Will “Fire & Fury” Take Down The

President and America? Probably Not.

The 2017 Trump

Presidency - #21
January 16, 2018 to January 23, 2018

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 Trump Must Be Allowed To
Control U.S. Policy Towards Russia —
We Must Crush Mueller's Russiagate Scam
By Harley Schlanger
Tuesday, January 16, 2018
President Donald J. Trump holds a video teleconference with
members of the U.S. military | December 24, 2017 (Official White
House Photo by Shealah Craighead)
President Trump has consistently, and repeatedly, declared
Robert Mueller's Russiagate to be a total fraud, an attempt
to overturn the will of the nation in the presidential
election, and in several aspects outright treasonous. He has
also repeated over and over, throughout his campaign and
as President, that having friendly relations with Russia is a
"good thing," and critical for a successful U.S. policy in
the world.
Yet, Russia policy continues to be run by others. President
Putin and Foreign Minister Lavrov, in protesting various
U.S. policies detrimental to Russia and to U.S.-Russian
relations, almost always say that President Trump is
committed to improving relations, but that the effort to
remove him is holding him back. This is true, and must be
quickly reversed.
A review of Lavrov's comments at his year-end press
conference today demonstrates the urgency for the success
of the LaRouchePAC campaign to expose and destroy
Robert Mueller's British-directed coup attempt against
Trump and against Russia.
Pointing at the U.S. illegal seizure of Russian diplomatic
property in the U.S.; at the threat that the successful
collaboration in Syria to defeat ISIS is now being turned
into a partition of Syria or full scale regime change; at the
expansion of NATO military forces to Russia's border; at
unilateral sanctions and unilateral use of military force —
Lavrov sounded a stern warning:
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"We are witnessing a devaluation of
international law, and the diminishing role
of multilateral institutions." The U.S. and its
allies "still want to handle matters solely on
the basis of dictating and putting forward
ultimatums. [they] do not want to hear the
viewpoints of other global policy centers
and, actually, do not want to recognize the
reality of the emerging multipolar world.
The methods they resort to, to contain their
rivals, are for the most part, rather dubious
and unscrupulous. Their range is wide —
from deploying a global missile defense
system to unilateral sanctions,
extraterritorial use of their legislation and
threats to tackle any international issues in
accordance with their own scenario
exclusively, stopping at nothing, including
the use of brute military force."
These things are true — but, it is most important to
emphasize that we are at a point in history that this world
crisis can be rectified, that the U.S. can be pulled out from
under the domination of British political influence and
British ideology. Geopolitics can and must be destroyed —
the Darwinian dog-eat-dog mentality of zero-sum conflict
and confrontation — in favor of the win-win concept
underlying the New Silk Road. This is what Trump
embraced on his visit to China in November. This is what
French President Macron equally embraced on his visit to
China earlier this month. And this is what Lyndon
LaRouche set in motion fifty years ago, by creating the
new ideas required to lift mankind's thinking to a higher
level: to the level of the laws of the physical universe, to
see fifty or a thousand years ahead in order to discover
what must be done today.
The coup-plotters against Trump are in deep trouble. The
U.S. Congress now has in its hands the documentary proof
that the entire campaign to demonize Russia and to remove
Trump from office has been based on lies, on fabrications
by MI6 agent Chrisopher Steele and his accomplices.
Much of it is classified and cannot be released to the public
as yet, but key members of Congress have shown the
courage to make it known that serious crimes have been
committed by the FBI, DOJ, and CIA leaders from the
Bush/Obama era, operating today as a criminal cabal
outside of government.
The effort to save their coup by declaring the President to
be a racist, and a madman, expresses a state of hysteria and
panic by the very people who are responsible for the racist
and mad policies which have kept the world in poverty and
perpetual warfare for the past two decades.
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There is no time to lose. The New Silk Road is the means
to unite the world behind a higher level of thought and
cooperation. It will only work with a parallel campaign to
restructure the bankrupt western financial system, through
Glass-Steagall and the related "Four Laws" presented by
LaRouche. It is in our hands.
 'Shithole-Gate' Might Lead To
Government Shutdown As Democrats Balk At Deal
By Tyler Durden
Tue, 01/16/2018 - 08:33

The Democrats’ critics on the left are demanding that the other alternative to avert a shutdown. Extending the
minority party use all of its leverage to stymie the Trump deadline would require what is known as a continuing
agenda, even if that means forcing a government resolution.
shutdown. Fortunately, more mainstream party members
can now use Trump's "Shithole"” comment as a pretext to
drop their support for an immigration compromise in the
hope of eventually coaxing Republicans into a better deal.

Meanwhile, the GOP had concluded that

it would be unable to reach a long-term
spending accord by the Friday deadline,

which means that chances of a government shutdown have

increased this week as yet another "stop-gap" deal is the
only option. The government has been operating on short- “There’s a great pushback to another
term spending authorizations since the last two-year CR, but with that being said, I don’t see
budget expired in September. The current short-term that a shutdown’s an option, so
spending bill expires Friday at midnight. obviously a CR is probably the only
thing we’ve got in our tool bag before
the 19th,” he said.

But some lawmakers, tired of perpetual can-kicking, have

said they might not vote for a short-term bill.

“There’s a double chance I might not

vote for it,” Rep. Tom Rooney (R., Fla.),

a member of the House Appropriations Committee, said

Last week, members of a bipartisan senate group that had about his support for a short-term spending bill. Among
been negotiating a DACA compromise for four months other things, he is concerned that disaster-relief money
said they'd reached an agreement in principle. Then the needed by orange growers in his state would be left out.
Washington Post published its story about Trump's
response to leaving measures protecting Haitian and El
Of course, there are several other issues in addition to
Salvadoran immigrants intact.
reauthroizing DACA that could disrupt the negotiations.
There also appears to be some resistance from the White
Congress is also figuring out how to
House. This morning, Trump retweeted a tweet he had sent
pay for a long-term reauthorization of
Monday accusing Illinois Senator Dick Durbin, a member
the Children’s Health Insurance
of the Democrat’s congressional leadership, of lying about
Program and lawmakers in areas
the “shithole” remark, an affront that, Trump suggested,
affected by recent natural disasters are
could preclude a DACA deal, the Washington Post
asking for an increase in relief funding,
reported.
which could complicate negotiations over
even a short-term solution.
Should a deal be reached, the most likely outcome would
be another short-term spending stopgap that would expire
Aides to key negotiators from both parties planned to meet
in mid-February. According to WSJ, Freedom Caucus
Tuesday in an effort to rekindle budget talks, setting up a
leader Rep. Mark Meadows suggested that his faction
Wednesday meeting of the leaders themselves. If they
would agree to a short-term compromise if there was no

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cannot agree, the government would shut down at
midnight Friday for the first time since 2013.
Per Politico, Democrats will try to push Republicans into
some sort of promise on DACA in exchange for
cooperation with spending, but Republicans and Trump
could blame them if a deal isn't reached. Despite the
finger-pointing, Politico reckons that Speaker Ryan may
have the most to lose.
"A government shutdown would be
nettlesome for him, to say the least. He and
his leadership team are seeing projections
that they could lose something like 40
seats - which would cost them their
majority. A shutdown does not do him any
good. Ryan will need to cobble together
218 Republican votes to proceed without
any Democratic votes.
Separately, one Forbes writer argued that Trump needs a
shutdown to reassure his base that he’s still in control of
the Republican Party.
Given the various firestorms that have occured just this
past week - the book, the remark about Haiti and African
countries and the hush money paid to a porn star - Trump
may want to reassure his base that he is still very much in
charge by refusing to sign even a simple, clean and short-
term extension of the current continuing resolution.
Even if it doesn't include anything about
immigration, Trump could still demand
funding for his wall and say he is more
than willing to shut down the
government until he gets it.
Trump would say this shows he is
indeed the toughest of negotiators, that
he's still determined to protect the U.S.
and that he's keeping his campaign
promises.
All of these would be red meat for the Trump base and, in
the White House's mind, would move the narrative away
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from the book, the remark and the porn star to something
politically positive.
But rest assured: If a shutdown occurs, it probably
wouldn’t last longer than a couple of days. According to
Forbes, Trump would then tell Congress that he will accept
a short-term bill because “progress” had been made during
weekend negotiations. This, of course, presupposes that
Democrats and Republicans agree on a deal first.
But unless Trump decided to do
something extraordinary like shutting
the air traffic control system, the only
real direct impact over the weekend
would be on the very few people trying
to use the suddenly closed national
parks.
The positive political impact Trump would be seeking
from the shutdown would be immediate, however.
For that reason, if there is a Trump-induced shutdown this
week, it wouldn't be at all surprising if it only lasted until
next Monday. Trump would then tell Congress he will sign
a short-term CR to reopen the government because
(regardless of whether or not it was true) there was
progress made over the weekend.
He would also at least hint that he'll shut the government
again in the future if that's what it will take to get what he
wants.
Meanwhile Republicans are already accusing Democrats
of hamstringing the military, but Democrats, like Trump,
have an optics problem:
They need to prove to the #resistance
that they’re capable of standing up to
Trump and the Republicans.
Since the start of his administration, they’ve appeared to
be retreating. With the midterm elections coming up later
this year, the pressure to change that perception will only
intensify.
 ADORBS: Thinkprogress’ Judd Legum Gets A Virtual
WEDGIE For Claiming Media Is Protecting Trump
By Sam J.
Posted At 9:38 Am On January 16, 2018

Members of the media complaining about the current

media having a new set of rules that somehow protect
Trump may be the most hilarious yet dumbest thing we
have seen so far this year, and 2018 has already been
seriously stupid.

If you can read both of Judd’s tweets without either

laughing or mumbling WTF to yourself you’re better than
we are.

Shall we go through a list of scandals in the Obama

administration that had little to no play?

 IRS targeting Conservatives.

 Arresting the producer of a video to blame for
Benghazi
 Being caught on a hot mic telling Putin he’d be
more flexible after the election

If it wasn’t beneficial to Obama the media wasn’t

interested in covering it so PLEASE spare us the preening
about how the media of today is somehow protecting
Trump. All they DO is bitch about the man 24/7.

Maybe that’s because you jagoffs freak out about the

president choosing certain flavors of Starburst, and when
there’s that much noise in the media we stop hearing you?
Just spit-ballin’ here.

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 Don’t hold your breath.

She quickly became the villain. Way to go, media.

HA HA HA HA HA HA HA …

Truth.
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 Fitton: Hillary Was Hiding
EVERYTHING On Her ‘Private Server’
By Usafeaturesmedia
Posted On January 16, 2018
Some have speculated that the trove of documents could
provide a number of details regarding several scandals
(National Sentinel) Light of Day: The head of a noted
government watchdog group hinted Monday that Hillary
Clinton may have hid emails and other documents on her
private email server.
Tom Fitton, president of Judicial Watch, said during a
YouTube presentation that Clinton was “hiding everything
on her private email server,” which may include tens of
thousands of emails and documents she claims to have
lost.
Some have speculated that the trove of documents could
provide a number of details regarding several scandals
involving Clinton and others from the Obama
administration.
That includes the FBI’s handling of her email investigation
to the alleged pay-to-play scheme between her family’s
foundation, State Department agencies, and foreign
donors.
So far, the Trump State Department has been slow to
release the remainder of Clinton’s emails when she served
as secretary of state. Judicial Watch has been attempting to
obtain them via Freedom of Information Act requests.
“Fitton’s latest report underscores an
important and unfortunate reality: not
enough attention is being paid to the
original Clinton email scandal — the
missing 33,00 emails,” The Gateway Pundit
reported.
Watch:
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Last week, the New York Post‘s Paul Sperry noted that
Clinton’s emails may not actually be missing at all.
He reported:
In a May interview with FBI agents, an
executive with the Denver contractor that
maintained Clinton’s private server
revealed that an underling didn’t bleach-
clean all her subpoenaed emails, just ones
he stored in a data file he used to transfer
the emails from the server to Clinton’s
aides, who in turn sorted them for delivery
to Congress.
The Platte River Networks executive,
whose name was redacted from the
interview report, said PRN tech Paul
Combetta “created a ‘vehicle’ to transfer
email files from the live mailboxes of
[Clinton Executive Services Corp.] email
accounts [and] then later used BleachBit
software to shred the ‘vehicle,’ but the
email content still existed in the live email
accounts.”
Unless one of Clinton’s aides had the
capability to log in to the PRN server as an
administrator and remove a mailbox, her
archived mailboxes more than likely still
reside somewhere in that system. And they
may also materialize on an internal “shared
drive” that PRN created to control access
to the Clinton email accounts among PRN
employees.
Last week, a federal judge ordered the State Department to scheduled release date is now September 28, 2018, rather
speed up its release of 72,000 pages of Clinton emails. The than 2020.

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 Japanese Public Broadcaster NHK
Issues False Alarm Over North Korean Missile Launch
By Tyler Durden
Tue, 01/16/2018 - 06:02

It's deja vu, all over again.

Just four days after residents of Hawaii lived through 38

minutes of doomsday hell, after a false public broadcast
alarm announced that a ballistic missile launch was headed
for the island, only to reverse and announce later it was a
mistake, moments ago Japan's National broadcaster NHK’s
app issued a false J-Alert to phones over a North Korean
missile launch at 6:55 p.m. Tuesday evening local time.

The message, received by phone users with the NHK app

installed on their devices, read: "NHK news alert. North
Korea likely to have launched missile. The government
J alert: evacuate inside the building or underground. "

It then promptly corrected the error just 5 minutes later, at

around 7 p.m.

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After the false alert, NHK issued an on-air apology on
Tuesday evening local time, saying "the news alert sent
earlier about NK missile was a mistake. No government J
alert was issued."

"Around 6:55pm earlier we reported on the NHK's news

site and NHK's news disaster prevention application
‘Pattern of North Korean missile launch’ but this was
incorrectly issued. J alert has not appeared. I must
sincerely apologize,” the news outlet wrote.

The bizarre coincidence of two false alarms announcing

the start of nuclear war is certainly suspicious.

The false alert came on the same day as the US and

Canada planned to host talks in Vancouver over the crisis
on the Korean Peninsula after a year of missile tests and
threats from the North.

As a reminder, on Saturday, an emergency alert

notification sent out to residents of Hawaii warning of an
incoming "ballistic missile threat" turned out to be a false
alarm. The error was blamed on an employee who "pushed
the wrong button." "BALLISTIC MISSILE THREAT
INBOUND TO HAWAII. SEEK IMMEDIATE
SHELTER. THIS IS NOT A DRILL," the emergency alert
read.

The warning went out on television and radio as well as

cell phones, according to Hawaii Gov. David Ige, sparking
panic amongst some residents. A second emergency alert
was sent to phones in Hawaii 38 minutes after the initial
message confirming the false alarm.

