
which we've never seen. America's president sided with its the history of the presidency because a United States president
enemy today. Shock has turned to a national shunning as who’s elected to defend and protect the United States of America
America finds unity in President Trump's perfidy. against our adversaries stood up next to our adversary and said
he trusts the Russians more than he trusts our own intelligence
First up tonight, we have former U.S. intelligence chief Leon and law enforcement officials.
Panetta on what does it mean when a president betrays his own
country? And what does this mean for the GOP and efforts to (…)
oppose Trump? We have a man who could try to unseat him in
2020, Ohio Governor John Kasich. Now, whatever died today,
CUOMO: So what do we do now? I mean what is the rule book
something may have been born as well. For all the emotion of the
for when a president betrays his own country and sides with an
moment, the most powerful force is fact, and we're going to lay
enemy?
out an absolutely truthful account of a day that is unprecedented
in world history. My friends, let's get after it.
(…)
(…)
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 Deep State LOSING THEIR MINDS Over Trump-Putin
Summit; Try To Paint POTUS Trump As A Traitor
Posted On July 17, 2018

(National Sentinel) Panic: President Donald Trump sat

down for a formal face-to-face summit with Russian
President Vladimir Putin on Monday and the American
Deep State completely lost their minds.

Just a sampling of newspaper headlines and comments

from the usual suspects will give you an idea of just
how panicked they are that Putin might have revealed
information to POTUS Trump that could bring down or
expose any one of a number of them.

“Trump and Putin’s Love-In,” blared the

UK’s Daily Mail.
“Trump branded a traitor: Putin’s
Poodle,” The Daily Mirror blasted.
“Open Treason,” declared the New York
Daily News.

Washed-up actor and “climate change” believer Arnold

Schwarzenegger, who is involved in lawsuits against oil
companies over their alleged “role” in it, said POTUS
looked like “a little wet noodle” and a “fanboy” with Putin
(not that Trump’s jabs at Schwarzenegger’s failed attempt
at taking over “The Apprentice” has anything to do with
his animus towards POTUS).

Calls of treason are actually common (recognize a pattern

there?). They began yesterday with a tweet from Mr. Newsbusters has a video montage of cable news freak-
Treason himself, Obama’s CIA Director John Brennan outs.
(on CNN no less, so it must be true).

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What’s disgraceful wasn’t POTUS Trump’s performance,
which of course was going to be described in a negative
manner by a disgustingly dishonest media and Deep State.
It’s a disgrace to see so many people in our
country hoping that our president fails at
everything he tries.
Russia isn’t blameless and Putin isn’t a saint. If anyone
knows that it’s the president of the United States,
who gets briefed all the time regarding
nefarious Russian activity.
As a great power nation-state Russia pursues its own
interests just like we do and just like every other great
power nation state. If anything, it was Trump who went
into the meeting with the upper hand, having done more to
contain Russia than Obama ever even attempted.
What should Trump have done, brought a ridiculous
“Reset” button with the wrong Russian word on it like
Hillary Clinton did?
The fact is, nobody outside of a few people have a single
solitary clue about what Trump and Putin discussed. The
media’s treatment of their summit was a joke — and we
knew it would be — as is the Deep State’s
absolute unhinged reaction to it.
Treason? Really?
No. Not treason.
Panic.
As we reported yesterday, Putin dropped a
MOAB during a press conference that has
the Deep State and its sycophantic media
allies scared to death that more will come
.
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out about Obama’s and Clinton’s
abject corruption.
We noted:
During his presser with POTUS
Trump, Putin dropped a
bombshell intimating that U.S.
intelligence agencies assisted Bill
Browder, an American-born British
financier, with shuttling $400 million to
Hillary Clinton’s campaign.
At one point, the Russian president made
an offer to allow U.S. officials, including
Robert Mueller, to travel to Russia and
assist in the “Trump-Russia collusion”
investigation.
But then Putin dropped this massive bomb
asserting that the U.S. could reciprocate
his offer to help in one
of Russia’s investigations:
For instance, we can bring up Mr. Browder,
in this particular case. Business associates
of Mr. Browder have earned over $1.5
billion in Russia and never paid any taxes
neither in Russia or the United States and
yet the money escaped the country. They
were transferred to the United States. They
sent [a] huge amount of money,
$400,000,000, as a contribution to the
campaign of Hillary Clinton. Well, that’s
their personal case. It might have been
legal, the contribution itself but the way the
money was earned was illegal. So we
have solid reason to believe that some
[US] intelligence officers accompanied
and guided these transactions. So we
have an interest in questioning them.
That’s what the hysteria is about. Nothing more, nothing
less!
To raise the level of a summit to “treason” is to so
cheapen the word that it has no meaning. So there must be
another reason why all the key players are so freaked out
over this summit.
Trump knows things he’s not talking
about …. yet.
Senior Hillary Clinton Adviser Philippe Reines Leads Anti-
Trump Protest At White House, Blasts Air Horn At Trump
(VIDEO)
By Kristinn Taylor
July 17, 2018, 1:14 Am

Hillary Clinton loyalist Philippe Reines, who served as a

senior State Department appointee under Clinton and later
as campaign adviser for Clinton’s losing 2016 presidential
bid, organized a protest at the White House Monday night
timed for the return home around 9 p.m. EDT by President
Donald Trump from his summit with Russian President
Vladimir Putin in Helsinki, Finland earlier Monday.
Reines was joined at the protest by current Hillary political
adviser Adam Parkhomenko, who said Trump-hating porn
star attorney Michael Avenatti would be at the White
House to protest Tuesday night. Reines posted video of
himself holding an air horn loudly blaring a siren at the
White House. Reines said he would be blasting siren to
keep Trump awake.

“Hey @realDonaldTrump I’m the guy

outside your window blaring this at your
window. I’m gonna wait I a bit to let you
start dozing off. Then the air horns
come out. I’ve got two canisters. That’s
24 1-second bursts or 8 3-second
bursts. Any preference?” Philippe Reines, on right, Ian” on left, at start of White House protest,
image via Twitter.

Reines earlier in the day preparing to go on MSNBC:

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“If someone flew home from Helsinki
they’d get back to DC around 9pm.
Probably jet lagged. You know what I’d
hate if I just got back & needed to Here’s the plan: 8:30pm tonight in Lafayette Park, directly
sleep? A bunch of people outside my across from the North side of the White House. Please pass
home with bullhorns & air horns.I’ve this on to anyone who can join or help whip people up.
never started a protest. How does one (@MoveOn)”
do that @MoveOn?”

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 Reines thanks Rep. Joaquin Castro (D-TX) for speaking at
the protest,

“THANK YOU @JoaquinCastrotx for firing

up the crowd’! Means so much to ppl to
hear voices like yours. Marine One is on its
way. In minutes the Traitor-in-Chief will be
serenaded by 600+ ppl with whistles &
horns less than 100 yds from his bedroom
window. #OccupyLafayetteSquare”

“We have whistles for the 1st 50 to arrive

(whistles for recreational use…) and 128
sets of ear plugs. I’m the one on the right in
the phone, on the left is Ian. Come find us.
And folks this is makeshift. Don’t expect a
lot of organization. Definitely in need of
chants.”

Photos of Castro addressing the protesters:

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Videos posted by Reines from the protest:

Reines vowed to return Tuesday night,

“Need 28,000 to describe tonight. But in

280…WOW We. Were. Loud. No way the
traitor didn’t try to drown us out with
pillows. We are in his head. Special shout
out to @JoaquinCastrotx for coming and
firing up th crowd. Back at it tomorrow
night.”

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 Media hog and porn star attorney Michael Avenatti is
planning to be there Tuesday night, according to Hillary
Clinton adviser Adam Parkhomenko,

“Exciting news: I just got off the phone with

@MichaelAvenatti who is cheering on
#OccupyLafayettePark and he’s coming to
DC for night two: Tuesday at 7 PM. Spread
the word and let’s make sure we build on
what’s taking place tonight in a big way
tomorrow! #basta”

Reines is hoping to make the protest 24/7,

“Here are the White House protest rules as

explained to us tonight by the Secret
Service: Anyone can protest on
Pennsylvania Ave, from curb to curb, any
time. We used whistles, air horns. All
allowed. Anyone can go at 4pm or 4am to
bang pots & pans. Maybe 30-minute shifts
24/7?”

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Being that Washington, D.C. and the Beltway suburbs are
one of the most liberal parts of the country, they will have
no problem turning out a crowd for the duration of the
protest.

Will Hillary Clinton have the courage

show up in person to lead her coup, or
will she continue to hide behind her
minions like Reines and Parkhomenko?

Reines was appointed by Sec. Clinton to be Deputy

Assistant Secretary of State for Strategic Communications
under her during President Barack Obama’s first term.

Reines had served as Clinton press secretary during her

failed 2008 presidential campaign. In 2016 he served as an
adviser, playing the role of Trump in debate prep. Reines
posted a video clip of him trying to hug Clinton during a
practice run.

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 DEEP STATE Is REAL: CNN Analyst And Former CIA
Official Philip Mudd Calls On ‘SHADOW GOVT’
To Take Out POTUS Trump
Posted On July 17, 2018

(National Sentinel) Chilling: The hysteria surrounding

POTUS Donald Trump’s summit with Russian President
Vladimir Putin has led more than a few politicians and
pundits to say some ridiculous and extreme things.

The post-summit narrative that is the most extreme,

however, is that POTUS Trump somehow ‘sold out’
America (our America First president, by the way) and
that he’s a “traitor” — that because he didn’t tackle Putin
at the dais in front of reporters and handcuff him means
he’s treasonous.

Sen. John McCain, the quintessential Deep Stater who

gave a copy of the “Russia dossier” to the FBI, called what
was a simple summit between two great powers
“disgraceful” and “pathetic” (two terms he should be
intimately familiar with, given his scandal-laden past).

It’s beyond stupid to believe that nonsense, which means

the outlandish accusations and behavior is aimed at
discrediting the president and taking attention away
from what may be revealed in the coming days and
weeks following the summit.
What did Putin tell Trump in private? What information
was exchanged?
COOPER: Senator McCain is saying [the
joint Trump-Putin press conference] was
the most disgraceful display essentially by
an American president on the world stage.
Phil do you agree with that?

What’s gotten everyone so worked up that
one former CIA operative is now openly
calling for the “shadow government” —
the Deep State — to take POTUS Trump
OUT.
What in the world?
MUDD: I do, but you have to step back
even a short time after this and say, what
next? You’ve seen senators come out. In
the past, you’ve seen a senator in the midst
of a painful illness, Senator McCain,
Senators like Jeff Flake who are leaving
the Senate. Now you see Marco Rubio still
obviously in the fight speaking out.

Per Breitbart News: My question would be: when do members

CNN analyst and former CIA intelligence
official Philip Mudd wondered aloud
Monday when a shadow government will
emerge to oppose President Donald Trump
following a joint press conference with
Russian President Vladimir Putin in
Helsinki, Finland.
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of the president’s inner circle say “look, we
have an overseas dilemma where you are
portraying us, in terms of the American
government, as worse than a tyrant — that
is, Vladimir Putin.”
Secretary of Homeland Security came out
with statements this week about continued
Russian interference. This was not on
Obama’s watch. That’s this week. FBI
 director continues the investigation.
Department of Justice continues support
for the investigation. Congress continues
saying this investigation’s legitimate.
Curious point in American government:
when do we see almost a shadow
government come out and say “we
cannot side with the government,”
whether it’s the Cabinet or the Senate?
.
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It appears as though we’ve got an official answer to the
question,
“Is the Deep State real?”
Yes, and the unhinged members of it who cannot stand the
fact that POTUS Trump is operating on his own, without
them.
When you hear otherwise rational people say things like
this, we’re living in dangerous times.
 Deep State Is In A Panic Fearing Putin Shared With
Trump Devastating Information Not Yet Reported
By Jim Hoft
July 17, 2018, 6:30 Am
We reported over the weekend that –>
The Democrats, Deep State Mueller and
Rosenstein and their MSM are doing all
they can to prevent President Donald
Trump from meeting with Russian
President Putin.
Why are they so persistent in stopping
the President of the US from meeting
with Putin? You would think this was a
good thing, right?
President Trump is planning on meeting with Russian
President Putin over the next few days in Finland. These
will be the first scheduled meetings between the US
President, accused by the Democrats and the Deep State
and their MSM of the fake story of colluding with the
Russians during the 2016 campaign.
The Deep State is going crazy – CNN reports the
following –
“President Trump should cancel his
meeting with Vladimir Putin until Russia
takes demonstrable and transparent steps
to prove that they won’t interfere in future
elections. Glad-handing with Vladimir Putin
on the heels of these indictments would be
an insult to our democracy,” Senate
Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said in a
statement.
The top Democrat in the House, Rep. Nancy Pelosi of
California, tweeted, “@realDonaldTrump must
immediately cancel his meeting with Putin.”
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Far left VOX goes as far as to call the meeting a gift for
Putin.
Corrupt Rosenstein came out Friday with a quickly
scheduled presser to announce the indictment of another
12 Russians supposedly who interfered in the 2016
election. The case however, like the prior indictments
against Russians, appears weak at best. Numerous
observations already over the weekend show the
indictments are suspect.
So why are the Democrats, the Deep
State and the MSM so petrified of
President Trump meeting with Putin?
The answer is because they are
deathly afraid of not what Putin
might tell Trump but what
evidence Putin might have that
would indict their leaders in
prior criminal actions.
-> We nailed it!
Today [yesterday] during the presser
with President Trump, Russian
President Putin dropped a bomb on the
Deep State members in the intelligence
community, the Obama Administration
and the Clintons. As we reported today –
Putin offered permitting officials in the US, including
Mueller, to Russia to assist in their investigation of the
supposed Trump-Russia collusion story. Then Putin
dropped his bomb where the US could reciprocate Russia
in one of their investigations –
For instance, we can bring up Mr. Browder, in this
particular case. Business associates of Mr. Browder have
earned over $1.5 billion in Russia and never paid any taxes
neither in Russia or the United States and yet the money
escaped the country. They were transferred to the United
States. They sent [a] huge amount of money,
$400,000,000, as a contribution to the campaign of Hillary
Clinton. Well that’s their personal case. It might have
been legal, the contribution itself but the way the money
was earned was illegal.
 So we have solid reason to believe that Former Obama CIA Director John Brennan was not alone.
some [US] intelligence officers Hillary Clinton, James Comey, Democrat Congress
accompanied and guided these members as well as never-Trumper’s like Speaker Paul
transactions. So we have an interest in Ryan, all condemned the President.
questioning them.
Don’t believe their complaints for a minute. The President
was again outstanding. Watch for yourself. The Deep
State and the Democrats are terrified of what Putin may
have provided Trump. They all knew for some time that
they were the ones that colluded with Russia and they were
the ones vulnerable as a result. Their days are now
numbered and they know it.

Today the narrative again

shifted. The talk by the end of
the day was about Obama. He
was implicated in the Russia scandal by
The Democrats, the MSM and Deep Lisa Page. More texts were released
State are in a complete panic! showing Obama’s connections to the
scandal. Others in the news began
speaking of Obama being involved in
Obama gang members came out of hiding and screamed
Russiagate and the President noted on
with fear over what Trump may have learned from Putin,
Hannity that corrupt FBI agent Strzok
so much so that they claimed President Trump should be
reported ultimately to Obama.
impeached –
President Trump knows some things
that he is not yet letting out of the bag
and as a result the Deep State is in a
panic never seen before.

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 Rand Paul DEFENDS POTUS Trump
Against Hysterical, Dishonest MEDIA: ‘Trump
Derangement Syndrome’ Is REAL!
Posted On July 17, 2018
Via The Daily Caller:
(National Sentinel) Truth Bombs: The disgusting
establishment media is having a collective meltdown
following POTUS Donald Trump’s summit on Monday
with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
If it weren’t so pathetic it would be comical to watch these
clowns seriously entertain the notion that POTUS Trump
— who campaigned on Make America Great Again — is
a traitor to his country.
It’s just idiotic to believe that. Talk about your conspiracy
theories.
Monday evening Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., appeared on
chronically deranged CNN (why, we don’t know but it is
what it is). He not only defended the president, he called
out the lunatics over their “treason” “traitor” narrative
post-summit.
It really is Trump Derangement Syndrome.
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“Let me get right to the questioning. Do you
believe that President Trump’s meeting
with Putin made America safer?” asked
CNN host Wolf Blitzer. [This question was
asked as CNN ran the footer, “Trump
throws U.S. intelligence agencies under the
bus, refuses to say Putin attacked the 2016
election”]
“You know, I think engagement with our
adversaries, conversation with our
adversaries is a good idea. Even in the
height of the Cold War, maybe at the
lowest ebb when we were in the midst of
the Cuban missile crisis, I think it was a
good thing that Kennedy had a direct line to
Khrushchev.
“I think it was a good thing that we
continued to have ambassadors to Russia
even when we really objected greatly to
what was going on, even during Stalin’s
regime. So I think that it is a good idea to
have engagement,” Paul said.
“And I think that what is lost in this is
that I think there’s a bit of Trump
derangement syndrome. I think there are
people that hate the president so much that
this could have easily been President
Obama early in the first administration
setting the reset button and trying to
have better relations with Russia and I
think it’s lost on people that they are a
nuclear power,” Paul continued.
The Kentucky senator added, “They have
influence in Syria. They’re in close
proximity to our troops in Syria. They are
close to the peninsula of North Korea and
may have some influence that could help
us there. The other thing that’s lost and
people forget this completely, the
Russians tried to help us stop the
Boston marathon bombing. We actually
did help them stop a terrorist attack in
 St. Petersburg because we were Paul went on to say that “all of those things
communicating and exchanging are good, and because people hate Trump
information.” so much, all of that’s being lost.”

Absolutely spot-on, senator.

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 Stephanopoulos Demands Jeff Flake
Punish Trump by Blocking Supreme Court Vote
By Kristine Marsh
July 17, 2018 9:07 AM EDT

As ABC’s Good Morning America continued spinning
outrage over President Trump’s summit yesterday with
Vladimir Putin, anchor George Stephanopoulos turned to
anti-Trump Republican Jeff Flake for solutions on how to
stop Trump.
Before that, Stephanopoulos opened the show with a
somber rant against the President, absurdly claiming that
the fallout from this summit was so fierce it could get him
impeached for “treason:”
explanation. I think that's why so many
have gone to it. If that is what victory looks
like as the White House said, I think we all
would like to know what failure looks like in
a summit. That was just a shameful
performance, it really was.

It may have been the most fateful four

hours of the Trump presidency to date.
Take a look at what happened yesterday.
Vladimir Putin committed an act of war
against the United States, cyberwarfare
against our elections. We saw President
Trump by his side taking Vladimir Putin's
side nothing like that has ever happened
before. It is unlikely ever to happen with an
American president again. As you said,the
backlash is already growing. Democrats
using words like traitorous talking about
impeachment openly speculating
whether the President has been
compromised by the Russian president
and you’re also seeing while most
Republicans are holding ranks some of the
harshest criticism yet from Republicans,
even the president's closest allies saying it
was a serious mistake that has to be fixed.
After a report from foreign correspondent Terry Moran,
Stephanopoulos brought on Flake to reliably part from
party lines to bash President Trump. Right from the get-go,
Stephanopoulos appealed to liberal conspiracy theories to
see if Flake agreed, asking if he thought Putin had
compromising information on Trump:
GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS: You
tweeted out that the President's
performance yesterday was shameful. I
guess the big question is why? Why he did
it. Have you ruled out Vladimir Putin has
something on the president?
JEFF FLAKE: I would have no way of
knowing that. I'd have a hard time believing
that but it's certainly the easiest
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Stephanopoulos echoed Flake, calling Trump’s behavior,
“shameful” and continuing to bait the never Trump
Republican into validating the left’s paranoia.
“Shameful and we don't even know what happened in
those two hours when President Trump and President Putin
were alone. Don't we need to know what happened in
that conversation?” he gushed.
Flake called it a “big mistake” to not let the private
meeting between Trump and Putin be open to the media.
He slammed Trump as unsavvy on foreign relations and
claimed our allies were nervous for the direction he was
taking the U.S. with NATO:
Yes, we do. That was a big mistake to
meet alone. If the President is as confused
as he seems to be in terms of our
relationship in terms of what the Russians
are capable of, to meet privately with
Vladimir Putin is just wrong. I'm very
concerned, I think that our allies are most
concerned, particularly those that border
right on Russia. I was with a congressional
delegation in Latvia just two weeks ago and
what was unnerving is to hear them talk
about the propaganda coming from
Moscow that plays to about 40% of their
population which is Russian speaking,
about NATO being weak and the U.S.
 Being a non dependable ally for NATO and
then to have this kind of rhetoric from the
president just play so well into that has got
to be unnerving to them.
Stephanopoulos then played advocate for the Democrats,
repeating Chuck Schumer’s call for the administration to
face a grilling in the Senate to find out what happened
behind closed doors at the summit. Stephanopoulos
demanded Flake give in to Democrat demands. “The big
question now is what you can do about it,” he pressed:
STEPHANOPOULOS: You say you're
concerned. You say this was shameful.
The big question now is what you can
do about it. You're a Republican senator.
You've been quite critical as we said of the
President. Many are demanding you take
action as well. Senator Schumer said it's
time to ramp up sanctions, said it’s time
bring the president's team up to capitol
hill to testify about what happened and
demand extradition of the Russians. Are
you willing to call for that and are you
willing back it up with action?
FLAKE: I think we ought to do both of those
things. One, increase sanctions, obviously
we ought to target those who were
implicated with the indictments as well as
other Russian individuals. Second, we
ought to have the national security team of
the White House come up and talk to us on
Capitol Hill about what happened there.
Third, I think immediately the senate ought
to pass a resolution stating our support for
the intelligence community and that we do
believe them and we don't believe the
denials coming out of Vladimir Putin's
mouth. So I think that that can be done
immediately.
.
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Stephanopoulos wrapped up the interview by asking his
most biased question yet in the interview. The ABC anchor
and former Clinton White House staffer urged Flake to
block President Trump’s Supreme Court pick as
punishment for what he said about Putin.
"Senator, you have a lot of leverage.
One vote margin for the Supreme Court
in the Senate. If you withhold your vote
you can demand accountability from the
President, from his team. Are you
willing to do that?" he demanded.
Flake wouldn’t give a definitive answer on that one, but
didn’t put it completely off the table:
Well, I've used that on other issues like
tariffs where we can look at a defined
objective. For me it was getting a vote on
tariffs last week, and we did. It's more
difficult in this regard, however. The
President, the Constitution gives the
President a lot of power with regard to
foreign policy and we'd have to see if there
is an objective measurable that we can
demand before using leverage like this.
That's what I'm looking at.
Flake, is of course the unpopular junior Republican
Senator from Arizona who announced last January that he
would not be running again at the end of this year, by
grandstanding on the Senate floor in a tirade against
Trump. Since that tirade drew national headlines and
fawning cable coverage, Flake has been a go-to spokesman
for the media when they want to show Republicans who
are members of the #Resistance against Trump.
 HACKS! Left-Wing Media Cowards So SCARED Trump
Was Going To Get Us Into WAR Now CALLING
For One Against RUSSIA
Posted On July 17, 2018
(National Sentinel) Lunatics: Since POTUS Donald
Trump won the presidency in November 2018 various
Left-wing Democrats and their sycophantic propagandists
in the establishment media have predicted he would get
our country into a nuclear war.
In August 2017, liberal Foreign Policy asked, “Can
Anyone Stop Trump If He Decides to Start a Nuclear
War?”
The Boston Globe lamented in August of last year, “It’s far
too easy for Donald Trump to start a nuclear war.”
The same month uber-Left Guardian fretted,
“Trump has taken us to the brink of nuclear
war. Can he be stopped?
Far-Left Vox pondered in November 2017,
“Trump can’t start a nuclear war by himself,
but there’s not much stopping him.”
MSNBC hacks Joe Scarborough and bride Mika Brzezinski
voiced ‘concern‘ earlier this year that Trump would get
America into a nuclear exchange with North Korea.
And so on.
But now, after POTUS Trump’s landmark summit with
Russian President Vladimir Putin, some of these same
Left-wing hacks are clamoring for the president to declare
Putin’s 2016 election meddling “an act of war” which,
generally speaking, provokes some sort of military
response.
One of them is CNN host Chris Cuomo.
“The big, ugly white elephant in the room
will be the U.S. election hacking,” said
Cuomo. “We’ve been calling it meddling,
but I’m trying to stay away from the word
because it’s just way too mild. This is an
act of war.”
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CNN International’s Christiane Amanpour agreed with
Cuomo’s claims that “election hacking” was “war.” She
said,
“Yes, it is an act of violation of sovereignty
of the United States and the other
European countries that have been cyber
hacked on their electoral matters.”
The always unhinged Rep. Steve Cohen, D-Tenn., said the
same thing.
“No question about it,” he said, according
to The Hill. “It was a foreign interference
with our basic Democratic values. The
underpinnings of Democratic society is
elections, and free elections and they
invaded our country.”
This from the same hack who said disgraced FBI Agent
Peter Strzok deserved a “Purple Heart” for his pathetic
testimony last week before a joint House hearing.
First of all, Democrats couldn’t care less about
“democracy.” The Democratic Party cares about power,
pure and simple, and it doesn’t mind using violence and
intimidation to take it.
Secondly, what do these armchair warriors want POTUS
Trump to do — attack a country armed with thousands of
nuclear weapons as a response to this “act of war?”
Is that rational? Haven’t these same people
described Trump as “irrational?”
And here we thought the far Left was
petrified Trump was going to start a
nuclear war.
Now they’re practically begging him to.
Here’s another point to make: Do these lunatics seriously
believe that hacking and meddling is a one-way street?
Because it isn’t.
 Helsinki Theatrics: Trump Meets Putin
By Binoy Kampmark
July 17, 2018
Photo by Kremlin.ru | CC BY 2.0
The first official meeting between Russian President
Vladimir Putin and his counterpart Donald Trump was a
fairly casual, unpeopled affair, absent bureaucrats and note
takers. This was what both wanted in Helsinki, men who
believe in the gold weighting authority commands.
According to Masha Gessen of The New Yorker, their
meeting reflected “their shared understanding of power:
the triumph of nothing over everyone.”
The Helsinki meeting, on the surface, did more for Putin
than Trump, though the details about the actual discussions
are scant. “Why did Trump,” inquired former director of
the Central Intelligence Agency John Brennan, “meet one
on one with Putin? What might he be hiding from Bolton,
Pompeo, Kelly, and the American public?” Left, instead,
was a joint press conference that had the intended
rumbling effect, filled with distraction and fury inspiring
titbits.
Trump, showing his traditional hostility to the US
intelligence community, fell a touch short of publicly
believing the Russian president over his own aides.
“They said they think it’s Russia. I have
President Putin – he just said it’s not
Russia.”
His own director of national intelligence Dan Coats is of
the contrary view.
“We have been clear in our assessments of
Russian meddling in the 2016 election and
their ongoing, pervasive efforts to
undermine our democracy, and we will
continue to provide unvarnished and
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objective intelligence in support of our
national security.”
Even more defiantly, Trump’s views were being aired in
the aftermath of indictments against twelve Russian
intelligence agents accused of interfering in US politics, a
reminder that Robert Mueller has every intention of
keeping the issue of Russia and the 2016 election in the
news. This is standard fare for Trump; prior to breakfast at
Mäntyniemi Palace, he took the opportunity to fire a few
broadsides at the special counsel investigation,
characterising it a “Rigged Witch Hunt”.
The glacial state of US-Russian relations also came under
scrutiny, and for that, claimed the president, one need only
look to the poisonous well of US foreign policy. Such
audacious instances of self-inculpation are rare.
The Democrats, certain Republicans and the anti-Trump
fraternity, were not amused. The reaction was one of
stunned derision laced with jaw-dropping
consternation. Former House speaker, Newt Gingrich
assessed it as “the most serious mistake of his presidency”
which needed correction “immediately”.
Senator minority leader Chuck Schumer resorted to
hyperbolic comparison: “In the entire history of our
country, Americans have never seen a president of the
United States support an American adversary the way
President Trump has supported President Putin.” Siding
with Putin “against American law enforcement, American
defense officials, and American intelligence agencies is
thoughtless, dangerous and weak.”
Policy establishment wonks former and current screamed
treason. Brennan, who has made it a habit to attack the
elected head of his country, shows the yawning and
disconcerting gap between Trump the populist and the
intelligence services who seem to, in some quarters,
fantasise about a coup d’état.
“Donald Trump’s press conference in
Helsinki,” came Brennan’s assessment,
“rises to and exceeds the threshold of ‘high
crimes and misdemeanours’.”
Casting the pale light on Trump in such a way – that such
conduct was “nothing short of treasonous” – feeds the
desperate drive for impeachment.
Some of the responses have been unmoored from any
sense of proportion.
“I’m ready to call this the darkest hour in
the history of the American presidency,”
tweeted a despairing Garry Kasparov, a
person who has vainly railed against the
Putin apparatus for years. “Let me know if
you can think of any competition.”
The contenders are surely more plentiful than Kasparov
admits; the corruption of Watergate, the inglorious
elections that gave two terms of the Bush administration;
decisions made to expand warrantless surveillance and the
catastrophic invasion of Iraq in 2003 – all these provide
concrete examples of ruination and battering that have
given us the shoddy Republic we have today. The Trump-
Putin show is simply that, a boys’ own gathering where
dreams and delusions can be exchanged with minimal
impact. Showing fury and frothing rage at such acts is
precisely what the Trump complex feeds off, drawing in
critics and supporters alike.
In Russia, the details of the meeting matter less than its
fact, supplying a totally different angle on
proportion. Agendas are less significant than performance,
and no one is going to remember anything past the
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bromide exchanges in Helsinki. Relations between the
countries remain on their icy settings, with Trump
unmoved to change US policy towards Crimea’s
annexation in 2014 and the Iran nuclear deal. A new era in
US-Russian relations has been proclaimed without script
or object.
Apoplectic critics of Trump, having fallen for what they
regard as the grotesque and sinister, ignore the actual
machinery of policy making that is this administration.
The capital now runs on a set of parallel lines that never
threaten to meet, one set in the White House as a televisual
production with Making America Great Again as its pitch,
and others running through traditional establishments in
the State Department, the Pentagon and security annexes
who continue feathering the National Security State. Such
aides as national security advisor John Bolton and
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo are certainly not softening
to Putin.
The Trump show remains one of goggles and screen rather
than substance and product; and while Putin will have a
damn good go at convincing Trump to wind back the
Magnitsky sanctions and embrace the visage of
authoritarian confidence, that is something reserved for
domestic consumption. This show of nothingness, as
Gessen deems it, has yielded nothing.
Lisa Page Tosses FBI Sweetheart Peter Strzok Under Bus –
Tells Congress Their Text Messages “Mean Exactly
What They Say” (VIDEO)
By Jim Hoft
July 17, 2018, 10:08 Am

admitted her text messages with Peter

Strzok meant “exactly what they say.”

On Monday former FBI lawyer Lisa Page, who was having

an extramarital affair with fellow FBI Agent Peter Strzok
during the 2016 presidential campaign, testified before
Congress behind closed doors.

This follows Strzok’s horrendous testimony before the

House Judiciary and Oversight Committees on Thursday.

According to at least one GOP lawmaker Lisa Page tossed

her former lover under the bus during her testimony on
Monday.

Rep. John Ratcliffe (R-TX) told FOX and

Friends on Tuesday that Lisa Page

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 'Establishment' Going Into Total Meltdown
Over Trump - Putin Summit Hints Of Danger Ahead: Will
They Attempt To Carry Out A Coup To Complete
Globalists 'Take Down' Of America?
- Cornered Animals Are Never More Dangerous Than
When They Are About To Be Put Down
By Stefan Stanford - All News Pipeline - Live Free Or Die
July 17, 2018
While according to former CIA head and current MSM
'talking head' John Brennan, President Trump's news
conference on Monday with Russian President Vladimir
Putin was nothing short of treasonous, former US
Presidential candidate and long-time US Senator from
Arizona John McCain called the news conference "one of
the most disgraceful performances by an American
president in memory".
And while McCain didn't mention Russian President
Vladimir Putin's dressing down of Hillary Clinton nor
George Soros, the independent media was quick to jump
all over the shattering facts coming to the American people
from the Russian President, facts that President Trump
didn't disagree with.
In fact, in this tweet from President Trump soon after the
meeting and news conference, he doubled down upon the
corruption within the US deep state while tweeting:
'As I said today and many times before, “I
have GREAT confidence in MY
intelligence people.”'
And while he didn't specifically call out Obama's
intelligence officials in that tweet, he had done just that in
two tweets nearly 15 hours before, one in which he stated
"Our relationship with Russia has NEVER
been worse thanks to many years of U.S.
foolishness and stupidity and now, the
Rigged Witch Hunt!" while in the other in
which he claimed: "President Obama
thought that Crooked Hillary was going to
win the election, so when he was informed
by the FBI about Russian Meddling, he
said it couldn’t happen, was no big deal, &
did NOTHING about it. When I won it
became a big deal and the Rigged Witch
Hunt headed by Strzok!"
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And as 'awakened Americans', we shouldn't be the least bit
surprised that the msm began to claim that President
Trump was pushing 'conspiracy theories' yet as we all
know, sometimes 'conspiracy theories' are just the truth
still hidden behind lies from the elite in their attempts to
forever vanquish truth. And as anybody who reads ANP
knows, the lies had been flowing like raw sewage from the
mouths of Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and the corrupt
faction of the 'deep state' called the mainstream media for
many years .
As former CIA Officer and whistleblower Kevin Shipp
recently told Greg Hunter over at USA Watchdog, during
her time as head of the US Department of State, Hillary
Clinton was involved in the biggest treason against
America in history and as we've learned over the past
several years, the absolutely corrupted factions of the 'deep
state' within the FBI, DOJ, NSA and CIA were covering
up that treason and covering for Bill, Hillary and Obama
for many years as well. From Hunter's story:
Former CIA Officer and whistleblower
Kevin Shipp says what Hillary Clinton
did with her charity and Uranium One
while she was Secretary of State was a
crime for the history books. Shipp
explains, “Hillary Clinton used this to
launder money in foreign banks so it
wasn’t subject to U.S. laws,
congressional subpoenas or FOIA
demands for the evidence. This was
done to launder this money globally into
the Clinton Foundation so the U.S.
government could not examine it at all.”
Special Prosecutor Robert Mueller was
the head of the FBI while the Uranium
One deal was being done by Clinton and
the Russians. One fifth of U.S. uranium
production was bought by the Russians
in a deal Clinton pushed and approved.
 The Clinton Foundation received more
than $140 million from some of the
same Russian players who were
involved with Uranium One. Why didn’t
Mueller stop the deal? Shipp says,
“Mueller is either a complete moron,
which he is not, or he overlooked the
biggest counterterrorism cases in U.S.
history. It involved Hillary Clinton, the
Clinton Foundation, Uranium One and,
of course, the destruction of all the
emails and evidence and her secret
server, and on and on and on it goes,
and he (Mueller) ignored it all.”
How did she get away with obvious
crime? Shipp says, “The most bizarre
thing is the people who protected her
from clear felonious activity and
violations of the Espionage Act. James
Clapper, Director of National
Intelligence, was protecting her and
leaking things to the media and lying.
You had John Brennan, Director of the
CIA, protecting her by starting a false
investigation (on Trump) and stirring
things up with this (false/unverified)
dossier. You had James Comey,
Director of the FBI, protecting her. . . .
Then, you’ve got Peter Strzok protecting
her, and now it appears the United
Kingdom GCHQ was using NSA
information to target Donald Trump and
protect Hillary Clinton. You have to ask
yourself what kind of power or
connections does this woman have to
get all of these members of the Deep
State, Shadow Government to risk their
own criminal penalties to protect her
and try to get her elected? That is the
Shadow Government. That is the Deep
State. That is what is so chilling about
this whole thing. . . . This is deep. This
is dark. This is as dark as it gets, and
this is the biggest espionage case
involving government officials in the
history of this country.”
And while Shipp claims that this time around, it won't be
'business as usual' for the corrupt and that they'll certainly
be brought to justice because President Trump can't be
bribed, we'd never recommend that anybody hold their
breaths waiting for sweet justice to happen because we
might be holding it for a very, very long time.
With former FBI head and corrupt cop James Comey now
tweeting "patriots need to reject the behavior of this
president" sounding almost like a call for a 'deep state
coup', should President Trump suddenly and without
warning meet the same fate as John F. Kennedy, there'd be
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no doubt in the minds of most 'awakened Americans' who
likely did it.
And with the corrupt faction of the 'deep state' now in total
self-destruct mode after President Trump's meeting with
Russia's Putin and the mainstream media melting down
more and more by the moment, claiming the Putin/Trump
summit was 'an apocalypse', we should all be prepared for
the 'deep state' to carry out the false flag of all false flags
or an attempted coup. As we've long warned on ANP, we
don't expect that Hillary, Obama and the 'corrupted faction
of the deep state', quite literally wounded animals with
their backs against the wall, to go down without carrying
out their final 'temper tantrum'. From this Zero Hedge
story:
After former CIA Director John Brennan
called Trump's performance "nothing
short of treasonous" earlier in the day,
former FBI Director James Comey
issued what may be construed as a call
to action against a sitting US President.
"This was the day an American
president stood on foreign soil next to a
murderous lying thug and refused to
back his own country," adding "Patriots
need to stand up and reject the behavior
of this president."
While this appears to be the first time
Comey has suggested citizens rise up
against a duly elected sitting President -
the extreme end of which becomes a
coup, Brennan suggested last July that
White House officials refuse to follow
direct orders in the event that President
Trump fires Special Counsel Robert
Mueller.
"I think it's the obligation of some
executive branch officials to refuse to
carry that out. I would just hope that this
is not going to be a partisan issue. That
Republicans, Democrats are going to
see that the future of this government is
at stake and something needs to be
done for the good of the future,"
Brennan told CNN's Wolf Blitzer at the
Aspen Security Forum, effectively
calling for a coup against the president
should Trump give the order to fire
Mueller.
According to this recent story from Asia Times, President
Donald Trump is correct to blame the bad blood between
the US and Russia upon Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton
and the corrupted US deep state.
Claiming that those who are most upset right now are by the corrupted faction of the deep state scrambling soon
those who tried to redesign Russia in America's image, after 12 Russians were indicted for alleged election
attempts that clearly failed, statements made by President interference. And for those who may have missed it, we've
Trump that embedded Greg Hunter's viral and must-see interview with
Kevin Shipp as the final video below.
"I would rather take a political risk in pursuit
of peace than to risk peace in pursuit of
politics" is one the entire Democratic
establishment can learn from.

Yet instead of seeing the very bright side of the two most
powerful nuclear armed nations in the world getting along,
they treat President Trump as if he is the 'enemy of the
American people' rather than the first true American
president that we've had in a very, very long time with
Barack Obama selling us out to the globalists.

And with Shipp warning that President Trump will bring

indictments against the corrupted deep state sometime in
the future, specifically calling out Hillary for treason, the
chance of 'enemies of America within' carrying out some
kind of false-flag attack on America to take the attention
away from what is about to be exposed to the still-sleeping
masses continues to grow every day.

So we pray that God cloaks President Trump with his

armor in the potentially dangerous days ahead.

The first video below is the full press conference between

President Trump and Vladimir Putin from the White House
Youtube channel while the 2nd video below from the
X22Report takes a look at the desperation being exposed

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 RUSSIA READY To Send Request To US Over Bill
Browder And His $400,000 In Controversial
Donations To US Democrats
By Jim Hoft
July 17, 2018, 12:31 Pm
President Donald Trump and President
Vladimir Putin held a joint press
conference Monday in Helsinki, Finland.
During the press conference Putin dropped a major bomb!
Putin accused Bill Browder of donating $400,000,000 to
HILLARY CLINTON!!!
(Update: Russian Tass news
says the amount was
$400,000 – a mistranslation.)
Vladimir Putin: Last year there was one extradition case by
the United States… Mueller can use this treaty as an
official request to us… in this case this kind of effort
should be a reciprical one… For instance we can bring up
Mr. Browder… They sent a huge amount of money
$400,000,000 to Hillary Clinton!
Putin offered permitting officials in the US, including
Mueller, to Russia to assist in their investigation of the
supposed Trump-Russia collusion story. Then Putin
dropped his bomb where the US could reciprocate Russia
in one of their investigations –
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For instance, we can bring up Mr. Browder, in this
particular case. Business associates of Mr. Browder have
earned over $1.5 billion in Russia and never paid any taxes
neither in Russia or the United States and yet the money
escaped the country. They were transferred to the United
States. They sent [a] huge amount of money,
$400,000,000, as a contribution to the campaign of Hillary
Clinton. Well that’s their personal case. It might have
been legal, the contribution itself but the way the money
was earned was illegal.
So we have solid reason to
believe that some [US]
intelligence officers
accompanied and guided these
transactions. So we have an
interest in questioning them.
On Tuesday Russian Tass reported that
Russia is ready to send a request to the
US deep state over Bill Browder’s
questioning.
The Russian Prosecutor General’s Office is ready to send a
request for the questioning of staffers of US intelligence
services and public officers within the framework of a
criminal case against Hermitage Capital founder William
Browder, prosecutors’ spokesman Alexander Kurennoy
told a briefing on Tuesday.
“Within the framework of a probe into a
criminal case against William Browder
and his criminal group, we are ready to
send another request to the US
competent agencies for a possibility to
question these staffers of US special
services, some other public officers of
the US and a number of entrepreneurs
in order to later charge them with the
crimes committed by Browder,”
Kurennoy said.
Browder has transferred $400,000 to
accounts of the US Democratic Party,
Kurennoy said.
 Have Mueller And Rosenstein
Finally Gone Too Far?
By Thomas Knapp
July 17, 2018
Friday the 13th is presumably always someone’s unlucky
day. Just whose may not be obvious at the time, but I
suspect that “Russiagate” special counsel Robert Mueller
and Deputy US Attorney General Rod Rosenstein already
regret picking Friday, July 13 to announce the indictments
of 12 Russian intelligence officers on charges relating to
an embarrassing 2016 leak of Democratic National
Committee emails. They should.
Legally, the indictments are of almost no value. Those
indicted will never be extradited to the US for trial, and the
case that an external “hack” — as opposed to an internal
DNC leak — even occurred is weak at best, if for no other
reason than that the DNC denied the FBI access to its
servers, instead commissioning a private “cybersecurity
analysis” to reach the conclusion it wanted reached before
hectoring government investigators to join that conclusion.
Diplomatically, on the other hand, the indictments and the
timing of the announcement were a veritable pipe bomb,
thrown into preparations for a scheduled Helsinki summit
between US President Donald Trump and Russian
President Vladimir Putin.
House Republicans, already incensed with Rosenstein over
his attempts to stonewall their probe into the Democratic
Party’s use of the FBI as a proprietary political hit squad,
are planning a renewed effort to impeach him. If he goes
down, Mueller likely does as well. And at this point, it
would take a heck of an actor to argue with a straight face
that the effort is unjustified.
Their timing was clearly intentional. Their intent was
transparently political. Mueller and Rosenstein were
.
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attempting to hijack the Trump-Putin summit for the
purpose of depriving Trump of any possible “wins” that
might come out of it.
They secured and and announced the indictments “with
intent to influence the measures or conduct of any foreign
government or of any officer or agent thereof, in relation to
any disputes or controversies with the United States, or to
defeat the measures of the United States.”
That language is from 1799’s Logan Act (18 U.S.C § 953).
Its constitutionality is suspect and no one has ever been
indicted under it in the 219 years since its passage.
Rosenstein and Mueller aren’t likely to be the first two,
and may not even technically have violated its letter. But
I’d be hard put to name a more obvious, intentional, or
flagrant act in violation of its spirit.
Rosenstein and Mueller are attempting to conduct foreign
policy by special prosecutor, a way of doing things found
nowhere in the US Constitution. Impeachment or firing
should be the least of their worries. I’m guessing that there
are laws other than the Logan Act that could, and should,
be invoked to have them fitted for orange coveralls and leg
irons pending an appointment with a judge.
That they even have defenders is proof positive that some
of Trump’s most prominent opponents consider “rule of
law” a quaint and empty concept — a useful slogan,
nothing more — even as they continually, casually, and
hypocritically invoke it whenever they think doing so
might politically disadvantage him.
 Rand Paul: President Trump Should Be
Commended For Trying To Prevent World War III
By Cassandra Fairbanks
July 17, 2018, 12:38 Pm

adversaries to try to prevent us from

having World War 3.”
“We have to deal with the world as it is, not
as we wish it to be, and if we’re only going
to talk to people who have perfect
constitutional republics, we’re going to
have a very small audience and we’re
going to have a lot of potential conflicts with
no outlet for diplomacy,” he added.

President Trump took to Twitter Tuesday morning to thank

While much of DC has been feigning exaggerated outrage the Kentucky senator for his support.
over Donald Trump meeting with Russian President
Vladimir Putin, Senator Rand Paul has been consistently
defending diplomacy and believes the president should be
lauded for trying to “prevent us from having World War
3.”

Appearing on CBS This Morning on Tuesday, Senator Paul

asserted that “the president did a good thing by meeting
with Putin and I think it’s a mistake for people to try to
turn this into a partisan escapade.”

On Monday, Senator Paul announced that he will be

traveling to Russia to pursue a constructive dialogue with
Moscow.

“In just a few weeks, I will take my own trip

“Yes, the vast majority of the foreign
policy community, the bipartisan
consensus said you shouldn’t meet with
Putin,” Paul said. “They also said he
shouldn’t meet with Kim and this is an
extraordinary thing about President
Trump that should be lauded and not
belittled is that he is willing to meet with
.
to Russia in an attempt to discuss common
ground with their leaders and help prevent
further, unnecessary escalation of
tensions,” Paul wrote in an op-ed for
Politico.
“I look forward to consulting with Trump
between his visit and mine and to working
with diplomats from both countries to have
a successful trip and better relationships,”
Paul added. “Millions of lives could be at
stake.”

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Corrupt Comey Attacks Sean Hannity And Tucker Carlson
‘Trump Should Sit Down With Serious Journalists’
By Cristina Laila
July 17, 2018, 1:16 Pm
President Trump held interviews
Monday evening with Fox News hosts
Sean Hannity and Tucker Carlson after
his meeting and press conference with
Vladimir Putin.
Corrupt cop Comey attacked the President for speaking
with Hannity and Tucker and suggested they aren’t
‘serious journalists.’
Comey also sarcastically said,
“I’m guessing RT [Russian Television] and
Sputnik were unavailable.”
Russians under every bed…
Comey tweeted: Having sold out our nation on an
international stage, Mr. Trump will now explain it all to
Sean Hannity and Tucker Carlson? I’m guessing RT and
.
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Sputnick were unavailable. He owes it to our nation to sit
down with a serious journalist.
Amazing how Comey is so Russaphobic considering he
signed off on FISA applications using a fake, Hillary-
funded Russia dossier as his intel source.
Perhaps Comey should take a look at himself being that his
media blitzes to push his book of lies have been with
Democrat media sycophants such as Anderson Cooper and
George Stephanopoulos.
TGP’s Joe Hoft nailed it!
Obama gang members came out of hiding and screamed
with fear over what Trump may have learned from Putin,
so much so that they claimed President Trump should be
impeached –
The Democrats, the MSM and Deep
State are in a complete panic!
This is precisely why corrupt Rosenstein came out Friday
with a quickly-scheduled presser to announce the
indictment of another 12 Russians supposedly who
interfered in the 2016 election.
 POTUS Trump ‘Clarifies’ Russian Meddling Remarks –
Media And Elites Freak Out Over Another Nothing-Burger
By Cristina Laila
July 17, 2018, 2:04 Pm
President Trump ‘clarified’ comments
he made about Russian election
meddling in a closed-door meeting with
Congressional Republicans Tuesday.
According to Senate reporters, President Trump says he
accepts the intel community’s assessment Russia meddled
in the 2016 election, however, the President stated
Russia’s actions had no impact on the outcome.
The President also reiterated there was no collusion
between his campaign and the Russians.
Via Fox News Congress reporter, Chad Pergram:
Trump: I have full faith and support for America’s
intelligence agencies..I always have. Russia’s actions had
no impact let me be clear. I accept our interest community
conclusion that meddling took place..There was no
collusion at all.
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President Donald Trump and President
Vladimir Putin held a joint press
conference Monday in Helsinki, Finland
and the media melted down.
The President brought up Hillary Clinton’s 33,000 missing
emails, the DNC server and Debbie Wasserman Schultz’s
Pakistani IT staffer, Imran Awan.
“What happened to the server? What
happened to the servers of the Pakistani
gentlemen that worked on the DNC. Where
are those servers?” President Trump
asked. “They’re missing. Where are they?
What happened to Hillary Clinton’s emails?
33,000 emails gone!” Trump continued.
To this day, the FBI has never done a forensic examination
of the DNC server so we have no proof it was even
hacked, and if hacked by whom?
The left would rather settle the score with bombs than have
civil discourse with Russia.
Once again the media and elites freak out over another
nothing-burger.
Developing…
 Louie Gohmert Doubles Down,
Labels Peter Strzok A ‘Scheming Serial Liar’
Nick Givas | Media And Politics Reporter
2:04 PM 07/17/2018

Republican Rep. Louie Gohmert of Texas took another “She’s a more a more contrite person. But
shot at FBI agent Peter Strzok on “Fox & Friends” make no mistake … she is a Democrat.
Tuesday and called him a “serial liar.” She wanted [former Secretary of State
Hillary Clinton] to win, and she did not want
[President Donald] Trump to win,” he
Gohmert said Strzok’s former lover, FBI lawyer Lisa Page,
added. “And that’s been obvious. There
was much more forthcoming than Strzok in her
were times the FBI lawyers would be
congressional testimony and doubled down on his original
reaching for the button to mute her
attack.
comment and she would answer before
they could mute her comment.”
“[Page] was much more forthcoming than
Peter Strzok. Some people got upset when
Gohmert claimed Page has yet to contradict Strzok’s
I called [Strzok] out for being the scheming
account of what occurred, but said she’s given Congress
serial liar he is,” Gohmert said.
valuable insight and is making the intelligence community
nervous.
Gohmert described Page as more genuine and regretful of
her actions than Strzok and said FBI lawyers continually
“She has given us more insight into who
muted her comments to keep her from answering certain
was involved in what,” he concluded. “Of
questions.
course, when I hear [former CIA Director
John] Brennan or [former Director of
National Intelligence James] Clapper either
say the kind of things they’ve been saying
recently, then it tells me wow, we must be
getting close to them. Those guilty dogs
are barking pretty loud. I think she’ll be a
good witness.”
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 Robert Mueller Seeks Immunity For Five Potential
Witnesses In Junk Paul Manafort Trial
By Cristina Laila
July 17, 2018, 2:42 Pm

The Special Counsel says they aren’t

sure if they will call any of the witnesses
so they want to file the requests for
immunity under seal.

Robert Mueller
Robert Mueller is seeking to give
immunity to five potential witnesses in
the Paul Manafort trial according to a
new court filing Tuesday.
From the filing: “The motions indicate that the named
individuals will not testify or provide other information on
the basis of their privilege against self-incrimination, and
that the government is requesting that the Court compel
them to testify at the upcoming trial.”

Mueller is filing the requests under seal; Manafort is facing

charges of bank and tax fraud and his trial begins next
Wednesday in the Eastern District of Virginia.

The five potential witnesses have not been charged and

their identity has not been released to the public.

Via NBC reporter Tom Winter: NEW: The Special

Counsel’s Office notifies the court that they will seek
immunity for up to 5 people to testify under conditions of
immunity in the upcoming trial against Paul Manafort in
Virginia. They say these people have not been publicly
named before in the case.

Story developing….

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 “A Very Bad Guy” POTUS Trump SLAMS Ex-CIA Chief
John Brennan For Calling Putin Summit Performance
“Treasonous” (VIDEO)
By Cristina Laila
July 17, 2018, 4:07 Pm

“I think Brennan is a very bad guy and if

you look at it a lot of things happened
under his watch,” Trump told Fox News’
Tucker Carlson. “I think he’s a very bad
person.”

VIDEO:

President Trump slammed ex-CIA Chief John Brennan in

his interview with Fox News host Tucker Carlson set to air
Tuesday evening at 8 PM ET.

President Trump held interviews with both Sean Hannity

and Tucker Carlson Monday evening after he returned
from Helsinki, Finland.

The President also blasted Peter Strzok and his lover Lisa
Page as “bad people.”
On Monday, former CIA Director, John Brennan claimed
Trump’s presser with Putin exceeded the threshold of
“high crimes and misdemeanors” then said it was “nothing
short of treasonous.”
Brennan tweeted: Donald Trump’s press conference
performance in Helsinki rises to & exceeds the threshold
of “high crimes & misdemeanors.” It was nothing short of
treasonous. Not only were Trump’s comments imbecilic,
he is wholly in the pocket of Putin. Republican Patriots:
Where are you???
Fox News legal analyst, attorney Gregg
Jarrett CRUSHED John Brennan shortly
after he attacked President Trump’s
presser as “nothing short of
treasonous.”
Jarrett tweeted: Whenever John Brennan opens his mouth
or tweets he removes all doubt about his ignorance. He
clearly knows nothing about treason. The U.S. is not at war
with Russia. He should read professor Carlton Larson’s
excellent analysis of treason in @washingtonpost on 2-17-
17,

Investigative reporter, Paul Sperry summed it up perfectly,

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 “In 1975, Putin was recruited into the KGB
upon graduating from St. Petersburg State
U. The next year, John Brennan voted for
Communist Party candidate for president of
US. Today, Brennan alleged the president
was treasonous for meeting with the
Russian president. Who’s treasonous?”

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 Update: Mueller Suspected Of Giving Podesta Brothers
Immunity To Indict Manafort And Is HIDING
THIS FROM PUBLIC
By Jim Hoft
July 17, 2018, 4:34 Pm

The Special Counsel says they aren’t

sure if they will call any of the witnesses
so they want to file the requests for
immunity under seal.

Earlier today it was reported that Robert

Mueller is seeking to give immunity to
five potential witnesses in the Paul
Manafort trial according to a new court
filing Tuesday. It’s now suspected that
two of the witnesses are creepy and
criminal Podesta brothers, the
Democrats’ poster boys.

Mueller is filing the requests under seal; Manafort is facing From the filing:
charges of bank and tax fraud and his trial begins next
Wednesday in the Eastern District of Virginia. “The motions indicate that the named
individuals will not testify or provide other
The five potential witnesses have not been charged and information on the basis of their privilege
their identity has not been released to the public. against self-incrimination, and that the
government is requesting that the Court
compel them to testify at the upcoming
Via NBC reporter Tom Winter:
trial.”
NEW: The Special Counsel’s Office notifies
the court that they will seek immunity for up
to 5 people to testify under conditions of
immunity in the upcoming trial against Paul
Manafort in Virginia. They say these people
have not been publicly named before in the
case.

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 It’s now suspected that two of the criminals
that Mueller is aligning himself with are the
creepy and criminal Podesta brothers.

We’ve written extensively about the corrupt Podesta

brothers. John was Hillary’s crooked Campaign Manager
whose emails were released to the public before the 2016
election. These emails included numerous incidents of
criminal acts, pay for play by the Clintons and other
corrupt, elitist and dishonest behaviors. Apparently,
Manafort used to work for the Podestas.

This is outrageous and criminal.

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 Ex-CIA Chief Brennan Warns Intel Community
May Begin To “Withhold Vital Intelligence” From
President Trump To Protect Information
By Cristina Laila
July 17, 2018, 5:52 Pm

No CIA agent would have entertained an individual private

talk with any Russian, Mr. Brennan said, because “that’s
just something we don’t do.”

The former CIA director warned that Mr. Trump could

have potentially compromised or impacted intelligence
capabilities during that private meeting.

“I still don’t understand why he didn’t trust

John Bolton, Mike Pompeo to be in that
meeting,” Mr. Brennan said.
Former CIA Director John Brennan

Mr. Brennan said it would be “unbelievable” if Russia did

Former CIA Director, John Brennan
continued to attack President Trump on
Tuesday after calling his Putin summit
performance “treasonous.”
John Brennan, like every other hysterical leftist, is afraid
of what President Trump may have discussed during his
private meeting with Vladimir Putin.
In what sounded like a signal to Deep State operatives,
Brennan warned the Intel community may begin to
“withhold vital intelligence” from President Trump to
protect information.
not keep a single recording of Mr. Trump’s private
statements, but he wasn’t sure the U.S. did.
“I believe that whatever Mr. Trump said in
that meeting is now memorialized on
Russian tape and will be utilized by Putin
against Trump,” the former CIA director
said.
On Monday, former CIA Director, John
Brennan claimed Trump’s presser with
Putin exceeded the threshold of “high
crimes and misdemeanors” then said it
was “nothing short of treasonous.”

Via The Washington Times:

In light of Mr. Trump’s comments about the

intelligence community, Mr. Brennan said
“there very well might be” a shift in the
covert community to “withhold vital
intelligence” in order to protect that
information.
“Dan Coats and Gina Haspel need to be on
top of their game now and speak truth to
power,” he said, referring to Director of
National Intelligence Dan Coats and CIA President Trump slammed the former CIA Director in an
Director Gina Haspel. “And make sure interview with Fox News Tucker Carlson, calling Brennan
Trump doesn’t get away with this.” “a very bad guy.”

Mr. Brennan said Mr. Trump was “way, way out of his “I think Brennan is a very bad guy and if
depth” meeting one-on-one with the “master manipulator,” you look at it a lot of things happened
Mr. Putin. under his watch,” Trump told Fox News’

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 Tucker Carlson. “I think he’s a very bad If anyone compromised our intelligence capabilities, it was
person.” John Brennan and James Clapper, two corrupt criminals
who should already be in prison.
John Brennan is the puppet master behind the Trump-
Russia collusion narrative and he helped promote Hillary’s
garbage Russia dossier.

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 FIREWORKS! Tammy Bruce OBLITERATES
#Nevertrumper On Trump-Putin Meeting (VIDEO)
By Jim Hoft
July 17, 2018, 5:56 Pm

Sorry Evan.
It wasn’t Tammy’s turn to eat the
#NeverTrump crap you’re serving today.
Tammy Bruce completely obliterated GOP strategist and
#NeverTrumper Evan Siegfried on Making Money with
Charles Payne on Tuesday.
Tammy Bruce:
Excuse me… The thing I don’t like is this
attempt by liberals to cast anyone as
traitors or ignorant. It’s inappropriate and
beneath you.
This will make your day.
Via Making Money with Charles Payne:

It started when Evan started interrupting Tammy to defend

the deep state.

Tammy wasn’t buying it.

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 Media Collusion: CNN, MSNBC Personalities
To Trump Officials: 'You Must Resign!'
By Ryan Foley
July 17, 2018 6:27 PM EDT
For all of the talk about collusion between the Trump
campaign and Russia, the liberal media seems to have
engaged in a little bit of collusion themselves. On
six different programs over the past 24 hours, hosts either
suggested or asked their guests to weigh in on whether
Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats should resign
due to President Trump's refusal to accept the DNI's
assertion that Russia meddled in the 2016 election.
The latest montage of meltdowns came after President
Trump's Helsinki summit with Russian President Vladimir
Putin in Helsinki, Finland.
On Monday’s edition of The Situation Room with Wolf
Blitzer, host Wolf Blitzer asked Democratic operative Jake
Sullivan, who has worked for both Joe Biden and Hillary
Clinton, if he thought that Coats should resign.
After criticizing President Trump’s performance at the
meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in
Helsinki, Sullivan answered:
“I think the right thing for Dan Coats to do
would be to send a clear message and say
he can no longer serve this President.”
During Tuesday’s edition of MSNBC Live With Stephanie
Ruhle, Never Trumper and failed McCain campaign
official Steve Schmidt also urged Coats to resign:
“If Dan Coats has a shred of personal
dignity, he will resign. And he will resign in
a loud way and communicate to the
American people the danger of what we
saw yesterday.”
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During Monday’s extended edition of The Lead, host Jake
Tapper asked former FBI official and Comey aide Josh
Campbell if he agreed with former Bush administration
official Larry Pfeiffer’s assertion that “Dan Coats should
resign in protest and disgust”:
Josh Campbell, that’s not the only choice
facing Dan Coats of course, the Director of
National Intelligence. Larry Pfeiffer, who’s
a former CIA Officer, he ran the Situation
Room under President George W. Bush,
tweeted this afternoon “With Trump’s
repudiation of US Intelligence, Director of
National Intelligence DIrector Dan Coats
should resign in protest and disgust.” Do
you agree, Josh?
Just before heading to a commercial break on Tuesday’s
New Day, co-host John Berman asked the $50,000
question “Should Dan Coats resign?” He indicated that he
intended to pose that question to former Pennsylvania
Governor Tom Ridge, who served as the very first
Secretary of Homeland Security, in an upcoming segment:
President of the United States told the
world his own Director of National
Intelligence Dan Coats, doesn't take his
any word any higher than that of Vladimir
Putin. So what should Dan Coats
do? Should he resign? We’re going to
speak to someone who served in
Presidential cabinet, helped keep America
safe after September 11, Tom Ridge, joins
us next.
While interviewing Former Secretary of Homeland
Security Michael Chertoff on Monday’s edition of
Deadline: White House, host Nicolle Wallace wondered:
“How does Gina Haspel stay on the job?
How does Dan Coats stay on the job? He
has now rebuked their professional
assessment of Russia’s role in meddling in
the 2016 election.”
Chertoff told Wallace that he thought Haspel and Coats
should remain in their positions.
Switching back to the cable news world on Tuesday, At
This Hour host Kate Bolduan asked Minnesota Democratic
Senator Amy Klobuchar if Coates should resign after
playing a clip from former Acting CIA Director Michael
Morell stressing that
“senior officials in the intelligence
community need to ask themselves
whether they can continue to serve this
President and represent the men and
women in the intelligence community in a
way that is positive.”
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Klobuchar indicated that she did not think Coats should
resign, saying that she wants to “have some very solid
people in those positions right now,” referring to Coats and
Secretary of Defense James Mattis.
In all honesty, the media could care less whether or not
Director Coats resigns. They just see the hypothetical
resignations of Coats or other Trump Administration
officials as stepping stones in achieving their ultimate
goal: the premature end of the Trump presidency.
 Creepy Porn Star Lawyer Avenatti Calls Trump
“Manchurian Candidate” In White House Speech (VIDEO)
By Cristina Laila
July 17, 2018, 7:48 Pm

Michael Avenatti at White House; photo via Twitter

Michael Avenatti, lawyer to porn star

Stormy Daniels, declared President
Trump a “Manchurian candidate” in a
White House speech Tuesday.

Avenatti gave a speech in front of the White House

Tuesday evening as hundreds of protesters held up signs VIDEO:
accusing President Trump of being Putin’s puppet
following the Helsinki summit.

Avenatti said Trump is a “con man” who reads from a

TelePrompTer.

“To be clear, Trump yesterday lost any

chance he had of ever being a legitimate
American president,” Avenatti said.
“Indeed, yesterday was the day Donald
Trump all but acknowledged Vladimir Putin
as the real president of the United States.”
“Our troops didn’t die in Yorktown, didn’t
take Normandy beach, didn’t rebuild
Europe and secure the postwar peace that
you are now destroying, Mr. President, for
you to live as a Manchurian candidate in
our White House,” Avenatti said.

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 Unhinged Democrat Lawmakers Call For Trump’s
Interpreter In Putin Meeting To Testify Before Congress
By Cristina Laila
July 17, 2018, 9:08 Pm
On Tuesday, at least two Democrat
lawmakers called for President Trump’s
interpreter to testify before Congress
about his private meeting with Russian
President Vladimir Putin.
The Democrats are so unhinged and so afraid of what
President Trump may have discussed with Putin in a
private meeting, they are calling for the president’s
translator to appear in a hearing on Capitol Hill.
To hell with the translator’s professional ethics, executive
privilege or government rules, right, Democrats?
Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) said Trump’s interpreter
“can help determine what President Trump
shared/promised Putin on our behalf.”
Shaheen tweeted: “I’m calling for a hearing with the U.S.
interpreter who was present during President Trump’s
meeting with Putin to uncover what they discussed
privately. This interpreter can help determine what
@POTUS shared/promised Putin on our behalf.”
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Congressman Joe Kennedy urged
Republicans to subpoena Trump’s
interpreter immediately.
Rep Joe Kennedy: “@realDonaldTrump’s translator
should come before Congress and testify as to what was
said privately immediately. If Republicans are as outraged
as they claim, then issue the subpoena today,” he
demanded.
The Democrats and Obama’s Deep State thugs lost their
minds over Trump’s meeting with Putin.
During the presser with President
Trump, Russian President Putin
dropped a bomb on the Deep State
members in the intelligence community,
the Obama Administration and the
Clintons.
“For instance, we can bring up Mr. Browder, in this
particular case. Business associates of Mr. Browder have
earned over $1.5 billion in Russia and never paid any taxes
neither in Russia or the United States and yet the money
escaped the country. They were transferred to the United
States. They sent [a] huge amount of money, $400,000 as a
contribution to the campaign of Hillary Clinton,” Putin
said.
The Democrats, the MSM and Deep
State are in a complete panic!
 WAYNE ALLYN ROOT:
Trump’s Opportunity Of A Lifetime To Win
The Hispanic Vote
By Assistant Editor
July 17, 2018, 9:55 Pm
Today I offer a path to landslide victory for President
Trump and the GOP. A historic realignment is there for the
taking. President Trump has the opportunity of a lifetime
to win over Hispanic voters and clinch elections for the
GOP for decades to come.
Poll after poll proves Donald Trump has expanded the tent
in a way liberals and “Never Trumpers” never imagined.
Trump has locked up most white voters forever for the
GOP. The Democrat Party is poison to white voters. To
put it in kid’s language- white people think the Democrat
Party has “cooties.”
If Trump can now grab a significant portion of Hispanic
voters, it’s game, set and match…forever. Don’t look now,
but it’s doable.
First, Hispanic unemployment just sank to the all-time low
in June. Now comes the poll showing Trump’s approval
among Hispanics has soared 10 points in a month.
Here’s advice for President Trump on how to strike while
the iron is hot. Trump needs to give the following speech,
in a big arena, in a city with a large Hispanic population.
Hint: Las Vegas.
“Let me speak directly to the Hispanic American
community.
If anything has been proven by the recent immigration
debates, it’s that Democrats don’t care about you or your
family as people. They see you solely as votes.
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Well, I care about you as Americans contributing to
making America great again!
Here are the facts:
1. As President, my primary concern is your safety and
economic well-being. That starts by securing our
borders. No one suffers more than Hispanic Americans
when illegal MS-13 and drug gangs invade your
neighborhoods and come after your children.
No one suffers more than Hispanic Americans when the
labor market is flooded with desperate illegal immigrants
who take your jobs and depress your wages.
No one suffers more than Hispanic Americans when local
schools, hospitals and government programs are
overwhelmed by illegal aliens.
Do the Democrats care about that? Evidently not. They
want open borders and sanctuary cities.They want to
abolish ICE. It’s just about votes for these greedy, selfish
Democrats. They don’t care about your quality of life, or
your children’s future. I do.
2. I don’t want to deport millions of undocumented illegals
who are law-abiding, contributing members of society.
Many are your friends, neighbors, and even relatives.
To the contrary, every proposal I’ve put forward
includes provisions to help that group come out of the
shadows and live here legally. That includes provisions
for Dreamers brought here by their parents to have a
pathway to citizenship.
Neither I, nor a majority of your fellow American citizens,
believe those who came illegally should have a path to
citizenship. However, I do believe those who have become
contributing members of this great country should have a
path to permanent residency. It seems a reasonable price to
pay for an illegal act.
Do Democrats care about that? No, since they see them
only as votes, not as human beings. Surely most, if not all,
of these hard-working, undocumented individuals would
jump at the opportunity to become legal.
It’s clear the time has come for the Hispanic American
community to stand up and “change sides.” Who truly
cares about you? Trump Republicans focused on making
your neighborhoods safe; providing you jobs and higher
wages; lower taxes so you get to keep more of your hard-
earned money; and giving legal status to your friends,
neighbors, and relatives. Sound good? That’s behind Door
#1.
Or, behind Door #2, Democrats want open borders, so they
can keep you poor and dependent forever, so you’ll vote
for them.
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It’s time to choose. Stop listening to the fake news. It’s not
the Democrats who care about you. It’s Donald Trump and
the Republicans! We offer real solutions and a higher
quality of life. God Bless All Americans and God Bless the
United States of America.”
Give this speech. Campaign on it day and night. Trump
will get 40% to 50% of the Hispanic vote. Game. Set.
Match. Forever.
 Lisa Page May Seek Immunity,
Judicial Watch’s Chris Farrell Says
Former FBI Lawyer 'Has The Opportunity To Become The Anti-Strzok' By
Cooperating With Congressional Investigators
By Kathryn Blackhurst
Tuesday, July 17, 2018
Former FBI lawyer Lisa Page may “look for an immunity
deal” as part of her cooperation with congressional
investigations into allegations of anti-Trump and pro-
Clinton bias with the Department of Justice (DOJ) and
FBI, according to Judicial Watch Director of
Investigations & Research Chris Farrell.
“Well, I think Page has the opportunity to
become the anti-Strzok. She’s going to look
for an immunity deal, or at least being
treated as a cooperating witness. She’s
seen from last week what her boyfriend
was doing, and she’s probably a pretty
sharp attorney. She sees an opportunity or
an opening to kind of recast herself, and I
think she’s taking advantage of it,”
Farrell said Monday on Fox Business
Network’s “Lou Dobbs Tonight.”
Page, who engaged in an affair with FBI agent Peter
Strzok, testified before congressional committees in a
closed-door session for nearly five hours Friday and again
Monday in another lengthy closed hearing. Rep. Mark
Meadows (R-N.C.), a member of the House Committee on
Oversight and Government Reform, told reporters Friday
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that Page’s “willingness to cooperate today speaks well of
her.”
Rep. John Ratcliffe (R-Texas) told reporters Monday that
he found Page “a very forthcoming witness.”
“She gave us a lot of new information that
we didn’t have before. That will lead us to
ask for some more people to make some
more requests for information we do not yet
have,” Ratcliffe noted.
Page and Strzok became the focus of intense backlash after
an estimated 50,000 of their text messages, many of them
rabidly against Trump, came to light. Strzok, who testified
before committee members in closed sessions and in a
raucous public hearing last week, was a top FBI
counterintelligence official and participated in special
counsel Robert Mueller’s probe into allegations of
collusion between aides to President Donald Trump’s 2016
campaign and Russian interests.
Strzok was also a key figure in the FBI’s probe into 2016
Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton’s use of a
private email server to conduct official business as
secretary of state. Mueller removed Strzok from his team
after the anti-Trump and pro-Clinton text messages with
Page came to his attention.
Although GOP lawmakers praised Page’s cooperation,
Strzok earned no such praise.
“[Strzok] was not a credible witness, and I
think his explanations didn’t hold water,”
 Rep. Ron DeSantis (R-Fla.), a member of
both the House Committee on the Judiciary
and the House Committee on Oversight
and Government Reform, said Thursday on
Fox News’ “The Ingraham Angle.” “I think
the public got to see the bias.”
Farrell told host Lou Dobbs that it wasn’t enough that Page
was deposed to appear before lawmakers.
“I want [former President Barack] Obama
deposed,” Farrell said, pointing to the
“substantial evidence” implicating that the
.
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DOJ failed to turn over requested text
messages. “There’s an earlier text
message from Page where she says,
‘POTUS wants to know everything we’re
doing.'”
“How much more evidence do we need? At
what point does Mr. Obama come out of
hiding and offer his version of the facts?
That’s my question,” Farrell added. “All the
hysteria over [Russian] hacking was all on
Obama’s watch. Where’s the
accountability? I want him deposed.”
 Fired FBI Director James Comey:
‘Vote Democrat This Fall’
By Kristinn Taylor
July 17, 2018, 10:23 Pm
Fired FBI Director James Comey, still unhinged over
President Donald Trump’s meeting Monday with Russian
President Vladimir Putin in Finland, called on voters to
give control of Congress to the Democrats, claiming that
the GOP-led Congress has failed in its constitutional role
role and cited “History”. Unstated by the Trump-hating
Comey is that a Democrat Congress would be more
inclined to impeach and remove Trump from office.
James Comey.
“This Republican Congress has proven
incapable of fulfilling the Founders’
design that “Ambition must …
counteract ambition.” All who believe in
this country’s values must vote for
Democrats this fall. Policy differences
don’t matter right now. History has its
eyes on us.”
The quote cited by Comey is by James Madison. Fox
News’ Chad Pergram wrote about it in 2012 during the
battle between the GOP-controlled House and Democrat
Attorney General Eric Holder, which ended with Holder
being held in contempt of Congress.
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“Ambition must be made to counteract
ambition,” wrote James Madison in
Federalist Paper #51.
The Founders were suspect of government. And so when
they mulled ideas about how to form the American
government, they strove to make power disparate, strewn
across the branches. Madison asserted that this was
“essential to the preservation of liberty.”
He wrote that “each department should have a will of its
own: and consequently should be so constituted that the
members of each should have as little agency as possible
in the appointment of the members of the others.” Madison
believed that subdividing power in this manner created
what he called a “double security” to protect the people.
“The different governments will control
each other, at the same time that each will
be controlled by itself.”
But Madison was clear that he believed the legislative
branch should be the most-powerful area of government. It
was ultimately the voice of the people.
Madison fought to inoculate each branch
and department of the federal government
from the encroachment of others. This
helped achieve the goal of checks and
balances. But it was only natural there may
be an occasion where one branch winds up
usurping the power and rights of another
one.”
End excerpt. Read entire Chad Pergram article at this link.
Comey was outraged over Trump’s meeting Monday with
Putin, slamming him on Twitter Monday night in two
tweets:
“This was the day an American president
stood on foreign soil next to a murderous
lying thug and refused to back his own
country. Patriots need to stand up and
reject the behavior of this
president…Having sold out our nation on
an international stage, Mr. Trump will now
explain it all to Sean Hannity and Tucker
 Carlson? I’m guessing RT and Sputnick
were unavailable. He owes it to our nation
to sit down with a serious journalist.”