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 They Did WHAT? Mueller, McCabe
And Rosenstein ALL Involved In Cover-Up Of FBI
Investigation Into Uranium One BRIBES
By Usafeaturesmedia
Posted On January 16, 2018
“The Russians were compromising
American contractors in the nuclear
industry with kickbacks and extortion
threats”
Photo credit: New York Times
(National Sentinel) Scandal: Reports last week note that
Justice Department officials in the District of Maryland
announced that Mark Lambert of Mount Airy, Md., was
indicted on 11 counts related to “bribery, kickbacks, and
money-laundering.”
Those charges stemmed from an alleged plot to bribe
Vadim Mikerinn, a Russian executive at JSC
Techsnabexport, or TENEX.
As reported by Zero Hedge:
According to the indictment, Lambert and
others at Transport Logistics International
(TLI) engaged in several counts of
bribery, kickbacks and money laundering
with Russian nuclear official Vadim Mikerin,
in order to secure business advantages
with TENEX – a subsidiary of Rosatom, the
Kremlin’s state-owned energy company
which bought Uranium One.
TLI would have ostensibly transported all of
the uranium from the U1 deal, were it not
for an FBI undercover mole buried deep
within the Russian nuclear industry who
gathered extensive evidence of corruption.
Robert Mueller’s FBI had been
investigating the scheme since at least
2008 – with retiring Deputy FBI Director
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Andrew McCabe assigned to the ongoing
investigation which was hidden from the
Committee on Foreign Investments in the
United States (CFIUS). Had they known,
the committee never would have approved
the Uranium One deal with TENEX’s parent
company, Rosatom.
Four individuals were eventually
prosecuted and given plea
agreements after the Uranium One deal
was approved. The prosecuting DOJ
attorneys? Deputy Attorney General Rod
Rosenstein and top Mueller investigator in
the Trump-Russia probe, Andrew
Weissman – who praised former acting
Attorney General Sally Yates for defying
Trump.
According to John Solomon at The Hill, the Obama DoJ
never called the deal’s secret information, William D.
Campbell, when it was time to charge former Russian
uranium industry official Mikerinn.
“While he was Maryland’s chief federal
prosecutor, Deputy Attorney General Rod
Rosenstein’s office failed to interview the
undercover informant in the FBI’s Russian
nuclear bribery case before it filed criminal
charges in the case in 2014, officials told
The Hill,” reports Solomon.
As we have reported, Campbell, who was made to sign an
“illegal” non-disclosure agreement (NDA) by Obama
Attorney General Loretta Lynch, claimed in November to
have video evidence showing Russian agents with
briefcases full of bribe money in relation to the Uranium
One scandal.
Earlier, The Hill‘s John Solomon and Circa News‘ Sara
Carter noted that Campbell had been deeply embedded in
the Russian nuclear industry. While there he was able to
gather incriminating evidence of bribery and kickbacks to
and by U.S. and Russian actors involved in getting the
Uranium One deal approved by the Obama administration.
Campbell, who is currently battling cancer, had earlier
been misidentified as a lobbyist. In reality, he is a nuclear
industry consultant.
“The Russians were compromising
American contractors in the nuclear
industry with kickbacks and extortion
threats, all of which raised legitimate
national security concerns. And none of
that evidence got aired before the Obama
administration made those decisions,” a
person who worked on the case told The
Hill, speaking on condition of anonymity for
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fear of retribution by U.S. or Russian
officials.
“I’ve never heard of such a case unless the
victim is dead. I’ve never heard of
prosecutors making a major case and not
talking to the victim before you made it,
especially when he was available to them
through the FBI,” Alan Dershowitz told The
Hill.
Last month, Attorney General Jeff Sessions ordered
investigators in the Justice Department to take a fresh look
at the sale of Uranium One to Russian firm Rosatom.
 2017: The Year The News Media
Went To War Against A President
By Rich Noyes And Mike Ciandella
January 16, 2018 6:00 AM EST
The first year of the Trump administration was as turbulent
for the news media as it was for politics, with many
journalists dropping any pretense of professionalism to
become strident opponents of the President. As a proxy for
the larger establishment media, the Media Research Center
analyzed every moment of coverage of President Trump
last year on the ABC, CBS and NBC evening newscasts,
usually seen by more than 25 million people each night.
The major findings:
 The Trump presidency was the biggest story of the
year, accounting for one out of every three minutes of
evening news airtime — nearly 100 hours in total.
 The tone of coverage has been incessantly hostile,
especially for a new President in his honeymoon year:
90% negative, vs. just 10% positive (These
percentages do not include neutral statements).
 More than two-fifths of evening news coverage of the
President (43%) focused on controversies, not policies,
with the Russia investigation alone accounting for one-
fifth of all Trump coverage (1,234 minutes).
 Despite their massive coverage of Russia, the
networks had almost no airtime for questions about
how the investigation began, or whether special
counsel Robert Mueller’s current investigation is
biased.
Now the details of our year-long study:
 The Trump Presidency Was by Far the Biggest
Story of 2017: From Inauguration Day (January 20)
through the end of 2017 (December 31), the three
evening newscasts aired 3,430 stories that talked
about either President Trump or his administration,
totaling 99 hours, 3 minutes of airtime. This amounts to
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approximately 34 percent of all evening news airtime
(excluding commercials), meaning that one out of every
three minutes of broadcast evening news coverage
was devoted to the Trump story last year.
In contrast, MRC analysis of these same newscasts in 2015
and 2016 found that airtime devoted to President Obama
and his administration amounted to approximately ten
percent of overall evening news coverage in those years, or
less than one-third the level of Trump’s coverage.
 Coverage of Trump Has Been Incessantly Negative:
Reviewing all of this coverage, our analysts catalogued
5,883 evaluative statements about the President or his
administration from either reporters, anchors or non-
partisan sources such as experts or voters. Only about
10 percent of those comments (617) were positive,
compared with 5,266 (90%) which were negative — an
unparalleled level of media hostility for a President in
his first year in office.
There were only three months in 2017 when Trump’s level
of good press rose above 10 percent on the evening news:
January, when TV coverage of his
inauguration included a few stories about
the positive reaction among Trump voters;
April, when the network coverage
mentioned supportive reaction to the cruise
missile strikes against Syria; and in
December, when Congress finally passed a
major tax reform package, a Trump
legislative success. Even in those months,
however, the balance of TV’s coverage of
 Trump was still hugely negative — 85
percent negative in January, 82 percent in
April, and 85 percent in December.
The media’s negative approach has been essentially
consistent regardless of which issues or controversies were
prevalent in the news. For example, network TV coverage
was no more hostile in August (91% negative), when
Trump came under intense criticism for his reaction to the
violence in Charlottesville, Virginia, related to a white
supremacist march, than it was in most other months.
Rather, the evening newscasts have provided extremely
heavy coverage of some stories (Russia, the travel ban, and
myriad personal controversies) where they evidently
believed heavy criticism is justified, while they barely
mention other topics where the administration has a
positive story to tell. (Tomorrow, we will report on six of
Trump’s accomplishments that were essentially ignored by
the networks.)
 A Huge Percentage of Network News Coverage
Focused on Controversies, Not Policy: More than
two-fifths of evening news coverage of the Trump
administration (43%, or 42 hours, 37 minutes) centered
on various controversies associated with the President
and his top aides. The Russia investigation was the
networks’ favorite topic, with an astonishing 20 hours,
34 minutes of coverage, or more than one-fifth of all
Trump coverage last year.
Discussion of all public policy issues combined amounted
to 46 hours, 58 minutes of coverage, or roughly 47 percent
of all Trump coverage. The five most-frequently covered
policy issues: the effort to repeal and replace ObamaCare
(475 minutes); the nuclear showdown with North Korea
(364 minutes); immigration policy, including ramped-up
deportations and a potential border wall (258 minutes); the
temporary travel ban and the ensuing court fight (251
minutes); and the ultimately successful push for
comprehensive tax reform (222 minutes).
Besides Russia, the networks spent more than 100 minutes
on two other controversies: the President’s reaction to the
white supremacist violence in Charlottesville, and the furor
over his allegation in a tweet that President Obama had
wiretapped Trump Tower. No other controversy achieved
that much airtime; our analysts found that the networks
typically obsessed about one controversy at a time, and
then dropped it when a new one became available.
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And, for those who might wonder, the remaining airtime
not spent discussing controversies or policy issues (about 9
hours, 17 minutes) consisted of other administration news
(various nominations and appointments, presidential travel,
ceremonial functions, etc.).
 Lots of “Collusion” Coverage, Little Scrutiny of
Mueller: Throughout 2017 — even before the
appointment of Robert Mueller as special counsel —
the networks were obsessed with the investigation into
whether the Trump campaign colluded with Russia’s
efforts to affect the 2016 presidential election. As noted
above, one-fifth of all Trump coverage on the evening
newscasts last year was about the Russia probe,
making it more prominent than the effort to repeal
ObamaCare, tax reform, immigration, or any of the
other Trump controversies that TV found so worthy of
coverage.
Yet very little of the airtime devoted to the Russia
investigation was spent looking into how the inquiry into
Team Trump first began, or whether Mueller’s current
investigation is biased. Suggestions that Obama
administration officials had improperly “unmasked”
Trump officials caught up in foreign surveillance garnered
just 20 minutes of evening news coverage, or less than two
percent of the Russia total. Evening news coverage of the
uncorroborated anti-Trump dossier, which we eventually
learned was financed by the Clinton campaign’s lawyer,
amounted to a mere 15 minutes of airtime.
While the media subjected Clinton-era independent
counsel Ken Starr to harsh scrutiny, any doubts raised
about Mueller and his team have been given little airtime.
The three evening newscasts spent a combined 11 minutes
(less than 1% of their Russia coverage) on the biased anti-
Trump text messages exchanged between an FBI agent and
an FBI lawyer, both of whom had worked on the
investigation. Criticism that the Mueller team had
improperly obtained e-mails written by Trump officials
during the transition period was given barely five minutes
of airtime, (or less than 0.5% of the total Russia coverage).
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The media reaction to Trump’s first year has been so
extreme, the public itself has become polarized over the
coverage. In September,
Gallup discovered that record numbers of
Democrats are reporting “trust and
confidence in the mass media to report the
news ‘fully, accurately and fairly,’”
with 72 percent of Democrats saying they trusted the press
in 2017, compared to just 51 percent who said that a year
ago.
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A month later, a Politico/Morning Consult poll found
that
“more than three-quarters of Republican
voters, 76 percent, think the news media
invent stories about Trump and his
administration.”
That number swells to 85 percent when just
Trump supporters are asked the question.
What seems to be happening is that many in the media,
including the broadcast networks, have chosen to morph
into anti-Trump activists. As a result, they provide massive
attention to stories that they think make him look bad, give
little airtime to more positive aspects of his administration,
and punish him with massively negative spin.
The polls suggest anti-Trump Democrats love that kind of
news, pro-Trump Republicans hate it — while the national
media are cementing their reputation as biased partisans.
Their hostility against the White House is now so obvious,
nobody could possibly take them seriously if they ever
again claim to be fair and non-partisan professionals.
 Bannon Is Subpoenaed
In Mueller’s Russia Investigation
By MICHAEL S. SCHMIDT
JAN. 16, 2018
Stephen K. Bannon arrived to testify before the House Intelligence
Committee during a closed-door session on Tuesday. Credit Joshua
Roberts/Reuters
WASHINGTON — Stephen K. Bannon, President
Trump’s former chief strategist, was subpoenaed last week
by the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, to testify
before a grand jury as part of the investigation into
possible links between Mr. Trump’s associates and Russia,
according to a person with direct knowledge of the matter.
The move marked the first time Mr. Mueller is known to
have used a grand jury subpoena to seek information from
a member of Mr. Trump’s inner circle. The special
counsel’s office has used subpoenas before to seek
information on Mr. Trump’s associates and their possible
ties to Russia or other foreign governments.
The subpoena could be a negotiating tactic. Mr. Mueller is
likely to allow Mr. Bannon to forgo the grand jury
appearance if he agrees to instead be questioned by
investigators in the less formal setting of the special
counsel’s offices about ties between Mr. Trump’s
associates and Russia and about the president’s conduct in
office, according to the person, who would not be named
discussing the case. But it was not clear why Mr. Mueller
treated Mr. Bannon differently than the dozen
administration officials who were interviewed in the final
months of last year and were never served with a
subpoena.
The subpoena is a sign that Bannon is not personally the
focus of the investigation. Justice Department rules allow
prosecutors to subpoena to the targets of investigations
only in rare circumstances.
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On Tuesday, Mr. Bannon testified behind closed doors
before the House Intelligence Committee, which is also
investigating Russia’s meddling in the 2016 election and
ties between the Trump campaign and Russia. Mr. Bannon
did not address reporters before entering the proceeding on
Tuesday, and a spokesman for Mr. Mueller and a senior
White House lawyer did not respond to messages seeking
comment.
Mr. Mueller issued the subpoena after Mr. Bannon was
quoted in a new book criticizing Mr. Trump, saying that
Donald Trump Jr.’s 2016 meeting with Russians was
“treasonous” and predicting that the special counsel
investigation would ultimately center on money
laundering.
After excerpts from the book, “Fire and Fury: Inside the
Trump White House,” were published this month, Mr.
Trump derided Mr. Bannon publicly and threatened to sue
him for defamation. Mr. Bannon was soon ousted as the
executive chairman of the hard-right website Breitbart
News.
Some legal experts said the subpoena could be a sign that
the investigation was intensifying, while others said it may
simply have been a negotiating tactic to persuade Mr.
Bannon to cooperate with the investigation. The experts
also said it could be a signal to Mr. Bannon, who has tried
to publicly patch up his falling-out with the president, that
despite Mr. Trump’s legal threats, Mr. Bannon must be
completely forthcoming with investigators.
Prosecutors generally prefer to interview witnesses before
a grand jury when they believe they have information that
the witnesses do not know or when they think they might
catch the witnesses in a lie. It is much easier for a witness
to stop the questioning or sidestep questions in an
interview than during grand jury testimony, which is
transcribed, and witnesses are required to answer every
question.
“By forcing someone to testify through a
subpoena, you are providing the witness
with cover because they can say, ‘I had no
choice — I had to go in and testify about
everything I knew,’” said Solomon L.
Wisenberg, a prosecutor for the
 independent counsel that investigated Bill
Clinton when he was president.
Significant grand jury activity may undermine the case that
White House officials have made for months: that they
believe the inquiry is coming to an end and are convinced
that the president will be cleared. Mr. Mueller has told Mr.
Trump’s lawyers that he will probably want to question the
president before the investigation concludes, but no
interview has been scheduled.
Mr. Bannon has limited firsthand knowledge about two
key issues within Mr. Mueller’s purview — the president’s
firing of James B. Comey as F.B.I. director, a decision
made without Mr. Bannon present, and the drafting of a
misleading statement about the subject of the June 2016
meeting with Russians, in which they promised damaging
information about Hillary Clinton.
But even Mr. Bannon’s secondhand knowledge could be
used to draw a contrast with statements from people with
firsthand knowledge whom Mr. Mueller has already
interviewed. And Mr. Bannon was directly involved in a
number of other major moments, including the decision-
making around the firing of Michael T. Flynn, the
president’s first national security adviser, who was
dismissed after he lied to Vice President Mike Pence about
phone calls with the Russian ambassador during the
presidential transition.
Mr. Bannon also helped run the transition after Chris
Christie, the outgoing governor of New Jersey, was fired
as head of that team. And Mr. Bannon was the chief
executive of the Trump campaign in October 2016 when
WikiLeaks began releasing thousands of stolen personal
emails from the hacked account of Mrs. Clinton’s
campaign chairman, John D. Podesta.
In “Fire and Fury,” Mr. Bannon was quoted by the
author, Michael Wolff, as suggesting that Donald Trump
Jr.; the president’s son-in-law and senior adviser, Jared
Kushner; and Paul Manafort, his campaign chairman at the
time, were “treasonous” and “unpatriotic” for attending the
meeting with Russians at Trump Tower. Mr. Bannon said
that he believed there was “zero” chance that the younger
Mr. Trump did not take them to meet his father, who has
said he knew nothing about the meeting.
“The three senior guys in the campaign
thought it was a good idea to meet with a
foreign government inside Trump Tower in
the conference room on the 25th floor —
with no lawyers,” Mr. Bannon said in the
book.
Mr. Trump erupted in anger after the excerpts were
published, calling Mr. Bannon “Sloppy Steve” on Twitter
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and saying he had “cried when he got fired and begged for
his job.”
“Now Sloppy Steve has been dumped like
a dog by almost everyone,” Mr. Trump
wrote. “Too bad!”
Stephen Bannon, President Trump’s former chief strategist, was
ousted from his post as executive chairman at Breitbart News, the
right-wing website he used as a mouthpiece.By CHRIS CIRILLO on
Publish Date January 5, 2018. Photo by Lexey Swall for The New
York Times.
Days after the excerpts were published, a statement was
issued in Mr. Bannon’s name in which he tried to back
away from his assertions in the book. He said that his
reference to treason was aimed at Mr. Manafort, not the
president’s son. Mr. Bannon did not apologize, however,
and though he had approved the statement, an associate
sent it to reporters without his knowledge.
The president appeared to ease his anger toward Mr.
Bannon at the end of last week. When asked in an
interview with The Wall Street Journal whether his break
with Mr. Bannon was “permanent,” the president replied,
“I don’t know what the word ‘permanent’
means.”
People close to Mr. Bannon took the president’s comments
as a signal that Mr. Trump was aware that his fired
strategist would soon be contacted by investigators.
Mr. Trump has a history of reaching out to people he has
fired, including those under investigation, directly or
indirectly, as he did with Mr. Flynn after he was dismissed
and before he struck a plea deal with Mr. Mueller’s
investigators.
Mr. Bannon has hired William A. Burck of the
Washington office of the Quinn Emanuel Urquhart &
Sullivan law firm to represent him in the defamation
threats from Mr. Trump and the congressional inquiries.
Mr. Burck also represents several current and former
administration officials who have been interviewed as
witnesses by Mr. Mueller’s investigators. Among them are
the White House counsel, Donald F. McGahn II, and the
former White House chief of staff, Reince Priebus.
 But He’s Crazy! Liberal Media Embarrass
Themselves, Demand Doctor Insist Trump’s Mentally Ill
By Curtis Houck
January 16, 2018 5:33 PM EST
For almost an hour on Tuesday, the White House press
corps stooped to a new low of embarrassment and
clownishly liberal behavior, lobbing over a dozen
questions at Navy Rear Admiral Dr. Ronny Jackson to
insinuate that President Trump must be mentally ill to the
point of Alzheimer’s Disease. This was all despite
Jackson’s insistence that he’s in great health.
Whether it was Bloomberg, CBS News Radio, CNN, or The
Washington Post, the long knives were out as the liberal
media engaged in their own Pickett’s Charge to save their
narrative that Trump’s mentally ill and thus must be
removed via Congress or the 25th Amendment.
NBC’s Hallie Jackson started the crazy train with the
second question, asking Dr. Jackson to repeat the results
about “the President’s mental fitness” and alluded to
Trump’s tweet about him being “a stable genius.”
Bloomberg’s Shannon Pettypiece brought up the media-
obsession over Trump supposedly slurring his words, but
ABC’s Cecilia Vega spoke moments later with this
bewildering question:
Could you just elaborate in layman's terms,
if possible, and you’ve done a great job at
that, what you ruled out in these cognitive
tests? You know, there have been reports
the president has forgotten names, that
he’s repeating himself. Are you ruling out
things like early onset Alzheimer's? Are you
looking at dementia-like symptoms?
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Dr. Jackson hit back, noting that Trump’s cognitive test
was the same one that’s often used at Walter Reed (the
Montreal Cognitive Assessment) and since
“the President got 30 out of 30 on that
exam, I think that, you know, there's no
indication that he has any kind of
cognitive issues.”
CBS News Radio correspondent Steven Portnoy brought up
the 25th Amendment, gushing over how
“[a] lot of people in the country have
been talking about it” and after explaining
it in some detail, asked about what point
from a “philosophical” standpoint would
he “advise the cabinet that the president
is unable to discharge his duties.”
Ridiculous figure and CNN chief White House
correspondent Jim Acosta then arrived on scene:
JIM ACOSTA: Just to make sure we're
clear on this. When you analyzed his
cognitive ability or his neurological
functions, that's not the same thing as a
psychiatric exam or psychological exam?
JACKSON: It is not. No. It’s a screening
assessment for cognitive impairment.
Roughly five minutes after The Washington Post’s Ashley
Parker inquired about the particular test that Trump took,
CBS’s Margaret Brennan trampled on Ronald Reagan’s
memory by hinting that he had Alzheimer’s while
President and was missed. And thus, White House
physicians might not be trustworthy:
Doctor, when you say given the President's
age, he is somewhere where President
Reagan was at this time in presidency. Can
you say, given the scrutiny of what was
overlooked at the time with President
Reagan in terms of Alzheimer's and things
he was then-known to suffer from at a later
date, Can you say whether the test that's
you ran would exclude any of those things?
 And what the possibility of overlooking
something like that would be? You know,
how can you tell the American people that
this time you're certain?
Portnoy returned and this left the calm Jackson perturbed:
PORTNOY: What is your take of all the
doctors and clinicians all across the country
who have said, in this President, they see
symptoms of this, that and the other?
JACKSON: Symptoms in what way?
PORTNOY: Symptoms of dementia,
symptoms of —
JACKSON: I would say that, you know, the
American Psychiatric Association has said
so, too. You know, I would think that, you
know, the people shouldn't be making the
assessments about the President unless
they've had the opportunity to get to know
him and examine him and, you know, in my
opinion, that's just tabloid psychiatry and I
just don’t — you know, I'm not going to
address it or fall into responding to those
questions or accusations.
Near the end, an unidentified reporter seemed to lobby for
there to be (if there wasn’t already) a White House
psychologist should be around for the sake of Trump while
CNN’s Dr. Sanjay Gupta fretted that the Montreal
Cognitive Assessment was insufficient for spotting
dementia or mental illnesses in someone “who’s already
highly functioning.”
Here’s the relevant transcript from January 16's White
House Press Briefing:
White House Press Briefing
January 16, 2018
3:44 p.m. Eastern
HALLIE JACKSON: Two questions for you. Number one, there
have been some questions as part of your exam, I’m wondering if
you’ve talked to the President about this, whether the President’s
mental fitness. He has pushed back on that, calling himself a
stable genius. Can you establish the President’s mental fitness
for us?
(....)
SHANNON PETTYPIECE: Yes, there was an incident recently
where the President appeared to slur his words while giving an
address. Did you look into what the cause of that might have
been at all?
(....)
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CECILIA VEGA: Could you just elaborate in layman's terms, if
possible, and you’ve done a great job at that, what you ruled out
in these cognitive tests? You know, there have been reports the
president has forgotten names, that he’s repeating himself. Are
you ruling out things like early onset Alzheimer's? Are you
looking at dementia-like symptoms? And then a second question,
a lot of doctors at the back end of a physical like to give their
patients tips before they walk out the door, things that they
should change in terms of lifestyle or behavior. What did you tell
this president outside of diet that he might want to change?
DR. RANDY JACKSON: Yes, so I think that cognitive test, you
know, it’s well respected. It is a test that is used throughout the
United States. Lots and lots of institutions use that test. It is the
one that they use at Walter Reed for the patients they feel they
need to do cognitive screens on. So, it’s a universally-accepted
test. Like I said, it is a little more extensive than some of the
shorter ones that are in some of the guidelines, but yea, it
screens for all those things. Any time of cognitive issues,
Alzheimer's and all those other things. So, you know, the fact the
President got 30 out of 30 on that exam, I think that, you know,
there's no indication that he has any kind of cognitive issues. On
a day-to-day basis, like I said before, it’s been my experience
that the President, you know, is very sharp. Very articulate when
he speaks to me and, you know, I've never known him to repeat
himself around me. He says what he’s got to say and he speaks
his mind. And I found no reason whatsoever to think that the
President has — yeah, I found no reason to think that the
president has any issues whatsoever with his thought process.
(....)
STEVEN PORTNOY: If I might ask a question and pause on the
philosophy on the fitness of a president, the 25th amendment. A
lot of people in the country have been talking about it. It basically
contemplates that a group of Senate-confirmed laymen will weigh
on whether the President is able to discharge the duties of the
office. You, as the President’s physician, have certainly given this
some thought over the year that you’ve been on your role. On
what base I would you, this is a philosophical question, advise
the cabinet that the president is unable to discharge his duties?
How does that bar get met?
(....)
JIM ACOSTA: Just to make sure we're clear on this. When you
analyzed his cognitive ability or his neurological functions, that's
not the same thing as a psychiatric exam or psychological
exam?
JACKSON: It is not. No. It’s a screening assessment for cognitive
impairment.
(....)
ASHLEY PARKER: You mentioned that you gave the President
will a cognitive test. Was that the mini-mental state examination
or [INAUDIBLE]? Or if not, could you tell us what specific
cognitive test you gave him.
JACKSON: It was. It was the Montreal Cognitive Assessment,
sometimes we refer to it as the MOCA and you can find it online.
(....)
ACOSTA: One follow-up question. There isn't anything that's part
of the President's health records or his overall physical fitness or
any medications that he's taking that you're not permitted to tell
us? Is there anything you're keeping from us for privacy
reasons?
JACKSON: I can promise there is nothing that I am withholding
from you and I can tell you that, you know, I've done the last four
or five of these. I've been involved in probably the last six or
seven of these and this is hands down more information that’s
been put forth by any other assessment to date. I was, Friday
was good day for me. Friday made today exceptionally easy for
me. So, when we left Friday, it was good for me. It made this
much, much easier for me today. So no, I'm not withholding
anything and I have reviewed the President's past medical
records to the extent they've been made available to me and
there is nothing at all concerning to me.
MARGARET BRENNAN: Doctor, when you say given the
President's age, he is somewhere where President Reagan was
at this time in presidency. Can you say, given the scrutiny of what
was overlooked at the time with president Reagan in terms of
Alzheimer's and things he was then-known to suffer from at a
later date, Can you say whether the test that's you ran would
exclude any of those things? And what the possibility of
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overlooking something like that would be? You know, how can
you tell the American people that this time you're certain?
JACKSON: I can say that that test, you know, and I don't know
President Reagan's actual medical condition and I don't know
what his condition was like toward the end of his presidency. I've
read things and sustain documentaries and stuff like everybody
here. But let's just assume that he did have some, you know,
evidence of cognitive impairment toward the end of his
presidency. I think that I can reliably say, and I think that the folks
in the mental health community out there would back me up on
the fact that if he had some type of mental, cognitive issue, that
this test is sensitive enough it would pick up on it. He would not
have gotten 30 out of 30 on the test. So, I’m very confident at this
particular stage that he has nothing like that going on. And, like I
said, my personal experience, is that he has absolutely no, you
know, cognitive or mental issues whatsoever. That he is very
sharp.
(....)
PORTNOY: What is your take of all the doctors and clinicians all
across the country who have said, in this President, they see
symptoms of this, that and the other?
JACKSON: Symptoms in what way?
PORTNOY: Symptoms of dementia, symptoms of —
JACKSON: I would say that, you know, the American Psychiatric
Association has said so, too. You know, I would think that, you
know, the people shouldn't be making the assessments about the
President unless they've had the opportunity to get to know him
and examine him and, you know, in my opinion, that's just tabloid
psychiatry and I just don’t — you know, I'm not going to address
it or fall into responding to those questions or accusations.
(....)
UNIDENTIFIED MALE REPORTER #1: Give us an idea of what
the cognitive exam involved in that half-hour and does that rule
out any further psychological exams?
(....)
UNIDENTIFIED MALE REPORTER #2: You mentioned a whole
bunch of doctors that participated in Friday's exam. And there are
other questions today about the President's emotional health. Is
there anyone on the President's medical team such as a
psychiatrist or a psychologist whose job it is to monitor the
President's emotional state or watch for potential psychiatric
problems or indicators of those?
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(....)
SANJAY GUPTA: Just one more question about the Montreal
exam and other sort mini-mental status exam. They're pretty
good, but they're not really sensitive for someone who’s already
highly functioning. They're not good at finding early stages of
dementia. If the President is worried about it, would you
recommend more extensive exams?
 'I Have No Concerns About His Cognitive Ability':
White House Doctor Says Trump In Excellent Health
Erik Rosales
01-16-2018
WASHINGTON -- President Donald Trump's physician
has declared that the commander-in-chief is in "excellent
health."
"I have no concerns about his cognitive
ability," White House Physician Rear
Admiral Dr. Ronny Jackson told reporters
on Tuesday.
Dr. Jackson says President Trump should lose some weight
through a regimen that includes improving his diet and
getting more exercise during the nearly one-hour news
conference.
"Absolutely, he's fit for duty, I think he will
remain fit for duty for the remainder of his
term," the doctor said.
Dr. Jackson, who also served as White House doctor for
President Barack Obama, told reporters Trump scored
30/30 on the Montreal Cognitive Assessment, which
according to its website is a
"cognitive screening test designed to assist
health professionals in the detection of mild
cognitive impairment and Alzheimer's
disease."
Jackson explained the reason for the cognitive test saying,
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"We picked one of the ones that was a little
more involved. It was longer. It was the
more difficult one of all of them. It took
significantly longer to complete. The
president did exceedingly well on it. That
was not driven at all by any concerns I had.
It was driven by the president's wishes and
he did well on it."
Trump weighs 239 pounds, the White House physician
said, standing at 6 feet 3 inches, Trump falls just within the
"overweight" range on the body mass index.
The doctor also said Trump showed
"excellent cardiac results ... from a stress
test" performed on the president last week.
The president's blood pressure was 122/75.
"He would benefit from a diet that is lower
in fat and carbohydrates," Jackson told the
assembled media representatives.
The president himself decided what to make public, in
accordance with medical privacy rules.
The doctor said Trump's test results showed:
 cholesterol (HDL 63, LDL 94, triglycerides 61)
 blood pressure (116/70)
 blood sugar (99)
 normal results from liver, thyroid, heart and colon
exams
He also said Trump took Crestor, a cholesterol-lowering
statin; a low dose of aspirin to prevent heart attacks; and
antibiotics to treat skin rosacea.
The doctor also mentioned that in addition to taking Advil
and Crestor, Trump also takes Propecia, a drug used to
stem hair loss.
"The president does take Ambien a sleep
aid... on overseas travel," Dr. Jackson said.
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The doctor said a recent incident in which Trump slurred
some words while making public remarks may have been
the result of Sudafed that the doctor had given the
president to take on the previous day.
Dr. Jackson said because the president does not drink or
smoke, it has made a healthy difference in his life.
Trump's physician performed the yearly physical Friday at
the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in
Maryland.
 This Is WHY Trump’s Travel Bans Are VITAL To
Protecting Americans (And Why Judges Who
Block Them Should Be Impeached)
By Usafeaturesmedia
Posted On January 16, 2018
“This report is a clear reminder of why we
cannot continue to rely on immigration
policy based on pre-9/11 thinking”
(National Sentinel) National Security: The Departments
of Justice and Homeland Security have compiled data on
federal arrests for alleged, actual or attempted acts of
terrorism within the United States and found a shocking
statistic.
Between Sept. 11, 2001 and Dec. 31, 2016, 73 percent of
terrorist offenders were foreign-born, a new report notes.
Of the 549 people convicted of international terrorism-
related charges between Sept. 11, 2001 and and the end of
last year, 402, or three-of-four, were not born in the United
States.
Many came from terrorist-infested or terrorism-sponsoring
countries, some of which included countries contained in
President Donald J. Trump’s travel bans that were blocked
by federal courts.
“Over the same period, U.S. Immigration
and Customs Enforcement removed
approximately 1,716 aliens with national
security concerns. Further, in 2017 alone
DHS had 2,554 encounters with individuals
on the terrorist watch list (also known as
the FBI’s Terrorist Screening Database)
traveling to the United States,” the report
says.
The report was mandated by Executive Order 13780,
Protecting the Nation from Foreign Terrorist Entry into
the United States, which declared that “it is the policy of
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the United States to protect its citizens from terrorist
attacks, including those committed by foreign nationals,”
and directed a series of actions to enhance the security of
the American people.
“My top priority as Secretary of Homeland
Security is to ensure the safety and
security of the American people,” said DHS
Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen.
“This report is a clear reminder of why we
cannot continue to rely on immigration
policy based on pre-9/11 thinking that
leaves us woefully vulnerable to foreign-
born terrorists, and why we must examine
our visa laws and continue to intensify
screening and vetting of individuals
traveling to the United States to prevent
terrorists, criminals, and other dangerous
individuals from reaching our country,” she
continued.
She said legislation is needed to correct current vetting and
immigration deficiencies or
“DHS will continue to see thousands of
terrorists a year attempt to enter the United
States, and while we must be right every
time, the terrorists only need to be lucky
once.”
Attorney General Jeff Sessions also sounded an alarm bell.
“This report reveals an indisputable
sobering reality—our immigration system
has undermined our national security and
public safety,” he said.
“And the information in this report is only
the tip of the iceberg: we currently have
terrorism-related investigations against
thousands of people in the United States,
including hundreds of people who came
here as refugees,” Sessions added.
 “Our law enforcement professionals do
amazing work, but it is simply not
reasonable to keep asking them to risk
their lives to enforce the law while we admit
thousands every year without sufficient
knowledge about their backgrounds.”
He also praised Trump’s immigration priorities of
“securing our porous borders, moving to a
merit-based immigration system that ends
.
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the use of diversity visas and chain
migration, and enforcing our nation’s laws.”
The report also noted that from October 1, 2011, to
September 30, 2017, a total of 355,345 non-U.S. citizen
offenders, were administratively arrested after previously
being convicted of an aggravated felony, as defined in 8
U.S.C. § 1101(a)(43), or two or more crimes each
punishable by more than one year (felony offenses).
 Globalist Traitor Jeff Flake Plans To Deliver Speech
Designed To PROTECT The Corrupt Mainstream
Media And Their Deep State Masters
Alex Thomas
January 16, 2018
In a move transparently designed to protect both the
corrupt mainstream media and their deep state masters,
Republican Sen. Jeff Flake is planning to deliver a speech
Wednesday in which he will ludicrously compare
President Donald Trump to Joseph Stalin.
That’s right, a so-called conservative, who is in reality a
globalist traitor, is set to compare the President of the
United States to a mass murderer simply due to Trump’s
rightful attacks on an establishment media that has
openly declared war on him.
“When a figure in power reflexively calls
any press that doesn’t suit him ‘fake news,’
it is that person who should be the figure of
suspicion, not the press,” Flake will say,
according to multiple media outlets who
had a draft of his speech leaked to them in
anticipation.
Keep in mind that it is an absolute FACT that 99% of the
mainstream media is openly at war with the president each
and every day. In return, Trump has rightfully labeled
them the enemy of the people.
The sheer amount of hypocrisy it takes to compare Donald
Trump to Stalin due to his attacks on the deep state
controlled media when these same media outlets are
openly working against Trump’s EVERY move is truly
unbelievable.
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In fact, the media watchdog group NewsBusters just
released a new report that conclusively proves that the very
media Flake is defending has straight up went to the war
with the democratically elected president.
The same media outlets Flake is supporting are the actual
people attempting to overthrow American democracy.
PUBLICLY!
The first year of the Trump administration
was as turbulent for the news media as it
was for politics, with many journalists
dropping any pretense of professionalism
to become strident opponents of the
President.
[…]
 The Trump presidency was the biggest story of the
year, accounting for one out of every three minutes of
evening news airtime — nearly 100 hours in total.
 The tone of coverage has been incessantly hostile,
especially for a new President in his honeymoon year:
90% negative, vs. just 10% positive (These
percentages do not include neutral statements).
 More than two-fifths of evening news coverage of the
President (43%) focused on controversies, not policies,
with the Russia investigation alone accounting for one-
fifth of all Trump coverage (1,234 minutes).
 Despite their massive coverage of Russia, the
networks had almost no airtime for questions about
how the investigation began, or whether special
counsel Robert Mueller’s current investigation is
biased.
Amazingly, the fact that Flake is already openly working
against a president from his own party is not good enough
for the deep state puppets in the media who are now
openly calling for Flake to literally drop his conservative
principles altogether and straight up work with Democrats
to obstruct Trump on the policy level.
A piece in the admittedly anti-Trump liberal outlet Slate
lays out a series of suggestions for Jeff Flake which reads
like a literal list of deep state demands that stand in stark
contrast to what the American people actually voted for.
Take notice that it also demands specific protections for
the deep state lackeys in the DOJ and the FBI itself!
A small list of things they could demand,
none of which are an affront to small-c
conservative principles: a bill protecting
Robert Mueller’s investigation; actual
oversight of Trump’s business dealings and
Emoluments Clause issues; a new look at
the president’s power over nuclear
weapons; promises from Trump to refrain
from attacking ethnic and racial minorities
and the media; promises from Trump to
cease attacking the Justice Department’s
integrity; ethics compliance among
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members of the executive branch;
acceptance of 2016’s election results, and
a promise to not try and restrict the
franchise.
Yes, you read that right. The mainstream media is now
demanding that the president cease criticizing them
completely, that he totally ignore the Clinton operatives
within the federal government and in fact move to protect
them, and that his power over nuclear weapons be stripped.
Yet Trump and his supporters are ones that are similar to
Joseph Stalin? Who in the hell does Jeff Flake think he is
kidding?
 President Nobama
By Victor Davis Hanson
January 16, 2018 4:00 AM
Trump is commonsensically undoing, piece
by piece, the main components of Obama’s
legacy.
Donald Trump continues to baffle. Never Trump
Republicans still struggle to square the circle of quietly
agreeing so far with most of his policies, as they loudly
insist that his record is already nullified by its supposedly
odious author. Or surely it soon will be discredited by the
next Trumpian outrage. Or his successes belong to
congressional and Cabinet members, while his failures are
all his own. Rarely do they seriously reflect on what
otherwise over the last year might have been the trajectory
of a Clinton administration.
Contrary to popular supposition, the Left loathes Trump
not just for what he has done. (It is often too consumed
with fury to calibrate carefully the particulars of the Trump
agenda.) Rather, it despises him mostly for what he
superficially represents.
To many progressives and indeed elites of all persuasions,
Trump is also the Prince of Anti-culture:
 mindlessly naïve American boosterism;
 conspicuous, 1950s-style unapologetic consumption;
 repetitive and limited vocabulary; fast-food culinary
tastes;
 Queens accent;
 herky-jerky mannerisms;
 ostentatious dress;
 bulging appearance;
 poorly disguised facial expressions;
 embracing rather than sneering at middle-class
appetites;
 a lack of subtlety, nuance, and ambiguity.
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In short Trump’s very essence wars with everything that
long ago was proven to be noble, just, and correct by
Vanity Fair, NPR, The New Yorker, Google, the Upper
West Side, and The Daily Show. There is not even a
smidgeon of a concession that some of Trump’s policies
might offer tens of thousands of forgotten inner-city youth
good jobs or revitalize a dead and written-off town in the
Midwest, or make the petroleum of the war-torn Persian
Gulf strategically irrelevant to an oil-rich United States.
Yet one way of understanding Trump — particularly the
momentum of his first year — is through recollection of
the last eight years of the Obama administration. In
reductionist terms, Trump is the un-Obama. Surprisingly,
that is saying quite a lot more than simple reductive
negativism. Republicans have not seriously attempted to
roll back the administrative state since Reagan. On key
issues of climate change, entitlements, illegal immigration,
government spending, and globalization, it was sometimes
hard to distinguish a Bush initiative from a Clinton policy
or a McCain bill from a Biden proposal. There was often a
reluctant acceptance of the seemingly inevitable march to
the European-style socialist administrative state.
Of course, there were sometimes differences between the
two parties, such as the George W. Bush’s tax cuts or the
Republicans’ opposition to Obamacare. Yet for the most
part, since 1989, we’ve had lots of rhetoric but otherwise
no serious effort to prune back the autonomous
bureaucracy that grew ever larger. Few Republicans in the
executive branch sought to reduce government
employment, deregulate, sanction radical expansion of
fossil-fuel production, question the economic effects of
globalization on Americans between the coasts, address
deindustrialization, recalibrate the tax code, rein in the
EPA, secure the border, reduce illegal immigration, or
question transnational organizations. To do all that would
require a president to be largely hated by the Left,
demonized by the media, and caricatured in popular
culture — and few were willing to endure the
commensurate ostracism.
Trump has done all that in a manner perhaps more
Reaganesque than Reagan himself. In part, he has been
able to make such moves because of the Republican
majority (though thin) in Congress and also because of, not
despite, his politically incorrect bluntness, his in-your-face
talk, innate cunning, reality-TV celebrity status,
animalistic energy, and his cynical appraisal that tangible
success wins more support than ideology. And, yes, in part
the wheeler-dealer Manhattan billionaire developed real
sympathy for the forgotten losers of globalization.
Even his critics sometimes concede that his economic and
foreign-policy agendas are bringing dividends. In some
sense, it is not so much because of innovative policy, but
rather that he is simply bullying his way back to basics
we’ve forgotten over the past decades.
The wonder was never how to grow the economy at 3
percent (all presidents prior to 2009 had at one time or
another done just that), but rather, contrary to “expert”
economic opinion, how to discover ways to prevent that
organic occurrence.
Obama was the first modern president who apparently
figured out how. It took the efforts of a 24/7
redistributionist agenda of tax increases, federalizing
health care, massive new debt, layers of more regulation,
zero-interest rates, neo-socialist regulatory appointments,
expansionary eligibility for entitlements, and constant anti-
free-market jawboning that created a psychological
atmosphere conducive to real retrenchment, mental
holding patterns, and legitimate fears over discernable
success. Obama weaponized federal agencies including the
IRS, DOJ, and EPA in such a manner as to worry anyone
successful, prominent, and conservative enough to come
under the federal radar of a vindictive Lois Lerner, Eric
Holder, or a FISA court.
Trump has sought to undo all that, point by point. The
initial result so far is not rocket science, but rather a
natural expression of what happens when millions of
Americans believe they have greater freedom and safety to
profit and innovate, and trust they will not be punished,
materially or psychologically, for the ensuing successful
results. The radical upsurge in business and consumer
confidence is not revolutionary but almost natural. The
Left and Never Trump Right claim that Trump is Stalin,
Hitler, or Mussolini. In fact, for the first time in eight
years, it is highly unlikely that the FBI, IRS, CIA, DOJ,
and other alphabet-soup agencies see their tasks as going
after the president’s perceived opponents.
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The same about-face is true on the foreign-policy front, as
the ancient practice of deterrence replaced the modern
therapeutic mindset. Obama blurred, deliberately so, the
lines between allies and hostiles. America experienced the
worst of both worlds: We were rarely respected by our
friends, even more rarely feared by our enemies; loud
rhetorical muscularity was backed up only by “strategic
patience” and “leading from behind.”
On the supposedly friendly side, Europe assumed that the
United States would fawn after the virtue-signaling Paris
Climate Accord. The Palestinians concluded that there was
no shelf life on victimhood and that America simply would
not, could not, dare not move its embassy to Jerusalem as
the Congress had chronically showboated it would. NATO
just knew that endless subsidies were its birthright and
prior commitments were debatable. The West apparently
lapped up Obama’s Cairo speech:
But when even the European Renaissance
and Enlightenment were seen as
derivatives of Islam, there is not much left
to boast about.
On the unfriendly side, China sensed there was little
danger in turning the Spratley Islands into an armed valve
of the South China Sea. Russia understood that America
was obsequiously “flexible” and ready to push a red plastic
reset button in times of crisis.
ISIS assumed that American lawyers were vetoing air-
strike targets. Iran guessed rightly that the Obama
administration would concede a lot to strike a legacy deal
on nonproliferation. It was unsure only about whether the
Obama administration’s eagerness to dissimulate about the
disadvantageous details were due to a sincere desire to
empower revolutionary, Shiite Iran as an antipode to Israel
and the Sunni oil monarchies, or arising from a reckless
need to leave some sort of foreign-policy signature. Kim
Jung-un concluded that the eight years of the Obama
administration provided a rare golden moment to vastly
expand its nuclear and missile capability — and then
announce it as an irrevocable fait accompli after Obama
left office.
Again, the common denominator was that the Obama
administration, in quite radical fashion, had sought a
therapeutic inversion of foreign policy — in a way few
other major nations had previously envisioned.
Trump’s appointees almost immediately began undoing all
that. There were no more effective avatars of old-style
deterrence than James Mattis and H. R. McMaster. Neither
was political. Both long ago embraced a realist appraisal of
human nature, predicated on two ancient ideas: We all are
more likely to behave when we accept that the alternative
is far more dangerous to ourselves, and the world is better
off when everyone knows the laws in the arena. Just as
Obama’s pseudo–red lines in Syria signaled to the Iranians
or North Koreans that there were few lines of any sort
anywhere; so too the destruction of ISIS suggested to
others that there might be far fewer restrictions on an
American secretary of defense anywhere.
On the cultural side, the Trump team figuratively paused,
examined its inheritance from the prior administration, and
apparently concluded something like “this is unhinged.”
Then it proceeded, to the degree possible, to undo it.
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Open borders, illegal immigration, and sanctuary cities are
the norms of very few sovereign states. They are
aberrations that are unsustainable whether the practitioner
is Canada, Mexico, or the United States. Calling a small
pond or large puddle on a farm’s low spot an “inland
waterway” subject to federal regulation is deranged;
undoing that was not radical, but commonsensical.
Trump sought to revive the cultural atmosphere prior to
Obama’s assertion that he would fundamentally transform
what had already been a great country. In 2008, it would
have been inconceivable that NFL multimillionaires would
refuse to stand for the National Anthem — much less in
suicidal fashion insult their paying fans by insinuating that
they deserved such a snub because they were racists and
xenophobes. It was Byzantine that a country would enter
an iconoclastic frenzy in the dead of night, smashing and
defacing statues without legislative or popular democratic
sanction.
The Un-Obama agenda was not simply reflexive or easy
— given that Obama was the apotheosis of a decades-long
progressive dream. After all, in year one, Trump has been
demonized in a manner unprecedented in post-war
America, given the astonishing statistic that 90 percent of
all media coverage of his person and policies has been
negative. Obama was a representation of a progressive
view of the Constitution that about a quarter of the
population holds, but in Obama, that view found a rare
megaphone for an otherwise hard sell.
One would have thought that all Republican presidents and
presidential candidate would be something like the
antitheses to progressivism. In truth, few really were. So
given the lateness of the national hour, a President
Nobama could prove to be quite a change.
 CNN Panel Doubts Presidential Doctor,
Claim He's Just A 'Trump Fanboy'
By Nicholas Fondacaro
January 17, 2018 12:26 AM EST

“He seemed like a Trump fanboy if you

think about it yeah,” Bruni added. “When
he said 239 pounds -- I know I'm being a
'girther,' but, come on,” Lemon piled on.
They failed to mention that Dr. Jackson
was President Obama’s doctor as well.

So-called “girtherism,” as Lemon admitted to believing,

was an online conspiracy theory that had begun to circulate
in left-wing echo chambers and claimed the doctor was a
dirty liar and President Trump was actually tubbier than
the medial report said.
CNN is the self-proclaimed arbiter of truth with their so-
called “#FactsFirst” campaign. But after Presidential
Physician and Navy Rear Admiral Dr. Ronny Jackson
announced that President Trump was in both excellent
mental and physical health, the anti-Trump news network
had their conspiracy theories in a death grip. And during
Tuesday’s CNN Tonight, host Don Lemon and his panel of
liberal journalists cast doubt on Dr. Jackson’s finding and
essentially claimed he was lying for Trump.

After playing clips of Dr. Jackson telling the White House

press corps that the President was in good health minus the
need to lose a few pounds (as with most Americans), the
camera cut back to Lemon as he was laughing at the
doctor.
“Sorry. Clean bill of health. Incredible
genes, right,” he mocked.
New York Times columnist Frank Bruni was the first to
speak up as he delivered a backhanded compliment about
how, for once, President Trump and White House were
being transparent about something.
Bruni then claimed that he thought the doctor was lying to
the press.
“And so, do I believe every single
number there? Not exactly,” he chided.
Lemon responded by trying to walk back
his childish laughing, explaining: “I was
just chuckling at how energetic he was,
not what he was saying about the
president.”
It also seemed to be gaining steam among
the liberal media, seeing as NBC’s Ken
Dilanian took to Twitter to openly
challenge the President to publically
step on a scale. MSNBC’s Chris Hayes
found it humorous. And The New York
Times reporter Maggie Haberman
seemed to think the lie was to keep
Trump from being labeled obese, which the
press would’ve had a field day with no
doubt.
The last liberal journalist to knock the President around
was CNN’s Dana Bash who cryptically sneered about how
“telling” it was that Trump had asked for a cognitive exam
to be conducted.
“And I just thought it was very, very
telling that he explicitly said that he
wasn't going to do what he called a
cognitive test, but the president wanted
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 report on it. That is so, so telling,” she
said.
These are the people who shout “facts first,” yet their
shows are filled with speculation, gossip, and conspiracy
theories. This is CNN.
and answered questions for an hour today, that surprised me,
and I think that surprised you, Dana. That's a good thing. And
so, do I believe every single number there? Not exactly.
LEMON: I was just chuckling at how energetic he was, not what
he was saying about the president. But I mean –

Transcript below: BRUNI: He seemed like a Trump fanboy if you think about it
yeah.
CNN Tonight
January 16, 2018 LEMON: When he said 239 pounds -- I know I'm being a
10:34:01 PM Eastern girther, but, come on.

DON LEMON: So we heard today from a doctor who recently
examined the President and he said the President is in excellent
health. Watch this.
APRIL RYAN: Yes.
Dr. RONNY JACKSON: If the president had a healthier diet over
the last 20 years, he might live to be 200 years, I don't know. He
has incredible genes I just assume.
BRUNI: We rightly complain all the time about this
administration's lack of responsiveness to us. That guy came out
here for an hour today, he answered a lot of questions, let's give
credit where it's due.
DANA BASH: And I just thought it was very, very telling that he
explicitly said that he wasn't going to do what he called a
cognitive test, but the president wanted him to do the test and
then go out and report on it. That is so, so telling.

I was not going to do a cognitive exam. I had no intention of RYAN. That’s right. That’s right. That’s right.
doing one. The reason that we did the cognitive assessment is
plain and simple: Because the president asked me to do it. LEMON: Thanks, everyone. I appreciate it.

His overall health is excellent. Are there a few things he could do

to make himself a little healthier? With the diet and exercise,
absolutely.

I would say he sleeps four to five hours a night. And he's

probably been that way his whole life. That's probably one of the
reasons he's been successful.

LEMON: [Laughing] Sorry. Clean bill of health. Incredible

genes, right?

FRANK BRUNI: Apparently. Listen, I want to -- let's take it at face

value. And we spend so much time criticizing the president, as
we should, that's our job. I want to say, the fact that he came out
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 Media Again Betray Public Trust With
Wild Conspiracy Theories About Trump’s Mental Health
By John Nolte
17 Jan 2018
Trump’s perfect score on a mental
acuity test once again exposes the
media as wild conspiracy theorists and
flat-out liars.
New York Times:
‘Is Mr. Trump Nuts?’
USA Today:
“Battles over Trump’s mental health and
‘fitness’ for office sidetrack his policy
agenda”
Washington Post:
“Wolff’s book has thrust the topic [of
Trump’s mental stability] to the forefront of
public debate[.]”
CNN’s Jake Tapper:
“[T]he president’s mental fitness has come
under discussion quite a bit the last two
weeks. Do you think a president’s mental
health should be tested?”
NBC’s Chuck Todd:
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“[A] president … with a staff that
questioned his ‘fitness for office’ and his
mental stability.”
MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough:
“I’ve written twice in my column a quote
about one of the people closest to Donald
Trump during the campaign saying he’s got
early stage of dementia.”
NYT/CNN’s Maggie Haberman:
“Unmoored.”
CBS News:
“Author Michael Wolff, whose bestselling
book portrays Mr. Trump as lacking the
mental capacity for the presidency,
maintains that even among those in the
White House, there are questions.”
Obviously, this is just the tip of the 24/7 cable
news/Sunday show/.com iceberg. The left-wing CNN has
been trolling Trump over this issue for months, and turned
it up to 11 this last week.
But what was the rationale for all this irresponsible, norm-
defying, anti-science speculation? A book written by
author Michael Wolff that even venomous Trump-haters
like NBC’s Katy Tur has had to admit is “fake but true.”
Hell, the author himself cannot even claim he told the
truth.
But now that Trump’s doctor, who was also the White
House doctor for Barack Obama and George W. Bush, has
announced that the president got a perfect score on a
widely respected and difficult mental acuity test — a 30
out of 30 — what we have here is yet another instance
where the entire mainstream media has egg all over their
face after betraying the American people with lies and
conspiracy theories.
 Trump will never run for president.
 Trump will never release his financial disclosure forms.
  Trump can’t win the Republican nomination.
 Trump can’t win the presidency.
 Trump can’t win Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, or Michigan.
 Trump will crash the stock market.
 Trump will put all American Muslims on a list.
 Trump will launch mass deportations.
 Trump’s decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital
of Israel will blow up the Middle East
 Trump will not be able to work with congress to pass
his agenda.
 Trump colluded with the Russians.
 Trump lied about Obama spying on him.
 Trump only wants to be popular so he will do what the
polls tell him.
 Trump is mentally ill.
Again and again and again, our media is caught red-
handed lying to the public, wildly misleading them with
narratives built on hate, conspiracy theories, ignorance,
and a provincial herd mentality.
Trump’s mental acuity is 30/30. The truth is that he is
driving our media insane, and what really drives them off
the deep end is the sanity of his policies:
Border enforcement; standing up for the
National Anthem against millionaire NFL
crybabies; not taking any crap from anyone
(especially the media); giving the American
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people some of their money back;
nominating qualified judges; trying
something different with the North Koreans
and Palestinians; decimating ISIS; fighting
for the American worker; loosening
regulations that strangled our economy for
eight years; making wars unnecessary in
the Middle East with the rapid expansion of
domestic energy exploration.
 Going back to the media, though, have you noticed
that no one is ever fired or reprimanded for getting
it 100% wrong?
 If NBC News was a real news outlet, wouldn’t Joe
and Mika be shown the door?
 If CNN was a real news outlet, would they not be
looking for a replacement for Dr. Sanjay Gupta?
The reason there is no accountability for getting it exactly
wrong is simple… There is no journalism anymore. All of
these outlets are left-wing propagandists (numbers do not
lie) desperate to overturn an election, even if it means
using unrelenting lies to stage a coup.
No matter how embarrassed, how
wrong, or how exposed as liars, they
never quit — which, by the way, is the
textbook definition of insanity.
 Sarah Huckabee Sanders DESTROYS
Chuck Schumer, Press, Over ‘OUTRAGEOUS’
Claims That Prez Is A ‘Racist’
By Usafeaturesmedia
Posted On January 17, 2018
“I think that it is an outrageous claim”
(National Sentinel) Hitting Back: White House Press
Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders was clearly agitated on
Tuesday over the establishment media’s continued
accusations that President Donald J. Trump is racist.
In addition, Sanders took a swipe at Democrats including
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer of New York for
making s similar unsubstantiated claim.
During the daily press conference on Tuesday, Fox News
reporter John Roberts questioned Sanders saying,
“(Schumer) said last night ‘Mr. President
show you’re not a racist, cut a deal on
DACA.’”
Roberts noted that Schumer is clearly trying to use
Trump’s alleged remarks about African countries being
“sh–holes” — which the president and others have refuted
— as a point of leverage.
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“Look, I think that it is an outrageous
claim,” Sanders shot back. “Frankly, I think
if the critics of the president were who he
said he was, why did NBC give him a show
for a decade on TV?”
“Why did Chuck Schumer and all his
colleagues come and beg Donald Trump
for money?” she continued, referencing
their successful attempts to convince
Trump to financially support their
campaigns in the past.
“If they are who they want to try to portray
him as, why did they want to be with him
for years and years in various activities,
whether it was events and fundraisers and
other things?” Sanders continued. “I think
it’s just an outrageous and ludicrous
excuse.”
She noted further,
“It’s a sad day for our country. They’re
willing to throw away the progress and
negotiations and not make big steps that
we need to happen, whether it’s funding
our military, supporting our government or
making a deal on DACA, which they say is
a huge priority, something they want to do.”
Trump has blamed Democrats for refusing to work with
him and Republicans to come up with a viable immigration
bill compromise regarding so-called “Dreamers.”
 Watch: CNN’s Sanjay Gupta Diagnoses
Donald Trump With Heart Disease
By Jeff Poor
17 Jan 2018
Wednesday on CNN’s “New Day,” Dr. Sanjay Gupta, the
network’s chief medical correspondent, proclaimed that
based on President Donald Trump’s coronary calcium
scores going back to the previous decade, Trump has heart
disease.
Gupta’s diagnosis came a day after Trump’s doctor, Navy
Rear Adm. Dr. Ronny Jackson, offered his assessment of
Trump’s health at a White House press briefing.
“When you look at the findings you just put
up there, Alisyn — this coronary calcium
score is a score a lot of cardiologists use to
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try and be predictive and be proactive,”
Gupta said. “And if the number gets up
over a hundred, that is concerning to a lot
of doctors. It’s concerning because you
start to say if you do nothing different, if
things don’t change, you can start to
predict the likelihood that some sort of
heart event, some sort of cardiac event —
a heart attack or something like that —
within a certain number of years.”
“And you see the trajectory of President
Trump’s numbers — no doubt, and I think
Dr. Jackson alluded to this because of his
diet and because of his lack of exercise,
that would be part of the reason those
numbers have likely gone up,” he added.
“And they have continued to go up despite
the fact that he’s been on medication. So
the president has heart disease. Those
numbers qualify him for having heart
disease. And it clearly needs a plan to
prevent some kind of heart problem down
the road.”
 D’OH! Newsweek’s Swing At Trump
Hits HILLARY Right Between The Eyes
By Doug P
Posted At 9:58 Am On January 17, 2018

President Trump is just days short of having been in office

for a full year, and Newsweek is going all out to portray his
presidency a historic failure:

Do they realize what they’re saying?

Bwa-ha-ha! Sorry, Hillary.

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 Six Trump Accomplishments
The Networks Ignored In 2017
By Rich Noyes
January 17, 2018 8:10 AM EST

Yesterday, we reported on the massive amount of
coverage that the broadcast network evening newscasts
devoted to the Trump administration in 2017, nearly all of
it (90%) negative. While topics such as the Russia
investigation and other controversies were given extremely
heavy coverage — more than 43 hours of coverage on just
these three newscasts — the networks were nearly silent
when it came to a number of Trump administration
accomplishments.
these and other projects means work and wages for
those who build them and for those who work at the
facilities on both ends of the pipelines....It also means
more abundant and more economical fuel, feed stock,
and raw materials for industrial concerns at home and
abroad, from plastics plants in China to chemical
producers in Texas.”