Comey, a former life-long Republican, told Congress in

2016 he was no longer a registered Republican.

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 Trump Approved Press Conference Of
Russian Indictments To Strengthen Hand Against Putin
Julia Cohen | Contributor
11:48 PM 07/17/2018
President Donald Trump chose to have the indictments of
12 Russian hackers announced before his Helsinki summit
with Russian President Vladimir Putin, according to a
Tuesday Bloomberg report.
Trump wanted the indictments announced ahead of the
Monday summit to give him leverage over Putin, a source
familiar with the matter told Bloomberg on Tuesday.
Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein gave Trump the
option of having the indictments released before or after
Helsinki, according to the report.
Rosenstein cited national security concerns to allow him to
share details of grand jury proceedings with Trump.
Rosenstein announced Friday that a grand jury had
indicted 12 Russian intelligence operatives for hacking and
releasing Democrats’ emails during the 2016 presidential
election. The hackers worked for the Main Intelligence
Directorate of the Russian General Staff, or GRU,
according to the indictment.
.
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Trump also walked back an earlier statement when said in
Helsinki that he didn’t “see any reason why it would be”
Russia behind meddling in the 2016 presidential election.
The president said he misspoke, the Chicago Tribune
reported.
Trump has received strong criticism from both Democrats
and Republicans on his handling of Russian relations,
especially during the Helsinki summit. Senate Minority
Leader Chuck Schumer tweeted that Trump showed
“another sign of weakness” against Putin on Tuesday.
If @realDonaldTrump can’t say directly to
President Putin that he is wrong & we are
right & our intelligence agencies are right,
it’s ineffective & worse, another sign of
weakness.
— Chuck Schumer (@SenSchumer) July
17, 2018
Arizona Republican Sen. John McCain also criticized
Trump after his press conference with Putin, saying it “was
one of the most disgraceful performances by an American
president in memory” on Twitter on Tuesday.
Today’s press conference in #Helsinki was one of the most
disgraceful performances by an American president in
memory.
My full statement on the #HelsinkiSummit:
https://t.co/lApjctZyZl
— John McCain (@SenJohnMcCain) July
16, 2018
Trump met with Putin earlier this week in a private
meeting.
 SURPRISE! POTUS Trump TOLD Rod Rosenstein To
Announce Mueller’s Indictment Of 12 RUSSIANS
Before His Meeting With Putin
Posted On July 18, 2018
(National Sentinel) Presidential: When Deputy Attorney
General Rod Rosenstein announced on Friday that special
counsel Robert Mueller had indicted 12 more Russians, all
of whom work for the GRU, Russia’s intelligence
service, we thought he was trying to undermine POTUS
Donald Trump ahead of his meeting with Vladimir Putin.
So did a lot of others in conservative, pro-Trump media.
We are all reflexively protective of POTUS Trump
because he gets such a raw deal in the Left-wing pretend
media.
Come to find out, however, it was POTUS himself
who instructed Rosenstein to make the announcement just
two days before the president sat down with Putin.
Why? Tactics.
POTUS Trump believed that making the
announcement before the meeting would give him some
additional leverage over the Russian leader.
The Daily Caller reported:
President Donald Trump chose to have the
indictments of 12 Russian hackers
announced before his Helsinki summit with
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Russian President Vladimir Putin,
according to a Tuesday Bloomberg report.
Trump wanted the indictments announced
ahead of the Monday summit to give him
leverage over Putin, a source familiar with
the matter told Bloomberg on Tuesday.
Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein
gave Trump the option of having the
indictments released before or after
Helsinki, according to the report.
Rosenstein cited national security concerns
to allow him to share details of grand jury
proceedings with Trump.
Rosenstein announced Friday that a grand
jury had indicted 12 Russian intelligence
operatives for hacking and releasing
Democrats’ emails during the 2016
presidential election. The hackers worked
for the Main Intelligence Directorate of the
Russian General Staff, or GRU, according
to the indictment.
Trump also walked back an earlier
statement when said in Helsinki that he
didn’t “see any reason why it would be”
Russia behind meddling in the 2016
presidential election. The president said he
misspoke, the Chicago Tribune reported.
Thinking back, this makes perfect sense. Though he
appears to be acting on his own much of the time in
stonewalling Congress’ document requests, this makes two
things clear:
Trump is in charge and Rosenstein is well
aware he serves at the president’s
pleasure.
We have also noted that despite the Left-wing hate and
hysteria following this week’s Helsinki summit, POTUS
knows exactly who and what Putin is.
 He knows much more about him and
Russia than 99 percent of the hacks
sniping at him.
He gets the intelligence briefs — though former CIA
director and commie hack John Brennan has suggested the
intelligence community withhold information from the
president — an outrageous dog whistle to like-minded
commies in the IC.
Russia is no ‘friend’ of the U.S. and Trump has never said
so. In fact, it was Trump who ordered more sanctions
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against Russia earlier this year, which has led Putin to
counter by steadily dumping U.S. debt in what Tyler
Durden at Zero Hedge believes is a prelude to China
dumping all U.S. debt — which could create a debt crisis
for us.
Getting leverage and getting it publicly was a great
strategy. It allowed POTUS to stroll into his meetings with
some advantage.
But this back-and-forth with Russia isn’t over, it’s just
beginning. Engagement is important but so are tactics.
 President Trump Goes After ‘Fake News Media’ For
Coverage On Press Conference With Putin
Mike Brest | Contributor
1:54 AM 07/18/2018

He called the meeting “a great success,” although he also

pointed out that the “Fake News Media” did not view his
performance during the press conference with Putin very
well.

After receiving significant backlash from Democrats and

Republicans alike, the president held a press briefing on
Tuesday to clarify his statements.

“I will begin by stating that I have full faith

and support for America’s great intelligence
President Donald Trump took to Twitter to share his agencies, I always have,” the president
thoughts on his meeting with Russian President Vladimir said.
Putin Monday in Helsinki on Tuesday.
He continued,

“I have felt very strongly that while Russia’s

actions had no impact at all on the outcome
of the election, let me be totally clear in
saying that, and I have said this many
times, I accept our intelligence community’s
conclusion that Russia’s meddling in the
2016 election took place.”

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 President Trump Celebrates ICE, Condemns Dems For
Wanting To Abolish Them
Mike Brest | Contributor
2:27 AM 07/18/2018

The president pointed out that without ICE there will be

“much more crime in our country” and then encouraged
people to vote for Republicans in the midterm elections
this November.

ICE has received a ton of backlash over the last month.

President Trump went after Democrats for their desire to
abolish the Immigration Customs Enforcement agency
while also sharing his support for them on Twitter Tuesday
night.
Senators Elizabeth Warren from Massachusetts and
Kirsten Gillibrand from New York have called for ICE to
be abolished, while multiple House members have done
the same.
Last week, three House members introduced a bill that
would eliminate ICE. Democratic Reps. Mark Pocan,
Pramila Jayapal and Adriano Espaillate authored the bill,
the “Humane Immigration Enforcement System Act.”

While Democrats have tried to push the abolition of ICE,

Republicans have done the opposite, sharing their support
for the agents and stood behind them.

“In this White House, let me be clear, we

are with you 100 percent … We will always
stand proudly with the brave heroes of ICE
and our border patrol,” the Vice President
stated earlier this month during a speech.
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 Trump Compares Immigration In Japan, Other
‘Successful’ Countries To United States In Tucker Interview
Scott Morefield | Reporter
2:50 AM 07/18/2018
President Trump unloaded on the concept of mass,
unlimited immigration in a no-holds-barred interview with
Fox News host Tucker Carlson that aired on “Tucker
Carlson Tonight” Tuesday evening, comparing
immigration in the United States and Europe to
“successful” low-immigrant countries like China, South
Korea, and Japan.
“Can you think of a place that has been
improved by mass immigration or
movements of large numbers of refugees?”
asked Carlson.
“Not one,” Trump said in response. “I said
the immigration policies in Europe are a
disaster. You’re destroying Europe. You’re
destroying the culture of Europe. The crime
is up in those areas and you’d better do
something.”
“The culture is changing rapidly and the
crime rate is changing more than rapidly,”
Trump said. “We have to be very strong on
the border.”
“And by the way the people who are really
asking for it, you know it’s interesting, they
probably go down as we don’t want the wall
but when it came to their backyard they
wanted that wall and they wanted it up
fast,” Trump said after noting the progress
that’s been made on the border wall to this
point. “But we’ve started the wall. We’re
going to continue with the wall. It’s so
necessary, but we have strong immigration
policies — our laws are so bad, Tucker.
Somebody comes in they step on our land
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and we end up with a court case that takes
seven years but the people never show up
to court. It’s so bad, and we have to do
something about it. Like, if they come into
our land we have to say, ‘I’m sorry you
have to leave.’ Not, ‘I’m sorry please come
to court.’ We’re going to put you in court,
you’ll come back in three years for your trial
and then they never show up. That’s what’s
happening now. It’s crazy.”
Carlson then brought up the immigration policies in other
nations, particularly China.
WATCH:
“China is a very rich country as you often
say, how many refugees and immigrants
does China allow?” asked Carlson.
“I would say probably none,” responded
Trump, noting that other countries like
Japan and South Korea don’t allow mass
immigration yet are successful.
“Is there pressure on those countries to
allow refugees and immigrants to come
in?” Carlson asked.
“I don’t even think the people making the
decision would want to waste the phone
call,” Trump said. “There’s no chance.
Check out Japan, ask them, how many
have you taken in the last 20 years? You
can count them on your fingers.”
“If the key to success as a country is
immigration … ” said Carlson.
“I’m not even talking about key to success,”
said Trump. “It depends on what
 immigration, what’s going on, but you’re
asking me about China, and I added
Japan, I added other countries also. It is
virtually impossible, and I’ll tell you what,
Mexico has very strong immigration laws,
you know, if Mexico wanted they could stop
this huge flow of people coming up from
.
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different parts of South America including
Mexico and pouring into our border. Our
laws are so bad, we have the worst laws
anywhere in the world. We have the worst
immigration laws in the world. We don’t
have any law. We have the opposite of
law.”
 Chuck Schumer Attacks Trump For Getting Cozy With
Putin… But Then This Darned Donut Photo Popped Up
By Jim Hoft
July 18, 2018, 7:00 Am

Chuck Schumer sharing donuts with

Vladimir.
As we reported back in March 2017:
Democrat Senate Minority leader Chuck
Schumer continues to push the Russia
conspiracy.
But it was Schumer who met with Putin
in New York City – not Trump.

The picture above was taken in 2003 as Russian President

Senator Chuck Schumer held a press conference following
President Trump’s much publicized meeting with Russian
President Vladimir Putin.
Schumer as upset about President Trump’s coziness with
the Russian leader,
Vladimir Putin, right, enjoys a Krispy Kreme doughnut
and coffee with Senator Charles Schumer from New York
as Putin visits the first New York gas station of the
Russian company Lukoil.

“Does anyone believe that [Trump] was

tougher on Putin in secret than he was
publicly?”

But then this photo popped up.

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 Clueless Michelle Obama Trashes Trump As
“Mediocre” – Says “Last Election Does
Not Give Me Hope”
By Jim Hoft
July 18, 2018, 8:37 Am

Michelle Obama told an international

audience Trump was “mediocre” and
Americans must do better.

The Daily Mail reported:

Michelle Obama slammed US President

Donald Trump for being ‘mediocre’ during a
speech at a charity event in Scotland – but
ruled herself out of ever running for
president.
The former First Lady arrived in Edinburgh
on Tuesday evening for the charity event
organised by The Hunter Foundation and
described as her first official international
President Trump has now been in office a year and a
appearance since leaving the White House.
quarter. President Trump’s results when compared to those
of President Obama at the same time are stunning. In every Up to 900 guests packed into the EICC
economic measurement, President Trump far out-performs venue in anticipation of hearing Mrs
President Obama. Obama shed light on her time as First Lady
during a conversation moderated by five-
The mainstream media and Democrat Party continue to time Olympic medallist Dame Katherine
smear President Trump with the fake Russia collusion Grainger.
narrative. In doing so they also continue to ignore While talking about Trump, she said:
President Trump’s many accomplishments. When ‘There’s something wrong with us as
compared to Obama [and most presidents], President women that we would make that choice…
Trump’s efforts to shore up the economy are historic. we can’t be okay with mediocrity with men,
President Trump’s economy is just plain on fire! but demand excellence from women.’
Her strong words against Trump come just
Barack Obama was the worst economic president since the hours after her husband Barack gave a
Great Depression. Only Barack Obama’s foreign policy sharp rebuke to Trump by warning that
performed worse than his economic policies. ‘strongman politics are ascendant’ in a
speech in Johannesburg, South Africa.
Despite the facts former First Lady Michelle Obama took a
swipe at President Trump this week during a speaking Although she didn’t mention Trump by
engagement in Scotland. name, Mrs Obama said ‘the last election
in my country does not give me hope,’
according to The Scotsman.
.

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 Trump Calls Out Critics: Some People Would Rather Go
To War With Russia Than See Us Get Along
By Jim Hoft
July 18, 2018, 9:18 Am

This comes two days after his meeting

with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Evidently, Trump critics on the left and

right wanted the president to bully Putin
on stage.

Politico Magazine is the latest far left publisher to push the

Russia war narrative.

Hillary Clinton also called the Russian

“hack” an “attack against our country.”

President Trump called out the crazy

warmongers today on Twitter.

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 Democrat Adam Smith’s Blatant Lie To Tucker Carlson:
“12 Indicted Russians Had Regular Contact With High-
Ranking Trump Officials” (VIDEO)
By Jim Hoft
July 18, 2018, 11:01 Am

Far left Democrat Adam Smith went on Tucker Carlson allegation in this indictment that any
Tonight to discuss President Trump’s meeting with American citizen committed a crime.
Russian President Vladimir Putin. Rosenstein said NOTHING about the
twelve Russians having ANY CONTACT
Adam Smith said the Russian crime was that they hacked with ANY Trump official.
into the DNC server and implemented a disinformation
campaign. This was just a blatant lie by Adam
Smith trying desperately to link the
Trump campaign to Russia… Something
that Democrats, Mueller and the liberal
media have been unable to do after a
year-and-a-half of investigating.

What Mueller’s team did say was that someone in “regular

contact with senior members” of Trump’s campaign
communicated with the Russian agents. Roger Stone wrote
24 words to Guccifer 2.0. He suspects this junk accusation
is about him. Roger Stone and EVERYONE in the US had
NO IDEA Guccifer 2.0 was a Russian.

Rep. Adam Smith: The crime is they hacked into our The remarks by Smith were completely
DNC server and did a whole bunch of other disinformation false.
campaigns to try to influence our election. A foreign
power tried to do that. Via Tucker Carlson Tonight:

Also in this indictment it shows that the

twelve Russian operatives had regular
contact with high-ranking Trump
officials.

Huh?

That’s news. Where the hell did it say

that?

Actually, Deputy Attorney General Rod

Rosenstein said last week there was no
.

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 Mark Levin Schools Historically Illiterate
Liberals On Botched Dem Press Conferences
By Peter Sifre
July 18, 2018 11:03 AM EDT

Let’s face it: Trump had a rough press conference in Khrushchev. JFK told a friend of his that he
Helsinki on Monday. However, this does not excuse was rolled over that he came across weak.
hyperbolic responses on the part of the media. On That it was pretty disastrous. A few weeks
Monday’s edition of Hannity, radio star Mark Levin later, what did they do?
appeared to offer some historical context.
The Soviets are shipping missiles to Cuba and they are
building a wall in Berlin. In 1975, Gerald Ford in Helsinki
with Brezhnev, thirty-five other countries, recognized the
territorial sovereignty of the Soviet Union which included
the captive nations of Eastern Europe. In 1979 Jimmy
Carter placed a big wet kiss on Brezhnev’s cheek in
Vienna. All this hysteria about this press conference, the
President said,

"I could have said it better better. "I should

have said this" and they act like it's the
apocalypse.

Levin began with his reaction to the to the media’s He later criticized the Obama Administration for its action,
coverage of the Trump-Putin summit culminating in a or lack thereof regarding Russian aggression and
humorous quip about Stormy Daniels: expansion:

Well, comparing the president's conference Obama did nothing effective at all to stop
with Putin to Pearl Harbor, 9/11, the Russians interference in our election.
Kristallnacht, the beginning of the He's the one who ought to be under
holocaust, calling him a traitor and investigation. No pushback for the invasion
treasonous. You know, two weeks ago they of Georgia. No pushback for the
said he was running Japanese internment annexation of Crimea. No pushback for the
camps and Nazi concentration camps, this invasion of Eastern Ukraine. No pushback
is the pseudo-media. And now comes to from Russia's criminal shoot down of flight
Russia. Now the liberals, the media, the MH-117. He capitulated to Russia and
Democrats, some Republicans very upset Syria. The un-met red lines. His betrayal of
about Russia. Poland and the Czech Republic by seeding
to Russia's demand to remove missile
You know, they've had more positions
defense systems there. He betrayed the
on Russia than Stormy Daniels as far as
Ukraine by refusing to provide them with
I'm concerned.
defensive weapons.
He then proceeded to give a history lesson of past foreign
He went on to contrast this with actions that the Trump
policy blunders with the Soviet Union:
administration has taken to counter Russian aggression:
I want you to know something. In 1945 at
Now, contrast that disaster, that utter
the Yalta Conference, Franklin Roosevelt
appeasement to what Trump has done in
sold out half of Europe to Stalin. He
the 18 months. He's expanded sanctions
repeatedly praised Stalin. Franklin
on Russian companies and apparatchiks.
Roosevelt is the hero of the Democrat
He's beefed up NATO. He's had massive
Party, he of Japanese internment camps
increase in U.S. defense spending no
too. In Yalta he gave up half of Europe to
thanks to the liberals, restoring missile
the Soviet Union. In 1961, JFK met with
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 defenses to Poland and the Czech
Republic. Returning heavy armored
divisions to Germany. Pre-positioning
armed brigades in the Baltics. Ending arms
embargoes on the Ukraine and Georgia
that Obama imposed on victims of Russian
aggression. Ending the ban of oil exports to
try and compete with the Russians when it
comes to their oil.
None of this is a reason to make excuses for Trump’s
blunders during the press conference in Helsinki.
However, Levin correctly pointed out the media’s double
standard when it comes to insufficient response to Russian
encroachment when a Democrat is in power.
A transcript of the relevant segment is below. Click
"expand" to read more:
Hannity
7/17/18
9:38:31 - 9:43:57
MARK LEVIN: You know Sean, what we've learned about the
media several of the hosts and guests as we have a lot of
psychopaths out there.
SEAN HANNITY: How do you really feel?
LEVIN: Well, comparing the president's conference with Putin to
Pearl Harbor, 9/11, Kristallnacht, the beginning of the holocaust,
calling him a traitor and treasonous. You know, two weeks ago
they said he was running Japanese internment camps and Nazi
concentration camps, this is the pseudo-media. And now comes
to Russia. Now the liberals, the media, the Democrats, some
Republicans very upset about Russia. You know, they've had
more positions on Russia than Stormy Daniels as far as I'm
concerned. Let me point out some history -- this is very very
important. John McCain, God bless him, and others have said
what Trump did at that press conference is the worst interaction
we've ever had with Russia, the worst diplomatic disaster ever. I
want the American people -- forget about the media, I want you
to know something. In 1945 at the Yalta Conference, Franklin
Roosevelt sold out half of Europe to Stalin. He repeatedly praised
Stalin. Franklin Roosevelt is the hero of the Democrat party, he of
Japanese internment camps too. In Yalta he gave up half of
Europe to the Soviet Union. In 1961, JFK met with Khrushchev.
JFK told a friend of his that he was rolled over that he came
across weak. That it was pretty disastrous. A few weeks later,
what did they do? The soviets are shipping missiles to Cuba and
they are building a wall in Berlin. In 1975, Gerald Ford in Helsinki
with Brezhnev, thirty-five other countries, recognized the
territorial sovereignty of the Soviet Union which included the
.
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captive nations of Eastern Europe. In 1979 Jimmy Carter placed
a big wet kiss on Brezhnev’s cheek in Vienna. All this hysteria
about this press conference, the President said I could have said
it better better, I should have said this and they act like it's the
apocalypse. It’s not. The left in this country has defended the
Rosenbergs, they defended Alger Hiss, they defended Ted
Kennedy in 1983 and four when he was colluding with the
Kremlin to defeat Reagan. The left, the Democrats, the media in
that country oppose SDI, the strategic defense initiative which
had as its purpose to defend us against Russian nuclear
missiles. they called it "Star Wars" to this day! The left won't fund
it. To this day the left wont fund it. To this day the Democrat party
opposes it. They opposed Pershing II missiles, to modernize
medium-range nuclear missiles which we eventually put into
Europe to defeat the Soviet Union. So the left goes back and
forth, the Democrats -- if, in fact, Donald Trump had turned to
Putin after our private meeting, after setting up this summit and
all of a sudden turns to him and says look you little bastard, we
know you interfered in our election. They would be attacking
Trump today. the way Trump turned to the Germans and NATO,
saying hey! You're buying 20% of your natural gas from the
Ruskis, you're funding their war machine and then you ask us to
subsidize you? The media and the Democrats and the same
people went nuts. Some more facts. Obama as president.
Obama did nothing effective at all to stop the Russians
interference in our election. He's the one who ought to be under
investigation. No pushback for the invasion of Georgia. No
pushback for the annexation of Crimea. No pushback for the
invasion of Eastern Ukraine. No pushback from Russia's criminal
shoot down of flight MH-117. He capitulated to Russia and Syria.
The un-met red lines. His betrayal of Poland and the Czech
Republic by seeding to Russia's demand to remove missile
defense systems there. He betrayed the Ukraine by refusing to
provide them with defensive weapons. Now, contrast that
disaster, that utter appeasement to what Trump has done in the
18 months. He's expanded sanctions on Russian companies and
apparatchiks. He's beefed up NATO. He's had massive increase
in U.S. defense spending no thanks to the liberals, restoring
missile defenses to Poland and the Czech Republic. Returning
heavy armored divisions to Germany. Pre-positioning armed
brigades in the Baltics. Ending arms embargoes on the Ukraine
and Georgia that Obama imposed on victims of Russian
aggression. Ending the ban of oil exports to try and compete with
the Russians when it comes to their oil. I could go on and on and
on on this, these are notes I had typed out on this. All of this
hysteria, the fact of the matter is Trump hasn't done a thing to
harm America with respect to Russia and Obama did nothing to
protect America when it came to Russia, the same attitude
Obama had when it came to the Chinese in the South China sea
building their phony islands. The north Koreans as they are
building their nukes, the Iranians -- he gave them $150 billion
dollars and a wet kiss on the lips. So the attacks on Trump, this
overwrought, hysterical, insane attack by the media, the
Democrats some on the Republican party and some phony
conservatives – ok, you're allowed to question the president, just
don't go nuts.
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 Russiagate Is Like 9/11,
Except It’s Made Of Pure Narrative
By Caitlin Johnstone
Thu, 07/19/2018 - 15:14
The last few days have been truly
amazing.
I didn’t even write an article yesterday; I’ve just been
staring transfixed by my social media feeds watching
liberal Americans completely lose their minds.
I can’t look away. It’s like watching a
slow motion train wreck, and everyone
on the train is being really homophobic.
I’ve been writing about Russiagate since
it started, and I can honestly say this is
the worst it’s ever been, by far.
The most hysterical, the most shrill, the most emotional,
the most cartoonishly over-the-top and hyperbolic.
The fact that Trump met with Putin in
private and then publicly expressed doubt
about the establishment Russia narrative
has sent some political factions of
America into an emotional state that is
indistinguishable from what you’d
expect if Russia had bombed New York
City.
This despite the fact that the establishment Russia
narrative consists of no actual, visible events whatsoever.
It is made of pure narrative.
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I don’t even know where to start.
Everyone has been completely mad across the entire
spectrum of what passes for America’s political “left”
today, from the usual suspects like Chuck Schumer and
Nancy Pelosi and their indistinguishable Never-Trump
Republican allies, all the way to supposedly progressive
commentators like Cenk Uygur and Shaun King.
Comparing this pure narrative non-event to Pearl Harbor is
now commonplace and mainstream. I just watched a
United States Senator named Richard Blumenthal stare
right into the camera refer to the hypothetical possibility of
future Russian cyber intrusions as “this 9/11 moment.”
“We are in a 9/11 national emergency
because our country is under attack,
literally,” Blumenthal told CNN while
demanding a record of Trump’s meeting
with Putin at the Helsinki summit. “That
attack is ongoing and pervasive, verified
by objective and verifiable evidence.
Those words are, again, from the
director of National Security. And this
9/11 moment demands that we do come
together.”
Nothing about the establishment Russia
narrative is in any way verifiable, and
the only thing it has in common with
9/11 is the media coverage and
widespread emotional response.
September 11 had actual video footage of falling towers.
You could go visit New York City, look at the spot where
those towers used to be, and see them not being there
anymore. You could learn the names of the people who
died and visit their graves and talk to their family
members. Exactly how it happened is a matter of some
debate in many circles, but there is no question that it
happened. There was an actual event that did happen in the
real world, completely independent of any stories people
tell about that event.
Russiagate is like 9/11, but with none of
those things.
It’s like if 9/11 had all the same widespread emotional
responses, all the same nonstop mass media coverage, all
the same punditry screaming war, war, war, except no
actual event occurred. The towers were still there,
everyone was still alive, and nothing actually happened
apart from the narrative and the emotional responses to
that narrative.
Russiagate is 9/11 minus 9/11.
This is what I’m talking about when I say
that whoever controls the narrative
controls the world.
Whoever controls the stories that westerners are telling
each other has the power to advance concrete agendas
which reshape global geopolitics without any actual thing
even happening.
Simply by getting a few hand-picked
intelligence agents to say something
happened in a relatively confident way,
you can get the entire media and
political body advancing that narrative
as unquestionable fact,
and from there advance sanctions, new military operations,
a far more aggressive Nuclear Posture Review, the casting
out of diplomats, the arming of Ukraine, and ultimately
shove Russia further and further off the world stage.
As we discussed last time,
the current administration has actually
been far more aggressive against
Russia than the previous administration
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was, and has worked against Russian
interests to a far greater extent.
If they wanted to, the international alliance of plutocrats
and intelligence/defense agencies could just as easily use
their near-total control of the narrative to advance the story
that Trump is a dangerous Russia hawk who is imperiling
the entire world by inflicting insane escalations against a
nuclear superpower. They could elicit the exact same
panicked emotional response that they are eliciting right
now using the exact same media and the exact same
factual situation. They wouldn’t have to change a single
thing except where they place their emphasis in telling the
story. The known facts would all remain exactly as they
are; all that would have to change is the narrative.
Public support for Russiagate depends
on the fact that most people don’t
recognize how pervasively their day-to-
day experience is dominated by
narrative.
If you are intellectually honest with yourself, you will
acknowledge that you think about Russia a lot more now
than you did in 2015. Russia hasn’t changed any since
2015; all that has changed is the narrative that is being told
about it. And yet now the mass media and a huge chunk of
rank-and-file America now view it as a major threat and
think about it constantly.
All they had to do was talk about Russia
constantly in a fearful and urgent way,
and now US liberals are convinced that
Vladimir Putin is an omnipotent world-
dominating supervillain who has
infiltrated the highest levels of the US
government.
If humanity is to pull up and away from
its current path toward either ecological
disaster, nuclear armageddon or
Orwellian dystopia, we are necessarily
going to have to change our
relationship with narrative.
As long as the way we think, vote and organize can be The difference between the official
controlled by the mere verbiage of the servants of power, narrative and the actual reality of this
our species will never be able to begin operating in a sane world is the difference between fiction
and wholesome way. If all it takes to make us act against and fact.
our own interest is a few establishment lackeys speaking a
few words in a confident tone of voice, if mere Evolve beyond.
authoritative language can hypnotize us like a sorcerer
casting spells, we are doomed to slavery and destruction. * * *

So stop staring transfixed by the
narratives, and begin looking at the
behavior and motives of the people
advancing them instead.
Stop staring at the movie screen they’re constantly
drawing your attention to, turn around in your theater seat,
and look at the people who are running the projector. The
way out of this mess is to begin ignoring the stories we’re
being hypnotized with and start critically examining the
people who are conducting the hypnosis. Ignore the stories
and stare with piercing eyes at the storytellers.
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 Gingrich: Trump Has Been ‘Much Tougher’
Than Obama Ever Was On Russia
By Kristine Marsh
July 18, 2018 11:16 AM EDT
Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich appeared on
Fox and Friends Wednesday morning to combat the
media’s hypocritical outrage over President Trump’s
rhetoric at the press conference with Putin in Helsinki,
Monday. While acknowledging that Trump made the
biggest mistake yet of his presidency, he commended the
president for correcting his words yesterday. Gingrich
further pointed out that the media and Democrats didn’t
have any problem with President Obama’s soft stance on
Russia, and that Trump has actually been much tougher on
Putin through his administration’s actions.
After introducing Gingrich, host Steve Doocy explained
how Trump set the record straight on his “misspoken”
words at Monday’s press conference, and asked the guest
what his thoughts were on the left’s outrage over the
situation.
Gingrich called out the hypocrisy of Obama administration
officials bashing Trump now, as they were the ones
responsible for Russia being able to interfere into the 2016
election, to begin with:
Well, if you read the entire text of what he
said in the Roosevelt room, he goes on at
length reinforcing his belief in the American
intelligence agencies and by the way
pointing out that his critics are the
people who failed. When you see John
Brennan or you see other people who
are -- Jim Clapper talking on television,
those are the guys in charge in 2016. So
their hysteria and strong language, they
are the failures. Trump was a candidate.
He wasn't in charge of national security.
They were and they failed.
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Coming back to Trump, Gingrich called the correction
“important,” as Trump was “not a guy who likes to correct
himself or likes to admit he made a mistake,” and he
needed to “set the record straight,” Gingrich emphasized.
But, he added, Trump's actual actions towards Russia have
been much tougher than the past administration’s, he said,
listing several things Trump has done that the media hasn't
given him much credit for:
But, let's also look at the record. Obama
was very weak in Ukraine. Trump has
authorized the sale of weapons to the
Ukrainians to defend themselves. Trump
has expelled 60 Russian intelligence
people from the United States. He has
closed four Russian offices in the
United States. He went to nato, to do
what? To get them to increase their
spending so they would be stronger in
containing Russia. He lectured the
Chancellor of Germany about what?
About buying natural gas from Russia
and propping up Putin. So, to suggest
that somehow Trump is some patsy for
Putin requires to you deny everything
that he has done and that's why correcting
that one mistake, I thought, was very
important.
Host Brian Kilmeade referenced former CIA director Leon
Panetta claiming that the Russians must have something
incriminating on Trump. “Do you want to counter that or
agree with that?” Kilmeade asked.
Gingrich blasted the former Obama administration
official’s hypocrisy in how the past administration treated
Russia.
“All of a sudden have you this
revisionist history from the left. The fact
is that Obama was totally ineffective.
Hillary Clinton's reset button was a
joke,” he slammed,
adding that there was “no question” that Trump has been
“much tougher” on Putin than Obama was:
In Panetta's case, I would like to know why when he was
advising Obama they didn't provide offensive weapons to
Ukraine. Why they didn't do the things to increase
spending at NATO.
Why, you know, I just think all of a
sudden have you this revisionist history
from the left. The fact is that Obama was
totally ineffective. Hillary Clinton's reset
button was a joke. She gave the
Russians access to uranium that they
wouldn't have gotten otherwise. So
when I look at the totality of the Obama
period, it seems to me that Trump has
been so much tougher than Obama was
that there is no question.
And I don't know why Leon would say that Leon is a
pretty balanced guy. I thought it was Brennan just because
it sounded like Brennan who is pretty I couldn't know
balanced.
Kilmeade spoke up saying that Obama added to the mess
by not enforcing his “red line” in Syria:
I will add something to that. Russians
would not be in the Middle East again if
President Obama enforced his red line in
Syria. That left an opening for the Russians
to come back in, start taking the so-called
weapons of mass destruction, that poison
gas out. By the way they left almost all of it.
In and next thing you know, they are flying
their planes and their presence in Syria
where it is today.
While Gingrich argued that Trump has shown a lot more
toughness on Russia than Obama ever did:
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I think it's fair to say compared -- in
terms of who was softer on Putin, I think
that Trump has fired about 125 missiles
into Syria in order to enforce our
disagreement with the use of chemical
weapons. As I said a minute ago, he
expelled in supporting Great Britain, he
expelled 60 Russian officers who were
in the United States. He closed four
offices. I didn't see anything like that of
Obama. So, but I'm not going to say that
Obama, therefore, was a puppet of
Putin. And frankly, I'm very surprised
that somebody as rational as Leon
Panetta would have said that.
Blasting the media, Gingrich poked fun at the left’s
perpetual outrage over the president.
“They wake up every morning “knowing
Trump has done something wrong, they
just don’t know what it is yet. They know
they will be outraged. They know they’re
going to spend the day being outraged
they don't know what it is they are going
to be outraged by,” he mocked.
 Crowdstrike Analyst Who Ran Forensics
On DNC Server Used To Work For Mueller At FBI
By Cristina Laila
July 18, 2018, 12:18 Pm

Hillary’s campaign counsel, Marc Elias

[Perkins Coie] hired Crowdstrike to
write the public report blaming Russia
for hacking the DNC in June of 2016
which of course is the same month Marc
Elias hired Fusion GPS and Christopher
Steele to write the dossier.

Robert Mueller

To this day, the DNC servers have not been forensically

inspected by the FBI so we have no proof the servers were
even hacked, and if hacked, by whom?
Hillary’s fake Russia dossier and Crowdstrike’s report
blaming Russia for hacking the DNC server is what the
Special Counsel witch hunt hinges on.
It’s all fake. The crime scene, the DNC servers, have yet to
even be examined.
James Comey admitted in a June 2017 testimony that the
FBI failed to examine the DNC servers and relied on a 3rd
party contracted by the DNC [Crowdstrike] confirming the
Russians hacked the server.
It appears Robert Mueller has also relied on Crowdstrike’s
analysis the Russians hacked the DNC server because his
spox declined to comment.
Robert Mueller knows the Crowdstrike analyst who ran the Robert Mueller indicted 12 Russian military officers
forensics on the DNC server, in fact, the analyst worked alleging they gained access to the DNC emails and other
for Mueller when he was the Director of the FBI; Mueller computer systems, however, he has not presented any
personally promoted him. physical evidence to back up his claims.

“The Crowdstrike analyst who ran the
forensics on the DNC servers worked
for Mueller at the FBI and was
personally promoted by Robert
Mueller,” reports Paul Sperry.
Not once are code names “Cozy Bear” or “Fancy Bear”
mentioned in Mueller’s latest indictment which directly
contradicts the IC report and Crowdstrike analysis that
Russians using those code names were acting as agents of
the GRU.
Mueller once again rolled out a junk indictment as a PR
stunt to justify his salary and witch hunt.

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 Trump: People Would Rather Go To War
Than Have Me Get Along With Putin
Saagar Enjeti | White House Correspondent
12:39 PM 07/18/2018

The president came under significant media scrutiny

following the summit after he appeared to give some
credence to Putin’s claim that he did not interfere in the
2016 presidential election, despite being told the opposite
by his intelligence community leaders.
President Donald Trump vigorously defended his decision
to hold a Monday summit with Russian President Vladimir
Putin in a series of tweets posted early Wednesday. “I have confidence in both parties,” Trump
said, adding that he didn’t see any reason
why Russia would interference on his
behalf.

Trump then clarified Tuesday after reviewing the transcript

and clip of his press conference. “I realized that there is a
need for some clarification,” he said.

“In a key sentence in my remarks, I said

the word ‘would’ instead of ‘wouldn’t,’”
Trump explained, adding “the sentence
should have been, ‘I don’t see any reason
why I wouldn’t, or why it wouldn’t be
Russia,’” he said Tuesday. “So just to
repeat it, I said the word ‘would’ instead of
‘wouldn’t,’ and the sentence should have
been — and I thought I would maybe be a
little bit unclear on the transcripts or
unclear on the actual video — the sentence
should have been, ‘I don’t see any reason
why it wouldn’t be Russia.'”

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 Sen. Blumenthal Tries To Pin Obama’s Weakness On
Trump, CNN Anchor Lets It Go
Virginia Kruta | Associate Editor
12:46 PM 07/18/2018
Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) claimed that President
Donald Trump was weak in standing up to Russia, but he
used an example that occurred in 2014 — during the
Obama administration — to illustrate his point.
During a segment on CNN’s “New Day” Wednesday
morning, Blumenthal likened President Trump to former
British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain in an attempt
to compare Russian President Vladimir Putin to Hitler.
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Referencing the annexation of Crimea, Blumenthal said,
“That is also a lesson we’ve learned from
the history of appeasement, prior to World
War II, when Neville Chamberlain brought
back peace in our time, supposedly, by
sacrificing a few powerless pieces of land
in Europe, and obviously it failed to satisfy
a rapacious Hitler just as a few pieces of
land in Europe now like Crimea, which we
have sacrificed, is failing to satisfy a
rapacious Putin.”
CNN host John Berman let Blumenthal continue in spite of
the fact that Russia annexed Crimea in 2014, during the
Obama administration — nearly a full year before
President Trump had even declared his intent to seek the
Republican nomination.
 Fake News CNN Claims “Russian Bots”
Behind #Walkaway Campaign To
‘Wound Democrats In Midterms’
By Cristina Laila
July 18, 2018, 1:12 Pm

Facebook, YouTube and Twitter are fiercely working to

contain the #WalkAway movement by blocking hashtags
and thousands of testimonies from people explaining why
they left the Democrat party.

Fake News CNN is now running cover for the Democrat

party and reported that the #WalkAway campaign isn’t
real people, rather it’s just Russian bots that are pushing
the hashtag in an effort to ‘wound the Democrat party in
the 2018 midterms.’

The #WalkAway campaign began on

Facebook after a handsome, gay
hairdresser from New York posted a
viral video in May explaining why he
was walking away from the Democrat
party.

#WalkAway founder Brandon Straka

The campaign spread to Twitter like wildfire.

CNN got pummeled by people for their absurd claim
People, Americans, are sick and tired of the hatred, Russian bots are using #WalkAway to wound Dems in
divisiveness, fake news, and violence from the left. 2018.

The left overplayed their hand, calling every Trump

supporter a racist and a Nazi.

Nancy Pelosi defended MS-13 killers, Maxine Waters

called for Trump officials to be harmed and harassed and
Senator Gillibrand called for ICE to be abolished.

Enough is enough.

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 CNN is reporting the #WalkAway campaign is fueled by
Russian bots even though there are videos of real people
giving their testimonies.

You just can’t make this stuff up.

Perhaps the Democrats and CNN are looking at their

internal polling knowing it’s going to be a bloodbath for
the Dems so they’re already weaving their ‘Russians
hacked the 2018 elections’ fake news rubbish.

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 Scaramucci To CNN’s Camerota:
‘You’re Going Into Chris Cuomo Territory’
Amber Athey | Media And Breaking News Editor
1:27 PM 07/18/2018

Trump received a lot of criticism after saying he gives

credit to both sides — the U.S. intelligence community and
Russian president Vladimir Putin — during a news
conference on Monday. Trump explained on Tuesday that
he does believe the IC and “misspoke” when he said he
doesn’t see why Russia would meddle in the 2016 election.

Scaramucci argued that Trump deserves credit for trying to

deescalate the Russia situation even if his rhetoric isn’t
always perfect, asserting,
Former White House communications director Anthony
Scaramucci defended President Trump’s views on Russia
“We may not like the messaging. You
in a contentious interview on CNN Wednesday.
know, there’s an expression in basketball,
sometimes people are playing the man
WATCH: when they need to play the ball.”

CNN anchor Alisyn Camerota questioned if the “real”

Trump is the Trump who was “riffing” in Helsinki or the
Trump who was reading from a script on Tuesday.

“Well, they’re both the real Trump,”

Scaramucci responded. “You’re going into
Chris Cuomo territory, just so you know.”

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 As Trump Haters Rage,
Obama And Comey Enter The Fray
Derek Hunter | Contributor
2:12 PM 07/18/2018
On the show today, the rage keeps on raging from the
Trump-hating left and right.
They just can’t help themselves. The anti-Trump media
and anti-Trump Republicans continue to freak out over the
president’s press conference Monday and his “clarifying”
comments at that press conference yesterday. Freaking out
is all they do; it’s where they live.
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Former President Barack Obama, and Obama’s heads of
the FBI and CIA have entered the rage circle, all criticizing
the president. When the former president and his heads of
the two top intelligence community agencies involved in
spying on his campaign, it’s maybe not so surprising that
Donald Trump might be skeptical about their work, right?
James Comey called for the defeat of Republicans. He has
been portrayed by the media, of course, as a “lifelong
Republican,” but is now calling for people to elect
Democrats in the fall because he is, ultimately, a partisan
hack still angry about being fired for his shoddy leadership
at the FBI.
President Obama, no longer armed with his magic pen and
phone, criticized President Trump while giving a speech in
South Africa, which used to be a no-no. He also lamented
“strongmen” who ignore election results…like how
Democrats ignored the election of Scott Brown and
rammed through Obamacare under special rules, the loss
of the House in 2010, and the loss of the Senate in 2014 to
rule by executive order, etc. Hypocrisy and outrage abound
and we talk about it all.
 The Very Unhinged John Brennan
Written By Richard Galustian
Wednesday July 18, 2018
Winston Churchill said all there is to say about political
summits with his quote:
“Jaw jaw is better than war war.”
That is the thing to bear in mind when examining the rights
and wrongs of the The Trump-Putin summit:
Two leaders of two of the world’s most
powerful nations, in Trump’s words
"competitors" sorting out differences
eyeball to eyeball.
Both men share Churchill’s approach, with Putin saying:
“As nuclear powers, we bear special
responsibility” for international security.
Putin said Russia (as a devout Christian country)
considered it necessary for the two countries to work
together on nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation –
and to avoid weapons being placed in space.
“Even during the tensions of the Cold War,
the US and the Soviets were able to
maintain a strong dialogue (with now
Russia),” said Trump. “But our relations
(with now Russia) have never been worse
than they are now. However that changed
as of about four hours ago."
He added:
"nothing would be easier politically than to
refuse to engage" which would "appease
partisan critics, the media" and the
opposition."
Donald Trump correctly reiterated the significance and
importance of holding a meeting with Putin, despite the
widespread criticism from within his own country and
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most notably from the mainstream media who are very
now clearly controlled entirely by what has popularly
become known as the "Deep State."
And what was the response in America to the summit?
The most vitriolic insult came from the odious former CIA
Director, John Brennan.
The not so funny irony is that Brennan literally voted for
the then Soviet Union dominated US Communist Party to
take power in the United States of America. Incredible,
almost beyond belief. If you look at Brennan’s extremely
insulting tweet repeated below, the full irony of his being a
communist in the Soviet era should hit home.
So what are the facts? Well John Brennan was accepted
into the CIA in 1980 even though he admitted voting
Communist in 1976. This is something inexplicable and
astounding for any thinking person to understand of itself.
Brennan, who by then had been appointed President
Obama’s CIA chief, first publicly revealed this at the
Annual Legislative Conference of the Congressional Black
Caucus, on 15 September 2016, in Washington DC. There,
he said that when he had applied in 1980 to join the CIA,
he admitted to them that in the 1976 Presidential election,
at the height of the Cold War against the "Godless" Soviet
Union, when a strong Christian presidential candidate,
Jimmy Carter was running against Gerald Ford, Brennan
had voted instead for the candidate of the US Communist
Party, Gus Hall, and that he was then greatly relieved to
find that this information didn’t cause rejection of his CIA
application. One must ask why, as it happened 11 years
before the "end of the Cold War" in 1991.
At the risk of being repetitive, take this in: John Brennan
literally voted for the Communist Party, the Soviets, to
take power in the United States of America!
As a Brit, a keen observer of American politics for
decades, it appears astonishing that a father and son,
Americans Ron and Rand Paul seem to be representative
of only a few sane voices that debate logically and
objectively on the subject of Russia, acknowledging, as
Trump put it, that they are our competitors not enemies.
On Monday on CNN Wolf Blitzer was aghast that
Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul spoke on his programme saying
that critics of Trump, Putin summit have
“Trump Derangement Syndrome.”
Blitzer almost angrily asking the Senator
“Let me get right to the questioning. Do you
believe that President Trump’s meeting
with Putin made America safer?”
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The Senator answered
“You know, I think engagement with our
adversaries, conversation with our
adversaries is a good idea. Even in the
height of the Cold War (with the Soviets),
maybe at its lowest ebb when we were in
the midst of the Cuban missile crisis, I think
it was a good thing that Kennedy had a
direct line to Khrushchev. I think it was a
good thing that we continued to have
Ambassadors to the Soviet Union even
when we really objected greatly to what
was going on, especially during Stalin’s
regime. So I think , yes, that it is a good
idea to have engagement.”
So from the outside as a Brit, the question one must ask is
why haven’t the Clintons, Brennan, and their ilk been
arrested already for the countless allegations of crimes that
have been revealed to the public?
 Comey Meddles In 2018 Election
Julia Cohen | Reporter
2:53 AM 07/18/2018
Former FBI Director James Comey said that “all who
believe in this country’s values must vote for Democrats”
and that Republicans have been “incapable” in a Tuesday
tweet.
“This Republican Congress has proven
incapable of fulfilling the Founders’ design
that ‘Ambition must … counteract ambition.’
All who believe in this country’s values
must vote for Democrats this fall. Policy
differences don’t matter right now. History
has its eyes on us,” Comey tweeted on
Tuesday.
This Republican Congress has proven
incapable of fulfilling the Founders’ design
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that “Ambition must … counteract
ambition.” All who believe in this country’s
values must vote for Democrats this fall.
Policy differences don’t matter right now.
History has its eyes on us.
— James Comey (@Comey) July 18, 2018
Comey, who was previously a registered Republican, has
blasted President Donald Trump’s handling of the Helsinki
summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin, stating that
Trump “stood on foreign soil next to a murderous lying
thug and refused to back his own country” in a Monday
tweet.
This was the day an American president
stood on foreign soil next to a murderous
lying thug and refused to back his own
country. Patriots need to stand up and
reject the behavior of this president.
— James Comey (@Comey) July 16, 2018
Comey’s statement about the midterms comes after a
Department of Justice Inspector General report found he
was “insubordinate” and defied authority while he was
director of the FBI, The Daily Caller reported in June
2018.
Comey is also under investigation for how he handled
classified reports about his meetings with Trump, The
Daily Caller reported in June 2018. He came under fire for
his handling of the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s
email server.
 MSNBC’s Barnicle: Rewrite The
Constitution And Remove Trump Now
By Cody Leach
July 18, 2018 2:20 PM EDT
Apparently, no idea is too crazy on Morning Joe. In a
bizarre call to action on Wednesday, senior contributor and
MSNBC veteran columnist Mike Barnicle took to the
airwaves to declare his support for a rewrite of the
Constitution and a replacement of the democratically
elected President of the United States.
Sadly, these kinds of loony and absurd comments have
become common practice at Morning Joe. With the
absence of hosts Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough,
the delegitimizing of the Trump administration and calls
for his removal began earlier than usual.
Just one minute into the program, the manic Barnicle
demanded:
"Rewrite the Constitution and have another
president take over right now. Look, this is
the distortion of, in daily life in American
politics, it's beyond the realm and thankfully
former President Obama pointed out
realities we all live under right now."
The troubling disregard for our founding documents has
found a home at MSNBC, where the God-granted rights of
life, liberty, and property mean nothing to the deranged
hosts of a clearly disturbed group of guests. Trump
Derangement Syndrome has reached a new low, where
even the Constitution must be rewritten immediately in
order to remove the President of the United States.
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Morning Joe 7/18/18 at 6:01
WILLIE GEIST:
From South Africa to Europe, the world
was presented with two very different
visions of American presidents over the last
several days. Good morning and welcome
to "Morning Joe" It's Wednesday, July 18th.
Joe and Mika are off today. I'm Willie Geist
alongside NBC news national political
reporter Heidi Przybilla, MSNBC contributor
Mike Barnicle, Professor at Princeton
University and MSNBC contributor Eddie
Glaude Jr., former Treasury official and
Morning Joe economic analyst Steve
Rattner, political writer for the New York
Times and MSNBC political analyst Nick
Compasori, columnist at the Washington
Examiner Kristin Soltis Anderson, and
former NATO Supreme Ally
Commander and now the Dean of the
Fletcher school of law and diplomacy at
Tufts universities and chief
international and security
diplomacy analyst for NBC News and
MSNBC retired four-star Navy Admiral
James Stavridis. Good morning,
welcome. Mike, first impressions as
you watched that one-minute clip or so of
the president yesterday speaking around
the 100th birthday celebration for Nelson
Mandela and the president making his
way across Europe last week?
MIKE BARNICLE:
Rewrite the constitution and have another
president take over right now. Look, this is
the distortion of, in daily life in
American politics, it's beyond the realm and
thankfully former President Obama pointed
out realities we all live under right now.
 Rand Paul: The Only Person We
Know Colluded With The Russians Is Hillary Clinton
Benny Johnson | Reporter At Large
2:26 PM 07/18/2018

British agent who paid Russians for

information for the dossier.”

Rand was referring to the infamous unverified Steele

dossier compiled by Fusion GPS and paid for by the
Clinton campaign.

“[Trump] feels like the intelligence

Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) says the only person whom he and
others “actually know colluded with the Russians” is
former Democrat presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.
Rand was on Fox News Wednesday morning clarifying his
stance on Russia’s election meddling and the intelligence
community.
President Trump faced broad outrage over comments he
made during the Helsinki, Finland, summit with Russian
President Vladimir Putin Monday. Trump was criticized
for not being more forceful with the Russian leader and for
not backing up U.S. intelligence findings of Russian
interference in the 2016 presidential election. Trump
clarified his comments in a short statement at the White
House on Tuesday.
When asked to explain the controversy, Rand said that the
president thinks the Muller investigation is “tainted” by
partisan Democrats that also colluded with Russia.
community cooked up a political and
partisan investigation,” Rand continued,
“but also, part of the Mueller investigation is
something that should have investigated,
and that is: Who hacked into Hillary
Clinton’s emails?”
Rand concluded,
“There is part of the Mueller investigation
that is legitimate and part of it that is a
partisan attack on the president.”
Rand went on to say that he lost faith in the intelligence
community after the NSA spying and data collection
scandal during the Obama years.
WATCH:

“The president sees the Mueller

investigation. He sees all these
accusations from partisan Democrats,
Hillary Clinton, saying ‘Oh, he colluded with
the Russians,” Rand said. “The only people
who we actually know colluded with the
Russians were Hillary Clinton who paid a

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 Rand Paul Savages John Brennan As ‘Most Biased,
Bigoted, Unhinged CIA Director Ever’ (VIDEO)
By Cristina Laila
July 18, 2018, 3:13 Pm

On Monday, former CIA Director, John

Brennan claimed Trump’s presser with
Putin exceeded the threshold of “high
crimes and misdemeanors” then said it
was “nothing short of treasonous.”

Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) savaged

former CIA Director John Brennan
Wednesday morning in a Fox News
appearance.

The Kentucky Senator called John Brennan the most

biased, bigoted, unhinged Director of the CIA we’ve ever
had in response to Brennan’s latest attack on President President Trump slammed the former CIA Director in an
Trump labeling the Putin summit performance interview with Fox News Tucker Carlson, calling Brennan
“treasonous.” “a very bad guy.”

“John Brennan started out his adulthood by “I think Brennan is a very bad guy and if
voting for the Communist Party presidential you look at it a lot of things happened
candidate,” Rand Paul said. “He’s now under his watch,” Trump told Fox News’
ending his career by showing himself to be Tucker Carlson. “I think he’s a very bad
the most biased, bigoted, over-the-top, person.”
hyperbolic sort of unhinged director of the
Brennan continued to attack President
CIA we’ve ever had.”
Trump on Tuesday after calling his
Putin summit performance
VIDEO: “treasonous.”

John Brennan, like every other hysterical leftist, is afraid

of what President Trump may have discussed during his
private meeting with Vladimir Putin.

In what sounded like a signal to Deep State operatives,

Brennan warned the Intel community may begin to
“withhold vital intelligence” from President Trump to
protect information.

Brennan routinely attacks President Trump from Twitter;

he previously warned Trump about Mueller’s
investigation, telling the president to “Stay tuned.”

John Brennan is also the puppet master behind the Trump-

Russia collusion narrative and he helped promote Hillary’s
garbage Russia dossier.

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 BREAKING: The Swamp Launches Investigation Into
Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke Over Real Estate Deal
By Cristina Laila
July 18, 2018, 4:57 Pm

The interior Department’s watchdog It is clear Zinke is being targeted over his support for
launched an investigation into Ryan President Trump.
Zinke, Trump’s Interior Secretary
according to a letter sent to lawmakers Dan Bongino said it perfectly:
Wednesday.
Spy on political opponents -> No problem.
Via far left Politico: Set up a private email server in violation of
govt rules -> No penalty. Weaponize the
The Interior Department’s internal IRS to harass political opponents -> No
watchdog has opened a formal worries at all. BUT, wearing a pair of Trump
investigation into a real estate deal socks. Must investigate ASAP.
involving a foundation established by Ryan
Zinke and developers including Halliburton
Chairman David Lesar, which was first
reported by POLITICO, according to a
letter sent to lawmakers Wednesday.
The Office of Special Counsel (not to be
confused with Mueller’s Special Counsel)
previously opened a case file on President
Trump’s Interior Secretary, Ryan Zinke for
a possible violation of the Hatch Act
because he posted a photo of Trump socks
on Twitter.

Yes, that is correct. This Trump official is also being

investigated over his socks. (photo below)

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 Kurtz: Media Have Serious Problem Overreacting To
‘Incendiary’ Trump Comments, Mistakes
By Curtis Houck
July 18, 2018 5:57 PM EDT
On Wednesday, our friends at Grabien flagged down an
astute piece of analysis from FNC’s MediaBuzz host
Howard Kurtz on America’s Newsroom when he noted that
the liberal media have an unhealthy penchant for going to
an “11 or 13” on a one-to-10 scale whenever President
Trump does something wrong or utters “something
incendiary.”
Host Bill Hemmer invited Kurtz to comment on the media
coverage of Helsinki and subsequent walkback, so Kurtz
first pointed out that, as for the supposed clarification,
“the media are largely rejecting it and
even mocking the President's attempts
at a clarification, likening it to a hostage
video, saying it’s not about one
misspoken word and the whole fervor is
fed by leaks from insiders.”
As for what went down in Helsinki, Kurtz summarized
some of the increasingly-mainstream reactions, that could
be boiled down to the President’s disastrous performance
being indications he’s a
“traitor and treasonous, you know, he
should taken out and shot, the
analogies to Pearl Harbor and so forth.”
Kurtz used that as a launching point to observe that the
liberal media constantly miss their chance to expand their
tent by losing their minds whenever the President does
something large swaths of the public would disapprove of:
[A]nd this also is a pattern I've observed, which is when
the President makes a mistake or says something
incendiary, he’ll go to a 10. The press goes to 11 or 13 and
it convinces many Trump supporters that they’ve got it in
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for that guy, that he never gets the benefit of the doubt. In
other words, it can be an overreaction, which is not to say
that he doesn't deserve criticism for what happened in
Helsinki.
Couldn’t have said it much better myself.
Kurtz added moments later, aside from the hysteria he had
already noted as emblematic of the media’s over-reactive
personality,
“the reaction was perfectly appropriate
and understandable”
on substance with conservative outlets and even some Fox
News hosts and pundits condemning Trump.
“It may turn out that the summit, in
retrospect, will indicate more progress
than we might have expected but now
you even have The New York Times,
Bill, just briefly saying well, this raises
the question what does Putin have on
Trump. There is no evidence of that but
it’s made it into the mainstream
conversation,” Kurtz also observed.
Hemmer had an astute conclusion based on Kurtz’s
perspective and alluded to a segment on NBC’s Today
from Wisconsin in which the voters interviewed largely
remained behind the President despite this less-than-stellar
week on the international stage.
See the relevant transcript from FNC’s America’s
Newsroom on July 18:
FNC’s America’s Newsroom
July 18, 2018
9:46 a.m. Eastern
BILL HEMMER: You've been watching and listening and reading
the incoming back and forth. What do you think right now about
the do over from yesterday afternoon?
HOWARD KURTZ Well, first of all, Bill, the media are largely
rejecting it and even mocking the President's attempts at a
clarification, likening it to as hostage video, saying it’s not about
one misspoken word and the whole fervor is bed by leaks from
insiders. We have seen this before undercutting the President.
Washington Post reporting that he essentially ignored most of
100 pages of briefing material saying to be tough on Vladimir
Putin. Axios quoting former officials on Helsinki “need a shower,”
another one said “dude, this is a blanking disgrace.” They are
being disloyal but also frustrated in the President and what some
of them called defiance disorder blew past their advice about how
deal with Putin.
HEMMER: What’s defiance order — defiance disorder, rather.
KURTZ: It's when everybody on the President's staff says don't
do this, you gotto be tough on Putin. Don't stand up there. We
saw this also after Charlottesville and the Presiden says, “hey,
I'm President and I’m going to say what I want” and, of course,
he often excels at saying what he wants, but sometimes when he
says what he wants, it can be somewhat inflammatory.
HEMMER: Howard, how much do you think was based on the
reporters not getting the answers they were expecting? How
much of it — you know — Rod Rosenstein not getting the answer
publically he was expecting based on the indictments last Friday,
maybe some Republicans on the Hill not getting the answer they
were expecting>?
KURTZ: Certainly there was a great expectation in the media and
political world that in light of those indictments of the 12 Russian
military officers the President was going to strike a more
aggressive tone instead of sort of equating U.S. intelligence
agencies with the strong denial — powerful denial he said from
President Putin. But on this point about going too far, there has
been some of that. A lot of talk in the press about traitor and
treasonous, you know, he should taken out and shot, the
analogies to Pearl Harbor and so forth and this also is a pattern
I've observed, which is when the President makes a mistake or
says something incendiary, he’ll go to a 10. The press goes to 11
.
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or 13 and it convinces many Trump supporters that they’ve got in
for that guy, that he never gets the benefit of the doubt. In other
words, it can be an overreaction, which is not to say that he
doesn't deserve criticism for what happened in Helsinki.
HEMMER: Okay, so you would agree that, sometimes, the first
reaction, as I stated earlier, can be an overreaction, that — do
you think this was an overreaction or do you think the reaction
was appropriate in realtime?
KURTZ: On the substance of it, I think the reaction was perfectly
appropriate and understandable and here is the difference in this
case. When the President says fake news, in this particular
instance, you have a number of conservative outlets and
commentators being highly critical how he handled Vladimir
Putin. You have The Weekly — The Wall Street Journal editorial
page saying a personal and national embarrassment. You have
many hosts and commentators on Fox News being strongly
critical of what the President did. You have Newt Gingrich, a
major ally, the worst mistake of his presidency. So what Trump
did, this cuts across the usual left/right or pro-Trump, anti-Trump
line and that's why there has been such intensity to this media
reaction.
HEMMER: I’ll just make one more point We don't know what
happened in the private meetings. I think that White House would
do well to tell us if there was news or movement on things like
North Korea, we want to know.
KURTZ: Sure, the — the session with Putin was more than just
the press conference, but the press conference is the public
stage, the white ha — white hot glare of the spotlight. So, that's
all we have to go on. It may turn out that the summit, in
retrospect, will indicate more progress than we might have
expected but now you even have The New York Times, Bill, just
briefly saying well, this raises the question what does Putin have
on Trump. There is no evidence of that but it’s made it into the
mainstream conversation.
HEMMER: Yeah, I saw a reporter on NBC this morning — the
Today show — they were in southeastern Wisconsin, Trump
supporters, a region that flipped from blue to red in 2016 they
were — they were 100 percent behind him. So, they hear it in
ways the media do not hear —
KURTZ: Exactly.
HEMMER: — and I think that's something we really have to keep
in mind.
 Rand Paul Waterboards Former
CIA Director For Calling Trump Treasonous
Benny Johnson | Reporter At Large
8:55 PM 07/18/2018

“John Brennan started out his adulthood by

voting for the communist party presidential
candidate and showing himself to be the
most bias, bigoted, hyperbolic unhinged
director of the C.I.A. that we’ve ever had,”
Paul stated.

Brennan admitted to voting for the Communist Party’s

presidential candidate while in college.

Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) had harsh words for former CIA
director John Brennan after Brennan accused President
Donald Trump of treason after meeting with Vladimir
Putin Monday.
Brennan criticized the president for not being more
forceful with the Russian leader and for not backing up
U.S. intelligence findings of Russian interference in the
2016 presidential election.
“Donald Trump’s press conference
performance in Helsinki rises to & exceeds
the threshold of ‘high crimes &
misdemeanors.’ It was nothing short of
treasonous,” Brennan tweeted.
WATCH:
“He called the president treasonous
because he doesn’t like him,” Paul
continued. “Brennan and [James Clapper]
are known for wanting to expand the
authority of the intelligence agencies to
grab up everyone’s information including
Americans and so I don’t have a lot of
respect for these people before they
decided to go on hating the president.”
“I dislike these people because they
wanted to grab up so much power and use
it against the American people,” Rand
concluded. “Some people are deranged
with Trump and that’s why they’re crazy.”

Senator Paul was asked about the comments in a Fox News

hit Monday morning, and he didn’t hold back, broadsiding
Brennan for being a “bigot” and voting for a communist
for president.

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 FBI Director Wray: Chinese Espionage
‘Most Significant’ Threat Facing US (VIDEO)
By Cristina Laila
July 18, 2018, 9:51 Pm

He said that China’s espionage efforts are

“a whole of state effort” that includes

“economic espionage as well as traditional
espionage and human sources as well as
cyber means.”
“The volume of it, the pervasive of it, the
significance of it, is something that I think
this country cannot underestimate,” Wray
continued.

On Wednesday, FBI Director The main reason why we have never seen actual evidence
Christopher Wray said China, of Russians hacking into Democrat computer networks is
not Russia is the “most significant” because the reports would also reveal China to be one of
long-term threat facing the US today. the aggressors. The fact that China is spying with such
aggressive techniques obliterates the entire Russian
Wray sat down for an interview with NBC’s Lester Holt at hacking narrative spun by Dems and their media
the Aspen Security Forum Wednesday to discuss many sycophants.
different spy threats facing the US.
VIDEO:
The Democrat-media complex is obsessed with Russia,
however; Wray clearly states the FBI has economic
espionage cases open in all 50 states that trace back to
China.

“It covers everything from corn seeds in

Iowa to wind turbines in Massachusetts
and everything in between,” Wray said of
China’s espionage efforts.

Of course Lester Holt wanted to desperately bring the

conversation back to Russia and brought up election
meddling again.
About Bill Clinton, betrayal, treason and
Christopher Wray did acknowledge Russia’s efforts to China…
influence the public opinion and politics in the US,
however he said not to underestimate China’s ultimate
goal which is to

“position itself as the sole dominant super

power. They’re trying to replace the United
States in that role.”
“I think China from a counterintelligence
perspective represents in many ways
represents the broadest, most challenging,
most significant threat we face as a
country,” Wray said.
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 President Trump Holds Vladimir Putin
Responsible For Russian Election Meddling
Mike Brest | Contributor
10:04 PM 07/18/2018

“Certainly, as the leader of a country you

would have to hold them responsible,” he
continued.

President Donald Trump told CBS News’ Jeff Glor that he

holds Russian President Vladimir Putin personally
responsible for meddling in the 2016 U.S. presidential
election on Wednesday.

The president’s statements come after he received a lot of

“Well I would because he’s in charge of the
country. Just like I consider myself to be
responsible for things that happen in this
country,” Trump said when asked if he
holds Putin personally responsible for their
role in the election.
backlash for his comments during a press conference
between Trump and Putin on Monday. Many critics said
the president was siding with the Russian leader over the
U.S. intelligence community about Russia’s role in the last
presidential election, and he had to clarify his comments
on Tuesday.
The president has an interview scheduled to air
Wednesday evening with CBS Evening News’ Jeff Glor.

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 Luis Gutierrez For Impeachment:
Trump-Putin Meeting ‘Nothing
Short Of Treasonous’
By Tony Lee
18 Jul 2018
Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-IL) on
Wednesday said President Donald
Trump’s Monday press conference with
Russian President Vladimir Putin in
Finland was “nothing short of
treasonous” and called on Congress to
relieve Trump of his duties.
Gutierrez, one of the first House Democrats to support
Trump’s impeachment, claimed that at Monday’s Helsinki
Summit,
“the world witnessed the single worst
performance by an American President on
the world stage in world history.”
The Illinois Democrat added that the “disgraceful”
performance “was the culmination of the worst week an
American President has ever had” and “nothing short of
treasonous.”
.
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“This body, the House, the institution that I
love so much and have served for more
than 25 years cannot be sullied or
diminished by this President and his
inability to see the facts about the attack on
the United States,” Gutierrez said. “As a
body, we must take action to relieve the
President of his duties.”
Gutierrez, who signed on to the Articles of Impeachment
that House Democrats introduced in November, also said
he believes Trump is
“a threat to American Democracy” and has
already begun consulting with his
colleagues “about whether those Articles of
Impeachment can be expanded and
updated to include the betrayal witnessed
by the American people and the world this
week.”
He also vowed to “redouble” his efforts to prevent House
Republicans from obstructing justice and undermining the
FBI.
“And while it is already a full-time job, I will
redouble my efforts to prevent the House of
Representatives from taking actions to
actively obstruct justice and undermine law
enforcement and the FBI, while seeking to
give the President cover and relief from a
genuine, thorough investigation into the
attack on our country by the Russians in
2016 and the attacks that are continuing to
this day,” Gutierrez said.
 CNN’s Toobin Bashes Jeff Glor’s
Interview With Trump Before It Fully Airs
Amber Athey | Media And Breaking News Editor
11:40 PM 07/18/2018
CNN legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin bashed CBS’ Jeff Glor’s
interview with President Donald Trump before the full
interview had even aired.
After watching a short excerpt in which Trump held
Russian president Vladimir Putin responsible for election
meddling, Toobin insisted that Glor was being too weak on
Trump. Toobin repeatedly hammered Glor’s questions and
the interview as a whole despite having only seen the
excerpt.
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“Jeff Glor, maybe you should ask him a
tough question,” Toobin complained. “Oh
my god. Is that the interview?”
“No,” anchor Wolf Blitzer explained. “That
was just an excerpt. That was just an
excerpt.”
Toobin continued to rail against the interview, declaring,
“Oh my gosh. Oh, well, I guess that settles
it. Why didn’t you ask him, why didn’t you
say, if you believe that Russia did the
meddling, why didn’t you say it when you
were standing there?”
“Jeff Glor looked so terrified sitting there. I
don’t know what he was doing,” he added.
Blitzer again explained that he was only viewing an
excerpt, but Toobin was unsatisfied, stating,
“I can only imagine what the rest of it is
like.”
 Latest Deep State Leak:
Trump Was Told By Obama Lackeys That Putin
Was Behind Cyberattacks
By Jim Hoft
July 18, 2018, 10:42 Pm

Liberals are outraged that President Trump refused to chest

Deep state operatives leaked another
classified report to The New York Times
on Wednesday.
President Trump was told Putin was
involved in cyberattacks during the 2016
election. US intelligence told him this
days before the inauguration.
The same liberal hacks who illegally
leaked this information want Americans
to trust them as they continue to
destroy this duly elected president.
President Trump on Wednesday told
CBS anchor Jeff Glor that he has no
confidence in the tainted intelligence by
far left hacks Clapper, Brennan and
Comey.
bump Putin in Helsinki.
The deep state leaked this information to pile on the
Republican president.
The New York Times reported
Two weeks before his inauguration, Donald
J. Trump was shown highly classified
intelligence indicating that President
Vladimir V. Putin of Russia had personally
ordered complex cyberattacks to sway the
2016 American election.
The evidence included texts and emails
from Russian military officers and
information gleaned from a top-secret
source close to Mr. Putin, who had
described to the C.I.A. how the Kremlin
decided to execute its campaign of hacking
and disinformation.
Mr. Trump sounded grudgingly convinced, according to
several people who attended the intelligence briefing. But
ever since, Mr. Trump has tried to cloud the very clear
findings that he received on Jan. 6, 2017, which his own
intelligence leaders have unanimously endorsed.