Some key examples:

 Deregulation: According to the Heritage

Foundation, the regulatory frenzy of the Obama
administration totalled “more than 23,000 regulations,
including 285 major rules with $122 billion in
cumulative annual costs” to the private sector
economy. President Trump has loosened this
regulatory noose, instituting few major new rules while
blocking or removing many others he inherited. In a
September editorial, Investor’s Business Daily praised Despite the importance of these projects, Trump’s action
Trump’s actions to deregulate the U.S. economy, garnered just over seven minutes of coverage from the
saying the action “will pay economic dividends for ABC, CBS and NBC evening newscasts in 2017, or roughly
years to come.” 0.1% of the networks’ total Trump coverage.

Yet the Big Three networks were evidently unimpressed,

giving the administration’s push to deregulate barely 11
minutes of evening news coverage in 2017, or less than
0.2% of their total coverage of the administration.

 Expanding Religious Freedom: In March, the

 Expediting Pipeline Projects: Soon after taking office,
the President employed Executive Orders to expedite
the building of two important pipeline projects that had
been stymied during the Obama years: the Keystone
XL pipeline and the Dakota Access pipeline. In a
January 24 editorial, National Review — a publication
which had staunchly opposed Trump during the GOP
primaries — praised the move: “Moving forward on
President signed an Executive Order on religious
freedom that directed agencies to craft new rules to
accommodate conscience-based objections to
ObamaCare’s contraceptive mandate, as well as
loosening IRS rules on the amount of political speech
permitted by ministers of tax-exempt churches. Then in
October, the Department of Health and Human
Services issued new rules that expanded protections to
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fulfilling a campaign promise.
The Catholic Association’s Maureen Ferguson called
Trump’s loosening of the contraceptive mandate “a ray of
sunshine signaling to faithful Americans that they need not
fear government bullying like that endured by the Little
Sisters of the Poor.” Yet none of these steps on behalf of
religious liberty were considered especially important by
the networks, as they allotted just six minutes of airtime to
them in all of 2017.
In December, all three network evening newscasts spent
nearly four minutes on embarrassing video of federal
appeals court nominee Matthew Petersen stumbling during
questioning of his credentials at a Senate hearing. In some
of those stories, almost as an afterthought, the networks
acknowledged Trump’s track record at installing new
judges. “The President has been unusually successful in
getting his judicial nominees confirmed,” NBC Nightly
News anchor Lester Holt admitted on his December 15
newscast.
All told, the three evening newscasts spent a mere 37
seconds making this point in 2017, a microscopic sliver of
the administration’s total coverage.

 Drilling in the Arctic: The networks were a major part

of the liberal pushback against plans to expand U.S. oil
and gas supplies by drilling in certain sections of the
Arctic during President George W. Bush’s first term,
which resulted in the idea being scrapped for more
than 15 years. But as part of the tax reform package
passed in late December, drilling is now permitted in
some areas of the Alaska National Wildlife Reserve
(ANWR).
 Reforming Veterans’ Care: During the Obama
According to the Competitive Enterprise Institute’s
administration, the networks (briefly, at least) put the
William Yeatman, “the large untapped amount of oil
national spotlight on the scandal at the U.S.
there would provide affordable energy and economic
Department of Veterans’ Affairs, with ABC anchor
growth for Americans.” But this achievement was barely
Diane Sawyer calling it a “national outrage” that some
noted during coverage of the tax bill or its aftermath,
veterans were evidently dying while on waiting lists for
garnering just 22 seconds of evening news airtime in
proper care.
December.
In 2017, President Trump took steps to help repair the
There’s no question that the three broadcast networks,
damage. In June, the President signed a bill that enabled
along with the rest of the liberal media establishment,
top VA officials to fire incompetent workers and protect
regarded Trump’s presidency as the biggest story of 2017.
whistleblowers. Then in August, he signed a bill extending
Too bad they didn’t spend more than a few moments on
another $2 billion in funding to the Veterans Choice Act, a
these significant accomplishments.
bi-partisan measure which allows veterans to seek care
outside the VA system if they need it.

But the networks’ interest in telling viewers about these

reforms was practically non-existent, with the Big Three
evening newscasts generating a minuscule 3 minutes, 32
seconds of coverage for them in 2017, out of 5,943
minutes of coverage of the Trump administration.

 Conservative Appeals Court Judges: President

Trump’s choice of Judge Neil Gorsuch to serve on the
U.S. Supreme Court received reasonable coverage
(more than 71 minutes) in the early months of his
presidency, but his success at getting a record 12
circuit court of appeals judges confirmed was
almost completely ignored.

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 Obama Says Fox News Viewers Live ‘On A Different
Planet;’ Newt Gingrich Just HAS To School Him
By Usafeaturesmedia
Posted On January 17, 2018
“Over here are the rest of us who are
thinking, ‘A lot of these ideas are really
weird’”
(National Sentinel) ‘Fantasy’: Former House Speaker
Newt Gingrich had a scathing response to former President
Obama’s claim that viewers of Fox News “live on a
different planet” than those who watch NPR or other Left-
leaning media outlets.
In an interview with Fox News‘ Sean Hannity, the former
Speaker said it will be Obama who, many years from now,
will still be living in a fantasy world, convinced that his
policies in the White House were successful.
“I listened to (Obama’s comments) and I
thought to myself, ‘This guy is so
whacked,’” Gingrich stated, adding that
the former Democratic president still
doesn’t “get it.”
“Many, many years from now in a nursing
home, or a nice retirement community,
Barack Obama will be still living in a
fantasy life. He’ll think that Iran really
wanted to have a deal, he’ll think that high
taxes really work, he’ll think that welfare’s a
good deal,” Gingrich said.
Hannity went on to criticize the establishment media’s
coverage of President Donald J. Trump, saying they lived
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in a fantasy world believing against all credibility that the
president’s campaign colluded with Russia to steal the
election from Democrat Hillary Clinton.
Despite a year and a half’s worth of investigating, neither
Congress nor the FBI or Justice Department has found any
evidence to support the allegations.
Gingrich, who is writing a book called “Trump’s
America,” explained the divide in news coverage of the
president and Republicans in general.
“Over here is a left-wing, corrupt
establishment which sincerely sees this
fight as a function of identity politics in
which if they lose, they will disappear,” he
said.
“Over here are the rest of us who are
thinking, ‘A lot of these ideas are really
weird,’” noting that Americans are unable to
relate to Obama’s thinking on the Iran deal
and his progressive ideals pushed while in
the White House.
Obama made his comments on David Letterman’s new
Netflix series, “My Next Guest Needs No Introduction
With David Letterman,” which debuted on Friday.
“One of the biggest challenges we have to
our democracy is the degree to which we
don’t share a common baseline of facts,”
he said, as reported by The Hill. “If you
watch Fox News, you are living on a
different planet than you are if you are
listening to NPR.”
The latter has often been criticized for having an extreme
Left-wing viewpoint.
 Lawmakers Want James Clapper
Prosecuted For Surveillance Testimony
Before Statute Of Limitations Runs Out
By Steven Nelson
Jan 17, 2018, 12:01 AM
James Clapper, director of national intelligence from 2010 to 2017,
testified during a March 2013 Senate Intelligence Committee hearing
that the NSA was "not wittingly" collecting "any type of data at all"
on millions of Americans — which turned out to be very much
untrue. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)
Some lawmakers would like to see the Justice Department
prosecute former spy chief James Clapper for inaccurate
testimony to Congress about domestic surveillance before
it's too late.
Privacy-conscious critics say looming five-year statutes of
limitation for perjury and making false statements —
establishing a March 12 deadline for charges — make an
urgent case for action, and that nonprosecution would set a
dangerous precedent that impedes oversight and executive-
branch accountability.
Clapper, director of national intelligence from 2010 to
2017, testified during a March 2013 Senate Intelligence
Committee hearing that the NSA was "not wittingly”
collecting “any type of data at all” on millions of
Americans. Months later, former NSA contractor Edward
Snowden revealed secret court orders forced phone
companies to turn over all U.S. call records on an
“ongoing, daily basis.”
In an apology letter, Clapper wrote that he
gave a “clearly erroneous” answer because
he “simply didn’t think of” the call-record
collection. But in an MSNBC interview he
offered a different explanation, saying he
gave the “least untruthful” answer because
he was “asked a, ‘When are you going to
stop beating your wife?’ kind of question,
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meaning not answerable necessarily by a
simple yes or no.”
Lawmakers from both parties, but primarily Republicans
supportive of new limits on surveillance, called for
Clapper's prosecution during the Obama administration,
without success. Several renewed their calls as the
deadline nears.
"The time for the Department of Justice and
the FBI to bring the accusations against
James Clapper in front of a grand jury is
long overdue,” said Rep. Ted Poe, R-
Texas. “He and others who have held
administrative power must be held
accountable to the same laws that govern
the people of the United States."
“Yes, he should be prosecuted," said Rep.
Thomas Massie, R-Ky. "He admitted to
lying to Congress and was unremorseful
and flippant about it. The integrity of our
federal government is at stake because his
behavior sets the standard for the entire
intelligence community. The same goes for
James Comey, who secretly leaked
documents that he was not legally
permitted to release."
Rep. Louie Gohmert, R-Texas, meanwhile, said Clapper
“should be prosecuted for any and all lies
he told to Congress.”
Rep. James Sensenbrenner, R-Wis., who warned then-
Attorney General Eric Holder that nonprosecution would
make new limits on mass surveillance pointless because
“officials are at liberty to lie about enforcing
[the law]," also renewed his call for
charges.
"Complete and truthful testimony is
imperative for Congress to conduct
effective oversight. It is clear from the
evidence and Director Clapper’s own
 admission that he lied to the Senate
intelligence committee," said
Sensenbrenner, lead sponsor of 2015
legislation that ended the call-record
collection. "Political consideration should
not affect the Department of Justice from
pursuing this matter. That was true in 2013
when it happened and remains true today."
Katherine Hawkins, an investigator at the nonpartisan
Project On Government Oversight, said Congress used to
be better at seeking in a bipartisan manner prosecutions for
perjury, particularly after the Watergate scandal in the
1970s. She said over the years a large gap emerged
between vigorous prosecution of lies to the FBI and those
to Congress, something she blames on politics.
“It’s really unfortunate the extent to which
there is systematic nonenforcement on the
law for making false statements to
Congress, and this is only one example,”
Hawkins said. One reason for
nonenforcement, she believes, is that “very
often in high profile cases, it’s a senior
member of one of the political parties who’s
accused of saying something that’s not
true.”
The phone-record program revealed by Snowden was
unknown to many lawmakers not serving on intelligence
committees or in senior leadership posts. Congress voted
to end the automatic bulk collection with Sensenbrenner's
USA Freedom Act after some federal courts ruled against
its legality.
The NSA’s separate internet-collection programs,
underpinned by Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence
Surveillance Act, also collect domestic records, but
intelligence officials have struggled to quantify the number
placed into databases that can be searched without a
warrant. Executive branch officials argue that law is
essential to preventing terrorism and the House of
Representatives last week voted to renew Section 702
through 2023 without major changes. The legislation
cleared a key procedural vote in the Senate Tuesday.
Evan Greer, a privacy activist with the group Fight for the
Future, said Clapper’s testimony remains relevant to
debate about surveillance policy.
"James Clapper lied to Congress, and to
the American people, about U.S.
government surveillance programs that
allow agencies like the NSA and FBI to
constantly monitor all of us without due
process or any suspicion of wrongdoing,”
she said. “Allowing the government to turn
our computers and phones into spies that
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we take with us everywhere we go is
detrimental to human rights and has a
chilling effect on freedom of expression, but
the worst part is that there is zero evidence
that these programs have ever stopped a
single violent attack.“
“What makes these mass government
surveillance programs so dangerous is that
they're allowed to operate without any
meaningful accountability or oversight,"
Greer added. "The fact that James Clapper
is free to go about his life while Edward
Snowden is still exiled is a travesty of
justice."
Although lying to Congress is rarely prosecuted, there are
some recent examples.
In 2007, second-ranking Interior Department official J.
Steven Griles pleaded guilty to lying to senators about
links to lobbyist Jack Abramoff. Baseball player Miguel
Tejada pleaded guilty to lying to Congress in 2009 after
giving false testimony in 2005 about performance-
enhancing drugs. Player Roger Clemens was acquitted in
2012 of similarly lying to Congress.
Still, defense attorney Mark Zaid, who works with national
security whistleblowers seeking to lawfully come forward,
scoffed at the idea of Clapper standing trial.
“I can't fathom he would ever be
prosecuted. And I honestly don't think it's
so black or white as to a conviction. It's
more complicated than people see," he
said.
Zaid said that
“Clapper was faced with a difficult choice:
reveal classified information or respond in a
[manner] that is not accurate,” and that
although “there is no specific national
security defense” for perjury, he believes
“an argument can be made that he didn't lie
to Congress because that committee knew
the information already. [Democratic
Oregon Sen. Ron] Wyden essentially
trapped him intentionally.”
A spokesman for Clapper did not immediately respond to a
request for comment.
Since retiring last year, Clapper has taken a leading role
criticizing President Trump on television.
Clapper told CNN in December that Russian President
Vladimir Putin “knows how to handle an asset and that’s
what he’s doing with the president” after a phone call
between the leaders. In another interview last month,
Clapper said about Trump’s firing of FBI Director James
Comey,
“if it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck,
and flies like a duck, it sure looks like
obstruction to me.”
In August, Trump lashed out on Twitter after Clapper told
CNN
“I really question his ability to — his fitness
to be — in this office" and “I worry about,
frankly, access to the nuclear codes.”
Trump responded:
“James Clapper, who famously got caught
lying to Congress, is now an authority on
Donald Trump. Will he show you his
beautiful letter to me?”
Clapper said through an aide that the letter was short and
not so beautiful.
The Justice Department declined to comment on whether it
is weighing charges against Clapper. The department’s
leader, Attorney General Jeff Sessions, was criticized by
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Trump last year for being “VERY weak” on Hillary
Clinton and leakers, but the denunciations and promised
action resulted in no additional leak charges and it’s
unclear if pressure would result in a case against Clapper.
Sessions also faces accusations of giving Congress
misleading testimony, regarding his contact with Russia’s
former ambassador.
Wyden, the lawmaker to whom Clapper gave the
inaccurate answer, could not be reached for comment on
whether the former national intelligence director should
stand trial. But Wyden long has insisted that the mistruth
was no innocent mistake. He said the question was
provided beforehand, and that he asked Clapper to correct
the record, in vain, afterward.
Wyden said in a recent interview that
“Clapper’s lie about mass surveillance was
so damaging to public trust in government”
and that “Clapper said he made an error,
but that’s not how I see it. He didn’t just lie
to me, he lied to the American people.”
Wyden told the Cipher Brief that “when
politicians argue in bad faith about what
laws do, it makes it easier for skeptics to
dismiss everyone in Congress, in politics,
as a liar. It makes it possible, even
probable, for hucksters and authoritarians
to take power."
Trump Admin Planning BIGGEST Roundup Of ILLEGAL
Aliens In DECADES In ‘Sanctuary State’ Of California
By Usafeaturesmedia
Posted On January 17, 2018
“The Department of Justice is reviewing
what avenues may be available”
(National Sentinel) Law Enforcement: The Trump
administration is planning to send hundreds of immigration
agents to California as part of a massive operation to locate
and deport people in the country illegally.
As reported by the San Francisco Chronicle, the “massive
sweep” is intended to send a message to the state and other
“sanctuary cities” that the administration is serious about
enforcing federal immigration laws.
“U.S. immigration officials have begun
preparing for a major sweep in San
Francisco and other Northern California
cities in which federal officers would look to
arrest more than 1,500 undocumented
people while sending a message that
immigration policy will be enforced in the
sanctuary state, according to a source
familiar with the operation,” the paper
reported.
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“The campaign, centered in the Bay Area,
could happen within weeks, and is
expected to become the biggest
enforcement action of its kind under
President Trump, said the source, who
requested anonymity because the plans
have not been made public,” the paper
added.
Democrat-dominated California passed “sanctuary state”
legislation last fall, which forbids state and local law
enforcement officials from cooperating with federal
immigration authorities. Gov. Jerry Brown signed it and it
took effect Jan. 1.
Federal immigration officials including ICE Director
Thomas Homan criticized the law and called a dangerous
precedent for other states.
He has also called on the Justice Department to look into
ways it could hold officials of sanctuary jurisdictions
criminally liable. On Tuesday Department of Homeland
Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielson confirmed during a
Senate hearing that her agency had indeed been in contact
with federal prosecutors to see what legal actions could be
taken against local officials who implement and uphold
sanctuary laws.
“The Department of Justice is reviewing
what avenues may be available,” Nielsen
revealed to Senate Judiciary Committee
members.
 REPORT: Pakistanis Made ‘Unauthorized Access’ To
House Servers, Pretended To Be Lawmakers —
Dems Then Lied About Breach
By Joshua Caplan
Wednesday, January 17, 2018

A new report confirms Democrat IT
aides from Pakistan made
“unauthorized access,” to House
servers while pretending to be members
of Congress. The Daily Caller‘s Luke
Rosiak reports the aides in question are
Imran Awan, his Ukrainian-born wife
Hina Alvi and brothers Jamal and Abid
Awan. After an internal investigation,
House Democrat leadership then lied
about its findings to members, claiming
the incident was “solely a matter of
theft.”
according to the briefing and other sources.
[…]
When acting on the findings, Democratic leadership
appear to have misrepresented the issue to their own
members as solely a matter of theft, a comparison of the
investigators’ findings with Democrats’ recollections and a
committee’s public statement shows, leading 44
Democrats to not conduct protective measures typically
taken after a breach — including informing constituents
whose personal information may have been exposed.
As reported by The Gateway Pundit‘s Cristina Laila, we
first learned about the breach during a live-streamed
hearing featuring Rosiak and Judicial Watch president
Tom Fitton last year, where it was revealed Imran Awan
was accessing House servers while in Pakistan.

“I’ve seen records indicating that [Imran

Awan] spent three to even more months
per year in Pakistan. I’ve also seen emails
that indicated that he was doing his job
remotely in Pakistan,” Rosiak told Rep.
Louie Gohmert (R-TX).
“So he had access in doing the job in
Rosiak writes: providing security for House members from
Pakistan? Seriously?” a flabbergasted
House investigators concluded that Gohmert asked, who later called the
Democratic IT aides made unauthorized news “staggering”.
access to congressional servers in 2016,
allegedly accessing the data of members
for whom they did not work, logging in as
members of Congress themselves, and
covering their tracks, according to
a presentation summarizing the findings of
a four-month internal probe.
Their behavior mirrored a “classic method
for insiders to exfiltrate data from an
organization,” and they continued even
after orders to stop, the briefing materials
allege. There are indications that numerous
members’ data may have been secretly
residing not on their designated servers,
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 Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL) employed the
Awan brothers, who were given over $4 million dollars
during the course of their employment, some of which was
paid after they were accused of breaching House servers.

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 Former ‘High-Level’ CIA Agent Warns:
Deep State ‘Terrified;’ Wants Trump ‘TAKEN OUT’
By Usafeaturesmedia
Posted On January 17, 2018

It’s possible that Trump and his senior staff are aware of
such efforts He said he differentiates between the

“Deep State and shadow government.”

(National Sentinel) Targeted: In what many are calling a
chilling warning, a former high-level CIA agent said
Tuesday that “Deep State” operatives are so fearful that
President Donald J. Trump’s agenda will succeed they
want him “taken out.”
Kevin Shipp was an agency terrorism expert assigned as a
protective agent for the director of Central Intelligence.
According to his biography, he was also a
counterintelligence investigator, team leader protecting
sensitive CIA assets from assassination, manager of high
risk Counter Terrorism Center protective operations, lead
instructor for members of allied governments, internal staff
security investigator and a polygraph examiner tasked with
protecting the CIA from foreign agent penetration.
“There are some people, and there is no
doubt about it, that are running scared right
now,” he continued.
“Donald Trump is questioning the Deep
State and the shadow government. He’s
rocking that place left and right. The news
media is terrified of that,” he said.
“Their editors are telling them to attack him
just like they are attacking him from the
inside. It’s just dirty pool because they want
him taken out,” he added.
This isn’t the first time it’s been mentioned that the Deep
State wants to ‘take out’ the president.
Last summer pastor Rodney Howard-Browne said a top
GOP lawmaker said the same thing, adding,
“There’s nothing we can do to stop it.”
Watch:

He is also the recipient of two CIA Meritorious Unit

Citations, three Exceptional Performance Awards and a
Medallion for overseas covert operations.

In an interview with Greg Hunter of USAWatchdog.com,

he said that Deep State figures were “terrified” of Trump.

“They are terrified, they are terrified right

now. They did not expect Trump to do
what he is doing now,” he said.
“The reason they tried to get him even
before he was elected is they knew he was
uncontrollable, and they knew if he got in
there, they would not be able to manipulate
him, and that is exactly what’s happening,”
Shipp added.

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It’s possible that Trump and his senior staff are aware of
such efforts. The Intercept reported last month the White
House was considering ‘private spies’ of its own, to
counter Deep State operatives.
The plan, reportedly, was developed by Blackwater
founder Erik Prince and a retired CIA officer — with
assistance from Oliver North, a former Marine lieutenant
colonel caught up in the 1980s-era Iran-Contra scandal.
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“The sources say the plans have been
pitched to the White House as a means of
countering ‘deep state’ enemies in the
intelligence community seeking to
undermine Donald Trump’s
presidency,” The Intercept reported.
 HOW AWFUL: RINO Jeff Flake Slams “Moral
Vandalism” Of Trump – Defends Unhinged Media And
Obama On Senate Floor (VIDEO)
By Jim Hoft
Wednesday, January 17, 2018

On Sunday RINO Jeff Flake compared
President Trump to Joseph Stalin on ABC’s
This Week.
Flake believes he’s a brilliant historian.
On Wednesday morning this idiot took time on the senate
floor to trash the Republican president.
What the hell?
Flake slammed the “moral vandalism”
of President Trump and defended the
unhinged liberal media and Barack
Obama.
You just can’t make this stuff up!

Flake also announced he was going to deliver a speech on

the senate floor on Wednesday comparing Trump to Stalin.

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 Trump To CNN’s Whiny Acosta
At White House: ‘OUT!’
By Usafeaturesmedia
Posted On January 17, 2018
“I guess Acosta has conveniently forgotten
how Obama treated journalists.”
(National Sentinel) Fake News: President Donald J.
Trump ejected problematic CNN reporter Jim Acosta from
the White House on Tuesday after he persisted in asking
about comments related to immigration discussions last
week.
Trump was meeting with Kazakstan President Nursultan
Nazarbayev in the Oval Office when Jim Acosta kept
hounding him,
“Did did you say that you wanted more
people from Norway?”
At that, Trump said,
“I want them to come in from everywhere,
everywhere. Thank you very much.” …
“OUT.”
Acosta took to Twitter to complain about the president’s
actions and other alleged actions by White House staff to
obstruct him from attempting to embarrass the president
further in front of a foreign leader.
“What occurred reminded me of something
I would see in a different country. Certainly
not at the WH. Certainly not in the U.S.,” he
tweeted.
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“When I tried to follow up on this in the
Oval Office, Trump told me to get ‘out.’ We
then went to the Roosevelt Room where
WH aides obstructed us from asking
questions,” Acosta complained.
Though Acosta claimed that he’d never seen a president
behave that way towards reporters, Trump supporters
pointed out that President Obama used the Justice
Department to investigate scores of reporters over alleged
leaks.
The outsized effort drew a stern rebuke from journalist
groups.
“In the 30 years since the [Justice]
Department issued guidelines governing its
subpoena practice as it relates to phone
records from journalists, none of us can
remember an instance where such an
overreaching dragnet for news gathering
materials was deployed by the department,
particularly without notice to the affected
reporters or an opportunity to seek judicial
review,” the Reporters Committee for
Freedom of the Press, which represents
more than 40 major news organizations,
wrote in a letter to then-Attorney General
Eric H. Holder Jr.
Bruce Brown, the committee’s executive director, and
Gregg Leslie, its legal defense director, said the Obama
administration was redefining the country’s long-standing
constitutional commitment to freedom of the press.
The Freedom of the Press Foundation noted further that
Obama used the Espionage Act to put a “record number”
of reporters’ sources in jail.
“Between 1917 and 2009, only one person
was convicted under the Espionage Act for
leaking to a news organization,” the
organization said in a three-part report.
“Since I’ve been in office, my attitude has
been zero tolerance for these kinds of
leaks and speculation,” Obama said in
June 2012. “Now we have mechanisms in
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place where, if we can root out folks who
have leaked, they will suffer consequences.
“In some cases, it’s criminal. These are
criminal acts when they release information
like this. And we will conduct thorough
investigations, as we have in the past,” he
added.
Noted The National Sentinel‘s editor-in-chief J. D. Heyes,
“I guess Acosta has conveniently forgotten
how Obama treated journalists.”
 Alyssa Milano Blasts Trump Supporters
As ‘More Unamerican’ Than Dreamers
By Jim Hoft
Wednesday, January 17, 2018

President Donald Trump sent two tweets that infuriated far

left actress Alyssa Milano.
She went completely nuts, conflating Republicans with the
KKK and declaring people who
“continue to defend and support this
President in all his racist horror, are more
unamerican than any of those you are
trying to deport.”
Reactions:
Meaning, DREAMers – since immigration is the hot topic
of the day.
Check this out…

Milano is painfully unaware that the

KKK was formed by Democrats.
She needs to grow up.
Enter Milano:
Americans are far better off under
Trump than Hillary Clinton any day of
the week!

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 Report: FBI Agent Shared Russia
Probe Information With Christopher Steele
Chuck Ross - Reporter
12:21 PM 01/17/2018
An FBI agent shared the name of former Trump campaign
adviser George Papadopoulos with Trump dossier author
Christopher Steele during a meeting in early October 2016.
That new bit of information was revealed in a column
published Wednesday by Washington Post columnist
David Ignatius.
Ignatius reports that Steele, a former MI6 agent, met with
an old FBI contact in Rome around Oct. 1, 2016 to share
findings from his investigation into Donald Trump’s and
the Trump campaign’s associations with the Russian
government.
“At this meeting, the FBI official asked
Steele if he had ever heard of
Papadopoulos,” reports Ignatius, who cited
an official familiar with the meeting as his
source.
WATCH: Controversies Around Mueller’s
Investigation:
According to Ignatius, Steele had not heard of
Papadopoulos, a little-known energy consultant who joined
the Trump campaign as a volunteer adviser in March 2016.
He pleaded guilty in October to lying to the FBI about his
contacts with Russian nationals while working on the
campaign.
Ignatius’ report reveals for the first time that an FBI agent
shared information about the bureau’s investigation with
Steele, who operates a private research firm in London.
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The former British spy was hired in May 2016 by
Washington, D.C.-based opposition research firm Fusion
GPS to investigate Trump’s activities in Russia.
Two months later, he met for the first time with an FBI
contact in London. By that time, Steele had compiled the
first memo of his dossier. That document alleged that the
Kremlin had blackmail material on Trump and that he had
been cultivated as an asset for five years.
Trump and the White House have vehemently denied
Steele’s claims.
The dossier is at the center of a heated partisan dispute.
Republican lawmakers have questioned how important
Steele’s allegations were to the FBI’s counterintelligence
probe and whether the FBI vetted the ex-spy’s information.
Republicans have also questioned the FBI’s relationship
with Steele. It has been reported that when the met with
Steele in October, he was offered $50,000 if he could
corroborate information about the Trump campaign’s ties
to Russia. The New York Times has reported that Steele
was never paid, while CNN reported last year that he was
compensated for expenses. (RELATED: Here’s How
Much The FBI Planned To Pay Christopher Steele)
Democrats have accused Republicans and the White House
of attempting to smear Steele and the dossier in order to
detract from Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s
investigation.
The possibility that the FBI shared information about its
Russia investigation with Steele was raised last week with
the release of a transcript of Fusion GPS founder Glenn
Simpson’s Senate Judiciary Committee testimony.
Simpson told investigators in the Aug. 22 interview that
the FBI believed Steele’s allegations to be credible
because the bureau “had other intelligence about this
matter from an internal Trump campaign source.”
(RELATED: 7 Revelations From Glenn Simpson’s
Senate Testimony)
News outlets jumped on the claim and interpreted it to
mean that the FBI had a mole from within the Trump
campaign who provided information about possible
collusion.
But a source close to Fusion GPS clarified Simpson’s
testimony, saying that he misspoke. Simpson was actually
referring to the Papadopoulos connection.
It was not entirely clear from Simpson’s transcript how he
would have heard about the Papadopoulos connection by
the time of the Senate interview.
The FBI had received information about Papadopoulos
from the Australian government.
The New York Times reported last month that during a
booze-filled conversation at a London bar in May 2016,
Papadopoulos told Alexander Downer, the Australian
ambassador to the United Kingdom, that he had learned
that the Russian government obtained Clinton campaign
emails.
A month earlier, Papadopoulos met with a London-based
professor named Joseph Mifsud who claimed to have been
told by Russian government operatives that the
government had “thousands” of Clinton emails. The timing
is significant because it was before hacks of the DNC and
Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta had been made
public.
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The looming question is whether Mifsud was being
truthful to Papadopoulos and whether the campaign aide
informed the Trump team about the possible Clinton dirt.
Papadopoulos’ claims to Downer were not immediately
shared with the FBI. The Australian government only
decided to share the information with the bureau in July
2016, after WikiLeaks released the DNC’s hacked
emails. The FBI opened it counterintelligence investigation
into possible collusion shortly after.
It was reported last month that the information about
Papadopoulos was one of the sparks for the FBI’s
investigation. A trip that Carter Page, another Trump
campaign adviser, made to Moscow in July 2016 was also
one of the catalysts for the probe. Page is accused in the
dossier of being the campaign’s liaison to the Kremlin for
the alleged collusion operation. Page has vehemently
denied the charge.
It is possible that information from Papadopoulos did end
up in the dossier. During the campaign, he was in contact
with Sergei Millian, a Belarusian-American businessman
who is reported to be one of the sources for some of the
most jarring claims in the dossier. (RELATED: George
Papadopoulos’s Fascinating Link To The Trump
Dossier)
 Flake To Colleagues: 'No Longer Can We Compound
Attacks On Truth' By Trump 'With
Our Silent Acquiescence'
By Bridget Johnson
January 17, 2018
Sen. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) speaks on the Senate floor on Jan. 17, 2017
at the Capitol in Washington. (Senate TV via AP)
WASHINGTON -- Sen. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) admonished
his colleagues on the Senate floor today to start taking
President Trump to task for false statements and branding
of media as fake news, comparing the latter to the actions
of dictators.
Flake declared that
"without truth, and a principled fidelity to
truth and to shared facts... our democracy
will not last."
"2017 was a year which saw the truth –
objective, empirical, evidence-based truth -
- more battered and abused than any other
in the history of our country, at the hands of
the most powerful figure in our government.
It was a year which saw the White House
enshrine 'alternative facts' into the
American lexicon, as justification for what
used to be known simply as good old-
fashioned falsehoods," he said. "It was the
year in which an unrelenting daily assault
on the constitutionally protected free press
was launched by that same White House,
an assault that is as unprecedented as it is
unwarranted. 'The enemy of the people'
was what the president of the United States
called the free press in 2017."
The senator called it
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"a testament to the condition of our
democracy that our own president uses
words infamously spoken by Josef Stalin to
describe his enemies."
"It bears noting that so fraught with malice
was the phrase 'enemy of the people' that
even Nikita Khrushchev forbade its use,
telling the Soviet Communist Party that the
phrase had been introduced by Stalin for
the purpose of 'annihilating such
individuals' who disagreed with the
supreme leader," he continued. "This alone
should be a source of great shame for us in
this body, especially for those of us in the
president’s party. For they are shameful,
repulsive statements."
Trump tweeted in February that the media
“is the enemy of the American people.”
Flake noted that President Trump
"has it precisely backward ... the free press
is the despot’s enemy, which makes the
free press the guardian of democracy."
"When a figure in power reflexively calls
any press that doesn’t suit him 'fake news,'
it is that person who should be the figure of
suspicion, not the press," he added, noting
80 journalists around the world were killed
in connection with their jobs last year and
21 reporters are currently imprisoned on
"false news" charges.
"So powerful is the presidency that the
damage done by the sustained attack on
the truth will not be confined to the
president’s time in office. Here in America,
we do not pay obeisance to the powerful –
in fact, we question the powerful most
ardently – to do so is our birthright and a
requirement of our citizenship -- and so, we
know well that no matter how powerful, no
 president will ever have dominion over
objective reality," Flake said.
"No politician will ever get to tell us what
the truth is and is not. And anyone who
presumes to try to attack or manipulate the
truth to his own purposes should be made
to realize the mistake and be held to
account. That is our job here. And that is
just as Madison, Hamilton, and Jay would
have it."
Flake told his colleagues that "no longer can we compound
attacks on truth with our silent acquiescence" and "no
longer can we turn a blind eye or a deaf ear to these
assaults on our institutions."
Trump has promised to announce
“most corrupt and dishonest” media awards
today. Flake said it "beggars belief that an
American president would engage in such
a spectacle."
The senator urged lawmakers to unite
"to turn back these attacks, right these
wrongs, repair this damage, restore
reverence for our institutions, and prevent
further moral vandalism."
"Together, united in the purpose to do our
jobs under the Constitution, without regard
to party or party loyalty, let us resolve to be
allies of the truth -- and not partners in its
destruction," he said.
Flake counted in his examples of falsehoods
"pernicious fantasies about rigged elections
and massive voter fraud, which are as
destructive as they are inaccurate, to the
effort to undermine confidence in the
federal courts, federal law enforcement, the
intelligence community and the free press,
to perhaps the most vexing untruth of all –
the supposed 'hoax' at the heart of special
counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia
investigation."
As "respect for freedom of the press has
always been one of our most important
exports," Flake then gave examples of
global dictators branding news they don't
like as false, including Syrian President
Bashar al-Assad brushing off an Amnesty
International report that some 13,000
people had been killed at one of his military
prisons as a product of a "fake news era."
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Other examples in the "disgraceful... feedback loop"
included Rodrigo Duterte in the Philippines, Nicolas
Maduro in Venezuela, and leaders in Myanmar and
Singapore.
"Not only has the past year seen an
American president borrow despotic
language to refer to the free press, but it
seems he has in turn inspired dictators and
authoritarians with his own language. This
is reprehensible," Flake said. "We are not
in a 'fake news' era, as Bashar Assad says.
We are, rather, in an era in which the
authoritarian impulse is reasserting itself, to
challenge free people and free societies,
everywhere."
The senator acknowledged that
"any of us who have spent time in public
life have endured news coverage we felt
was jaded or unfair."
"But in our positions, to employ even idle
threats to use laws or regulations to stifle
criticism is corrosive to our democratic
institutions. Simply put: it is the press’s
obligation to uncover the truth about power.
It is the people’s right to criticize their
government. And it is our job to take it,"
Flake said. "...We are a mature democracy:
It is well past time that we stop excusing or
ignoring – or worse, endorsing -- these
attacks on the truth. For if we compromise
the truth for the sake of our politics, we are
lost."
The junior senator from Arizona, who is not running for
re-election this year, was not alone as the state's senior
senator, John McCain (R-Ariz.), penned an op-ed in the
Washington Post today calling on Trump to stop attacking
the free press.
"Whether Trump knows it or not, these
efforts are being closely watched by foreign
leaders who are already using his words as
cover as they silence and shutter one of
the key pillars of democracy," McCain
wrote. "...While administration officials often
condemn violence against reporters
abroad, Trump continues his unrelenting
attacks on the integrity of American
journalists and news outlets. This has
provided cover for repressive regimes to
follow suit. The phrase 'fake news' —
granted legitimacy by an American
president — is being used by autocrats to
silence reporters, undermine political
 opponents, stave off media scrutiny and speech, par for the course for daytime speeches not
mislead citizens." attached to legislation, and spoke in support of the Arizona
Republican afterward.
Two senators -- Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) and Dick
Durbin (D-Ill.) -- were on the Senate floor during Flake's
.

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 Conspiracy Theorists: CNN Refuses
To Believe Doctor Who Said Trump Is Physically Fit
Paul Joseph Watson
January 17, 2018

Case closed now.” The obvious response:

“The Q’s about fitness for office are
serious. Someone could be sharp as a
tack, but still unfit.”

Brian Stelter, who literally rolled his eyes at

questions over Hillary’s health, just won’t
let it go.

Having demonized anyone who questioned Hillary

Clinton’s health as she coughed and stumbled her way
through the campaign trail as “conspiracy theorists,” CNN
is now taking on that very role by refusing to believe a
doctor whose tests found Donald Trump to be in perfect
physical and mental health.

After weeks of media speculation that Trump had

“dementia,” or was in some other way unfit to be
president, a long shot narrative that some on the left hoped
would lead to his removal under the 25th amendment, Dr.
Ronny Jackson put paid to all that yesterday by revealing
that Trump performed “exceedingly well” in a cognitive
test.

Jackson added that the test wasn’t even required and that
Trump himself insisted upon taking it before achieving a
perfect score.

The doctor’s report couldn’t be attacked for
being biased or partisan either, given that
he has been a White House physician to
both George W. Bush and Barack Obama.
However, this didn’t stop CNN from
continuing to suggest that Trump may be
unfit or that the doctor may be covering
something up.
This is particularly ironic given that Stelter previously
dismissed “conspiracy theories” about Hillary Clinton’s
health as “reckless speculation” and literally rolled his
eyes at the mere discussion of the topic.
His claims are also completely demolished by the fact that
Dr. Jackson concluded Trump was in “excellent” cardiac
health and had “incredible genes.”

CNN’s Brian Stelter tweeted, But that didn’t stop Jim Acosta – CNN’s resident far-left
activist pretending to be an impartial reporter – from
“Here’s how the next few hours will go. jumping on the conspiracy bandwagon as well.
Trump supporters will say “Concerns about
Trump’s mental health were always absurd.
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 “I can promise there is nothing that I am
withholding from you. I can tell you, I’ve
done the last four or five of these,” Jackson
replied. “I’ve been involved in probably the
last six or seven of these and this is hands
down more information that has been put
forth by any other assessment to date.”

No matter how much impartial evidence is presented to

prove that Trump is physically and mentally fit, CNN just
refuses to let go of the fake news that he is mentally
impaired or sick, proving once again how their so-called
neutrality as a news network is a distant memory.
During Tuesday’s press briefing, Acosta asked Dr. Jackson
if he was hiding information that contradicted Trump’s
clean bill of health.

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 Cory Booker Uses
Misleading Terror Data To Attack Trump
Booker Implies He Wants DHS To Track Down ‘Far-Right Extremists’
Who Hold ‘Bigoted, Hateful Ideas About Minorities’
Scott Greer | Daily Caller
January 17, 2018

American with no discernible ideology outside of hatred

for religion.

Anti-government activists who appeared not to have been

motivated by hate for minorities committed a good portion
of the violent incidents the study categorized as right wing
terror — contrary to what Booker argued on Tuesday. The
GAO study also includes prison slayings carried out by
white supremacist gangs as cases of domestic terror.

Another problem French found with the study was its

New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker tore into
Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen
Nielsen on the supposed misdeeds of
the Trump administration during a
Tuesday Senate Judiciary Committee
hearing.
One of the particular points of contention for Booker was
how the White House allegedly ignores America’s white
supremacists, whom the senator argued were more
dangerous than Islamic militants.
glaring omission of left-wing terrorism. The National
Review writer noted three incidents of politically-
motivated police murders committed by black nationalists
over the last three years.
Those incidents would appear to count as violent
extremism, but the GAO report leaves out those and many
other incidents in its findings, giving America the
erroneous impression that only jihadis and right-wing
extremists engage in political murder.

The New Jersey Democrat cited a 2017 report published

by the Government Accountability Office that purports to
show that out of 85 extremist attacks that resulted in victim
deaths since 9/11, 73 percent were committed by right-
wingers.

In Booker’s dramatic monologue, he claimed that all of

these attackers held “bigoted, hateful ideas about
minorities” and implied he wanted 73 percent of the
DHS’s time spent tracking down these far-right extremists.

However, there are serious issues with the GAO report that
Booker used to argue white supremacists are the biggest
terror threat to the nation. One of the major problems with
the study is what incidents it lumps in with right-wing
terror.
The biggest error in GAO’s data on white supremacist
terror was caught by National Review’s David French last
April. The Umpqua Community College shooting, one of
the deadliest shootings the GAO attributed to a white
supremacist, was actually committed by an African-
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It is interesting that Booker went with the 73 percent figure
from the study instead of the number of people killed by
white supremacists. The GAO reports that while right-
wing extremists were responsible for more incidents,
Islamists killed more people on American soil.
But the study fails to adequately assess the threat of
Islamic terror by leaving out incidents without victim
fatalities and foiled plots. (RELATED: FACT CHECK:
Is The Far-Right Largely Responsible For Extremist
Violence?)
For instance, within the study’s time frame, Islamists
committed two notable criminal acts that fortunately did
not leave any innocent people dead. In 2015, two jihadi
gunmen attempted to storm a Muhammad drawing event in
Texas with the intent of murder. Both gunmen were shot
and killed by police before they were able to harm anyone.
(RELATED: FBI Undercover Agent Was In Car
Behind Terrorists And Failed To Stop Attack)
In October 2016, a Islamic militant planted bombs in
multiple locations throughout New York and New Jersey.
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Three of the explosives went off, one of which detonated
in Manhattan and left 31 people injured. (RELATED:
Afghan Immigrant Found Guilty Of New York Terror
Bombing Spree)
The study fails to mention such cases and others that show
the pervasiveness of Islamic extremism because they did
not result in any fatalities, leaving one with the likely
impression Booker took away that right-wing extremists
are the far greater threat.
But when you look closer at the data, the picture isn’t as
clear cut as the New Jersey Democrat would have us
believe.
 Movie Director Offers $100K To Trump’s
Charity Of Choice If President Is Accurately ‘Weighed’
Mac Slavo
January 17th, 2018

much leaner than president Donald Trump. Those numbers

are likely accurate.

The director of the movie “Guardians of the Galaxy” is

offering $100,000 to the charity of Donald Trump’s choice
if the president gets on a scale and is weighed
“accurately.” James Gunn is making this offer because
he’s personally offended that the doctor who evaluated the
president said Trump is in perfect health.
Fat shaming is only OK when done by the left apparently.
We wonder how many leftists would complain if someone
wanted to fat shame the obviously pudgy Hillary Clinton,
put her on a scale, and her publicly broadcast her weight. But liberals seem overly offended that Trump is in good
health. But some at least called Gunn out for his offense at
the president’s weight.

According to the Hill, Gunn made the Tweet after looking

up the weight of a professional baseball player who
happens to be Trump’s exact height. (Someone has no idea
that muscle weighs more than fat.)
Gunn then tweeted a photo of MLB star Albert Pujols
alongside Trump, comparing their heights and weights as
listed in Trump’s physical exam results. Trump’s White House doctor, Navy Rear Adm. Dr. Ronny
Jackson, declared the president is in “excellent” health.
Let’s break it down for the liberals who don’t understand
Jackson fielded questions at Tuesday’s White House press
science. A lean person with more muscle might weight
briefing for roughly an hour. Trump was listed at 75
more than somebody who’s not so lean because muscle is
inches tall and weighing 239 pounds, according to the
denser than fat (like iron is denser than water). Your
exam results.
muscle accounts for about 30-55% of your bodyweight,
and a pound of muscle will be about 4 times smaller than a
pound of fat. And let’s call it like it is, shall we? Pujols is
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 “His cardiac performance during his And that’s probably why liberals are so upset. It’s going
physical exam was very good, he continues to be next to impossible for the left to remove Trump from
to enjoy the significant, long-term cardiac office under the guise of the 25th amendment – like they
and overall health benefits that come from so desperately want since their “Russian election
a lifetime of abstinence from tobacco and meddling” investigation is blowing up in their faces.
alcohol,” Jackson said. “All data indicates
the president is healthy and will remain so
for the duration of his presidency,” he
added.
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 Video: CNN, MSMBC Will Not Accept
Presidential Doctor’s Analysis Of Trump
“He SEEMED LIKE A Trump FANBOY”
Steve Watson | Infowars.COM
January 17, 2018

“I was just chuckling at how energetic he

was, not what he was saying about the
president.”

His panel then went on to claim that Dr. Jackson was

actually LYING:

“And so, do I believe every single number

there? Not exactly,” said New York
Times columnist Frank Bruni.
“He seemed like a Trump fanboy if you
Liberals in the mainstream media are so think about it yeah,” Bruni continued.
deranged that they have accused the
“I just thought it was very, very telling that
Presidential doctor, who was also
he explicitly said that he wasn’t going to do
Barack Obama’s physician while he was
what he called a cognitive test, but the
in office, of being a ‘Trump fanboy’ after
president wanted him to do the test and
declaring the president to be in good
then go out and report on it. That is so, so
physical and mental health.
telling,” added CNN’s Dana Bash.
Following the announcement by Presidential Physician and
In addition to Trump’s mental health analysis, the
Navy Rear Admiral Dr. Ronny Jackson that President
deranged leftists also refuse to believe his physical
Trump was in excellent condition for his age, CNN and
analysis, even citing the ‘girther’ conspiracy floating
MSNBC went off the rails with conspiracy theories.
around the internet.
CNN’s Don Lemon literally laughed at Dr Jackson’s
“When he said 239 pounds — I know I’m
analysis.
being a ‘girther,’ but, come on,” Lemon
stated.
“Sorry. Clean bill of health. Incredible
genes, right,” he snarked at the camera:
Over on MSNBC, the Morning Joe hosts, who are to
receive a ‘First Amendment Award’ for ‘Responsible
Journalism’ if you can believe that, also refused to believe
Trump’s medical report.

Lemon later tried to caveat his cackling, stating

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 “I know somebody who is 6’3″ and weighs
close to 239 pounds. And all I can tell you
is this — if that’s what 239 pounds looked
like — I would weigh 170 pounds. So, yes,
I have great respect for people who have
great respect for this doctor. But if that’s
what 6’3″, 239 pounds looks like — that’s a
shock to me.” said Joe Scarborough.
“I’m not sure if it makes me feel better that
this doctor says he has no cognitive issues.
It makes me feel worse and more worried
.
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for the country,” Mika Brzezinski chimed in,
adding that “taking the doctor at his word,”
his conclusions were “truly frightening.”
“We won’t question the doctor,”
Scarborough added, before doing exactly
that by stating “I will say on his mental
sharpness, if that is in fact the case, and
medically, perhaps, that is, he has shocked
and surprised a lot of people who have
worked around him for the past several
years who have been saying that he is not.”
 President Trump Unveils
Winners Of 2017 Fake News Awards
By Nicholas Fondacaro
January 17, 2018 11:15 PM EST

holidays) and barred him from ever again

reporting on Trump.

CNN’s first win showed up at number three. In this case,

CNN's Manu Raju shouted from the hilltops

that Donald Trump Jr. was in possession of
the hacked WikiLeaks e-mails long before
they were released to the public. It didn’t
take long for The Washington Post (and
others) to blow the doors off the story
and prove CNN was being anything but
When President Trump announced them in early January, truthful.
many in the liberal media thought that the Fake News
Awards were a bluff and he wouldn’t go through with In the end, Raju and colleague Jeremy Herb kept their
them. But having been previously postponed, Trump positions.
unveiled the “winners” Wednesday night. Out of the top
10 instances of fake news, CNN was sloppy enough to win
four awards with the top spot going to The New York
Times. The awards twice noted a Media Research Center
study that showed 90 percent of the media’s coverage of
him was negative.

According to the President,

The New York Times columnist and

soothsayer economist Paul Krugman
produced the number one fake news
story on election night when he feverishly
proclaimed:
“If the question is when markets will
recover, a first-pass answer is never."
Looking back at this prediction on the day the stock
market closed over 26,000 for the first time ever and Apple
announced major investments in the U.S. due to the GOP
tax cuts it’s easy to see Krugman’s ridiculousness.
Number two was ABC’s credibility
shattering report by investigative
correspondent Brian Ross, who excitedly
yet falsely claimed that former National
Security Adviser Michael Flynn agreed to
testify that candidate Trump directed him to
contact the Russians. ABC President
James Goldston was so furious that he
suspended Ross for a month (over the
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Time magazine came in at number four
with their lie about Trump having Martin
Luther King Jr.’s bust removed from the
Oval Office.
This wild claim came just two days into Trump’s
presidency. Therefore, the media were so eager to smear
him that many journalists didn’t search for the truth before
they ran with it.
To round out the top five, Trump selected
Washington Post reporter Dave Weigel
who tweeted out a deceptive picture of a
Trump rally in Pensacola, Florida.
He claimed very few people showed up to see the
President speak but the picture was from hours before the
place ended up packed.
CNN won back-to-back awards as they took spots six and
seven. First,
CNN pushed a deceptively edited video
that purported to show Trump crassly
dumping fish food into a koi pound on his
visit to Japan. Of course, they didn’t show
that Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was the
first to dump the food. Then the outlet
claimed former Press Secretary Anthony
Scaramucci had a secret meeting with a
Russian, heads rolled as three CNN
reporters were fired for this offense.
The eighth award went to the radical
Newsweek, who fabricated an
international handshake snub out of thin
air. The even ran this loud headline:
“WATCH DONALD TRUMP HANDSHAKE
REJECTED BY POLISH FIRST LADY IN
HILARIOUSLY AWKWARD EXCHANGE.”
CNN’s fourth award came at spot nine
when their anonymous sources falsely
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claimed that former FBI Director James
Comey would “refute” Trump’s claim that
he was told three times he wasn’t under
investigation. And when they were proven
wrong, CNN issued a pathetic “correction”
(with the story's byline featuring chief political analyst
Gloria Borger and The Lead host Jake Tapper).
The New York Times bookended the top
ten with a false claim that the Trump
administration was trying to hide a climate
change report. The paper claimed the
document was leaked to them by people
who were afraid it would be “suppressed,”
but in reality, it had been online for months.
Along with a Trump tweet about the Russia
investigation, the awards concluded by listing ten
accomplishments that weren’t getting enough airtime.
 Politicized Medicine: CNN’s Sanjay Gupta Diagnoses Prez
With HEART DISEASE While ON-AIR,
Without An ACTUAL Exam
By Usafeaturesmedia
Posted On January 17, 2018
“So the president has heart disease” attack or something like that — within a certain number of
years,” he added.