And, once again, the timing of this leak is not an accident.

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 Trump Defends News Conference
With Putin With Call To Pragmatism:
‘We’re Living In The Real World’
Justin Caruso | Senior Media Reporter
11:49 PM 07/18/2018

“I think I did great at the news conference.

It was a strong news conference,” Trump
said.

Trump made these comments in an interview with CBS

evening news.

He also fired off a tweet Wednesday, putting Democrats

and MS-13 in the same box for opposing ICE.
President Trump defended his recent press conference with
Russian President Vladimir Putin in an interview
Wednesday, saying that “we’re living in the real world.”

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 Army General Schools CNN’s Cuomo
On Trump’s NATO, Russia Policies
By Nicholas Fondacaro
July 19, 2018 12:28 AM EDT
Between President Trump’s trip to the NATO summit last
week and his meeting with Russian President Vladimir
Putin on Monday, the liberal media had been trying to
portray Trump as a bull in a china shop damaging
relationships with allies and upending global norms.
During Wednesday’s edition of Cuomo PrimeTime, CNN
host Chris Cuomo tried to continue that narrative only to
have it turned around on him by Brigadier General
Anthony Tata (U.S. Army Retired).
Cuomo was offended that President Trump was demanding
NATO members pay the defense obligations they agreed
to and was hoping to get the General to slam the President
for it.
“This idea that the United States will
back you as a NATO ally if you pay your
share, is that the right message to
send,” Cuomo scoffed.
But General Tata didn’t buy into Cuomo suggestions.
“I think any discussion on the threshold on
decision-making with regard to combat or
decision-making regarding coming to the
aid of a NATO member is a good
discussion to have,” he stated.
“The President has been consistent on
his message:0 You've got to pay your
fair share. And you know, it’s a good
discussion to have.”
“But the idea that it's an if/then, if you
pay, then I'll take your back, that's not
the way it's supposed to work,” Cuomo
pushed back.
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Tata reminded Cuomo that there was no talk of evoking
Article V (mutual defense) of the NATO agreement by
Obama when allies were being attacked by ISIS.
“[H]e flicked lint off his suit. Right? And
did nothing....I think it's perfectly valid
for the President of the United States
now to have a conversation, what is the
threshold [need to invoke Article V] and
should member nations pay more,” he
argued.
Cuomo chided Trump by suggesting he wasn’t thinking at
as high a level as the General was. He then proceeded to
use a 2016 clip of current National Security Adviser John
Bolton criticizing then-candidate Trump by suggesting his
thoughts on NATO were inviting an attack by Russia.
“That's the situation we're in right now,”
Cuomo declared. “Do you share the
concern?”
“I don’t think that’s the situation we're
in, Chris,” Tata dismissed. “I've been all
over the Balkans. I've been in Bosnia,
Croatia. I’ve been through Montenegro.
I’ve been in Macedonia, Kosovo.
Montenegro is well-protected. They may
have some cyber-attacks or whatever
but I don't think there's any threat
against Montenegro right now from
Russia.”
The General stepped up his rebuttal to Cuomo’s hysteria
by expertly pointing out that Trump’s demands to have
NATO members pay more would lead to a stronger
alliance that could stand up to Russia more effectively:
I think it was just the President being very consistent with
his messaging with regard to NATO. Member nations must
pay their fair share is essentially what he’s been saying.
And it makes the alliance stronger, Chris, if everybody
does. And that sends a message to Russia that this is a
stronger alliance. Meanwhile, our military has the largest
budget it's ever had.
With Cuomo back on his heels, Tata hit him with a reality
check regarding how “in the face of Russia,” the U.S. had
been under Trump.
“We have attacked Syria, a Russian
state, for lack of a better term, that
Russia has a naval base right close to
where several of our attacks came in,”
he recalled. “We killed about 200 Russian
mercenaries and didn't apologize for it.
We just steamrolled right through them
as part of our ISIS fight. And so, Chris,
we've been very tough on Russia.”
“All right, I hear you, General. I hear you.
I'm just saying it's been a mixed picture
given what we saw in Helsinki a little bit
before,” Cuomo huffed as he threw in the
towel.
The transcript is below, click "expand" to read:
CNN's Cuomo Prime Time
July 18, 2018
9:50 PM Eastern
CHRIS CUOMO: Let's bring in Brigadier General Anthony Tata,
author of the novel Dark Winter coming out this fall. Thank you
very much. General, I'm not going to take a lot of your time. I just
have one question. This idea that the United States will back you
as a NATO ally if you pay your share, is that the right message to
send?
BRIG. GEN. ANTHONY TATA: I think any discussion on the
threshold on decision-making with regard to combat or decision-
making regarding coming to the aid of a NATO member is a good
discussion to have, because, if you remember, 9/11 was the first
time Article V was enacted--
CUOMO: That’s right. In our defense.
TATA: -- by the North Atlantic Council and they employed eight
measures to assist us as we went to Afghanistan, overflight
rights, and early warning and that kind of thing. The President
has been consistent on his message; you've got to pay your fair
share. And you know, it’s a good discussion to have.
CUOMO [Interrupting Tata]: But the idea that it's an if/then, if you
pay, then I'll take your back, that's not the way it's supposed to
work.
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TATA: Well, I think the way it's supposed to work is-- Let's look at
what President Obama did when France was attacked, when
Belgium was attacked, when Turkey was attacked, when
Germany was attacked, he flicked lint off his suit. Right? And did
nothing. He didn't even talk about Article V. France had over 260
people killed in two separate attacks by ISIS, an enemy that we
were fighting at the time and there was zero discussion of
implementation of Article V. So, I think it's perfectly valid for the
President of the United States now to have a conversation, what
is the threshold and should member nations pay more.
CUOMO: That's fine, if that’s what he was talking but his
threshold is financial. He's not talking about some of the higher
concepts that you are. That's why I wanted to bring you in for this
conversation. I understand your point, it's just not the point he's
making. And it's interesting that making it about money, saying
you have to pay into NATO. First of all, as you know, and the
audience should know, there is no such mechanism, nobody
pays into anything, it's about your commitment to pay into your
own defensive preparations. And you know what he's saying
goes against what one of his main advisers says. Listen to what
Bolton said in 2016 about the idea of what Trump is saying right
now.
JOHN BOLTON: He offers this hypothetical: If a Baltic State is
attacked by Russia, that he would decide then whether or not to
come to their aid, only after reviewing whether these nations
have fulfilled their obligations to us. That is an open invitation to
Putin to attack.
CUOMO: That's the situation we're in right now. Do you share the
concern?
TATA: I don’t think that’s the situation we're in, Chris. I think
Montenegro-- I've been all over the Balkans. I've been in Bosnia,
Croatia. I’ve been through Montenegro. I’ve been in Macedonia,
Kosovo. Montenegro is well-protected. They may have some
cyber-attacks or whatever but I don't think there's any threat
against Montenegro right now from Russia.
And so, I think it was just the President being very consistent with
his messaging with regard to NATO. Member nations must pay
their fair share is essentially what he’s been saying. And it makes
the alliance stronger, Chris, if everybody does. And that sends a
message to Russia that this is a stronger alliance. Meanwhile,
our military has the largest budget it's ever had.
CUOMO: Right.
TATA: And we are a stronger military. We have exercises going
on all across Western Europe. We're in the face of Russia. We
have attacked Syria, a Russian state, for lack of a better term,
that Russia has a naval base right close to where several of our
attacks came in.
CUOMO: I hear ya General.
TATA: We killed about 200 Russian mercenaries and didn't before. We’ll see what happens after it and I'll have you come
apologize for it. We just steamrolled right through them as part of back to help us make sense of it. General, thank you.
our ISIS fight. And so, Chris, we've been very tough on Russia.
TATA: Thank you, Chris.
CUOMO: All right, I hear you, general. I hear you. I'm just saying
it's been a mixed picture given what we saw in Helsinki a little bit
.

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 Trump’s Weak Helsinki Showing Was
Embarrassing For America, But
His Russia Policies Aren’t
Anders Hagstrom | Justice Reporter
12:47 AM 07/19/2018
President Donald Trump’s refusal to defend his own
intelligence agencies again Russian President Vladimir
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 Sen. Rand Paul Goes After John Brennan
After He Calls Trump ‘Treasonous’
Julia Nista | General Assignment Reporter
2:38 AM 07/19/2018
Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul went after former CIA director
John Brennan following his comments calling President
Trump “treasonous” Wednesday on “Tucker Carlson
Tonight.”
WATCH:
“The former director of the CIA, you think of
that as a sober minded person, responsible
person, kind of a James Bond with maybe
an advanced degree. Here you have a
naked partisan nut cake describing a press
conference as treason,” said Carlson. “How
should that make us feel as American
citizens?”
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“It makes me wonder whether he should be
getting a government pension if he’s going
to be disrespecting the commander-in-
chief, calling the president treasonous.
That’s about as overtop as you can
imagine,” responded Paul.
Tucker then brought up that
“treason is a death penalty offense” and yet
that is how Brennan “is describing views.”
“You have to realize John Brennan started
his illustrious career by voting for the
Communist Party, you know that’s who he
wanted to win the presidency, back in the
70s,” Paul said. “When he came to be head
of the CIA, I filibustered him because I
thought he was bad news from the very
beginning.”
Paul added that Brennan “is one of the most powerful
people in the world who has the ability to destroy anybody
in the world and gain information on anything you do” and
“yet with all that power he was coming to work each day
with a bias and a hatred of the president, it should worry us
all. What other things he could possibly have been doing
with that power?”
“I’m a big believer that we need more
checks and balances on those in the
intelligence community — James Comey,
John Brennan, James Clapper, we need
much more surveillance of the watchers,”
Paul said.
Brennan is not the only former Obama intelligence official
to make outlandish claims. Former Director of National
Intelligence James Clapper said Trump was “aiding and
abetting our arch adversary” Russia.
 Leftists Peddle T Shirts Of Trump
Hanging By Tie-Noose, Instagram Is Promoting It
By Brock Simmons
July 19, 2018, 7:39 Am

As Instagram removes infopics about Planned Parenthood

murdering black babies, they leave up an account from a
new clothing line called “Hanging With Trump,” which But it doesn’t end there. The organization/company is
sells t shirts depicting Trump literally hanging by a noose using Indie Go Go for their fundraising and point of sale.
made from his very fine signature red tie.

The Instagram page features a variety of instagram models

showing off the shirts.

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And of course they are on Facebook, where the “about”
page reads:

“ARE YOU #HangingWithTrump? – The

worldwide Cultural Movement that
Raises Awareness for everyone Trump
Left Behind. We donate for every
#HangingWithTrump shirt sold, to an
organization Trump is defunding and
the people hurt as a result of his
policies”

And, last but not least, they even have a promo video
hosted on Vimeo:

Interesting how they fund organizations that are being

defunded by the government, essentially proving the
conservative point that private funding of organizations
and causes replaces government funding, plus the private
funding is voluntary and you get to pick where you want
the money to go.

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 Four Big Holes In Peter Strzok’s
‘Evidence’ Of His Election Neutrality
By Aaron Klein
19 Jul 2018
NEW YORK — There are numerous
basic flaws in the central piece of
“evidence” offered by FBI agent Peter
Strzok as proof of his integrity and his
lack of bias against Donald Trump
during the 2016 presidential election.
Strzok, stung by the release of his anti-Trump text
messages, used the opening statement of his recent
testimony to tout
“one extraordinarily important piece of
evidence supporting my integrity, the
integrity of the FBI, and our lack of bias.”
He explained:
“In the summer of 2016, I was one of a
handful of people who knew the details of
Russian election interference and its
possible connections with members of the
Trump campaign. This information had the
potential to derail, and quite possibly,
defeat Mr. Trump. But the thought of
exposing that information never crossed
my mind.”
Strzok repeated that same argument at least four times
during his hours-long testimony. Democratic lawmakers
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made the same point in their questioning of Strzok, with
one even claiming the FBI agent had a “magic bullet” in
his hands to “derail” Trump’s candidacy but never leaked
the details.
The FBI’s probe of Russian meddling, focusing in part on
Trump’s campaign, was initiated in July 2016, but was not
revealed officially to the public until after the election took
place.
Strzok’s claim that his alleged discretion on the Russia
meddling probe served as “evidence” of his lack of bias
was further brandished by news media outlets.
“Peter Strzok just gave a hard-to-rebut
defense of the objectivity of the Russia
investigation’s origins,” was the title of an
analysis piece in the Washington Post.
“FBI agent destroys anti-Trump conspiracy
theory with ‘one extraordinarily important
piece of evidence’” was the title of a piece
in the Mirror.
The Huffington Post ran an article on the topic with the
sub-headline:
“FBI veteran highlighted a gaping flaw in
the GOP’s theory the ‘deep state’ worked
against Trump.”
The liberal Think Progress went so far as to claim,
“Republicans’ favorite FBI conspiracy
theory goes up in smoke during Strzok
hearing.”
Below, in no particular order, are four major problems
with Strzok’s claim, each posited by former Obama
administration officials.
1 – Hillary Clinton was favored to win so
any leak about election meddling would
have tainted an expected Clinton
victory.
In his book Facts And Fears: Hard Truths From A Life
In Intelligence, former Director of National Intelligence
James Clapper attributes the decision to withhold any
public announcement of the Russia interference probe, in
part for fear it would taint a future Clinton presidency.
He writes:
“President Obama said he’d considered his
options and felt that if he acted publicly, it
could serve to amplify the Russians’
message and would give them more fodder
to undermine Clinton’s authority as
president later. I inferred that in the end, he
trusted the electorate to see through the
conspiracy theories and propaganda, and
on Election Day, to do the right thing.”
In his book A Higher Loyalty, disgraced former FBI
Director James Comey writes that he “suspected” that “a
major factor” in the Obama administration’s
“deliberations” about whether to reveal the Russia probe
“was the universal view of pollsters that
Donald Trump had no chance.”
An extensive Washington Post piece titled “Obama’s
secret struggle to punish Russia for Putin’s election
assault” cited unnamed Obama administration officials
explaining that one of the reasons they kept the Russia
probe quiet was because Clinton was expected to win. The
newspaper reported,
“the assumption that Clinton would win
contributed to the lack of urgency.”
The 500-plus page report released last month by the Justice
Department’s Office of the Inspector General probing the
FBI’s handling of its probe into Clinton’s email server
gave a window into the agency’s thinking. It spotlighted
the agency’s “expectation that Clinton would be elected
president.” In fact, the report had a section titled,
“Expectation that Clinton Would Be Elected
President.”
Comey admitted in an interview with the IG that when it
came to his decision-making process in the Clinton probe,
“I am sure I was influenced by the tacit
assumption that Hillary Clinton was sure to
be the next President.”
The report cited FBI General Counsel Jim Baker revealing
internal discussions in which the topic of Clinton’s
expected presidential win “definitely came up” and
“somebody said something along those lines.” While
those conversations were in the context of the investigation
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into Clinton’s emails, they betray the FBI’s general
thinking about how the election was going to turn out.
2 – Obama officials say they were
reluctant to expose alleged Russian
interference for fear the details would
feed into Trump’s repeated
proclamations that the election was
being rigged.
The same extensive Washington Post piece referenced
above cited unnamed Obama administration officials
explaining that one of the reasons they kept the Russia
probe quiet was because any such exposure would “fuel”
Trump’s rigged claims.
Referring to Obama and his top advisers, the Post
characterized unnamed officials explaining the argument
for a lack of more action:
They also worried that any action they took
would be perceived as political interference
in an already volatile campaign. By August,
Trump was predicting that the election
would be rigged. Obama officials feared
providing fuel to such claims, playing into
Russia’s efforts to discredit the outcome
and potentially contaminating the expected
Clinton triumph.
Speaking to ABC News, Comey also said the Obama
administration didn’t want to feed into Trump’s
“narrative” that the system is rigged.
Comey stated:
“Donald Trump was already saying, ‘If I
lose, that means the system is rigged.’ And
so if the Obama administration comes out
saying, ‘The Russians are trying to help
elect Donald Trump,’ that walks right into
his narrative that’s, ‘See, I told ya,’ that the
whole system is fixed and you can’t trust
the American democratic process. And the
Russians would have accomplished their
goal.”
Comey cited Obama himself making such an argument,
telling ABC News:
What — you’re right though, with respect to
the decision by President Obama, as to
how to talk about the Russian interference
with the American people.
I think it was — I mean, he (Obama) said it to me — in
that meeting I described,
 “Putin backed the wrong horse.” He was
clearly thinking, “I don’t want to, given that
Trump’s going to lose, be — look like I’m
putting my finger on the scale.”
3 – Comey claimed the FBI initially kept
quiet about the Russia meddling probe
because it was “far too early” and “we
didn’t know what we had, and we didn’t
want to tip them off that we were
looking at them.”
Comey made those remarks during an interview this April
with ABC News host George Stephanopoulos.
Here is a transcript of the relevant section of the exchange:
GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS: And —
and all through August and September —
there’s a great debate going on inside the
Obama administration: What to reveal
about Russia (sic) was doing, what to
reveal about your investigation. Describe
that.
JAMES COMEY: Yeah. Not the second
part. Y — actually was not a hard question
about whether to talk publicly about the fact
that we’d opened in — counterintelligence
investigations on a small number of
Americans because it was far too early. We
didn’t know what we had, and we didn’t
want to tip them off that we were looking at
them.
So consistent with our policy — again, very different than
the Hillary Clinton case, which began with a public
referral. Everybody knew we were looking at her emails.
So when we confirmed it three months later, there’s no
jeopardy at all to the investigation.
.
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This was very different. We did not want these Americans
to know that we had reason to believe they might be
working with the Russians ’cause we gotta run this down
and investigate it. So actually what was debated was a
different and harder question which is what should we tell
the American people about the fact that the Russians are
messing with our election?
He further said that holding back on informing the
American electorate during the election “was actually not a
hard call, given the sensitivity of the matter and that it was
ongoing. We didn’t want to tip anybody off.”
4 – Comey recalled Obama not wanting
to reveal the Russia probe so as “not to
help the Russians achieve their goal of
undermining faith in our process.”
In his book, Comey writes:
I also acknowledged to the president that
an inoculation effort might accidentally
accomplish the Russians’ goal of
undermining confidence in our election
system. If you tell Americans that the
Russians are tampering with the election,
have you just sowed doubt about the
outcome, or given one side an excuse for
why they lost? This was very tricky.
President Obama saw the dilemma clearly
and said he was determined not to help the
Russians achieve their goal of undermining
faith in our process.
Still, Comey speculates that
“I suspected a major factor in their
deliberations was the universal view of
pollsters that Donald Trump had no
chance.”
 FLASHBACK: Watch Russian
Puppet Chuck Schumer Bow To Putin (VIDEO)
By Jim Hoft
July 19, 2018, 7:58 Am

Chuck Schumer sharing donuts with

Vladimir.

Senator Chuck Schumer held a press conference following

President Trump’s much publicized meeting with Russian
President Vladimir Putin.
As we reported back in March 2017:
Schumer as upset about President Trump’s coziness with Democrat Senate Minority leader Chuck
the Russian leader, Schumer continues to push the Russia
conspiracy.
“Does anyone believe that [Trump] was But it was Schumer who met with Putin
tougher on Putin in secret than he was in New York City – not Trump.
publicly?”
And that’s not all.

Putin was captured on video bowing to Vlad.

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 House Conservatives Smack Down Adam Schiff’s Motion
To Subpoena Trump’s Interpreter In Putin Meeting
By Cristina Laila
July 19, 2018, 10:53 Am
On Tuesday, at least two Democrat
lawmakers called for President Trump’s
interpreter to testify before Congress
about his private meeting with Russian
President Vladimir Putin.
The Democrats are so unhinged and so afraid of what
President Trump may have discussed with Putin in a
private meeting, they are calling for the president’s
interpreter to appear in a hearing on Capitol Hill.
To hell with the interpreter’s professional ethics, executive
privilege or government rules, right, Democrats?
On Thursday, Ranking Member of the House Intel
Committee, Adam Schiff (D-CA) made a motion to
subpoena Trump’s interpreter.
The Majority promptly rejected Schiff’s
motion and voted it down.
Schiff tweeted: BREAKING: @RepSwalwell and I just
made a motion in House Intel Committee to subpoena the
American interpreter during the summit — the only
witness to Trump’s meeting with Putin. This is an
extraordinary remedy, but Trump’s actions necessitate it.
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Republicans voted it down.
The Democrats and Obama’s Deep State thugs lost their
minds over Trump’s meeting with Putin.
During the presser with President
Trump, Russian President Putin
dropped a bomb on the Deep State
members in the intelligence community,
the Obama Administration and the
Clintons.
“For instance, we can bring up Mr.
Browder, in this particular case. Business
associates of Mr. Browder have earned
over $1.5 billion in Russia and never paid
any taxes neither in Russia or the United
States and yet the money escaped the
country. They were transferred to the
United States. They sent [a] huge amount
of money, $400,000 as a contribution to the
campaign of Hillary Clinton,” Putin said.
On Wednesday, the White House confirmed Vladimir
Putin asked President Trump in the private meeting if
Russia could interview Obama’s Ambassador Michael
McFaul over alleged financial crimes involving Browder.
 Abusive And Corrupt Obama Appointed
Judge Amy Berman Jackson Does It Again,
Refuses Manafort Plea, Keeps Him In Jail
By Jim Hoft
July 19, 2018, 11:36 Am

In 2017 Judge Jackson dismissed the wrongful death suit

against Hillary Clinton filed by two of the families who
lost loved ones in Benghazi. The families argued that
Clinton had done little to help their sons and then lied to
cover it up.

Then on January 19th of this year, a Paul Manafort’s case

was reassigned to Judge Jackson on January 19 th, a few
weeks after being filed.

It is unknown why she was assigned to

We would have more of this if Hillary this case or by whom.
Clinton won the election – an Obama
appointed liberal judge with a corrupt What is clear is that with her atrocious and slanted record
disposition and anger towards to date, the Deep State and the Mueller team certainly
Americans who think differently than wanted Judge Jackson overseeing the Manafort case and
Obama. Judge Jackson puts her own this is supported by her record to date.
distorted interpretation of reality ahead
of the US Constitution.
On January 3rdwe reported that Paul
Manafort filed a suit against the “Deep
This past week she again showed that
State” DOJ (Jeff Sessions), Assistant
she puts politics before the law. Her
AG Rod Rosenstein and Corrupt
actions with Paul Manafort alone are
Investigator Robert Mueller that would
cause for her to be removed or
possibly shut down Mueller’s corrupt
impeached.
investigation!
We reported months ago and again earlier this month, that
We reported for months on the many criminal and corrupt
Obama appointed liberal activist Judge, Amy Berman
actions taken by numerous parties related to the Mueller
Jackson, was assigned to the most important court case in
investigation. Mueller never should have taken on the job
US history. Sadly, Judge Jackson has a horrible far left
in the first place due to numerous conflicts. He is best
record on the bench. In 2013 Judge Jackson rejected
friends with fired leaker and former FBI Director James
arguments from the Catholic Church that Obamacare’s
Comey. He met with Comey shortly before Comey
requirements that employers provide cost free coverage to
testified with Congress and stratigized with him. For this
contraceptive services in spite of being contrary to their
alone he should have recused himself. The team Mueller
religious beliefs. This was overturned by the Supreme
built to attack President Trump and have him removed is
Court.
all Deep State liberal attorneys and crooks. Mueller’s
record in the past is scattered with actions that let the
Clintons off scot-free on numerous occasions when they
should have been put in jail.

We now know that the FBI had an

investigation into the Clintons and
moneys they received from Russia in
return for giving Russia 20% of all US
uranium.

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Prior to the Obama administration approving the very
controversial Uranium One deal in 2010 handing Russia
20% of America’s Uranium, the FBI had evidence that
Russian nuclear industry officials were involved in
bribery, kickbacks, extortion and money laundering in
order to benefit Vladimir Putin.
The FBI approved the deal anyway. We
also know that Rosenstein and Mueller
were the ones who allowed the Uranium
One deal to go forward. This was the
real Russia collusion story involving the
US government.
We know that Mueller’s team illegally obtained emails
related to the Trump transition team and these emails were
protected under attorney-client privilege. Mueller and his
entire team should have resigned after this.
But perhaps one of the most damning
aspects of the Mueller investigation is
that it is not legal. The corrupt Mueller
investigation is tasked with finding a
crime that does not exist in the law. It is
a legal impossibility. Mueller is being
asked to do something that is
manifestly unattainable.
FOX News Legal Analyst Gregg Jarrett explained this in
an article last year that the entire Mueller investigation is
lawless. Jarrett argued that:
… George Papadopoulos pled guilty to a
single charge of making a false statement
to the FBI. He was not charged with so-
called “collusion” because no such crime
exists in American statutory law, except
in anti-trust matters. It has no application to
elections and political campaigns.
It is not a crime to talk to a Russian. Not that the media
would ever understand that. They have never managed to
point to a single statute that makes “colluding” with a
foreign government in a political campaign a crime, likely
because it does not exist in the criminal codes.
Jarrett then turned his attention to Corrupt Hillary:
It is against the law for the Clinton
campaign and the Democratic National
Committee to funnel millions of dollars
to a British spy and to Russian sources
in order to obtain the infamous and
discredited Trump “dossier.”
The Federal Election Campaign Act (52 USC 30101)
prohibits foreign nationals and governments from giving or
receiving money in U.S. campaigns. It also prohibits the
filing of false or misleading campaign reports to hide the
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true purpose of the money (52 USC 30121). This is what
Clinton and the DNC appear to have done.
Most often the penalty for violating this law is a fine, but
in egregious cases, like this one, criminal prosecutions
have been sought and convictions obtained. In this sense, it
could be said that Hillary Clinton is the one who was
conspiring with the Russians by breaking campaign
finance laws with impunity.
But that’s not all.
Damning new evidence appears to show
that Clinton used her office as Secretary
of State to confer benefits to Russia in
exchange for millions of dollars in
donations to her foundation and cash to
her husband.
Secret recordings, intercepted emails, financial records,
and eyewitness accounts allegedly show that Russian
nuclear officials enriched the Clintons at the very time
Hillary presided over a governing body which
unanimously approved the sale of one-fifth of America’s
uranium supply to Russia.
If this proves to be a corrupt “pay-to-play” scheme, it
would constitute a myriad of crimes, including bribery (18
USC 201-b), mail fraud (18 USC 1341), and wire fraud
(18 USC 1343). It might also qualify for racketeering
charges (18 USC 1961-1968), if her foundation is
determined to have been used as a criminal enterprise.
The US statutory law is clear and Jarrett points it out. He
concluded with the following –
…Mueller’s appointment by Acting Attorney
General Rod Rosenstein violated the
special counsel law.
As I pointed out in a column last May, the law (28 CFR
600) grants legal authority to appoint a special counsel to
investigate crimes. Only crimes. He has limited
jurisdiction. Yet, in his order appointing Mueller as special
counsel (Order No. 3915-2017), Rosenstein directed him
to investigate “any links and/or coordination between the
Russian government and individuals associated with the
campaign of President Donald Trump.” It fails to identify
any specific crimes, likely because none are applicable.
To put it plainly, Mueller is tasked with
finding a crime that does not exist in the
law. It is a legal impossibility. He is
being asked to do something that is
manifestly unattainable.
Manafort sued the DOJ, Mueller and
Rosenstein because what they are
doing is not supported by US Law.
Manafort’s case also argued in paragraph 33 of its filing
that the special counsel put in place by crooked Rosenstein
gave crooked and criminal Mueller powers that are not
permitted by law. Mueller was given the latitude to
investigate whatever he wanted to and that is not permitted
by the law. Manafort’s filing paragraph 33 stated –
But paragraph (b)(ii) of the Appointment Order purports to
grant Mr. Mueller further authority to investigate and
prosecute “any matters that arose or may arise directly
from the investigation.” That grant of authority is not
authorized by DOJ’s special counsel regulations. It is not a
“specific factual statement of the matter to be
investigated.” Nor is it an ancillary power to address
efforts to impede or obstruct investigation under 28 C.F.R.
§ 600.4(a).
Manafort’s case was solid but the judge
was Obama’s corrupt liberal Judge
Jackson. On April 27, 2018, Judge
Jackson dismissed Manafort’s plea.
Judge Jackson is not only wrong in her judgements, she is
also overly abusive to Manafort. She scolded Manafort and
his team for a statement his spokesman issued maintaining
his innocence and said the comments appeared to run afoul
of the order she issued in November limiting public
statements about the case by lawyers involved and by the
defendants. Of course she says nothing about the many
leaks from the corrupt Mueller team.
In May Judge Jackson addressed
another argument from the Manafort
team and basically threw it out as well.
(There’s no way Manafort is getting a
fair trial with Judge Jackson overseeing
his case.)
A federal judge delivered a setback to President Trump’s
former campaign chairman Paul Manafort on Friday by
refusing to throw out some of the criminal charges against
him.
Manafort’s legal team had argued in a Washington, D.C.,
court that he was being charged twice for the same offense
of lying to federal officials. Manafort maintained that the
stacking up charges could negatively influence a jury
against him, The Associated Press reported.
U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson, however, said
in a ruling Friday that any harm or prejudice Manafort
could face would be handled by giving the jury “proper”
instructions, according to the AP.
The judge dismissed the motion from Manafort without
prejudice, meaning he can revisit it after his trial in the
case, which is scheduled for September, the AP noted.
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The corrupt and criminal Mueller team
worked with Obama Appointed Judge
Amy Berman Jackson to place
President Trump’s former Campaign
Manager Paul Manafort in solitary
confinement.
This was a conscious action to literally torture Manafort
for working with Trump during the campaign.
Bernard Kerik at Newsmax wrote an excellent post on why
Manafort was placed in solitary confinement. According
to Kerik –
In a very small regional jail in Warsaw, Virginia, sits Bob
Mueller’s big fish, Paul Manafort.
Mueller, the U.S. Department of Justice Special Counsel
appointed to investigate any possible collusion between
Russia and President Donald Trump’s campaign, has
charged Manafort with multiple counts of conspiracy,
money laundering, tax crimes, false statements, and
anything else they can wad into a big ball and throw up
against the wall to see what sticks.
After his arrest, Manafort was placed on house arrest on a
$10 million-dollar bail, until the government recently
accused him of witness tampering and convinced U.S.
District Judge Amy Berman Jackson to revoke his bail,
and remand him to jail pending trail.
To a casual observer, this would seem justified, however,
to anyone that has been through it, or has witnessed the
government’s selective and political prosecutions over the
past few decades, they would tell you that it is all a part of
a prosecutorial strategy.
Solitary confinement in prison lingo is also referred to as a
special housing unit (SHU), or punitive segregation unit
(PSU), and their individual cells are called a box, hole, or
cage.
It’s basically a deathtrap. A 12′ x 8′ solid steel or concrete
box with a metal bed, stainless steel sink and toilet, and if
you’re lucky, a small concrete or metal writing table and
stool. On the solid steel metal door, there may be a 4 x 24-
inch window that gives the inmate a slight view of the
outside corridor, that can be blackened out by the
correction staff at a moment’s notice.
Kerik continues –
Where prison itself demeans, degrades,
and demoralizes a defendant, solitary
confinement goes far beyond the normal
deprivation of freedom, where the strain of
isolation can cause a prisoner to suffer
from manic depression, hopelessness and
despair, paranoia, anxiety and, quite often
 experience hallucinations. It can send
suicidal prisoners over the edge, and incite
juveniles to act out.
Pre-trial inmates can easily be manipulated into
confessions and or guilty pleas, with promises or
suggestions of being released from the box, and quite often
they will do anything to be freed from the mentally and
emotionally breaking cell, including lying, and pleading
guilty to something they never did.
Again this week, corrupt Judge Jackson –
…denied a request by President Donald
Trump’s former campaign manager Paul
Manafort to suppress evidence seized by
the FBI from his home as part of Special
Counsel Robert Mueller’s ongoing probe
into whether Trump’s 2016 presidential
campaign colluded with Russia.
Manafort’s lawyers had sought to limit the scope of
evidence that prosecutors can rely on for his upcoming
September trial in Washington, D.C., claiming that the
search warrant was overly broad and unconstitutional.
“Given the nature of the investigation, the
warrant was not too broad in scope,” wrote
Judge Amy Berman Jackson for the U.S.
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District Court for the District of Columbia in
her ruling.
No individual who disagrees with
Obama will receive justice in Judge
Jackson’s court.
Judge Jackson set the court date for Manafort’s case that
she oversees for mid-September, right before the mid-term
elections. Clearly she is trying to have this publicized and
negatively impact Republican chances in the election.
What a piece of rotten work!
Manafort’s only crime is he worked for
and supported President Trump during
his campaign for the Presidency. The
Mueller team is a national travesty. It
will go down in history as the most
corrupt and criminal enterprise in US
history. Corrupt Judge Jackson is part
of this corrupt enterprise.
Obama’s Liberal Judge Jackson is a real
piece of work. Let’s hope and pray for
the sake of the Union that at some point
soon, the Mueller investigation is called
out for what it is, a corrupt attempt by
an elite few to overthrow the
government.
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 Hillary ‘Benghazi’ Clinton Has Gall
To Accuse Trump White House Of
Not Defending Ambassador
By Cristina Laila
July 19, 2018, 12:32 Pm

“What difference at this point does it

make?” – Hillary Clinton
On Thursday, twice-failed presidential Liar, Susan ‘Benghazi’ Rice also
hopeful Hillary ‘Benghazi’ Clinton had chimed in:
the nerve to accuse the Trump White
House of not defending Obama’s
Ambassador to Russia, Michael McFaul.

On Wednesday, the White House confirmed Vladimir

Putin asked President Trump in the private meeting if
Russia could interview Obama’s Ambassador, Michael
McFaul over alleged financial crimes involving Bill
Browder.

The Democrats lost their collective minds over Putin’s

request.

Hillary Clinton’s hypocrisy is astounding.

Clinton’s State Department failed to protect Christopher

Stevens, an Ambassador to Libya and Sean Smith, a
diplomat and information management officer in
Benghazi, Libya, resulting in their deaths.
We also lost two retired Navy SEALs, Tyrone Woods and
Glen Doherty on the night of September 11,2012 because
of Hillary Clinton’s refusal to send help.
Hillary Clinton’s State Department gave stand down orders
to Special Ops forces ready to go in and help Americans
who were surrounded by hundreds of Islamic insurgents in
Benghazi, Libya in September of 2012.
The Obama administration then lied about the Benghazi
attack by blaming it on a YouTube video.

Hillary Clinton tweeted: Ambassador @McFaul is a The movie ’13 Hours’ gives personal accounts from
patriot who has spent his career standing up for America. eyewitnesses who were in Benghazi when Islamic
To see the White House even hesitate to defend a diplomat terrorists attacked the US State Department Special
is deeply troubling. Mission Compound.

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We lost FOUR Americans that night.
Ret. Navy SEAL, Tyrone Woods,
Diplomat, Sean Smith, Ambassador
Christopher Stevens and Ret. Navy
SEAL, Glen Doherty. Never forget.
on her watch? She asked, “what
difference at this point does it make?!”
during a hearing about the Benghazi
attacks:

How did Hillary Clinton respond to four

Americans, including Diplomats killed
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 BOOM! President Trump DROPS MOAB
On Fake News And Democrats (Video)
By Jim Hoft
July 19, 2018, 1:28 Pm

In 1945 Democrat Franklin Roosevelt gave Eastern

Europe to Joseph Stalin and the Soviet Union.
At least 3 million Eastern Europeans were murdered by the
Marxists behind Stalin’s Iron Curtain.

In 2018 President Trump said nice things to Vladimir

Putin and gave him nothing.

Guess who Democrats and the Fake

News media are upset with?
–Donald Trump
Today President Trump reminded the
Democrats and Fake News what
hypocritical liars they are.

This is Epic Trump.

Will they ever learn?

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 MORE Reasons Why The Dems
Can Kiss Their ‘Blue Wave’ GOODBYE In November
Posted On July 19, 2018
(National Sentinel) Red Wave: In December and January,
generic polling indicated that Democrats had obtained a
significant advantage over Republicans as the 2018
midterms were coming into view.
That led many Democrats and Democrat-aligned pundits to
declare a “blue wave” was approaching this fall that would
wash away Republican control of Congress and be the
clearest indication yet that Americans were having buyer’s
remorse over the election of POTUS Donald Trump.
But by spring the advantage began to slip away. In
May, The Hill reported the advantage had tanked from
about 13 or points in January to just 7 points.
It’s only gotten worse for Democrats since. And here’s
how we know.
For days now the insane Left and the Democratic Party —
one in the same — have been hammering POTUS Donald
Trump over his summit with Russian President Vladimir
Putin.
Because Trump didn’t go over and body-slam Putin on the
dais in Helsinki,
he really is owned by the Kremlin leader
and ‘we were right all along’ about their
collusion!
That’s a winner at the polls, right?
Hardly.
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As Zero Hedge notes, the percentage of Americans who
give one thought to “the situation with Russia” is so low it
doesn’t even have a numerical value:
While ever-hope-filled expectations among
the left are for a ‘blue wave’ in the Mid-term
elections, we suspect things may not turn
out quite as planned given the last week’s
“crisis”. Even before President Trump had
set foot in Helsinki, the left and the media
were banging the drums of war against “the
thug” Putin and how he would trump
Trump, and once the press conference
furore was over, all hell broke loose as the
left-leaning world attempted to out-signal
one another’s virtue as to the “treasonous”,
“surrender” that had occurred.
Once again – the “Russia, Russia, Russia”
cries drowned out any sane discussion of
the end of cold war 2.0.
There’s just one problem with the
Democrats’ unending focus on Russia and
the media’s constant collusion chatter: few
Americans care, because – drumroll – they
have real lives in the real economy to worry
about.
As the latest survey from Gallup shows:
when asked what the most important
problem facing the nation is, Russia did not
even warrant a 1% – and worse still, it is
declining in importance from there.
There’s more.
Democrats are expecting a “blue wave” in November,
right?
So how come they keep changing their
campaign slogan?
In fact, why do they even need a slogan
if the elections are in the bag?
As Fox News reports:
Democrats are taking a mulligan on a
slogan for the midterms after their first was
 mercilessly mocked, this time hoping to tap Healthcare? Really?
into the populist spirit under the message:
“For the People.” We thought Barack Obama and
Politico reported that the slogan was Democrats already fixed “healthcare.” Or
unveiled in a private meeting Wednesday, doesn’t Obamacare count as a “fix?”
and is meant to focus on economic issues.
GOP corruption? After Spygate? Really?
Dems will reportedly focus on three key
areas: addressing health care issues and
infrastructure spending, and highlighting Democrats are shedding voters not gaining
Republican corruption. them, as the #WalkAway
movement proves.
The move comes after Democrats last year
pushed the slogan: “A Better Deal: Better
Blue wave?
Skills, Better Jobs, Better Wages.”
This drew immediate taunts given its “…[I]n November, voters will render their
obvious similarity to the Papa John’s decision, and whatever they decide it’ll be
tagline, “Better Ingredients. Better Pizza. on Trump’s platform of economic
Papa John’s.” nationalism, which has boosted economic
growth and created jobs,” Zero Hedge
Democrats want to focus on “economic issues?” Really? noted, as Republican voters will be jacked
Trump and the Republicans have created a business- up and ready to keep their party’s majority.
friendly economy that is so flush with new jobs the country
is at full employment — so much so that it’s impossible to
bring back manufacturing jobs because there aren’t
enough workers to fill them.
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 President Trump Rejects Putin’s
Request To Interrogate US Officials
By Cristina Laila
July 19, 2018, 1:34 Pm

On Wednesday, the White House confirmed Vladimir

Putin asked President Trump in the private meeting if
Russia could interview Obama’s Ambassador, Michael
McFaul over alleged financial crimes involving Bill
Browder.

The Democrats and media sycophants melted down over

Putin’s request to interrogate Americans including
Obama’s Ambassador to Russia, Michael McFaul.

On Thursday, White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders

President Donald Trump and Russian
President Vladimir Putin held a joint
press conference Monday in Helsinki,
Finland.
During the press conference Putin dropped a major bomb!
Putin accused Bill Browder of donating $400,000 to
HILLARY CLINTON!
Putin offered permitting officials in the US, including
Mueller, to Russia to assist in their investigation of the
supposed Trump-Russia collusion story. Then Putin
dropped his bomb where the US could reciprocate Russia
in one of their investigations, citing a 1999 treaty –
said Trump rejected Putin’s request, Fox News reported.
“It is a proposal that was made in sincerity
by President Putin, but President Trump
disagrees with it,” Sanders said to
reporters. “Hopefully President Putin will
have the 12 identified Russians come to
the United States to prove their innocence
or guilt.”
Obama’s Ambassador to Russia, Michael McFaul lashed
out at Putin on Tuesday claiming the Russian president has
been “harassing” him for a long time. McFaul said he
expects his government to defend him and his colleagues.

For instance, we can bring up Mr. Browder, in this

particular case. Business associates of Mr. Browder have
earned over $1.5 billion in Russia and never paid any taxes
neither in Russia or the United States and yet the money
escaped the country. They were transferred to the United
States. They sent [a] huge amount of money, $400,000 as a
contribution to the campaign of Hillary Clinton. Well
that’s their personal case. It might have been legal, the
contribution itself but the way the money was earned was
illegal. So we have solid reason to believe that some [US]
intelligence officers accompanied and guided these Like the way then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton
transactions. So we have an interest in questioning them. defended Ambassador Stevens, Sean Smith, Glen Doherty
and Tyrone Woods?

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 Poll: Republicans Overwhelmingly
Support Trump’s Putin Press Conference
Mike Brest | Contributor
2:00 PM 07/19/2018
An overwhelming majority of self-identified Republicans
support the way President Trump handled his press
conference with Russian President Vladimir Putin earlier
this week, according to an Axios poll that was released
Thursday morning.
Of the Republicans who voted, 79 percent said they are
supportive of Trump’s handling of the conference.
Conversely, only 18 percent of Republicans said they did
.
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not approve of it. That leaves only 3 percent of
Republicans undecided on the president’s performance at
the conference.
While this poll shows many Republicans being supportive
of the president, there were many conservative lawmakers
that did not enjoy the way Trump handled himself.
“Today’s press conference in Helsinki was
one of the most disgraceful performances
by an American president in recent
memory,” Sen.John McCain said in a
statement Monday.
The online poll was conducted by SurveyMonkey on July
16-17. They surveyed 2,100 adults living in the United
States. The margin of error for the survey is plus or minus
3 percentage points.
 Bernie Sanders’ Chief Strategist Named
In New Trove Of Mueller’s Evidence Against Manafort
By Cristina Laila
July 19, 2018, 2:20 Pm

Tad Devine, Sanders’ chief strategist,

appears from exhibit 5 onward. Mueller
listed a memo from 2006 involving
Manafort, Devine, and former Ukrainian
President Viktor Vanukovych, Russian
President Vladimir Putin’s puppet in
Ukraine.

Mueller’s evidence lists email after email between Devine

and Manafort, connecting them both to Konstantin
Kilimnik, a Putin-connected operative whom Manafort
described as “my Russian brain.”
On Wednesday Special Counsel Robert
Mueller filed 500 new pieces of evidence There are emails linking Manafort to
against Trump’s former campaign chair, Devine just months before Bernie
Paul Manafort. Sanders chose Devine as his chief
strategist:
Bernie Sanders’ Chief Strategist, Tad Devine’s name
appears 21 times in the trove of new evidence released by
Mueller.

It’s time for Bernie Sanders to answer some questions

about his chief strategist’s ties to Russia!

These old tweets from Socialist

crackpot Bernie didn’t age well…

Via PJ Media:

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 CNN’s ‘New Day’ Turns To James Clapper
To Push Putin Blackmail Theory
Nick Givas | Media And Politics Reporter
2:27 PM 07/19/2018
Former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper
said he suspects the Russian government and President
Vladimir Putin may have blackmail material on President
Donald Trump.
Clapper was discussing Trump’s closed-door meeting with
Putin in Helsinki Monday and said he’s beginning to
wonder if the president is being controlled by the Kremlin.
“It makes me very nervous,” Clapper said
on CNN’s “New Day” Thursday. “I have
been trying my best to give the president
the benefit of the doubt, and I’ve always
expressed potential other theories as to
why he behaves as he does with respect to
Russia generally and Putin specifically.”
WATCH:
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“But more and more, I come to the
conclusion that after the Helsinki
performance and since, that I really do
wonder whether the Russians have
something on him,” he said.
Clapper said Trump’s behavior has been “unbelievable”
and thinks the fallout from his comments could jeopardize
America’s safety and security.
“I think his behavior was just unbelievable.
I’m still trying to get my head around what I
witnessed at the Helsinki press
conference,” Clapper concluded. “And this
is a concern, of course, because of the
jeopardy to the national security of the
United States.”
 Dirty Cop Mueller Releases 500 Pieces
Of Evidence In Manafort Show Trial… AND NOT ONE
Deals With Collusion=> SHUT IT DOWN
By Jim Hoft
July 19, 2018, 3:10 Pm
Dirty Cop Robert Mueller released 500
pieces of evidence against Paul
Manafort today.
Deep State officials are keeping Paul Manafort in solitary
confinement for 23 hours a day.
Paul Manafort was President Trump’s campaign manager.
Today he sits in prison because of the Deep State coup
against the duly elected president.
Mueller is suspected of giving the
Podesta brothers immunity in order to
indict Paul Manafort. Mueller is hiding
this from the American public.
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In the 500 items of evidence presented
today by the Mueller witch hunt — NOT
ONE deals with Trump-Russia collusion.
The US is quickly becoming a banana republic.
The Hill has the latest on the Deep State witch hunt:
Special counsel Robert Mueller’s office on
Wednesday released an itemized list of
evidence prosecutors are considering for
use against Paul Manafort as the former
Trump aide’s Washington D.C. trial
approaches.
The list, first reported by Politico, contains about 500
items ranging from immunity agreements to texts between
Manafort, Ukraine’s former president and a fellow U.S.
political consultant.
Other items on the list include photographs and documents
of expensive purchases prosecutors say Manafort made
with money he attempted to hide from U.S. authorities
after working for pro-Russia political parties in Ukraine.
Manafort is charged with a number of financial crimes,
including bank fraud and money laundering.
 Republicans 'Overwhelmingly' Approve
Of Trump's Helsinki Performance, Poll Shows
By Tyler Durden
Thu, 07/19/2018 - 15:55

Republicans who criticize President Trump often drop
their objections pretty quickly in the face of public
backlash.
And while the outrage over President
Trump's performance in Helsinki was
louder than the typical Trump
administration controversy,
Republicans appear to have already
fallen in line behind the leader of their
party.
And if there were any doubt left as to why (poll after poll
shows that President Trump remains overwhelmingly
popular among Republicans and his support has been
climbing among independents),
and apparently haven't been persuaded
by James Comey and his ilk's cries that
Trump elevated a Russian President
over Trump's own intelligence agencies.
This is in keeping with polling showing that a similarly
wide majority of Republicans view the issue of Russian
election interference as a distraction (while the vast
majority of Dems see it as a serious issue). Earlier, we
pointed out that a recent Gallup poll showed only 1% of
Americans see the "Russia problem" as the biggest issue
facing the US.

a recent Axios/SurveyMonkey survey

once again affirmed that Trump's
supporters have his back, come hell or
high water.

According to Axios, this poll is a clear foreshadowing of

the national drama that could unfold after the midterms, as
some elements within the Republican party will inevitably
search for a third candidate to challenge the president. That
effort is almost certainly bound to fail, as Trump's grip on
the party remains unassailable. And that probably won't
change,

even if Trump were to shoot somebody

on Fifth Avenue, as he famously
boasted during the campaign.
As the graphic below shows, Republicans overwhelmingly
approved of President Trump's performance in Helsinki:
79% "totally approve" of Trump's performance,

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 Lost In Liberal Media Reporting:
Guccifer 2.0 Claimed Seth Rich Was His Source
By Cassandra Fairbanks
July 19, 2018, 4:19 Pm
During the election season, a bizarre persona appeared
online calling himself ‘Guccifer 2.0’ and claimed to be the
source of Democratic National Committee emails that
were being published online. Twelve Russian military
officers have now been indicted over involvement with the
account.
Given the new indictments, we feel it is
worthwhile to revisit some of the
conversations that the shadowy
persona had with both myself and
model Robbin Young.
In a now-public direct message conversation with Young,
the flirty “hacker” claimed that his source was Seth Rich,
the DNC staffer who was murdered around the time when
the leaks began.
During the early morning hours of July 10, 2016, the 25-
year-old Director of Voter Expansion was shot multiple
times in the back. Rich’s murder was quickly ruled a failed
robbery, but his wallet and watch remained on his body.
The only thing that appeared to be taken was his life.
Almost immediately after news broke of his killing,
rumors and speculation that he was the source of the
emails leaked to WikiLeaks flooded the internet. The leaks
had revealed that the Democratic Party was conspiring
against Hillary Clinton’s opponent Bernie Sanders, leading
many to speculate that that leaks were from an upset
supporter of the Vermont senator — and that the
disenchanted staffer may have been Rich.
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The Wikileaks theory gained even more traction after
WikiLeaks offered up a $20,000 reward for information
leading to the conviction of Rich’s killer.
The Rich family and the police dismissed speculation that
he was the WikiLeaks source and that the murder had
anything to do with the Democratic Party, despite never
naming a suspect.
Tucked within multiple exchanges between Guccifer 2.0
and Young, he casually mentions that his source was
named “Seth.”
The conversations between Young and the hacker had
been casual and flirty until August 25, 2016, when
Guccifer 2.0 told her that he was looking for a “person of
trust who can be a guarantee in case anything happens.”
“There’s a thing that doesn’t leave my mind
making me feel sad every day,” Guccifer
2.0 told Young.
Young laments that she has the same feeling, as the two of
them cannot go on a date. The hacker explains that while
this makes him sad, he is also upset about “one
whistleblower of mine and my assistant.”
“I’d like to find a journalist who can do an
investigation and teel [sic] the real story of
his life and death,” Guccifer 2.0 told the
model.
“His name is seth, he was my
whistleblower,” Guccifer 2.0 said. “I
suppose u know who I’m talking about.”
“Yes, and it was horrifying to hear about his
death. I have no facts, but my opinion is
Hillary had him murdered,” Young
responded.
The model suggested that he speak to Julian Assange, but
Guccifer 2.0 responded that he is “unsafe” and may be
connected to Russians.
“I’m eager to find fact about Seth, I’m sure
it wasn’t just a robbery,” Guccifer told her.
During an interview with me at the time, Young explained,
“I think the most important thing for me is…
getting the story out about Seth Rich, so
hopefully his killer/s will be caught and
prosecuted, so the Rich family has
closure.”
During their discussion about Rich, Young had also
suggested that Guccifer speak to me — though the account
and I were already in contact at this point.
My exchange with Guccifer 2.0
In my own conversations with Guccifer, after I asked to
interview him, he informed me that he did not like one
outlet I was writing for, Sputnik News, because it was
Russian. Just as in the case of Young, my messages with
him also consisted of the person behind it being very flirty.
“Wow, u look very enticing!!! I believe
what’s really shocking is a collusion
between hillary, dnc, & media, what’s ur
opinion?” Guccifer wrote in my first private
exchange with the account on June 24,
after I messaged asking what they thought
the most damning contents of the release
were.
At this point, I was still supporting Sanders in the primary
and was attempting to write a story about the leaks.
I responded by informing the hacker that the leaks had led
to a class action lawsuit against the DNC, over their clear
efforts to undermine Sanders’ campaign. I mentioned that I
was in contact with he law firm and thinking of joining it.
“Do you believe ur action will be
successful? Can u tell me about ur initiative
in details?” Guccifer 2.0 responded.
I replied by sending the information sent to me by the firm
who had taken the case, which stated that it was a fraud
lawsuit.
“On June 15, 2016, an anonymous hacker
known as Guccifer 2.0 released documents
purportedly hacked from the servers of the
Democratic National Committee (DNC), the
formal governing body of the Democratic
Party, and the coordinator of the 2016
Democratic Presidential primary race,” the
email from the law firm began. “The hacked
documents strongly suggest that the DNC
colluded with Sec. Hillary Clinton’s
campaign to perpetrate a great fraud on the
public.”
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Guccifer responded by saying, “oh, great!!! Do u think the
docs i published will be enough to win the case? Or do you
need some more docs?”
I responded that they seemed to have enough, but sent him
the link to the law firm’s website.
“Can it influence the election in any how?”
Guccifer asked.
I responded that I hoped so, but changed the subject by
saying,
“I assume you are outside of the US?”
Guccifer declined to answer, citing the
danger.
Guccifer then returned to the court case, asking if I knew
what court would be considering it. I told them that I was
unsure, but that the law firm is in Florida.
I asked if I could interview them, but Guccifer stayed on
the topic and asked me to send over the paperwork for the
lawsuit. They gave me a private email account and I
forwarded the mass email that was sent to everyone
interested in the case.
Once again, I attempted to get some insight, in hopes I
could somehow figure out the motive behind the leak, both
for my story, and out of my own curiosity. I asked if they
thought there was anything people are overlooking in what
he had dumped.
“Frankly, it’s impossible for me to look
through all the docs, it takes lots of time,”
they said. “Maybe I’ll have a team in the
future to help sort docs :-)”
I responded that I had been trying to go through the
release, as was nearly every other reporter in the nation,
but that the whole thing was a process. The conversation
ended for the day.
On July 8, Guccifer messaged me again asking if there
were any updates on the DNC class action suit.
A man named Shawn Lucas, 38, had served the DNC with
the paperwork three days prior.
On August 2, Lucas was found dead in his apartment.
According to reports, he was found unresponsive on his
bathroom floor when his girlfriend had returned home.
Paramedics who responded to the scene found no signs of
life. The death once again set the internet ablaze with
theories that the “Clinton Body Count” had just risen.
On August 18, I messaged Guccifer asking if they had
heard that Lucas had been found dead.
“Yeah, I heard,” Guccifer wrote on August
21. “Another strange death after Seth Rich
was murdered.”
I responded by noting my dismay that it was not being
heavily reported and there wasn’t much information
publicly available, and Guccifer stated that it was “bc msm
are for hillary, it’s obvious even to me.”
On August 22, Lucas was named in a motion filed by the
DNC to dismiss the case due to “improper service of
process.”
The cause of Lucas’ death was not revealed until
November, when Heavy learned that his death was due to
adverse effects of fentanyl, cyclobenzaprine, and
mitragynine.
One website that has extensively chronicled Guccifer 2.0’s
activity believes that it was a “donkey in a bear costume,”
.
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a DNC employee aiming to use misdirection to discredit
the WikiLeaks release by posing as a “Russian hacker” and
planting Russian fingerprints on the released documents.
“Metadata suggests it took only 30 minutes
to go from a DNC tech/data strategy
consultant creating documents to Guccifer
2.0 tainting them (with Russian metadata),”
Adam Carter, the former blackhat hacker
and computer expert who has been
attempting to crack the case found.
“The campaign was in a desperate position
and really needed something similar to a
Russian hacker narrative, and one where
they would be fortunate to have a
seemingly clumsy hacker that leaves lots of
‘fingerprints’ tainting files — bringing the
reputation of leaks into question,” Carter
wrote. “Sure enough, two or three days
later, Guccifer2.0 – the world’s weirdest
hacker – was spawned and started telling
lies in an effort to attribute himself to the
malware discoveries, etc.”
The indictments of the twelve Russians have left many
questions, notably, how they found a culprit without ever
having access to the DNC servers.
The Guccifer 2.0 Twitter account had been inactive since
January 12, 2017 — but has now been suspended on
Twitter.
This article was originally published on Big League
Politics on April 23, 2017. Some details about the current
indictments have been added.
 PATHETIC Dems Aid In Russia-Fueled
DISCOURSE As FBI’s Wray Says Moscow Does NOT
Target ELECTION Infrastructure
Posted On July 19, 2018
(National Sentinel) Aiding and Abetting: Democrats got
all fired up on the House floor earlier today as Minority
Whip Steny Hoyer of Maryland whipped his party
members into a frenzy over POTUS Donald Trump and
‘Russia.’
As reported by the Washington Examiner, the display
came as the chamber prepared to consider additional
funding for election infrastructure security:
House Democrats erupted into chants of
“USA” for about 30 seconds Thursday on
the House floor after a top Democrat gave
a spirited speech condemning Russian
President Vladimir Putin for his
country’s interference in the last U.S.
election.
House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer, D-Md.,
called on lawmakers to stop giving into
Putin by committing more funding to
election security.
“This amendment responds by providing
for us to partner with our states to slam
the door in the face of the Russian bear
or any other adversary who seeks to steal
the integrity of our elections,” Hoyer said.
The Republican majority rejected the measure and
Democrats likely knew they would. The floor chanting and
the amendment itself was nothing but political theater.
How do we know?
Because there’s one big, fat problem with the
amendment and the notion that Americans and Congress
ought to be concerned about “Russian election
interference.”
There wasn’t any. There never has
been.
That’s right.
Who says so? No less than FBI Director
Christopher Wray.
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During a Q & A led by NBC News‘ Lester Holt at a
security summit in Aspen Wednesday, the discussion
naturally turned to Russia — Trump’s meeting with Putin
along with Moscow’s 2016 “election interference.”
Wray made it clear that yeah, Moscow is guilty in that the
Russian government attempted — and did — interfere in
the last presidential election.
He’s certain that Russia will do so again in 2018 and
beyond.
But the “interference” hasn’t been
directed at election infrastructure — that
is, electronic balloting machines and the
election-management systems that tally
votes on Election Day.
And that’s the lie Democrats have been
pushing since Hillary Clinton failed to drag
herself into the White House: Putin and
Trump worked together to steal the election
by changing votes and altering. the
outcome.
But Russia doesn’t do that. Never has.
Rather, Russia focuses on sowing
discontent among the American
electorate, and in that respect, the Kremlin
has been wildly successful.
As reported by The Tribune-Democrat:
[Wray] said that while U.S. officials have
not yet seen an effort by Russia to
target specific election systems, it is
aggressively engaged in influence
operations to sow discord and
divisiveness in America. “To me, it’s a
threat that we need to take very serious
and respond to with fierce determination,”
Wray said.
He said the Russians identify divisive
issues, and through covert and overt
operations, fake news and propaganda,
they “spin people up on both sides of
 an issue and then kind of watch us go
after each other.“
Who can doubt that’s exactly what has happened? It’s
called information warfare and the Russians are good at it.
Even The New York Times reported on it.
Do you know why they’ve been so
successful though?
The ought to be chanting, “USSR!”
The next time you hear someone on the Left make the silly
claim that Russia “hacked” our election, you can tell them
FBI Director Christopher Wray disagrees with them.
So does President Obama’s former cybersecurity adviser.
Oh, and so does Barack Obama.

We can thank Democrats and their propaganda

machine, the “mainstream media.” They’ve been pushing
the big, fat lie that Russia “hacked” the election and
helped Trump “steal it.”

They’ve been doing Russia’s bidding, in

other words.

And they have the temerity to stand on the floor of the

U.S. House and chant “USA”? What sick joke.

What a crock.
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 FIREWORKS! ‘The View’ EXPLODES
As Judge Jeanine Pirro DESTROYS
WHOOPI GOLDBERG (VIDEO)
By Jim Hoft
July 19, 2018, 4:41 Pm

The unhinged liberals on The View Here is a clip from the show today.
EXPLODED today after Judge Jeanine
Pirro DESTROYED Whoopi Goldberg. Judge is not taking their unhinged crap.

The idiots on The View picked the

wrong one to abuse and berate.
Judge Jeanine would have none of it!

Here’s more. This is unreal.

The View hosts were outraged and

plotted to gang rush the popular FOX
News host and New York judge.

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 LISA PAGE Confirms Strzok’s
“There’s No Big There There” Text Message
Referred To Trump-Russia Case
By Cristina Laila
July 19, 2018, 4:57 Pm
Ex-FBI lawyer Lisa Page appeared on
Capitol Hill last Friday for a closed-door
deposition.
GOP lawmakers who were present at Page’s closed-door
deposition said they learned a lot of new information from
the ex-FBI lawyer.
Rep. Mark Meadows said Lisa Page is a very credible
witness and cooperating.
Lisa Page also confirmed to lawmakers that the text
messages sent between her and her lover Peter Strzok
‘meant exactly what they said,’ contrary to Strzok’s
testimony.
One damning text message in particular sent from Strzok
on May 19th, 2017, just two days after Robert Mueller was
appointed Special Counsel, intrigued investigators and the
public alike.
“There’s no big there there,” Strzok texted.
According to investigative reporter, John Solomon, Lisa
Page confirmed that text from Peter Strzok did indeed refer
to the Trump-Russia case.
Strzok knew it was a nothing-burger yet he forged ahead.
Via John Solomon of The Hill:
For any American who wants an answer
sooner, there are just five words, among
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the thousands of suggestive texts Page
and Strzok exchanged, that you should
read.
That passage was transmitted on May 19,
2017.
“There’s no big there there,” Strzok texted.
The date of the text long has intrigued investigators: It is
two days after Deputy Attorney General Rod
Rosenstein named special counsel Robert Mueller to
oversee an investigation into alleged collusion between
Trump and the Russia campaign.
Since the text was turned over to Congress, investigators
wondered whether it referred to the evidence against the
Trump campaign.
This month, they finally got the chance
to ask. Strzok declined to say — but
Page, during a closed-door interview
with lawmakers, confirmed in the most
pained and contorted way that the
message in fact referred to the quality of
the Russia case, according to multiple
eyewitnesses.
The admission is deeply consequential. It means
Rosenstein unleashed the most awesome powers of a
special counsel to investigate an allegation that the key
FBI officials, driving the investigation for 10 months
beforehand, did not think was “there.”
By the time of the text and Mueller’s appointment, the
FBI’s best counterintelligence agents had had plenty of
time to dig. They knowingly used a dossier funded
by Hillary Clinton’s campaign — which
contained uncorroborated allegations — to persuade the
Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) court to issue
a warrant to monitor Trump campaign adviser Carter Page
(no relation to Lisa Page).
Lisa Page confirmed to lawmakers that the lead counter-
intel agent on the Trump-Russia case, Peter Strzok, knew
there was zero evidence of collusion between Trump’s
camp and the Russians yet he pushed full steam ahead and
unleashed the power of the premiere law enforcement And Americans are supposed to trust the FBI and intel
agency onto a duly elected president anyway. agencies after this??

John Solomon points out this text

exchange between the lovebirds reveals
they were attempting to rise through the
ranks of the FBI:
It turns out that what Strzok and Lisa Page
were really doing that day was debating
whether they should stay with the FBI and
try to rise through the ranks to the level of
an assistant director (AD) or join Mueller’s
special counsel team.
“Who gives a f*ck, one more AD like
[redacted] or whoever?” Strzok wrote,
weighing the merits of promotion, before
apparently suggesting what would be a
more attractive role:
“An investigation leading to impeachment?”
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 TRUMP IS RIGHT – FED Is Political And Will Kill His
Economy – We’ve Been Reporting On This For Past Year!
By Jim Hoft
July 19, 2018, 5:15 Pm
President Trump says the Fed should
take it easy on interest rate increases
and he’s right. A quick review of the
Fed’s increases shows a far-left liberal
bias.
Right after Barack Obama was elected President, on
December 16, 2008, the Federal Reserve (The Fed)
lowered the Fed Funds rate by an entire percent, from 1%
down to 0% . The Fed had not lowered the Fed Funds rate
by such a large amount (1% ) since at least before 1990, if
ever. The Fed kept this 0% rate for most of Obama’s eight
years in office.
CNBC reported in December 2015 that
President Obama oversaw “seven years
of the most accommodative monetary
policy in U.S. history” (from the Fed).
The Fed Funds rate was at zero for most of Obama’s time
in office. Finally, in December 2015 after the Fed
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announced its first increase in the Fed Funds rate during
the Obama Presidency.
The only Fed Funds Rate increases since 2015 were after
President Trump was elected President. The Fed increased
the Fed Funds Rate six times.
The Fed Funds Rate greatly impacts the economy:
Lower interest rates usually spur the economy by making
corporate and consumer borrowing easier. Higher interest
rates are intended to slow down the economy by making
borrowing harder.
Increases in the Fed Funds Rate
increase the cost of borrowing and the
largest borrower in the world is the US
government. With $20 trillion in debt, a
1% increase in interest payments equals
$200 billion in annual interest payment
increases.
President Obama benefited from the lowest possible
interest rates possible for seven of his eight years and in
spite of this, nearly doubled the US Debt from $10 trillion
to nearly $20 trillion. With no rate increases in interest
rates, President Trump would arguably have a balanced
budget to date. (Although the short term implications may
not dictate this, the long term implications are clear.)
President Trump knows this and today
he stated that he is not happy with the
Fed raising interest rates and killing the
economy.
President Donald Trump on Thursday
said he’s not happy with the raising of
interest rates by the Federal Reserve
and suggested the central bank is
working at cross purposes with his
administration’s economic program.
In an interview published on CNBC, Trump said he wasn’t
thrilled with the Fed’s rate hikes — despite calling Jerome
Powell, whom he picked to replace Janet Yellen, a “good
man” — and said he didn’t care that he was breaking a
precedent under which presidents do not comment on the
Fed so as to safeguard its independence.
 “So somebody would say, ‘Oh, maybe you
shouldn’t say that as president. I couldn’t
care less what they say, because my views
haven’t changed,” Trump said.
Second-quarter GDP is estimated to run at an annual rate
north of 4%.
“Because we go up and every time you go
up they want to raise rates again. I don’t
really — I am not happy about it. But at the
same time I’m letting them do what they
feel is best.” He added, “But I don’t like all
.
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of this work that goes into doing what we’re
doing.”
“I don’t like all of this work that we’re
putting into this economy and then I see
rates going up,” Trump said.
The only thing stopping President
Trump from balancing the US Budget
and keeping the economy on fire is the
Fed’s rising rates. Trump’s right again –
the Fed’s actions show it favors the left.
 “Get The F*Ck Out Of Here!”
Whoopi Goldberg Screams At Judge Jeanine Pirro
Off Camera After Heated Exchange
By Cristina Laila
July 19, 2018, 5:35 Pm

The unhinged liberals on The View

EXPLODED Thursday after Judge
Jeanine Pirro DESTROYED Whoopi Whoopi Goldberg is your typical hate-filled, intolerant
Goldberg. liberal, incapable of controlling emotions.

The idiots on The View picked the Here is the clip of the heated exchange
wrong one to abuse and berate. between Judge Pirro and Whoopi
Goldberg:
The View hosts were outraged and plotted to gang rush the
popular FOX News host and New York judge.

“The View” co-host Whoopi Goldberg was so irate she

screamed at Judge Pirro off camera after the heated
exchange, sources exclusively confirmed to Page Six.

Judge Jenanine Pirro told Sean Hannity on his radio show

that Whoopi Goldberg screamed “F*ck You!!” to the
Judge.

Judge Pirro asked Whoopi, “Did you just

say that to me?” to which Whoopi replied,
“YES! GET THE F*CK OUT OF HERE!”
.

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 White House Pushes Back As Democrats
Claim Kavanaugh Is Gunning For Mueller
Kevin Daley | Supreme Court Reporter
6:25 PM 07/19/2018

recuse himself from cases related to special counsel Robert

Mueller’s investigation of Russian interference in the 2016
presidential election.

White House deputy press secretary Raj Shah dismissed

this criticism, noting Mueller’s was appointed pursuant to
different rules that were not at issue in the Morrison case.

“The Dem attacks on Kavanaugh’s 2016

The Trump administration is pushing back against
congressional Democrats who oppose Judge Brett
Kavanaugh’s nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court, after
a video surfaced of the judge challenging the
constitutionality of independent investigators.
The White House accused Democrats of misrepresenting
the judge’s views and confusing two distinct issues.
The video, first flagged by CNN, shows the judge
criticizing the Supreme Court’s 1988 Morrison v. Olson
decision, in which the high court turned back a
constitutional challenge to the federal independent counsel
law. The statute created an independent investigator with a
broad mandate to investigate government corruption.
Congress let the law expire in 1999.
Justice Antonin Scalia was the lone dissenter in Morrison,
writing an opinion criticizing the independent counsel law
many consider his best.
speech today are laughable, and show a
total lack of understanding,” Shah said on
Twitter. “There is a clear legal difference
between the Independent Counsel statute
and the Special Counsel regulation. Let’s
not play fast and loose.”
While the old independent counsel was established by
Congress, today investigators of Mueller’s variety are
appointed by the attorney general in accordance with
Department of Justice regulations. As such, Kavanaugh’s
comments about Morrison are not necessarily indicative of
his views about the constitutionality of the Russia probe.
As the Associated Press notes, Kavanaugh has
acknowledged this distinction in other contexts. In a 2016
opinion concerning the structure of the Consumer
Financial Protection Bureau, the judge rejected the
argument that the independent counsel statute was a valid
historical precedent for installing a single officer as head
of an independent agency. He writes:

Kavanaugh criticized Morrison during a 2016 lecture at the

American Enterprise Institute in Washington, when asked
if there were particular Supreme Court precedents with
which he disagreed. He initially demurred, then named the
Morrison case.

“I’m going to say one, Morrison v. Olson,”

the judge said. “It’s been effectively
overruled, but I would put the final nail in.”

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer of New York Judge Kavanaugh distinguishing Morrison from special counsels in a
spoke on the floor of the Senate just hours after the 2016 dissent. (Screenshot)
remarks were publicized. Schumer criticized the judge’s
“expansive” view of executive power, and demanded he
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The special counsel and the independent counsel
are similar in an important respect, however: Neither can
be removed without good cause, a requirement many
proponents of executive power oppose. Given this
common feature, it’s possible Kavanaugh’s views on the
independent counsel bear on Mueller’s appointment in at
least one dimension.
In the years after Morrison, Scalia’s view ultimately
prevailed in most quarters — Democrats and Republicans
alike came to appreciate the dangers of a free-floating
investigator during the Ken Starr probes of the Clinton
White House. As the Weekly Standard explained in a 2016
piece, the Clinton-era Justice Department decided to
oppose renewal of the independent counsel law in 1999,
partially basing its decision on Scalia’s dissent.
Senate Minority Whip Dick Durbin of Illinois, a
Democrat, joined Republicans in calling the independent
.
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counsel “unchecked, unbridled, unrestrained, and
unaccountable,” during a 1999 hearing. The
senator appeared to reverse course Wednesday after
Kavanaugh’s comments appeared in the press.
Some scholars have asserted the Morrison decision joined
the so-called “anti-canon,” the body of decisions that are
all but discounted in the legal community, even if they
have never formally been overturned.
Though the anti-Morrison view was a consensus position
in the recent past, opposition to the independent counsel
law (or some variant which would protect the Mueller
investigation) softened in the aftermath of President
Donald Trump’s election. Legal academics argue that
opposition to the independent counsel was a policy, not
constitutional, judgement.
 Breaking: More Evidence Uncovered Shows
Obama Spied On Trump Illegally As Early As 2015
By Jim Hoft
July 19, 2018, 6:25 Pm

More evidence uncovered that shows that

Obama team illegally spied on the Trump
team as early as 2015.

As we reported previously, in early June the US Senate

released over 500 pages of information related to the
Spygate scandal. Hidden in the information were
unredacted Strzok – Page texts that show the
FBI initiated actions to insert multiple spies in
the Trump campaign in December 2015.
Also, according to far left LA Times, Comey stated in
March of 2017 under oath that the FBI investigation into
the Trump – Russia scandal started in July 2016. But
Comey appears to have lied about this.
A text message released by the US Senate showed words
that were redacted when the FBI released the same texts
long ago. The texts show evidence of collusion and
wrongdoing by Obama’s FBI.
The texts released from corrupt FBI
investigator Peter Strzok to corrupt FBI
attorney Lisa Page state the following –
BOMBSHELL- From DECEMBER 2015–The word
LURES is redacted by FBI but not OIG; OCONUS
LURES; OCONUS= Outside Contiguous US LURES= In
this context LURES = SPIES – multiple – Is this an
admission that the FBI wanted to run a baited Sting Op
using foreign agents against Trump?”

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 Additional information provides support that Obama spied
on citizen Trump as early as 2015. It was reported in
government records that Obama’s spy, Stefan Halper, was
awarded a contract in September of 2015.

However a review of Guccifer 2.0’s hack of the DNC

shows that there was no reason for the Obama
administration to spy on Trump. According to the files
released by Guccifer 2.0, the list of items in the report put
together by the DNC to attack Trump do not include a
single mention of Trump and Russia.

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Obama’s DNC created a report on candidate Trump with points
to attack Trump on that omitted any mention of Russia. This
report was prepared by the time the campaign for President
started and was released by Guccifer 2.0 in June of 2016.
The problem with Obama spying on Trump before July 2016 is
that it is against FBI rules –
Retired assistant FBI director for intelligence Kevin Brock also
has questions. Brock supervised an agency update to their
longstanding bureau rules governing the use of sources while
working under then-director Robert Mueller.
These rules prohibit the FBI from directing a
human source to perform espionage on an
American until a formal investigation has
been opened – paperwork and all.
Brock sees oddities in how the Russia case began.
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“These types of investigations aren’t
normally run by assistant directors and
deputy directors at headquarters,” he told me.
“All that happens normally in a field office, but
that isn’t the case here and so it becomes a
red flag. Congress would have legitimate
oversight interests in the conditions and timing
of the targeting of a confidential human source
against a U.S. person.” -The Hill
The problem with Comey lying about the start date of the Trump
counterintelligence campaign before Congress is that it is against
the law.
Let’s hope this all can be brought to light as
soon as possible so Americans can at least
know the facts of the illegal campaign to spy
on Trump.
 Brennan And The 2016 Spy Scandal
Kimberley A. Strassel
July 19, 2018, 6.29pm
The Trump-Russia sleuthers have been back in the news,
again giving Americans cause to doubt their claims of
nonpartisanship. Last week it was Federal Bureau of
Investigation agent Peter Strzok testifying to Congress that
he harbored no bias against a president he still describes as
“horrible” and “disgusting.” This week it was former FBI
Director Jim Comey tweet-lecturing Americans on their
duty to vote Democratic in November.
But the man who deserves a belated bit of scrutiny is
former Central Intelligence Agency Director John
Brennan. He’s accused President Trump of “venality,
moral turpitude and political corruption,” and berated GOP
investigations of the FBI. This week he claimed on Twitter
that Mr. Trump’s press conference in Helsinki was
“nothing short of treasonous.” This is rough stuff, even for
an Obama partisan.
That’s what Mr. Brennan is—a partisan—and it is why his
role in the 2016 scandal is in some ways more concerning
than the FBI’s. Mr. Comey stands accused of flouting the
rules, breaking the chain of command, abusing
investigatory powers. Yet it seems far likelier that the
FBI’s Trump investigation was a function of arrogance and
overconfidence than some partisan plot. No such case can
be made for Mr. Brennan. Before his nomination as CIA
director, he served as a close Obama adviser. And the
record shows he went on to use his position—as head of
the most powerful spy agency in the world—to assist
Hillary Clinton’s campaign (and keep his job).
Mr. Brennan has taken credit for launching the Trump
investigation. At a House Intelligence Committee hearing
in May 2017, he explained that he became “aware of
intelligence and information about contacts between
Russian officials and U.S. persons.” The CIA can’t
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investigate U.S. citizens, but he made sure that “every
information and bit of intelligence” was “shared with the
bureau,” meaning the FBI. This information, he said,
“served as the basis for the FBI investigation.” My sources
suggest Mr. Brennan was overstating his initial role, but
either way, by his own testimony, he as an Obama-Clinton
partisan was pushing information to the FBI and
pressuring it to act.
More notable, Mr. Brennan then took the lead on shaping
the narrative that Russia was interfering in the election
specifically to help Mr. Trump—which quickly evolved
into the Trump-collusion narrative. Team Clinton was
eager to make the claim, especially in light of the
Democratic National Committee server hack. Numerous
reports show Mr. Brennan aggressively pushing the same
line internally. Their problem was that as of July 2016
even then-Director of National Intelligence James Clapper
didn’t buy it. He publicly refused to say who was
responsible for the hack, or ascribe motivation. Mr.
Brennan also couldn’t get the FBI to sign on to the view;
the bureau continued to believe Russian cyberattacks were
aimed at disrupting the U.S. political system generally, not
aiding Mr. Trump.
The CIA director couldn’t himself go public with his
Clinton spin—he lacked the support of the intelligence
community and had to be careful not to be seen interfering
in U.S. politics. So what to do? He called Harry Reid. In a
late August briefing, he told the Senate minority leader
that Russia was trying to help Mr. Trump win the election,
and that Trump advisers might be colluding with Russia.
(Two years later, no public evidence has emerged to
support such a claim.)
But the truth was irrelevant. On cue, within a few days of
the briefing, Mr. Reid wrote a letter to Mr. Comey, which
of course immediately became public. “The evidence of a
direct connection between the Russian government and
Donald Trump’s presidential campaign continues to
mount,” wrote Mr. Reid, going on to float Team Clinton’s
Russians-are-helping-Trump theory. Mr. Reid publicly
divulged at least one of the allegations contained in the
infamous Steele dossier, insisting that the FBI use “every
resource available to investigate this matter.”
The Reid letter marked the first official blast of the
Brennan-Clinton collusion narrative into the open. Clinton
opposition-research firm Fusion GPS followed up by
briefing its media allies about the dossier it had dropped
off at the FBI. On Sept. 23, Yahoo News’s Michael Isikoff
ran the headline: “U.S. intel officials probe ties between
Trump adviser and Kremlin.” Voilà. Not only was the
collusion narrative out there, but so was evidence that the
FBI was investigating.
In their recent book “Russian Roulette,” Mr. Isikoff and
David Corn say even Mr. Reid believed Mr. Brennan had
an “ulterior motive” with the briefing, and “concluded the
CIA chief believed the public needed to know about the
Russia operation, including the information about the
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possible links to the Trump campaign.” (Brennan allies
have denied his aim was to leak damaging information.)
Clinton supporters have a plausible case that Mr. Comey’s
late-October announcement that the FBI had reopened its
investigation into the candidate affected the election. But
Trump supporters have a claim that the public outing of
the collusion narrative and FBI investigation took a toll on
their candidate. Politics was at the center of that outing,
and Mr. Brennan was a ringmaster. Remember that when
reading his next “treason” tweet.
 Homeland Security Chief:
Trump Directed Me To Secure Future Elections
Christopher Smith | Contributor
7:09 PM 07/19/2018
U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen said
in a recent interview that she has been directed by
President Donald Trump to secure and protect future
elections from meddling.
WATCH:
Nielsen warned the audience, as well as the American
people, that Russia is not yet done meddling in elections.
“It’s July, so we still have August, we still
have September, we still have October, we
have November. I think we should be
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absolutely prepared to assume that they
will try to interfere in all 50 states,” she
said.
“So what are we doing about that right
now,” moderator Peter Alexander of NBC
News asked. “What can the DHS do
actively to help stop that? And is the
president — has he met with you
personally, given you the directive to make
sure that the U.S. is preparing itself for an
attack on the midterms from Russia, like
the last one,” Alexander asked.
“Yes, we have had meetings with the
president, we have another one coming up
… at a very high level we’re information
sharing, we’re giving them intel they need,
technical systems, and then we’re helping
them be prepared for instant response,”
Nielsen responded. “I’m happy to report it
was on Saturday that all 50 states are now
working with us, in some cases they’re
using our services extensively, in other
cases they’re growing capability
organically, and in some cases they’re
hiring outside expertise.”
The secretary’s comments come amid an onslaught of
criticism from both parties as to whether the president has
been taking the issue of Russian election meddling
seriously enough, and whether he has any intentions of
stopping it in the future.
Trump has been praised at times for the tough actions he
has taken with respect to Russia, but has been severely and
almost universally criticized for his rhetoric.
 Trump Has Been Set Up,
Framed And Relentlessly Persecuted By The
American Intelligence Community
Sidney Powell | Former Federal Prosecutor
8:17 PM 07/19/2018
The frenzied furor and fomented outrage over President
Donald Trump’s reluctance to express blind trust for our
“intelligence community” defy reason and reality. In their
choreographed cries of contempt for Mr. Trump, the
“left’s” increasingly shrill proclamations of political
apocalypse make “Chicken Little” look rational. At least
we’ve moved on from the impending annihilation from the
nuclear war with North Korea.
Power is the only thing leftists worship, and they are
unraveling in front of our eyes without it. They can’t
control Mr. Trump. That alone drives them insane. They
have no policies that work. Cities and states they control
are criminal sanctuaries and bankrupt cesspools. Check out
San Francisco, Portland and Chicago.
Each of the president’s remarkable accomplishments —
from unprecedented high employment, our booming
economy and the tax cuts to his historic summit with Kim
Jong-un — highlights their abject failures and serves to
prick their narcissistic egos. The country is doing better
without them every day. Even worse, they are desperate to
keep their countless crimes and abuses covered up.
We know that there are many honorable, dedicated and
legitimate members of our multiple intelligence and law
enforcement agencies who strive to protect us the right
way every day. So, why might any of us not just declare
blind trust for our “intelligence community” writ large?
Let me count the ways.
Aside from the fact that former CIA Director John
Brennan does not even attempt to conceal his loathing of
Trump, it was none other than Brennan who had the CIA
spying on members of Congress—indeed the entire Senate
Intelligence Committee. Surely, there were others in the
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Agency who helped him. How many like Brennan are still
there?
Ironically, while Brennan is coming apart at the seams
over Trump’s progress in a diplomatic relationship with
Putin, it is Brennan who supported a communist—voting
for Gus Hall as none-other than president of the United
States.
Then there’s Director of National Intelligence [DNI] James
Clapper—the second Trump-loather only recently departed
from the top of the “IC.” Mr. Clapper is the guy who had
the NSA collecting all possible data on all Americans and
then lied to Congress about it.
Even more important, according to Mr. Comey’s own
memos leaked to the New York Times, combined with
Obama National Security Advisor Susan Rice’s “note to
self” within minutes of Trump’s inauguration, we know
that Brennan, Clapper, Obama, Comey, Rice, counter-
terrorism advisor Lisa Monaco, Deputy Attorney General
Sally Yates and Vice President Biden, met in the Oval
Office just before Comey went to brief the president-elect.
Not only did they decide to limit information about Russia
to be shared with the incoming team, they dispatched
Comey to set up Mr. Trump for the media explosion of the
entire false narrative and Steele dossier.
On January 6, 2017, on instructions from Clapper, Comey
met one-on-one with Mr. Trump in Trump Tower. Comey
“executed the session just as [he] had planned.” He
dropped the bombshell of only the “salacious” details of
the Steele dossier. He ran to his car to write down the
details of the conversation, then he reported to Clapper and
possibly Brennan, one of whom leaked it to CNN.
Comey’s briefing provided the very “news hook” they all
knew the media wanted to run with the existence of the
unverified, Clinton-bought-and-paid-for dossier.
That remarkable setup, by the highest members of our
“intelligence community” and Obama himself, sparked the
media firestorm of the Trump-Russia-collusion lie that has
besieged the Trump presidency to this day. Indeed, that
was its purpose—if not impeachment.
Don’t forget Peter Strzok — the FBI’s lead investigator for
the “intelligence community”— hardly the epitome of
trustworthiness. Strzok is the self-avowed despiser of
Trump and any possible Trump supporter. Strzok is the
epicenter of the Clinton email “investigation,” the Russia
narrative, and the Mueller team until last July. Discoveries
of his innumerable venomous expressions of hatred for the
president “clouded” the Clinton email investigation and
compelled his removal from the Special counsel team.
Even more egregious conduct compelled his physical
removal form the FBI.
I almost forgot. Comey, McCabe, Strzok, and Yates, aided
by others in the “intelligence community” more recently
including Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein,
obtained multiple FISA warrants to spy on members of the
Trump team. All those applications were based primarily
on the Clinton-bought-and-paid-for Steele dossier of lies.
We wouldn’t want to omit Susan Rice, Obama’s national
security advisor, who tripled the unmaskings of Americans
during 2016 — grossly abusing the government’s
surveillance apparatus to target the political opposition.
Sally Yates, of course, used those unmaskings to set up
General Michael Flynn who was simply doing his job. She
got him fired from his new position as President Trump’s
national security advisor, had FBI Agent Strzok ambush
Flynn in an interview, and McCabe may have helped tee
him up with false allegations for Special Counsel Robert
Mueller.
And there’s more. As the chief judge of the super-secret
Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court found in an
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opinion heavily redacted but unclassified last year, the
Obama/Comey/FBI’s rank abuses of raw surveillance data
of Americans extend back to 2015 (when Trump
announced—if not further). The court found egregious
Fourth Amendment violations by the FBI and that it had
given private contractors (probably Fusion GPS—Steele
dossier creators—and Clinton-connected CrowdStrike)
wrongful unlimited and unsupervised access to that data.
The court so distrusted the FBI itself that it took access
away from it, and NSA Director Admiral Rogers
proceeded to eliminate the use of “about queries”
completely.
What was it Senator Schumer said? Cross our intelligence
community and they have six ways from Sunday to pay
you back? That’s not an endorsement of trust, but rather of
fear. Now we know how the-man-behind-the-curtain keeps
Schumer in line.
Trump must be close to pulling back that curtain and
exposing the “petty men” who “peep about to find
[themselves] dishonorable graves.”
At that moment in Helsinki, for Mr. Trump, the question of
choosing between Vladimir Putin (ex-KGB despot) and
Mr. Trump’s own experience of being set up, framed and
relentlessly persecuted by the American “intelligence
community” to this day, must have felt like the choice
between Scylla and Charybdis. Either would destroy him,
and no matter what he said, the Left would shriek the sky
is falling yet again
Indeed, one must wonder if our president really feels there
is anyone he can trust.
 ‘Different Set Of Standards’ For
Clintons’ Circle Drives Americans ‘Crazy’
Special Counsel's Immunity Offer For Tony Podesta To Testify Against Paul
Manafort Is Evidence Of Discrepancy, Peter Schweizer Says
By Kathryn Blackhurst
Thursday, July 19, 2018

Schweizer, who wrote “Clinton Cash: The Untold Story

of How and Why Foreign Governments and Businesses
Helped Make Bill and Hillary Rich,” noted that Podesta
Group founder Tony Podesta also failed to register as a
foreign agent under the Foreign Agents Registration Act
(FARA) for his lobbying work with a Ukrainian group.

There is a “different set of standards” for the Clintons and

those associated with them that drives Americans mad,
Government Accountability Institute (GAI) President Peter
Schweizer said Thursday night on Fox News’ “The
Ingraham Angle.”

“This is what drives people crazy about

criminal justice in America. There’s a
different set of standards for people in
power — particularly those politically
connected by the Clintons — and those
same rules do not apply to ordinary
Americans,” Schweizer lamented.
Fox News host Tucker Carlson broke the news Thursday
on “Tucker Carlson Tonight” that special counsel Robert
Mueller offered Tony Podesta — brother of John Podesta,
2016 Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton’s
campaign chairman — immunity in exchange for testifying
against Paul Manafort.
Manafort, who was briefly President Donald Trump’s
campaign chairman, is awaiting trial on charges pertaining
to bank fraud and his failure to register as a foreign agent,
among others.
“In other words, for a near-identical crime,
Bill and Hillary’s friend could escape and
emerge completely unscathed, while Paul
Manafort may rot in jail,” Carlson said.
“Only one of them made the mistake of
chairing Donald Trump’s presidential
campaign.”
“It’s a little bit like granting immunity to
Bonnie to get a Clyde,” Schweizer said.
“The root of the problem with Paul Manafort
— and there are many, and I think they
need to be investigated and he needs to be
held into account — a lot of it involves the
foreign agent registration act, FARA, and
the fact that he was doing a lot of work for
foreign clients, lobbying work or consulting
work, and he was not revealing that or
registering with the Department of Justice.”
“Well, guess what? Tony Podesta was also
doing very similar things,” he added. “This
question of justice — why is it that the the
FARA violations of Paul Manafort should
be prosecuted … but why in the case of
Tony Podesta are they not? It’s mystifying,
and it’s only going to further frustrate
Americans, who again believe there are
different standards.”
Schweizer also reacted to a Wednesday New York Times
report revealing that the same Russian groups that hacked
the Democratic National Committee (DNC) during the
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cyberattacks targeting the Department of State during
Clinton’s time as secretary of state.
The FBI conducted a highly politicized probe into
Clinton’s use of a private email server to conduct official
business as secretary of state. Former FBI Director James
Comey ultimately exonerated Clinton in July 2016, finding
her actions “extremely careless.”
“Here’s the problem, is, you look at every
step of this investigation of the Clinton
email scandal. You have sloppiness on the
part of the FBI,” Schweizer said. “But the
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problem is the sloppiness always rebounds
to the benefits of the Clintons, which leads
one to only conclude that there was an
effort to essentially want this story to go
away or not hold the Clintons accountable.”
Noting that Clinton deleted 30,000 emails that were
“by nature classified” upon their creation,
he lamented that there was “no
accountability whatsoever.”
“This is the deep rot of the FBI. It requires
further investigation,” Schweizer advised.
 POLL: 45% Of Americans Think
U.S. Intel Agencies Have A Political Agenda
Justin Caruso | Senior Media Reporter
8:26 PM 07/19/2018

“A new Rasmussen Reports national

telephone and online survey finds that 45
percent of Likely U.S. Voters think U.S.
intelligence agencies have their own
political agenda. Just as many (43
percent), though, think they generally
perform impartially, but another 11 percent
are not sure.”

This poll comes at time when President Donald Trump is

under heavy criticism by many in the establishment media
for supposedly attacking American intelligence agencies.
WASHINGTON – JUNE 25: FBI Director Robert Mueller speaks
during a news conference at the FBI headquarters June 25, 2008 in During a recent press conference with Russian President
Washington, DC. The news conference was to mark the 5th
anniversary of Innocence Lost initiative. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty
Vladimir Putin, Trump seemed to question the findings of
Images) the intelligence community in regards to Russian hacking,
a move that set off a media frenzy.
According to a poll released Thursday, a large number of
Americans think that U.S. intelligence agencies like the Trump defended his performance, saying,
FBI and DOJ hold a political agenda.
“we’re living in the real world.”
Rasmussen Reports:
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 JUDGE JEANINE: Whoopi Goldberg
Started Cursing At Me! She Said F-You! F-You! Get The
F-Ck Out Of This Building! (VIDEO)
By Jim Hoft
July 19, 2018, 8:48 Pm

The unhinged liberals on The View
EXPLODED Thursday after Judge
Jeanine Pirro DESTROYED Whoopi
Goldberg.
On Thursday night Judge Jenanine Pirro described the
horrid abuse with Sean Hannity.
Judge Jeanine said Whoopi was inches from her face
screaming,

The idiots on The View picked the “F*ck you!”

wrong one to abuse and berate.
Judge Jeanine: She started cursing at
me! She said, “F*ck You! F*ck You! Get
The View hosts were outraged and plotted to gang rush the
the f*ck out of this building!”
popular FOX News host and New York judge.
Via Hannity:
“The View” co-host Whoopi Goldberg was so irate she
screamed at Judge Pirro off camera after the heated
exchange, sources exclusively confirmed to Page Six.

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 Non-Profit Files FEC Complaint
Against Clinton Campaign,
DNC Over Dossier
By Kristina Wong
19 Jul 2018
The non-profit Coolidge Reagan
Foundation on Thursday filed a Federal
Election Complaint against Hillary
Clinton’s campaign, the Democratic
National Committee, their law firm
Perkins Coie, and Christopher Steele,
the ex-British spy that authored the
“pee dossier,” for violating campaign
finance laws.
The non-profit charged that those parties hid payments
made to and received by Fusion GPS, the firm that hired
Steele to produce the dossier, in violation of finance laws.
Democrats have accused the Trump administration of
colluding with foreigners, when in reality it was the
Democrats who colluded with foreigners, the non-profit
charged.
“For over a year, Democratic officials have
accused the Trump Administration of
collaborating with foreign interlopers to
influence the outcome of the 2016
Presidential election. In reality, it was the
Clinton-backed Democratic machine that
conspired with foreigners in violation of
both federal campaign finance law and
basic decency to manipulate the election,”
it said in a complaint.
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“The Clinton campaign weaponized
American intelligence and law enforcement
communities — led by Democratic
appointees of President Barack Obama —
through false, malicious, wholly
manufactured lies about the Republican
nominee, now President, Donald J. Trump,”
it said.
The Coolidge Reagan Foundation is described in the
complaint as a not-for-profit charitable organization whose
mission is to
“defend, protect, and advance liberty, and
particularly the principles of free speech
enshrined in the First Amendment of the
U.S. Constitution.”
The 22-page complaint walks through in detail how
Clinton and DNC officials colluded with Steele and
anonymous former and current Russian officials to
produce a dossier aimed at influencing the 2016 elections,
and violated election laws while doing so.
The complaint describes how the Clinton campaign hired
Perkins Coie lawyer Marc Elias for the 2016 presidential
election cycle. Elias then hired Fusion GPS to conduct
opposition research on Trump. The Clinton campaign and
the DNC then funneled over $1 million through Perkins
Coie to Fusion GPS. Clinton’s campaign manager Robby
Mook personally approved the payment to Perkins Coie,
the complaint said.
The non-profit argued that that since Fusion GPS’s work
was to further the Clinton campaign and the DNC’s
political goals, rather than providing legal advice or
assisting with any litigation, it was not protected by
attorney-client, work-product, or any other privileges.
However, the Clinton campaign and the DNC hid their
payments to Fusion GPS in campaign finance filings. The
Clinton campaign reported all of its payments to Perkins
Coie from January 2016 through December 2017 as being
for the purpose of ”LEGAL SERVICES,” but did not
mention Fusion GPS.
Meanwhile, the DNC reported its payments to Perkins
Coie between January 2016 and December 2017 as being
for the following purposes:
 “LEGAL AND COMPLIANCE CONSULTING,”
 “LEGAL AND COMPLIANCE SERVICES,”
 “OFFICE SUPPLIES/EXP,”
 “TRAVEL,”
 “PRINTING & COPYING,”
 “DATA SERVICES SUBSCRIPTION,”
 “POSTAGE AND SHIPPING,”
 “CATERING,FOOD & BEVERAGE,”
 “INTERNET,”
 “CELLULAR/MOBILE,”
 “ADMINISTRATIVE FEES,”
 “FED/STATE FEES & LICENSE,”
 “RESEARCH CONSULTING” (a single entry on August
16, 2016, for $66,500), and
 “DATA ANALYTICS.”
“None of these entries accurately describe
the DNC’s payments to Perkins Coie for
Fusion GPS’s opposition research into
Donald Trump,” the complaint said.
“By using Perkins Coie as a straw man
intermediary for this pervasively political,
non-legal work, [Hillary for America] and
the DNC were able to mask their
relationship to Fusion GPS from the public
in the critical weeks before the 2016
presidential election, in direct violation of
federal campaign finance law,” it said.
The complaint details how Fusion GPS paid a total of
approximately $168,000 to Steele and/or his company
Orbis, and how Steele solicited foreign nationals —
particularly current and/or former members of the Russian
government and intelligence service — for information
relating to Trump.
“Thus, a foreign citizen controlled the
collection and dissemination of information,
largely from foreign government agents
and other foreign nationals, intended to
influence a federal election,” the complaint
said.
Steele then produced a dossier based on “dubious,
unverified, and largely unverifiable information” he
received from his “confidential sources of questionable
credibility.” The dossier was then given to Fusion GPS,
then to Perkins Coie, and then the Clinton
campaignprovided a copy of the dossier to Fusion GPS,
who provided it to the Clinton campaign and/or the DNC,
the complaint said.
The Obama Administration’s Justice Department went on
to use the dossier to seek a secret surveillance warrant on
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the Trump campaign, without informing the Foreign
Intelligence Surveillance Court that it was funded by, and
developed at the behest of, the Clinton campaign or the
DNC, it said.
Steele also gave a copy of the dossier to Mother Jones
Washington bureau chief David Corn, who wrote an article
days before the election entitled “A Veteran Spy Has
Given the FBI Information Alleging a Russian
Operation to Cultivate Donald Trump.”
“His intent in providing that material to Corn
was to influence the outcome of the
election by preventing Donald Trump from
becoming President, either by sparking an
investigation into Trump or by inducing
voters to vote against him, due to concerns
about his relationship to Russia,” the
complaint said.
The Coolidge Reagan Foundation lists seven counts of
FEC violations against the Clinton campaign, the DNC,
Marc Elias, Perkins Coie, and Steele.
They include:
 False Specification of Expenditure Purpose;
 False Identification of Expenditure Recipient;
 False Identification of Expenditures’ Purpose and
Recipient;
 Solicitation of Donations (or Contributions) from
Foreign Nationals;
 Substantially Assisting Solicitation of Donations from
Foreign Nationals;
 Donation or Expenditure by a Foreign National;
 and Foreign National Participation in Political
Committees’ Decisionmaking Processes Concerning
Expenditures.
In summary, the complaint says:
“Using their law firm, Perkins Coie, LLP, as
a front to shield their illegal machinations
from public scrutiny, Hillary for America and
the Democratic National Committee
(“DNC”) worked with British national
Christopher Steele to generate and
disseminate the so-called “Steele
Dossier”—a collection of lies and spurious
allegations against the President compiled
at great cost.
“The dossier was valuable due to the
substantial and illegally unreported cost of
generating it, its use in attempting to sway
the outcome of the election, and the veneer
of credibility it possessed as a result of the
various sources of information from which it
was derived and the obfuscation of its
origin as a politically motivated campaign
trick. Many of the dossier’s allegations
against President Trump stem from current
and former Russian government officials.
“Thus, the Clinton campaign, not Trump,
collaborated with the Russians in a
desperate, and ultimately failed, attempt to
steal the election. Though the American
people ultimately rejected Clinton, both the
Trump Administration and the nation as a
whole still languish in the aftermath of her
campaign’s impropriety.”
“The interminable investigations into the
President ultimately stem from the
collection of fabrications covertly funded by
the DNC and Clinton campaign. Their
funding of the Steele dossier allowed
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foreign nationals to directly, substantially
influence the 2016 election in favor of
Clinton. Steele, a foreign national acting
without actual or apparent authority from
the DNC or Clinton campaign, unilaterally
decided to release the Steele dossier to the
American media (as well as the FBI) in an
attempt to swing the election in Clinton’s
favor.
“Compiled from lies, innuendo, and
fabrications from foreign nationals, the
dossier itself was a vehicle through which
current and former agents of the Russian
government were able to attempt to
undermine Donald Trump’s candidacy. This
Commission should immediately
investigate and pursue these violations to
the full extent of the law.”
 CONFIRMED: Dirty Cop Mueller Offered
Tony Podesta Immunity To Testify Against Paul Manafort
— As TGP Reported (VIDEO)
By Cristina Laila
July 19, 2018, 9:16 Pm

“The Mueller probe is a disgusting

abomination of justice. Not only is Mueller
ruthlessly trying to overturn the election but
he’s desperately trying to cover up for the
DOJ & the Clintons. Fire Mueller
immediately & let’s move on from this
national disgrace,” Bongino tweeted.

Robert Mueller, Tony Podesta

Dirty cop Robert Mueller offered Tony

Podesta, founder of the now-defunct
Podesta Group, immunity in exchange
for testimony against Trump’s former
campaign chair Paul Manafort.
The Gateway Pundit reported two days
ago that Mueller was going to give the
crooked Podesta brothers immunity.
Mueller is defending Tony Podesta from
his crimes.
We were right.

Tony Podesta is brother to Hillary Clinton’s former

campaign chair, John Podesta which is why he’s getting
special treatment from dirty cop Mueller.
The Podesta Group, the now defunct lobbying firm ran by
Fox News’ Tucker Carlson announced Thursday evening
John Podesta’s brother, Tony Podesta, was lobbying a pro-
that two separate sources confirmed to him Mueller
Kremlin Ukrainian political front yet was never issued an
offered Tony Podesta immunity.
indictment from Mueller even though they failed to
register as a foreign agent.
“In other words, for a near identical crime,
Bill and Hillary’s friend could escape and
Trump’s former campaign Chairman Paul Manafort,
emerge completely unscathed while Paul
however, was indicted and jailed for the exact same
Manafort may rot in jail. Only one of them
offense.
made the mistake of chairing Donald
Trump’s presidential campaign,” Tucker
Carlson said. It gets worse…
Former Secret Service Agent Dan Bongino unleashed on
dirty cop Mueller over the revelation he gave immunity to John Podesta was working for the Obama administration
Tony Podesta. helping his brother Tony Podesta lobby on behalf of
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foreign companies a month after Hillary left the State VIDEO:
Department.

Judicial Watch recently obtained 5 pages of records from

the State Department after filing a FOIA lawsuit.

“Both Manafort and the Podesta Group had

to file foreign agent registration act forms
disclosing their lobbying activities for
groups like the party of the regions and
some other fronts associated with Ukraine.
ONLY MANAFORT WAS INDICTED for
not filing those forms properly and on time
when he should have,” Fitton said.
“The Podesta Group, a mega Democrat
lobbying firm was not indicted, nor was Mr.
Podesta himself,” Fitton continued.

The Podesta group was involved with the same Ukrainian

entities that Manafort is being charged in federal court for,
yet the Podestas aren’t being investigated.

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 Obama Is ‘Responsible’ For
Mueller Investigation, Clapper Admits
Former DNI Director Says It's 'Important' To Recognize The
Former President's Handprints On Russia Probe
By Kathryn Blackhurst
Thursday, July 19, 2018

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Noting that Obama

“was given information just prior to” the presidential
election, Trump slammed Obama and officials in his
administration, including Clapper and former CIA Director
John Brennan, for their failure to act adequately.

“The reason they decided that was pretty

President Barack Obama should be credited with
launching “a whole sequence of events” that led to special
counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation of Russia collusion
allegations, according to former Director of National
Intelligence (DNI) James Clapper.
obvious to all — they thought [2016
Democratic presidential nominee] Hillary
Clinton was going to win the election, and
they didn’t think it was a big deal,” Trump
told reporters Tuesday. “By contrast, my
administration is taking a very firm stance.”

“One point I’d like to make, Anderson, that I

don’t think has come up very much before
— and I’m alluding now to [President
Donald Trump’s] criticism of President
Obama for all that he did or didn’t do before
he left office with respect to the Russian
meddling,” Clapper said Thursday on
CNN’s “Anderson Cooper 360.”
“We’re going to take strong actions to
Clapper added that secure our election systems and the
process,” Trump added. “Unlike previous
administrations, my administration has and
“if it weren’t for President Obama, we might will continue to move aggressively to [repel]
not have done the intelligence community any efforts … to interfere in our elections.
assessment that we did that set off a whole We are doing everything in our power to
sequence of events which are still unfolding prevent Russian interference in 2018.”
today — notably, special counsel Mueller’s
investigation.
But Clapper wanted to ensure that Americans gave credit
“President Obama is responsible for that, to Obama for the events leading to the creation of
and it was he who tasked us to do that Mueller’s probe into allegations of collusion between
intelligence community assessment in the Trump campaign officials and Russia.
first place. I think that’s an important point
when it comes to critiquing President “And it is not a witch hunt. It is a serious,
Obama.” serious investigation, the catalyst for which
was the intelligence community
Trump has rebuked his predecessor repeatedly for not assessment that we did in the last
“doing anything about” Russia’s meddling in the 2016 administration,” Clapper emphasized.
U.S. presidential election, in which he defeated former
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Trump has long railed against the Mueller probe as a
“witch hunt,” pointing to “13 angry Democrat” donors
who are in key positions on the special counsel’s staff,
along with the anti-Trump and pro-Clinton text messages
exchanged between FBI counterintelligence agent Peter
Strzok and former FBI lawyer Lisa Page.
Strzok participated in both Mueller’s probe and the
investigation into Clinton’s use of a private email server to
conduct official U.S. diplomatic business during the
.
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Obama administration. Mueller removed Strzok from the
collusion probe once his text messages became public.
The president has also pointed to the report from GOP
members of the House Permanent Select Committee on
Intelligence revealing that the FBI used the salacious anti-
Trump dossier compiled by former British spy Christopher
Steele — and funded by Clinton’s campaign and the
Democratic National Committee — to renew surveillance
warrants against former Trump campaign advisor Carter
Page.
 Tony Podesta Is Sixth Clinton-Linked Democrat
To Be Granted Immunity — While Paul Manafort Rots
In Prison For Same Crime
By Jim Hoft
July 19, 2018, 10:32 Pm

Heather Samuelson, a senior Hillary Clinton adviser, was

also given immunity agreements, bringing the total number
of witnesses who were protected by deals to five.

Bryan Pagliano, Clinton’s former IT aide who set up her

email server, received immunity by the Obama DOJ.

The Obama DOJ interviewed 17 top witnesses in the

Hillary Clinton server investigation AFTER the decision
was made to exonerate her.

This week we learn that dirty cop Robert

Paul Combetta, the computer specialist who deleted Mueller granted immunity to Tony
Hillary Clinton’s emails when they were under subpoena, Podesta who committed the same exact
was granted immunity by the Obama DOJ in September crimes as Paul Manafort.
2016.
Today Manafort sits in isolation in a prison cell.
Cheryl Mills, Hillary Clinton’s former chief of staff and
attorney, received an immunity deal from the Justice
Tony Podesta will walk free.
Department during the year-long FBI investigation of
Clinton’s server before she even testified.
The Democrat Deep State has turned
John Bentel director of the State Department’s Office of America into a banana republic.
Information Resources Management, was given immunity
by the Obama DOJ.

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 Bernie’s Chief Strategist Contacted
Former Russian Spy Right Before Joining Campaign
Kyle Perisic | Contributor
10:37 PM 07/19/2018

Further analysis of the exhibits Mueller plans on using in

Evidence in special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation
into Russian collusion in the 2016 election reveals that
former Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders’
chief strategist was in contact with a former Russian
intelligence agent before joining the campaign.
Tad Devine joined Sanders’ campaign in 2014 before it
officially launched. Communications between Devine,
Paul Manafort, Ukrainian diplomats and Russian
intelligence agents began as early as Jan. 3, 2006, and
continued until no earlier than June 19, 2014, according to
a list of exhibits filed in a Virginia federal court
Wednesday.
his case against Manafort reveal Devine was also in
contact with Konstantin Kilimnik, who is also facing
indictment by Mueller.
Kilimnik is being charged with obstruction of justice and
conspiracy to obstruct justice in an alleged plot to force
two witnesses to alter their testimony, The Daily Caller
News Foundation reported.
Their contact began Sept. 20, 2011, and ended no earlier
than June 19, 2014 — five months before announcing he
would join Sanders’ campaign.
According to the court exhibits, Devine asked Kilimnik to
“resend the talking points” that he reportedly sent to
Manafort on Sept. 1, 2010.

“If he runs, I’m going to help him,” Devine

said in November 2014, The Washington
Post reported. “He is not only a longtime
client but a friend. I believe he could deliver
an enormously powerful message that the
country is waiting to hear right now and do
it in a way that succeeds.”

Manafort, then-candidate Donald Trump’s campaign

chairman during the 2016 presidential election, was
indicted on several charges in Mueller’s investigation. He
pleaded not guilty to conspiracy to money-laundering and
failing to register as a foreign agent for his lobbying work.
Manafort’s lobbying effort was done on behalf of the Party
of Regions, the pro-Russian political party led by former
Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych.
Devine worked with Manafort in an effort to
win Yanukovych — a former Communist Party member
— the presidency in Ukraine, National Review reported.
Their efforts, apparently, paid off. Yanukovych’s
presidential term began on Feb. 25, 2010.
.
Part of a list of exhibits filed in a Virginia federal court
Wednesday by Special Counsel Robert Mueller. Image:
Screenshot.
Although Manafort is currently in jail and his bail was
revoked for the alleged witness tampering,
“The government does not intend to
present at trial evidence or argument
concerning collusion with the Russian
government,” a filing Mueller’s team
submitted to a federal court in Virginia on
July 6 stated, The Daily Caller News
Foundation reported.

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 “It’s The Swamp Being Chicken Little” – Michigan Voters
Stand By President Trump After Helsinki Meeting Despite
Media Attacks (VIDEO)
By Jim Hoft
July 20, 2018, 7:00 Am

News Channel 4 interviewed several Trump supporters This was a memorable line. When the reporter said,
following his meeting with Vladimir Putin in Helsinki,
Finland. “But there are Republicans criticizing
President Trump?”
All of the Trump supporters could not care less about the
president’s performance despite the unhinged media Meshawn replied,
reports.
“Those are “Never Trumpers.””
One Trump support, Meshawn Maddock,
had this to say, “We laugh out loud,” at the The President Trump supporters are standing with this
media attacks. amazing president — despite the media and
NeverTrumpers.
Bill Rauwerdink added this,

“I’m supposed to change my opinion about

a President that’s doing all kinds of
amazingly positive things because of a
one-hour press conference?”

Another Trump voter chimed in,

“The public expects nothing less from the

swamp in DC and their cronies in the
media. It’s the swamp being Chicken Little
like the sky is falling in and the American
people are getting tired of it.”

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Another Day, Another Grant Of IMMUNITY To A Clinton-
Tied Figure, Tony Podesta, By Fake Cop MUELLER
Posted On July 20, 2018
(National Sentinel) Sham: If you still believe that special
counsel Robert Mueller is a stand-up guy who’s just trying
to get to the bottom of “Russian collusion” with the 2016
Trump campaign, this will go a long way towards
dispelling that myth.
As you know, one-time Trump campaign manager Paul
Manafort is sitting not just in jail but in isolation after
Mueller convinced a court to put him in prison while
awaiting trial on various charges.
Manafort allegedly attempted to contact witnesses which,
if true, is, of course, a violation of the law.
Got it.
But how people who are just as dirty or
more so getting immunity deals from
Mueller and the Obama DoJ while Manafort
remains behind bars?
And gee, how come nearly all of them
have ties to Democrats and the
Clintons?
That wouldn’t have anything at all to do with the fact that
Mueller’s team is stacked with Democrat supporters and,
in particular, Clinton supporters, would it?
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As The Gateway Pundit reports, this is getting to be quite a
pattern:
Paul Combetta, the computer specialist
who deleted Hillary Clinton’s emails when
they were under subpoena, was granted
immunity by the Obama DOJ in September
2016.
Cheryl Mills, Hillary Clinton’s former chief
of staff and attorney, received an immunity
deal from the Justice Department during
the year-long FBI investigation of Clinton’s
server before she even testified.
John Bentel director of the State
Department’s Office of Information
Resources Management, was given
immunity by the Obama DOJ.
Heather Samuelson, a senior Hillary
Clinton adviser, was also given immunity
agreements, bringing the total number of
witnesses who were protected by deals to
five.
Bryan Pagliano, Clinton’s former IT aide
who set up her email server, received
immunity by the Obama DOJ.
The Obama DOJ interviewed 17 top
witnesses in the Hillary Clinton server
investigation AFTER the decision was
made to exonerate her.
This week we learn that dirty cop Robert
Mueller granted immunity to Tony
Podesta who committed the same exact
crimes as Paul Manafort.
Whatever credibility Mueller had when he was appointed
special counsel — without there even being any evidence
of an actual crime having been committed, which is
supposed to be a requirement for the appoint of a special
counsel — it’s long gone by now.
 FBI’s National Security Branch Chief Abruptly Quits;
Assistant Director Ghattas Described As
McCabe’s “Right Hand Man”
By Admin
Posted On July 20, 2018
FBI Executive Assistant Director Carl Ghattas has called it
quits.
Ghattas, who heads the Bureau’s National Security
Branch, is also described as the most experienced
counterterrorism agent on the FBI’s rolls.
He “leads the FBI’s operations and
intelligence efforts involving all national
security matters, ranging from terrorism to
espionage to weapons of mass
destruction,” according to the FBI.
Ghattas decided to retire Thursday, the fourth top FBI
agent to walk away in the last week. But Ghattas’
departure is certainly the biggest. By far.
Ghtattas, a shrewd operator inside the FBI who managed
to keep his name away from negative news stories, is best
friends with fired FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe.
Both reportedly attended Duke University during
undergrad and went on to law school. McCabe and
Ghattas reportedly roomed together at Duke, where
McCabe also met his wife, Dr. Jill McCabe.
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McCabe often sported a flashy Porsche, zipping in and out
of the FBI parking garage under headquarters off
Pennsylvania Ave in D.C. Then Ghattas also did the same,
purchasing his own Porsche reportedly and driving it to
work. Many agents fumed at the optics of the FBI’s top
brass cruising around the beltway in Porches, but that
didn’t seem to stop the duo and then-Director James
Comey was oblivious to the optics — a pattern all now see
during Comey’s tenure.
McCabe often described Ghattas as his personal legal
advisor and wherever McCabe was and was doing, you
could expect Ghattas wasn’t far behind, several FBI
sources said.
“Ghattas was McCabe’s wing man,” one
FBI agent said. “He was a better operator
than McCabe but you did not want to cross
either one of them because there was a
mean streak there for sure and it just wan’t
worth it on any level.”
But without McCabe’s protection, lost when he was fired,
Ghattas wasn’t the same politically powerful agent,
sources said. Couple that with emerging news that the
House Intelligence Committee investigators said Ghattas’
name has surfaced in a matter they are investigating, and
“the writing was one the wall for Ghattas” to exit the FBI
as one agent put it.
Before McCabe’s firing, Ghattas was jockeying to become
the FBI’s SES liaison with the Central Intelligence
Agency, National Security Agency and White House but
never did get the post, which would have been considered
a large step down for Ghattas. FBI sources said.
 Gallup Poll Shows Americans
Don’t Care About ‘Situation With Russia’ AT ALL
By Cristina Laila
July 20, 2018, 9:29 Am

A recent Gallup poll of just over 1,000 Americans on 37

different issues reveals people literally do not care about
the ‘Russia situation.’

In fact, so few people care about Trump-Russia, it was

immeasurable; Gallup had to use an asterisk to measure.

The fake news media has pushed the Trump-Russia hoax

for two years and it hasn’t swayed Americans; the
mainstream media has lost their power and influence.

Americans are the most concerned about the economy,

jobs, and immigration/illegals aliens, NOT RUSSIA.

“Gallup recently did a poll of what

Americans say is the most important
problem facing the country. One finding:
the percentage of Americans saying
“Situation with Russia” is the most
important problem is literally too small to
represent with a number,” tweeted David The Gallup poll was taken right before the Putin summit in
Sirota, a journalist for Capital and Main. Helsinki, but the amount of Americans who care about the
Russia situation isn’t likely to increase even though the
fake news media had a ‘Trump treason’ melt down.

More than anything, this Gallup poll shows the media has
no power and the only people who care about the Russia
situation are media sycophants and Democrat-RINO’s
trying to undermine a duly elected president.
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 Real Treason: THANKS To The CLINTONS America Is
Now RELIANT On RUSSIA For Our Strategic Uranium
Posted On July 20, 2018
(National Sentinel) Criminal: In April 2015, The New
York Times, of all papers, reported a bombshell: Tens of
millions of dollars flowed to the Clinton Foundation
during the time that a suspicious deal to sell one-fifth of all
strategic reserves of U.S.-held uranium to a Russian firm.
Reporting on the deal involving Uranium One, then a
Canadian-held company with uranium assets in the U.S.,
the paper noted:
The headline on the website Pravda
trumpeted President Vladimir V. Putin’s
latest coup, its nationalistic fervor recalling
an era when its precursor served as the
official mouthpiece of the Kremlin: “Russian
Nuclear Energy Conquers the World.”
The article, in January 2013, detailed how
the Russian atomic energy agency,
Rosatom, had taken over a Canadian
company with uranium-mining stakes
stretching from Central Asia to the
American West. The deal made Rosatom
one of the world’s largest uranium
producers and brought Mr. Putin closer to
his goal of controlling much of the global
uranium supply chain.
But the untold story behind that story is one
that involves not just the Russian president,
but also a former American president and a
woman who would like to be the next one.
The Times went on to note that Russian-held mines
in mines in Kazakhstan that are among the most lucrative
in the world,” but “the sale gave the Russians control of
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one-fifth of all uranium production capacity in the United
States.”
Moreover:
Since uranium is considered a strategic
asset, with implications for national
security, the deal had to be approved by a
committee composed of representatives
from a number of United States
government agencies. Among the agencies
that eventually signed off was the State
Department, then headed by Mr. Clinton’s
wife, Hillary Rodham Clinton.
As the Russians gradually assumed control
of Uranium One in three separate
transactions from 2009 to 2013, Canadian
records show, a flow of cash made its way
to the Clinton Foundation. Uranium One’s
chairman used his family foundation to
make four donations totaling $2.35
million. Those contributions were not
publicly disclosed by the Clintons, despite
an agreement Mrs. Clinton had struck with
the Obama White House to publicly identify
all donors. Other people with ties to the
company made donations as well.
And shortly after the Russians announced
their intention to acquire a majority stake in
Uranium One, Mr. Clinton received
$500,000 for a Moscow speech from a
Russian investment bank with links to
the Kremlin that was promoting
Uranium One stock.
Promises were made between Rosatom and the Obama
administration (yes, Obama is also culpable) so that
concerns regarding the sale to the Russians would be
addressed. The Times noted that “those promises have
been repeatedly broken,” according to records.
When the Times story broke, Hillary Clinton was gearing
up to be president. She assured Americans time and time
again that a) she had no role in approving the sale (a lie),
and b) sale of Uranium One to Russia was not a national
security issue.
That too, as we now know, was a huge lie.
As reported by Liberty Headlines:
A new Department of
Commerce investigation into whether
imported uranium poses a national security
risk serves as a reminder that Bill and
Hillary Clinton played a role in reducing the
availability of U.S.-owned uranium stores.
Domestic production of uranium is at or
near an all-time low, at 2.44 million pounds,
compared to a high of 43.7 million pounds
in 1980.
And CNBC reports that “Only 7 percent of
the uranium delivered to U.S. nuclear
power plants last year was produced in
the United States.”
For military uses and domestic
consumption combined, reported
Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, “our
production of uranium necessary for
military and electric power has dropped
from 49% of our consumption to 5%.”
Safe and effective supplies of uranium
obviously are of key importance, both for
U.S. nuclear deterrence forces and for
domestic energy supply.
And just where is the vast majority of our uranium now
coming from?
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You guessed it: Vladimir Putin’s Russia.
“Russia and Kazakhstan together provided
38 percent of uranium used by American
reactors in 2016,” Liberty Headlines noted
further.
U.S. nuclear power plants produce about 20 percent of our
annual total; many are losing money, however — to the
tune of $3 billion last year. The Trump administration is
studying how to remedy the issue but obviously, the
fact that Hillary and Obama did a dirty deal to ensure
we’d be reliant on a potential enemy is one of the most
traitorous acts since Gen. Benedict Arnold sold out to the
British.
Will anyone ever be held accountable from that
administration for anything?
Perhaps.
In December, AG Jeff Sessions ordered a fresh probe into
the deal, which was fraught with corruption.
In March FBI agents went to Little Rock, Ark., to
interview a key witness in the scandal, which the witness,
William Campbell, confirmed a few days later.
Time will tell. Meanwhile, the fact that POTUS Donald
Trump remains under investigation for “Russian collusion”
when the Clintons and Obama are so obviously guilty of it
is a sick reminder of how messed up things are in
Washington, D.C.
 Panicked Democrats Invoke Obscure
House Rule To Force Action On Mueller Protection Bill
By Cristina Laila
July 20, 2018, 10:18 Am
Robert Mueller
Democrats are invoking an obscure
House rule Friday to force Republicans
to take action on a bill that would
prevent President Trump from
unilaterally removing Special Counsel
Robert Mueller.
Of course this is a desperate move and will more than
likely get shot down by House Judiciary Chairman Bob
Goodlatte (R-VA).
The obscure House rule has never successfully been
invoked, so good luck to the Democrat losers wasting their
time and resources.
Politico reported:
Three Democrats on the powerful Judiciary
Committee are invoking an obscure House
rule that permits a handful of lawmakers to
call for a “special meeting” on any bill. If the
committee’s chairman, Rep. Bob Goodlatte
(R-Va.), declines to approve the meeting
within three days, the panel’s 40 members
of the panel — 23 Republicans and 17
Democrats — have an opportunity to
overrule him and hold the meeting anyway.
“We do not take these actions lightly, but
believe that we are left with no other choice
given the circumstances,” said Rep. Jerrold
Nadler (D-N.Y.), the ranking Democrat on
the committee, in a letter also signed by
Reps. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas) and
Steve Cohen (D-Tenn.)
It’s a longshot gambit — the Republican-controlled
committee is virtually guaranteed to support Goodlatte.
But it’s the latest effort by Democrats to spotlight inaction
on measures they describe as increasingly urgent as Trump
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has more aggressively challenged the validity of Mueller’s
probe.
Robert Mueller is out of control and Americans are fed up
with the Trump-Russia witch hunt.
This week we learned dirty cop Robert Mueller offered
Tony Podesta, founder of the now-defunct Podesta Group,
immunity in exchange for testimony against Trump’s
former campaign chair Paul Manafort.
Tony Podesta is brother to Hillary Clinton’s former
campaign chair, John Podesta which is why he’s getting
special treatment from dirty cop Mueller.
The Podesta Group was lobbying a pro-Kremlin Ukrainian
political front yet was never issued an indictment from
Mueller even though they failed to register as a foreign
agent.
Trump’s former campaign Chairman
Paul Manafort, however, was indicted
and jailed for the exact same offense.
Former Secret Service agent Dan
Bongino called for Mueller to be fired on
Thursday.
“The Mueller probe is a disgusting
abomination of justice.Not only is Mueller
ruthlessly trying to overturn the election but
he’s desperately trying to cover up for the
DOJ & the Clintons. Fire Mueller
immediately & let’s move on from this
national disgrace,” Bongino said in a tweet.
Bongino slammed Mueller’s corruption
again on Friday.
BONGINO:
“The Mueller probe is there to save the
Clintons & the DOJ/FBI by ensuring that
the attention stays focused on Donald
Trump. If this Podesta immunity offer
materializes then the Mueller probe must
be immediately shut down. It is an
abomination of justice. A total scam.”
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prosecuted immediately.

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 Sec/state Pompeo Makes Liberal Heads EXPLODE
When He Drops This TRUTH BOMB About
Russian Election Meddling
Posted On July 20, 2018

(National Sentinel) Welcome to Reality: Leftists long ago

made up their minds that POTUS Donald Trump
“colluded” with Russia to “steal the election” from Hillary
Clinton, despite there being absolutely zero evidence that’s
true.
Liberals have long-since closed their minds to the fact that
there is nothing to prove the claim but quite a bit of
evidence to disprove it.
The House Intelligence Committee released a report in
April clearing the 2016 Trump campaign and the president
himself.
Deputy AG Rod Rosenstein got in on it too:
Pompeo’s comments were bolstered by
Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein
who said Thursday, ”This is not a new
phenomenon. Throughout the 20th century,
the Soviet Union used malign influence
operations against the United States and
many other countries. In 1963, for example,
the KGB paid an American to distribute a
book claiming that the FBI and the CIA
assassinated President Kennedy.”

There’s more.
Now, the report did note that Russia did try to “meddle” in
the election, mostly by sowing division and distrust among
the American electorate — something that the disgustingly Also Thursday, FBI Director Christopher Wray not only
dishonest establishment media has helped Moscow with. downplayed the Russian threat, but he noted correctly
that we face a bigger threat from China.
But hasn’t Russia been doing this for a long time?
He said it’s a mistake to underestimate or downplay
Chinese efforts, which amount to nothing short of Beijing
Yes, it has, and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo made that
wanting to “position itself as the sole dominant
perfectly clear during an interview with Fox News on
superpower. They’re trying to replace the United States in
Thursday, as reported by The Daily Caller:
that role.”
“It wasn’t just the 2016 election. Somehow
He noted that China’s espionage is “a whole of state
America seems to forget the history of
effort” which includes “economic espionage as well as
Russia’s efforts to undermine western
traditional espionage and human sources as well as cyber
democracy for decades now. It gets
means.”
confused because there are those who
want to make a partisan case of it with
respect to the Mueller investigation,” “The volume of it, the pervasive of it, the
Pompeo said of Russian interference. significance of it, is something that I think
this country cannot underestimate,” he
The secretary of state continued, “The noted.
president understands what Russia did in
our elections of 2016. He has empowered
If you listen closely, you can hear liberal heads exploding.
each of us to make sure that it doesn’t
happen again in the 2018 or 2020 elections
here in the United States as well.”
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 Benghazi Hero Kris Paronto Goes NUCLEAR
On Crooked Hillary After She Accuses Trump WH Of
Not Defending Ambassador
By Cristina Laila
July 20, 2018, 11:38 Am

We also lost two retired Navy SEALs, Tyrone Woods and

Glen Doherty on the night of September 11,2012 because
of Hillary Clinton’s refusal to send help.

Hillary Clinton’s State Department gave stand down orders

to Special Ops forces ready to go in and help Americans
who were surrounded by hundreds of Islamic insurgents in
Benghazi, Libya in September of 2012.

The Obama administration then lied about the Benghazi

attack by blaming it on a YouTube video.

Army Ranger Kris ‘Tanto’ Paronto

Army Ranger and Benghazi hero, Kris ‘Tanto’ Paronto

unleashed on Hillary Clinton after she accused the Trump
White House of not defending Obama’s Ambassador to
Russia.

On Thursday, twice-failed presidential hopeful Hillary

‘Benghazi’ Clinton had the nerve to accuse the Trump
White House of not defending Obama’s Ambassador to
Russia, Michael McFaul.

The White House confirmed Wednesday that Vladimir

Putin asked President Trump in the private meeting if
Russia could interview Obama’s Ambassador, Michael
McFaul over alleged financial crimes involving Bill
Browder.
Hillary Clinton and the Democrats lost their collective
minds!
Even more egregious, Hillary Clinton lied to the families
of the victims.
The parents of two of the victims sued Hillary Clinton for
her reckless handling of classified information which
resulted in the Benghazi attack.

Hillary Clinton tweeted: Ambassador @McFaul is a

patriot who has spent his career standing up for America.
To see the White House even hesitate to defend a diplomat
is deeply troubling.

Clinton’s State Department failed to protect Christopher

Stevens, an Ambassador to Libya and Sean Smith, a
diplomat and information management officer in
Benghazi, Libya, resulting in their deaths.

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 Kris Paronto unleashed on Hillary
Clinton in a viral tweet!

Kris Paronto tweeted:

“Are you f’n kidding me @HillaryClinton ?!!!

You left Ambassador Stevens and us to die
in Benghazi then spewed lie after lie to the
family members of my dead teammates
and to the world to cover it up and now you
have the nerve to talk about defending
diplomats?!You are disgusting!”

Hillary Clinton is so evil that during a Congressional

hearing on the Benghazi attacks, she asked,

“At this point what difference does it

make?!”

in response to four dead Americans on her watch.

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 HERE WE GO=> Dem Senator Asks SCOTUS Nominee
Kavanaugh To Recuse Himself From Any Cases
Related To Mueller Investigation
By Cristina Laila
July 20, 2018, 2:22 Pm
Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ)
The left is on the march.
On Friday, Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) asked Trump’s
SCOTUS nominee, Brett Kavanaugh, to recuse himself
from any cases related to Mueller’s Special Counsel witch
hunt.
Democrats fear President Trump will take Mueller all the
way up to the SCOTUS to finish him once and for all so
they are pulling out all the stops to prevent Kavanaugh
from being confirmed.
The Hill reported:
“To avoid the prospect that President
Trump could effectively choose a judge in
his own case, I request that you pledge to
recuse yourself from any cases related to
the Special Counsel’s investigation and any
that otherwise may immediately impact the
President and his associates as it relates to
the ongoing criminal investigation should
you be confirmed,” Booker said in a letter
to Kavanaugh on Friday.
“The American public must have full
confidence that the integrity of any
decisions handed down by the Supreme
Court on these matters will not be tainted
by any impropriety or the appearance of
impropriety from the President’s selection
of you.”
Booker cited remarks Kavanaugh made in 2016,
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“on the ability of a sitting President to be
investigated.”
DAG Rosenstein and the Dems are
using every strategy possible to delay
Kavanaugh’s confirmation.
Earlier this week, it was reported Senate Minority Leader
Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and other Dems were stalling
their meetings with Kavanaugh in an effort to delay his
confirmation to the Supreme Court.
Via Politico:
The politically strategic slight has raised
hackles at the White House, which has
been reaching out to Senate Democrats to
schedule meetings but has found itself
rebuffed at every turn. Some Democrats
have said they won’t meet with Kavanaugh
until Schumer does. Others have more
benignly cited scheduling conflicts.
Last week, in an unusual request, Deputy Attorney General
Rod Rosenstein asked federal prosecutors to help review
documents of President Trump’s SCOTUS nominee, Brett
Kavanaugh.
Rosenstein’s email subject line sent to 93 US Attorney’s
read,
“Personal Message to U.S. Attorneys From
the Deputy A.G.,” and included the
sentence, “We need your help in
connection with President Trump’s
nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to
serve on the Supreme Court.”
According to Christopher Hunter, a former FBI agent and
federal prosecutor,
“It’s flat-out wrong to have career federal
prosecutors engaged in a political process
like the vetting of a Supreme Court
nominee. It takes them away from the
mission they’re supposed to be fulfilling,
which is effective criminal justice
 enforcement,” The New York Times
reported.
Dirty Rosenstein and the Democrats know President
Trump can take Mueller all the way up to the Supreme
Court so they are doing everything they can to delay
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Kavanaugh’s confirmation to prevent Trump from
cementing a conservative majority which would ultimately
squash the Russia witch hunt.
Brett Kavanaugh should never agree to any recusal; he
should tell the Dems to pound sand.
 Pompeo: Russian Interference In
US Elections Been Happening
‘For Decades Now’
Saagar Enjeti | White House Correspondent
3:45 PM 07/20/2018
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo underscored that Russian
interference in U.S. elections has been happening for
decades, in a Thursday night interview with the Fox News
Channel.
“It wasn’t just the 2016 election. Somehow
America seems to forget the history of
Russia’s efforts to undermine western
democracy for decades now. It gets
confused because there are those who
want to make a partisan case of it with
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respect to the Mueller investigation,”
Pompeo said of Russian interference.
The secretary of state continued,
“The president understands what Russia
did in our elections of 2016. He has
empowered each of us to make sure that it
doesn’t happen again in the 2018 or 2020
elections here in the United States as well.”
Pompeo’s comments were bolstered by Deputy Attorney
General Rod Rosenstein who said Thursday,
“This is not a new phenomenon.
Throughout the 20th century, the Soviet
Union used malign influence operations
against the United States and many other
countries. In 1963, for example, the KGB
paid an American to distribute a book
claiming that the FBI and the CIA
assassinated President Kennedy.”
 The NY Times ‘Bombshell’ Regarding Michael Cohen’s
Tape Of Him And Trump Discussing Playboy Model
Payment Is ANOTHER BIG, FAT Nothing Burger
Posted On July 20, 2018
(National Sentinel) Yawner: On Friday The New York
Times published yet another leak from the disgustingly
leaky Mueller investigation that it no doubt believed was
going to be a scorcher — and maybe even the story that
spells the beginning of the end of POTUS Donald Trump’s
presidency.
The Times reported that former longtime Trump personal
lawyer Michael Cohen taped a conversation he had with
the then-presidential contender regarding a payment to
Playboy model Karen McDougal, who has claimed a year-
long affair with POTUS that allegedly began shortly after
first lady Melania Trump gave birth to the couple’s son,
Barron.
Oh, no! A tape?
The Times reported:
The F.B.I. seized the recording this year
during a raid on Mr. Cohen’s office. The
Justice Department is investigating Mr.
Cohen’s involvement in paying women to
tamp down embarrassing news stories
about Mr. Trump ahead of the 2016
election. Prosecutors want to know whether
that violated federal campaign finance
laws, and any conversation with Mr. Trump
about those payments would be of keen
interest to them.
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The recording’s existence further draws Mr.
Trump into questions about tactics he and
his associates used to keep aspects of his
personal and business life a secret. And it
highlights the potential legal and
political danger that Mr. Cohen
represents to Mr. Trump. Once the
keeper of many of Mr. Trump’s secrets,
Mr. Cohen is now seen as increasingly
willing to consider cooperating with
prosecutors.
The former model, Karen McDougal, says
she began a nearly yearlong affair with Mr.
Trump in 2006, shortly after Mr. Trump’s
wife, Melania, gave birth to their son
Barron. Ms. McDougal sold her story for
$150,000 to The National Enquirer, which
was supportive of Mr. Trump, during the
final months of the presidential campaign,
but the tabloid sat on the story, which kept
it from becoming public. The practice,
known as “catch and kill,” effectively
silenced Ms. McDougal for the remainder
of the campaign.
Well, that’s it, then. Trump’s toast! Cohen has all the
goods.
He’s gonna spill the beans and it’ll be over, Rover, for the
president.
Cue the ‘screeching halt’ soundtrack.
The Times went onto report this:
Rudolph W. Giuliani, Mr. Trump’s personal
lawyer, confirmed in a telephone
conversation on Friday that Mr. Trump had
discussed payments to Ms. McDougal with
Mr. Cohen on the tape. He said the
recording was less than two minutes long
and claimed that the president had done
nothing wrong.
Mr. Giuliani said there was no indication
on the tape that Mr. Trump knew before
 the conversation about the payment
from the Enquirer’s parent company,
American Media Inc., to Ms. McDougal.
“Nothing in that conversation suggests that
he had any knowledge of it in advance,”
Mr. Giuliani said.
Then this:
The men discussed a payment from Mr.
Trump to Ms. McDougal — separate from
the Enquirer payment — to buy her story
and ensure her silence, Mr. Giuliani said.
That payment was never made, Mr.
Giuliani said, adding that Mr. Trump had
told Mr. Cohen that if he were to make a
payment related to the woman, to write
a check rather than send cash, so it
could be properly documented.
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Now think about it: If you were trying to hide something,
would you have your lawyer write a check “so it could be
properly documented?”
Do you think it’s a coincidence that the Times put that
important little nugget near the end of the story?
And another thing — why does the establishment press
continue to believe that tawdry, unproven sex allegations
are going to separate POTUS Trump and his supporters,
when they haven’t yet?
Why The New York Times continues to allow itself to be
prostituted out to the Deep State is anyone’s guess, but it’s
obvious the paper’s management team enjoys it. If this
qualifies for a Friday bombshell, we’ve got some
oceanfront property in Montana to sell them.
 SHUT IT DOWN=> Manhattan Madam
Subpoenaed By Robert Mueller
By Cristina Laila
July 20, 2018, 4:35 Pm

Miller — who ran Davis’ campaign for

Governor and who was subpoenaed by
Mueller a month ago.

Sources familiar with the matter tell us, Davis’ lawyer is

negotiating the scope of the subpoena with Mueller’s team.

Rather than demanding access to the DNC servers to be

forensically inspected, Robert Mueller subpoenas a lady of
the night who worked with Roger Stone.

Manhattan Madam Kristin Davis, Robert Mueller – photo via TMZ The Mueller witch hunt is out of control and must be shut
down immediately.
SHUT IT DOWN ALREADY.
Mueller’s corruption is astounding.
Kristin Davis, the Manhattan Madam connected to former
New York Governor, Eliot Spitzer, was subpoenaed by This week we learned dirty cop Robert Mueller offered
Robert Mueller. Tony Podesta, founder of the now-defunct Podesta Group,
immunity in exchange for testimony against Trump’s
Davis used to work for Roger Stone so now she’s caught former campaign chair Paul Manafort.
up in Mueller’s corrupt witch hunt.
Mueller must be stopped; he is tearing this country apart.
Dirty cop Robert Mueller is gunning for Roger Stone; the
longtime Trump aide was referenced in Mueller’s latest
press release indictment.