Gupta made his diagnosis based on Trump’s coronary

calcium scores going back 10 years.

“And you see the trajectory of President Trump’s numbers

— no doubt, and I think Dr. Jackson alluded to this
because of his diet and because of his lack of exercise, that
would be part of the reason those numbers have likely
gone up,” Gupta said.
(National Sentinel) Guessing Game: CNN medical
“And they have continued to go up despite the fact that
advisor Dr. Sanjay Gupta on Wednesday diagnosed
he’s been on medication. So the president has heart
President Donald J. Trump with “heart disease” on the air
disease. Those numbers qualify him for having heart
based on a single lab result, and without ever examining
disease. And it clearly needs a plan to prevent some kind
him physically.
of heart problem down the road,” he added.
The diagnosis goes against that of Trump’s actual
A score of 100 is generally concerning for cardiologists —
physician, Navy Rear Adm. Dr. Ronny Jackson, who
Dr. Gupta is a neurosurgeon — and Trump’s coronary
proclaimed the president on Tuesday to be in excellent
calcium score is 133.
physical and mental health.

“The presence and extent of coronary calcium are first and

“When you look at the findings you just put up there,
foremost markers of the extent of atherosclerosis within
Alisyn — this coronary calcium score is a score a lot of
the coronary arteries,” says the website DocsOpinion.com.
cardiologists use to try and be predictive and be
“Nonetheless, it is important to understand that the
proactive,” Gupta said on CNN‘s “New Day” with Alisyn
coronary calcium score does not necessarily reflect the
Camarota.
severity of narrowing (the degree of stenosis).”
“And if the number gets up over a hundred, that is
Jackson put Trump through a cardio-stress test, which is
concerning to a lot of doctors. It’s concerning because you
designed to diagnose stenosis, as well as an
start to say if you do nothing different, if things don’t
echocardiogram.
change, you can start to predict the likelihood that some
sort of heart event, some sort of cardiac event — a heart
Jackson said no problems were found.
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 Michael Wolff's 'Fire And Fury'
Fiction To Be Produced As TV Series
By P.J. Gladnick
January 17, 2018 8:16 PM EST
Good news for all those anti-Trumpers out there who
couldn't get enough of Michael Wolff's work of fiction,
Fire and Fury. The book (novel) will be produced as a TV
series according to an exclusive January 17 report in the
Hollywood Reporter. Of course, it is pretty much a given
that the portrayal of President Donald Trump will end up
being so over the top divorced from reality that it will
inadvertently end up as a comedy series where much of the
audience will laugh at, not with, the producers of the show.
Here are the details provided by reporters Lesley Goldberg
and Andy Lewis about a TV series that is doomed to be
outdated by the time it airs:
Michael Wolff's controversial Fire and
Fury: Inside the Trump White House is
coming to television.
Endeavor Content — the financing and sales arm formed
in October between sister companies William Morris
Endeavor and IMG — has purchased film and television
rights to the No. 1 best-selling book. The massive deal is
said to be in the seven-figure range.
Endeavor Content plans to adapt the
book as a TV series. A network is not
yet attached, as Endeavor will now
begin shopping the project.
Wolff will executive produce the series, with veteran
Channel 4 and BBC executive Michael Jackson — now
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CEO of indie producer Two Cities Television — also on
board to produce.
Will Wolff also serve as fact checker?
Fire and Fury comes to the small screen after HBO
canceled a planned series based on the 2016 election in
what was poised to be a Game Change sequel of sorts. The
pay cabler scrapped the project after sexual harassment
allegations emerged regarding source material co-author
Mark Halperin, who was poised to pen the script alongside
John Heilemann. That opened the door for a Trump tell-all,
with demand high for Fire and Fury given Wolff’s
cinematic writing and fly-on-the-wall detail.
I would like to see a scene in the Fire and Fury TV series
where John Heilemann is informed that the money that
would have been paid to him is instead going to Michael
Wolff for his work of fantasy.
You just know that the producers of the Fire and Fury TV
series won't be able to hold back in their attempt to make
Trump look ridiculous which, in the end, will boomerang
on the filmmakers. For example, just think how the
following scene in the book will be produced in the TV
series:
If he was not having his 6:30 dinner with Steve Bannon,
then, more to his liking, he was in bed by that time with a
cheeseburger, watching his three screens and making
phone calls — the phone was his true contact point with
the world — to a small group of friends, who charted his
rising and falling levels of agitation through the evening
and then compared notes with one another.
It is hard to believe the producers would just be happy with
a single cheeseburger. The temptation for them to show a
whole bunch of cheeseburgers being swallowed while
watching three TV shows and calling multiple people on
the phone is just too great. It's not hard to believe a similar
vaudeville portrayal will permeate most of the TV series.
Their Trump derangement just won't let them refrain from
this.
Exit question: Will Alec Baldwin portray Donald Trump?
 Software Company CEO Credits
‘Trump Tax Cut And Jobs Act’
For $1,000 Employee Bonus Checks
By Katherine Rodriguez
17 Jan 2018
The CEO of a Florida-based software
company is making sure his employees
know the reason for their fattened
paychecks.
CEO Sheldon Wolf, the founder of Tampa-based software
developer Spellex Corporation, made sure that President
Trump would be credited for the tax cut bonus by ensuring
that the “memo” section of each $1,000 bonus check reads,
“Trump Tax Cut and Jobs Act,” Fox News
reported.
Wolf told Fox & Friends that although his company is
small, he was inspired by larger companies, such as AT&T
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and Bank of America, which decided to share the benefits
of Trump’s tax reform package with their employees.
“I thought, ‘Well, what about us smaller
companies, companies with less than 100
employees or less than even 50
employees? We could do the same thing,'”
Wolf said. “I wanted to do it because I’m
excited about the new tax plan from Trump
and the GOP, and I wanted to share the
wealth, as they say.”
“[It] plainly said, ‘This is why you’re getting
this check, because of the change in the
new tax plan,'” Wolf added. “I don’t think
they’re particularly fans of President
Trump, but nobody was complaining. They
were all happy.”
Spellex Corporation is the latest company to join the
hundreds of employers offering bonuses from $1,000 to
$2,000 or giving other employee incentives due to the tax
reform legislation Trump signed into law.
Some of the companies that announced they would be
giving their employees bonuses or other financial
incentives include American Airlines, AT&T, Fiat
Chrysler, and Wells Fargo.
 MRC’s Graham Blasts ‘Crazy’ Liberal Media As
‘Democratic Party Hacks’ Questioning Trump's Health
By NB Staff
January 17, 2018 6:58 PM EST

The Media Research Center’s Tim Graham was a guest on
the Wednesday edition of FBN’s Risk and Reward and he
didn’t hold back in hammering the liberal media’s
persistence that President Trump as mentally ill, telling
host Liz MacDonald that they’re no more than
“crazy” “Democratic Party hacks.”
Graham replied that the NewsBusters
newsroom thought the White House press
corps’s behavior “was crazy,” adding
that “Jeff Flake picked the wrong day to
give this speech” comparing Trump to
Joseph Stalin “after the press just
embarrassed themselves by all
asking...a battery of questions refusing
to accept the idea that Donald Trump is
mentally fit to be President.”
Graham also alluded to the media’s double standard,
desperately questioning Trump’s health but refusing to
entertain any notion that Hillary Clinton was ill during the
2016 campaign.
“So I mean, again, these people are not
the people who keep us — our
democracy out of darkness. They are a
bunch of Democratic Party hacks, and
they still sound like that,” Graham
continued.
The NewsBusters executive editor concluded by
commenting on the reality that much of the media hysteria
over Trump’s health were accelerated by Michael Wolff’s
Fire and Fury:
“Yes, which is also full of anonymous
sources and unverified allegations, and
they call this the state of journalism.
They think they are heroes for
forwarding stories they cannot prove.”

Here’s the transcript of Graham’s appearance from FBN’s

Risk and Reward on January 17:

FBN’s Risk and Reward

January 17, 2018
5:34 p.m. Eastern

Commenting on MSNBC’s Morning Joe co-host Mika

Brzezinski fretting over the fact that Trump was ruled
healthy, Graham uncorked on Brzezinski and fiancé Joe
Scarborough:

They're being honored, Joe and Mika, for somehow being

titans of journalism. This is what — this show is a mess
that they would come on and Joe Scarborough said
repeatedly that he had a source unnamed inside Trumpland
who told him the president had early onset dementia. It
clearly wasn't the doctor and so when they end up looking
like purveyors of fake news, Mika turns it around to be I’m
very disturbed he doesn't have early onset dementia. That CHRIS HAYES [on MSNBC’s All In with Chris Hayes, 12/06/17]:
would be an excuse for this horrible behavior. Look, First, there was something else from the event that sent the
they're the ones that seem like they have dementia because internet a buzz. Trump's apparent slurred speech toward the end
they used to love this guy and now he's evil. He used to be of his remarks.
their pal, but they can't make up their mind.

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PETER ALEXANDER [on NBC’s Today, 12/07/17]: Meanwhile,
here at the White House, there was a moment at the end the
president's speech yesterday on Jerusalem that caught a lot of
people's attention. This is where the President appeared to slur
his words.
BRIAN WILLIAMS [on MSNBC’s The 11th Hour with Brian
Williams, 12/06/17]: We wanted to catch up with something
happened on live today during the Israel announcement. It
promptly set their on fire as the president slurred some of his
words in a way that some folks found disconcerting.
LIZ MACDONALD: There is media outlets went big time on
President Trump appearing to slur his words during a speech last
month. The media continuing to take aim at the President’s
health during a press conference with the White House
physician, insinuating President Trump is mentally ill and more.
Roll tape.
HALLIE JACKSON: Can you accept the President's mental
fitness for office?
DR. RONNY JACKSON: I'm going to do a cognitive exam. I had
no intention of doing one. [SCREEN WIPE] The President did
exceedingly well on it, so that was not driven at all by any political
concerns I have. That was driven by the president's wishes.
STEVEN PORTNOY: Do you believe he's fit for duty?
JACKSON: Absolutely he's fit for duty.
CECILIA VEGA: There have been reports the President has
forgotten names, that he’s repeating himself. Are you ruling out
things like early onset Alzheimer's? Are you looking at dementia-
like symptoms?
JACKSON: The fact that the President got, you know, 30 out of
30 on that exam, I think that, you know, there's no indication
whatsoever that he has any cognitive issue.
MACDONALD: With me now, the director of media analysis at
Media Research Center, he's Tim Graham. Tim, what was your
reaction to that press conference yesterday?
TIM GRAHAM: We thought it was crazy. Look, Jeff Flake picked
the wrong day to give this speech today after the press just
embarrassed themselves by all asking questions. A — a battery
of questions refusing to accept the idea that Donald Trump is
mentally fit to be President. This is a result they do not accept as
real, as scientific. In fact, CNN suggested the doctor was a
Trump fanboy, even though he also was the doctor for President
Obama. I mean, for them to ask questions like does he have
dentures? Is Twitter a medical problem? And does he have drug
addiction?
MACDONALD: Okay.
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GRAHAM: I mean, people just looked at it and said who are
these people?
MACDONALD: You know, President Trump's doctors spent over
an hour with the press explaining to reporters that the slurring
during the speech was because of a dose of cold medicine had
dried out his mouth and also we have MSNBC’s Mika Brzezinksi,
not happy with the President's physical results. Here's what Mika
had to say.
MIKA BRZEZINSKI: That, along with the fact that the President
appears to be according to the doctor healthy, worries me
because if he wasn't healthy, that would be a great excuse for
this behavior. Now he has none, which you can then deduce
other things that are far more nefarious and frightening. Steve
Rattner, I won't ask you to answer to that, but I think it's worth
saying I just wonder how you look at all of this given the fact that
there's a shutdown looming.
STEVE RATTNER: Well, actually I had a similar thought about
the President, which is I wasn't sure whether to turn out to be
cognitively healthy or cognitively not healthy.
BRZEZINSKI: I’m disturbed that they say he’s cognitively health.
RATTNER: If you're cognitively healthy, you do all of this stuff.
It’s pretty bad.
BRZEZINSKI: I think the word evil comes to mind.
RATTNER: But yeah, you’re right.
MACDONALD: Listen, free speech, First Amendment, we get it.
But what was your reaction to what Mika said there?
GRAHAM: They're being honored, Joe and Mika, for somehow
being titans of journalism. This is what — this show is a mess
that they would come on and Joe Scarborough said repeatedly
that he had a source unnamed inside Trumpland who told him
the president had early onset dementia. It clearly wasn't the
doctor and so when they end up looking like purveyors of fake
news, Mika turns it around to be I’m very disturbed he doesn't
have early onset dementia. That would be an excuse for this
horrible behavior. Look, they're the ones that seem like they have
dementia because they used to love this guy and now he's evil. again, these people are not the people who keep us — our
He used to be their pal, but they can't make up their mind. democracy out of darkness. They are a bunch of Democratic
Party hacks, and they still sound like that.
MACDONALD: Eric Trump, the President's son, was on Varney
& Company earlier this morning, and I was sitting on set on MACDONALD: You know, Tim, this is all the fallout of Michael
Varney & Company. He said reporters who were in that press Wolff's book; right?
conference, many of them were in that press conference, those
same reporters could not keep up with President Trump on the GRAHAM: Yes, which is also full of anonymous sources and
campaign trail. Let's watch. Roll tape. unverified allegations, and they call this the state of journalism.
They think they are heroes for forwarding stories they cannot
ERIC TRUMP: Many of the people who are in that pressroom prove.
right now were on the campaign. They were traveling with him
around and he’d be on his sixth speech of the night or the
seventh speech of the day. He had gone to four different states,
and they were trying to keep up and they would be on the back
corner half sleeping on a backpack; right? Because he had run
them into the ground and they weren't the ones up on stage in
front of 30,000 people giving the speech; right? I mean, they
were just following him and just reporting on him and they were
run to the ground.

MACDONALD: What's your reaction?

GRAHAM: Well, yeah, they were also trying to insist he doesn't

eat well and he didn't well on the campaign. None of them eat MACDONALD: Tim Graham, good to see you. Thanks for coming
well on the campaign. I think the big contrast to me is all of these on.
people who are so concerned about Trump's health, physical and
mental, all accepted the idea that Hillary Clinton fainted because GRAHAM: Sure.
she was overheated when it was 70 degrees out. So I mean,
.