MZ reported:

Kristin Davis, the Manhattan Madam who

went to prison and was connected to
former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer, is
being subpoenaed in the Robert
Mueller investigation … TMZ has learned.
Davis worked for former Trump aide Roger
Stone for a decade, and had numerous
interactions with Stone and Andrew
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 Confirmed: Jeff Sessions Chooses To Go Down In History
As Modern Day Benedict Arnold
By Jim Hoft
July 20, 2018, 6:01 Pm
We published this post in November of
2017 – each day it becomes more and
more apparent that Jeff Sessions is
failing America and his duties as
Attorney General. We feel it is time to
post this again ->>>
Benedict Arnold is the name that goes down in US history
as the greatest traitor to the nation. According to
biography.com –
Benedict Arnold was born in Norwich, Connecticut, on
January 14, 1741. A member of the Sons of Liberty,
Arnold rose to the rank of general in the Continental Army
during the Revolutionary War. Frustrated by the lack of
recognition, he subsequently switched sides to the British
and plotted the surrender of West Point. When his
traitorous plans came to light, Arnold escaped capture and
eventually made his way to England. He died in London
on June 14, 1801.
The US today faces a time as important as the American
Revolution. President Trump was voted into office by the
American people last year at this time. He won in an
electoral landslide. Before the election he was attacked,
but since the election the prior Obama Administration, the
Clintons, the Democratic Party, the mainstream media,
Hollywood, some elitist Republicans and the ‘deep state’
have tried to steal his win. This concerted attack in large
part may be because liberals in the US don’t want
President Trump to uncover their illegal and traitorous
actions when Obama was President.
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The only thing stopping President Trump now is his own
Attorney General Jeff Sessions. Sessions recused himself
from any investigations into Russia allowing a corrupt
investigation into the President’s actions with Russia
and/or any other dirt the investigators can come up with.
The investigation is not founded in US law, it’s a farce.
The investigators are biased, former Hillary and Obama
team members and supporters and many, if not all, are
involved with the Uranium One scandal.
Uranium One refers to the sale of 20% of US uranium to
the Russians by the Obama Administration and his
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. The Clintons made
$146 million on the deal and no doubt Obama did too.
Sessions’ Assistant Attorney General, Rosenstein
approved the Uranium One deal and then he hired Mueller
to clean it up. At the time the deal was approved there was
a special FBI investigation ongoing into the deal and it was
covered up until only a few weeks ago. The Clintons know
Uranium One was a big deal as reported in a leaked email
from the Clinton campaign.
Many experts in the case believe that the Uranium One
deal is the biggest scandal in American history. If Jeff
Sessions doesn’t soon order an investigation into the
scandal he will go down as the greatest traitor in US
history – even worse than Benedict Arnold himself.
Since that time the Mueller Special Counsel has committed
a series of criminal acts that will change the US legal
system for the generations to come. On Friday we now
hear about his angry Democrat attorneys calling in a New
York madam for questioning and to further embarrass the
duly elected president.
Once again, Jeff Sessions is AWOL.
AG Sessions – either investigate the
Clinton, Obama crimes, end the Mueller
witch hunt or resign. Your legacy is
already clear. AG Sessions will likely
go down as one of the biggest traitors in
US history.
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 Indicted Russian Company Concord Management Taunts
Mueller – Cites Kavanaugh Decision To Argue
Junk Bot Case Be Dismissed
By Cristina Laila
July 20, 2018, 8:26 Pm
Robert Mueller
Indicted Russian company Concord Management taunted
Mueller this week, perhaps as a foreshadowing of what’s
to come.
Concord’s lawyers cited Trump’s SCOTUS nominee,
Kavanaugh’s decision from a 2011 case, Bluman v.
Federal Election Commission, as their argument to have
Mueller’s junk bot case dismissed.
In fact, Kavanaugh said the government
would have to prove that foreign nationals
had knowledge of the law’s restrictions
before seeking criminal charges. And he
said the ban did not include foreign
spending on “issue advocacy and speaking
out on issues of public policy,” SF Gate
reported.
SF Gate reported:
A Russian company accused by special
counsel Robert Mueller III of being part of
an online operation to disrupt the 2016
presidential campaign is leaning in part on
a decision by Supreme Court nominee
Brett Kavanaugh to argue that the charge
against it should be thrown out.
The 2011 decision by Kavanaugh, writing
for a three-judge panel, concerned the role
that foreign nationals may play in U.S.
elections. It upheld a federal law that said
foreigners temporarily in the country may
not donate money to candidates, contribute
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to political parties and groups, or spend
money advocating for or against
candidates. But it did not rule out letting
foreigners spend money on independent
advocacy campaigns.
Kavanaugh “went out of his way to limit the decision,”
said Daniel Petalas, a Washington lawyer and former
interim general counsel for the Federal Election
Commission.
A motion filed by the Russian company this week
repeatedly cites Kavanaugh’s decision, bringing new
attention to his rulings on campaign finance laws and
regulations during his tenure on the U.S. Court of Appeals
for the District of Columbia Circuit.
The Supreme Court affirmed the decision in 2012 in a one-
sentence order, without noted dissent or scheduling the
case for a hearing. The Obama administration had asked
the opinion be affirmed, arguing in a brief that the federal
law was narrowly tailored to respect the speech rights of
foreigners.
Neither the law in question
“nor any other provision of federal law
prohibits foreign nationals from speaking
out on issues of public policy,” wrote
Solicitor General Donald Verrilli. “The
statute thus leaves open . . . a broad range
of expressive activity, from contributing to
issue groups, to creating advocacy
websites, to funding mass television
advertising.”
Concord Management has been
slapping Mueller and his liberal hack
lawyers around since they burst into a
DC court wanting to play ball.
The indictments against Russians have turned into a
courtroom fiasco as the Mueller team made the mistake to
include three Russian companies in that indictment. When
one of the Russian companies indicted, Concord
Management, showed up to court the Mueller team was
totally caught of guard.
Mueller’s corrupt legal team led by a former Clinton
Foundation attorney, asked for more time to put together
their case in order to come up with support for their
outlandish indictments. Last Friday, dirty cop Mueller
announced through the corrupt and now disgraced and
dishonest Deputy Attorney General (DAG) Rod
Rosenstein, that they were indicting another group of
Russians related to the phony Trump – Russia scandal. No
doubt these indictments are phony too.
Perhaps Concord Management’s argument citing
Kavanaugh’s decision was also a signal to Mueller and his
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team they will be dragged up to the Supreme Court once
Kavanaugh is confirmed.
Certainly the Democrats will use this decision and
Kavanaugh’s previous statement that an indictment or trial
of a sitting president would “cripple the federal
government,” to grill him during his confirmation hearing.
This case is assigned to U.S. District
Court Judge Dabney Friedrich, who was
appointed by President Donald Trump in
December of 2017.
Read the full report by SF Gate in next page.
 Russian Firm Indicted In Special Counsel Probe Cites
Kavanaugh Decision To Argue That
Charge Should Be Dismissed
Robert Barnes, The Washington Post
Published 4:37 Pm PDT, Friday, July 20, 2018
In this July 18, 2018, photo, Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett
Kavanaugh smiles during a meeting with Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, a
member of the Judiciary Committee, on Capitol Hill in Washington.
A Russian…
WASHINGTON - A Russian company accused by special
counsel Robert Mueller III of being part of an online
operation to disrupt the 2016 presidential campaign is
leaning in part on a decision by Supreme Court nominee
Brett Kavanaugh to argue that the charge against it should
be thrown out.
The 2011 decision by Kavanaugh, writing for a three-judge
panel, concerned the role that foreign nationals may play
in U.S. elections. It upheld a federal law that said
foreigners temporarily in the country may not donate
money to candidates, contribute to political parties and
groups, or spend money advocating for or against
candidates. But it did not rule out letting foreigners spend
money on independent advocacy campaigns.
Kavanaugh "went out of his way to limit the
decision," said Daniel Petalas, a
Washington lawyer and former interim
general counsel for the Federal Election
Commission.
A motion filed by the Russian company this week
repeatedly cites Kavanaugh's decision, bringing new
attention to his rulings on campaign finance laws and
regulations during his tenure on the U.S. Court of Appeals
for the District of Columbia Circuit.
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Legal experts who have analyzed his work say he appears
to fit comfortably within the high court's conservative
majority, which has found that restrictions on campaign-
related spending conflict with the First Amendment's
guarantee of free speech. That argument underpinned the
seminal 2010 Citizens United case, which allowed
corporations and other organizations to spend unlimited
sums on independent political activity.
In the case of the foreign national decision, Kavanaugh
said the government would have to prove that foreign
nationals had knowledge of the law's restrictions before
seeking criminal charges. And he said the ban did not
include foreign spending on
"issue advocacy and speaking out on
issues of public policy."
The Supreme Court affirmed the decision in 2012 in a one-
sentence order, without noted dissent or scheduling the
case for a hearing. The Obama administration had asked
the opinion be affirmed, arguing in a brief that the federal
law was narrowly tailored to respect the speech rights of
foreigners.
Neither the law in question
"nor any other provision of federal law
prohibits foreign nationals from speaking
out on issues of public policy," wrote
Solicitor General Donald Verrilli. "The
statute thus leaves open . . . a broad range
of expressive activity, from contributing to
issue groups, to creating advocacy
websites, to funding mass television
advertising."
The exceptions, said Richard Hasen, an election-law expert
at the University of California at Irvine, create
"potentially a huge loophole for foreign and
undisclosed issue ads on federal
elections."
Kavanaugh's decision has been embraced by Concord
Management and Consulting, one of 16 Russian
individuals or companies indicted by a federal grand jury
in February in connection with allegedly taking part in an
"information warfare" campaign aimed at swaying
American voters.
The indictment alleged that Concord paid $1.25 million a
month to the St. Petersburg-based Internet Research
Agency for projects such as setting up rallies for President
Donald Trump or various advocacy groups in the United
States, creating Twitter and Facebook accounts to spread
false information and
"to interfere in U.S. political and electoral
processes without detection of their
Russian affiliation."
The company was charged with one count of conspiracy to
defraud the United States.
Concord is alleged to be controlled by Yevgeniy
Prigozhin, a Russian catering magnate known as "Putin's
chef" for his longtime association with Russian President
Vladimir Putin. It is the only one of those charged to have
responded to the indictments.
In Concord's motion to dismiss the charge, its attorneys
frequently cited Kavanaugh and his 2011 decision in
Bluman v. Federal Election Commission.
The lawyers noted that Kavanaugh distinguished between
explicitly political ads - those that urge the public to vote
for or against a candidate - and "issue ads".
"Foreign nationals are not barred from
issue advocacy through political speech
such as what is described in the indictment
- they are only precluded from willfully
making expenditures that expressly
advocate the election or defeat of a
particular candidate," wrote Washington
lawyers Eric Dubelier and Katherine
Seikaly, who are defending the company,
citing the Bluman decision.
It is the second issue related to Mueller's investigation that
is sure to receive attention at Kavanaugh's confirmation
hearing. He said in a 2009 law review article that
presidents should not be distracted by civil lawsuits and
criminal investigations and that Congress might be "wise"
to provide such protection until they are no longer in
office.
Like Justice Neil Gorsuch, who also was a Trump
nominee, Kavanaugh appears to fit the mold of Justice
Antonin Scalia, who joined the court's conservatives -
Chief Justice John Roberts Jr. and Justices Clarence
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Thomas and Samuel Alito Jr. - as skeptics of the
constitutionality of many campaign finance restrictions.
"Based on his opinions and public
statements, as a Supreme Court justice
Kavanaugh would almost certainly be a
reliable vote to overturn campaign finance
restrictions in the Scalia/Alito/Roberts
mold," said Andrew Herman, a Washington
lawyer who practices campaign finance
law.
Even before the Supreme Court decided Citizens United,
Kavanaugh wrote for his court in a 2009 case called
Emily's List v. FEC, ruling against regulations that
required independent nonprofit organizations to comply
with federal contribution limits.
The rules "do not pass muster under the
Supreme Court's First Amendment
precedents," Kavanaugh wrote. "The
regulations are not closely drawn to serve a
cognizable anticorruption interest.
Donations to and spending by a non-profit
cannot corrupt a candidate or officeholder."
A year later, he affirmed rules limiting how much money
can flow to political parties - noting that Supreme Court
precedent gave him no choice.
In Republican National Committee v. FEC in 2010,
Kavanaugh wrote for a three-judge panel in upholding
contribution limits on federal candidates and parties. He
cited the Supreme Court's rulings that such limitations are
warranted because of the potential for corruption or the
appearance of corruption.
In the wake of Citizens United and the advent of super
PACs, the RNC said the restrictions left political parties
hamstrung.
The RNC position was logical, Kavanaugh agreed.
"As a lower court, however, we do not
believe we possess authority to clarify or
refine [Supreme Court precedent] in the
fashion advocated by the RNC, or to
otherwise get ahead of the Supreme
Court," he wrote.
Hasen said a big question will be whether Kavanaugh
would be skeptical of restrictions on contributions to
political parties and candidates on the high court.
"I think that we don't know," he said.
The Bluman ruling is likely to receive outsize attention in
Kavanaugh's confirmation hearings because it is now being
cited in an active case about Russian interference in the
2016 campaign.
As a test case, its facts were rather benign. Benjamin
Bluman and Asenath Steiman were foreign nationals living
legally and temporarily in the United States.
Bluman, a Canadian, said he wanted to contribute to
Democrats running for office, and print and distribute
fliers in Central Park supporting President Barack Obama's
reelection. Steiman, a dual citizen of Canada and Israel,
said she wanted to contribute to Obama's eventual
Republican opponent and to an independent organization
that supports conservative candidates.
Bluman and Steiman said the federal ban on those
activities was unconstitutional.
But Kavanaugh and his fellow judges on the panel said the
Supreme Court had made it clear that the government may
exclude foreign nationals from activities "intimately
related to the process of democratic self-government,"
quoting a precedent. Contributing to a political party and
spending money to advocate for or against a specific
candidate are easily included, he wrote.
But he also articulated "three important limits."
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He said the ban might not be applicable to permanent legal
residents. Nor should the ruling be read to support bans on
foreign nationals spending money to express their views
on issues, as opposed to advocating for the election or
defeat of specific candidates.
He said that to bring criminal prosecutions, the
government must show that the defendant acted willfully
in defiance of the law.
"There are many aliens in this country who
no doubt are unaware of the statutory ban
on foreign expenditures, in particular," he
wrote.
Herman said Kavanaugh's carve-outs show
"that he is both being a careful jurist but
also indicating to Congress that he would
be more skeptical of the types of
restrictions referenced in that paragraph.
For example, permanent residents' First
Amendment rights might take precedence
over more general security concerns."
Hasen said that Kavanaugh's decision provides a road map
of how he might decide such an issue - finding it improper
for a foreign national to finance an ad that says,
"Vote against Hillary," for example, but not
one that says, "Hillary is Satan."
 ANALYSIS: Did Obama’s
Deep State Get Slapped By Putin?
Guest Post By Gary Gindler
July 21, 2018, 11:23 Am
A few days after the meeting between Trump and Putin in
Helsinki, one can make an unambiguous conclusion: the
Russian intelligence services outmaneuvered the remnants
of Obama’s corrupt FBI and the CIA leadership when
Putin invited Mueller’s investigators to come to Moscow
and interrogate twelve Russian state hackers. Of course,
Russian military officers are not threatened, but during this
interrogation, Mueller’s investigators will have to
unconsciously disclose what they do and do not know
about the Main Intelligence Directorate (military
intelligence, commonly abbreviated as GRU), and SVR,
the successor of KGB.
Putin’s condition for Americans interrogating Russian
operatives would be that Russian interrogators would also
be able to come to America with the privilege of
interrogating American operatives. At the same time, Putin
said that some U.S. intelligence agents were involved in
the transfer of $400 million from Russia to Hillary
Clinton’s campaign (the next day Putin corrected a slip of
the tongue – thousands, not millions of dollars).
The unprecedented arrival of Russian investigators to
America and interrogation of secret agents of the FBI or
the CIA is what Obama’s Deep State has in fact achieved.
Trump was not ready for this turn of events; he was placed
between a rock and a hard place.
On the one hand, it is about his intelligence services. At
the head of the FBI and the CIA are his people. On the
other hand, the top echelons of the American intelligence
services are corrupt fighters of the bureaucratic troops of
the Obama’s Deep State, who, as we now know, are
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participants in a conspiracy against Trump. A plot first
aimed at winning the Presidency by Hillary Clinton, and
then, after losing it – to squeeze out Trump from the White
House.
Until recently, agent Peter Strzok was one of the leaders of
U.S. counterintelligence, who, as we now know from the
hearings in Congress, demonstrates all the clinical
symptoms of a psychopath. Also, there is every reason to
believe that he, like Obama’s right-hand advisor Valerie
Jarrett, was the conductor of Obama’s pro-Iranian policy.
He, like Jarrett, grew up and was raised in Iran, and then –
in Saudi Arabia.
According to some sources, it was Strzok that was the
channel of communication between the Director of the
CIA (possible) communist Brennan and Obama, and the
regime of religious fanatics of Iran. In addition, the Strzok
family has deep ties with the Clinton family, and one of
the relatives of Strzok, General James Cartwright, leaked
information about the mysterious American-Israeli Stuxnet
computer virus (the virus that destroyed many Iranian
centrifuges). Obama issued a presidential pardon to him
just three days before the end of his term.
Should the current President defend such intelligence
services? Should the current President trust them one
hundred percent? Should the President believe those who
organized politically-motivated electronic and human
surveillance of him and his campaign? Should the
President trust those who openly and demonstratively hate
him? Put yourself in Trump’s shoes: on the one hand,
American intelligence services he inherited from Obama
have betrayed him treacherously, and on the other hand, he
finally has a sense of what the Russian intelligence
services are capable of.
Trump witnessed that Putin was also well prepared for the
meeting in Helsinki. The soccer ball from the World Cup,
presented to Trump, and the offer to exchange prosecutors
was not impromptu, but the result of meticulous
homework. It was designed specifically for the press
conference stunt, and not for closed room negotiations.
Look again at the recording of the press conference of
Trump and Putin. For Trump, the offer to exchange of
prosecutors was a complete surprise. Apparently, Putin did
not offer him anything like that at the meeting. Trump
immediately realized what the political consequences of
the arrival of Russian prosecutors in Washington for
interrogation of American intelligence officers (de jure –
his spies, and de facto – the spies of Obama) could be, and
a grimace flashed across his face.
It seems that neither Trump nor the Obama’s Deep State
expected such a strong move from Putin. The Clintonistas
thought that by fanning the Russian-Tramp fantasy, they
would be engaged in purely domestic affairs, and Russia
would not be involved in this matter. It turns out that
contrary to expectations, Russia wanted to take part in this
matter too, pursuing its own goals.
Russia’s strategic goal is to destroy
America as an oil and gas rival. Their
tactical goal is creating a smokescreen for
this strategic goal.
Unfortunately, many do not understand that there are two
storylines currently running in parallel. First, Russia has
been trying to interfere in the internal affairs of the United
States since the mid-1930s, and second – Trump has
secretly conspired with Putin and is his puppet. If the first
storyline is a reality, then the second one is a fiction. Why?
If only because in favor of the first there are numerous
pieces of evidence, and for the second there are just the
inflamed imaginations of the supporters of Princess
Hillary.
American leftists on the issue of Trump-is-
Putin-marionette went all-in. They don’t
have any other political ammunition left, nor
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do they have different ideas about the
defeat in the 2016 election and the
imminent collapse in the 2018 elections.
Why did the leftists go crazy now, accusing Trump of all
sins? Not only because they do not have a political
alternative to Trump, but because the cacophony of their
cries about Helsinki is due to paint a horrible picture of the
possible future that Putin showed them.
Imagine this– the interrogation of Clintonistas deeply
embedded in U.S. intelligence, an interrogation that is
conducted by notorious experts in questioning from the
KGB/FSB headquarters at Lubyanka Square.
The primary task of leftists has now become preventing the
exchange of prosecutors. What political price are they
willing to pay for this?
P.S. The Russian intelligence services of Putin outfoxed
the remnants of Obama’s U.S. intelligence services in the
field of PR. However, immediately after the meeting in
Helsinki, the U.S. dollar and the U.S. stock market rushed
up, and the ruble and the Russian stock market fell (this
trend has been going on for several days already). In other
words, those people who turn trillions of dollars for a
living, correctly understood who won the fight in Helsinki
by words, and who won – by deeds.
Gary Gindler is a conservative blogger at Gary Gindler
Chronicles.
 President Trump Lashes Out At Cohen – Calls Taping Of
Private Phone Call ‘Inconceivable,’ Possibly Illegal
By Cristina Laila
July 21, 2018, 11:32 Am

Trump lashed out at Cohen and the

corrupt government for raiding his
lawyer’s home and office.

Trump tweeted: Inconceivable that the government would

break into a lawyer’s office (early in the morning) – almost
unheard of. Even more inconceivable that a lawyer would
tape a client – totally unheard of & perhaps illegal. The
good news is that your favorite President did nothing
wrong!

On Saturday, President Trump lashed

out at Michael Cohen for taping a
private conversation between them and
said it was probably illegal.

The FBI seized the recording during a pre-dawn raid of

Michael Cohen’s home and office earlier this year.

Trump did not mention Michael Cohen by name, but he

The Deep State and Democrats are desperate to pin any
was referring to a New York Times report about a
type of ‘hush payment’ Trump may have made to a woman
September 2016 phone call Trump had with his lawyer
as a campaign finance violation.
about a payment he made to Playboy model Karen
McDougal.
Michael Cohen also made a $130,000 payment to porn star
Stormy Daniels in the weeks leading up to the election,
Rudolph W. Giuliani, Mr. Trump’s personal lawyer,
which the FBI is also investigating.
confirmed in a telephone conversation on Friday that Mr.
Trump had discussed payments to Ms. McDougal with Mr.
Cohen in person on the recording. He said that it was less Meanwhile, as many as 40 state
than two minutes long and that Mr. Trump did not know Democrat parties are implicated in a
he was being recorded, and he claimed that the president large scheme to circumvent campaign
had done nothing wrong. finance laws in order to illegally funnel
$84 million to Hillary Clinton’s 2016
presidential campaign and there is no
Karen McDougal claims she had a year-long affair with
FBI investigation into the DNC.
Donald Trump in 2006.

McDougal sold her story to the National Inquirer for

$150,000 but the tabloid, favoring Trump, didn’t run the
story – a practice known as “catch-and-kill.”
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Trump SCOTUS Nominee Kavanaugh One Step Closer To
Confirmation Hearing With New Filing
By Cristina Laila
July 21, 2018, 1:18 Pm

“During that meeting, the President offered

me the nomination, and I accepted,”
Kavanaugh wrote.
Senate Judiciary Chairman, Chuck
Grassley (R-IA) was pleased with
Kavanaugh’s “diligent and timely
response.”

President Trump’s SCOTUS nominee,

Brett Kavanaugh, returned a 110-page
questionnaire along with thousands of
pages of documents to the Senate
Judiciary Committee late Friday
Rosenstein and the Democrats are desperately trying to
evening. delay Kavanaugh’s confirmation.

Brett Kavanaugh said in his response to the Senate
Judiciary Committee that no one from the Trump
administration asked him about “any currently pending or
specific case, legal issue, or question in a manner that
could reasonably be interpreted as seeking any express or
implied assurances concerning your position on such case,
issue, or question.”
Kavanaugh previously served 12 years on the U.S. Court
of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit which means he is vetted,
however, the Democrats are still trying to delay his
confirmation using several different strategies.
Kavanaugh also turned over speeches, interviews,
hundreds of pages of published writings, and past court
filings, Politico reported.
Kavanaugh wrote in his questionnaire that White House
counsel Don McGahn first discussed a potential
nomination with him late on June 27, the same day that
Justice Anthony Kennedy officially announced a
retirement from the Supreme Court. On July 8, the day
before Trump named Kavanaugh, the nominee wrote that
he spoke with the president in the morning and met that
evening with the president and First Lady Melania Trump.
On Friday, Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) asked Trump’s
SCOTUS nominee, Brett Kavanaugh, to recuse himself
from any cases related to Mueller’s Special Counsel witch
hunt.
Earlier this week, it was reported Senate Minority Leader
Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and other Dems were stalling
their meetings with Kavanaugh in an effort to delay his
confirmation to the Supreme Court.
Last week, in an unusual request, Deputy Attorney General
Rod Rosenstein asked federal prosecutors to help review
documents of President Trump’s SCOTUS nominee, Brett
Kavanaugh.
Dirty Rosenstein and the Democrats know President
Trump can take Mueller all the way up to the Supreme
Court so they are doing everything they can to delay
Kavanaugh’s confirmation to prevent Trump from
cementing a conservative majority which would ultimately
squash the Russia witch hunt.

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 Carter Page Surveillance Documents Indicate State
Department Provided Initial Info After Interacting
With Hoax Dossier Author
Aaron Klein
21 Jul 2018
NEW YORK — Documents released on
Saturday related to the wiretapping of
former Trump campaign adviser Carter
Page reveal information that contributed
to the government’s application to
monitor Page originated with the State
Department under the Obama
administration in October 2016.
That detail may be particularly relevant since numerous
officials from John Kerry’s State Department have been
fingered for playing roles in the distribution – and in one
case, possibly also the compilation – of the largely
discredited, 35-page anti-Trump dossier which focused in
significant part on Page.
Much of the interaction between the State Department and
the dossier author took place just prior to the October 2016
date mentioned in the newly released Page documents.
Dossier author Christopher Steele, a former British spy,
was commissioned to produce the questionable document
by the controversial Fusion GPS opposition research firm,
which was paid for its anti-Trump work by Hillary
Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign and the Democratic
National Committee.
State Department official Jonathan Winer admitted to
exchanging documents and information with Steele, and
passed the dossier contents to other officials at the State
Department. Winer also admitted to receiving information
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from Clinton associate Sidney Blumenthal that originated
with Cody Shearer, a shadowy former tabloid journalist
who has long been closely associated with various Clinton
scandals. Winer conceded that he passed Shearer’s anti-
Trump material to Steele.
On Saturday, a heavily redacted version of the Foreign
Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISA) application along
with several renewals were released in response to
Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests.
Most of the more than 400 pages were redacted. The
second bullet point in each of the applications reveals that
the information of Page’s “status” was first provided to the
FBI by the State Department in October 2016.
That section states:
The target of this application is Carter W.
Page, a US person, and an agent of a
foreign power, described in detail below.
The status of the target was determined in
or about October 2016 from information
provided by the US Department of State.
The rest of that section is redacted. Unredacted sections in
the application do not provide any further clues about
which information was provided by the State Department.
Kerry’s State Department has been under scrutiny for its
ties to the dossier and for its possible role in aiding in the
FBI’s contacts with dossier author Steele.
First there is State Department official Winer. After his
name surfaced in news media reports related to probes by
House Republicans into the dossier, Winer authored a
Washington Post oped in which he conceded that while he
was working at the State Department he exchanged
documents and information with dossier author and former
British spy Christopher Steele.
Winer further acknowledged that while at the State
Department, he shared anti-Trump material with Steele
passed to him by longtime Clinton confidant Sidney
Blumenthal, whom Winer described as an “old friend.”
Winer wrote that the material from Blumenthal – which
Winer in turn gave to Steele – originated with Cody
Shearer.
Winer served under Bill Clinton’s administration as the
U.S. deputy assistant secretary of state for international
law enforcement. He wrote in his Washington Post oped
that he rejoined the State Department in 2013 at the
insistence of John Kerry.
In the Post piece, Winer related that while he was at the
State Department, he repeatedly passed documents from
Steele related to Russia to State officials, including to
Victoria Nuland, a career diplomat who worked under the
Clintons and served as assistant secretary of state for
European and Eurasian affairs under Kerry.
“Over the next two years, I shared more
than 100 of Steele’s reports with the Russia
experts at the State Department, who
continued to find them useful,” he wrote.
Winer wrote that in the summer of 2016, Steele
“told me that he had learned of disturbing
information regarding possible ties between
Donald Trump, his campaign and senior
Russian officials.”
Winer says that he met with Steele in September 2016 to
discuss details that would later become known as the anti-
Trump dossier. Winer wrote that he prepared a two-page
summary of Steele’s information and “shared it with
Nuland, who indicated that, like me, she felt that the
secretary of state needed to be made aware of this
material.”
Besides bringing Steele’s dossier information to the State
Department, Winer conceded that he also passed
information from Blumenthal to Steele, specifically
charges about Trump that originated with Shearer.
Winer described what he claimed was the evolution of his
contacts with Blumenthal regarding Shearer’s information,
which he says he passed to Steele:
In late September, I spoke with an old
friend, Sidney Blumenthal, whom I met 30
years ago when I was investigating the
Iran-Contra affair for then-Sen. Kerry and
Blumenthal was a reporter at the Post. At
the time, Russian hacking was at the front
and center in the 2016 presidential
campaign. The emails of Blumenthal, who
had a long association with Bill and Hillary
Clinton, had been hacked in 2013 through
a Russian server.
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While talking about that hacking,
Blumenthal and I discussed Steele’s
reports. He showed me notes gathered by
a journalist I did not know, Cody Shearer,
that alleged the Russians had
compromising information on Trump of a
sexual and financial nature.
What struck me was how some of the
material echoed Steele’s but appeared to
involve different sources. On my own, I
shared a copy of these notes with Steele,
to ask for his professional reaction. He told
me it was potentially “collateral”
information. I asked him what that meant.
He said that it was similar but separate
from the information he had gathered from
his sources. I agreed to let him keep a copy
of the Shearer notes.
Shearer has numerous close personal and family
connections to the Clintons and has reportedly been
involved in numerous antics tied to them. National
Review previously dubbed Shearer a “Creepy Clinton
Confidante” and “The Strangest Character in Hillary’s
Vast Left-Wing Conspiracy.”
In his Washington Post oped, Winer does not say whether
he knew at the time he interfaced with Steele that the ex-
British spy was working for Fusion GPS, or that Fusion
was being paid by the DNC and Hillary Clinton’s
presidential campaign via the Perkins Coie law firm.
Besides Winer, there is Victoria Nuland, a senior official
in Kerry’s State Department, who gave the green light for
the FBI to first meet with Steele regarding his wild claims
about Trump and Russia, according to a recently released
book. It was at that meeting that Steele initially reported
his dossier charges to the FBI, the book relates.
The book, Russian Roulette: The Inside Story of Putin’s
War on America and the Election of Donald Trump, is
authored by reporters by Michael Isikoff and David Corn.
The book documents Steele told Fusion GPS co-founder
Glenn Simpson that he believed the claims that he
uncovered about Trump represented a “grave national
security threat” that needed to be reported to the FBI.
Simpson eventually allowed Steele to report the dossier’s
claims to the FBI, the book reports.
Steele sought out Rome-based FBI Special Agent Michael
Gaeta, with whom he had worked on a previous case.
Before Gaeta met with Steele on July 5, 2016, the book
relates that the FBI first secured the support of Nuland.
Regarding the arrangements for Steele’s initial meeting
with the FBI about the dossier claims, Isikoff and Corn
report:
There were a few hoops Gaeta had to jump through. He
was assigned to the U.S. embassy in Rome. The FBI
checked with Victoria Nuland’s office at the State
Department:
Do you support this meeting ? Nuland,
having found Steele’s reports on Ukraine to
have been generally credible, gave the
green light.
Within a few days, on July 5, Gaeta arrived and headed to
Steele’s office near Victoria station . Steele handed him a
copy of the report. Gaeta, a seasoned FBI agent, started to
read . He turned white. For a while, Gaeta said nothing .
Then he remarked,
“I have to report this to headquarters.”
The book documents that Nuland previously received
Steele’s reports on the Ukrainian crisis and had been
familiar with Steele’s general work.
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Nuland previously served as chief of staff to Deputy
Secretary of State Strobe Talbott under Bill Clinton’s
administration, and then served as deputy director for
former Soviet Union affairs.
Nuland faced confirmation questions prior to her most
recent appointment as assistant secretary of state over her
reported role in revising controversial Obama
administration talking points about the 2012 Benghazi
terrorist attacks. Her reported changes sought to protect
Hillary Clinton’s State Department from accusations that it
failed to adequately secure the woefully unprotected U.S.
Special Mission in Benghazi.
Meanwhile, an extensive New Yorker profile of Steele
named Kerry’s chief of staff at the State Department, John
Finer, as obtaining the contents of a two-page summary of
the dossier and eventually deciding to share the
questionable document with Kerry. Finer received the
dossier summary from Winer, the magazine reported.
 DEVELOPING: DOJ Releases Docs Related To FISA
Warrants On Carter Page
By Cristina Laila
July 21, 2018, 2:08 Pm

Obama’s Deep State FBI and DOJ obtained a FISA

warrant on Carter Page in October of 2016 and three
subsequent renewals in order to spy on Trump’s campaign
and transition team.

Comey, Rosenstein, McCabe and Sally Yates all signed

the FISA applications even though Hillary’s fraudulent
Russia dossier was used as a pretext to obtain the warrants.

“Judicial Watch may finally get the

infamous spy warrants the Obama
administration and Deep State used while
conspiring with the Clinton campaign to
target then-candidate and now President
Trump. It took a year, but the stonewall and
On Friday, conservative watchdog
cover-up, we hope, begins to end today,”
group Judicial Watch announced
Judicial Watch president Tom Fitton said.
documents related to the FISA warrants
on Trump’s former campaign advisor, Tom Fitton updated and said the docs
Carter Page were released by the FBI — were Fed Ex’ed.
and were on the way to JW
headquarters.

Almost one year ago to the day, Judicial Watch filed a

FOIA lawsuit against the DOJ for the following
documents:

Copies of all proposed and all final signed

FISA applications submitted to the FISC
relating to Russian interference in the 2016
election, allegations of collusion between
people associated with the Trump
campaign and Russia, and any known
Trump associates regardless of context;
Copies of all FISC responses to the above-
mentioned applications in which the Court
notified the FBI or Justice Department that
it would not grant the proposed applications
or recommended changes. If any such
FISC responses were provided orally,
rather than in writing, please provide copies
of FBI or Justice Department records
memorializing or otherwise referencing the
relevant FISC responses; Fitton appeared on Fox News early
Saturday morning to discuss the new
Copies of all FISC orders relating to the above mentioned development.
applications, whether denying the applications and
certifications, denying the orders, modifying the orders,
granting the orders, or other types of orders.
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Tom Fitton expects the documents to have redactions,
however he said on Fox News,
“I suspect we’ll get more answers. We
won’t get all the answers we want, so the
fight will continue.”
VIDEO:
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The new FISA warrant documents have not been released
at the time of this publication, however; The Gateway
Pundit will update as soon as the documents are available.
Update: Tom Fitton says he expects
to receive the corrupt FISA docs by
Monday.
 BREAKING: Newly Released Docs Related To FISA
Warrants On Carter Page Confirm Obama
FBI, DOJ Misled Courts
By Cristina Laila
July 21, 2018, 6:20 Pm

Comey, Rosenstein, McCabe and Sally Yates all signed

the FISA applications even though Hillary’s fraudulent
Russia dossier was used as a pretext to obtain the warrants.

On Saturday, Judicial Watch President
Tom Fitton announced documents
related to the FISA warrants on Trump’s
former campaign advisor, Carter Page
were released by the FBI — and arrived
at JW headquarters.
Almost one year ago to the day, Judicial Watch filed a
FOIA lawsuit against the DOJ for the following
documents:
Copies of all proposed and all final signed FISA
applications submitted to the FISC relating to Russian
interference in the 2016 election, allegations of collusion
between people associated with the Trump campaign and
Russia, and any known Trump associates regardless of
context;
Now this…
Fitton said Saturday evening Judicial
Watch received the requested
documents and even though they are
heavily redacted, they confirm the FBI
and DOJ misled the courts.
Obama’s Deep State DOJ and FBI
withheld information about Hillary
Clinton and the DNC being behind the
information used to obtain the FISA
warrant.
Tom Fitton: .@JudicialWatch now has Carter Page FISA
docs. They are heavily redacted but seem to confirm the
FBI and DoJ misled the courts in withholding info about
Clinton-DNC being behind the info used to get the FISA
warrant.

Copies of all FISC responses to the above-mentioned

applications in which the Court notified the FBI or Justice
Department that it would not grant the proposed Tom Fitton also said the documents are
applications or recommended changes. If any such FISC dishonestly redacted and President
responses were provided orally, rather than in writing, Trump should order transparency.
please provide copies of FBI or Justice Department records
memorializing or otherwise referencing the relevant FISC
responses;

Copies of all FISC orders relating to the above mentioned

applications, whether denying the applications and
certifications, denying the orders, modifying the orders,
granting the orders, or other types of orders.

Obama’s Deep State FBI and DOJ obtained a FISA

warrant on Carter Page in October of 2016 and three
subsequent renewals in order to spy on Trump’s campaign
and transition team.
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 Investigative reporter Paul Sperry
breaks down FISA warrant docs:

See the Carter Page FISA FIOA documents in Appendix

39a.

This is a breaking story. Please refresh page for updates.

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 Newly Released FISA Docs Contradict Strzok’s Sworn
Claims He Had Nothing To Do With
Carter Page FISA Warrant
By Cristina Laila
July 21, 2018, 8:26 Pm

During Peter Strzok’s closed-door testimony to GOP

lawmakers last Wednesday, he swore he was not involved
in the drafting of the Carter Page FISA warrant nor did he
provide any evidence or information to the FISC.

Strzok said he provided no substantive

input on the application—he didn’t supply
any evidence for it and was not involved in
presenting it to the Foreign Intelligence
Surveillance Court for approval, according
to these sources, reported The Daily
Beast’s Betsy Woodruff.

Now this…
The docs reveal Peter Strzok used
Carter Page’s September 2016 letter to
On Saturday, Judicial Watch President
Comey as a “pretext” to open
Tom Fitton announced documents
investigation on him.
related to the FISA warrants on Trump’s
former campaign advisor, Carter Page
were released by the FBI — and arrived
at JW headquarters.

Obama’s Deep State FBI and DOJ obtained a FISA

warrant on Carter Page in October of 2016 and three
subsequent renewals in order to spy on Trump’s campaign
and transition team.

Comey, Rosenstein, McCabe and Sally Yates all signed

the FISA applications even though Hillary’s fraudulent
Russia dossier was used as a pretext to obtain the warrants.
Fitton said Saturday evening Judicial Watch received the
requested documents and even though they are heavily
redacted, they confirm the FBI and DOJ misled the courts.
Obama’s Deep State DOJ and FBI withheld information
about Hillary Clinton and the DNC being behind the
information used to obtain the FISA warrant.
The newly released docs also reveal Peter Strzok did
indeed provide information which was used to obtain a
FISA warrant on Carter Page, directly contradicting his
sworn claims to GOP lawmakers.
Republican lawmakers have been wondering if Peter
Strzok was involved in the Carter Page spy operation for
over a year.
Congressman Jim Jordan (R-OH) previously asked FBI
Director Christopher Wray if Peter Strzok played a role in
the Carter Page FISA application.
“Did Peter Strzok help produce and present
the application to the FISA court to secure
a warrant to spy on Americans associated
with the Trump campaign?” Jordan asked
Wray in a December 2017 Congressional
hearing.

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 “I’m not prepared to discuss what
happened in the court,” Wray smugly
replied.

Now we know Peter Strzok was involved and the FBI and
DOJ have been scrambling to hide this information from
Congressional oversight and the public.

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 Rep. Mark Meadows Calls For Carter Page
FISA Docs To Be Declassified, Unredacted
By Cristina Laila
July 21, 2018, 10:01 Pm

On Saturday, Judicial Watch President

Tom Fitton announced documents
related to the FISA warrants on Trump’s
former campaign advisor, Carter Page
were released by the FBI — and arrived
at JW headquarters.
Fitton said Saturday evening Judicial Watch received the
requested documents and even though they are heavily
redacted, they confirm the FBI and DOJ misled the courts.
Obama’s Deep State DOJ and FBI withheld information
about Hillary Clinton and the DNC being behind the
information used to obtain the FISA warrant.
Freedom Caucus Chairman Mark Meadows (R-NC) called
for the FISA docs to be declassified so “Americans can
know the truth.”
Meadows tweeted: Potentially groundbreaking
development here. The Carter Page FISA docs should be
declassified and further unredacted (protecting only
sources and methods) so Americans can know the truth.
Comey, Rosenstein, McCabe and Sally Yates all signed
the FISA applications even though Hillary’s fraudulent
Russia dossier was used as a pretext to obtain the warrants.
Obama’s Deep State FBI and DOJ obtained a FISA
warrant on Carter Page in October of 2016 and three
subsequent renewals in order to spy on Trump’s campaign
and transition team.
By law, the FBI must present to the FISC
new, compelling information gathered
from current monitoring in order to get a
FISA warrant renewed every 90 days…
However, the applications filed to renew
the Carter Page FISA warrants simply
recycle old Christopher Steele/Yahoo
information [Michael Isikoff’s Yahoo
article on Carter Page] from the original
application, reported Paul Sperry.

If the previous admin was funneling campaign research

toward surveillance, we need to know.

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The newly released docs also reveal Peter Strzok did And President Trump isn’t allowed to question our intel
indeed provide information which was used to obtain a agencies after all of this corruption??
FISA warrant on Carter Page, directly contradicting his
sworn claims to GOP lawmakers.

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 DOJ Releases Carter Page FISA Applications
Chuck Ross | Reporter
10:30 PM 07/21/2018
In an unprecedented move, the Department of Justice has
released 412 pages of top-secret documents related to
surveillance conducted against former Trump campaign
chairman Carter Page.
The documents include an October 2016 application and
three renewal applications for Foreign Intelligence
Surveillance Act (FISA) warrants taken out against Page.
The New York Times and other news outlets obtained the
applications through a Freedom of Information Act
lawsuit.
“The FBI believes Page has been the
subject of targeted recruitment by the
Russian government,” reads the FISA
application.
“As discussed above, the FBI believes that
Page has been collaborating and
conspiring with the Russian government,”
reads the initial FISA application, dated
Oct. 21, 2016. The Justice Department and
FBI obtained three additional FISAs in
January, April and June 2017.
The application also says that the FBI had probable cause
to believe that Page engaged in “clandestine intelligence
activities” and is an agent of a foreign power.
Republican and Democrats on the House Permanent Select
Committee on Intelligence previously released highlights
from the documents. A memo released by Committee
Chairman Devin Nunes has revealed that the Justice
Department and FBI relied heavily on the Democrat-
funded Steele dossier in the FISA applications.
The dossier is the first piece of evidence cited in the FISA
application section laying out the allegations that Page
coordinated with Russian government officials on election-
related “influence activities.”
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That section cites information from “Source #1” who
alleged that during a trip to Moscow in July 2016, Page
met secretly with two sanctioned Kremlin insiders, Igor
Sechin and Igor Diveykin, as part of a collusion scheme
involving the Trump campaign.
The source appears to be Christopher Steele, the former
British spy who wrote the dossier.
Steele also alleged in the dossier that Page worked with
Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort to exchange
information with Russian operatives. Page has vehemently
denied the dossier’s allegations, and says he has never
spoken to Manafort. He also says he has never met Sechin
and Diveykin while denying that he is a Russian agent.
FBI officials have told Congress that investigators had not
corroborated the dossier’s allegations when it was cited in
the FISA applications. But the FISA application shows that
the FBI and Justice Department believed Steele to be a
“reliable” source. Steele has been compensated for other
work by the FBI, and his intelligence has been used in
other criminal proceedings, the FISA application says.
“This is an unprecedented moment in FOIA
transparency, as never before has a FISA
warrant been processed for release,”
Bradley Moss, a national security attorney
who filed one of the numerous lawsuits for
the Page documents, told The Daily Caller
News Foundation.
“Now, with the actual documents in hand,
not political spin written by lawmakers with
agendas, the American public can make
their own decision on whether anything
was inappropriate about the surveillance of
Carter Page,” added Moss, who is deputy
executive director for the James Madison
Project, a government transparency group.
Reached for comment shortly after The Times published
the FISA applications, Page told TheDCNF:
“I’m having trouble finding any small bit of
this document that rises above complete
ignorance and/or insanity.”
Editor’s note: The final graf has been updated to clarify
Page’s comment to TheDCNF: “complete ignorance,” not
“completely ignorance.”
 BOOM! President Trump:
“It Looks More And More Like The Trump Campaign
Was Illegally Being Spied Upon”
By Jim Hoft
July 22, 2018, 7:30 Am
On Saturday, Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton
announced documents related to the FISA warrants on
Trump’s former campaign advisor, Carter Page were
released by the FBI — and arrived at JW headquarters.
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Obama’s Deep State FBI and DOJ obtained a FISA
warrant on Carter Page in October of 2016 and three
subsequent renewals in order to spy on Trump’s campaign
and transition team.
Comey, Rosenstein, McCabe and Sally Yates all signed
the FISA applications even though Hillary’s fraudulent
Russia dossier was used as a pretext to obtain the warrants.
Fitton said Saturday evening Judicial Watch received the
requested documents and even though they are heavily
redacted, they confirm the FBI and DOJ misled the courts.
Obama’s Deep State DOJ and FBI withheld information
about Hillary Clinton and the DNC being behind the
information used to obtain the FISA warrant.
On Sunday morning President Donald Trump weighed in
on the shocking news that the Obama administration
illegally spied on his campaign and Transition Team.
President Trump: Looking more & more like the Trump
Campaign for President was illegally being spied upon
(surveillance) for the political gain of Crooked Hillary
Clinton and the DNC. Ask her how that worked out – she
did better with Crazy Bernie. Republicans must get tough
now. An illegal Scam!
 Obama’s Former Director Of National Intelligence Says
Obama Behind Entire Russia Witch Hunt!
By Jim Hoft
July 22, 2018, 8:03 Am

today including Special Counsel Mueller’s

investigation. President Obama is
responsible for that. It was he who tasked
us to do that intelligence community
assessment in the first place.

President Obama’s former Director of

National Intelligence, James Clapper,
came clean on CNN and stated that
former President Obama was behind
spying on President Trump!

James Clapper was on CNN yesterday and he stated that

Obama was behind spying on President Trump and all the
corrupt and criminal actions involving the government,
including the Mueller investigation –

According to Obama’s former spy chief, James Clapper,

who appeared on CNN to say it was Obama who set the
entire Russia witch-hunt into motion by tasking the
intelligence community assessment.
The cat is out of the bag.
Clapper said –

If it weren’t for President Obama we might

not have done the intelligence community
assessment that we did that set up a whole
sequence of events which are still unfolding
.

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 House Judiciary Committee Targets
Ex-CIA Chief John Brennan For Testimony
By Cristina Laila
July 22, 2018, 10:41 Am

VIDEO:

House Judiciary Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-VA) said

Sunday in a Fox News appearance his Committee is
seeking testimony from former CIA Director, John
Brennan.

“We have lots of questions for John

Brennan and he will definitely be sought by
the committees for an interview. This is an
extremely disturbing thing to see both he
and James Comey, supposedly impartial
government officials carrying out their jobs
in very important areas in intelligence
gathering and law enforcement, express
Chairman Goodlatte is correct. Both John Brennan and
the kind of extreme bias that they’ve shown
James Comey lash out at President Trump from their
now, which I think reflects quite accurately
Twitter accounts yet they expect us to believe they were
on what they were doing back in 2016,”
not hunting him down using their powerful resources?
Goodlatte said.
“Who else is on that list?” Bartiromo asked Brennan routinely attacks Trump from Twitter, often firing
Goodlatte referring to others his committee off ominous warnings about the Mueller witch hunt.
may want to interview.
Most recently, Brennan called Trump’s Helsinki summit
Goodlatte responded, performance “treasonous.”

“Certainly we will also be talking to Director James Comey completely took off his mask earlier this
Comey and former Attorney General week and straight up told his Twitter followers to vote
Loretta Lynch.” Democrat this Fall.

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Attorney Gregg Jarrett Calls Out Liar Comey After Carter
Page FISA Warrant Docs Confirm FBI Misled Courts
By Cristina Laila
July 22, 2018, 11:39 Am

Gregg Jarrett wasn’t having it and called

out Comey the liar.

Attorney Gregg Jarrett slammed liar and
leaker James Comey Sunday morning
after the DOJ released FISA warrant
docs related to Trump advisor Carter
Page.
Gregg Jarrett tweeted: Newly released documents prove
that Comey’s FBI and the DOJ relied almost entirely on
the phony and unverified anti-Trump “dossier” to gain
warrants to wiretap Trump campaign associate. The
“dossier”, paid for by Clinton & Democrats, was about
95% of the application to spy!

The new FISA warrant docs confirm the FBI relied almost
entirely on Hillary’s phony dossier to obtain a warrant,
contradicting Comey’s previous statements that the dossier
was not a critical part of it.

Watch Comey claim to Bret Baier in a recent interview

that Hillary’s dossier was “not a critical part” of obtaining
the FISA warrant.

Comey said rather, it was

“a part of a broader mosaic of facts that

were laid before the FISA judge to obtain a
FISA warrant,” and “there was a significant
amount of additional material about Page
and why there was probable cause to
believe he was an agent of a foreign
power.”

VIDEO:

Jarrett called Comey’s statements

“demonstrably untrue.”

Jarrett tweeted: Comey has NOT been telling the truth.

He pretended the “dossier” was only a minor part of the
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warrant application that he signed to wiretap, claiming it It gets worse…
was NOT a “critical part of it” and there was a “significant
By law, the FBI must present to the FISC
amount of additional material.” Demonstrably untrue.
new, compelling information gathered
from current monitoring in order to get a
FISA warrant renewed every 90 days…
However, the applications filed to renew
the Carter Page FISA warrants simply
recycle old Christopher Steele/Yahoo
information [Michael Isikoff’s Yahoo
article on Carter Page] from the original
application, reported Paul Sperry.

Obama’s Deep State FBI and DOJ obtained a FISA

warrant on Carter Page in October of 2016 and three
subsequent renewals in order to spy on Trump’s campaign
and transition team.

Comey, Rosenstein, McCabe and Sally Yates all signed

the FISA applications even though Hillary’s fraudulent
Russia dossier was used as a pretext to obtain the warrants.

Obama’s Deep State DOJ and FBI withheld information

about Hillary Clinton and the DNC being behind the
information used to obtain the FISA warrant.

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 Liberal Reporters Blame Trump
For Obama’s Mistakes With Russia
Stephanie Hamill | Video Columnist
12:29 PM 07/22/2018
WATCH:
While the majority of White House reporters are fixated on
Russia, they seem to forget that the annexation of Crimea
and U.S. election meddling happened on Obama’s watch
— but somehow now this is all President Donald Trump’s
fault.
Liberals in the media are blinded by hate for President
Trump.
The Daily Caller’s Stephanie Hamill, Jena Greene and
Vince Coglianese call them out on it, while highlighting
other absurd and biased questions.
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 ‘Witch Hunt Rigged’: Trump Sees
‘Illegal Spying’ After Carter Page FISA
Warrant Released
Saagar Enjeti | White House Correspondent
2:11 PM 07/22/2018

President Donald Trump accused the FBI of illegally

spying on associates of his campaign after the Department
of Justice released the FISA warrant application submitted
for Carter Page.

“The FBI believes Page has been the

subject of targeted recruitment by the
Russian government,” the warrant said,
referencing Page’s past work for the Trump
2016 campaign. The FISA warrant
demonstrated the long-standing claims
from conservative lawmakers that the
unverified opposition research dossier
compiled by Christopher Steele played a
key role in the FISA warrant application.

The president animatedly tweeted about the FISA warrant

after its release citing analysis from pundits and analysts
on the Fox News Channel.

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 Gowdy: If Collusion Evidence Existed,
Adam Schiff Would Have Leaked It
Chuck Ross | Reporter
2:36 PM 07/22/2018

Gowdy, who is a member of the House Intelligence

Committee and chairman of the Committee on House
Oversight & Government Reform, said he has likely seen
more government documents related to the collusion
investigation than anyone in Congress.

South Carolina Rep. Trey Gowdy said Sunday that, after

18 months of congressional investigation into possible
collusion between the Trump campaign and Russian
government, he has yet to see a “scintilla” of evidence
showing that there was coordination between the two
sides.
The Republican also said it is unlikely that any Democrat
has seen evidence of collusion because if they had,
California Rep. Adam Schiff would have already leaked it.
“I have not seen one scintilla of evidence
that this president colluded, conspired,
confederated with Russia, and neither has
anyone else, or you may rest assured
Adam Schiff would have leaked it,” Gowdy
said during an interview on “Fox News
Sunday.”
In past interviews, Schiff, the top Democrat on the
Intelligence Committee, has claimed that he has seen
“more than circumstantial evidence” of collusion. But
when pressed to identify the evidence, Schiff has stopped
short of showing that President Donald Trump or members
of his campaign conspired with Russian government
officials to release Democrats’ hacked emails.
In an appearance on ABC News’ George Stephanopoulos
on Sunday, Schiff said Trump is “acting like someone
who’s compromised.”
“It may very well be that he is compromised
or it may very well be that he believes that
he’s compromised, that the Russians have
information on him,” he said.

“That’s why they’ve moved off of collusion

onto obstruction of justice, which is now
their current preoccupation,” he added.
.

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 FBI Cited Anti-Trump
Media Articles To Wiretap Carter Page
By Cristina Laila
July 22, 2018, 2:59 Pm

Via Byron York:

The narrative spread. “The same month

On Saturday, Judicial Watch President
Tom Fitton announced documents
related to the FISA warrants on Trump’s
former campaign advisor, Carter Page
were released by the FBI — and arrived
at JW headquarters.
Obama’s Deep State FBI and DOJ obtained a FISA
warrant on Carter Page in October of 2016 and three
subsequent renewals in order to spy on Trump’s campaign
and transition team.
that Trump denied Putin’s role in Ukraine,
his team weakened the party platform on
Ukraine,” Democratic Rep. Andre Carson
said during a House Intelligence
Committee hearing in March.
“This was the same month that several
individuals in the Trump orbit held secret
meetings with Russian officials, some of
which may have been on the topic of
sanctions against Russia or their
intervention in Ukraine. Now, this is no
coincidence, in my opinion.”
In addition to being factually wrong, that storyline seems
particularly out of place coming from Democrats, because
the 2016 Democratic platform, while pledging to “stand up
to Russian aggression,” said nothing about U.S. sanctions
against Russia or about U.S. aid to Ukraine’s armed forces,
both of which were in the Trump-approved Republican
platform. Needless to say, the Democratic platform said
not a word about lethal aid to Ukraine.

Comey, Rosenstein, McCabe and Sally Yates all signed

the FISA applications even though Hillary’s fraudulent
Russia dossier was used as a pretext to obtain the warrants.

The newly released docs reveal Obama’s Deep State DOJ

and FBI withheld information about Hillary Clinton and
the DNC being behind the information used to obtain the
FISA warrant.

It gets worse…
The newly released docs reveal the FBI
used anti-Trump media reports from
liberal news sites in order to obtain the
Carter Page FISA warrants.

The FBI relied on a July 18, 2016, story in the Washington

Post with the headline, “Trump Campaign Guts GOP’s
Anti-Russia Stance On Ukraine” — a blatantly false
description of events, says the Washington Examiner’s
Byron York.
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 media articles citing the dossier in turn
being used to obtain a FISA warrant a
“self-licking ice cream cone.”

The FBI also relied on Michael Isikoff’s

September 2016 Yahoo News article on
Carter Page.

President of Judicial Watch, Tom Fitton

called the circular evidence of Hillary’s
phony dossier leaked to the media–then
.

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 Lindsey Graham: Dossier ‘Has
Proven To Be A Bunch Of Garbage’ [VIDEO]
Chuck Ross | Reporter
3:54 PM 07/22/2018

South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham, a top member of the “No, not at all in my view.”
Senate Judiciary Committee, said Sunday that the Steele
“If the dossier is the reason you issued the
dossier “has proven to be a bunch of garbage” and that the
warrant, it was a bunch of garbage. The
FBI has verified “almost none of it.”
dossier has proven to be a bunch of
garbage,” he told host Margaret Brennan.
Graham was commenting on the dossier, which was
funded by the Clinton campaign and DNC, in the wake of
the Department of Justice’s release of FBI applications for
Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrants
against former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page.

The four applications — an initial application and three

renewals — show that the FBI relied heavily on the dossier
to obtain the warrants. The dossier, which was written by
former British spy Christopher Steele, claimed that Page
met secretly with two sanctioned Kremlin insiders during a
trip to Moscow in July 2016. Steele also accused Page of
being the Trump campaign’s contact to the Russian
government.
Page has vehemently denied the allegations. On Sunday,
President Donald Trump claimed on Twitter that the
applications showed that the FBI “misled” the federal
courts and that the government “illegally” spied on his
campaign.
Graham said Sunday that he agrees with Trump’s
assessment.
“I think the whole FISA warrant process
needs to be looked at,” Graham said in an
interview on CBS News’ “Face the Nation.”
“The warrant on Carter Page was
supported mostly by a dossier that came
from Michael [sic] Steele who was being
paid by the Democratic party to do
opposition research and the dossier was
collected, I think, from Russian intelligence
services and if you asked the FBI today,
how much of the dossier on Trump has
been verified, almost none of it.”
Asked whether he believes that the surveillance against
Page was justified, Graham responded:
Republicans have questioned why the FBI relied on the
dossier to obtain the spy warrants if Steele’s reporting had
not been verified. The FISA applications show that the FBI
deemed Steele to be “reliable” because information he had
provided the bureau in the past was deemed to be
“credible.”
Graham and Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck
Grassley have referred Steele to the Justice Department for
possible criminal action for what they claim are
inconsistent statements about his interactions with the
media before the 2016 election.
Steele acknowledge in a London court case that in
September and October 2016, he briefed reporters with
several American news outlets regarding his Trump
investigation. Two of those outlets, Yahoo! News and
Mother Jones, published information provided by Steele.
The FBI terminated its relationship with Steele after he
spoke with Mother Jones reporter David Corn. The FBI
said in its three renewal applications that Steele violated an
agreement that he not speak to the press about his
investigation.

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 Crooked Comey Makes DESPERATE Plea To Democrats
After Carter Page FISA Docs Reveal FBI Misled Courts
By Cristina Laila
July 22, 2018, 3:57 Pm
Comey made a desperate plea to
Democrats on Sunday after encouraging
people to vote Dem in the midterm
elections.
The Democrats aren’t even hiding it anymore; the mask is
off and they are openly embracing Communism Socialism.
The Dem darling, 28-year-old Socialist Alexandria Ocasio-
Cortez, has taken the left by storm.
The left has become so radical with their calls to abolish
ICE, raise taxes and obliterate borders that people are
walking away from the Dem party in droves.
Crooked Comey made a desperate plea
with Dems on Sunday.
Comey tweeted: Democrats, please, please don’t lose your
minds and rush to the socialist left. This president and his
Republican Party are counting on you to do exactly that.
America’s great middle wants sensible, balanced, ethical
leadership.
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Earlier this week, Comey came out and
told people to vote Dem in the Fall.
Comey tweeted:
This Republican Congress has proven
incapable of fulfilling the Founders’ design
that “Ambition must … counteract
ambition.” All who believe in this country’s
values must vote for Democrats this fall.
Policy differences don’t matter right now.
History has its eyes on us.
Attorney Gregg Jarrett slammed liar and
leaker James Comey Sunday morning
after the DOJ released FISA warrant
docs related to Trump advisor Carter
Page.
The new FISA warrant docs confirm the FBI relied almost
entirely on Hillary’s phony dossier to obtain a warrant,
contradicting Comey’s previous statements that the dossier
was not a critical part of it.
James Comey signed off on the FISA applications anyway;
to hell with the law.
Gregg Jarrett tweeted:
Newly released documents prove that
Comey’s FBI and the DOJ relied almost
entirely on the phony and unverified anti-
Trump “dossier” to gain warrants to wiretap
Trump campaign associate. The “dossier”,
paid for by Clinton & Democrats, was about
95% of the application to spy!
 “critical part of it” and there was a
“significant amount of additional material.”
Demonstrably untrue.

Jarrett called Comey’s statements

“demonstrably untrue.”

Jarrett tweeted:
Crooked Comey is desperate for
Democrats to pick up seats in the
Comey has NOT been telling the truth. He
midterms because he doesn’t want to
pretended the “dossier” was only a minor
go to prison for using Hillary’s phony
part of the warrant application that he
dossier to obtain a FISA warrant.
signed to wiretap, claiming it was NOT a
.

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 House Judiciary Chairman:
We Want John Brennan To Testify
Kerry Picket | Reporter
4:19 PM 07/22/2018
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte
confirmed to Fox News Channel’s Maria Bartiromo
Sunday morning that his committee among others want
former CIA Director John Brennan and other former
Obama officials to testify before its members.
“We have lots of questions for John
Brennan and he will definitely be sought by
the Committees for an interview,” Goodlatte
said. “This is an extremely disturbing thing
to see both he and James Comey,
supposedly impartial government officials
carrying out their jobs in very important
areas in intelligence gathering and law
enforcement, express the kind of extreme
bias that they’ve shown now, which I think
reflects quite accurately on what they were
doing back in 2016.”
Goodlatte went on to confirm that not only will Brennan
and Comey be sought but also former Obama Attorney
General Loretta Lynch, whose meeting with President Bill
Clinton on an Arizona tarmac during the 2016 election
became scrutinized as it happened while his then-
.
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presidential candidate wife Hillary Clinton was under
federal investigation.
The news comes as the FBI released over 400 pages of
highly redacted FISA document applications relating to the
surveillance of onetime foreign policy advisor Carter Page
during the 2016 Trump campaign.
Brennan previously testified before House Intelligence
Committee in 2017 to give information about Russian
interference in the 2016 election. The New York Times
noted it was the first time Brennan ever publicly stated
concern about a connection between Russia and the Trump
campaign.
The Atlantic noted in its coverage that when asked if the
Russian government wanted to damage Clinton’s
candidacy in favor of Trump, Brennan said at the time:
“My assessment is it was both.” According
to Brennan, Russia expected Clinton to win
the election, but believed Trump had a
better chance “even though they probably
thought they were not that great.”
However, Brennan does not have a clean track record
when testifying before Congress. In 2014, as CIA Director,
the agency was accused of hacking into Senate Intelligence
Committee staffer computers –something to which
Brennan later publicly denied when questioned about it by
lawmakers on Capitol Hill and then later had to retract.
Goodlatte criticized the FBI’s use of the Christopher Steele
dossier as a primary reason to get a FISA warrant on Page,
saying it was a document paid for by Democrats involved
with the Hillary Clinton campaign to use against Donald
Trump.
“The Clinton campaign the Democratic
National Committee paid for the creation of
this so-called Steele dossier and turned it
over to the Federal Bureau of
Investigation,” he said. “But what’s so
unprecedented about this is that the FBI
took it weaponized it without ever verifying
its credibility and brought it to the FISA
court without disclosing the source of that
information.”
 A SET-UP? Russian Spy Butina Was
Meeting With Obama Treasury While Spying
On NRA, Conservatives
By Jim Hoft
July 22, 2018, 6:14 Pm
Four days ago we suggested that this
“Maria Butina – Russian spy” story was
a set-up to take down the NRA and
conservatives.
It looks like we may have nailed it.
Russian operative Maria Butina was
indicted this week on charges of being a
covert Russian agent.
Butina struck up friendships with the influential leaders of
the National Rifle Association and the Conservative
Political Action Conference.
Butina was charged with conspiracy to
act as an agent of the Russian
Federation and is being held without
bond.
On Wednesday night investigative
reporter John Solomon told Lou Dobbs
that the FBI knew about Butina and her
operations but they did not warn the
conservatives who she was cozying up
to.
This is a STUNNING development.
John Solomon: I’ll tell you a little story I’ve never told
before. In March of 2015 I observed her at several events
and really cozying up to conservatives and making what I
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thought was a weak-handed case that she was this
courageous gun rights activist going up against Putin and
there would one day be a Second Amendment in Russia.
There’s never going to be a Second Amendment in Russia.
I became very perplexed by her behavior and her efforts of
going up to presidential candidates and congressional
candidates. So I started to do some reporting and I called
FBI and US intelligence sources and very quickly I
learned, “Yeah, we know that she’s somebody here as an
agent of influence. She’s connecte to this guy Tortian(sp?)
and we know what she’s trying to do.” And I thought,
that’s really interesting. Are they going to tell the people
she’s meeting with and it doesn’t appear they ever did. I
thought the role of FBI counter-intelligence was to prevent
contacts from occurring that are not in the interest of the
United States. It sounds like they sat around and watched
this for three or four years until it was convenient to create
a headline.
This won’t help build back trust with the
Deep State FBI.
Was this just a set-up on
conservatives and the NRA?
It very well may be.
Now this…
Maria Butina was meeting with Obama
Treasury officials while she was spying
on the NRA and conservatives.
It’s time to start arresting the criminals in the Obama
regime.
Reuters reported:
Accused Russian agent Maria Butina had wider high-level
contacts in Washington than previously known, taking part
in 2015 meetings between a visiting Russian official and
two senior officials at the U.S. Federal Reserve and
Treasury Department.
The meetings, revealed by several people familiar with the
sessions and a report from a Washington think tank that
arranged them, involved Stanley Fischer, Fed vice
chairman at the time, and Nathan Sheets, then Treasury relations during Democratic former President Barack
undersecretary for international affairs. Obama’s administration.

Butina travelled to the United States in April 2015 with The two meetings, which have not been previously
Alexander Torshin, then the Russian Central Bank deputy reported, reveal a wider circle of high-powered
governor, and they took part in separate meetings with connections that Butina sought to cultivate with American
Fischer and Sheets to discuss U.S.-Russian economic political leaders and special interest groups.

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 FBI Blew ‘Really Good Opportunity’
For FISA Warrant Transparency, Gowdy Says
'We'll Never Know Whether' The Bureau 'Had Enough' Info 'Without
The Dossier' To Surveil Carter Page
By Kathryn Blackhurst
Sunday, July 22, 2018

DNC and 2016 Democratic presidential nominee Hillary

Clinton’s campaign.

“The other thing I hope my fellow citizens

Americans will “never know” whether the FBI gleaned
enough information to obtain surveillance warrants against
Carter Page without using the infamous Trump-Russia
dossier, House Committee on Oversight and Government
Reform Chairman Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.) lamented on “Fox
News Sunday.”
will take note of is the FBI missed a really
good opportunity to tell the judge exactly
who paid for that,” Gowdy said, pointing to
a footnote in the warrant application. “If you
look at the footnote, it takes a lot more
effort to define it the way they did, where
you have no idea who funded it, than just to
come right out and say the DNC hired
Perkins Coie, who hired Fusion GPS. who
hired Christopher Steele.”

“We’ll never know whether or not the FBI

had enough without the dossier — the
unvetted dossier — because they included
it, and everyone who reads this [Foreign
Intelligence Surveillance Act] application
sees the amount of reliance they placed on
this product funded by Hillary Clinton’s
campaign and the DNC,” Gowdy said.
“There, done. That’s an easy footnote, everybody can
Gowdy’s comment came following the Department of follow it,” Gowdy continued. “But for whatever reason,
Justice’s (DOJ) release late Saturday of 412 pages of the FBI decided not to represent that to the court.”
heavily redacted material used for the FBI’s 2016 FISA
warrant application for permission to spy on Page, who Gowdy emphasized that he has “an issue when you rely on
was briefly a low-level foreign policy adviser during political opposition research that is unvetted and you
President Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign. The documents represent that to a court and use it to spy on an American.”
included pages from the original application and three
requests to renewal the spying permission. When Fox News host Bret Baier, who substituted for Chris
Wallace on “Fox News Sunday,” asked Gowdy if he was
The retiring Gowdy, who is also a member of the House “equally adamant” that Trump did not collude with Russia
Committee on the Judiciary and the House Permanent to sway the 2016 U.S. presidential election in his favor, the
Select Committee on Intelligence, received the mostly lawmaker replied,
unredacted documents months ago. The lawmaker rebuked
the FBI for missing “a really good opportunity” to promote “I have not seen one scintilla of evidence
transparency by not disclosing that the dossier compiled by that this president colluded, conspired,
former British spy Christopher Steele was funded by the confederated with Russia.”

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 “And neither has anyone else, or you may “Looking more & more like the Trump
rest assured [Rep.] Adam Schiff [D-Calif.] Campaign for President was illegally being
would have leaked it,” Gowdy said. “So spied upon (surveillance) for the political
that’s why they’ve moved off of collusion gain of Crooked Hillary Clinton and the
onto obstruction of justice, which is now DNC. Ask her how that worked out — she
their current preoccupation.” did better with Crazy Bernie. Republicans
must get tough now. An illegal Scam!”
Democratic lawmakers like Schiff, the ranking minority Trump added.
member on the House Intelligence Committee, have
homed in on investigating whether Trump obstructed
justice by firing former FBI Director James Comey in May
2017. Schiff insisted Sunday during an interview on ABC
News’ “This Week” that the documents released Saturday
do not prove that the FBI misled the FISA court during the
application process.

“I know those applications set out in some

detail, a lot of which unfortunately is
redacted, just why the FBI was so
concerned that Carter Page might be
acting as an agent of a foreign power,”
Schiff said. “And let’s remember that
application and those renewals have been
vindicated in substantial part by Carter
Page’s own words in the letter I think you
asked him about, and in which Carter Page
acknowledged being an informal adviser to
the Kremlin.”

Schiff insisted that the FBI’s inclusion of information

showing Page
Gowdy encouraged Trump to recognize that
“had in fact, been a target of Russian
intelligence in the past, that Carter Page “it is possible to conclude that Russia
had gone to Russia during the campaign, interfered with us and it still does not
that he had meetings with the Russian delegitimize your presidency.”
officials that Page had publicly denied, but “That’s where I would encourage the
we can now confirm that he did, in fact, president to go,” Gowdy said.
have meetings with Russian officials,”
vindicated the surveillance warrant Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) said
application. Sunday on CBS News’ “Face the Nation”
that the FBI’s FISA warrant application
“So it was a solid application and renewals process “needs to be looked at.”
signed by four different judges appointed
by three different Republican presidents,” “The warrant on Carter Page was
Schiff concluded. supported mostly by [the] dossier that
came from [Christopher] Steele who is
being paid by the Democratic Party to do
Trump, however, rejected Schiff’s interpretation of the
opposition research, and the dossier was
warrant application documents.
collected, I think, from Russian intelligence
services,” Graham said. “And if you ask the
“Congratulations to @JudicialWatch and FBI today how much of the dossier on
@TomFitton on being successful in getting Trump has been verified — almost none of
the Carter Page FISA documents. As it.”
usual, they are ridiculously heavily
redacted but confirm with little doubt that
Graham insisted that the surveillance was “not at all”
the Department of ‘Justice’ and FBI misled
justified.
the courts. Witch Hunt Rigged, a Scam!”
Trump tweeted Sunday.

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 “The FISA warrant process needs to be
looked at closely about Congress. The
main reason they issued the warrant was
the dossier prepared by Mr. Steele. They
.
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never told the court that he was a paid
operative in the Democratic Party,” Graham
said. “The substance of the dossier to this
day is a bunch of garbage.”
 FOX News Features Trump Lynching
Story Originally Launched By Gateway Pundit
By Brock Simmons
July 22, 2018, 6:30 Pm

As that story made the rounds online, being picked up by

various different websites, FOX News’ Jesse Watters
apparently took note. Watters invited Diamond & Silk onto
his show, Watters World, in part to talk about these Trump
lynching shirts.

(Story featured around the 31:30 marker)

Last week The Gateway Pundit brought you an original,

exclusive story about the “Hanging With Trump” shirts
being promoted on Instagram and Facebook, sold through
Indie Go Go, which depicted Trump hanging from a noose
made out of his very fine signature red tie.

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 Kavanaugh Cast Doubt On
Supreme Court Watergate Tapes Ruling
Kevin Daley | Supreme Court Reporter
6:49 PM 07/22/2018
Judge Brett Kavanaugh said that the U.S. Supreme Court
was wrong to compel President Richard Nixon to
surrender the infamous Watergate tapes during a 1999
panel discussion.
Though he has since espoused other views about that
ruling, Kavanaugh said in 1999 that the high court had no
power to resolve the Nixon case, since it involved a
dispute between two officers within the same branch of
government. The event was recounted in the
January/February edition of Washington Lawyer.
“Maybe Nixon was wrongly decided —
heresy though it is to say so,” he said.
“Nixon took away the power of the
president to control information in the
executive branch by holding that the courts
had power and jurisdiction to order the
president to disclose information in
response to a subpoena sought by a
subordinate executive branch official. That
was a huge step with implications to this
day that most people do not appreciate
sufficiently.”
“Maybe the tension of the time led to an
erroneous decision,” he added.
The Associated Press first reported the comments, which
were included in a trove of documents Kavanaugh
submitted to the Senate Committee on the Judiciary late
Friday.
The case, U.S. v. Nixon, reached the Supreme Court in
1974, after the embattled president refused to comply with
a subpoena for tapes of his conversations with several
aides indicted in connection with the Watergate scandal. A
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unanimous Court ordered Nixon to surrender the
recordings just three weeks after oral arguments.
The ruling effectively ended Nixon’s presidency. The
release of the tapes proved devastating to his depleted
political viability, and he resigned just two weeks later.
In other contexts, however, Kavanaugh has praised the
Nixon decision as a victory for the rule of law. During a
2015 speech at Catholic University in Washington, the
judge said the ruling protected the power and integrity of
the courts.
“Some of the greatest moments in
American judicial history have been when
judges stood up to the other branches,
were not cowed, and enforced the law,” he
said, with specific reference to the Nixon
decision.
Kavanaugh’s 1999 statements correspond with other
positions he has taken respecting executive power. In a
2008 law review article he urged Congress to adopt
legislation exempting sitting presidents from criminal
investigation and prosecution, as such probes cripple
executive branch operations at a basic level.
Similarly in one of his most interesting opinions for the
U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, Kavanaugh
criticized a 1935 Supreme Court decision called
Humphrey’s Executor v. U.S., which upheld a for-cause
removal requirement when firing a federal agency director.
Critics of the decision say it undermines presidential
power, since it limits his ability to hire and fire personnel
in the executive branch.
“Humphrey’s Executor thus approved the
creation of ‘independent’ agencies —
independent, that is, from presidential
control and thus from democratic
accountability,” Kavanaugh wrote.
The judge’s remarks about the Nixon case will also prove
useful to Democrats, who may turn Kavanaugh’s
confirmation hearing into a forum on special counsel
Robert Mueller’s investigation. Senate Minority Leader
Chuck Schumer demanded Friday that the judge recuse
himself from all cases relating to the Russia investigation,
after press accounts surfaced of a 2016 speech he made
questioning the constitutionality of the old independent The judge’s confirmation hearings have not yet been
counsel law. scheduled.

That statute established an independent investigator with a

broad mandate to prosecute government corruption.

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 This FISA Passage Points To The
Heart Of Mueller’s Collusion Case Against Trump
FBI Officials Contend Carter Page Allegedly Influenced The President And
The Republican Party To Go Easy On Russia In Ukraine
By Mark Tapscott
Sunday, July 22, 2018
Most of the FBI’s October 2016 application to the Foreign
Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) court for permission
to wiretap Carter Page is all but entirely blacked out — so
it’s a bit of a jolt suddenly to encounter page 21, virtually
all of which is unredacted and easily read.
A close reading of the page suggests, however, that it may
offer a key insight into the basis of the FBI’s view of the
relationship between President Donald Trump’s 2016
campaign and Russian intelligence interests’ attempts to
influence the 2016 presidential campaign, and in turn to
the basis of the case apparently being prepared by special
counsel Robert Mueller against Trump (“Candidate #1”
throughout the document). Page was briefly a foreign-
policy adviser to Trump.
The passage also points to the vivid contrasts between the
policies regarding Russia that former President Barack
Obama supported and those applied more recently by
Trump.
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Here’s why.
Page 21 cites a news article published in July 2016 that
reported,
“Candidate #1’s campaign worked behind
the scenes to make sure that Political Party
#1’s platform would not call for giving
weapons to Ukraine to fight Russian and
rebel forces, contradicting the views of
almost all of Political Party #1’s foreign-
policy leaders in Washington.”
The page continues:
“The article stated that Candidate #1’s
campaign ‘sought to make sure that
[Political Party #1] would not pledge to give
Ukraine the weapons it has been asking for
from the United States.'”
The page then cites an August 2016 news story from
another publication reporting that Candidate #1 “might
recognize Crimea as Russian territory and lift punitive
U.S. sanctions against Russia. The article opined that while
the reason for Candidate #1’s shift was not clear,
Candidate #1’s more conciliatory words, which contradict
Political Party #1’s official platform, follow Candidate
#1’s recent association with several people sympathetic to
Russian influence in Ukraine, including foreign-policy
adviser Carter Page.”
The key piece of background information needed to
understand what the FBI was telling the FISA court in this
passage is this sequence of events during former President
Barack Obama’s second term in the Oval Office.
Speaking in Stockholm, Sweden, on Sept. 4, 2013, Obama
warned Syrian dictator (and Russian client) Bashar al-
Assad that “we have been very clear to the Assad regime,
but also to other players on the ground, that a red line for
us is we start seeing a whole bunch of chemical weapons
moving around or being utilized. That would change my
calculus. That would change my equation.” This speech
reinforced what Obama had previously declared in the
White House in August 2013.
But after Obama subsequently did nothing concrete in
response to Assad’s use of chemical weapons against his
own people, Russia committed two major aggressions.
Beginning in February 2014, Russian military units acting
in concert with Ukrainian sympathizers took over the
Crimean region of Ukraine, which was then annexed by
the Russian Federation. Beginning in April 2014, Russian
forces, again acting in concert with local sympathizers,
moved into the Donbass region of Ukraine, thus effectively
taking over nearly half of that nation.
These Russian actions were roundly condemned in the
U.N. and multiple nations, including the U.S., imposed
sanctions of varying intensity against the Russian
Federation. Not long afterward, some of the Russian
military units seen in Crimea and elsewhere in Ukraine
were moved to Syria.
During the 2016 campaign and since he was inaugurated
on Jan. 20, 2017, Trump has contended that Obama’s
failure to enforce his red line in Syria encouraged Russian
President Vladimir Putin to take over the Crimean and
Donbass regions of Ukraine.
Given that background, then, it appears from Page 21 of
the FBI’s FISA application that the bureau believed Trump
was going easy on Russia for its Ukrainian adventures,
thanks to Page’s influence on the Republican presidential
nominee.
But the apparent FBI view is contradicted by key facts “on
the ground.”
First, presidential nominees control the contents of their
party’s platform. Here’s what the Trump-led 2016
Republican National Convention said about Russia,
Crimea and Ukraine:
“We support maintaining and, if warranted,
increasing sanctions, together with our
allies, against Russia unless and until
Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial
integrity are fully restored. We also support
providing appropriate assistance to the
armed forces of Ukraine and greater
coordination with NATO defense planning.”
The platform further noted the following in a section
addressed to the Russian people.
“We also have a common problem:
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The continuing erosion of personal liberty
and fundamental rights under the current
officials in the Kremlin. Repressive at home
and reckless abroad, their policies imperil
the nations, which regained their self-
determination upon the collapse of the
Soviet Union … We will meet the return of
Russian belligerence with the same resolve
that led to the collapse of the Soviet Union.
We will not accept any territorial change in
Eastern Europe imposed by force, in
Ukraine, Georgia, or elsewhere, and will
use all appropriate constitutional measures
to bring to justice the practitioners of
aggression and assassination.”
In other words, rather than heralding a more “conciliatory
tone” from Trump if he was elected, his party’s platform
roundly condemned the Putin government in the Kremlin
and promised to oppose his aggressions with “the same
resolve” President Ronald Reagan showed in the years
leading to the fall of the Soviet Union.
It should be noted that Putin has described the Soviet
Union’s demise as the “greatest geopolitical catastrophe of
the [20th] century.” Ukraine, including the Crimean
peninsula, was part of the Soviet Union until 1991, when it
became an independent nation.
Second, the policies Trump has followed since taking
office display anything but a conciliatory tone toward
Putin and Russian aggression in Ukraine. In a March 1,
2018, dispatch, the Associated Press reported:
“The Trump administration told Congress
on Thursday that it plans to sell Ukraine
210 anti-tank missiles to help it defend its
territory from Russia, in a major escalation
of U.S. lethal assistance to Ukraine’s
military.
“The long-awaited move, which lawmakers
of both parties have been urging for years,
deepens America’s involvement in the
military conflict and may further strain
relations with Moscow. It came the same
day that Russian President Vladimir Putin
announced his country has developed new
nuclear weapons he claims can’t be
intercepted by an enemy.”
It also said:
 “The $47 billion sale includes the 210
American-made Javelin missiles along with
37 command launch units. In anticipation of
the sale, the United States has already
started training Ukraine’s forces on how to
use them.”
The Javelin anti-tank missiles are the key part of the U.S.
arms Ukraine has sought:
Without them, the Ukrainian military is
essentially powerless to stop Russian
tanks. Trump’s giving Ukraine Javelins is
analogous to Reagan’s 1986 decision to
give the Mujahideen in Afghanistan U.S.
Stinger missiles. The shoulder-fired
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Stingers all but neutralized the occupying
Soviet military’s fearsome Hind attack
helicopters and winged aircraft.
Page told the Daily Caller News Foundation on Saturday
that he’s
“having trouble finding any small bit of this
document that rises above completely
ignorance and/or insanity.”
But even if the FBI’s apparent belief about Page’s
influence on Trump on behalf of Russia is accurate,
Trump’s actions as president suggest he didn’t listen to his
former adviser.
 'Undeniable Bias': Navy SEAL Says
Bureaucrats Like Comey Shouldn't Be Off The Hook
For Trump's Russia Comments
EMILY HULSEY
JUL 22, 2018 | 6:50 PM
Eli Crane, Reuters
Eli Crane is a Navy SEAL veteran and the CEO of Bottle
Breacher. He recently provided IJR with his take on
Trump's controversial words at the Helinski U.S.-Russia
press conference, which left many accusing him of treason.
After speaking with Russia President Putin in private,
President Trump stated:
"I have great confidence in my intelligence
people, but I will tell you that President
Putin was extremely strong and powerful in
his denial today.
I have President Putin; he just said it's not
Russia. I will say this: I don't see any
reason why it would be."
He corrected his comments the next day:
“I thought that I made myself very clear, but
having just reviewed the transcript...I
realized that there is a need for some
clarification. The sentence should have
been...'I don't see any reason why it
wouldn't be Russia'.”
Many critics weren't satisfied with Trump's explanation,
and some have called for impeachment.
But according to Crane, they aren't looking at the full
picture:
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You don’t have to look very hard to
understand the kind of damage that folks
like Comey, McCabe, Strzok and Lisa Page
have done to the government agencies
they represent or to the confidence of
Americans and our current leadership. All
you need to do is watch President Trump’s
presser with Putin and his uncertainty on
who to believe to understand the
magnitude of their actions. Many people on
both sides of the aisle saw a US president
in Helsinki side with Putin’s flat out denial
of meddling in our elections over the
analysis of our intelligence communities.
This isn’t what I saw. I saw a president who was very
conflicted and unsure of who to believe with his main
focus being on moving forward with our largest nuclear
adversary. Whether you believe the president made a
mistake or not it was undeniable that our president was
struggling with a case of “who is telling the truth.”
In the aftermath of that meeting, the partisan politics and
words like treason being grossly abused, the thing that
surprises me the most is the one thing that nobody is
talking about. Why was he so unsure? With the recent
history of the major weaponization of government
agencies like the FBI and IRS for political agendas along
with occasional bad intel like WMD’s in Iraq. Is it that
appalling or is it almost understandable?
Crane brought up President Trump's unprecedented public
criticism:
Keep in mind this is the same president
who has probably faced more early
opposition to the legitimacy of his
presidency than any other president before
him. After all he is currently under
investigation from Robert Mueller’s special
council for collusion with Russia during the
campaign leading up to his presidency
though no evidence has been presented
indicating any form of collusion with the
Russians.
Let us also factor in the undeniable bias we have seen from
members of our nation’s premier law enforcement agency
that chose to pursue this investigation into Russian
collusion and dismiss and downgrade the findings of
investigation of Hillary Clinton from grossly negligent to
extremely careless to protect her from criminal liabilities.
Let us also remember that this fuse for the Russia
investigation was lit with a fraudulent dossier that has been
proven to be full of fiction and funded by the Democratic
National Convention. Hmmm….
Eli Crane
He questioned whether leaders of federal agencies who
have high-profile conflicts with Trump can manage to
leave their bias at the door:
In full disclosure my best friend is a federal agent. I know
several of them that work in a variety of rolls underneath
the umbrellas of intelligence and national security. Not to
mention I was a government employee myself for 13
years. I’m fully aware at how hard the men and women in
these fields work to protect our country and provide our
leadership with the best intel possible with the majority of
them being able to look past their own politics and do their
job.
What myself and others are starting to question is whether
the leadership at the highest levels of these organizations
are still carrying out their duties and responsibilities in an
unbiased manner with integrity and honor being top
priorities. Or, like several top agents making the headlines
on a daily basis has their judgment and integrity become
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clouted and compromised. Leading to poor judgement,
integrity violations and outcomes that are pre-determined
in the name of partisan politics.
When you have followed former agency directors like
James Clapper and John Brennan who used to run these
agencies it is very hard to believe that their clear and
undeniable malice against the president didn’t trickle down
into the fabric and makeup of their former agencies like we
are finding it did in the FBI.
And issued a challenge to current agency heads — and all
Americans:
I don’t believe we will have a full damage
assessment for a long time to determine
what steps must be taken to correct the
course and how long will it take to restore
the trust that has been lost. I can tell you
this. Like any good leader, President
Donald Trump wants to be able to trust his
intelligence agencies. Accomplishing his
very robust agenda will be impossible
without it. I also hope that this has served
as another reminder to the rest of our
country as to why honesty and integrity are
so very important.
I’m not sure if any of these agents and department heads
that have been compromised and caught weaponizing their
positions will ever have the situational awareness to realize
how much damage they have done. I can tell you this as a
lifelong patriot. If I was in the president’s shoes I would
probably be very cautious in receiving any analysis at face
value from agencies recently tainted by poor and partisan
leadership until I was certain the proper house cleaning
had been complete.
Crane ended with a pearl of wisdom that's hard to dispute:
“It is important for us all to remember that
trust is earned, it is never freely given. It
also takes one mistake to overshadow a
thousand 'attaboys.'”
 Devin Nunes: 'Time
To Eliminate Redactions'
By Daniel Chaitin
July 22, 2018 07:47 PM | Updated Jul 22, 2018, 11:09 PM

He also stressed that Trump "has got to" declassify the

report.

On Saturday, Trump lashed out at the use of redactions,

focusing his ire at the FISA documents about Page.

Trump said in a pair of tweets that the

Rep. Devin Nunes took jabs at the media and Democrats for going on
"wild rants" after the release of documents related to surveillance
warrants this weekend. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes
says it is "time to eliminate redactions," less than a day
after the Justice Department released top-secret documents
related to the surveillance warrants used to spy on former
Trump campaign aide Carter Page.
The bold statement was made Sunday in conjunction with
jabs at the media and Democrats for going on "wild rants,"
as Nunes shared an opinion piece written by the
Washington Examiner's Byron York, making the case that
those highly redacted 400-plus pages on the 2016
application for the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act
warrant taken out on Page, in addition to three renewal
applications, shows that the House Intelligence Committee
memo on alleged FISA abuse released earlier this year was
"overwhelmingly accurate."
documents were "ridiculously redacted,"
but argued they did show "little doubt" that
the Justice Department and FBI "misled"
the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court
and bolstered his "witch hunt" accusations
about the Mueller probe.
He also called on Republicans to "get tough now," as some
of his Republican allies in Congress called for more of the
documents to be unredacted. Rep. Mark Meadows, head of
the House Freedom Caucus, suggested there was a
"potentially groundbreaking development" being missed in
the public eye.
"The Carter Page FISA docs should be
declassified and further unredacted
(protecting only sources and methods) so
Americans can know the truth," the North
Carolina Republican tweeted. "If the
previous admin was funneling campaign
research toward surveillance, we need to
know."

Nunes has expressed frustration with redactions in the past.

The report the House Intelligence Committee released
earlier this year on Russian interference in the 2016
election contained "page after page" of redactions," Nunes
lamented last week on Fox News. Without those blackouts,
made at the behest of the U.S. intelligence community,
Nunes claimed special counsel Robert Mueller's recent
indictment of 12 Russian officials on charges of hacking
Democrats' computers during the 2016 campaign would
look "ridiculous" because it left out Republicans who were
also targeted.

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Meanwhile, Democrats argued the documents showed
federal officials took appropriate measures to investigate a
suspicious target.
“These documents affirm that our nation
faced a profound counterintelligence threat
prior to the 2016 election, and the
Department of Justice and FBI took
appropriate steps to investigate whether
any U.S. persons were acting as an agent
of a foreign power,” House Intelligence
Committee ranking member Adam Schiff,
D-Calif., said in a statement. “FBI and DOJ
would have been negligent had they not
used all the tools at their disposal, including
Court-authorized FISA surveillance, to
protect the country.”
While the GOP memo was released without redactions, a
Democratic rebuttal memo was made public shortly
thereafter, but with redactions.
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Nunes' Democratic challenger in the 22nd Congressional
District of California this November, Andrew Janz, seized
upon Schiff's criticism that the warrant documents show
that the "Nunes memo" on alleged FISA abuse, released in
February, "misrepresented and distorted these
applications."
"We all know that [Nunes] is a liar but it has
now come to our attention he specifically
lied about the FISA warrant & the FBI.
Going as far to lie about the men & women
tasked with keeping us safe. Nunes must
be removed from HPSCI effective
immediately," Janz tweeted.
On the media front, the Washington Post's Philip Bump
made the opposite argument York did with an opinion
piece titled, "With The Release Of New Documents,
Devin Nunes’s Memo On Carter Page Has Gotten Even
Less Credible."
 IT’S TIME: House Judiciary Committee Targets Fanatical
Anti-Trump Communist John Brennan For Testimony
(Video)
Posted On July 22, 2018

(National Sentinel) Tell-All: Former Director of National
intelligence John Brennan, has been one of the most
outspoken — and unhinged — of all Obama-era Deep
State thugs when it comes to throwing shade at POTUS
Donald Trump.
While pretending to be a “non-partisan American,”
Brennan has been anything but non-partisan, singling out
the president when in fact it’s becoming quite clear that
he once worked for the most corrupt administration
ever to set foot in the people’s White House.
This commie supporter regularly sends out cryptic tweets
regarding special counsel Robert Mueller’s witch hunt
investigation, while dog-whistling his Deep State thug
buddies to step in and overthrow our duly-elected POTUS.
He’s a disgrace and, frankly, he ought to be held
accountable for his part in launching the most criminal
counterintelligence operation ever — Spygate, which
was a sham from the outset.
in very important areas in intelligence
gathering and law enforcement, express
the kind of extreme bias that they’ve shown
now, which I think reflects quite accurately
on what they were doing back in 2016,”
Chairman Bob Goodlatte, R-Va., told Fox
Business‘ Maria Bartiromo on Sunday.
The hostess asked Goodlatte who else in on the list.
“Certainly we will also be talking to Director
Comey and former Attorney General
Loretta Lynch.”
BOOM.
Some people think congressional testimony is a waste of
time. But it’s not; testimony under oath must be truthful
because lying to Congress is a crime. Republicans are
getting testimony on record as they uncover more evidence
of Obama-era malfeasance so folks can be charged
criminally in the future.

Watch:

That time may soon be at hand.

The House Judiciary Committee wants to talk to Brennan.

Seems Republicans, anyway, have a few questions they’d
like him to answer about, oh, various things that have
taken place regarding the Trump campaign in recent
years.

“We have lots of questions for John

Brennan and he will definitely be sought by
the committees for an interview. This is an
extremely disturbing thing to see both he
and James Comey, supposedly impartial
government officials carrying out their jobs

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 Comey To Democrats: ‘Don’t Lose
Your Minds’ And Vote For Left-Wing Socialists
Chuck Ross | Reporter
9:30 PM 07/22/2018
Former FBI Director James Comey offered up his
unsolicited political advice to Democrats on Sunday,
urging members of the party to not “lose your minds and
rush to the socialist left.”
“This president and his Republican Party
are counting on you to do exactly that.
America’s great middle wants sensible,
balanced, ethical leadership.”
Comey did not identify specific politicians in his tweet, but
it appears to be a clear reference to Democrats like
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. The 28-year-old activist
defeated Rep. Joe Crowley, the fourth-ranking Democrat
in the House, in a New York congressional primary last
month.
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Ocasio-Cortez is a member of the Democratic Socialists of
America who supports policies like abolishing the U.S.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Several prominent
national Democrats, including New York Sen. Kirsten
Gillibrand, have latched on to Ocasio-Cortez’ call to
abolish the immigration agency.
Comey’s meddling in Democratic politics likely won’t sit
well with longtime party members. Comey, who was a
registered Republican until recently, received criticism
from both the Left and the Right for a tweet he sent on
Tuesday urging voters to pick Democrats over Republicans
in the November mid-terms.
“This Republican Congress has proven
incapable of fulfilling the Founders’ design
that ‘Ambition must … counteract ambition.’
All who believe in this country’s values
must vote for Democrats this fall. Policy
differences don’t matter right now,” he
wrote.
Brian Fallon, the press secretary for Hillary Clinton’s
campaign, responded to Comey’s tweet, writing:
“Democrats don’t want your endorsement,
but thanks.”
Fallon and others in the Clinton orbit have blamed Comey
for re-opening the Hillary Clinton email investigation in
late October 2016. They have said that the decision cost
Clinton the election.
 Documents Confirm The FBI Paid
Christopher Steele For The Phony Pee-Pee Dossier
By Jim Hoft
July 22, 2018, 10:29 Pm

“Do you know the answer to the

question?” DeSantis asked.
“I believe I know the answer but uh the
Intelligence Committee is the
appropriate committee-” Rosenstein
smugly said.

Rep. DeSantis interrupted Rosenstein and ripped into

him—

“That’s not true! We have oversight over your department

and the FBI and whether public funds were spent on a
dossier-that’s not something that is classified! We have
every right to that information. You should provide it,”

Rosenstein continued to obfuscate as DeSantis grilled him

over the conflicts of interest and corruption in the FBI and
The Obama FBI PAID FOR the Phony DOJ.
Trump pee-pee dossier — Then used
the junk memo to spy on the Trump VIDEO via Media Buzz:
campaign–

Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein testified before

the House Judiciary Committee in December 2017.

Rep. Ron DeSantis asked Rosenstein,

“The Russia investigation. Who started it?

Who was the agent? Was it Strzok who
started it? Who opened the case?”

Rosenstein fidgeted as he answered,

“That matter is under review by the
Intelligence Committee and there is nothing
that I can talk about publicly regarding the
initiation of the investigation.”
Then DeSantis point blank asked rotten
Rosenstein if the FBI paid for Hillary’s
garbage dossier.
“I’m not in position to answer that
question,” Rosenstein answered.
This weekend we found out for certain that the Obama FBI
paid for the phony Steele pee-pee dossier, they then used
this bogus piece of rubbish to spy on the Trump campaign.
This is likely the largest political
scandal in US history.
And the liberal media will not report on
this because they hate Trump and
support these Deep State criminals.
Via The Donald Reddit:

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 POTUS Trump Threatens Iranian President Rouhani
‘Consequences Like Few Have Ever Suffered’
By Cristina Laila
July 22, 2018, 10:45 Pm

Trump tweeted:

To Iranian President Rouhani: NEVER,

EVER THREATEN THE UNITED STATES
AGAIN OR YOU WILL SUFFER
CONSEQUENCES THE LIKES OF WHICH
FEW THROUGHOUT HISTORY HAVE
EVER SUFFERED BEFORE. WE ARE NO
LONGER A COUNTRY THAT WILL
STAND FOR YOUR DEMENTED WORDS
OF VIOLENCE & DEATH. BE CAUTIOUS!

BREAKING NEWS.
President Trump threatened Iranian
President Rouhani Sunday evening.

The Iranian president warned Trump earlier Sunday, “You

are not in a position to incite the Iranian nation against
Iran’s security and interests,” Rouhani said “War with Iran
is the mother of all wars.” This is a breaking story. Please refresh page for updates.

President Trump unleashed on Rouhani and reminded him

a new Sheriff is in town.

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 Poll: A Staggering Number Of Republicans
Approve Of Trump’s Helsinki Performance
Scott Morefield | Reporter
10:49 PM 07/22/2018
Two-thirds (66 percent) of Republicans give President
Trump high marks for how he handled Russian President
Vladimir Putin in Helsinki last week, according to a new
Washington Post-ABC News poll.
Although 50 percent of Americans overall disagree with
Trump’s handling of Putin in Helsinki, 33 percent approve
and 18 percent have no opinion at all on the matter.
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The Post admitted in the report on its poll that those
opinions aren’t moving the needle on Trump’s overall
approval.
The findings indicate that while Trump was judged
critically for his summit performance, the event has not at
this time proved to be a significant turning point in his
presidency, despite the sharp criticism he received in the
hours and days after the meeting and the multiple efforts
by White House officials and the president to clarify his
remarks in Helsinki. The poll results suggest that overall
attitudes toward the president have hardened on both sides
and that major events like Helsinki produce only modest
changes in his overall standing, if any.
Authors Scott Clement and Dan Balz added that
“public reaction nationally appears more
muted than in Washington where Trump
faced withering bipartisan criticism for
appearing to side with Putin over U.S.
intelligence agencies at a Monday news
conference in Helsinki.”
Further, a majority of Americans do not agree with the
contention that Trump went “too far” in supporting the
Russian president. While 40 percent did think the president
went “too far” in supporting Putin, 35 percent considered
his take “about right” and 15 percent think he didn’t go far
enough.
A question about whether America’s leadership has gotten
weaker or stronger under Trump actually improved from
the last poll by 10 percentage points.
The nationwide poll of 464 random adults was conducted
from July 18-20 using both cellphones and landlines, and
has a margin of error if 5.5 points, according to the Post.
 POLL: Trump’s Current
Approval Rating Highest Ever, Stuns MSNBC
Mike Brest | Contributor
2:05 AM 07/23/2018
President Trump’s approval rating jumped up to 45
percent, the highest it has been throughout his presidency,
according to a new poll released by the Wall Street Journal
and NBC. The poll left an MSNBC panel shocked Sunday
night by the improvement.
WATCH:
“President Trump has shown throughout
his campaign and polling what I took away
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from the 2016 election is the American
people authenticity,” said Kevin McLaughlin
of Cogent Strategies Principle. “May not
like what authenticity is, what he’s saying
or how he’s doing it, but he doesn’t back
down from it. When he goes out and does
these events, I will call them, it actually
helps him in fly over country.”
“He defies political gravity,” he continued.
“So is he right when he basically says he
‘can walk down Fifth Avenue and shoot
people’ and people would still stand with
him?” asked host Kasie Hunt.
According to the poll, President Trump’s approval rating
was up one point from the month of June, at 45 percent.
88 percent of the Republicans surveyed approved of the
job the president is doing.
“President Donald Trump’s approval rating
edged higher during a week in which he
faced withering criticism following a summit
with Russian President Vladimir Putin,
signaling that he is positioned to weather
the latest controversy sparked by his
unusual brand of politics,” the Journal said.
The survey was conducted from July 15-19, a day before
the president’s highly criticized press conference with
Russian President Vladimir Putin. It spanned past the
length of the controversy. While the president received
heavy backlash for his comments, it clearly was not
reflected in his approval rating.
 Trey Gowdy PROVES Trump Didn’t Collude With Russia
With Just 6 Words! (Video)
By Admin
Posted On July 23, 2018

Steele’s dossier, which received funding from the Clinton

campaign, DNC, and Obama’s “Organizing for America.”

Those facts alone are evidence that there isn’t any real
collusion, a point which Gowdy played off on Fox. While
every inappropriate comment made in a Trump staff
meeting seems to get leaked, how could proof of Russian
collusion not be?

“I have not seen one scintilla of evidence

Trey Gowdy appeared on “Fox News Sunday” to discuss that this president colluded, conspired,
the new revelations from the FBI’s FISA warrant collaborated, with Russia. And neither has
application that was used to spy on Trump associate Carter anyone else, or you can rest assured,
Page (among other subjects). The FISA application more Adam Schiff would have leaked it,”
or less confirms every suspicion that conservatives had. Gowdy said. “That is why they have moved
on from collusion on to obstruction of
justice, which is now their current
Within the first few pages of the application, it’s
preoccupation.”
confirmed that the FISA application relied heavily on
information from British spy Christopher Steele’s
infamous anti-Trump dossier. Steele is referred to
throughout the application as “Source 1.”

So in other words, it was a foreign spy meddling in our

election that the FBI used to justify spying on Carter Page,
on the basis that Page was acting with foreign powers to
meddle in our election.

A bit ironic, but also disturbing, because it shows that the

FBI was influenced by Clinton-funded partisan research.
As you may remember, it was Fusion GPS funding
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 Liberals Savage James Comey
For Unsolicited Advice To Democrats
Scott Morefield | Reporter
2:23 AM 07/23/2018

Former FBI Director James Comey’s unsolicited Twitter

advice to Democrats on Sunday turned out to be not as
welcome as he likely had hoped.

“Democrats, please, please don’t lose your

minds and rush to the socialist left,” Comey
tweeted Sunday afternoon. “This president
and his Republican Party are counting on
you to do exactly that. America’s great
middle wants sensible, balanced, ethical
leadership.”

Turns out, not every Democrat welcomed the advice from

the former director. Comey was blasted on all fronts
Sunday by former Democratic staffers, pundits,
Hollywood types, and media members, all telling the
former FBI director that his advice was unwelcome.

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 CONFIRMED: The FBI Paid British Spy Christopher
Steele For The BOGUS Trump ‘Pee’ Dossier
Posted On July 23, 2018
(National Sentinel) Set-up: In mid-December, Deputy
Attorney General Rod Rosenstein appeared before the
House Judiciary Committee to provide testimony into the
FBI’s relationship to the widely discredited “Russia
dossier.”
We now know that unsubstantiated, unconfirmed
document was used as the basis for the FBI’s Foreign
Intelligence Surveillance Act request to spy on minor 2016
Trump campaign figure Carter Page.
During his testimony, Rosenstein was asked some point-
blank questions about the dossier, which alleged —
among other things — that Donald Trump rented the same
hotel room in Moscow that the Obamas had stayed in a
couple years earlier and hired hookers to pee on the bed —
in what’s called a “golden shower.”
During testimony, Rosenstein refused to answer a
congressman’s direct question as to whether the FBI
helped pay for the now-infamous “Trump dossier.”
In response to the question from Rep. Ron DeSantis, R-
Fla., Rosenstein suggested he knew the answer but would
not say for certain.
“Did the FBI pay for the dossier?” DeSantis
asked.
“I’m not in a position to answer that
question,” Rosenstein responded.
“Do you know the answer to the question?” the Republican
DeSantis followed up.
.
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“I believe I know the answer, but the
Intelligence Committee is the appropriate
committee…” Rosenstein began.
That led DeSantis to interject that his panel “had every
right to the information” about payments related to the
dossier, especially since the Judiciary Committee has
oversight over the Department of Justice, which the FBI
falls under.
“That’s not true! We have oversight over
your department and the FBI and whether
public funds were spent on a dossier-that’s
not something that is classified! We have
every right to that information. You should
provide it,” he said.
What an outrage!
Over the weekend, a trove of documents
the Justice Department finally provided to
Judicial Watch after a year reveal the
truth: Yes, the FBI paid for the bogus
dossier that was subsequently used as the
basis for an equally bogus
“counterintelligence” operation —
“Spygate” — against the 2016 Trump
campaign.
Per The Donald Reddit:
And just who was it the FBI paid? Former
British spy Christopher Steele, whose
name is ridiculously redacted in this
heavily-redacted portion of Judicial Watch
documents.
This is the biggest scandal in the history of the country,
and of course, the disgustingly dishonest establishment
media is sitting it out.
 New FISA Evidence Shows
Dirty Rod Rosenstein Is Corrupt To The Core —
Needs To Be Questioned And Punished
By Jim Hoft
July 23, 2018, 8:30 Am

“I believe I know the answer but uh the

Intelligence Committee is the
appropriate committee-” Rosenstein
smugly said.

Rep. DeSantis interrupted Rosenstein and ripped into

him—

“That’s not true! We have oversight over

your department and the FBI and whether
public funds were spent on a dossier-that’s
not something that is classified! We have
every right to that information. You should
provide it,”

The Obama FBI PAID FOR the Phony Rosenstein continued to obfuscate as DeSantis grilled him
Trump pee-pee dossier — Then used over the conflicts of interest and corruption in the FBI and
the junk memo to spy on the Trump DOJ.
campaign–
VIDEO via Media Buzz:
Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein testified before
the House Judiciary Committee in December 2017.

Rep. Ron DeSantis asked Rosenstein,

“The Russia investigation. Who started it?

Who was the agent? Was it Strzok who
started it? Who opened the case?”

Rosenstein fidgeted as he answered,

“That matter is under review by the

Intelligence Committee and there is nothing
that I can talk about publicly regarding the
initiation of the investigation.”
Then DeSantis point blank asked rotten Rosenstein if the
FBI paid for Hillary’s garbage dossier.
“I’m not in position to answer that question,”
Rosenstein answered.
“Do you know the answer to the
question?” DeSantis asked.
This weekend we found out for certain that the Obama FBI
paid for the phony Steele pee-pee dossier, they then used
this bogus piece of rubbish to spy on the Trump campaign.
On Monday morning Judicial Watch
founder Tom Fitton told FOX and
Friends that Deputy Attorney General
needs to be questioned following these
new revelations.

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 Rosenstein likely committed several
criminal acts for his role in the Trump
witch hunt.

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 Dan Bongino Goes Off: Adam Schiff’s A ‘Fraud, Liar And
Disgrace – An Embarrassment To Himself” (VIDEO)
By Jim Hoft
July 23, 2018, 8:45 Am

Schiff has been the lead hoaxer. He’s been

out on television now for a year looking in
the face of you, America, and lying to every
one of you in an effort to distract the entire
country on a hoax Russia scandal. He is a
fraud and should be called out as one.

Apparently, Bongino is not a Shiff fan.

Former Secret Service official Dan Bongino went off on

fraudster, liar Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) today following
the latest release of FISA memos this weekend that prove
the Obama Deep State began spying on the Donald Trump
campaign based on a fraudulent document paid for by
Hillary, the DNC and the Obama FBI.

This latest revelation is devastating and could lead to

criminal charges against several Obama officials.

Dan Bongino:

I believe Schiff is a fraud, a liar, a

disgrace. He’s an embarrassment to
himself, Congress, the country. Adam

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 Senator Rand Paul Meeting With Trump To Request John
Brennan’s Security Clearance Be Revoked
By Cassandra Fairbanks
July 23, 2018, 9:25 Am
Senator Rand Paul will be meeting with President Donald
Trump on Monday afternoon to request that disgraced
former CIA Director John Brennan have his security
clearance revoked.
Brennan has been working in the media and bashing
Trump for airtime, even accusing the president of treason
following the meeting with Russian President Vladimir
Putin in a series of unhinged tweets.
“Is John Brennan monetizing his security
clearance? Is John Brennan making
millions of dollars divulging secrets to the
mainstream media with his attacks on
@realDonaldTrump?” Paul tweeted on
Monday morning.
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The Kentucky senator added that,
“today I will meet with the President and I
will ask him to revoke John Brennan’s
security clearance!”
On Sunday, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob
Goodlatte announced that his committee will call Brennan
to testify about his role in the Russia scandal.
“We have lots of questions for John
Brennan and he will definitely be sought by
the committees for an interview,”
Goodlatte, R-Va., told Maria
Bartiromo during an interview on “Sunday
Morning Futures.” “This is an extremely
disturbing thing to see both he and [former
FBI Director] James Comey, supposedly
impartial government officials carrying out
their jobs in very important areas in
intelligence gathering and law enforcement,
express the kind of extreme bias that
they’ve shown now — which I think reflects
quite accurately what they were doing back
in 2016.”
Earlier this month, Senator Paul blasted John Brennan on
Twitter, also demanding that he testify before Congress
about what information he received from British
intelligence sources about President Trump or his
campaign.
“BIG question for John Brennan, who has
become such a vocal spokesman. Did you
receive any secret info on candidate Trump
 or his campaign from European or British
intelligence sources? Brennan should be
brought before Congress & made to testify
under oath, NOW!” Senator Paul tweeted.
“What did John Brennan know and
when did he know it? We deserve
.
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answers. Of course, last time he
testified in Congress he perjured
himself, but it’s certainly worth dragging
him in here and trying,” Doug Stafford,
Chief Strategist for Rand Paul, told The
Gateway Pundit at the time.
 President Trump’s Numbers Increase After Helsinki
Meeting – Among Best Presidential Approval
Numbers In A Century
By Jim Hoft
July 23, 2018, 10:34 Am

President Trump’s approval ratings

went up in spite of the media onslaught
after the Russian summit in Helsinki.
Members of the far-left MSM cannot
understand how this can be.

According to Mediaite –

It has been a week of brutal criticism aimed

at President Donald Trump, but according
to a new Wall Street Journal/NBC poll,
Trump’s poll numbers are actually up.
“President Donald Trump’s approval rating
edged higher during a week in which he
faced withering criticism following a summit
with Russian President Vladimir Putin,
signaling that he is positioned to weather
the latest controversy sparked by his
unusual brand of politics,” the WSJ reports.

They add this:

“Mr. Trump’s job approval rose to 45% in a

new Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll,
the highest mark of his presidency and up
1 percentage point from June.”
Americans can see the President’s
In addition the President’s approval by member of his own efforts are helping the country.
party are some of the highest ratings of any President over Republicans are as happy about the
the past century –
President as any President in history.
MAGA
.

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 THE GLOVES ARE OFF=> President Trump Calls For
Mueller’s “Discredited” Witch Hunt To End After Carter
Page FISA Docs Released
By Cristina Laila
July 23, 2018, 11:25 Am

President Trump then quoted fearless warrior,

President of Judicial Watch Tom Fitton.

Trump tweeted: “It was classified to cover up misconduct

by the FBI and the Justice Department in misleading the
Court by using this Dossier in a dishonest way to gain a
warrant to target the Trump Team. This is a Clinton
Campaign document. It was a fraud and a hoax designed to
target Trump….

On Monday morning, President Trump

renewed his calls for the Mueller witch
hunt to end after the Carter Page FISA
docs confirmed what we knew to be true
— the entire Russian collusion hoax
was made up and funded by Hillary
Clinton and executed by Obama’s
corrupt DOJ and FBI.
Round two….and the DOJ, FBI and Obama Gang need to
President Trump did not hold back. He went after Crooked be held to account. Source #1 was the major source.
Hillary, Obama’s gang, the corrupt FBI/DOJ and Mueller. Avoided talking about it being the Clinton campaign
behind it. Misled the Court to provide a pretext to SPY on
Trump tweeted: So we now find out that it was indeed the the Trump Team. Not about Carter Page..was all about
unverified and Fake Dirty Dossier, that was paid for by getting Trump…..
Crooked Hillary Clinton and the DNC, that was knowingly
& falsely submitted to FISA and which was responsible for
starting the totally conflicted and discredited Mueller
Witch Hunt!

In his final tweet, the President called

for the Mueller’s “discredited” witch
hunt to be shut down.

Trump tweeted: …..”Carter Page wasn’t a spy, wasn’t an

agent of the Russians – he would have cooperated with the

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FBI. It was a fraud and a hoax designed to target Trump.”
Tom Fitton @JudicialWatch A disgrace to America. They
should drop the discredited Mueller Witch Hunt now!
Thanks to Judicial Watch, the Carter Page FISA docs were
released over the weekend.
Although the documents were dishonestly and heavily
redacted, they confirm the FBI and DOJ misled the FISA
courts.
Obama’s Deep State FBI and DOJ obtained a FISA
warrant on Carter Page in October of 2016 and three
subsequent renewals in order to spy on Trump’s campaign
and transition team.
Comey, Rosenstein, McCabe and Sally Yates all signed
the FISA applications even though Hillary’s fraudulent
Russia dossier was used as a pretext to obtain the warrants.
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The docs also reveal the FBI used anti-Trump media
reports from liberal news sites in order to obtain the Carter
Page FISA warrants.
President of Judicial Watch, Tom Fitton
called the circular evidence of Hillary’s
phony dossier leaked to the media–then
media articles citing the dossier in turn
being used to obtain a FISA warrant a
“self-licking ice cream cone.”
Both Mueller and Rosenstein need to be fired and
prosecuted. Rosenstein signed off on the FISA applications
knowing Hillary’s phony dossier was used as evidence to
obtain a FISA warrant and Mueller used Hillary’s dossier
as evidence to hunt down Trump’s associates.
.
 Dan Bongino Calls Democratic Rep Adam Schiff A ‘Fraud
And A Liar’ For Pushing Russian ‘Hoax’ Scandal
Nick Givas | Media And Politics Reporter
12:38 PM 07/23/2018

Political commentator Dan Bongino called Democratic distract the entire country on a hoax Russia
Rep. Adam Schiff of California a “fraud and a liar” on scandal.”
“Fox & Friends” Monday, for pushing a false narrative of
“He is a fraud. And he should be called out
the Russia investigation.
as a fraud,” Bongino concluded. “He has
been lying to everyone.”
“Fox & Friends” played a clip of Schiff claiming
President Donald Trump is acting as if he’s been
WATCH:
“compromised” by the Russian government
and Bongino responded by calling Schiff’s credibility into
question.

Bongino said Schiff has been lying to the American people

and is trying to lend credence to a “hoax,” in an attempt to
derail the Trump administration.

“I think Schiff’s a fraud. A liar, a disgrace.

He’s an embarrassment to himself, the
Congress, the country,” Bongino said.
“Adam Schiff has been the lead hoaxer.
He’s s been out there on television for a
year looking in the face of you, America,
and lying to every one of you in an effort to
.

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 GOP House Intel Committee
Asks President Trump To Declassify
Carter Page FISA Docs
By Cristina Laila
July 23, 2018, 12:39 Pm
House GOP Intel Committee members
asked President Trump last month to
declassify the Carter Page FISA docs, in
a letter obtained by Fox News’ Catherine
Herridge.
Thanks to Judicial Watch, the Carter Page FISA docs were
released over the weekend after the watchdog filed a FOIA
lawsuit.
Although the documents were dishonestly and heavily
redacted, they confirm the FBI and DOJ misled the FISA
courts.
Comey, Rosenstein, McCabe and Sally Yates all signed
the FISA applications even though Hillary’s fraudulent
Russia dossier was used as a pretext to obtain the warrants.
GOP lawmakers led by House Intel Committee Chairman
Devin Nunes (R-CA) are asking President Trump to
declassify the document.
“The FBI’s own Domestic Investigations
and Operations Guide (known as the
DIOG) prohibits the FBI from using
unverified material to obtain a warrant
under FISA. The unverified allegations in
the dossier were nevertheless presented to
the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court
(FISC) to obtain a FISA warrant and three
renewals on Mr. Page. DOJ also presented
a news article that was sourced from the
author of the dossier,” the letter states.
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Fox News reported:
“Because DOJ (Department of Justice) and
FBI continue to obstruct the Committee’s
investigation, it is time to put the facts in
the public domain,” the letter, dated June
14, states.
See at end of this article.
The 13 Republicans on the committee, including
committee chairman Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif., state in
the letter that the declassification should be consistent
“with the need to protect intelligence
sources and methods,” adding that the
declassification will “enable the public to
understand the DOJ’s and FBI’s basis for
obtaining the FISA warrant and three
subsequent renewals.”
“… [W]e respectfully request that you
declassify and release publicly, and in
unredacted form, pages 10-12 and 17-34,
along with all associated footnotes, of the
third renewal of the FISA application on Mr.
Page,” the letter states. “That renewal was
filed in June 2017 and signed by Deputy
Attorney General Rod Rosenstein.”
The letter states, that on its face, the bureau’s reliance on
the dossier appears to violate strict, internal FBI rules.
“The Committee’s investigative findings
include DOJ’s and FBI’s use of an
unverified dossier of memoranda that was
not subjected to proper U.S. government
verification and was not handled according
to FBI procedures,” the letter says.
Other GOP lawmakers such as Freedom
Caucus Chairman Mark Meadows (R-
NC) and Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-NY) called
for the FISA docs to be declassified.
 House Judiciary Chairman Bob
Goodlatte (R-VA) said he read the Carter
Page FISA docs and the American
people have a right to know the truth.

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 Scarborough Claims 80 Percent Of Republicans
Say They Like Trump ‘Doing The Bidding Of Putin’
Nick Givas | Media And Politics Reporter
12:59 PM 07/23/2018

list of GOP accomplishments would not translate into

success at the polls.

WATCH:

MSNBC host Joe Scarborough claimed 80 percent of the

Republican Party likes seeing President Donald Trump
“doing the bidding” of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
“71 to 80 percent of Republicans say they
liked Donald Trump basically doing the
Scarborough claimed Democrats were going to ride a blue bidding of Putin,” he continued.
wave in the upcoming midterm elections and accused GOP
voters of supporting Trump’s “cozying up to a KGB spy.” “Undermining U.S. Foreign policy for the
past 50 years and picking up what was
Soviet policy for 50 years. Who knows?” he
“After the Democrats win big in the fall — I
concluded. “Maybe that’s the Republican
don’t know. The Republicans — more Party or maybe it’s just blind brand loyalty.
Republicans support Donald Trump now
Either way, I don’t think that drives people
than they ever have, which means that
to the polls in November.”
more, you know 71 percent to 80 percent of
Republicans said they liked the side of
Donald Trump cozying up to a KGB spy This isn’t the first time Scarborough has accused the
and appearing to be his dupe,” Republican Party of wanting to do Putin’s commands. Any
Scarborough said on “Morning Joe” effort by the GOP to impeach Deputy Attorney General
Monday. Rod Rosenstein would be “doing Vladimir Putin’s
bidding,” he said on July 16.
Scarborough continued to bash Republican voters for their
“blind brand loyalty” to Trump and predicted the current
.

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 MSNBC Conspiracy Theorist
Maddow Fears Trump Is Really A ‘Foreign Agent’
By Kristine Marsh
July 23, 2018 12:59 PM EDT
Apparently sharing your wacky conspiracy theories is what
counts for as news these days on MSNBC. Host Rachel
Maddow sat down with Joy Reid on her AM Joy show July
21 to freak out about President Trump’s press conference
with Vladimir Putin last week, gushing that his behavior
clearly meant that he was secretly colluding with the
Russians.
AM Joy host Joy Reid introduced her fellow MSNBC host
by complimenting her as someone who thought with a
clear head above the chaos of the news cycle. Which made
Maddow’s comments afterwards all the more ironic:
JOY REID: I don't know about you, but we
here at AM Joy our heads have been
spinning with the nonstop barrage of news
this week, so I turned to our in-house
expert of making sense of all things
madness. Rachel Maddow.
Reid went on to portray the media’s dogged attempt to
prove President Trump colluded with Russia to win the
election as a never-ending battle, and asked Maddow if the
press conference was finally the answer to what they had
been searching for.
Maddow claimed this was the first time the country
collectively got upset at Trump for how he handled himself
around Putin, asking if he was “subordinate to a foreign
power.”
“All of a sudden the country has new clarity
about the extremity of the concern about
the president,” she gushed, adding that it
was already established that Russia
colluded to help Trump win the 2016
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election and that more “time” was needed
to prove that his team willingly worked with
them to make that happen.
All things considered, she bemoaned,
“The worst case scenario that the
president is a foreign agent suddenly
feels very palpable:”
REID: I feel like we have spent the last two
years doing one story, right? Doing a lot of
different angles on this one story. We keep
in a way, I feel, getting tricked -- turning
point, turning point, turning point. Things
keep feeling like a turning point. I wonder
from your point of view, having done this,
again, two years, did Helsinki feel like a
turning point in this Russia saga?
MADDOW: The thing that feels new after
Helsinki is that the country is shook up and
freaked out about it. I mean, the president
being oddly and inexplicably and
completely deferential to Vladimir Putin is
no big surprise. If he had been anything
other than that it would’ve been a big
surprise. The thought of him doing that to
his face, instead of just presumably on their
bat phone or however they communicate.
….
But the fact he did that in person standing next to Putin
that shook the country. And I think -- I don't think
Republicans are excluded from that.
 And so I think what that means is the
president is not necessarily doing anything
new but all of a sudden the country has
new clarity about the extremity of the
concern about the president. It's not just
did the president get help from Russia
to win his election? Yes, he did. What
kind of documentation is there and what
evidence will ultimately turn up about
whether his campaign knowingly
accepted that help or maybe worked
collectively with the Russians in order
to pull off their hack, that continues to
be the legal battle that we watch unfold,
but there's this base level question. Like
maybe we've taken so many turning
points, we've turned so many corners,
we're back where we started.
The basic question which I think rung
so loud for everybody in the country
this week was, is our president
subordinate to a foreign power? Does
our president answer to a foreign
government and a foreign leader? And
that's private meeting with Putin where
nobody knows what he promised or
what he may have given away. The way
he responded to Putin when we saw him
face-to-face and then the fact that he
took under consideration all of these
demands from Russia, including
handing over Americans to Russia for
interrogation. That just -- you know, it
makes the worst case scenario really
palpable. The worst case scenario that
the president is a foreign agent
suddenly feels very palpable.
Reid agreed, asking Maddow if Trump really agreed
politically with Putin or if he was being “intimidated” to
be deferential. Citing “spy movies,” Maddow theorized
that Putin’s hold on Trump was more subtle than what they
had been looking for. Claiming that Trump “feared” Putin,
she argued that he “compromised” and “betrayed” the U.S.
by acting in lock-step with the Russian leader:
REID: There are two ways to look at the
way Donald Trump responded to Vladimir
Putin. He did sort of shrink before our eyes
standing next to him. But there are two
ways to look at that. Either Donald Trump
.
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is ideologically aligned with Vladimir Putin
and he just shares his world view and he
couldn't hide it because he shares it or to
your reporter's eye did that look like
intimidation?
MADDOW:I don't know. I don't know body
language and I don't know those two things
are exclusive to each other. You know, the
more that I talk to intelligence professionals
and people who have brought espionage
cases and people who have really dealt
with these spy movie scenarios in real life,
the more you hear that the behavior of a
compromised person, a person who is
effectively coerced because of
something, not a foreign leader, a
foreign government, foreign intelligence
service has over them, the more subtle
the signs can be. It may not be totally
transactional. It may not be, we've got
this thing about you that we're going to
expose unless you do our bidding.
Therefore, hand us this secret. It may
not always be transactional. It may be
there's just a fear factor where that
person who is compromised knows they
need to align themselves in every way
completely with the views and the
preferences of the person who has
something on them. So, it may be that
they just line up all of their values, their
policy positions, their ideologies,
anything else that you need so they'll
never be out of step with the person
who effectively controls them. You don't
need a pay me back, pay me back, pay
me back transactional interaction in
order to live as a compromised person
and betray your country in that way.
Of course this entire argument ignores the fact that
Trump’s actions on Russia have been much different and
much harsher than his rhetoric at that press conference.
It seems like pinning Trump as a traitor to his country is
the left’s latest far-fetched attempt to oust him out of
office. NewsBusters recently compiled a video highlighting
the worst of the media’s attacks calling Trump
“treasonous” in over 7 hours of programming on CNN
alone.
 FOX News Goes Full MSM; Informs
Top Reporters To Cease & Desist Investigations Of FBI
And Obama-Era Corruption
By Admin
Posted On July 23, 2018
Fox News in recent days told its top reporters to cease and
desist working on any investigative stories that expose FBI
corruption and probes of wrongdoing during the Barack
Obama administration.
“This place has gone downhill fast,” a well-
placed Fox insider said. “Basically we all
have been told all Fox wants is to cover
breaking news and have pundits talk about
breaking news live from news published by
other outlets.
So the format Fox wants for the future is
network personalities talking about the
news other people break, not Fox.”
That format does not include investigative or enterprising
journalism, another Fox source confirmed.
“Fox quit, threw in the towel,” the second
source said. “The Murdochs don’t want to
make any waves during their bid to
purchase Sky News and this is the
direction Fox is going. No original
investigative pieces.”
What happens if reporters pursue government corruption
stories anyway?
“They won’t see the light of day,” one
source said. “Fox is withholding many
stories now.”
Fox reporters are updating their resumes and looking for
new jobs.
Just weeks ago, shocking allegations emerged from FOX
News as officials probe a top executive who has reportedly
allowed his anti-Trump politics to prevent the network
from publishing breaking political and national security
stories that would reflect positively on President Trump
and his administration.
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Now the network brass have embraced that ridiculous and
biased mantra.
FOX News’ Vice President of News & its D.C.
bureau Managing Editor is under investigation for killing
stories detailing FBI corruption as well as national
security exposés uncovering corruption during the Barack
Obama administration, according to well-placed sources
inside the network.
Bill Sammon runs FOX’s behemoth D.C. bureau operation
and is the Vice President of news at FOX. Sammon has
come under fire after distraught employees complained
that he has interjected his personal politics into FOX’s
news content, dictating what stories could be published by
the network and on FOX’s website.
No, this is not CNN. This is “fair and balanced” FOX
News.
One official said a formal complaints have been filed
against the top editor and executive.
Sammon is the boss of a number of staff and writers in
FOX’s powerhouse D.C. bureau, just a stone’s throw from
the Capitol. His understudies include Catherine Herridge,
FOX’s top national security reporter. Herridge did not
return requests for comment to this story.
“Sammon is a never-Trumper” one FOX official said.
“He hates Trump’s guts and has spiked just
about every story that could make Trump
look good. That includes FBI corruption
because it vindicates the president for firing
(James) Comey and hammering (Andrew)
McCabe.”
In the news business when an editor or publisher
deliberately tables or hides a story it is referred to as
“spiking” a story. Sammon, according to network
insiders, has spiked dozens of top-level stories and
prevented FOX reporters from publishing exclusives.
Now the top brass at FOX are examining a number of
similar allegations.
What stories have been reportedly sand bagged and
tampered with? According to FOX insiders, the stories and
subject matter are sweeping and include:
 An Eric Schneiderman story linking the now-disgraced
former New York attorney general to a clandestine
movement of government officials to unseat Trump
from the White House.
 FBI-related scandals involving Andrew McCabe, James
Comey and more FBI top brass.
 The FBI’s investigation of Gen. Mike Flynn
 Justice Department and FBI corruption linked to the
bogus Trump dossier and problematic FISA court
warrants and wiretaps.
 Bill Clinton and Loretta Lynch infamous tarmac
meeting.
 The Susan Rice unmasking story which included other
implicated members of the Obama administration.
Those additional administration officials were never
identified by FOX although stories detailing their
involvement were completed.
 New revelations about former Attorney General Eric
Holder’s criminal role in the Fast & Furious gun-running
scandal.
 New revelations about Hillary Clinton’s and Barack
Obama’s role in the tainted Benghazi debacle.
 Additional stories.
Sammon from a Conservative Treehouse photo
“Sammon is compromised,” one FOX
official said, calling him a political activist.
One FOX insider said Sammon even added material to
stories that was not fact based or from a reporter’s research
and sources.
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“We were wrong on a big big story because
Sammon insisted on adding unsolicited
material to stories,” he said. “He put his
own shit into a big story. You don’t do this
kind of thing.”
Shockingly, stories from FOX reporters on FBI corruption
and Obama-linked scandals were held for months until
other news agencies broke the same stories, FOX sources
revealed. Then, sources said, Sammon would release
FOX’s stories.
It was Sammon in fact who wrote the debate questions for
the infamous FOX News 2016 presidential debates. Yes,
that included the debate where Megyn Kelly attacked
Donald Trump. Later it was revealed Sammon’s daughter
served as a top official in the Marco Rubio campaign
during the two nationally-televised FOX debates. Even
Trump officials lamented Rubio likely had an unfair
advantage during those debates.
Rubio is no fan of Trump.
Nor, apparently, is Sammon’s daughter.
Before Rubio, Sammon’s daughter previously worked on
Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign in 2012.
Romney is no fan of Trump.
FOX’s Sammon did not return a request for comment.
Sammon, who has previously written numerous glowing
books on the George W. Bush presidency, remains good
friends with the Bush family, sources said.
The Bush family is no fan of Trump.
Sammon became Washington managing editor in February
2009. One veteran described FOX News’ D.C operation
today, under Sammon’s leadership, in simplistic terms.
“It’s a fucking mess,” the FOX veteran said.
“Total mess.”
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This story is developing.
As a side note, this sounds like the type of story self-
appointed media CZAR Howard Kurtz should be reporting
about.
Whoops, we forgot. Kutz works for FOX too.
In Major Blow To Mueller, Manafort Judge Orders Special
Counsel To Publicly Name Five Witnesses Given Immunity
By Cristina Laila
July 23, 2018, 1:01 Pm
In a ruling Monday, Judge T.S. Ellis, a
Reagan appointee ordered Mueller to
publicly name the five witnesses who
got immunity–a huge blow to the
Special Counsel.
T.S. Ellis, III, Senior U.S. District Judge for the Eastern District of
Va, at the Investiture ceremony of Stuart Nash to be Associate Judge
at the D.C. Superior Court. June 4, 2010. Photo by Diego M.
Radzinschi/THE NATIONAL LAW JOURNAL.
Far-left Politico reported:
A federal judge ruled Monday that special
counsel Robert Mueller must make public
the identities of five witnesses that his
prosecutors have granted immunity in
exchange for their testimony at the
upcoming criminal trial of former Donald
Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort.
.
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U.S. District Court Judge T.S. Ellis III gave the order to
unseal the witnesses’ identities, as well as a complete list
of who is going to be called by prosecutors to testify, at the
end of a 30-minute hearing in his Alexandria, Virginia,
courtroom that primarily revolved around Manafort’s
motion to postpone his case until he’s finished fighting a
separate suite of charges brought by Mueller in
Washington.
Ellis heard arguments on Manafort’s plea for the delay —
with the longtime GOP operative seated at the defense
table, clean shaven and in his green jail jumpsuit — and
said he would release a decision at 2 p.m.
For now, potential jurors for Manafort’s Virginia trial are
expected to arrive at the federal courthouse on Tuesday,
with jury selection set to begin on Wednesday.
Last Tuesday, Robert Mueller sought to give immunity to
five potential witnesses in the Paul Manafort trial
according to a court filing.
Mueller filed the requests under seal; Manafort is facing
charges of bank and tax fraud and his trial begins
Wednesday in the Eastern District of Virginia.
The five potential witnesses have not been charged and
now Judge Ellis is ordering Mueller to release their names
to the public.
Fox News’ Tucker Carlson announced last Thursday
evening that two separate sources confirmed to him
Mueller offered Tony Podesta immunity.
Tony Podesta is brother to Hillary Clinton’s former
campaign chair, John Podesta which is why he’s getting
special treatment from dirty cop Mueller.
Tony Podesta is the 6th Clinton-linked Democrat to be
granted immunity while Paul Manafort rots in prison for
the same exact alleged crime.
 'The Crazies Were Right, And I Was Wrong': Former
Federal Prosecutor Speaks Of 'Rogue'
FBI & FISA Court Abuses
By Susan Duclos - All News Pipeline
July 23, 2018

We need full disclosure — the warrants,

the applications, the court proceedings. No
more games.

On Saturday, July 21, 2018, McCarthy partially got his

wish. The FBI/DOJ dumped 412 pages of documents
related to the FISA surveillance warrants for Carter Page,
including the applications, the certifications, and the
warrants themselves. (The 412 page release is embedded at
the bottom of this article)

I say McCarthy only partially got his wish because the

Former Federal Prosecutor Andrew McCarthy, while being
critical of many aspects of the special counsel probe into
Russian collusion with the Trump campaign, had long
maintained that the FISA warrants obtained by the
FBI/DOJ, were applied for and granted properly, until the
controversial Nunes' memo regarding FISA abuses was
release, and later confirmed by the Senate Judiciary
Commitees Grassley-Graham memo back in February
2018.
At the time McCarthy wrote the following:
With its verification by the Grassley-
Graham memo, the Nunes memo now has
about a thousand times more corroboration
than the Steele dossier, the basis of the
heinous allegations used by the Justice
Department and FBI to get the FISA
warrants.
disclosure wasn't full, and the heavy handed redactions
mean the FBI/DOJ is still playing games, but the copious
amount of information that was revealed was enough for
McCarthy to finally admit the FBI, under Obama, went
"rogue," by breaking with all protocols in order to
manufacture the great "Witch Hunt," which is what
President Trump has dubbed the special counsel
investigation into collusion.
After having gone through the documents, McCarthy
joined Fox & Friends to offer a verbal mea culpa, saying
"I'm really embarrassed because I told
people for months that this could never,
ever happen." He explains in the short clip
below.

What the Grassley-Graham memo tells us

is that the Nunes memo, for all the hysteria
about it, was tame. The Grassley-Graham
memo tells us that we need not only a full-
blown investigation of what possessed the
Obama administration to submit such
shoddy applications to the FISA court, but
of how a judge — or perhaps as many as
four judges — rationalized signing the
warrants. On July 23, expanding on his interview, McCarthy offered
his full analysis in a piece titled "FISA Applications
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Confirm: The FBI Relied on the Unverified Steele
Dossier," where he explains what a proper verification
process requires, finding the FBI did not, or could not,
verify the Steele dossier, and misled the FISA court by
claiming they had verified the information used in their
application.
McCarthy then addresses his critics that are still trying to
justify the FBI tactics by claiming the redacted information
may show the FBI did corroborate Steele's information. He
highlights not only the Grassley-Graham declassified
memo, but he also points out that former FBI Director
James Comey had also testified in from of Congress by
admitting the Steele dossier was "salacious and
unverified." Further proving his point, he reminds readers
that
"the FBI’s former deputy director, Andrew
McCabe, told Congress that the bureau
tried very hard to verify Steele’s information
but could provide no points of verification
beyond the fact that Page did travel to
Russia in July 2016 — a fact that required
no effort to corroborate since the trip was
unconcealed and widely known."
'THE CRAZIES WERE RIGHT'
As part of the bullet point "The FISA Judges," McCarthy
stands by his assertion that the "newly disclosed FISA
applications are so shoddy that the judges who approved
them ought to be asked some hard questions," despite
catching flak for it, in his words, and he explains that he
long believed there were so many fail-safes within the
system, a system he has intimate knowledge of, there
should have been no way the FBI/DOJ could have gotten
away with this and even if the corruption was that
widespread, no FISA judge should have allowed it.
I prefaced my remark about the judges with
an acknowledgment of my own personal
embarrassment. When people started
theorizing that the FBI had presented
the Steele dossier to the FISA court as
evidence, I told them they were crazy:
The FBI, which I can’t help thinking of as
my FBI after 20 years of working closely
with the bureau as a federal prosecutor,
would never take an unverified screed and
present it to a court as evidence. I
explained that if the bureau believed the
information in a document like the dossier,
it would pick out the seven or eight most
critical facts and scrub them as only the
FBI can — interview the relevant
witnesses, grab the documents, scrutinize
the records, connect the dots. Whatever
application eventually got filed in the FISA
court would not even allude en passant to
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Christopher Steele or his dossier. The FBI
would go to the FISA court only with
independent evidence corroborated
through standard FBI rigor.
Should I have assumed I could be wrong
about that? Sure, even great institutions
go rogue now and again. But even with
that in mind, I would still have told the
conspiracy theorists they were crazy —
because in the unlikely event the FBI ever
went off the reservation, the Justice
Department would not permit the
submission to the FISA court of
uncorroborated allegations; and even if that
fail-safe broke down, a court would not
approve such a warrant.
It turns out, however, that the crazies
were right and I was wrong. The FBI
(and, I’m even more sad to say, my Justice
Department) brought the FISA court the
Steele-dossier allegations, relying on
Steele’s credibility without verifying his
information.
I am embarrassed by this not just because
I assured people it could not have
happened, and not just because it is so
beneath the bureau — especially in a
politically fraught case in which the brass
green-lighted the investigation of a
presidential campaign. I am embarrassed
because what happened here flouts
rudimentary investigative standards. Any
trained FBI agent would know that even the
best FBI agent in the country could not get
a warrant based on his own stellar
reputation. A fortiori, you would never seek
a warrant based solely on the reputation of
Christopher Steele — a non-American
former intelligence agent who had political
and financial incentives to undermine
Donald Trump. It is always, always
necessary to persuade the court that the
actual sources of information allegedly
amounting to probable cause are
believable
.
While the Nunes' and the Grassley-Graham memos could
be waved away as "partisan," bodies of work, McCarthy's
analysis stands out for a number of reasons.
1.) McCarthy has the knowledge and experience to be an
expert in the legal field, as well as to the proper
procedures used to obtain warrants, and he assures
readers that had he ever attempted to obtain a warrant
in the manner the FBI/DOJ did with the Carter Page
application, "just about any federal judge in the
 Southern District of New York would have knocked my
block off — and rightly so."

2.) McCarthy has long defended the process, and the fail-
safes in place to prevent this type of FISA abuse, and
as he stated in the quoted portion of his article above,
anyone that dared suggest the FBI would have
presented the Steele dossier as "evidence" without
independently verifying the evidence, he used to call
"crazy."

3. 3) McCarthy writes for National Review, one of the first

"NeverTrump" publications, so he is clearly not a
Trump fan or supporter, and has no reason to side with
Trump over the FBI/DOJ, and in fact, was hoping that
these documents would somehow exonerate these
institutions.
4. Judicial Watch, who has been relentless in fighting the
FBI/DOJ in court with FOIA requests to obtain these
documents, are now calling on President Trump to
declassify these redacted materials so the public can
see everything.
As per their statement:
These documents are heavily redacted but
seem to confirm the FBI and DOJ misled
the courts in withholding the material
information that Hillary Clinton’s campaign
and the DNC were behind the “intelligence”
used to persuade the courts to approve the
FISA warrants that targeted the Trump
team. Given this corruption, President
Trump should intervene and declassify the
heavily redacted material.
BOTTOM LINE
With the release of these heavily redacted documents, we
see that once again, those of us that were called partisan
"conspiracy theorists" for believing the FBI and DOJ
would lie to the FISA court judges in order to manufacture
a bogus investigation into the Trump campaign, after the
Nunes' memo was released which detailed these FISA
abuses, have just been proven right.
The FBI did go rogue. The FBI/DOJ did lie to the FISA
court judges.
President Trump is correct, the entire special counsel
investigation is a "witch hunt," and one huge hoax, that has
costs American taxpayers tens of millions of dollars
already.
Below another former United States Attorney, Joseph
diGenova, weighs in. I found his comments regarding his
communication with Andrew McCarthy to be interesting,
as he indicates McCarthy was heavily criticized for his
honest assessment of these documents and what they
mean.

Note: It is very important to remember that while the

initial FISA warrant, and the subsequent renewals every 90
days, was granted under the guise, as written in the
applications, that Carter Page was "an agent of foreign
power, claiming he "collaborated and conspired" with
Russia, Page has not been charged with anything to date.

Carter Page FISA Warrant Info uploaded by Susan Duclos

from Scribd, see Appendix #39a

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 Boom! Pres. Trump Looking At Revoking
Security Clearances Of Deep State Operatives
By Kristinn Taylor
July 23, 2018, 2:01 Pm

White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders

announced at Monday’s press briefing that President
Donald Trump is reviewing the process to revoke the
security clearances of several Deep State critics for
abusing their post-government retention of security
clearances by lying about Trump and Russia, as well as
politicizing and monetizing their security clearances.

The issue was brought up earlier Monday by Sen. Rand

Paul (R-KY) who said he would be meeting with Trump
about revoking the security clearance of John Brennan,
reported TGP’s Cassandra Fairbanks.
ABC News’ Terry Moran asked a follow-up.
Sanders named former Obama CIA Director John
Brennan, former G.W. Bush CIA Director Michael
Hayden, former Obama National Security Adviser Susan
Rice, fired FBI Director James Comey, fired Deputy FBI
Director Andrew McCabe and former Obama Director of
National Intelligence James Clapper.

When asked if the security clearances for former President

Barack Obama and former Vice President Joe Biden were
under review Sanders said, no.

Sanders issued the statement in response to a question by

Newsmax reporter John Gizzi.

This post will be updated.

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 Washington Post Columnist Max Boot Suggests Trump
Belongs In ‘Padded Cell’ For Warning Iran On Twitter
Nick Givas | Media And Politics Reporter
2:20 PM 07/23/2018

president, if you’d woken up to this all-caps

tweet threatening war with Iran, you’d think
he probably belongs in a padded cell. But
with Trump this is kind of business as
normal.”

Boot said the harsh media coverage of his summit with

Putin may have prompted the tweet and accused him of
being subservient to Russia.

Washington Post columnist and CNN global affairs analyst
Max Boot suggested President Donald Trump belongs in a
“padded cell” on “New Day” Monday for issuing a
warning to Iran on Twitter.
Trump warned Iranian President Rouhani to never threaten
the U.S. or he would “suffer consequences the likes of
which” few have ever seen.
“He had a very rough week last week. He
was raked over the coals for his
subservience to Russia. And so I guess it’s
as predictable as the sun coming up in the
morning, that he’s going to try to start a
crisis elsewhere,” Boot continued.
“At the end of last week he tried to
resurrect the issue with NFL players
kneeling in the anthem. That didn’t work so
well,” he concluded.
“With Trump it’s a little bit hard to take him
seriously at this point. Because if the North
Korean example is anything to go by, now
he’s threatening war with Iran. But within a
year he’ll be saying that Hassan Rouhani is
brilliant, smart, funny, witty — fine
personality. And he’ll be reaching a very
lenient deal with Iran that will be far less
stringent than the Iran nuclear deal that he
blew up.”

“New Day” co-host Alisyn Camerota asked if the tweet

was a distraction and began reading Trump’s past tweets
about former President Barack Obama and Iran.

Boot then suggested the president was unstable and said

most people would’ve reacted differently if past presidents
posted the same tweet.

“You’re right Alisyn. Trump is kind of a

master of projection and also distraction,”
Boot said. “I mean with any previous
.

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 BREAKING: Manafort Judge Releases Names Of Five
Witnesses Granted Immunity
By Cristina Laila
July 23, 2018, 2:53 Pm

Dennis Raico was previously affiliated with

Federal Savings Bank (FSB), a small
Chicago bank that provided Manafort with
$16 million in loans shortly after Manafort
left the Trump campaign, reported Talking
Points Memo.

Fox News’ Tucker Carlson announced last Thursday

evening that two separate sources confirmed to him
Mueller offered Tony Podesta immunity, however; Podesta
was not named in the unsealed documents Monday.

Last Tuesday, Robert Mueller sought to give immunity to Manafort is being charged with failing to file a FARA
five potential witnesses in the Paul Manafort trial form for his pro-Ukrainian lobbying efforts and other bank
according to a court filing. fraud and tax fraud charges.

Mueller filed the requests under seal; Manafort is facing None of the charges against Manafort have anything to do
charges of bank and tax fraud and his trial begins with ‘Russian collusion’ during the 2016 presidential
Wednesday in the Eastern District of Virginia. election.