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 Survey: Americans Very Concerned
About Liberal Media Bias, ‘Fake News’
By Randy Hall
January 17, 2018 8:03 PM EST
While acknowledging that technological advances “have
made it easier for Americans to connect with each other
and to find information, including details about the major
issues facing the country,” a poll conducted in late 2017 by
four liberal foundations indicates that media bias and “fake
news” were still serious problems.
Amid the changing informational landscape, trust in the
U.S. media has been eroding, and while a majority of
consumers still believe the media have a critical role in our
democracy, they are not very positive about how the media
are fulfilling that function.
The report -- which is the result of a late 2017
Gallup/Knight Foundation survey -- is entitled “American
Views: Trust, Media and Democracy,” and was released
on Tuesday, January 16, by the Knight Foundation and
lists among its major findings:
Most Americans believe it is now harder to
be well-informed and to determine which
news is accurate.
Many consumers may not be able to easily discern the
difference between the two. Less than half of Americans,
44 percent, say they can think of a news source that reports
the news objectively.
In addition, Americans are highly
concerned about the effects of “Fake
News” on the nation’s democracy, but their
definitions of the term varied widely.
“Seventy-three percent of Americans said
the spread of inaccurate information on the
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Internet is a major problem with news
coverage today,” the report noted.
“This percentage is higher than for any
other potential type of news bias,” and “four
in 10 Republicans consider accurate news
stories that cast a politician or political
group in a negative light to always be ‘fake
news.’”
Underscoring the changing news landscape,
equal proportions of Americans rely on
social media as rely on newspapers to
stay informed.
Meanwhile, Americans view many newer sources of news
positively, but they are less positive about the social
media.
In an interesting response, the survey indicated that
“Republicans who can name an accurate
source overwhelmingly mention Fox News,
while Democrats’ responses are more
varied”
possibly because CNN and MSNBC help to split the
audience of liberal cable television viewers.
However, half of the more than 19,000 U.S. adults 18
years of age or older stated they feel confident there are
enough sources to allow people to cut through bias to sort
out the facts in the news, which is down from 66 percent a
generation ago.
While less than half of the Americans polled had a
negative view of news media -- 43 percent -- than a
positive view -- 33 percent -- of the news media, 23
percent were neutral.
“Today, 66 percent of Americans say most
news media do not do a good job of
separating fact from opinion,” the survey
noted. “In 1984, 42 percent held this view.”
Another interesting result was that the public divided very
evenly on the question of who is primarily responsible for
ensuring people have an accurate and politically balanced
understanding of the news: 48 percent said the news
media, while another 48 percent claimed it was up to the
individuals themselves.
Meanwhile, Americans’ perceptions of the news media are
generally negative, and their view of bias have grown
considerably from a generation ago.
Also, a majority were unable to name an
objective news source.
“Based on their self-reported knowledge of
current events and perceptions of how
easy it is to discern truth from
misinformation in news reporting,” the
report noted, “most Americans fall into one
of two categories.”
The first grouping, as indicated by their self-reported
knowledge of current events and perceptions of how easy
it is to discern truth from misinformation in news
reporting, was
“Knowledgeable Optimists, who are
informed and believe it is possible to find
the truth,” or the “Inattentive Skeptics, who
are less informed and pessimistic that the
truth can be identified.”
In a curious result, most of the people surveyed stated that
television news programs are still one of the most popular
sources of information, coming in as tied with newspapers:
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Americans have the greatest trust in
national network news and local and
national newspapers to provide mostly
accurate and politically balanced news.
They trust cable news more than they trust
Internet news sources.
Some of the results from this poll are particularly
interesting since it was sponsored by a quartet of liberal
organizations, including the John S. and James L. Knight
Foundation, which describes itself as “dedicated to
fostering informed and engaged communities” in order to
foster “a healthy democracy.”
Also providing funding was the Ford Foundation, which
stated that it invests in
“innovative ideas, visionary individuals and
front-line institutions advancing human
dignity around the world.”
In addition, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
contributed to the effort under its motto:
“All Lives Have Equal Value.”
And last, but certainly not least, were the Open Society
Foundations, led by left-wing billionaire George Soros,
whose cause is to
“build vibrant and tolerant democracies
whose governments are accountable and
open to the participation of all people.”
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 "He Slipped Up": The One Thing Bannon
Told Congress Yesterday That Could Haunt Trump
By Tyler Durden
Wed, 01/17/2018 - 19:02
As discussed earlier, one of the major concerns about
Steve Bannon's closed-door testimony before the House
Intelligence Committee on Tuesday, is that he refused to
discuss any of the things that were of biggest interest to his
interrogators.
As we reported,
Bannon invoked executive privilege during
his meeting to avoid sharing details
about his time in the Trump
administration, where he served as chief
strategist, or during the presidential
transition.
In fact, Bannon reportedly stopped answering questions
once his lawyers had alerted the White House that the
scope of the House panel's questions would be expanded to
include his time in the White House.
However, as Axios reports, Bannon made one conspicuous
slip up:
He admitted that he'd had conversations
with Reince Priebus, Sean Spicer and
legal spokesman Mark Corallo about
Don Junior's meeting with the Russians
in Trump Tower in June 2016.
As a reminder, this is the meeting that Bannon allegedly
told Michael Wolff was "treasonous", and led to the
violent fallout in relations between Trump and Bannon.
This matters because the meeting — and
the subsequent drafting of an allegedly
misleading statement on Air Force One
— has become one of the most
important focal points of the Russia
investigations,
both on Capitol Hill and within Robert Mueller's team, as
it provides the closest thing that exists to evidence that the
Trump campaign was willing to entertain collusion with
Russians, according to Axios' Jonathan Swan.
Bannon immediately realized he'd
slipped up and disclosed conversations
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he wasn't supposed to discuss, because
they happened while he was chief
strategist in the White House.
Throughout the rest of the session, committee members —
in particular Republican Trey Gowdy and Democrat Adam
Schiff — hammered Bannon over the fact that he'd
mentioned those conversations but refused to discuss
anything else about his time in the White House.
This is also why the pressure on Bannon to disclose all he
knows will only grow, and also why Mueller will be
especially interested in what he has to say.
Aside from this once incident, Axios reports the following
"insider-the-room" moments:
 After the hearing started, the New York Times
dropped its story about the grand jury subpoena of
Bannon. Nobody in the room had their phones — it's
the protocol in closed-door intelligence hearings — but
an official walked in to inform the committee and
Bannon's team of the story.
 At that point, the committee paused its
proceedings and there was a scramble to figure out
how to proceed, and how to ensure they did everything
properly insofar as the Mueller probe went. (The
committee informed Mueller's team several days earlier
that it was calling Bannon in as a witness, and they
didn't hear back from Mueller's team so viewed that as
a green light.)
 Trey Gowdy, who led the Republican questioning,
pressed Bannon hard on his description of Don
Junior's Trump Tower meeting as "treasonous." Gowdy
asked Bannon whether he would consider it treason for
somebody close to him to approach Wikileaks' Julian
Assange to get opposition research on Hillary Clinton.
Bannon replied that such a scenario would be bad
judgment. Then Gowdy produced emails from a
Cambridge Analytica employee — the Trump campaign
data firm closely affiliated with Bannon — boasting of
just such contacts with Assange. Bannon claimed this
was the first time he'd seen these emails (though
they've been in the news.)
 Bannon attacked the Republicans running these
congressional committees for choosing to investigate
the Trump campaign and Russia. He said it was part of
an "establishment" plan to try to "nullify" the election
 result. Gowdy challenged him on that, asking Bannon
who is this establishment you refer to who is trying to
nullify Trump's victory? Bannon answered: Paul Ryan
and Mitch McConnell. Gowdy countered that Bannon
couldn't have it both ways. Was he also referring to
Trump confidant Kevin McCarthy — the leader of the
Republican House conference — who is surely part of
the same Ryan-McConnell "establishment?"
 Another pointed question to Bannon: When he told
author Michael Wolff there was a "zero" percent
chance that Don Junior didn't bring the Russians up to
see his father after their meeting, how did he know that
happened? I'm told Bannon all but conceded he was
purely speculating.
.
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 Throughout the hearing, Bannon kept telling the
committee members: "I really want to answer this
question," and "I really wish I could answer these
questions." That became a sore point with members.
They kept asking him why he felt liberated to abandon
executive privilege and leak prolifically about the White
House to journalists and author Wolff, but wouldn't talk
to Congress.
 Bannon, at one point, praised the committee
members for the professionalism and
preparedness. (But a source familiar with Bannon's
thinking told me he made the compliment "tongue-in-
cheek.")
Fusion GPS Founder Admits He Didn’t Believe Trump Was
‘Suitable’ To Be President While Compiling Hoax Dossier
By Aaron Klein
17 Jan 2018
TEL AVIV — In testimony released
publicly last week, Glenn R. Simpson,
the co-founder of the controversial
opposition research firm Fusion GPS
conceded that he opposed Donald
Trump’s presidential candidacy and that
his negative opinions of the politician
may have “entered” into his “thinking.”
Fusion GPS compiled the infamous, largely discredited
35-page dossier accusing Trump and his presidential
campaign of ties with Russia.
In August 22 testimony released last week and reviewed in
full by Breitbart News, Simpson made the following
admission:
I think it’s safe to say that, you know, at
some point probably early in 2016 I had
reached a conclusion about Donald Trump
as a businessman and his character and I
was opposed to Donald Trump. I’m not
going to pretend that that wouldn’t have
entered into my thinking.
You know, again, I was a journalist my
whole life. So we were, you know, trained
not to take sides and practiced in not taking
sides. So most of what I do as a research
person is we try to avoid getting into
situations where one’s etiology or political
views would cloud your work because it’s a
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known hazard, but, you know, I reached an
opinion about Donald Trump and his
suitability to be president of the United
States and I was concerned about whether
he was the best person for the job.
Simpson was responding to a question about
“concerns that the work being done was
driven in a direction designed to reach a
particular conclusion for a client or because
of the client’s identity.”
In October, the Washington Post reported that in April
2016, attorney Marc E. Elias and his law firm Perkins Coie
retained Fusion GPS to conduct the firm’s anti-Trump
work on behalf of both Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential
campaign and the Democratic National Committee (DNC).
Through Perkins Coie, Clinton’s campaign and the DNC
continued to fund Fusion GPS until October 2016, days
before Election Day, the Post reported.
The question posed to Simpson about concerns over his
firm seeking to reach certain conclusions in its political
research was prompted by Simpson’s description of Fusion
GPS’s mission as aiming to “customize a research
solution” based on the client’s “problem.”
During the testimony, Simpson stated:
“Another thing we say about our work is it’s
custom information, it’s a customized
product. You tell us what your problem is
and we customize a research solution.”
Fusion GPS hired Christopher Steele, a former British
intelligence agent, to do the work cited in the anti-Trump
dossier. Steele later conceded in court documents that part
of his work still needed to be verified.
The BBC reported that Steele’s information served as a
“roadmap” for the FBI’s investigation into claims of
coordination between Moscow and members of Trump’s
presidential campaign.
Last April, CNN reported that the dossier served as part of
the FBI’s justification for seeking the FISA court’s
reported approval to clandestinely monitor the
communications of Carter Page, the American oil industry
investor who was tangentially and briefly associated with
Trump’s presidential campaign.
Dossier discredited
Major questions have been raised as to the veracity of the
dossier, large sections of which have been discredited.
Citing a “Kremlin insider,” the dossier, which misspelled
the name of a Russian diplomat, claimed that Trump
lawyer Michael Cohen held “secret meetings” with
Kremlin officials in Prague in August 2016.
That charge unraveled after Cohen revealed he had never
traveled to Prague, calling the story “totally fake, totally
inaccurate.” The Atlantic confirmed Cohen’s whereabouts
in New York and California during the period the dossier
claimed that Cohen was in Prague. Cohen reportedly
produced his passport showing he had not traveled to
Prague.
In testimony in May, former FBI Director James
Comey confirmed that the basis for the intelligence
community’s assessment that Russia allegedly wanted
Trump in office was not because the billionaire was, as
Sen. Al Franken (D-MN) claimed during a hearing,
“ensnared in” Russia’s “web of patronage” – just as the
dossier alleged. Instead, the FBI chief provided two
primary reasons for Russia’s alleged favoring of Trump
over Clinton during the 2016 presidential race.
One reason, according to Comey, was that Putin “hated”
Clinton and would have favored any Republican opponent.
The second reason, Comey explained, was that Putin made
an assessment that it would be easier to make a deal with a
businessman than someone from the political class.
Comey’s statements are a far cry from the
conspiracies fueled by the dossier alleging Putin held
blackmail information on Trump.
Citing current and former government officials, the New
Yorker reported the dossier prompted skepticism among
intelligence community members, with the publication
quoting one member saying it was a “nutty” piece of
evidence to submit to a U.S. president.
Steele’s work has been questioned by former acting CIA
Director Michael Morell, who currently works at the
Hillary Clinton-tied Beacon Global Strategies LLC.
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NBC News reported on Morell’s questions about Steele’s
credibility:
Morell, who was in line to become CIA
director if Clinton won, said he had seen no
evidence that Trump associates
cooperated with Russians. He also raised
questions about the dossier written by a
former British intelligence officer, which
alleged a conspiracy between the Trump
campaign and Russia. …
Morell pointed out that former Director of
National Intelligence James Clapper said
on Meet the Press on March 5 that he had
seen no evidence of a conspiracy when he
left office January 20.
“That’s a pretty strong statement by
General Clapper,” Morell said.
Regarding Steele’s dossier, Morell stated,
“Unless you know the sources, and unless
you know how a particular source acquired
a particular piece of information, you can’t
judge the information — you just can’t.”
Morell charged the dossier
“doesn’t take you anywhere, I don’t think.”
“I had two questions when I first read it.
One was, how did Chris talk to these
sources? I have subsequently learned that
he used intermediaries.”
Morell continued:
And then I asked myself, why did these
guys provide this information, what was
their motivation? And I subsequently
learned that he paid them. That the
intermediaries paid the sources and the
intermediaries got the money from Chris.
And that kind of worries me a little bit
because if you’re paying somebody,
particularly former FSB [Russian
intelligence] officers, they are going to tell
you truth and innuendo and rumor, and
they’re going to call you up and say, “Hey,
let’s have another meeting, I have more
information for you,” because they want to
get paid some more.
I think you’ve got to take all that into consideration when
you consider the dossier.
 Meghan McCain Confronts Durbin
On Reputation For Lying About Private
White House Meetings
By Kristine Marsh
January 17, 2018 4:36 PM EST
After doubting the truthfulness of the White House doctor,
who gave President Trump a clean bill of health yesterday,
the hosts at The View skyped in Democrat Senator Dick
Durbin (Ill.) on their Janauary 17 show to ask him about
Trump’s infamous “s***hole” comment and whether or
not the DACA deal was going to happen.
Though the questions were mostly friendly from the liberal
panel, co-host Meghan McCain didn’t let Durbin off the
hook, grilling him on his choice to leak the comment from
a private meeting.
But the interview began with a warm welcome, where
Whoopi characterized Durbin as truthful, unlike the
Republicans who were in the room.
“A lot of attendees of last week’s
immigration meeting are changing their
stories, but not Senator Dick Durbin,
who said from the beginning that you-
know-who launched into a racist rant,”
Whoopi gushed to audience applause.
Behind Durbin, loud singing could be heard in the hall,
which Whoopi explained was Jewish rabbis and leaders
marching to
“defend DREAMERS and demand a clean
DACA bill be passed.”
Among the softball questions, Behar tried to get Durbin to
bash the Republicans who were in the same meeting and
denied Durbin’s account of what the president said.
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“So basically they’re calling you a liar,
Senator. Because Cotton said, the
difference is, ‘I’m right.’ They’re calling
you a liar,” Behar fumed. “How do you
expect to have a bipartisan deal when
one Senator in the United States
Congress is calling another one a liar?”
she asked, irritated.
“I stand by my words,” Durbin responded,
adding, “My colleagues are wrong and they
know they’re wrong.”
Since it was apparently outrageous for Republicans to
doubt the truthfulness of their Democrat colleague, but not
outrageous for that same Democrat to doubt the
truthfulness of his Republican colleagues, Behar happily
took the cheap shot.
"So they’re liars?” she asked.
“I’m not going to use that word,” Durbin
waffled.
“I’ll use it!” Behar snarked.
When it finally came around to McCain, she picked up
from where her liberal counterpart left off, instead,
defending Sen. Cotton, and putting Durbin on the spot,
calling him out for his history of lying about what’s been
said in private White House meetings.
“Senator Durbin, this is Meghan McCain.
You have a history of misrepresenting
statements from private White House
meetings and some say you have
actually done more harm than good to
the DACA deal by revealing what Trump
said in his private meeting. Do you think
that's true?” she grilled.
McCain was referring to a private congressional meeting
with President Obama in 2013, where Durbin claimed a
GOP leader said something defamatory to the President’s
face, a claim that was later completely debunked by the
Obama administration itself.
But Durbin dodged McCain’s question, instead appealing
to the loud voices behind him.
“I can tell you what you hear behind me are
the voices of democracy, demonstrators
who are on Capitol Hill willing to be
arrested in a non-violent way for the
D.R.E.A.M. Act,” he gushed.
Durbin praised the liberal protesters, saying they were the
“strength” behind the movement, as if they somehow had
the ability to pass votes in Congress.
McCain rightly called him out for the dodge.
“That’s with Democrats,” she jumped in.
“You’re trying to get support with
Republicans as well,” she noted.
McCain further suggested Durbin had done “more harm
than good with Republicans,” for leaking the controversial
remark.
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“There's a lot more support with Democrats
than there are Republicans on DACA which
is why Democrats are trying to speak with
President Trump and I think that's the
argument, you’ve possibly done more
harm than good with Republicans,” she
argued.
Durbin pulled out the Democrat line this week, that the
American people were on the Democrats’ side on this
issue, adding insult to injury by pointing out that Meghan
McCain’s father was on “his side”:
Honestly, you're going to see before the
end of the day more Republicans
stepping forward and saying they don't
agree with President Trump's views on
immigration. I don't believe those views
represent American. I certainly don't
believe they represent the views of majority
of Republicans. Certainly your father was
working long and hard with me and
others for a comprehensive immigration
reform bill. I know where his heart is and it
isn't with the expressions given to us by
President Trump.
“Yes and with all due respect, I know
where the heart of people like Tom
Cotton is,” McCain snipped back.
“I don't think we're ever going to win him
over,” Durbin responded, before fellow host
Sunny Hostin took over.
 President Trump Was Set Up From The Beginning –
MSM Willing Conspirators Or Duped By Obama Deep
State Members Via Steele Dossier?
By Susan Duclos - All News Pipeline
January 17, 2018
Countries "meddle" in other countries elections all the
time, we saw that during the Obama administration when
he attempted to meddle in Israeli politics in an attempt to
oust Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, we saw the
Obama administration support and actively working
towards ousting the duly elected Ukraine leader, just to
name two examples of U.S. interference in elections and
politIcs of another country, which has been going on for
over a century.
So, naturally it seems quite hypocritical to see the Media,
Democrats and liberals screaming about Russia
interference into the U.S. presidential election. The
multiple claims against Russia include accusations that
they "hacked" the DNC and the Clinton campaign to
provide emails to Wikileaks, which were released during
the election cycle and caused chaos within the DNC,
forcing the chairwoman, Debbie Wasserman-Schultz and
others to resign.
It is noteworthy that the complaints by Hillary Clinton
campaign, the Media, and liberals, were in regards to
where they perceived the information came from, not the
validity of the information. In other words, the emails that
roiled the Clinton campaign and the DNC were real, the
participants wrote them, and sent them, the complaint is
that they were exposed...so, RUSSIA! Whatever.
Wikileaks and its founder Julian Assange have asserted on
multiple occasions that the emails were not "hacked" but
were leaked, with Assange suggesting strongly that the
leaker was the DNC staffer, Seth Rich, that was murdered
in July 2016, a little less than two weeks before Wikileaks
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started publishing them, while U.S. intelligence agencies
claim it was Russia that hacked the information.
Other claims by the MSM, Democrats and liberals, are that
Russia used an information campaign, pushing "fake
news" through social media, yet the intelligence agencies
never provided any evidence those "fake news" articles
actually influenced anyone to change their vote.
Frankly over the last year we have seen Independent
Media that opposed Hillary Clinton as president accused of
being "Russian Propaganda," social media blamed for
Clinton's loss, a failed attempt at a recount of certain states
to negate the election results, followed up by a liberal
campaign to threaten electoral college members to not vote
for Trump, and then they started screaming Russia
collusion between President Trump and Russia.
The fact is the media, liberals and Democrats have been
having a year-long temper tantrum because the candidate
they supported and predicted to win, didn't.
THE KREMLIN & OBAMA ADMIN SOURCED
STEELE DOSSIER
Nothing worked, but we are now seeing members of the
intelligence community, those we call the Deep State,
being exposed for anti-Trump bias, demoted, reassigned,
announcing resignations, shifted to other jobs, etc.....
because with President Trump's win, actions that some
claim were highly illegal are being exposed as
investigators are now being investigated.
What could quite possibly bring the whole house of cards
down on the former Obama administration officials, as
well as some currently still holding positions within the
intelligence community, is the Steele Dossier.
The dossier was the result of opposition research paid for
by the DNC and the Clinton campaign against President
Trump, containing outrageous and "salacious" accusations
which were not verified by Fusion GPS, nor by the FBI or
any intelligence agency, but which reports now say was
used, without being verified, by Obama officials to obtain
a FISA warrant to surveil members of Trump's campaign
before and after the election.
The big problem with that, reported by NYP, is "We also
know Christopher Steele, a former British spy, gathered
information for the dossier from a hodgepodge of rumors
from Russian sources that, according to Simpson’s own
testimony, were never substantiated by the firm. Steele
called the collection of rumors 'raw' and 'unverified'."
The whole story the media has been spinning, fed to them
through anonymous sources (read deep state intel
members) started crumbling very badly after Congress
forced Fusion GPS co-founder Glenn Simpson to testify
about the dossier.
Via NYP:
Simpson told Congress, in his prevaricating
and often defensive testimony, that Steele
allegedly went to the FBI because he
believed the Kremlin had the goods on
Trump. The Russians, he claimed, were
blackmailing the candidate with evidence of
sordid sexual escapades. More significant,
the Trump team had colluded with the
Russians in hacking emails of Democrats
during the campaign and were working on
a quid pro quo basis. It was like calling 911
when witnessing a potential crime, Steele
noted.
Well, almost immediately, one of the most
repeated and significant claims backing this
testimony had to be walked back.
Simpson told Congress “an internal
campaign source,” a “whistle-blower” within
the Trump organization, had corroborated
some of the information in the dossier for
the FBI. This was a bombshell (if true)
because it meant that there was a
legitimate source substantiating those
assertions. So even the dossier’s most
shocking tales could be treated seriously
by the FBI and used as a pretext to
investigate Trump’s organization in the
middle of a political campaign.
Soon after the transcript was released,
however, NBC News’ Ken Dilanian, who
has a close relationship with Fusion,
reported that sources in the firm were
correcting Steele, who’d
mischaracterized a meeting with a
Trump source. No, there was no “walk-
in” from the Trump campaign, as Steele
had maintained in his testimony.
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In other words, he lied to Congress.
Read the entire NYP article:
The Trump Dossier’s Credibility Is Collapsing
The reason the Steele Dossier is so important is because
the entire MSM, liberal narrative of Russian collusion with
the Trump campaign, and the entire special counsel
Mueller investigation, is based on spying by Obama's
intelligence agencies on Trump campaign members,
allowed by the FISA court, based on allegations contained
within the Steele dossier, which Steele filled with
information from Russian/Kremlin sources.
MSM - WILLING CONSPIRATORS OR
DUPED PAWNS?
The one thing that has remained consistent throughout the
last year is the amount of articles by all the major news
outlets and networks, relying almost exclusively on
anonymous sources, having to be corrected, edited, in
some cases completely retracted and deleted, with
reporters being suspended and in one CNN example three
journalists forced to resign.
One would think if a source misled them so badly one
time, they would be more inclined to fact check, confirm
and verify the next item from said source before rushing to
publish, but the problem has gotten worse, not better,
indicating they may not be the duped pawns or victims of
bad information from sources, but may very well be
willing conspirators in an attempt to bring down President
Trump.
With the dossier story crumbling and the potential for
more members of the intelligence community, past and
current, to be exposed as part of the campaign to destroy
President Trump now that the DOJ is actively investigating
their actions leading up to the 2016 presidential election,
along with the upcoming OIG report into those same
actions, the media has to find a scapegoat, for lack of a
better word, some type of justification for all their false
and misleading reports.
Which brings me to the "speculation" by Scott Shane of
the New York Times in the short clip below, where he
offers the theory that perhaps the whole dossier was some
master plan on the part of Russia to hedge their bets to
discredit President Trump.
Sounds to me like this may end up being the media's
excuse when the information is finally revealed publicly
about how our intelligence community under Obama was
so politicized it used an unverified (by Fusion GPS and the
intelligence community) in order to justify a FISA warrant
to surveil the Trump campaign.
 AN INTERESTING TWIST

Another aspect of this via The Last Refuge, shows that the
information contained within the Steele dossier, may not
have only come from Russian sources, but that in March of
2016 DOJ oversight personnel conducted a minimizing
review and found that the Obama administration was
disclosing "raw FISA information," to "private
contractors," which they put a stop to in April 2016. The
term "raw" in this case means they were not redacting
information that they were legally bound to redact, such as
U.S. citizens' names obtained during surveillance.

This leads us back to the "unmasking" of U.S. citizens

names, specifically people that were part of the Trump
campaign, before the dossier was compiled, for political
Their credibility, which is already suffering after a year of
purposes, and revealed to "private contractors."
constant blunders, will be flushed down the toilet, unless
they can convince their audience they didn't lie, they were
duped!

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Screen shots via The Last Refuge, via 99 page Top Secret
FISA Court Order - President Obama Spying on Political
Enemies
The conspiring crew ran DOJ/FBI FISA-702
searches on “Michael Cohen Travel”, and
simply got the wrong guy.
Amid complex stories, the simplest
explanation is almost always the most
accurate.
Unfortunately for the scheme team, this
*mistake* puts another connection
between:
BOTTOM LINE
They set President Trump up from even before he was
elected, this was their "insurance policy," which was
always a planned Russia collusion investigation in the
event he won the 2016 presidential election, in order to
cast doubts on the legitimacy of his presidency.
While the media seems to heading towards a "we were
duped too!" narrative, the amount of false stories they have
pumped out since January 2017, tells us that they were
more willing conspirators than duped pawns.

• the unlawful use of the DOJ/FBI FISA

search access;

• the people who gained custody of that

raw data;

• and how false information was used in the

finished document, the Steele Dossier.

That Steele dossier, which included Russian

disinformation and information handed over to Fusion
GPS by the Obama administration, was then used to obtain
yet another FISA warrant to surveil the Trump campaign
team members.