In a ruling Monday, Judge T.S. Ellis, a Reagan appointee

More on the witnesses granted
ordered Mueller to publicly name the five witnesses who
immunity…
got immunity–a huge blow to the Special Counsel.

The identities of the five witnesses were revealed Monday

and Judge Ellis delayed Manafort’s trial until July 31st.

WaPo reported:

A federal judge in Alexandria has delayed

the trial of former Trump campaign
chairman Paul Manafort until July 31st.
Defense attorney Kevin Downing had
argued that the trial, which was previously
set to begin Wednesday, comes as his
team is still struggling with tens of
thousands of documents only recently
provided by prosecutors.
“There are equities and good reasons on
both sides,” Judge T.S. Ellis III said.

Ellis also approved and unsealed motions to compel five

witnesses against Manafort to testify at trial: James
Brennan, Conor O’Brien, Donna Duggan, Cindy Laporta,
Dennis Raico.

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 Where is Podesta?

This is a breaking story. Please refresh page for updates.

Brief description of the five witnesses:

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 Joe Scarborough Thinks Devin Nunes May
Face ‘Consequences’ In November For
Attacking Federal Bureaucracy
Nick Givas | Media And Politics Reporter
3:20 PM 07/23/2018
MSNBC host Joe Scarborough asked if Republican Rep.
Devin Nunes of California should face “consequences” in
this year’s midterm elections, for trying to hold the federal
government’s bureaucracy accountable.
Most Americans are tired of the Russia narrative and want
to focus on more important issues, Scarborough said
Monday but then attacked Nunes for his involvement in
confronting corruption within federal agencies.
“For most Republicans, for most
Americans, this Russia investigation is
something they just, you know, kind of
don’t want to hear
about,” Scarborough said on “Morning Joe”
Monday. “They’ve got more important
things to worry about. I understand that.”
WATCH:
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“But it seems to me in Devin Nunes’s
district, I know there are good Republicans
out there, good conservatives out there that
have seen that their representative has
spent his time in Congress over the past
two years undermining the Federal Bureau
investigation,” he continued. “Attacking
their agents, undermining the intel
agencies and actually revealing sources
and methods to [the Islamic State], to Al
Qaeda, to ex-KGB agents to America’s
worst enemies. Any consequences for
Devin Nunes in that race?”
“Morning Joe” guest John Heilemann said
Nunes is still up by eight points in a recent
Public Policy Polling (PPP) poll and
admitted PPP is biased in favor of
Democrats.
“Well, we’ll see about that. But I will say
that for the first time Devin Nunes has lived
in a safe Republican district for a pretty
long time,” he replied. “Their most recent
polling, a PPP poll that came out in early
July [showed] only an eight-point lead over
his Democratic rival and under 50 percent
— 49/41 in that poll. It’s a Democratic-
leaning polling firm to be fair, but I know a
lot of Democrats who are looking at that
seat and saying ‘Devin Nunes is vulnerable
and we’re going to put some money in to
try and take him out.'”
 WHITE HOUSE SPOX: Trump Won’t Declassify Carter
Page FISA Docs Despite House Intel Request
By Cristina Laila
July 23, 2018, 4:28 Pm

“The FBI’s own Domestic Investigations

and Operations Guide (known as the
DIOG) prohibits the FBI from using
unverified material to obtain a warrant
under FISA. The unverified allegations in
the dossier were nevertheless presented to
the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court
(FISC) to obtain a FISA warrant and three
renewals on Mr. Page. DOJ also presented
a news article that was sourced from the
author of the dossier,” the letter states.

Thanks to Judicial Watch, the Carter Page FISA docs were

released over the weekend after the watchdog filed a FOIA
lawsuit.
White House Press Secretary Sarah
Huckabee Sanders said Monday the Although the documents were dishonestly and heavily
President will remain ‘uninvolved’ [for redacted, they confirm the FBI and DOJ misled the FISA
the time being] and won’t declassify the courts.
Carter Page FISA docs despite a request
from the House Intel Majority. Other GOP lawmakers such as Freedom
“The president has purposefully remained Caucus Chairman Mark Meadows (R-
uninvolved in this process. He has said NC) and Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-NY) called
repeatedly that he wants the Department of for the FISA docs to be declassified.
Justice to be fully transparent with these President Trump tweeted about the
requests from Congress, and he’s going to Carter Page FISA docs Monday
continue at this point to remain uninvolved,” morning, slamming Crooked Hillary and
White House Press Secretary Sarah called for the discredited Mueller witch
Sanders said Monday. hunt to be shut down.
“However, he sees more and more every
single day that this is proving further and
further to be a total witch hunt, particularly
because it was based on a false and
unverified and discredited dossier,”
Sanders added.
House GOP Intel Committee members
asked President Trump last month to
declassify the Carter Page FISA docs, in
a letter obtained by Fox News’ Catherine
Herridge.

GOP lawmakers led by House Intel Committee Chairman

Devin Nunes (R-CA) asked President Trump to declassify
the document.
.

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 Denver Post Runs Letter To Editor
Suggesting Trump Should Be Executed
Letter Criticized Sen. Gardner, Trump Following Putin Summit
BY: Elizabeth Harrington
July 23, 2018 4:40 Pm
Getty Images
The Denver Post published a letter to the editor suggesting
President Donald Trump should be executed for treason.
The letter criticized the president and Sen. Cory Gardner
(R., Colo.) following Trump's summit with Vladimir Putin
in Helsinki, Finland, and said Soviet spies Julius and Ethel
Rosenberg, who passed atomic bomb secrets to Moscow,
were executed for "far less."
The letter, written by Suzanne Gagnon of Lakewood, was
in response to the paper's editorial last week, which gave
tepid praise of Gardner. The editorial argued the
Republican senator "deserves credit" for taking a tough
stance against Russia and sponsoring legislation to add
Russia to the state sponsor of terror list.
"Sen. Cory Gardner is insipid, at best,"
Gagnon wrote in her letter to the editor
published Saturday. "His words are always
carefully chosen and, if challenged, their
intent open to ‘spinning' to his own
advantage. No surprise here he didn't call
President Donald Trump out by name.
"The legislation he has proposed is weak,
not tough; it's simply more wordsmithing,"
she said. "Gardner is certainly not the only
politician I take issue with, but I don't see
the Denver Post championing anyone else
like you champion Gardner."
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Gagnon then compared Trump to the Rosenbergs, who
were tried and put to death for espionage in 1953. She said
there are "many more actions" that should be taken against
Trump.
"If it walks like a traitor, and talks like a
traitor, and acts like a traitor … it is a
traitor," Gagnon said. "Ethel and Julius
Rosenberg were executed on a basis of far
less evidence than is had on Trump and
many in his administration."
"Besides being in agreement with the
actions recommended in the editorial of
July 19, I believe there are many more
actions that can and should be taken
against Trump to keep him from destroying
the U.S.," she said. "If our leader doesn't
support any swift, significant pushback
against Russian meddling, our votes aren't
worth much."
Compass Colorado, a conservative nonprofit organization,
said the editorial is in line with the "increasingly violent
tone" of political rhetoric on the left.
"The mere fact the Denver Post would
publish a letter to the editor with this type of
language speaks to both the increasingly
violent tone of liberals in Colorado politics
and the desperation of the Post for
readership," said Kelly Maher, executive
director of Compass Colorado.
"This trend of violent language in Colorado
is deeply concerning," she said. "Just a few
months ago the Boulder Daily Camera
published a letter to the editor asking if
citizens have a moral responsibility to take
arms against oil and gas well workers, and
the liberal group ProgressNow Colorado
tweeted out a picture of Senator Cory
Gardner with blood on his hands after a
shooting, and now this Denver Post letter."
"This violent and divisive rhetoric will do
nothing to change hearts or minds, it's
 designed to entrench and inflame," Maher
said.
The Denver Post pushed back on the idea that the editorial
was extreme.
"We would never run a letter suggesting
that the president of the United States be
executed," said Megan Schrader, editor of
the editorial pages. "Upon reviewing this
letter, I don't think that was the letter
writer's intent."
.
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"She wrote to be critical of an editorial I
wrote lauding Sen. Cory Gardner's efforts
to impose sanctions on Russia and
supportive of another editorial we had run
that suggested actions Congress could
take to respond to the Helsinki press
conference," Schrader added.
Update 7:42 p.m.: This post has been updated with
comment from the Denver Post.
 Corrupt Clapper Responds To Trump
Considering Revoking His Security Clearance
By Cristina Laila
July 23, 2018, 5:14 Pm

commentary and it’s an abuse of the

system.”

As TGP’s Kristinn Taylor reported, White House Press

Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders announced at
Monday’s press briefing that President Donald Trump is
reviewing the process to revoke the security clearances of
several Deep State critics for abusing their post-
government retention of security clearances by lying about
Trump and Russia, as well as politicizing and monetizing
their security clearances.

The issue was brought up earlier Monday by Sen. Rand

Former Director of National Intelligence
James Clapper responded to the White
House’s announcement President
Trump is considering revoking security
clearances of several Obama Deep State
Operatives, including Clapper.
Clapper called the move to revoke security clearances a
“very very petty thing to do.”
Paul (R-KY) who said he would be meeting with Trump
about revoking the security clearance of John
Brennan, reported TGP’s Cassandra Fairbanks.
Sanders named former Obama CIA Director John
Brennan, former G.W. Bush CIA Director Michael
Hayden, former Obama National Security Adviser Susan
Rice, fired FBI Director James Comey, fired Deputy FBI
Director Andrew McCabe and former Obama Director of
National Intelligence James Clapper.
President of Judicial Watch Tom Fitton weighed in on
the matter:

CNN reported:

Former Director of National Intelligence

James Clapper says President Donald
Trump’s consideration of revoking his and
several other former national security
officials’ security clearances is a “very, very
petty thing to do.”
When asked about the process for
removing the security clearances of former
officials, Clapper said it was within the
President’s power to do so.
“There is a formal process for doing this,”
Clapper said. “But you know, I guess,
legally the President has that prerogative,
and he can suspend and revoke
clearances as he sees fit. If he chooses to
do it for political reasons, I think that’s a
terrible precedent, and it’s a really sad
.
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 Manafort Trial Could Reveal
Embarrassing Details About Dem Consultants
By Alex Pappas | Fox News
July 23, 2018
Prosecutors could show the jury evidence related to Tad Devine, left,
the chief strategist for Sanders' 2016 presidential campaign, in the
federal case against Paul Manafort, right. (Reuters)
The upcoming federal court trial for President Trump's
former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, will be closely
watched for revelations about Trump’s campaign for the
White House in 2016.
But it’s also poised to potentially reveal embarrassing
information about several Democratic political consultants,
including a top adviser to 2016 Democratic presidential
candidate Bernie Sanders and others who have worked in
lucrative elections both in the United States and abroad,
court filings indicate.
Manafort, facing charges of bank and tax fraud related to
his work in Ukraine, has pleaded not guilty to the charges.
His trial is scheduled to start in Alexandria, Virginia next
week.
In a court filing last week by prosecutors detailing possible
evidence it could present to the jury, Special Counsel
Robert Mueller’s team listed the names of several well-
known Democratic operatives included in the exhibits.
“The United States of America, by and
through undersigned counsel, hereby
submits its list of trial exhibits,” the filing
states.
Among those is Tad Devine, the chief strategist for
Sanders' 2016 presidential campaign who also worked for
Al Gore and John Kerry’s presidential campaigns in 2000
and 2004. Like Manafort, Devine also did work for
Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych.
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The court filing lists Devine 16 times, and lists a variety of
documents, including memos, invoices and emails
involving both Manafort and Devine.
Devine did not immediately return to a request for
comment from Fox News on Monday left with his
Democratic media consulting firm Devine, Mulvey and
Longbaugh.
Other Democrats listed in Mueller’s court filing are Julian
Mulvey, Daniel Rabin and Adam Strasberg.
Mulvey is a partner of Devine’s and worked on the
Sanders campaign. Rabin, according to the website for his
Democratic consulting firm, has created
“television ads have played vital roles in
political victories in the US and overseas.”
Strasberg is an ad maker who worked for Devine, as well
as for the Sanders and Kerry campaigns.
U.S. District Judge T.S. Ellis III on Monday agreed to
Manafort’s motion to delay the trial, moving the start from
this Wednesday to July 31. Mueller’s defense attorney,
Kevin Downing, had argued he needed more time to go
through tens of thousands of documents.
Ellis also said Monday that he will grant immunity to five
of the government’s witnesses.
The case against Manafort stems from Mueller’s Russia
probe, but prosecutors have indicated the case against
Manafort will not explore Russia’s attempted interference
in the 2016 election.
Manafort is also facing charges in a separate federal court
case in Washington, including conspiring against the
United States, conspiring to launder money, failing to
register as an agent of a foreign principal and providing
false statements.
But the case has faced skepticism, even from one of the
judges. In May, the judge in the Alexandria case harshly
rebuked Mueller’s team, suggesting they were more
interested in bringing down the president than in Manafort can give you to lead you to Mr.
Manafort’s past dealings. Trump and an impeachment, or whatever."

"You don't really care about Mr. Manafort,” Last month, Manafort was jailed after a federal judge
Ellis told Mueller’s team at the time. “You revoked his $10 million bail based on new witness
really care about what information Mr. tampering charges.
.

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 Comey Lashes Out At Trump In Response
To POTUS Considering Revoking Security Clearances Of
Obama Deep State Operatives
By Cristina Laila
July 23, 2018, 5:40 Pm

Ask yourself:

“Why is Putin missing from the list?”

No responsible American should ever stop
asking,
“Why?”

On Monday, fired FBI Director James

Comey lashed out at Trump after the
White House announced the President
was considering revoking security
clearances of Obama’s Deep State
operatives. Fired FBI Director James Comey came out last week and
told his Twitter followers to vote Democrat in the Fall.
White House Spox Sarah Sanders named former Obama
CIA Director John Brennan, former G.W. Bush CIA Now that Comey is all in for the Dems, he’s promoting
Director Michael Hayden, former Obama National their talking points – Putin, Russia, rinse, repeat.
Security Adviser Susan Rice, fired FBI Director James
Comey, fired Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe and Comey made a desperate plea to Democrats on Sunday.
former Obama Director of National Intelligence James The fired FBI Director begged Dems not to “rush to the
Clapper. Socialist left” because he knows it’s a losing message.

Comey didn’t take the news very well.
On Monday, Comey tweeted:
Thought experiment: Make a list of all the
public figures in this country and around
the world the current president has
criticized.
Now Comey is pushing the Dem ‘Trump-Putin’ talking
points from his Twitter account.
Pathetic.
Former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper
called the move to revoke security clearances a “very very
petty thing to do.”

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 Pure Obstructionism: Democrats
REFUSING To Meet With SCOTUS Nominee Kavanaugh,
Claiming ‘Scheduling’ Conflicts
Posted On July 24, 2018
(National Sentinel) Justice On Hold: Remember a few
years ago when Senate Democrats were angered by
Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s decision not to hold a
confirmation hearing on President Obama’s third Supreme
Court nominee, Judge Merrick Garland?
“Do your job!” rallies were held by Dems in
Washington, D.C., as they implored the
Kentucky Republican to at least schedule a
confirmation hearing.
McConnell responded that the Senate, in its “advice and
consent” role, was neither obligated to vet Garland or
“give consent” to his appointment.
But Senate Republicans did meet with and eventually give
consent to two of Obama’s SCOTUS picks — Sonia
Sotomayor and Elena Kagan, two of the most Left-wing
judicial activists ever to sit on the high court (Kagan was
never even a federal judge, just a law professor who
objected to military recruiters on the Harvard Law School
campus because she opposed “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” — a
law passed by Democrats in 1993).
Now, however, after POTUS Donald Trump nominated
Judge Brett Kavanaugh to become his second SCOTUS
pick,
Democrats are so infuriated they won’t
even meet with him.
Talk about obstructionists. Talk about hypocrites.
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As the Washington Examiner notes:
Many Senate Democrats have refused to
hold the traditional meet and greet events
with Supreme Court nominee Judge
Kavanaugh, arguing they have not received
all of the millions of pages of
documentation related to Kavanaugh’s time
working in the Bush White House.
Their shut out could ultimately delay the
confirmation process and has prompted a
threat from Senate Majority Leader Mitch
McConnell, R-Ky., to keep the Senate in
session until Election Day if that time is
needed to confirm Kavanaugh.
Republicans want to confirm Kavanaugh by
Oct. 1, which is the start of the next
Supreme Court term. To show they mean
business, Republican leaders have said
they won’t adjourn for all-important
campaigning this fall if Kavanaugh isn’t on
track to making that deadline.
Kavanaugh has requested meetings with
many Democrats, GOP leaders said, but
nearly all have said they have not been
able to fit him into their schedules.
Riiight. They’re just too busy — to meet with a Trump
nominee.
 IT’S TRUE! Tucker Carlson Stands By Claim: Tony
Podesta Was Offered Immunity To Testify Against
Manafort — IN DC CASE (VIDEO)
By Jim Hoft
July 23, 2018, 7:37 Pm
Last Tuesday, Robert Mueller sought to
give immunity to five potential
witnesses in the Paul Manafort trial
according to a court filing.
Mueller filed the requests under seal; Manafort is facing
charges of bank andtax fraud and his trial begins
Wednesday in the Eastern District of Virginia.
In a ruling Monday, Judge T.S. Ellis, a Reagan appointee
ordered Mueller to publicly name the five witnesses who
got immunity–a huge blow to the Special Counsel.
The five witnesses given immunity against Manafort to
testify at trial: James Brennan, Conor O’Brien, Donna
Duggan, Cindy Laporta, Dennis Raico.
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BUT THIS IS NOT THE DC CASE.
MUELLER ALSO GAVE IMMUNITY TO
THE TONY PODESTA IN MANAFORT’S
DC CASE
Tucker Carlson:
Today a list of witnesses granted immunity
in Manafort’s trial in Virginia for tax and
fraud violations was released. Podesta was
not on that list because he has nothing to
do with that case. According to our sources
Tony Podesta has been offered immunity
to testify in Paul Manafort’s trial in DC.
That’s a trial on criminal fare violations for
the lobbying both of them did for the
government of Ukraine.
Via Tucker Carlson Tonight:
 ABC, NBC Decry Trump Revoking
Security Clearances From Obama Spooks
By Nicholas Fondacaro
July 23, 2018 9:43 PM EDT
Liberal ABC and NBC journalists were in a full-blown
meltdown Monday night after the White House announced
the President was looking to revoke the security clearances
of six former intelligence officials, whom they contend
abused the privilege of retaining it after their tenure. They
even tried to pretend most of the officials named weren't
Obama appointees.
“The White House tonight is taking aim
at several top-level national security
officials who have been publicly critical
of the President. Threatening to yank
their security clearances,” warned NBC
Nightly News anchor Lester Holt as he
kicked off the program. “Stripping them of
clearances, however, could be seen as
an act of political retaliation by the
President against his critics.”
The six former officials in question were former DNI
James Clapper, former CIA directors John Brennan and
Michael Hayden, former FBI Director James Comey,
former Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe, and former
National Security Adviser Susan Rice. Both networks
avoided identifying most of the individuals in question as
Obama appointees.
NBC chief White House correspondent Hallie Jackson,
who described the White House’s actions as “Nixonian,”
actually tried to downplay their connection to Obama. She
argued that “most of the officials worked for both
Democrats and Republicans…” ABC and NBC did note
that Rice was appointed by Obama.
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By contrast, CBS Evening News anchor Jeff Glor had the
integrity to distinguish most of the former officials in
question as Obama's.
“The White House says the President is
looking into revoking the security
clearances of a number of former national
security officials who served during the
Obama-era,” he clarified ahead of
the report.
It took NBC a while to mention that Brennan was now an
employee of the network, more specifically their “senior
national security and intelligence analyst.” NBC
intelligence and national security reporter Ken Dilanian
may have let the cat out of the bag in regards to why their
outlet seemed so invested in Brennan keeping his
clearance.
“A security clearance is also very valuable
for former officials in a private sector. And
so, to lose one could amount in a financial
penalty,” he explained to Jackson.
It’s worth noting that many of the people cited by the
White House exploited their clearance for media
gigs. They've also been alleged have to served as
anonymous sources for many media outlets.
In addition, the talking heads on ABC’s World News
Tonight worried about the possibility that President
Obama’s and Vice President Joe Biden’s security
clearances might be next on the chopping block.
“And what the White House then said when
asked if former President Obama and Vice
 President Joe Biden could be next,”
sensationalist anchor David Muir teased
during the lead into the report.
ABC chief foreign correspondent Terry Moran played a
clip of a reporter asking Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee
Sanders about that possibility:
UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER: What about President
Obama and Vice President Biden and their security
clearances? Are they on the list, as well?
SANDERS: I'm not aware of any plans for that at this
point.
Moran also pushed a ridiculous liberal media narrative that
the President was looking to silence his critics because he
“doesn’t like” their “free speech” “and he wants to punish
them for it.” But according to NBC, Hayden put out a
statement declaring the pulling of his clearance “won't
have any effect on what I say or write.”
The hyperventilating tone on the Monday evening
broadcasts was particularly conspicuous in light of
the tangible benefits that the networks would enjoy from
these security clerances staying in place. NBC even
admitted as much.
The transcripts are below:
ABC
World News Tonight
July 23, 2018
6:31:48 PM Eastern [2 minutes 45 seconds]
DAVID MUIR: Good evening. And it's great to have you with us
here on this Monday night. And we have several stories we're
following just as we come on the air tonight. We're going to begin
with the President and that unprecedented warning shot, that
threat to strip security clearances from several former high-
ranking officials in the CIA, the FBI and U.S. intelligence. Among
them, former CIA director John Brennan, former FBI Director
James Comey and four former top national security and
intelligence officials. Sarah Sanders today reading from a
carefully scripted statement. Our Terry Moran then asking the
White House, is the president threatening to punish these figures
because they have been critical of the president? And what the
White House then said when asked if former President Obama
and Vice President Joe Biden could be next. ABC's Terry Moran
leading us off from the White House.
[Cuts to video]
TERRY MORAN: An unprecedented threat from the White House
podium, Press Secretary Sarah Sanders reading from a prepared
statement, announcing that President Trump was preparing to
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strip security clearances from some of the fiercest critics of his
approach to Russia.
(…)
MORAN: Sanders mentioned six high-ranking former national
security officials, including former FBI Director James Comey,
former Obama national security adviser Susan Rice, and former
CIA chief John Brennan, who blasted Trump's press conference
with Vladimir Putin.
(…)
MORAN: Brennan has even seemed to hint darkly that he knows
secrets harmful to Trump, tweeting in March, "When the full
extent of your venality, moral turpitude, and political corruption
becomes known, you will take your rightful place as a disgraced
demagogue in the dust bin of history." All this enrages Trump.
The president is threatening to punish Brennan and Comey and
Clapper for saying things about him that he doesn't like. Is that
presidential?
SARAH HUCKABEE SANDERS: They've politicized and, in
some cases, actually monetized that are public service and their
security clearances. And making baseless accusations of
improper contact with Russia or being influenced with Russia
against the president is extremely inappropriate. When we have
further updates on that front, I'll let you know.
MORAN: So their free speech he doesn't like, and he wants to
punish them for it.
SANDERS: Ah, no, I think you're creating your own story. The
President doesn't like the fact that people are politicizing
agencies and departments that are specifically meant to not be
political.
MORAN: Two of the people on the president's list, Comey and
his former deputy Andrew McCabe, already lost their clearances
a while ago. Sanders was then asked, who's next?
UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER: What about President Obama and
Vice President Biden and their security clearances? Are they on
the list, as well?
SANDERS: I'm not aware of any plans for that at this point.
(…)
NBC Nightly News
July 23, 2018
7:01:26 PM Eastern
LESTER HOLT: Good evening and thank you for joining us. The
White House tonight is taking aim at several top level national
security officials who have been publicly critical of the President.
Threatening to yank their security clearances. The list includes
former CIA director John Brennan who minced no words in his
criticism of President Trump at the Helsinki summit. The White
House accusing Brennan and five others politicizing their high-
level security access. Stripping them of clearances, however,
could be seen as an act of political retaliation by the President
against his critics. Our chief White House correspondent Hallie
Jackson has details.
[Cuts to video]
HALLIE JACKSON: It's an unprecedented threat aimed at some
critics of the commander in chiefs. The White House considering
stripping the security clearances of six former intelligence
officials.
SARAH HUCKABEE SANDERS: They politicized and in some
cases monetized their public service and security clearances.
JACKSON: Most of the officials worked for both Democrats and
Republicans and have been tough on President Trump publicly.
Isn't the President doing exactly what you said the President
doesn't want all these people doing?
SANDERS: No, the President is not making baseless
accusations of improper contact with a foreign government and
accusing the president of the United States of treasonous
activity.
JACKSON: That may be a reference to John Brennan, former
CIA director and NBC News senior national security and
intelligence analyst. He called last week's meeting with Vladimir
Putin “nothing short of treasonous.”
.
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(…)
JACKSON: Now, he's on a list that includes former FBI officials
James Comey and Andrew McCabe. Neither of whom currently
have security clearances because they were fired. Michael
Hayden former CIA director said the threat “won't have any effect
on what I say or write.” Former Obama national security adviser,
Susan Rice silent for now.
JAMES CLAPPER: I think this is just a very, very petty, petty
thing to do.
JACKSON: Former intelligence leaders typically keep their
clearances so they can to talk about sensitive matters with their
successors.
KEN DILANIAN: A security clearance is also very valuable for
former officials in a private sector. And so, to lose one could
amount in a financial penalty.
JACKSON: But the President himself is usually personally
involved in decisions to revoke the clearance. To critics, it's not
just Nixonian, it’s political punishment.
SENATOR MARK WARNER: And it concerns me greatly if this
White House breaks precedent in trying to attack former
members of the intelligence community because they simply
express their views and their first amendment rights.
(…)
 Katy Tur Calls Out Daily Caller,
Fox News — Says They Aren’t Journalists
Julia Nista | General Assignment Reporter
9:56 PM 07/23/2018
MSNBC host Katy Tur believes it’s up to her to decide
who is a journalist and who isn’t, saying The Daily Caller
and Fox News “aren’t journalists” because of their
reporting on Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia
probe.
WATCH:
“I saw a tweet from representative Jim
Jordan today who said, sort of backing up
the Nunes memo, that essentially this was
a product of an effort to mislead the FISA
courts because they never informed the
FISA courts about the bias inherent in this
dossier. And it’s right there in black and
white in this footnote, which ends up being
about a page and a half long, where they
expressly say this was the product of an
effort to undermine, to discredit candidate
one, Donald Trump, but we nevertheless
believe it is meritorious for a variety of
reasons that are blacked out,” said guest
Noah Rothman.
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“Nevertheless, that’s the sentence, it is
right there. So you have to assume they
suggest that you haven’t read the
documents, or you have to assume they
don’t know what they’re talking about,”
Rothman continued.
“Or you don’t care what they say,” Tur
interjected.
MSNBC correspondent Ken Dilanian then said
“there’s a whole amen chorus out there that
is arguing with Donald Trump and that’s
what’s fueling this. It isn’t just Trump and
his tweets, it’s Fox News, it’s the Daily
Caller website. There’s a whole cadre of
journalists who are essentially making this
argument –“
“Don’t use that term. They’re not journalists
if they’re doing that,” Tur said.
“That’s a great point, because the facts as
you’ve just laid out very compellingly, don’t
comport with this at all,” Dilanian
responded.
Among other striking analyses of the MSNBC host, Tur
has previously questioned whether or not the Constitution
is an out-of-date document.
She also relayed a host of misinformation on guns
following the Parkland shooting.
Congressman Devin Nunes said in a statement,
“It defies belief that the Department of
Justice and FBI failed to provide
information to a secret court that they had
provided to an open federal court regarding
their past interactions with Mr. Page.”
In a rebuttal to the Democrat memo on the FISA
application for Trump campaign associate Carter Page,
Republicans on the House Special Committee on
Intelligence stated Democrats ignored
 “that the FBI failed to subsequently inform The warrant on Page relied heavily on a salacious and
the FISC [Foreign Intelligence Surveillance uncorroborated dossier as well as other news stories
Court] that Steele provided information to planted by Fusion GPS, an opposition research firm hired
Yahoo News,” and the author of the story, by the DNC during the 2016 presidential election.
Michael Isikoff, “has publicly confirmed
Steele was a source for his article about
Page.”
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 CNN: Removing Our Employee’s
Clearance A ‘National Security Threat’
By Bill D'Agostino
July 23, 2018 10:09 PM EDT

pointed out CNN chief political analyst Gloria Borger. She

then added,

“Some of them served for Obama, so

that’s another strike against them.”

CNN legal analyst Anne Milgram warned of a “slippery

slope” whereby current officials could be stripped of their
clearance for criticizing the President.

“Do you evaluate people who currently

The media are in a tizzy over the recent revelation that have security clearances in the law
President Trump might revoke security clearances from enforcement agencies on their political
former intelligence officials with a penchant for going on beliefs, on their political party?” she
television. During a concern-filled installment of CNN’s pondered.
The Situation Room on Monday, host Wolf Blitzer
anxiously posited that revoking the clearance of CNN
national security analyst James Clapper would constitute a
“potential national security threat.”

Blitzer was quick to get Clapper on the phone after it was

revealed that his security clearance might be in danger.

During the interview, which took place in the 5:00 p.m.

Eastern hour of the show, Blitzer frequently reiterated how
much time Clapper had spent in the military.

“How personally irritated are you right
now that someone with your
background in the military – 30 or 40
years, whatever it was – is being treated
like this?” he asked obsequiously.
Washington Post assistant editor David Swerdlick scoffed
at White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders’s
claim that the likes of Brennan and Clapper had
“politicized the process” by taking jobs at MSNBC and
CNN, respectively.

A discussion of the story in a later segment quickly

“Actually, this is politicizing the
devolved into a spitballing session in which panelists took
process,” he snarked.
turns floating potential arguments against such a move by
the Trump administration. Blitzer kicked off the
conversation by asking panelists, Swerdlick then implied that revoking a former official’s
security clearance somehow constituted a breach of the
First Amendment:
“Why is this threat so troubling?”
“They’re citizens; remember that. They
The general consensus was that the President was abusing
have the right to free speech like
his executive authority to silence some of his harshest
everybody else.”
detractors.
Blitzer responded with a deductive leap of impressive
“These are people who are critics of the proportions:
President,”
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 “If you remove security clearances from
a James Clapper, for example...” – just
for example – “that’s a potential national
security threat.”
The analytical minds on the panel came up with a great
many reasons for why revoking James Clapper’s security
clearance would be a very poor decision. But none seemed
interested in pointing out that if Clapper – a CNN analyst –
were denied access to sensitive information, it might affect
his ability to provide colleagues with insider knowledge.
Transcripts for both segmets are below:
CNN’s The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer
07/23/2018
5:19:31 – 5:25:36 p.m. EDT
6 min, 5 sec
WOLF BLITZER: First of all, what do you think that the fact that
you're being targeted along with some of your former colleagues
by the white house?
JAMES CLAPPER: Well, it's pretty obvious, Wolf, what the
reason, you know, why we were singled out for this contemplated
action is because of, you know, the criticism that we have
expressed about and reservations we expressed about the
President.
BLITZER: What's to stop the President from revoking security
clearances for anyone that criticizes him? I take it he has the
right to do so.
CLAPPER: Well, he does and that's a key question. If now when
someone applies for security clearance are they going to add to
the standard form 86 a pledge of allegiance to President Trump?
Unswerving, complete loyalty to the President. As a new criteria
for a clearance? That's a pretty chilling thing.
BLITZER: Have you ever seen anything like this before? Is this
unprecedented?
CLAPPER: Absolutely not. I’ve never seen anything like it. I was
amazed. I was watching the White House press conference
today. And that's the first I'd heard of it. And, yeah. I was taken
aback to say the least.
BLITZER: You served in both -- under Democratic and
Republican administrations. Democratic presidents, Republican
administrations. You worked your way up to become a four-star
general. I think you spent 35 or 40 years in the U.S. Military.
Would you have ever considered advising a president to revoke
the security clearances of former intelligence officials for simply
being critical of the current – of the then-current administration?
CLAPPER: Absolutely not. And I think the arch recent example is
Mike Flynn, his criticism of Hillary Clinton. And the Obama
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administration. And it never crossed my mind to even raise the
issue about revoking his security clearance.
BLITZER: Why would someone who no longer works in the
government like you right now, you're retired, need a security
clearance in the first place?
CLAPPER: It's more to take advantage of the experience and
corporate memory of people, particularly those that spent a long
time in the business. And I've had occasion to consult over the
last year and a half with Trump administration officials who will
remain nameless so I can protect them, to take advantage of the
history and the background that I have. And the same is true of
the others on our – on the bad boy list.
BLITZER: Well, I know for a fact that current officials in the
Trump administration whether Mike Pompeo as CIA director
spoke with his predecessors. Dan Coats is director of national
intelligence, I assume he's consulted with you on several
occasions over the past year and a half. I wonder if you could
confirm that.
CLAPPER: I'm not going to go into who I have or haven't
consulted again, to protect the confidentiality of those
conversations and, frankly, to protect them.
BLITZER: Because it's very, very common for current officials to
speak with their predecessors, to get some sense if they're
having a sensitive meeting, for example, with a foreign
intelligence official, they may want to call in a predecessor,
maybe of a different party, maybe somebody who has a different
experience just to get a sense of what it was like. That's why I've
been told you still need some security clearances.
CLAPPER: Well, yes. And I did that in the positions, senior
positions I occupied. As Director of Defense Intelligence Agency,
Director of Naional Geospatial Intelligence Agency, and certainly
as DNI, I called upon formers, mainly to get smart on history of
certain issues and things that I was – I had under consideration
at time. So, it is a useful resource to draw on.
BLITZER: Certainly is. What do you think? Will this have a
chilling affect on former government officials to express their own
political opinions once they leave office?
CLAPPER: Well, I think it does. It's a very sad and disturbing
thing for the first amendment.
BLITZER: And one quick question. Tell us, General Clapper, how
many years did you serve in the active U.S. Military, and how
personally irritated are you right now that someone with your
background in the military, 30, 40 years, whatever it was, is being
treated like this?
CLAPPER: Well, obviously, I think it's pretty shabby. And I'm not
– and that’s just not me. I served 34 years in the military
altogether, counting my Marine Corps reserve time, and then 32
years in the Air Force. And then another 16 years in 3 different
civilian capacities in the government. Two of which were political
appointee positions in both Republican and Democratic
administrations. And I think it's – this is terrible. You know? The
substantive importance of it for me is minimal. I don't get
classified briefings anymore. None of us do. And per my cadence
tweet earlier today, has no impact on what I say or do. It could for
some people, particularly if they are under
employment with a defense contractor where a security
clearance is required. Well, it could have real impact. In my
particular case it doesn't.
BLITZER: General Clapper, thanks so much for joining us and
thanks for all of your service to our country. We're appreciative.
CLAPPER: Thanks, Wolf. Thanks for having me.
CNN’s The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer
07/23/2018
6:44:00 – 6:47:42 p.m. EDT
3 min, 42 sec
WOLF BLITZER: It’s clear the President has the authority, he can
remove someone’s security clearances if he wants. But why is
this threat so troubling?
GLORIA BORGER: Look, these are people who are critics of the
president. They're also public servants who have been public
servants for decades in many cases. Who have served under
Democrats and served under Republicans. President doesn't like
them, because they have been critical. Some of them were
served for Obama, so that's another -- that's another strike
against them. It also makes the president's case not only about
the Obama administration being out to get him, but also about,
you know, the deep state that exists -- that he believes exists in
government. And so, you know, I think he throws this out there.
It's a way to change the subject a little bit. This morning we were
talking about are we going to war with Iran? We were talking
about Putin and the Helsinki summit. And now suddenly we're
shifting to Brennan and Clapper. So I think it's the way the
president wants to stir the pot. And I think it's really troubling.
BLITZER: Yeah. A lot of people agree with you. Anne Milgram,
you're our legal analyst. Some of those mentioned by the White
House today are potential witnesses in the overall Russia probe.
What does that tell you about this?
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ANNE MILGRAM: Yeah, I mean, I think that to Gloria's point, it
would almost be easy to dismiss this as a petty political
sideshow, and, you know, in an effort to distract whether it's Iran
or Helsinki or the manafort trial coming up soon. But I actually -- I
really think that this is more. The idea of having a political litmus
test for who gets a national security clearance and really using
that to try to quash dissent is deeply troubling. It's a slippery
slope. Do you evaluate people who currently have security
clearances in the law enforcement agencies on their political
beliefs, on their political party? Not to mention the countless
number of private security individuals that the government has
and continues to employ around the world who have private
security clearance -- who have government security clearances,
often based on years of government service. Are we going to
evaluate them on their politics? So to me this is a really deeply
troubling, deeply political, but also deeply troubling way to
politicize national security.
BLITZER: You remember, David, earlier this year when there
was an issue of security clearances for Jared Kushner, rob
porter, others in the white house. The white house made a point
of saying, we don't get involved in that. That's held in the
intelligence community, the law enforcement community. They
have other procedures with dealing with national security and
security clearances.
DAVID SWERDLICK: That's right, Wolf. And on that scale, the
white house is being completely inconsistent. They want to have
an arms' length distance when it comes to Jared Kushner and be
directly involved or propose being directly involved here. The
bigger point is, yes, you had the press secretary there in that clip
you played saying that these individuals may have politicized the
process. Actually, this is politicizing the process. And I think that
one thing that you really have to look at here is that not only were
these people public servants, they're citizens; remember that.
They have the right to free speech, like everybody else.
BLITZER: It's also interesting, Jackie Kucinich, that a lot of times
a current Director of National Intelligence, a current CIA Director,
current National Security Adviser, will want to bring in
predecessors to get a sense of, for example, how a foreign
intelligence over was working in terms of some background
information. If you remove security clearances from a James
Clapper, for example, spent 32 years a an intelligence official,
worked his way up to a our-star general in the military, you say,
“You know what, we’re not going to bother talking to that person
any more,” – that's a potential national security threat.
 Carter Page Says Clinton Campaign
Was Spreading Rumors Of Russian Collusion Months
Before Dossier Surfaced (VIDEO)
By Jim Hoft
July 23, 2018, 10:54 Pm

asking me about these same two names of people I’ve

Carter Page went on with Tucker never even heard of, I’ve heard of Sachin, I never even
Carlson on Monday to discuss the heard of (Igor) Diveykin. So it was obvious. Some people
release of the FISA court documents told me from the media they heard it from the Clinton
used to spy on the Trump campaign. campaign, etc.

Carter Page was spied on by the Obama
regime despite never even meeting the
Russian officials he was accused of
dealing with in the junk Steele dossier.
Carter Page denied this weekend that he ever discussed
lifting Western sanctions with Igor Sachin, a high ranking
Russian official. Page never even met the guy. But he was
spied on anyway by the criminal Obama regime.
Via Tucker Carlson Tonight:

Carter Page: It’s funny in July of 2016, two months

before the Yahoo news article came out I started getting
these calls from various news reporters, the Wall Street
Journal, New York Times, Washington Post, CNN, all
.

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 EU Junck-Man Travels
To US To Grovel Before Trump
By Jim Hoft
July 24, 2018, 8:11 Am
On Wednesday July 25th. the man Donald Trump labeled
a” brutal killer,” the top dog in the European Union, Jean
Claude Juncker, takes his stuff to the White House.
European Commission spokesperson Margaritis Schinas
said this Wednesday’s talks between Juncker and Trump,
would seek to “de-dramatize any potential tensions around
trade.”
Asked whether Juncker would have a specific measure that
could prevent the new tariffs, she added:
“There are no offers. This is a discussion, it
is a dialogue and it is an opportunity to talk
and to stay engaged in dialogue.”
Supposedly, Juncker believes he, and he alone, can “head
off a trade war”.
He is walking into a literally buzz saw.
The EU embodies everything that Trump’s strategy
“America First” opposes.
It is not just a feckless, bureaucratic, unrepresentative,
regulatory, multilateral organization—it is attempting to be
the paramount globalist supranational power in the world.
It applauds open borders, endless immigration, and free
movement of peoples, and it denies the sovereignty of its
members—the 28 very nation states that make up Europe.
There have been “words” between Trump and Junker
before. The ‘karma’ is not good.
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The President has recently said the EU is a” foe of the
US.” And Herr Junker once suggested that Texas break
away from the UNITED States since Trump positively
backed Brexit—the UK withdrawal from the EU. Indeed
Trump’s suggestion over a week ago to PM Theresa May
in an interview in The Sun newspaper suggested the Brits
go in hard against Juncker’s team at the EU, even
advocating they crash out and sue them.
Juncker, is in fact worried about just two things.
His own cushy (and non-elected) job first off, which is
going downhill fast as other European countries, like Italy,
Hungary and Poland want to tame his beastly EU. And
secondly, a German worry about Trump’s plan to raise the
tariffs on European car imports. The EU has a 10% tariff
and the US a 2.5% tariff on auto imports and Trump has
frankly had enough, suggesting we don’t need all these
Mercedes and BWMs driving down Fifth Avenue. The EU
is totally dominated by Germany and Junker is truthfully
their pawn and patsy.
This economic issue is a big one for Europe, and especially
for the German’s, whose entire industrial base in built
around expensive auto exports and that supply chain.
Juncker will find the President to be most straightforward.
He believes the EU itself is the obstacle—the very
embodiment of all that Juncker and his ilk believe in and
has worked a lifetime to bolster. Juncker in a past
incarnation was the Prime Minister of the tax haven, tiny
Luxembourg.
Trump should tell Juncker things are
different now. The transatlantic alliance
is no longer all give and no take. Nor is
the US a European piggybank. The old
alliance is over and is being rethought
right in front of our eyes.
The EU is blatantly anti-American and
Trump should say so.
It repeatedly takes anti-trust actions against US tech giants.
It fines American firms; it sets up all kinds of non-tariff
barriers (NTB); and is overly protectionist. It inadequately
funds defense spending, as Trump has manifestly
demonstrated at NATO. In building the Nord Stream 2
pipeline Europe has become yet more dependent on Russia
for its energy supply. Just this week Trump also said the
EU, like China, manipulates their currencies. The Euro is
in reality a fake currency, an invention of the EU, not the
market
And when it comes to Brexit, the EU is punitively trying to
punish our closest ally, the United Kingdom, for a
democratic decision taken in a fair and open Referendum
in June 2016, when the people voted to LEAVE Junker’s
failed European Union.
Trump must not let down his guard.
Junker, who is known as a drunker (he literally has a
drinking problem) will certainly not share a beer with
.
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Trump, who is a teetotaler. But Trump should not
compromise. He should give no ground. Yield Nothing.
The EU needs a dose of reciprocity—a strong dose.
Besides that, Junker must know, even as he denies it, that
nationalism is on the rise in Europe and that the EU may
not be around much longer.
You see, in 2019 they have European Parliamentary
elections and the whole lot of them will be swept out.
Trump would be better to wait until the new crowd—more
to his liking—come in and do business with them — and
on his terms.
Send Junker packing!
 Left MELTS Again After Trump Says
He’s Considering REVOKING Security Clearances Of
Obama Deep State Hacks
Posted On July 24, 2018
(National Sentinel) Wall Them Off: On Monday Sen.
Rand Paul, R-Ky., said he would press POTUS Donald
Trump to revoke top-level security clearances from many
of the Obama Deep State hacks who have been attacking
him relentlessly since he took office.
Paul’s concern is that former spooks-turned-Left-wing
media “analysts” who still get access to top-secret finished
intelligence products are “monetizing” the information as
TV commentators — all while trashing the president.
“Is John Brennan monetizing his security
clearance? Is John Brennan making
millions of dollars divulging secrets to the
mainstream media with his attacks on
@realDonaldTrump ?” Paul tweeted.
Paul followed that with a tweet informing followers he
would bring the matter up with POTUS Trump.
Later Monday, the White House said POTUS Trump was
indeed considering revoking the security clearances of
former CIA Director John Brennan specifically, but also
others, according to Fox News:
[White House Press Secretary Sarah
Huckabee] Sanders said Trump is also
looking into the clearances for other former
officials and Trump critics, including former
FBI Director James Comey; former Deputy
FBI Director Andrew McCabe; former
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Director of National Intelligence James
Clapper; former National Security Adviser
Susan Rice and former CIA Director
Michael Hayden (who also worked under
President George W. Bush). Sanders said
the former officials “politicized and in some
cases actually monetized their public
service and their security clearances in
making baseless accusations of improper
contact with Russia.” (Brennan is an
analyst for NBC and MSNBC while Clapper
has been working for CNN.)
Cue the Left-wing rage and meltdown.
Rep. Adam Schiff of California, the Democratic ranking
member of the House Intelligence Committee,
tweeted that “politicizing security
clearances to retaliate against former
national security officials who criticize
the President would set a terrible new
precedent.”
Meanwhile, Clapper said on CNN that Trump’s possible
revocation was
“kind of a petty way of retribution, I
suppose, for speaking out against the
president, which I think, on the part of
all of us, are borne out of genuine
concerns about President Trump.”
Hayden, meanwhile,
tweeted Monday that revoking his security
clearance wouldn’t “have any effect on
what I say or write.”
Former Brennan deputy chief of staff Nick Shapiro said his
one-time boss
“hasn’t made one penny off of his
clearance” and “doesn’t need a security
clearance to speak out against the
failings of Trump.”
And you just knew that someone would bring up the BS Former Defense Department official and CIA operative
“Russia” connection. Mary Beth Long told Paul he was right to insist on those
clearances being revoked.
Cue James Comey! He tweeted:

“Thought experiment: Make a list of all the

public figures in this country and around
the world the current president has
criticized. Ask yourself: “Why is Putin
missing from the list?”
First off, POTUS Trump has
been tougher on Russia than any
president since the Cold War. Secondly,
the public figures Trump is
criticizing tried to prevent him from
becoming president and have undermined
him every single moment since.
So, “thought experiment:” Who leaked “Dear Senator, it’s more than that. As a
classified information to the media former Director, #Brennan has daily access
constantly? Hence, who are the real to finished intelligence, a courtesy offered
threats to our democracy? to all previous DNI & Directors. As paid
Wow. If having a top secret security media pundits, both he and #Clapper
clearance is no big deal and has no should forfeit that access immediately.
effect whatsoever on their ability to @RandPaul @SaraCarterDC @FoxNews,”
speak and make a living, why so much she tweeted.
outrage?
.

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 President Trump: Countries That Have
Treated Us Unfairly On Trade For Years Are Coming
To Washington To Negotiate
By Jim Hoft
July 24, 2018, 8:57 Am

President Trump followed up that

tweeted with a shout-out to tariffs.

President Trump is meeting with several

international leaders this week to
negotiate better trade deals for the
United States.
European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker
and European Commissioner for Trade Cecilia
Malmstrom will meet with President Trump on
Wednesday in Washington DC.

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 This News Anchor Calls
President Trump The ‘Worst Ruler In History’
By Garvin Oliver And Ken Oliver
July 24, 2018 9:56 AM EDT

Move over Hitler, Pol Pot, or Genghis Khan, to name just
a few prime contenders for the title. Following President
Trump’s latest meeting with Russian President Vladimir
Putin, anchor Adriana Yañez of Estrella TV opened her
network’s national evening news by telling viewers that it
is President Trump who is
“the worst ruler in history.”
Los Angeles-based Estrella TV, tacking ever further to the
left of its much larger Spanish-language rivals Univision
and Telemundo, thus managed to make itself a
laughingstock, while hitting a new low in the annals of
journalism.
made him the worst ruler in history. We
hand it off to Dayanis López who has all
the details.
Yañez’s characteristic histrionics and over-the-top
editorializing was complemented by a graphic during the
story, next to a picture of President Trump, that read “Out
of Control.” As MRC Latino has documented repeatedly,
the news peddled by Estrella TV is truly in a league of its
own, and an embarrassment.

ADRIANA YAÑEZ, NEWS ANCHOR, ESTRELLA TV:

Greetings, this is Adriana Yañez with the

most relevant news of the day. And the
U.S. President continues making grave
errors in his foreign policy, which have

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 Alan Dershowitz Destroys Michael Avenatti’s
Theory Of A Trump Resignation: ‘It’s Total Nonsense’
Nick Givas | Media And Politics Reporter
1:04 PM 07/24/2018
Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz challenged porn
star Stormy Daniels’ attorney Michael Avenatti on
“Tucker Carlson Tonight” Monday and said it’s absurd
to think President Donald Trump will resign.
Dershowitz said it’s problematic if Avenatti gained access
to sealed tapes of Trump and his lawyer Michael Cohen
and called him out for claiming the president was going to
leave office in May.
“Either [he has the tapes], or he’s making it
up,” Dershowitz said. “He accused me of
making false predictions whereas all of his
predictions are correct. His major prediction
in May was that President Trump would
resign — we’re waiting to see that happen.”
Dershowitz also defended his own political predictions and
said Avenatti has yet to show any valuable insight into
future events.
WATCH:
.
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“I predicted accurately what the Supreme
Court would decide in the travel ban case,”
he continued. “I predicted accurately who
President Trump would nominate to the
Supreme Court. All of my predictions have
come true and almost none of Avenatti’s
predictions have come true.”
Dershowitz slammed Avenatti’s professional conduct,
before calling his statements “total nonsense.”
“I just call them as I see them and
sometimes my predictions help one side or
help the other,” he declared. “But I’m not
trying to make self-fulfilling prophecies the
way Avenatti and others on the extreme
side of this, are making.”
“Let’s wait to see if President Trump
resigns and if he doesn’t, put Avenatti on
the show,” Dershowitz concluded.
“Confront him with that prediction. He not
only made a prediction — he said ‘I
guarantee you, guarantee you that
President Trump will resign’ after hearing
what Rudy Giuliani said and what Avenatti
said — It’s total nonsense.”
 POTUS PROGRESS! New Satellite Images
Show North Korea Dismantling KEY Missile Facilities
Posted On July 24, 2018

(National Sentinel) Denuclearization: In June POTUS which is used to develop liquid-fuel

Donald Trump held a historic summit with the leader of engines for ballistic missiles. Another
North Korea, Kim Jong-un, in an attempt to negotiate an facility was identified as a space-launch
agreement that would lead to Pyongyang’s complete vehicles and a rail-mounted processing
denuclearization. building.

The summit came after months of back-channel talks and

face-to-face meetings between Kim and U.S. officials
including then-CIA Director Mike Pompeo, who’s now
secretary of state.

Within a few weeks of the meeting, some of the same Left-

wing hack Democrats and media types who were just
sure a year ago POTUS Trump was going to provoke Kim
into starting a nuclear war were diming the president out
over a ‘lack of progress’ since Kim and POTUS signed an
agreement that would lead, in time, to denuclearization.

‘Trump got punked,’ they said.

Trump’s a fool! they screeched.
No way Kim Jong-un will give up his
nuclear weapons and supporting
infrastructure.
Oh, really? Because he seems to be
doing just that.
As Fox News reports, a private-sector U.S.-based research
group noted that North Korea has begun dismantling
“key facilities” linked to its missile program:
An American research group on Monday
claimed that North Korea has begun
dismantling its main missile-engine test
site, a possible sign that Pyongyang is
fulfilling the promises North Korean
leader Kim Jong-un made to President
Trump at the summit in Singapore last
month.
According to an analysis of satellite
imagery of the location by the North Korea-
focused 38 North website— between July
20 and 22–the North Korean government
appeared to be dismantling the Sohae
launch site.
Some facilities on the site were either
razed or taken apart. The facilities
included a rocket engine test stand,
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“Since these facilities are believed to have
played an important role in the
development of technologies for the North’s
intercontinental ballistic missile program,
these efforts represent a significant
confidence building measure on the part of
North Korea,” analyst Joseph Bermudez
wrote in the 38 North report, as Fox News
reported.
Bermudez added that the satellite images
indicate that Pyongyang took “an important
first step toward fulfilling a commitment
made by Kim Jong-un.”
South Korean officials said their intelligence service had
also detected the activity.
It’s important to note these are vital test facilities because
they were being used to perfect nuclear warhead-tipped
ICBMs.
 Nobel Peace Prize for POTUS Trump, The Left’s only objective is to see this president fail —
anyone? even if it means he fails at denuclearizing a threatening
power.
It’s still too early for that, most likely, but hey, remember
when Barack Obama got one just for saying he wanted a What sickos.
nuclear-free world — like a month into his first term?
.

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 President Trump: Very Concerned
Russia Will Push Hard To Help Democrats
In Upcoming Election
By Jim Hoft
July 24, 2018, 11:04 Am

No president has been harder on Russia

Putin’s Puppets. than President Donald Trump.
President Donald Trump is VERY
CONCERNED Russia may help
Democrats out in 2018 midterm
elections.

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 President Putin Admits To Election
Tampering – In Favor Of The CLINTON Campaign
By Ethan Huff
07/24/2018
The leftist media is having an absolute meltdown over
President Trump’s recent meeting with Russian President
Vladimir Putin, once again implying that our Commander-
in-Chief is some kind of Russian agent or spy who only
won the election due to “meddling.” But the reality is that
it was failed Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton who
was on the receiving end of major Russian influence, as
she reportedly accepted a massive campaign donation from
an American-born British financier with ties to Russia.
Early reports claimed that Bill Browder, co-founder and
CEO of Hermitage Capital Management, gave Clinton
$400 million. That figure was later changed to $400,000
after a Russian news source called Tass stated that the
$400 million figure was a mistranslation.
Regardless of the amount, we now know that Clinton
accepted cash from an investment fund that at one time
was the largest foreign portfolio investor in Russia –
something that, had the donation gone to the Trump
campaign, would have been headline news ad infinitum.
But instead of addressing the situation in a fair and
unbiased way, the mainstream media is instead using it as
yet more cannon fodder in its endless crusade to take down
Donald Trump.
The #SeekingTheTruth channel over at REAL.video
recently put up a clip discussing this alleged election
tampering by Hillary Clinton with the help of Russian
money. Watch and listen for yourself as #SeekingTheTruth
breaks down the real story of collusion between Russia,
the Democrats, and our intelligence agencies to try to get
Hillary Clinton elected.
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Putin: American intelligence agencies
helped facilitate transfer of illegally-
earned money from Russia into Clinton
campaign
Whether it was $400,000 or $400 million, President Putin
was clear in his statements that large cash sums were
illicitly transferred from Russian sources into the United
States, where they were then deposited into the bank
accounts of the Clinton campaign. And worse, Putin stated,
was the fact that American intelligence agencies were
complicit in facilitating this criminal activity.
“Business associates of Mr. Browder have
earned over $1.5 billion in Russia,” reads
an English translation of Putin’s comments
on the matter. “They never paid any taxes,
neither in Russia nor in the United States.
And yet the money escaped the country. It
was transferred to the United States. They
sent a huge amount of money, $400
million, as a contribution to the campaign of
Hillary Clinton.”
He added:
“It might have been legal, the contribution
itself. But the way the money was earned
was illegal. So we have a solid reason to
believe that some intelligence officers
accompanied and guided these
transactions. So we have an interest in
questioning them. That could be a first
step, and we can also extend it. Options
 abound. And they all can be found in an
appropriate legal framework.”
This is what you call treason, and those guilty include not
only Hillary Clinton and her ilk, but the intelligence
community at large – which, not surprisingly, has been
aggressively trying to indict President Trump for crimes
that it and the Democrats actually committed. It’s a
bombshell admission, in other words, with unprecedented
ramifications.
Keep in mind that Bill Browder’s grandfather was actually
at one time the head of the Communist Party in the United
.
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States. The Russian government actually put him on
Interpol’s most wanted list back in 2017 – which should
tell you something about the seriousness of the matter.
“Obviously the cheat was in for Hillary, and
she still lost,” explains #SeekingTheTruth
at REAL.video. “Trump knew that he didn’t
do anything wrong, and that’s why he went
along with this. That’s why he didn’t fire
Mueller. That’s why he didn’t fire Sessions.
That’s why things are still happening to this
day because Trump knows he’s innocent.”
 JUST IN: Top GOP Lawmakers Meeting
With Senior DOJ Officials Wednesday To Discuss
Ongoing Production Of Spygate Docs
By Cristina Laila
July 24, 2018, 12:47 Pm

senior DOJ officials on Capitol Hill

Wednesday.

Via Jake Gibson: Fox News has learned there will be a

meeting between senior DOJ officials and a handful of
influential Republican members on the Hill on
Wednesday.

House Judiciary Chairman Bob

Goodlatte (R-VA), Freedom Caucus
Chairman Mark Meadows (R-NC) Rep.
Jim Jordan (R-OH) and House Oversight
Chairman Trey Gowdy (R-SC) are
meeting with senior DOJ officials
Wednesday to discuss the ongoing Fox News Congress reporter, Chad
production of Spygate documents. Pergram offered more details about the
meeting.

Chad Pergram reported: Colleague Jake Gibson rpts top

DoJ officials to meet Wednesday w/Meadows, Jordan,
Goodlatte & Gowdy about state of play on the ongoing
document production process.

Top GOP lawmakers immediately called for the Carter

Page FISA documents to be declassified following the
release of the heavily redacted version over the weekend.
Both Goodlatte and Gowdy said they read the unredacted
Carter Page FISA docs in a SCIF and the Americans
deserve to know the truth about Obama’s abusive FBI and
DOJ.
Fox News producer Jake Gibson said
top GOP lawmakers will be meeting with
GOP lawmakers have been fiercely working to obtain
pertinent Spygate documents from the FBI and DOJ,
however; DAG Rod Rosenstein and FBI Director Wray
have been stonewalling their efforts.
The stonewalling is so out of control, Rep. Mark
Meadows drafted impeachment documents, however
nothing has been officially filed yet.

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 Thanks To Mueller, The Swamp Is Handing Out “Get Out
Of Jail Free” Cards To Clinton-Linked Swamp Creatures
By JD Heyes
07/24/2018

“Only one of them made the mistake of

chairing Donald Trump’s presidential
campaign.”

There is so much anecdotal evidence that special counsel

Robert Mueller’s ‘probe’ of the 2016 Trump campaign is
one giant hoax, it’s astounding that Attorney General Jeff
Sessions hasn’t ordered it to a screeching halt.

Mueller’s appointment was a staged, choreographed event

in that fired FBI Director James Comey admitted leaking
documents to the media specifically to trigger a special
counsel probe of Team Trump and the president.

The majority of Mueller’s prosecutors are Democrats and

many were supporters of Hillary Clinton’s failed
campaign.

House Intelligence Committee chairman Devin Nunes, R-

Calif., has said publicly that the investigation is political.

And Democrats who are close to Clintons have been

getting free passes from Obama’s Deep State despite
evidence they themselves may be guilty of actual crimes.
The latest is Tony Podesta, who now becomes the sixth to
receive immunity from prosecution, in exchange for his
testimony against former Trump campaign manager Paul
Manafort — who is currently behind bars.
Podesta is suspected of committing nearly the exact same
crimes as Manafort.
“In other words, for a near identical crime,
Bill and Hillary’s friend could escape and
emerge completely unscathed while Paul
Manafort may rot in jail,” Fox News’ Tucker
Carlson said last week on his program.
Mueller probe is obviously politically motivated
Podesta — brother of John Podesta, long-time Clinton
family friend and manager of Hillary’s second failed
presidential bid — once lobbied with Manafort on behalf
of Ukrainian interests in the U.S., allegedly without
registering under the Foreign Agent Registration Act
(FARA).
“Manafort got in big trouble for that. He’s
now being held in solitary confinement,”
Carlson noted, “and he’s looking at a life
sentence behind bars.”

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Tucker went on to note that Mueller, who is looking more
and more like the political hack Nunes and other
Republicans believe he is, offered immunity to Podesta so
he would testify against someone who engaged in the very
same activities.
Translation:
ruthlessly trying to overturn the election but
he’s desperately trying to cover up for the
DOJ & the Clintons,” tweeted former Secret
Service agent and NRATV host Dan
Bongino last week, as The Gateway Pundit
reported.. “Fire Mueller immediately & let’s
move on from this national disgrace.”

Mueller is a political hack who has really

been tasked with attacking Trump
campaign figures, as well as the president
himself. (Related: Robert Mueller guilty of
cover up of mafia murders; committed
treason while FBI director.)
“Maybe the most amazing thing is the
pretext under which all of this is
happening,” Carlson continued. “The FARA
law was passed back in 1938 in order to
prevent the Nazi government from lobbying
in the U.S.”

But over a 50-year period, he explained — 1966 to 2016

— just seven people were charged under FARA, despite
the fact that many more could have (and should have) been
charged

“because Washington has been brimming

with unregistered foreign agents for
decades.”

Translation:
The law is selectively enforced as it is, and
now Mueller is selectively enforcing it to
‘get Trump.’ Over the past several months,
three people have been charged under the
law, and they all have a connection to
POTUS Trump.
As Carlson noted, federal laws ought to be universally
enforced or they aren’t really laws, but “political cudgels”
with which to bash opponents of the Deep State and their
allies. That’s really what this Mueller probe is about:
Revenge against Trump and his associates for daring to
win the presidency without the assistance and permission
of the Washington establishment.

“The Mueller probe is a disgusting

It’s become obvious.
abomination of justice. Not only is Mueller

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 Fake Indian Elizabeth Warren Suggests 50% Democrat
Tax Rates – Calls Trump Tax Bonuses “Crumbs” (VIDEO)
By Jim Hoft
July 24, 2018, 12:58 Pm
Thanks to President Trump’s tax cuts
and reforms 90% of American wage
earners have a higher take-home pay
this year.
Over 3 million working Americans have received Trump
tax cut bonuses as a result of the Trump tax reform law.
But fake Elizabeth Warren wants to take that all away.
Elizabeth Warren told CNBC Democrats
will end the Trump tax cuts if they take
power in November.
Warren also promoted a 50% tax hike on
American earners.
CNBC reported:
Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., sat down
with CNBC’s John Harwood to discuss an
array of issues, from President Donald
Trump to the economy. Here, she talks
about wanting to roll back the GOP tax
cuts.
Q: If Democrats take the Congress, if
you’re in the White House, or both, would
you like to see these corporate tax cuts
repealed?
A: Yeah, I really want to see them rolled
back.
Q: Back to 35 percent?
.
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A: Well, it’s not about the number. Here’s
how I look at budgets and taxes are at the
heart of this. A lot of people think they’re
just numbers; they’re not. They are the
expression of our values. The values of the
Republican Party that passed those tax
cuts are to give $1.5 trillion away to the
richest Americans and the biggest
corporations, and let everybody else pick
up the crumbs.
I think the right way to think about this is
that we need a budget, we need a tax bill
that works for all of us. So what I’d like to
see is I’d like to see us strengthen
America’s middle class.
Q: What’s too high for the top personal
rate?
A: It’s not about a number. That’s what
negotiations are all about.
Q: Is 50 percent obviously too high?
A: That’s why you sit down and you
negotiate over the numbers.
Q: When George W. Bush was president,
his team articulated the view that it was a
matter of right and wrong that you shouldn’t
have more than a third of your income
taken. Do you feel similarly that it’s wrong
for more than half of somebody’s marginal
income to be taken?
A: Look, there was a time in a very
prosperous America — an America that
was growing a middle class, an America in
which working families were doing better
generation after generation after generation
— where the top marginal rate was well
above 50 percent.
Q: Ninety percent.
A: That’s exactly right. But for me, the heart
of the question is that you’ve got to ask,
“What constitutes a fair share in this
economy?” It depends in part on what the
economy is.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren wants to roll back tax cuts from
CNBC.
 Mueller & Holder Shut Down FBI Investigation Of Stolen
U.S. Stealth Defense Technology Implicating Lockheed
Martin, While Comey Was Lockheed’s Top Lawyer
By Investigative Bureau
Posted On July 24, 2018
For nearly four years the FBI investigated the international
theft of STEALTH defense technology from a small
Florida marine company that invented an ingenious way to
help protect Navy ships and nuclear ballistic submarines
from being detected on enemy radar and sonar.
And on the eve before the case was go to a Grand Jury, the
case was closed by then-FBI Director Robert Mueller and
then-Attorney General Eric Holder.
“This was the original pay-to-play scheme
and it involves Mueller, Holder, (James)
Comey and (Hillary) Clinton,” said Steve
Morton, inventor and owner of a rare
robotic ship and submarine stealth painting
technology that can help make the U.S.
Navy’s fleet invisible on radar and sonar.
“They allowed my technology to be stolen
by European companies partnered with
Lockheed Martin and Comey was the top
lawyer for Lockheed.
Now my technology is being sold to the Chinese, Russians,
and all over the world to enemies of the United States. I
wonder how much Hillary Clinton made on this because
she was Secretary of State when the probe was shut
down.”
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Massive allegations against familiar players linked to
numerous other FBI, DOJ and government scandals. But
this time the stakes are much larger than a Uranium One
scandal. That was millions. This is untold billions.
Another FBI cover up, Morton and FBI insiders said.
And Morton should know. He worked as the FBI’s
undercover informant on the case for almost four years,
wearing a wire. Recording phone calls. Gathering evidence
against Fincantieri, the massive Italian shipbuilder who the
FBI had all but proven swiped Morton’s Stealth painting
technology as well as his company’s computer files.
Comey had left the Justice Department in 2005 to become
Lockheed Martin’s top lawyer until 2010, the exact time
frame his client was under investigation along with its
Italian shipbuilding partner.
Morton and high-ranking FBI sources said Mueller had
received pressure from Comey, Lockheed’s high-priced
general counsel to squash the case. And then suddenly
almost four years of FBI case work spiraled down the
drain. Mueller and Holder shut the entire case down.
Fincantieri and Lockheed Martin are partners in the
shipbuilding business for the U.S. Navy and navies in
several countries. Heavy partners with billions of U.S. tax
dollars alone pouring into the coffers of both massive
corporations. In fact, when it comes to building war ships
and outfitting them for combat, Lockheed is under an
exclusive contract with Fincantieri.
South Florida entrepreneur Morton, however, describes
Fincantieri as as greedy foreign defense contractor who
conspired with Lockheed to steal his technology and run
him out of business. The most important vessel in the US
Navy, as far as a weapon platforms, is the nuclear ballistic
submarine. It’s common knowledge in the Department of
Defense that these submarines have active defense
technology such as anti-submarine torpedoes, but the
PRIMARY defense of any submarine is STEALTH.
Keeping it hidden from enemy sonar.
Fincantieri rakes in $5 Billion annually, while Morton is
asking family and friends for loans to help pay his legal
fees. And that annual revenue for Fincantieri doesn’t
include its numerous spinoffs and subsidiaries that are too
vast to liste here.
This is a case and a story of the prophetic David vs
Goliath.
But in this case, David turned to the FBI to try and take
down this gargantuan defense contractor — partnered with
Lockheed. And things appeared to be going well until
Goliath produced attorney James Comey who was old
friends with FBI Director Mueller.
“These bastards took everything I had ”
Morton said. “And our ships in the Navy still
aren’t protected by this technology, while
our enemies are protected with it. This is a
national disgrace.”
Morton was not the only person angered by the abrupt end
of the FBI’s probe into the defense contractors. In 2011,
then-Congressman Allen West got involved, trying to nail
.
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down why the FBI walked away from a case it had built
for almost three years.
“The Federal Bureau of Investigation was
investigating this case, (DOJ case number
288A-MM-109951) before Attorney General
Eric Holder asked them to end the
investigation,” West wrote to House
Oversight Committee Chair Darrell Issa. “I
am not sure why the Department of Justice
would back off a case regarding the theft of
US defense technology.”
The correspondences that ensued between the
Congressman prompted Issa to jump on the case which set
off a a rash of FBI and DOJ lies that stretched from Florida
to Washington D.C. to Italy and beyond.
But that is another part of this scandal for another day.
This story is developing.
West Lt r to Visions East by True Pundit from Scribd On
next page:
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 94-Year-Old Veteran STEALS THE SHOW
At Trump VFW Speech In Kansas City, Missouri (VIDEO)
By Jim Hoft
July 24, 2018, 1:29 Pm

President Donald Trump spoke to the VFW Convention President Trump said yes and gave Allen a hug.
today in Kansas City, Missouri.
This was an amazing American moment.
During his speech invited 94-year-old veteran Allen Jones
on stage to share a few words.

Allen stole the show.

The World War II veteran told the story of losing his

brother in World War II fighting.

Then Allen turned to President Trump and made a request.

Allen asked the US president if he could bring his family
to the Oval Office next April when he turns 95.

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 Former Attorney General Eric Holder Claims Steele
Dossier Wasn’t Deciding Factor In FISA Warrant Case
Nick Givas | Media And Politics Reporter
1:33 PM 07/24/2018

Former Obama administration Attorney General Eric

Holder defended the use of Foreign Intelligence
Surveillance Act (FISA) warrants to spy on the Trump
campaign Monday, during an interview with comedian
Stephen Colbert.
Colbert asked Holder how many FISA warrants are issued
on a yearly basis. Holder was unable to come up with an
answer and joked about how many he’s signed.
“No idea. I signed a lot,” Holder said on
“The Late Show.” “A lot, a lot, a lot. That’s
more than a little.”
Holder also said he’s glanced at the FISA warrant
regarding former Trump adviser Carter Page, but has not
read it in full.
Holder claimed the warrant wasn’t strictly based on the
Steele dossier, but a litany of facts and evidence he failed
to mention during the interview.
“There are these things called facts, and
then there’s this other stuff,” Holder
concluded. “They still exist. The sun’s the
center of the solar system, that’s still true.
There are certain facts. And if you look at
this FISA warrant, you will see that it is not
simply based, as they’ve been trying to say
— it’s all based on the Steele dossier. It is
clear that it is not.”
WATCH:

“I’ve looked at it. I’ve not read it fully, no,”

he replied. Holder said President Donald
Trump should not feel exonerated by the
release of the FISA warrant and slammed
California GOP Rep. Devin Nunes for his
work on bringing the information to light.
“I’m serious, if you look at it, it goes totally
contrary to that which he says it’s going to
contain. Devin Nunes is proven to be totally
wrong,” Holder said. “It is really one of
these questions of ‘who are you going to
believe, me or your lying eyes?’ You just
look at it and you can see that it is — as I
See following article from February
said, paints just a totally different picture
than what the House Republicans and this
president has said.”
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 Rep. Meadows Goes After Rosenstein
For Signing Carter Page FISA Application ‘He’s A Witness
And Should Recuse Himself Immediately’
By Cristina Laila
July 24, 2018, 1:35 Pm

On Tuesday, Freedom Caucus Chairman

Mark Meadows (R-NC) called
Rosenstein a “witness” in the ongoing
investigation of the DOJ because he
signed the Carter Page FISA application
and called on the DAG to recuse himself
immediately.
Meadows also previously called for the
Carter Page FISA documents to be
declassified and further unredacted.

The top GOP lawmaker tweeted out a screenshot of

Rosenstein’s signature on the Carter Page FISA
application and called for the DAG to step aside.

Meadows tweeted:

Potential FISA abuse has been a central Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) also called out
issue in Congress’ investigation of the DAG Rosenstein for signing the
DOJ. The Carter Page FISA application fraudulent Carter Page FISA application.
revealed Rod Rosenstein signed the
document and authorized surveillance. Mr.
On Saturday, Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton
Rosenstein is a fact witness and should
announced documents related to the FISA warrants on
recuse himself from this process
Trump’s former campaign advisor, Carter Page were
immediately.
released by the FBI — and arrived at JW headquarters.

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 Obama’s Deep State FBI and DOJ obtained a FISA
warrant on Carter Page in October of 2016 and three
subsequent renewals in order to spy on Trump’s campaign
and transition team.

Comey, Rosenstein, McCabe and Sally Yates all signed

the FISA applications even though Hillary’s fraudulent
Russia dossier was used as a pretext to obtain the warrants.

Rosenstein is in fact a witness and should recuse himself

for conflicts of interest.

Attorney General Jeff Sessions recused himself from the

Russia investigation for fall less–he even cited the wrong
law in his recusal.
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 BREAKING: Barack Obama Exposed As The
MASTERMIND Behind Criminal FISA
Fraud Targeting Trump
By Mike Adams
Tuesday, July 24, 2018

desperately attempting to destroy our democracy. Those

people include James Comey, Robert Mueller, Barack
Obama, James Clapper, John Brennan, Hillary Clinton,
Peter Strzok, Andrew McCabe, Loretta Lynch and many
more. Every single one of these individuals needs to be
indicted, arrested and prosecuted for multiple felony
crimes, including obstruction of justice, official corruption
and sedition.

I’m also adding Jeff Sessions to that list, as his willful

inaction now qualifies him as an actual traitor to the
United States of America. Like most Americans, I’m long
past waiting for Sessions to find a spine and do his job. He
Stunning new revelations are now exposing Barack Obama now gets moved to the category of “traitor” to America.
as the criminal mastermind behind the fraudulent FISA
targeting of Trump campaign staffers with illegal spying. Watch my full video — which would surely have been
banned on YouTube if I tried to post it there — to learn all
Even more shockingly, the underpinnings of the FISA the stunning details:
warrant itself turn out to be utterly fraudulent, based
largely on a fictitious “Trump Dossier” which was funded
by the Hillary Clinton campaign to smear Trump. That
dossier, combined with the deep state’s own fabricated
leaks to the complicit left-wing media, resulted in
mainstream media stories which were then cited in the
FISA warrant application to further bolster an utterly
fraudulent secret spying warrant.

The entire purpose of this charade, of course, was to

destroy a duly-elected U.S. President and overthrow the
government from within. The real traitors and enemies of
America, it turns out, are the deep state operators who are
.

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 FNC's Steve Hilton Highlights
Media Blackout On New Trump
Executive Order On Jobs
By Ryan Foley
July 24, 2018 1:50 PM EDT
During Sunday night’s edition of The Next Revolution
With Steve Hilton, host Steve Hilton brought up a new
initiative put into place by the Trump Administration, led
by Ivanka Trump, designed to “train workers for the jobs
of the future.” Hilton said that he did analysis on how
much coverage the executive order got on the three
networks and he reported on his findings:
“ABC News: 0, NBC News: 0, CBS
News: 0.”
It looks like the networks could not take a break from their
wall-to-wall Russia hysteria to highlight something that
concerns every American:
the economy.
On Thursday, President Trump signed an executive order
on Workforce Development, establishing the President’s
National Council for the American Worker and the
American Workforce Policy Board. The signing ceremony
took place in the East Room at the White House, featuring
representatives from more than 20 companies and
organizations signing a “Pledge to America’s Workers,”
vowing to invest in training and education for American
workers.
Both President Trump and his daughter Ivanka, who has
taken on an advisory role in her father’s White House,
weighed in on the new executive order. According to the
President,
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“We want to make sure that we have the
workforce development programs we need
to ensure that these jobs are being filled by
American workers.”
Ivanka Trump said
“This will spur much-needed action to
provide current and future American
workers with the training and job
opportunities they will need to succeed in
our thriving economy and ensure they are
able to achieve success not only today, but
throughout their careers.”
While the executive order received no coverage on the
three “alphabet soup” networks as Hilton pointed out,
major publications and cable news did manage to at least
give it an honorable mention. The White House website
compiled a list of testimonials about the new executive
order from Ivanka Trump during an interview in The Wall
Street Journal and from the CEO of Lockheed Martin
during an appearance on Fox News. The list also included
excerpts of news stories on the executive order from
Axios.com and the Associated Press.
In addition to the news outlets listed on whitehouse.gov,
CNN, The Washington Post, and The New York Times also
managed to find time and/or space to cover the executive
order. While CNN and The Washington Post offered fair
analysis of the executive order, the Times described the
idea of job training as
“one of the few coordinated policy
initiatives generated in the West Wing with
broad appeal across income and party
lines.”
In addition, the Times attempted to downplay the
significance of the executive order by saying
“Most of the companies and organizations
in attendance had already planned to
greatly increase their job training and
apprenticeship programs.”
As the CNN piece reported, companies who signed
the “Pledge to America’s Workers” include FedEx,
General Motors, Home Depot, IBM, Microsoft and
Walmart.
According to a recent Gallup poll, less than one percent of
Americans consider Russia the nation’s most important
problem as opposed to 15 percent of Americans, who
consider economic issues the most important problem
facing the nation. If nothing else, this poll highlights how
out of touch the media is with the concerns of
the “forgotten men and women” President Trump hopes to
help through his new executive order that the networks
refused to cover.
A transcript is below:
The Next Revolution With Steve Hilton
07/23/18
09:45 PM
LISA BOOTHE: Well you’ve also seen under President Trump
hundreds of businesses passing savings from the tax reform laws
down to employees and President Trump has highlighted those
.
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stories at events across the country. So you’ve also seen that. I
actually think her biggest gripe and grievance should be against
Toys “R” Us and their failure to, their failure to look at the
basically changes in, you know, with internet retailers like
Amazon and Walmart and their failure to change their business
model to keep up because it’s basically Amazon and Walmart’s
ability to bring toys at a much cheaper cost that has helped
driven Toys “R” Us out of business. So they, their antiquated
business model wasn’t able to keep up in a changing economy.
(…)
09:46:18 PM
STEVE HILTON: I want to say something. It’s my show. I want to
say something. Which is that that point that Lisa made about the
transition to a new economy is so important. And that’s why I’m
so…I couldn’t believe the fact that we actually had a really
important announcement on that this week from the Trump
Administration, led by Ivanka Trump; a new initiative to train
workers for the jobs of the future. Do you know how much
coverage that got? We did, we did analysis. ABC News: 0, NBC
News: 0, CBS News: 0. They are not interested. And yet that is
the kind of thing that actually could help with the very good point
you made about this big economic transition. I’ve gone on too
long.
 Nude Drawing Of Barron Trump Posted By Cartoon
Network’s Rick And Morty Co-Creator Justin Roiland
By Kristinn Taylor
July 24, 2018, 2:13 Pm

A nude drawing of 12-year-old First Son Barron Trump

with his father President Donald Trump was posted to
Twitter by Justin Roiland, co-creator of the Cartoon
Network’s popular Rick and Morty show which airs during
Adult Swim on the Turner Broadcasting System owned
cable network.
In the drawing, Barron is wearing virtual reality goggles
and a shirt but is nude from the waist down. President
Trump is right behind Barron with his hand on Barron’s
shoulder. Cartoon characters Homer Simpson and the
Family Guy’s Peter Griffin are in the in the background. Roiland does not appear to have answered. He did reply on
The cartoon is signed, “Jim Davis”, though it is not certain Monday to a fan concerned about the well-being of Rick
the Garfield creator actually did the drawing. What is and Morty co-creator Dan Harmon who deleted his Twitter
certain is the drawing has been on Roiland’s verified blue account after a 2009 video recently surfaced of him raping
check mark Twitter account since April 2, 2017. an infant as part of a comedy satire.
The drawing and tweet are captioned, “Donald Trump
Forcing Baron To Play VR, While Homer And Peter
Eat Smurfs Nearby.” It appears the drawing was done on
an erasable whiteboard. Roiland included Zach Hadel’s
Twitter account @psychicpebble in the caption.

Justin Roiland, right, and Dan Harmon, left, photo by

Maarten de Boer, Getty Images

Adult Swim stood by Harmon, but condemned the video.

There does not appear to be any comment yet by Adult
One of the first comments, posted just hours after Roiland Swim on Roiland.
posted the drawing on April 2, 2017 was by Minecraft
creator Markus Persson, aka @Notch, who asked Roiland, An email inquiry to Jim Davis’ company, Paws, Inc., was
not returned by publication time.
“so.. uh… why isn’t baron.. wearing.. uh..
pants?”
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 Spy Warrant Relied On Dossier
And News Stories Planted By Fusion GPS
Benny Johnson And Chuck Ross | Contributor
5:54 PM 02/02/2018
The FBI relied heavily on the dubious Steele dossier, as
well as a Yahoo! News article based on the salacious
document, to obtain a surveillance warrant against a
Trump campaign adviser prior to the 2016 election,
according to an explosive but controversial memo
approved for release by the White House on Friday.
The memo, which was crafted by House Republicans, also
says that the FBI’s deputy director, Andrew McCabe, told
Congress that a FISA warrant against the campaign
adviser, Carter Page, would not have been granted without
use of the dossier. That despite the FBI later determining
that very little of the Democrat-funded document was
corroborated.
And in another stunning revelation, the memo asserts that
Justice Department official Bruce Ohr was used to pass
information from the author of the dossier, Christopher
Steele, to the DOJ.
Ohr’s wife, Nellie Ohr, worked at the time for Fusion GPS,
the opposition research firm research firm that
commissioned the dossier. Bruce Ohr, who worked closely
with Deputy Attorney Generals Sally Yates and Rod
Rosenstein, passed his wife’s opposition research on
Trump to the FBI, the memo says.
The memo also says that Christopher Steele, the former
British spy who wrote the dossier, told Ohr during a
meeting prior to the election that he desperately wanted to
prevent Donald Trump from being elected president.
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Steele at one point told Ohr that he
“was desperate that Donald Trump not get
elected and was passionate about him not
being president.”
“A lot of people should be ashamed of
themselves,”
President Trump said Friday, shortly after the White House
sent the memo to the House Intelligence Committee for
release to the public.
It’s already been widely reported that the dossier was used
by government officials to justify a spy warrant against
Page, a 46-year-old energy consultant who joined the
Trump campaign in March 2016.
But the memo reveals that the FISA application
“extensively” cited an Sept. 23, 2016 news article that was
in effect planted by Fusion GPS.
That is significant because the article, written by veteran
reporter Michael Isikoff, is itself based on the unverified
dossier. Isikoff was among a small group of reporters who
in September 2016 was briefed on the dossier by Steele
and Fusion GPS founder Glenn Simpson.
A private investigator who knows both Steele and Isikoff
told The Daily Caller last year that the pair are good
friends, having been fixtures of the Washington, D.C.
journalism circuit for decades.
The FISA application made no mention of the link
between the Isikoff article and the dossier. Instead, the
article was treated as corroborating evidence for the
dossier. The memo says that the FISA application
“incorrectly assesse[d]” that the Isikoff article was based
on information separate from the dossier.
“That’s truly insane,” Page told TheDC on
Friday about the Isikoff article’s link to the
FISA.
Page, who is suing Yahoo! over the article, said that he
“look(s) forward to updating my pending legal action” in
the case to include the allegations from the memo.
The FISA warrant against Page was granted by a judge on
the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court on Oct. 21,
2016, shortly after Page left the Trump campaign. In order
to obtain the warrant, FBI and Justice Department officials
had to convince the judge that there was probable cause to
believe that Page was acting as an agent of Russia.
The FISA warrant on Page likely included additional
information beyond the dossier and the Isikoff article. Page
had been on the FBI’s radar since 2013 when he was
approached by members of a Russian spy ring for
recruitment. He claims he was not recruited and that he
cooperated with the FBI in that case.
News articles are sometimes used in FISA applications.
The New York Times recently noted that articles can be
cited to convince a judge that a surveillance target may
begin concealing their activities after become the focus of
news coverage.
Carter Page speaking in Moscow, July 7, 2016. (YouTube screen grab)
While Steele and Simpson met with reporters from The
New York Times, The Washington Post, and The New
Yorker as well, Isikoff was the only journalist initially
briefed on the dossier to publish an article based on the
document.
The memo says that Perkins Coie, the Clinton campaign
law firm that hired Fusion GPS, hosted a meeting with
Simpson, Steele and reporters.
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That would appear to conflict with reporting about Marc
Elias, the Perkins Coie lawyer who served as general
counsel for the Clinton campaign and DNC. Though Elias
was who set up the deal with Fusion GPS, CNN reported
in October that a source familiar with the project said that
Elias was not involved in pitching the media on behalf of
Fusion GPS.
Elias did not respond to a request for comment on that
potential discrepancy.
Isikoff’s report did not identify Steele or refer to a
Democrat-funded dossier. Instead, it laid out Steele’s
allegations about Page and reported that U.S. law
enforcement officials were investigating the campaign
adviser’s contacts with Russians.
The article quoted an unnamed U.S. law enforcement
official confirming that investigators were looking into the
allegations about Page.
“It’s on our radar screen. It’s being looked
at,” the unidentified source told Isikoff.
Isikoff’s article, which was touted in a Clinton campaign
press release after publication, cited claims from a memo
Steele wrote on July 19, 2016. It alleges that during a well-
publicized trip to Moscow earlier that month, Page met
secretly with two Kremlin insiders, Igor Sechin and Igor
Diveykin. The dossier also alleges that Page worked with
former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort as part
of a “well-developed conspiracy” with Russians to
influence the election.
Page has denied ever meeting Sechin, Diveykin or
Manafort and refers to Steele’s report as the “dodgy
dossier.”
No evidence has emerged validating the claims made
about Page in the dossier. The Republican memo says that
FBI counterintelligence chief Bill Priestap has said that an
investigation into the dossier’s veracity was in its
“infancy” when it was used in the FISA application.
During a Senate hearing last June, Comey called the
dossier “salacious and unverified.”
The memo also says that McCabe told the House
Intelligence Committee in December that
“no surveillance warrant would have been
sought from the FISC without the Steele
dossier information.”
Simpson, the Fusion GPS founder, has also been unable to
offer evidence to corroborate any of the dossier’s
allegations during interviews with congressional
committees investigating Russian interference in the because he violated the bureau’s rules against leaks to the
election. media.

Isikoff’s article has caused some confusion among
reporters and pundits, as it has often been cited as
independent confirmation of Steele’s dossier. It only
became clear last April that Isikoff’s article was based on
the document when Steele submitted court filings in
London, where he is being sued. In the document, Steele
said he was directed by Fusion GPS to brief reporters on
his Trump investigation.
The memo also focuses heavily on McCabe and Deputy
Attorney General Rod Rosenstein’s involvement in
obtaining FISA warrants against Page.
Steele was a direct source for Mother Jones reporter David
Corn. Corn, who is co-writing a book with Yahoo’s
Isikoff, published an article on Oct. 31, 2016 in which he
quoted Steele anonymously and revealed details of the
dossier.
The Republican memo asserts that Steele violated one of
the FBI’s “cardinal rules” and had demonstrated that he
was a “less than reliable” source for the bureau.

The memo says that Rosenstein signed off on one renewal

for the Page warrant shortly after taking office in April.
McCabe, who abruptly quit as FBI No. 2 earlier this week,
signed off on one application, and James Comey okayed
three applications when he served as FBI Director. On the
Justice Department side, then-Deputy Attorney General
Sally Yates and then-Acting Deputy Attorney General Dan
Boente also approved warrant applications.

Former British spy Christopher Steele. (YouTube screen grab)

The memo provides another new detail about Page’s FISA

warrant. The document says that the application mentions
information regarding former Trump campaign adviser
George Papadopoulos.

Andrew McCabe arrives to testify before the U.S. Senate Select

Committee on Intelligence on Capitol Hill in Washington, May 11,
2017. (REUTERS/Eric Thayer)

Critics of the memo have expressed concern with

Rosenstein’s prominence in the document. They say that
President Trump might use the information to fire
Rosenstein in order to clear a path to remove Special
Counsel Robert Mueller from the Russia investigation.
Steele’s relationship with the FBI regarding Trump began
in July 2016, shortly after he begin investigating the
Republican. The ex-spy reached out to an FBI contact on
July 5 to provide a briefing of his findings. He met with
FBI agents again in Rome in early October and was told
that he would be paid if he could corroborate other
findings in the dossier.
The FBI never paid Steele, and according to the memo, the
bureau “suspended and then terminated” him as a source
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While on the campaign, Papadopoulos was in contact with
a London-based professor who claimed in April 2016 to
have learned that the Russian government obtained
Clinton-related emails. The date is significant because it
was not publicly known at the time that Russian operatives
had hacked Democrats. In May 2016, Papadopoulos told
an Australian diplomat named Alexander Downer about
the information he had received from the professor.
Downer relayed the information to his associates in July
2016, and the FBI was informed about the conversation
later that month. The memo notes that the Papadopoulos
information “triggered” the FBI investigation into possible It says that there is no evidence that Page and
Trump campaign collusion. Papadopoulos engaged in a conspiracy. Page has told
TheDC that he interacted infrequently with Papadopoulos
during the campaign.
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 Trump Should Revoke
Abusers’ Security Clearances, McCarthy Says Brennan,
Clapper, Comey And Others Deserve To Be Stripped
Of Them, Former Federal Prosecutor Insists
By Kathryn Blackhurst
Tuesday, July 24, 2018

Anyone “who abuses their security clearance” to “they’ve politicized and in some cases
“politicize intelligence” or leak selective information actually monetized their public service and
should have their access pulled, according to former their security clearances, and making
federal prosecutor Andrew McCarthy. baseless accusations of improper contact
with Russia or being influenced by Russia
“On the security clearances, I think against the president is extremely
anybody who abuses their security inappropriate.”
clearance — whether it’s to politicize
intelligence or leak intelligence — if they
find out that you did that, you should get
your clearance yanked,” McCarthy told Fox
News host Sean Hannity Monday. “I don’t
like seeing the debate about it get
politicized.”

McCarty is a former assistant U.S. attorney for the

Southern District of New York who is now a contributing
editor for National Review and a Fox News contributor.

White House press secretary Sarah Sanders caused an

uproar Monday by revealing during the daily press briefing McCarthy argued that Trump would be justified in
that President Donald Trump is considering revoking the revoking the six former officials’ security clearances
security clearances of six former Obama administration because they lied to the American people or politicized
officials and one from the second Bush administration. their knowledge for personal gain.

Prior to Sanders’ announcement, Trump had met with Sen.
Rand Paul (R-Ky.), who advocated specifically for former
CIA Director John Brennan’s clearance to be revoked.
Brennan, former Director of National Intelligence (DNI)
James Clapper, former FBI Director James Comey, former
national security adviser Susan Rice, former National
Security Agency (NSA) Director Gen. Michael Hayden,
and former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe could
be stripped of their security clearances.
Comey and McCabe were both fired from the FBI and say
they lost their clearances as a result. Hayden, who served
under President George W. Bush, tweeted Monday that he
doesn’t attend security briefings now, so losing his access
won’t change what he says in the media.
Sanders noted that
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“I think they weaponized the intelligence
and the law enforcement apparatus of the
government throughout the Obama
administration,” McCarthy said.
Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) also
supported revoking the clearances Monday during an
interview on “Hannity,” although he argued that such an
action wouldn’t be “going far enough.”
“If I have any complaint about what Sarah
Sanders said today that the president
thinks he’s going to do in terms of these
people, it’s [that] he’s not going far
enough,” Gingrich insisted. “He’s not being
serious enough.”
If Clapper, Brennan and the others “were
engaged in lying to the American people,
 why would they keep their secrecy?”
Gingrich wondered. “Why would they be
allowed clearance? And I think that it’s very
important to get all the stuff out in the open.
“I think we ought to have a really serious
look at all the different ways in which the
Establishment grew more corrupt, more
dishonest, more willing to lie to the
American people. If I were to follow up with
the president, it wouldn’t be for going too
far.”
But McCarthy’s and Gingrich’s support for revoking the
security clearances didn’t align with borderline-hysterical
mainstream media reports and reactions to Sanders’
announcement.
CNN host Wolf Blitzer worried Monday on “The
Situation Room” that revoking Clapper clearance in
particular would constitute a “potential national security
threat.” Clapper is a national security analyst for CNN.
“NBC Nightly News” anchor Lester Holt
warned Monday that “the White House
tonight is taking aim at several top-level
national security officials who have been
publicly critical of the president.
Threatening to yank their security
clearances. Stripping them of clearances,
however, could be seen as an act of
political retaliation by the president against
his critics.”
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NBC reporter Hallie Jackson worried during the briefing
that revoking the clearances would constitute “an
unprecedented threat aimed at some critics” of Trump’s.
Brennan is an NBC national security and intelligence
analyst.
“To critics, it’s not just Nixonian. It’s political
punishment,” Jackson said on “NBC Nightly
News.”
But Gingrich was unconcerned with mainstream media
outlets’ worries.
“I have no doubt that The New York Times
and The Washington Post and CBS News
and all the other manifestations of
Establishment are desperately seeking to
prop up the corrupt system which fed them
news stories, which took care of them,
which made them feel like insiders,”
Gingrich said. “And I have no doubt that
this is really an all-out fight between the old
order desperate in its dying phases and the
desire of the American people for honesty.”
“And the fact is, starting with the president,
we haven’t been tough enough, we haven’t
been direct enough, we haven’t been
focused enough. And I think if we were this
whole thing would collapse in a matter of
weeks, because it is so sick and the stench
would be so great,” Gingrich added. “The
only thing that is going to clean up
Washington is the fresh air of
accountability, transparency and honesty.”
 Kimberly Guilfoyle Officially Announces
She Is Leaving FOX News To Campaign For
President Trump
By Cristina Laila
July 24, 2018, 2:31 Pm

Part two: I will miss my Fox family. I thank Fox for the
opportunities it has provided me. I thank all the talented
producers, staff, and above all I thank the best fans out
there. (Part 2 of 2)🇺🇸

Former prosecutor and ‘The Five’ host,

Kimberly Guilfoyle officially announced
Tuesday she is leaving the Fox New
Channel to dedicate herself full time to
joining America First as Vice
Chairwoman to campaign across the Guilfoyle joined FOX News in February of 2006 and was
country for President Trump. most recently a host on “The Five.”

The 49-year-old beauty is dating the President’s son, Don Fox News issued a vague statement about Guilfoyle’s
Jr. and is a staunch supporter of President Trump. departure on Sunday simply stating,

Of course this news galvanized the MAGA base. “Fox News has parted ways with Kimberly
Guilfoyle.”
Guilfoyle tweeted: Today I have a bitter-sweet
announcement. I’ve decided to leave Fox News Channel
and dedicate myself full time to joining America First as
Vice Chairwoman, campaigning across the country and
firmly standing with President Trump. (Part 1 of 2)

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 Fusion GPS Doubted The
Credibility Of A Major Dossier Source
Chuck Ross | Reporter
3:17 PM 07/24/2018
 Fusion GPS founder Glenn Simpson doubted the
credibility of a source for its Steele Dossier, Sergei
Millian, according to the book Russian Roulette.
 Four applications obtained under the Foreign
Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) show the
Department of Justice relied heavily on the dossier.
 Simpson “considered Millian a big talker,”
according to authors David Corn and Michael
Isikoff.
The veracity of the Steele dossier is once again a topic of
intense debate following the Justice Department’s release
of secret warrants that the FBI used to monitor former
Trump campaign adviser Carter Page. The four
applications, which were obtained under the Foreign
Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), show that the bureau
relied heavily on the dossier, which was funded by the
Clinton campaign and DNC, to obtain the warrants, which
accused Page of being a secret Kremlin agent.
But not only do many of the allegations in the dossier
remain unverified, there is reason to doubt the credibility
of a major source for the 35-page document, including for
claims that the Kremlin has blackmail material on
President Donald Trump and about Page’s alleged
involvement in a collusion conspiracy.
The founder of the firm that commissioned that the dossier
expressed doubts about that source, a Belarusian American
businessman named Sergei Millian. And Christopher
Steele, the former British spy who wrote the dossier, has
reportedly told associates that allegations about Donald
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Trump attributed to Millian have only a “fifty-fifty”
chance of being accurate.
According to the recent book “Russian Roulette,” Glenn
Simpson, the founder of Fusion GPS, believed that Millian
was a “big talker” who overstated his links to Trumpworld.
“Had Millian made something up or
repeated rumors he had heard from others
to impress Steele’s collector? Simpson had
his doubts. He considered Millian a big
talker,” write authors Michael Isikoff and
David Corn, who are good friends with
Simpson.
Millian is both Source D and Source E in the dossier,
according to The Wall Street Journal and The Washington
Post. In the 35-page document, Source D alleged that the
Russian government is blackmailing Donald Trump with
video of a sexual tryst with prostitutes at a Moscow hotel
room. Source E described an alleged “well-developed
conspiracy of co-operation between them and the Russian
leadership.”
“This was managed on the TRUMP side by
the Republican candidate’s campaign
manger, Paul MANAFORT, who was using
foreign policy advisor, Carter PAGE, and
others as intermediaries,” reads the
dossier.
The Carter Page FISA applications released on Saturday
are heavily redacted, so it is unclear what all information
the FBI picked from the dossier to convince judges to
grant the spy warrants. It is also unclear how far the FBI
went to verify the dossier and the accuracy of Steele’s sub-
sources. Republican lawmakers who have reviewed less-
redacted versions of the FISA applications have said that
the bureau did not provide evidence verifying the dossier.
The use of the unverified Steele report has led Republicans
to accuse the FBI of misleading the federal judges in the
applications for the Page spy warrants.
The unredacted portions of the applications show that the
FBI did use allegations from dossier sources other than
Millian, whose real name is Siarhei Kukuts.
The applications cite Steele’s claims that Page met secretly
with Kremlin insiders Igor Sechin and Igor Diveykin
during a July 2016 trip to Moscow. The dossier alleges that
Page and Sechin discussed U.S. sanctions against Russia
while the Trump aide and Diveykin discussed
compromising material that the Russian government had
on both Trump and Hillary Clinton. Those allegations are
attributed to Kremlin insiders rather than Source D or E.
Page has vehemently denied meeting with either Sechin or
Diveykin or discussing any compromising material on
Clinton during the campaign.
Page has also disputed a dossier allegation attributed to
Source E.
“Speaking in confidence to a compatriot in late July 2016, Source
E, an ethnic Russian close associate of Republican US
presidential candidate Donald TRUMP, admitted that there was a
well-developed conspiracy of co-operation between them and the
Russian leadership,” reads the dossier.
“This was managed on the TRUMP side by
the Republican candidate’s campaign
manger, Paul MANAFORT, who was using
foreign policy advisor, Carter PAGE, and
others as intermediaries.”
Page has denied taking part in a conspiracy with Russian
leadership. He has also denied ever speaking to Manafort.
It is unclear whether the FISA applications include
references to that section of the dossier.
Millian, who operates an obscure trade group called the
Russian-American Chamber of Commerce, has repeatedly
denied being a source for Steele’s, but he has avoided
questions about whether he could have unwittingly
provided information that ended up in the report.
Millian did have one known link to the Trump campaign.
In late July 2016, he reached out to George Papadopoulos,
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the Trump adviser who has pleaded guilty to lying to the
FBI about the timing of his contacts with an alleged
Russian agent.
Sources close to Papadopoulos have told The Daily Caller
News Foundation that he met Millian for the first time
several days after Millian reached out to the campaign aide
on LinkedIn. Sources close to Papadopoulos have also said
that Millian offered Papadopoulos $30,000 a month for a
business deal that would require him to remain in the
Trump orbit. Papadopoulos rejected the idea, according to
TheDCNF’s sources.
Despite his concerns, Simpson pitched Millian’s name to
his friends in the media.
According to “Russian Roulette,” Simpson
“tipped off ABC News, which conducted an
on-air interview with Millian.”
In July 2016, ABC’s Brian Ross interviewed Millian about
his connections to Trumpworld.
In the interview, Millian denied being a Russian spy but
acknowledged having contacts in the Kremlin. He told
Ross he was one of the
“very few people who have insider
knowledge of Kremlin politics…who has
been able to successfully integrate in
American society.”
He also spoke of Trump, saying that the former real estate
tycoon
“likes Russia because he likes beautiful
Russian ladies.”
“He likes talking to them, of course. And he
likes to be able to make lot of money with
Russians, yes, correct.”
 GOP Sen Lankford: ‘No Reason’
For Someone Out Of The Administration To Have
Access To Classified Info
Trent Baker
24 Jul 2018

people in the Obama administration, saying “there’s no

reason” for someone no longer in the position to have
access to classified information.

“You’re out of the administration, there’s

not any reason for you to get access to
classified documents anymore,” Lankford
said on “Fox & Friends.”

He continued,

“When you’re in the administration,

whatever administration that may be, it’s a
need-to-know, you go through the
information, you’ve got clearance, you
access it. Once you’re out of the
administration there’s no reason to have
access to that information.”

Tuesday, Sen. James Lankford (R-OK) weighed in on the

White House debating revoking security clearance from
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 EPIC! Chairman Nunes SLAMS CNN Reporter
To His Face As ‘Democratic Party Propaganda’ (VIDEO)
By Cristina Laila
July 24, 2018, 3:53 Pm

CNN reporter Manu Raju got an earful
from House Intel Chairman Devin Nunes
(R-CA) on Monday after he asked the
GOP lawmaker to answer for his FISA
memo that was released earlier this
year.
Manu Raju asked Chairman Nunes to comment on the
release of the Carter Page FISA documents, which actually
confirmed Nunes’ FISA memo to be accurate.
Chairman Nunes hit CNN again on
Tuesday.
Nunes tweeted: Also when asked my office gave them this
quote… “CNN’s slavish adherence to the Democrats’
comical talking points is an amazing sight to
behold.”…..Guess what? They refused to run the
statement…This is another great example of “Fake and
fraudulent news”

Nunes’ FISA memo stated the FBI and DOJ relied on

Hillary’s phony dossier to obtain a FISA warrant on Carter
Page.

In fact, McCabe said under oath, if not for the dossier, the
FBI would have never sought a FISA warrant to spy on
Page.

The Democrats and their stenographers at CNN, MSNBC

and other liberal media outlets, however are spinning more
lies claiming the Carter Page FISA docs prove Nunes’
memo to be a bust.

This is why Nunes slammed CNN reporter Manu Raju

right to his face.

“Do you really think I’m going to talk to

the leading Democratic Party propa-
ganda?” Nunes said in response to
CNN’s reporter.

VIDEO:

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 OP Senate Intel Chair: There Were “Sound Reasons”
Why Judges Issued FISA Warrants On Carter Page
By Cristina Laila
July 24, 2018, 4:59 Pm

In fact, the highly respected

investigative journalist Byron York says
the FISA warrant docs support Nunes’
memo.

Senate Intel Chairman Richard Burr (R-NC)

Chairman of the Senate Intel Committee

Richard Burr (R-NC) said on Tuesday
there were “sound reasons” why the
judges issued FISA warrants on Carter
Page.

The newly released Carter Page FISA docs, although

heavily redacted, reveal the FBI and DOJ relied on
Hillary’s phony dossier and liberal media reports as
‘evidence’ presented to the court in order to wiretap Page.

The FBI omitted the fact that the dossier was paid for by Even the argument the FBI thought Carter Page was an
Hillary and the DNC. agent of the Russians doesn’t hold water. Carter Page was
never charged or arrested for being a Russian spy,
This is not only criminal, but furthermore, not too long ago Page was actually helping
unconstitutional, says investigative the FBI take down Russians.
reporter, Paul Sperry.
So now the FBI expects us to believe Carter Page flipped
and became an agent for the Russians…yet they never
arrested him?

Comey, Rosenstein, McCabe and Sally Yates all signed

the FISA applications even though Hillary’s fraudulent
Russia dossier was used as a pretext to obtain the warrants.

According to Senator Burr, these are “sound reasons.”

“I don’t think I ever expressed that I

thought the FISA application came up
The Carter Page docs also confirm House Intel Chairman
short. There (were) sound reasons as to
Nunes’ FISA memo to be accurate.

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 why judges issued the FISA,” Burr said
to CNN.
It gets worse…
Senator Burr is so entrenched in the
swamp, he said, “If the American people
ever learned anything from its release
[Carter Page FISA docs], it’s that there
was great justification to the courts as
to why the FISA application was
approved.”
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This shouldn’t be too surprising as the Senate Intel
Committee is full of Trump-hating snakes.
Senator Mark Warner (D-VA), the Vice Chairman of the
Senate Intel Panel attempted to set up a private meeting
with dossier author Christopher Steele via a lawyer for a
Russian Oligarch.
Daniel Jones, a former staffer for Dianne Feinstein (D-
CA), a member of the Senate Intel Minority, works for
Fusion GPS, the oppo research firm that commissioned
Steele to compile the 35-page dossier.
Other Trump-hating RINOs on the Senate Intel Panel
include Marco Rubio (R-FL) and Susan Collins (R-ME).
Senator Burr is a disgrace.
 Levin Nukes Liberal Media Over Their ‘Tyrannical
Agenda,’ Legitimizing ‘A Porn Star,’ ‘Crackpot’ Avenatti
By Curtis Houck
July 24, 2018 5:37 PM EDT
In the first hour of his eponymous talk show Monday
night, conservative author and host Mark Levin tore into
the “totalitarian” liberal media for, among other things,
being “historically illiterate” or “ideologically driven”
in calling President Trump a Nazi, “mainstream[ing]”
Stormy Daniels and “crackpot” Michael Avenatti, and
painting themselves as chief defenders of the First
Amendment.
Levin concluded his B-Block with a succinct takedown of
the liberal media’s self-lionization and worship as if
they’re in the Avengers or Justice League or firefighters
rushing into a burning building. After all, as Levin would
agree, the First Amendment isn’t exclusively about the
press and the American people who keep our founding
documents alive, not the press.
He explained:
“[D]on’t give me this freedom of the
press crap. We’re the ones who defend
the Bill of Rights, not them. We’re the
ones who defend the Constitution, not
them. They don’t believe in the freedom
of the press. They believe in
propaganda of the press.”
He also noted that, while they may try to argue otherwise,
there’s no one seriously laying waste to any of the cable
networks and trying to shut them down. If you’re a leftist
reading this site, you might think that’s our mission, but
that must mean you haven’t the word accountability
before.
“But how many runs have they made at
talk radio? How many times have they
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attacked Fox News? Two small areas of
the media. They’re the people with the
totalitarian mindset. They’re the ones
with the tyrannical agenda,” he
concluded before a commercial break.
Going back to the start of the segment, Levin went right to
work by declaring that
“the media in this country is corrupt”
and “ideological through and through”
and while “[t]he President is right to call
it the Fake News,” he made an important
caveat that the media “as a rule, not the
enemy of the people but they are
reporters who are.”
He then laid out his parameters and how educationally
misinformed they are about history:
[B]ut they are reporters who are when they distort news, when
they use certain guests in order to promote an agenda, when
they omit certain important pieces of information, when they
continue this drumbeat — this drumbeat, which encourages
guests who call the President a Nazi, who lie about immigration
that we’re running Nazi concentration camps and Japanese
internment camps. Who’s ever heard of rhetoric like this in news
programs? Who’s ever heard of talk like this? Have these people
ever been to Auschwitz? Have they ever watched a movie about
Holocaust? Do they know what took place? Are they familiar with
Japanese internment camps? Do they know who’s responsible
for it? Do they know what took place? No.
“Do they know what took place? No.
They’re historically illiterate or they’re
ideologically-driven, either one. That’s
not media providing information to the
American people. These are
propagandists who push an agenda,”
Levin argued.
When they do things like that, Levin pointed out that it’s
because
“[t]hey hate this man Trump” but “loved
Obama” and want to push their own leftist
“propaganda.”
He then laid out the example of Stormy Daniels:
Stormy Daniels is a non-story. Stormy Daniels is a non-story. It
was a non-disclosure agreement apparently signed. So why is
there a story? Because she’s violating a non-disclosure
agreement. They’re trying to embarrass the President. So what?
Week after week after week after week. A porn star, the media,
mainstreams a porn star and her crackpot, slip-and-fall lawyer.
He was on ABC Sunday with George Stephanopoulos. Why?
Why? Is he particularly smart? Has he done anything special? Is
he profound? Is there something we need to know? No. Because
they want him on national TV.
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After a riff blasting the media-assisted rise of socialism led
by Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, he
circled back to the liberal media and rhetorically wondered
why CNN and MSNBC don’t seem to have spent much or
any time talking about entitlements or the national debt.
Leading into the epic rant quoted earlier, he joked that
perhaps it requires Stormy Daniels to be concerned about
those issues or talk about it while stripping for the press to
care.
 Anti-Trump NY Daily News
Fires Half Its Staff to Focus on Online News
By Randy Hall
July 24, 2018 7:25 PM EDT
The New York Daily News announced on Tuesday that the
tabloid-style newspaper -- best known for its bizarre front
pages slamming Republican President Donald Trump -- to
“fundamentally restructure” its focus on “its
digital audience.”
A memo released by the newspaper’s executives stated:
“We are reducing today the size of the
editorial team by approximately 50
percent and re-focusing much of our talent
on breaking news -- especially in areas of
crime, civil justice and public responsibility.”
“I know this is difficult news to hear and
want to assure you we are working hard to
treat each employee with respect and to
make the transition as smooth as possible,”
the memo added.
The tabloid’s human resources department promised to
“reach out to all affected employees by the
end of the day on Monday, and layoffs are
effective immediately, but exiting staffers
will be paid for the next 90 days.”
These decisions being announced today reflect the
realities of our business and the need to adapt an ever-
changing media environment,” the memo continued.
“They are not a reflection on the significant
talent that is leaving today.”
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In a Twitter post, former editor-in-chief Jim Rich left an
angry message:
“If you hate democracy and think local
governments should operate unchecked
and in the dark, then today is a good day
for you.”
Brian Flood, who covers the media for the Fox News
Channel, posted an article stating:
The Daily News has become known for its
outlandish, anti-Trump cover images.
The paper recently featured an illustration
depicting Trump as a Supreme Court
justice with the headline: "We Are F*#%’d.”
The paper has also depicted Trump as
numerous variations of a clown, a racist,
“nuts,” the “anti-Christ” and even the poop
emoji.
“The tabloid called Trump voters ‘mindless
zombies’ and even categorized Trump as a
‘Dead Clown Walking’ when he failed to
win the Iowa caucus in 2016,” Flood
continued.
He also noted
“the tabloid that was fond of ‘over-the-top’
anti-Trump coverage could not stem years
of red ink.”
As NewsBusters previously reported, the Daily News
posted a cover in mid-May that described the President’s
daughter -- Ivanka Trump -- as “Daddy's Little Ghoul.”
Soon after, Politico reported that some members of
management felt the anti-Trump direction of the paper was
having a negative impact on the paper’s bottom line by
“costing the News subscriptions in places
like Brooklyn, Queens and Staten Island.”
Despite all that ill will, Cuomo had a different response to
the news:
 Tronc acquired the paper from Mort
Zuckerman in 2017 for only $1, assuming
liabilities and debt in the process.
The paper had been losing money for
years, as part of a trend faced by print
newspapers competing for advertising
dollars with digital behemoths like
Facebook and Google.
The governor also stated:
“The Daily News, now owned by Tronc,
Inc., is apparently firing a major portion of
its reporting staff,” which “will undoubtedly
devastate many households and hurt an
important New York institution and one of
our nation’s journalistic giants.”
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“These layoffs were made without
notifying the state or asking for
assistance," he noted. “My father, as
governor, came to the aid of the New York
Post when it was facing difficult financial
times. Even though the Post represented
an opposing active partisan interest, my
father understood the value of a robust,
free press. So do I.”
“I urge Tronc to reconsider this drastic
move,” Cuomo noted, “and I stand ready to
work with them to avert this disaster.”
Of course, if the government contributes to this or any
other newspaper, those officials will probably want some
say regarding the future of the Daily News or other
institution, regardless of whether that comes from Cuomo
or Trump.
 VFW Berates Veterans For
Booing Media At President Trump Speech
By Kristinn Taylor
July 24, 2018, 7:42 Pm

“VFW convention attendees now booing

the media. This morning I attended a
House VA Committee hearing in order to
make sure VA officials answered my
questions abut the claims appeals process
and complaints that it isn’t serving vets
properly.”

Shane called out the VFW,

“Not a good look for @VFWHQ.

The Veterans of Foreign Wars fragged its own veteran #VFWConvention”
members for booing the media during President Donald
Trump’s speech Tuesday to their annual convention being The VFW replied,
held in Kansas City, Missouri.
“Agreed. We were disappointed to hear
The VFW posted two statements to Twitter Tuesday some of our members boo the press. We
afternoon attacking veterans for booing the media. The rely on the media to help spread the VFW’s
first was in response to Military Times deputy editor Lea message, and @CNN, @NBCNews,
Shane. The second was a formal statement by the VFW @ABC, @FoxNews, @CBSNews, and
condemning veterans. others on site today, were our invited
guests. We were happy to have them
“Today, we were disappointed to hear there.”
some of our members boo the press
during President Trump’s remarks. We
rely on the media to spread the VFW
message, and @CNN, @NBCNews,
@ABC, @FoxNews, @CBSNews, &
others on site today, were our invited
guests. We were happy to have them
there.”

The first VFW attack on veterans was prompted by Shane,

who keyed off a tweet by Wall Street Journal reporter Ben
Kesling who whined about the press being booed,

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 ABC News reported a VFW statement from Randi Law
using similar language to the attacks on veterans by the
VFW on Twitter.

The president, who received cheers as he attacked “fake

news”, urged the audience to reject completely any stories
they see covered in the news media that might be negative
towards him.

“Don’t believe the crap you see from these

Video of VFW members booing media:
people, the fake news,” Trump said, as the
audience mostly comprised of veterans and
their families booed and heckled reporters
in the press pen. “Just remember, what
you’re seeing and what you’re reading is
not what’s happening.”

Following the president’s departure from Kansas City, the

VFW issued a statement saying it was “disappointed” that
audience members booed the reporters in the convention
center.

“We were disappointed to hear some of

our members boo the press,” Randi
Law, Manager of Communications and
Public Affairs for VFW told ABC News.
“The reporters onsite today were our
invited guests and we rely on them to
help spread the VFW’s message.”
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 BREAKING: CNN Airs Private
Trump-Cohen Recording (AUDIO)
By Cristina Laila
July 24, 2018, 8:31 Pm

Rudy Giuliani previously said Trump had no idea he was

being recorded, didn’t make a payment and that he had
done nothing wrong.

A clip of the private recording was aired on Chris

Cuomo’s show “Cuomo Prime Time” on CNN Tuesday
evening.

It’s a very short clip and the audio is muddled an

inaudible; it’s basically a nothing-burger.

AUDIO:
CNN aired a private recording of President Trump
discussing with his attorney Michael Cohen how they
would purchase rights to Playboy model Karen
McDougal’s story about their 2006 affair.

The private recording is from a conversation between

Trump and Cohen in September of 2016; Cohen’s lawyer
Lanny Davis provided the recording to CNN.

McDougal sold her story to the National Inquirer for

$150,000 but the tabloid, favoring Trump, didn’t run the
story – a practice known as “catch-and-kill.”

Via CNN:

Cohen told Trump about his plans to set up

a company and finance the purchase of the
rights from American Media, which
publishes the National Enquirer.
“I need to open up a company for the
transfer of all of that info regarding our
friend David,” Cohen said in the recording,
likely a reference to American Media head
David Pecker.
Trump interrupts Cohen asking, “What
financing?” according to the recording.
When Cohen tells Trump, “We’ll have to
pay.” Trump is heard saying “pay with
cash” but the audio is muddled and it’s
unclear whether he suggests paying with
cash or not paying. Cohen says, “no, no”
but it is not clear what is said next.
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On Saturday, President Trump lashed
out at Michael Cohen for taping a
private conversation between them and
said it was probably illegal.
The FBI seized the recording during a pre-dawn raid of
Michael Cohen’s home and office earlier this year.
Trump tweeted: Inconceivable that the government would
break into a lawyer’s office (early in the morning) – almost
unheard of. Even more inconceivable that a lawyer would
tape a client – totally unheard of & perhaps illegal. The
good news is that your favorite President did nothing
wrong!
 woman during the election as a campaign finance
violation.

Michael Cohen also made a $130,000 payment to porn star

Stormy Daniels in the weeks leading up to the election,
which the FBI is also investigating.

Meanwhile, as many as 40 state Democrat parties are

The Deep State and Democrats are desperate to pin any
type of ‘hush payment’ Trump may have made to any
.
implicated in a large scheme to circumvent campaign
finance laws in order to illegally funnel $84 million to
Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign and there is
no FBI investigation into the DNC.
Story developing…please refresh page for updates.

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Confirmed: Twitter Censors Pro-Trump Accounts: Mike
Cernovich, Paul Joseph Watson, TGP’s Jim Hoft, Jack
Posobiec …But #Nevertrump Accounts Not Blocked
By Jim Hoft
July 24, 2018, 10:28 Pm

Review’s David French, the Resurgent’s

Erick Erickson, and Glenn Beck
remaining unaffected

It’s common knowledge that Facebook

censors and shadow-bans conservative
websites, especially pro-Trump
conservative websites.

A Gateway Pundit June study of top

conservative news outlets found that
Facebook has eliminated 93% of traffic
to top conservative websites.

Gateway Pundit writers Cassandra

Fairbanks and Lucian Wintrich are also
censored by Facebook.
James O’Keefe and Project Veritas
exposed Twitter bias in January.

But it’s not just Facebook that is

blocking pro-Trump publishers.

Twitter is also censoring pro-Trump

accounts.
But anti-Trump and Never-Trump
accounts including Daily Wire Editor-in-
Chief Ben Shapiro, the National

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Charlie Nash at Breitbart.com reported:
Left-wing technology news outlet Gizmodo
appears to have finally noticed Twitter
censorship, publishing an article Sunday
which claimed the platform “may be
demoting controversial accounts in search
results.”
“In what appears to be new ranking
behavior, Gizmodo has identified several
prominent far-right accounts now buried by
Twitter’s search feature,” the site claimed.
“As an unintended side effect of demoting
divisive figures, many of the dropdown
results now show fake accounts.”
Some examples of accounts which have been censored
include author and journalist Mike Cernovich, author and
YouTuber Stefan Molyneux, InfoWars Editor-at-Large
Paul Joseph Watson, Gateway Pundit founder Jim Hoft,
and commentator Laura Loomer.
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The demotion censorship makes it so that these accounts
are not recommended when users search for them, with
Twitter’s algorithm preferring to recommend fake
impersonation accounts than the real users.
The accounts could only be found after a user hit enter, but
were not recommended in the search bar.
Breitbart News also discovered other examples of censored
users, which included author and commentator Lauren
Southern, OAN correspondent Jack Posobiec, Dilbert
creator Scott Adams, lawyer and commentator Will
Chamberlain, Gateway Pundit reporters Lucian Wintrich
and Cassandra Fairbanks, Daily Caller contributor Scott
Greer, Daily Caller reporter Peter J. Hasson, Daily Caller
and Rebel Media journalist Rob Shimshock,
Several employees of Breitbart News, including this
author, Breitbart Tech senior reporter Allum Bokhari, and
Breitbart News Deputy Political Editor Amanda House
were also censored.
 MSNBC's Kasie Hunt Shocked
Over Trump's Post-Helsinki Poll Bump
By P.J. Gladnick
July 24, 2018 11:08 PM EDT
In the wake of the Helsinki summit when liberals and their
mainstream media allies were hurling everything including
the kitchen sink in the form of the charge of treason at
President Trump, it turns out that all their attacks only
resulted in a bump in Trump's poll ratings. This caused
MSNBC's Kasie Hunt to express shock at that result on her
Kasie DC show on Sunday to the extent that she claimed
that we are now "living in a different space-time
continuum" where "even gravity works differently."
KASIE HUNT: It’s hard to believe that this time last week
we were previewing the president’s meeting with Vladimir
Putin.
But, of course, we are apparently living in
a different space-time continuum here in
2018 where even gravity works
differently.
But more on that in a moment. All of that happened before
Friday when The New York Times dropped that bombshell
report about Michael Cohen and his recording of President
Trump. Then came Saturday when the D.O.J. made the
documents about surveilling former Trump campaign aid
Carter Page public. And don’t forget about Paul Manafort
whose trial begins this week in Virginia. Along with a
reminder that the president’s former campaign chairman
has been sitting in jail for over a month as he prepares to
face a jury.
But back to that part about gravity. The
president’s approval rating is ticking up,
not down. A brand-new poll from NBC
.
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News and The Wall Street Journal
conducted before and after the Helsinki
summit shows the president approval
rating at 45 percent. That is up 1 point
from June. Among Republicans, that
number is 88 percent, the highest ever
his entire presidency.
But how can that be? Why doesn't the public react to our
constant attacks upon Trump? Well, later MSNBC
contributor Katty Kay agreed with Hunt's suggestion that
perhaps it is because Trump supporters just don't believe
the "fact checkers" in the media. They believe there's a
"witch hunt." Or maybe they realize there is no proof of
collusion between the Trump campaign and the Russians.
HUNT: It strikes me that this is sort of
the endgame for talking about fake
news and casting doubt repeatedly on
the media, right? This is a situation
where he has created a universe where
nobody believes anything any of the
fact checkers say.
KATTY KAY: Every single time the
president tweets fake news or witch
hunt, all of the polling suggests it’s
working. This is a very smart strategy
from the president’s point of view. He is
leading public opinion in a different
direction.
One of the more startling shifts in public opinion that we
have seen — we haven’t seen it on tariffs, but we have
seen it on general attitudes with Russia, with more
Republicans generally more favorable — take the Mueller
investigation aside, take election meddling aside. Views
have changed in the Republican Party. That is almost
entirely due to Donald Trump.
Sniff! President Trump has brought about a rip in the
space-time continuum by causing people to be a mite
skeptical about "objective" media that dump all over him
daily and nightly.
 Bozell & Graham Column:
Media Wail For Brennan And Clapper
By Brent Bozell And Tim Graham
July 24, 2018 11:10 PM EDT
Republican Sen. Rand Paul sent the media into another
meltdown on July 23 when he called on President Trump
to revoke the security clearance of Obama's CIA director,
John Brennan. He charged Brennan "monetized" his
privileges by becoming an on-air analyst for NBC and
MSNBC. That doesn’t even count Brennan’s speaking fees.
It is a disgraceful spectacle, to watch Brennan spout
inanities about treason that make a mockery of his former
position.
When John Gizzi of Newsmax asked White House press
secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders about Senator Paul’s
request, she said yes, not just about Brennan, but other
Obama appointees like James Clapper and Susan Rice.
“The president is exploring the
mechanisms to remove security clearance
because they politicize — and in some
cases monetize — their public service and
security clearances.”
Not surprisingly, the Trump-hating networks wailed and
screamed -- especially the ones paying Brennan (MSNBC)
and Clapper (CNN). When these men come on television,
they are treated as national treasures, described as
nonpartisans, and asked softball questions. Clapper’s
toughest interrogator – the only one reminding viewers he
lied to Congress – was Meghan McCain on ABC’s The
View. How is that not pertinent to his credibility?
Removing their clearances could be painted as petty, but it
would also remove some insider glamor and any remaining
shred of nonpartisanship -- if you're not listening to their
wild talk on TV and Twitter about Trump's “treasonous”
actions and other assorted evils.
Wolf Blitzer even desperately claimed,
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"If you remove security clearances from a
James Clapper, for example, that’s a
potential national security threat.”
Because no one upholds national security like....CNN? The
network that falsely accused the U.S. military of gassing
Laotians during the Vietnam War? The network that
channeled Iraqi propaganda that America was bombing
baby-milk factories? The network that couldn’t show
enough Abu Ghraib photos worldwide, as they explained
each image was a terrorist recruitment poster?
On NBC, Hallie Jackson tried to claim people like
Brennan and Clapper were somehow bipartisan, a most
laughable proposition.
"Most of the officials worked for both
Democrats and Republicans and have
been tough on President Trump publicly." If
you call Trump treasonous, NBC calls that
"tough." If you suggest these Obama aides
are greedy partisans, NBC suggests that's
"authoritarian."
What's comical is reporters like Jackson accusing Trump
of "politicizing" this fracas....when these Obama
intelligence officials were spying on the Trump campaign
in 2016, unmasking their identities in a search for dirt to
bury him. Top FBI officials were trading texts about how
Trump had to be stopped as they probed the Russia ties of
Trump aides. Even now, getting paid by highly ideological
CNN and MSNBC to offer regular Trump-bashing analysis
is politicizing intelligence. When in the last 50 years have
we seen our intelligence officials so wildly exploit their
power and moral authority (such as it is) to get a president
removed from office?
The networks have always politicized intelligence, going
back to the Vietnam War days. The FBI and the CIA were
under fervent leftist attack in the 1970s. They seemed to be
filled with villains every time the Republicans were in
office – with Nixon and Watergate, Reagan and Iran-
Contra, with George W. Bush in the Iraq War. But when
they’re scheming alongside Obama to help Hillary Clinton
win – well, that’s somehow patriotic activity.
The outraged journalists here are not seriously addressing
their own self-interest here: how they may have used these
Obama officials as anonymous sources to ruin Trump
since 2015. We may never know how useful they were, but
the media ardor on behalf of these “nonpartisans” should
color everyone’s view of this kerfuffle.
 NY Times Hacks Smear Trump As ‘Raging Against
Reality’ After Leaked Email Describes President
Banning CNN From Air Force One TVs
By Kristinn Taylor
July 25, 2018, 12:32 Am

Mean girl New York Times reporters Maggie Haberman

and Katie Rogers were full of glee Tuesday night as they
ran with a smear of President Trump as ‘raging against
reality’ based on a White House email leak that he
demanded his order be obeyed that CNN not be shown on
Air Force One televisions.

Habermann tweeted,
Maggie Haberman
“Trump’s unreality bubble holds, grows
⁦@katierogers⁦ and me”. (Notice how
Haberman does not call him President
Trump.)

Katie Rogers

The Rogers-Haberman bylined article is headlined:

Spotting CNN on a TV Aboard Air Force

One, Trump Rages Against Reality

Rogers promoted the article on Twitter,

“NEW – Got ahold of an email that shows

POTUS causing a scene over Air Force
One TV channels (FLOTUS’s was tuned to
CNN, a no-no). Illustrates how his force
field around the outside world has grown Haberman followed with a second tweet,
since Helsinki. W/ @maggieNYT”

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 ““Believe me, folks.” Trump “ has shifted
from blaming American institutions for a
bad relationship with Russia to telling
people not to believe the facts of what they
have seen or heard.””
Rogers retweeted Times reporter Sheryl Gay Stolberg who
gossiped, “NEWS: 1) Trump controls what Melania
watches on AF1. Doesn’t want her to see CNN – only Fox.
2) They have separate hotel rooms when they travel.
⁦@katierogers⁦ ⁦@maggieNYT⁦”
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Julie Davis, listed as a contributor to the article, posted her
own take on the smear,
“Trump is obsessed with maintaining his
own bubble of favorable coverage, right
down to policing what the first lady watches
(FOX not CNN), a mark of just how focused
he is on bending reality to his own will.
Scoop via @katierogers & @maggieNYT”
The other named contributor, Emily Cochrane, just
retweeted Haberman and Rogers.
Excerpt from the article:
On the first couple’s recent trip overseas,
Melania Trump’s television aboard Air
Force One was tuned to CNN. President
Trump was not pleased.
He raged at his staff for violating a rule that
the White House entourage should begin
each trip tuned to Fox — his preferred
network over what he considers the “fake
news” CNN — and caused “a bit of a stir”
aboard Air Force One, according to an
email obtained by The New York Times.
The email, an internal exchange between
officials in the White House Military Office
and the White House Communications
Agency last Thursday, also called for the
ordering of two additional televisions to
support Beam, a TiVo-like streaming
device, to make sure the president and first
 lady could both watch TV in their separate
hotel rooms when they travel.
At the end of the email chain, officials
confirmed that tuning the TVs to Fox would
be standard operating procedure going
forward.
The channel-flipping flap was the latest
example of how Mr. Trump, at a pivotal
moment in his presidency, is increasingly
living in a world of selected information and
bending the truth to his own narrative. As
his aides work to keep him insulated from
the outside world, Mr. Trump is doubling
down in his efforts to tell supporters to trust
him over the words of critics and news
reports.
…In the White House, little of the outside
criticism breaks through. People who have
worked for Mr. Trump say he tends to view
everything through the lens of a battle. His
goal is bring everyone over to his view.”
.
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End excerpt.
Curiously, the print edition of the article carries a less
inflammatory headline,
“‘A Stir’ on Air Force One As a TV Is
Tuned to CNN.”
The rest of the article is Rogers and Haberman arguing
with Trump on the issues of the day.
The headline and tone of the article gives the impression
the Times is pushing for the invocation of the 25th
Amendment against Trump, something the anti-Trump
media and politicos have been advocating since Trump
was sworn into office last year.
Something that may have escaped the Times gossip girl
reporters that explains his behavior: Trump is a boss.
 Dershowitz On Cohen Tape: Cohen
Will No Longer Take A Bullet For The President, He May
Well Fire A Bullet At Him (Video)
By Jim Hoft
July 25, 2018, 7:00 Am

Attorney Alan Dershowitz weighed in on the recording on

The Ingraham Angle:

Alan Dershowitz: Number one there is no

crime. I think everyone now acknowledges
this doesn’t provide evidence of a crime.
Number two it does show that Cohen and
Trump are no longer joined at the hip. And
Cohen would no longer take a bullet for the
president. He may in fact fire a bullet at
him.

Via The Ingraham Angle:

On Tuesday night CNN aired a private recording of
President Trump discussing with his attorney Michael
Cohen how they would purchase rights to Playboy model
Karen McDougal’s story about their 2006 affair.

President Trump did not know he was being recorded at

the time of the call.

The private recording is from a conversation between

Trump and Cohen in September of 2016; Cohen’s lawyer
Lanny Davis provided the recording to CNN.

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 US Morphs Into Banana Republic
Thanks To Obama, Democrats, Never-Trumpers,
The Deep State, MSM, And Jeff Sessions
By Jim Hoft
July 25, 2018, 8:22 Am

If you are a Democrat or a Never-

Trumper –

You can have your own server outside of the government

system even though government employees are mandated
to use the government’s servers and systems. You can do
this to hide your racketeering operation and other unlawful
actions. If caught, you can destroy the server, clean it with
a software that will ensure nothing is there, destroy all
emails and evidence, and delay any requests while denying
any wrongdoing. No worries, you will be exonerated by
Last night Americans experienced the Deep State legal system, its corrupt DOJ and FBI, and
another leak and another smear of its phony judges in their phony courts.
President Trump from CNN. This leak is
a tape from the President’s lawyer
You can use government agencies at your discretion,
which may have been taped illegally,
whether legal or not. You can target your conservative
which may have been initially stolen
opponents through the IRS by delaying and eventually
from the President’s lawyer by the
denying their requests or targeting them for audits. You
Mueller team (to hell with attorney-client
can share their records with all members of the Deep State
privilege) which is just another attempt
and nothing will happen to you.
to damage duly elected President
Trump.
You can run guns across the US border or across the
Middle East. When Americans are killed as a result, you
As a result of this and all previous
can lie to Congress, no worries.
illegal activities by the previous
administration, their MSM, Never-
You can see your Ambassador murdered in Benghazi and
Trumpers, and absent Attorney General
blame it on an innocent American in Los Angeles and a
Jeff Sessions, we can now confirm that
video he created that you state caused the outrage that
the US is officially a banana republic.
killed Americans. You can deny them help when under
fire and go to sleep so you can make your next day’s
The US has gradually fallen over time and the past ten or
campaign fund-raiser.
so years have been the worst. The Obama Administration
took the US to new levels of corruption at the very top
You can sell 20% of US uranium to the Russian nuclear
while ignoring the US Constitution and hurting most the
company in return for $146 million in contributions to
forgotten and hard working men and women of the US.
your “Foundation”. When questioned, you can deny
wrongdoing and know that your Deep State will never
If you stand up for Americans then you are the enemy of
prosecute you for any wrongdoing.
the Obama team of corrupt government workers (the Deep
State), the Democrat Party and all Never-Trumpers, the
You can hand over the ‘Taliban 5’ to whoever you want
elites who want to control the world because they and their
along with billions in cash and in return obtain a US
strong arm perpetrators (e.g. Peter Strzok) believe they
soldier captured because he was a deserter and lie about
know what is best, and their MSM. To hell with laws for
him being a deserter.
the elites, only the commoners are required to adhere to
them. The elites and their gangs of perpetrators are now in
charge and they don’t have to abide by the laws demanded You can give billions to Iran, the country responsible for a
upon the rest of us. quarter of US soldiers’ deaths in Iraq. You can claim it is
a good deal and hide from Americans the money provided

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to get the deal done, even the billion in cash that was
transferred overnight on pallets on a plane.
You can donate billions of American tax payer’s dollars to
a group of nobody’s in the name of climate change so that
they can redistribute it to poor countries like China.
You can spy on your opponents, lie about it, create false
stories of their interactions with Russians and push it
through your corrupt MSM.
You can back stab the President of the US, even if he is in
your party. You can call out all charges against him, align
yourself with the MSM and the Deep State and do all you
can to prevent his efforts to ‘Make America Great Again’.
If you are Deep State –
You can make millions supporting your Deep State
candidates and hope for cushy government jobs where you
can continue to promote your illegal activities because you
know best.
You can allow obvious criminals to be set free because of
your bias and hopes to someday work for them, even if
they destroy evidence, neglect to properly maintain super-
secret classified emails, share the information with
whomever they want, and lie about the entire cover-up.
You can create a ‘Russia, Russia, Russia’ collusion fake
news story and throw it on your opponent even though you
may have personally delivered uranium to Russians on a
European airport tarmac.
You can spy on your opponents and tape their
conversations.
You can obtain your politician’s made up phony dossier
and present it to the secret FISA court in an effort to obtain
a license to spy on your opponent. You can continue to
use this document for a year to spy on him and his team,
even after he takes office.
Even though you signed off on a FISA warrant, you can
create a phony and corrupt Special Counsel with a team of
far-left gangster lawyers and inspectors whose only
purpose is to remove your opponents from office.
You can make up lies about your interviewees lying when
pounced on them only a few days after working in the
White House. You can use these lies to create false
documents and then force them through gangster tactics to
succumb to a guilty plea for lying. You can use one of
your friends, a judge (Contreras) who also works on the
secret FISA court to obtain the guilty plea.
You can push your cases through judges appointed by
Obama (Amy Berman Jackson) who you know will
overturn every plea by those you arrest.
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You can throw your indicted in jail using your Obama
judge and keep them in solitary confinement even though
they have not been tried or convicted.
You can indict them for more phony charges when they
fight back since their real crime was representing your
opponent as his campaign manager.
You can charge people for not filing forms when their
former bosses (the Podestas) did the same but were tipped
off to file them in arrears shortly before arresting their
former employee (Manafort).
You can grant the individuals aligned with your gang
(Rice, Abedin, and now Podesta and others) immunity but
never do the same for your opponent’s team members.
You can steal your opponent’s transition team documents
and emails even though much of it was protected under
attorney client privilege.
You can create ‘fake lawsuits’ against made up Russians
and indict them and claim they stole the election even
though the Facebook stories aligned to them were in
Russian and were never translated to English, by them or
your Deep State FBI, DOJ or Mueller Witch Hunt team.
You can leak stories true and not true to the press to
damage your opponents, no worries.
You can steal your opponent’s personal attorney’s
documents, files and tapes – to hell with attorney–client
privilege again.
And now, you can even leak these privileged documents
and tapes to your MSM in another attempt to destroy your
opponent.
If you’re the MSM (Mainstream Media) –
You can do what you’re told and push every phone Russia
story you can to destroy your conservative opponent.
You can prevent conservatives from sharing information
on your social outlets like Facebook, Twitter, YouTube,
etc. To hell with free speech.
You can and will never share any positive stories that can
be associated with the current President. If the stock
market reaches record highs, the GDP explodes,
Americans get special bonuses due to new tax legislation,
or any number of positive economic news, don’t share it.
You will make fun of the President’s meeting with a North
Korean dictator and yell out unbelievably inappropriate cat
calls during historic events (Jim Acosta). You will call the
historic meeting a big nothing burger and move on back to
Russia, Russia, Russia.
You will push every phony and seedy story you can If you are duly appointed Attorney
against the current President. General Jeff Sessions –

You will only have Democrats, Never Trumpers or Deep You will do nothing while the country, and it’s legal
State operatives on your shows who disparage the system you have a constitutional duty to protect, burn to
President. the ground.

You will promote the fake Russia, Russia, Russia story day Yes, unfortunately and finally, due to the
in and day out, claiming the President is guilty of collusion lack of a legitimate legal system which
with Russia for years with no proof, only false accusations was systematically destroyed by years
by your politicians and Deep State cronies will be allowed. of corruption, the US is officially a
banana republic.
.

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 WATCH=> Speaker Paul Ryan Won’t Commit To
President Trump’s $5 Billion Request
For Border Wall (VIDEO)
By Jim Hoft
July 25, 2018, 8:45 Am

with the senate to get appropriations done separately. We really

Speaker Paul Ryan was asked on just want to get the military funded, on time, on budget, on
Wednesday morning if he will commit to schedule this year, which is the primary concern.
President Trump’s request for $5 billion
for the Trump border wall. Brian Kilmeade: Is $5 billion accurate?

Ryan waffled. Speaker Ryan: That’s the latest request so the appropriators are
working on that. They changed their original request so that’s
working through the system.

Ainsley Earhardt: The president, what did he want? He wanted

$35 billion?

Paul Ryan: $26 billion. Right now you have of that 25, 1.6 billion,
which was the administration’s request. The administration in this
current year asked for $1.6 billion. That has been funded and
those dollars are being spent. That construction is now occurring.
So there is money being spent on the wall.

Didn’t Trump request the full amount last spring? And

President Trump ran his campaign on didn’t the funding ban work on a border wall?
building a border wall to stop the flow of
illegal immigration. Via FOX and Friends:

So far Congress has denied him funding

for the project despite passing a record
$1.3 trillion omnibus last March.

Here is the transcript from the FOX and Friends segment:

Brian Kilmeade: You’re going to visit with the president today.

You’re going to tell him he has $5 billion for the wall. Is that
correct?

Speaker Paul Ryan: Well look, we’re going to talk to him about a
whole slew of issues but mainly how to get this appropriation
process back on track so that at the end of the year we don’t
have one giant omnibus appropriations bill. Nobody wants that.
The senate is actually engaged. So we have a much better plan
.

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 Violent Leftists Destroy Donald Trump’s Star On
Hollywood Walk Of Fame Again (VIDEO)
By Jim Hoft
July 25, 2018, 9:38 Am

In October 2016 52-year-old liberal James Otis destroyed Hollywood Walk of Fame with a pick
Donald Trump’s star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame axe.
with a pickaxe.

A street crew worked with jackhammers to replace the

vandalized Trump star to its original glory.

According to TMZ the latest Trump star on the Hollywood

Walk of Fame has security cameras and is getting Secret
Service like protection.

On Tuesday far left vandals again

destroyed Donald Trump’s star on the
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 Huh? CBS/AP 'Fact Check' Claims Trump
‘Wrong’ To Call Dossier A Clinton Campaign Doc
By Kristine Marsh
July 25, 2018 11:16 AM EDT

Our News Analysis Division has given this fact checker a

rating of: Bending over backwards to defend the DNC and Clinton
campaign, CBS and AP claimed Trump’s tweet was false,
in a “fact-check” the same day:
Fully Fake
THE FACTS: Wiretap requests are
routinely classified to protect sources and
methods, not to cover up misconduct by
the FBI or Justice Department.

Multiple news organizations, including The Associated

Press, requested that the government release the
documents under the Freedom of Information Act. The
New York Times and others sued for its release, resulting in
the documents being posted to the FBI's website.

It's also not correct to call the Steele

dossier a "Clinton Campaign
document." Steele was hired by Fusion
Flying in the face of reality, CBS News and the Associated
GPS, a private research firm that in turn
Press issued a joint “fact-check” of the President this
was hired by a law firm that represented
week, claiming that he was wrong to call the infamous
the Democratic campaign. But Clinton's
DNC-funded Steele dossier a “Clinton campaign
closest aides said they didn't learn
document.”
about the research until after the
election, which is probable considering
After the FBI released their FISA warrant application of they never raised the allegations
former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page Monday, publicly.
which revealed the FBI used the dossier as a basis for
obtaining that warrant, Trump tweeted:
Even though it has long been reported that the DNC did
indeed pay for opposition research on then-candidate
Donald Trump for the Hillary Clinton campaign, the
liberal fact-checkers bent over backwards to claim
otherwise.

They even ludicrously claimed that it wasn’t

“probable” that the Clinton campaign paid
for the dossier because they never talked
about it publicly. What?

The Federalist’s Sean Davis first noted the horribly wrong

fact-check on the CBS News’ website and called them out
on Twitter:

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 Others rightly noted that even other liberal outlets backed
Trump’s statement, such as this October 24, 2017 article
from the Post:

The Hillary Clinton campaign and the

Democratic National Committee helped
fund research that resulted in a now-
famous dossier containing allegations
about President Trump's connections to
Russia and possible coordination between
his campaign and the Kremlin, people
familiar with the matter said.

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