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 Trump: "Very Possible" Crisis With
North Korea Can't Be Resolved Peacefully
By Tyler Durden
Wed, 01/17/2018 - 15:25
In an exclusive interview with Reuters,
President Trump said on Wednesday that
Russia is helping North Korea get
supplies in violation of international
sanctions and that Pyongyang is getting
“closer every day” to being able to deliver
a long-range missile to the United States.
As a result, Trump said he hoped the standoff with
Pyongyang could be resolved
“in a peaceful way, but it’s very possible
that it can’t.”
Having learned his lesson from his recent WSJ interview,
Trump declined to comment when asked whether he had
engaged in any communications at all with Kim, with
whom he has exchanged public insults and threats,
heightening tensions in the region. He did, however, blame
Moscow:
“Russia is not helping us at all with North
Korea,” Trump said during the Oval Office
interview. "What China is helping us with,
Russia is denting. In other words, Russia is
making up for some of what China is
doing."
Which is ironic because it was a Chinese, not Russian ship,
that was recently observed illegally selling oil to North
Korea. It's even more ironic that in the interview, Trump
praised China for its efforts to restrict oil and coal supplies
to North Korea but said Beijing could do much more to
help constrain Pyongyang.
In any case, with North Korea still the major global
challenge facing Trump this year, the president cast doubt
during the 53-minute interview whether talks with North
Korean leader Kim Jong Un would be useful. In the past
he has not ruled out direct talks with Kim.
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“I’d sit down, but I‘m not sure that
sitting down will solve the problem,” he
said, noting that past negotiations with the
North Koreans by his predecessors had
failed to rein in North Korea’s nuclear and
missile programs.
“They’ve talked for 25 years and they’ve
taken advantage of our presidents, of our
previous presidents,” he said.
The remarks come after Trump’s statement earlier in
January, in which he said he is “absolutely” willing to talk
on the phone to North Korean leader Kim Jong-un if
certain conditions are met.
***
In addition to slamming Russia, Trump said Pyongyang is
steadily advancing in its ability to deliver a missile to the
United States.
“They’re not there yet, but they’re close.
And they get closer every day,” said
Trump.
Trump also said he welcomed talks between North and
South Korea over the Winter Olympics to be held in the
South next month and said this could be an initial phase in
helping defuse the crisis.
He would not say whether the United States has been
considering a limited, pre-emptive attack to show the
North that the United States means business.
“We’re playing a very, very hard game
of poker and you don’t want to reveal
your hand,” he said.
U.S. officials had spoken of Trump’s willingness to weigh
a pre-emptive strike despite the risk of touching off a war.
But in recent days Trump has appeared to signal more of
an openness toward diplomacy.
 Suspected Leaker Adam Schiff Triggered After Steve
Bannon Refuses To Answer Questions From
House Intel Committee
By Cristina Laila
Thursday, January 18, 2018
Suspected leaker Adam Schiff (D-CA)
was very frustrated after former White
House strategist Steve Bannon refused
to answer a broad scope of questions
during his House Intel Panel interview
Monday.
The White House had an agreement for Bannon to only
answer questions about the 2016 presidential campaign.
The rats on the House panel wanted Bannon to answer
questions about the Trump transition period and his time in
the White House. Why? Isn’t this witch hunt about so-
called ‘Russian collusion’ during the campaign?
Steve Bannon went into a 10 hour interview with the
House Intelligence Committee Monday to answer
questions about the so-called ‘Trump-Russia collusion’
during the 2016 presidential election.
According to CNBC, the White House believed it had an
agreement with the Committee to limit questions to events
that happened only during the 2016 election.
CNBC reported:
According to the White House official, who
spoke on the condition of anonymity,
staffers for the committee and the White
House on Friday discussed the parameters
of Bannon’s testimony. The White House
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emerged from that conversation believing it
had an agreement to limit the questioning
of Bannon just to events during the
campaign, and not during the transition
period or his time in the White House.
Then, hours into Bannon’s closed-door testimony on
Tuesday, Bannon’s lawyers informed the White House
from Capitol Hill that the questions would extend beyond
the scope of what the White House understood the
agreement to be. At that point, the White House told
Bannon not to answer any further.
Ranking Democrat and suspected leaker Adam Schiff was
not happy about this and said Tuesday night,
“That was never conveyed to the minority.
And I think it came as quite a surprise to
our entire committee frankly, apart from the
majority staffer that was involved in that
communication.” CNBC reported.
Schiff also called Bannon’s refusal to answer questions a
“gag order” by the White House. Schiff also wanted to
know about Bannon’s whereabouts AFTER he left the
White House.
CNBC also reported:
At that point, House Intelligence Committee
Republicans and Democrats joined forces
to issue Bannon a subpoena on the spot to
compel his testimony. It is not clear what, if
any, questions Bannon answered after
that. A Reuters report said the former top
Trump aide refused to comply with the
subpoena.
Adam Schiff was triggered by Steve Bannon and also took
to his Twitter account Wednesday to voice his frustration.
“There is no legal basis in which the White
House can instruct witnesses like Steve
Bannon to refuse broad categories of
 questions before our committee. We must
insist on answers,” Schiff tweeted,
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The Russian collusion witch hunt is a huge oppo research
project with the intent of removing a duly elected
president. The entire thing is based on the phony Hillary-
funded Russia dossier. People involved must go to prison.
This is one of the biggest scandals to ever rock D.C.
 POTUS Preoccupation:
At Least 36 Fall TV Shows Targeted Trump
By Corinne Weaver
January 18, 2018 9:42 AM EST
The entertainment world has readied the battlefield for the
resistance with scripted and unscripted shows.
The latest season of television proves this point with at
least 36 programs tearing Trump and the conservative
movement to shreds. Comedy Central leads the charge
with 6 shows directed at Trump, but ABC and CBS also
have 5 shows apiece that attack the POTUS on a regular
basis.
“Trump, you cheap cracker,” joked Michael Che on SNL.
That’s possibly the tamest thing that was said in the past
season about the President. Some of the more exclusive
attacks on Trump from television include: “You can’t
believe that this guy is running the country,” “Oh, my God,
I am Donald Trump. Sad. Fake game!”, “shot-gun toting
deplorables,” and “there are literal Nazis in the streets.”
ABC
Designated Survivor
The new series is essentially an hour’s worth of liberal
propaganda and smearing the White House. In one
episode, a character addresses the POTUS: “This White
House is worried about globalism. Well, you know, I’m
worried about our country. Mr. President, the American
worker won’t support your agenda if you don’t support
him.
The Mayor
In a twist allegedly meant to tickle the liberal agenda’s
funnybone, ABC’s new comedy follows an “African-
American Donald Trump.” The plot centers around a
young, unknown rapper who runs for mayor of his town
and accidentally wins. Needless to say, he doesn’t do a
very good job being mayor. The show did not get renewed
for a second season.
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Blackish
Anthony Anderson’s comedy turned political at one point
this season when one character acts as Donald Trump and
rants, “Oh, my God, I am Donald Trump. Sad. Fake game!
I was cheated bigly! Her emails! Her emails! Stupid
Hillary! Stupid Hillary! Put her in jail!”
Saturday Night Live
Politics is no stranger to NBC’s liberal sketch comedy, but
Trump is essentially the star of the show. Alec Baldwin
gained an Emmy and a recurring role on the show for his
impersonation of the president. With cracks made over and
over again related to the POTUS (“Trump is a bitch” and a
“cheap cracker”), the resistance practically lives here.
Live With Jimmy Kimmel
Kimmel is on a crusade to take down Trump and
conservative goals on his talk show. In a recent episode,
the late night host, best known for crying about the
healthcare debate on air, told his audience in a monologue:
“You just can’t believe that this guy is running the
country.” In another episode, he told the audience Trump
was like “Dracula who tells you to relax and take off your
scarf, ok?”
CBS
Madam Secretary
The show created to prop up Hillary Clinton’s reputation
has done just that, providing the DNC with dreams of a
Clinton presidency. This season created the never-
Trumper’s daydream: impeachment. In an episode called
“Sound and Fury,” a character argues “But even if the
Russians are cowed, the president is still a wild card. And
we will end up going from crisis to crisis, and eventually
there’ll be a disaster.” In the course of the episode, the
president is removed from office.
Star Trek: Discovery
While this series is the first in the Star Trek canon to
embrace atheist principles, it also finds time to poke at
Trump specifically through the Klingons. Executive
producer Aaron Harberts told Rolling Stone that the
“Trump phenomenon was front and center in our minds” in
creating the new series.
A Klingon leader, one of the villains of the show, tries to
position his people against Starfleet’s mission for
multiculturalism. His slogan, “Remain Klingon,” is
interpreted by Business Insider as “Make Klingons Great
Again!”
The Wisdom of the Crowd
Jeremy Piven’s series may have been cancelled by CBS
(after sex assault allegations) but the first 13 episodes were
aired, with their slimy comments about conservatives
(“they’re not a bunch of shotgun toting deplorables”) and
cliched Trump insults (“Why don’t you bring the head
Cheeto down right now?”).
The Late Late Show With James Corden
With guests on this show like Nancy Pelosi saying that
Trump is “worse than Darth Vader,” it’s hard to find
anything non-political these days after midnight on CBS.
The Late Show With Stephen Colbert
By far the strongest cannon in the liberal entertainment
resistance, the Late Show’s host, Stephen Colbert, makes
such jokes as “Sir, they're not [bleep] Hole country. For
one, Donald Trump isn't their President.” But that’s every
day for Colbert’s show.
Fox
The X-Files
Part of the plot of an episode in the re-booted series
involved a Russian “private contractor” who had
“ascendancy over the FBI under classified security
directive...from the Executive Branch.”
NBC
Will & Grace
A reboot of the ‘90s sitcom promised resistance and rants.
It certainly did not fail to deliver. With such dialogue as,
“The nutjobs that we protected the last president from are
this guy’s biggest supporters,” and one character in the
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White House yelling that “Rules don’t mean anything in
this place anymore,” the resistance has never sounded
more stale.
Great News
This sitcom about a television producer at a cable news
network uses the President to make arguments for PC
culture. Thanks to President Trump, “There are literal
Nazis in the street.” Also, for whatever reason, “The
President just asked Congress to fund something called
Bitch Jail.”
Late Night With Seth Meyers
“It’s as clear as ever that Donald Trump is a racist,”
Meyers told his audience. With all of the standard
monologues based on Trump’s every move, it seems
evident that Meyers has no plan to shift from the apparent
standard in late night comedy.
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
By far the least likely offender on this list, Fallon has
weakly attempted to step up his Trump bashing game in
order to please the resistance in the audience. Some of his
more recent aims have included dressing up as James
Taylor to sing about “Fire and Fury.” But he still can’t
seem to get past the stale “tiny hands” jokes.
HBO
Last Week Tonight With John Oliver
The HBO talk show has centered on Trump almost
completely, leaving little or no room for anything else.
Oliver’s season finale analyzed all of Trump’s “responses
to disaster” and deemed him guilty of delegitimizing the
media, whataboutism, and trolling.
Real Time With Bill Maher
One of the original anti-conservative talk shows, Bill
Maher uses vulgarity, blasphemy, and cliched lines to
show the resistance how ready he is to take down Trump at
all costs. “Trump can order the destruction of the entire
known universe,” the comedian joked to his audience.
TBS
Full Frontal With Samantha Bee
“President Donald Trump is attacking us in every way
imaginable,” Samantha Bee raved on her Halloween
episode this year. From Clinton fantasies to her shock that
the Kurds actually like Trump, this show is true blue. Bee
is trying to be the queen of the resistance, but she’s held
back by her own lack of humor.
USA
Mr. Robot
The Trump resort, Mar-A-Lago, is seen as a “meeting
ground for corporate overlords,” and the “owner” of the
resort is called a “buffoon.”
Comedy Central
South Park
Even though the writers of South Park promised no more
Trump, they’ve given the public too much. In one episode,
Trump is portrayed as a leader who raped a “worker with
ties to Russia” to death. He asks Paul Ryan, Mitch
McConnell, and Mike Pence to “put a positive spin on it.”
Broad City
Comedy Central made no attempt to disguise its contempt
for the POTUS, and Ilana Glazer’s foul-mouthed attack on
anything outside the liberal box was just part of the plan.
From blaming Trump for a “lack of orgasms” to calling
Florida “a white supremacist’s wet dream,” this is comedy
for never-Trumpers. Instead of bleeping out the vulgar
language, the show bleeps out Trump’s name.
The Opposition with Jordan Klepper
Yet again, Comedy Central jabs at Trump with the scripted
weapon of satire, this time, with a spinoff from Trevor
Noah’s The Daily Show. Jordan Klepper plays a
conservative version of himself, much like Colbert did on
the Colbert Report. Instead of basing his approach on
people like Bill O’Reilly, Klepper is sourcing his act from
“alt-right” figures such as Alex Jones and Steve Bannon.
With ridiculous defenses of Trump meant to ridicule the
president, this one fits right in with the rest of Comedy
Central’s lineup.
The President Show
Trump impersonator Anthony Atamanuik is bringing new
material to the Trump entertainment scene. In the past
season, he has portrayed Trump as fighting with Melania,
referring to her as “that bitch,” and has a segment where he
deems things as “nice” or “not nice,” and calling the press
a “hate group.”
The Jim Jefferies Show
Yet another talk show, yet another Comedy Central anti-
Trump show, aimed at making sure the public is aware of
just how awful liberals view Trump to be. “I’m just saying,
the new president’s a shit,” Jefferies said to guest Rob
Reiner.
The Daily Show
This is the sixth show in the Comedy Central lineup to
attack Trump. Claiming to be “factually accurate,” Trevor
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Noah and his cast constantly jab at the POTUS, saying that
his “dictator blood keeps him alive.”
CW
Dynasty
Melania is going to file for divorce, and Mike Pence is too
afraid to have dinner with the main characters, according
to them. It’s all just a part of the persistent wearing away
of any respect that might have been held by this show’s
audience towards conservatives.
FX
American Horror Story: Cult
In a battle that pits Trump supporter against Hillary
supporter, the Trump supporter is always wrong. “Facts
and truth mean nothing if our leader is an idiot. … I have
been through hell these past two years. But so has our
country,” whines the Clinton supporter in the season
finale.
Netflix
Chelsea
Trump made up voter fraud, Trump is a “lying bucket of
dicks,” and Sarah Huckabee Sanders is “a proper trollop.”
Whatever the episode and whatever the topic, Handler
managed to focus her unhinged barrage of insults at the
White House. While this series came to its end, Netflix is
still making sure it has some remnants of resistance.
My Next Guest Needs No Introduction
David Letterman’s return to hosting a talk show follows
the typical protocol: have the most liberal guests on for a
whole hour saying standard liberal things. His first guest
was Barack Obama, who offered his opinion on Trump.
Amazon Prime
One Mississippi
The second season of the Amazon series starts out with a
character attributing a character’s racism to the fact that
Trump was elected. Vicky, a Vietnamese woman at a Civil
War reenactment, lashes out at someone else, “You did
nothing to stop a racist bully from becoming president?”
The episode also includes an idea to move to New Zealand
to escape Trump. In an interview with the Hollywood
Reporter, Tig Notaro, the creator and star of the show, said
the show would address Trump, racism, and controversial
sexuality because “it still felt like it would be irresponsible
to not touch on issues that are going on and that have been
going on, rather than just paint Mississippi and life as this
beautiful picture always.”
Electric Dreams
An evil dictator, mimicking Trumpian rhetoric, urges
citizens to “kill all others.” Those opposing the leader have
“anti-establishment sentiment.” Just one more fantasy
Hollywood enjoys providing for people who have no
footing in reality.
Hulu
I Love You, America
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Sarah Silverman’s failed attempt to be bipartisan on her
show resulted in an episode long reflection on the 2016
elections, peppered with several cheap shots. Trump is
“hard-headed,” inspires “overwhelming survival-based
fear,” and brings “hate and division.”
Difficult People
This is the third season of the Hulu series, and among the
long list of political positions taken in the series, the
season so far has displayed Vice President Pence’s seal as
a swastika, a character flaunting a “Make America Straight
Again” baseball cap, and several swipes at Trump and
conservatives throughout the season.
Showtime
The Chi
Slamming Trump taxes and “Make America Great Again”
in the premiere, Showtime’s new drama about the Chicago
South Side promises to drive conservative viewers away.
Freeform
The Bold Type
The Freeform drama spent an entire episode this season
mocking Trump, with characters whining about him
leaving New York City and going to live in Mar-a-Lago,
and a character who joined a loud anti-Trump protest.
 Trump Dossier Diverted The Public From Clinton-Holder
Uranium Scandals In Russia & North Korea - Pt 3
By Yoichi Shimatsu
Exclusive To Rense
1-18-2018
Here, Part 3 and last of a series analyzing the transcript of
the Senate Judicial hearing of August 22, 2017, exposes
how Barack Obama’s cronies who profited from the
Uranium One deal with Russia aided in concert with the
notorious Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya and her
bellhop Glenn Simpson, founder of Fusion GPS and front-
man for the CIA forgery known as the Trump-Russia
Dossier. Her objective of a fix on the federal complaint
against Prevezon, a party to the Magnitsky’s arrest and
murder, is shown to have been supported by Eric Holder,
Loretta Lynch and Ron Dellums along with usual suspect
Hillary Clinton. Also probed is how two Moldovan bank
accounts set up for a “Mr. Kim”, probably for illegal
nuclear and missile smuggling to North Korea, were used
to launder the Prevezon funds, further implicating
Obama’s team in nuclear treachery.
Holes in the Hearing
The extensive pattern of omissions in Simpson’s
testimony to the Senate committee are here filled in with
facts of the case, along with the background of
collaboration with the Putin Kremlin by the Obama-
Holder-Clinton cabal. In this new light, forgery known as
the Trump-Russia Dossier was created to distract public
attention from prosecutor Preet Bharara’s sabotage of the
Prevezon money-laundering case in Manhattan federal
court.
The phony Russiagate scandal is then shown to be an
extension of the cover-up of the Uranium One shipments
to the Russian nuclear industry. Intriguingly, Prevezon’s
money-laundering, defended by its lawyer Natalia
Veselnitskaya, was connected with Pyongyang’s
clandestine payment for the smuggling of nuclear materials
and missile technology from Ukraine to North Korea via
Moldova.
The shady international uranium dealings approved by
President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary
Clinton account for why, even after his departure to
California, Attorney General Eric Holder has cast a long
shadow over the Department of Justice and FBI, keeping
an eagle eye over the illicit production of the Trump-
Russia Dossier and aiding the Kremlin’s femme fatale
Veselnitskaya. Holder’s aim was to divert voter attention
from the Clinton’s illegal collaboration with the Kremlin
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by smearing the Trump campaign team for its meeting
with a mysterious Russian lawyer in June 2016, which
proved to be a set-up all along by the Democrats.
Lynch Law
Holder’s successor Loretta Lynch personally authorized a
special entry visa for Veselnitskaya and tolerated her
overstay to defend Prevezon Holdings, the Moscow
company implicated in the looting of Hermitage Capital as
a part of a massive tax fraud. Hermitage CEO William
Browder had retained auditor Sergei Magnitsky to probe
the value-added tax (VAT) fraud at the Russian Federal
taxation agency. Magnitsky’s uncovering of an “inside
job” involving high-ranking revenue officials led to his
imprisonment, beatings and death behind bars.
The loot from the tax theft, more than $200 million, was
laundered through a web of foreign banks, and some of
that stolen money was used by Prevezon boss Denis
Katsyn to purchase luxury apartments near Wall Street.
Browder filed a lawsuit in New York for recovery of $30
million confiscated from Hermitage accounts in Moscow
by “fake” tax officials. His complaint was delayed and
finally settled in what now appears to be a further criminal
plan to freeze the funds by Obama lackeys in league with
the Kremlin to defraud Browder, who is castigated by the
pro-Russian left as the grandson of a renegade.
Involvement of Obama appontee Preet Bharara, the federal
attorney who constantly tweet-taunted candidate then-
president Trump, orchestrated this perversion of justice.
In contrast with the harsh treatment of Browder, Lynch’s
DOJ team rolled out the red carpet for Veselnitskaya, even
covering her luxury hotel fees in New York over many
months at taxpayers’ expense, to ensure the Kremlin’s
silent cooperation over the Clintons’ uranium dealings
with the Putin regime, as only partly disclosed so far in the
Uranium One scandal.
Retired congressman Ron Dellums (Oakland, CA) acted
as Holder’s surrogate in guiding Veselnitskaya through
Capitol Hill, introducing her to several ranking politicians.
His Russia-friendly contacts included Rep. French Hill
from Little Rock, Arkansas, the dynastic turf of the
Stephens family of financiers, the patrons of the Clintons.
Stepens Inc. is the financial adviser to Walmart, long
seeking entry into the Russian consumer market, and
Tyson Foods aiming to resume its meat exports, not the
foul chicken rejected by Russians but beef for borscht,
burgers and steak.
The smuggling of cocaine through Mena airfield, at the
edge of the Ozarks, the Stephens clan’s home turf,
provided the massive funding from the start of Bill
Clinton’s political career up to the Stop Trump movement.
Their ability to evade justice for decades is due not only to
the Clintons but also to their patronage of the “Dark Side”
of the CIA. For the official record Dellums reported being
paid $5,000 in consultant fees by Veselnitskaya, although
logic says either Fusion GPS or Eric Holder’s slush fund
forked over a lot more cash under the table for his liaison
work.
The Kremlin’s Femme Fatale
To divert potential fallout over his administration’s
suspect Uranium One transfers to Russia, the sitting
president ordered his Obama For America (aka Organizing
For Action) campaign fund to issue $700,000 in payment
to Simpson’s team at Fusion GPS for secret surveillance
on Team Trump. This huge budget apparently also covered
Velenitskaya’s free-spending junket, since she paid only
$50,000 to Fusion GPS, while hosting nightly dinner
parties in New York and assisting the HRAGI front-group
to lobby for an end to sanctions to allow American
adoption of Russian orphans, one of the lowest blows to
come out of this affair resonating with Pizzagate. President
Putin, sir, why not put some of those ill-gotten gains
toward vocational education for orphans to work honestly
in underpopulated Russia’s agricultural and industrial
sector instead of pushing them onto known pedophile and
child-porn rings?
Her mission as a visiting lawyer, with aid from Attorney
General Loretta Lynch, was to block a money-laundering
lawsuit in federal court against Prevezon Holdings, the
Russian company owned by Denis Katsyv involving in
looting Hermitage Capital, client of auditor Sergei
Magnitsky. The probe into Russia’s biggest-ever criminal
overseas funds-transfer, was defused by Holder’s loyal
henchmen at DOJ, which carried out the Kremlin’s wishes
by settling the Prevezon Holding’s money-laundering case
with a mere $6 million fine just the day before that case
was to heard in court in a gross perversion of justice.
Why did Browder settle? Because the deck was stacked
against him. Velelitskaya had by then lined up all the
testimony on Capital Hill, from the Obama White House
and of course her own embassy to support Prevezon,
thanks to the deceptive propaganda from Glenn Simpson
and his media contacts at Bloomberg, WSJ, NYT and the
rest.
Moldovan Intoxication
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Below laid out as simply as possible is an outline of how
the embezzled and stolen funds were routed by Katsyv’s
mafia associates and dirty bankers through a Byzantine
maze into British-run offshore tax havens (note the UK
routing, in regard to MI-6 agent Christopher Steele) and to
the New York property acquisition by Prevezon.
The inter-bank transfers moved through Chisinau,
Moldova, into dummy business accounts set up to receive
funds from a “Mr. Kim”, likely the late Supreme Leader
Kim Jong Il (who died in 2011), apparently for secret
purchases of nuclear materials and missile technology
from next-door Ukraine. In other words, Prevezon under
the protection of Obama-Holder-Clinton was also engaged
in supplying warheads and missile parts for the rapid
upgrade of North Korea’s strategic warfare program aimed
at the United States, including Hawaii. When Honolulu is
nukded, the Waikiki beachboys can thank local hero Barry
O’Bomber.
An Ill-informed Supplier of Dirt
Now, here’s a look at the skimpy admissions at the Senate
Judicial hearing from Fusion GPS boss Glenn Simpson
about his Russian client Denis Katsyv, the owner of
Prevezon:
- Glenn Simpson said to Senate counsel Patrick Davis:
“My lane was records, discovery, William Browder’s
business practices, his activities in Russia, his history of
avoiding taxes.’ (p.33). Thus, his research materials to
discredit his assigned target Browder were gathered from
newspaper archives and “public” data such as bank records
and tax reporting hacked by his collaborator Nellie Ohr’s
Open Source Works, a cyber intercepts bureau at the CIA.
- His source on the Russian crime and punishment is
Edward Baumgartner, based on “his ability to interface
with the court system in Russia”, which implies insider
connections with Russian law enforcement and
prosecutors. (p.39) Interface could also be used here as a
polite term for computer hacking. “He runs a consulting
company like me.” The unlisted Edward Austin company
specializes in Ukrainian and Russian translation for
litigation. In this context, the lack of public access could
indicate that company to actually be a desk in Langley or
down in the basement of the RFK building or FBI Hoover
headquarters. Baum (tree) gartener: so evocative of John
LeCarre’s “The Constant Gardener”, a perfect nom de
plume in a work of fiction.
- “The client’s (Prevezon) explanation for its response to
the (U.S.) government’s original allegation (of looting and
stealing corporate seals from Browder’s Hermitage Capital
office) was that they originated with an organized crime
figure in Russia who had been extorting them (Katsyv
family of Prevezon) and who they had reported to the
police and who had been convicted and jailed for
blackmailing them (as stated in the Justice Department
complaint).” Note: Anyone who has an inkling about the
Magnitsky case are aware of the Moscow police habit of
doing a cover-up by silencing innocent victims in prison.
- “The allegations originated from Russian mobster
Demetri Baranovsky, who was jailed for running a
shakedown operation in which he posed as an anti-
corruption campaigner for the purpose of extorting money
from people by accusing of some kind of corrupt activities.
. . . We were able to ascertain that Mr. Baranovsky was, in
fact, associated with Russia’s biggest organized crime
family, the Solntsevo Brotherhood, the dominant mafia
clan in Moscow. . . . We found some indications that
Baranovsky was a lieutenant of this organized crime
family . . . Baumgartner helped with that . . . . because of
his ability to interface with the court system in Russia.” So
Fusion GPS runs with the Kremlin fantasy that there was
never any heist.
This is the view from a parallel universe. (I have nothing
personal against Vladimir Putin, especially his resistance
to foreign aggression, but his stance on this obvious fraud
is disappointing to say the least, especially when honesty
would serve him better.) If the Simpson / “Baumgartner” /
Velenitskaya version of Magnitsky is accepted: then the
Russian police and tax inspectors never raided Hermitage
Capital offices in Moscow, confiscated company seals and
documents, for assaulted staffers, absconding with more
than $30 million in assets. That would mean his consulting
auditor Sergey Magnitsky cooked the book to make false
allegations of bribery demands and tolerance of corrupt
business practices of Putin cronies. Therefore British-
(American) fund-manager William Browder concocted the
biggest hoax in financial history. This absurd scenario
avoids the obvious question: Why would he destroy his
own company, his grub stake in a country idolized by this
paternal family?
The View through Rose-tinted Glasses
Or, possibly, Simpson’s view through cracked rose-tinted
glasses might be out of sync with real field work. His
perspective of the larger world, self-admittedly, is through
newspaper archives and the microfiche viewer instead of
experience from the rigors of humint. His knowledge, or
ignorance, of the terrain was disclosed when he claimed
that the Republic of Kalmykia, where Browder registered
his businesses inside Russia, borders on Mongolia,
implying that it is an outlaw haven.
The Kalmyk homeland is located in Europe on the
western bank of the Volga, south of Volvograd-Stalingrad,
on the northern shore of the Caspian, along the steppe
north of the Caucasus region. Kalmykia is famous because
its former president Kirsan Ilyumzhino was head of the
FIDE world chess association, its ethnic community in
New Jersey descended from the pro-Nazi Kalmyk Kavalier
Korps (KKK), and because Vladimir Lenin’s maternal
family were of Kalmyk-Buddhist descent. The Kalmyks
were descended from Genghis Khan’s Golden Horde,
which is their Mongol connection. As for biz registration,
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Kirsan enforced strict anti-corruption rules, transforming
the nation of shepherds and ranchers into a model of
ethical propriety and legal compliance, which was what
attracted Browder to the region. His problems arose in
Moscow not on the pleasant pastures of Kalmykia.
The Brotherhood
Simpson was correct to point out that Dmitro Baranovsky
was found guilty of extortion related to Prevezon by the
Basmanny District Court in central Moscow in 2012 for an
alleged $22.5 million extortion demand on Prevezon’s
Denis Katsyv, Moscow region transport minister Pyotor
Katsyv (father of Denis) and their co-conspirators
Alexander Altuna of Sberbank and stock-market director
Vladimir Katasin. Baranovsky was sentenced to an 8-year
sentence in a Siberian prison colony.
As deputy director of the anti-corruption group “Combat
the Brotherhood”, it is irrelevant as to whether Baranovsky
was a legitimate reformer or a con artist, because in either
of those two scenarios he squeezed Prevezon for the sole
reason that it was guilty of stealing VAT tax funds along
with the assets of Hermitage Capital upwards of $22.5
million dollars, or $30 million according to Browder,
whichever.
Prevezon is a recent addition to the Katsyv properties, a
Cyprus-based front ocused on the real estate business, a
convenient cover to move millions in laundered money to
foreign shores. The vehicle-and-transport relationship of
the Solntsevskaya Brata, run by Semion Mogilevich, to the
Katsyv family offers insights into why Prevezon wanted to
move out of the reach of the Brotherhood (which has a
stronghold in Atlanta, in the U.S. state of Georgia.)
The Slav nationalist crime group, comprised of Ukrainians
and Russians, is based in the Soltsevo district of Moscow
along the M-KAT highway from the Black Sea ports of
Ukraine and near the Vnukovo Airport, used heavily for
air cargo. During the perestroika era, the Slav toughs won
a bloody battle with the Chechen mafia for control of that
urban area’s lucrative import trade in used cars and stolen
vehicles, gaining control of the roadway from Odessa to
Moscow.
The availability of luxury vehicles, vintage or slightly
used stolen, enabled a rising official in the metro
bureaucracy to became the Moscow region transport
minister, Pyotr Katsyv. With first pick of foreign-makes,
heestablished a VIP chauffeur service with 600 drivers, as
well asthe Moscow Hub transport center, and become vice
president of Russian Railways, the nation’s second-largest
state-owned company.
As for the gritty realities of the logistics sector,
everywhere around the world, truck hijacking, car-jacking
and pilferage of cargo are a universal problem for
businesses seeking prompt delivery of intact goods. Tough
men are employed as “detectives” or more robust muscle
to deter gangsters and assorted lowlife from a career of
highway robbery. To deter a young aspirant from hot-
wiring another Mercedes, the best insurance policy is to
break his legs. Therefore, unlike street-corner thugs, the
Brata or Brotherhood is a well-organized disciplined
hierarchy that maintains order in the underworld, while
using their transport monopoly to ship drugs, prostitutes
and stolen goods to customers. Their tattoo is an eight-
rayed Black Sun, formed with two superimposed ninja
stars.
Now, if Baranovsky was indeed a Solntsevskaya Brata
mobster, why would he bother to raise a public fuss (which
is totally ineffective in Putin’s Russia as shown by Soros’s
minions) instead of permanently retiring the aged transport
minister to encourage the son to paid the agreed-upon sum
owed? A demand of $22 is sufficient to engrave a
headstone for an obsolete bureaucrat.
How could Prevezon get past The Brotherhood to move
an alleged $220 million out of Russia as part of a massive
VAT skimming operation involving top taxation
department officials? The supposed sum of $22 million, or
one-tenth of the offshore transfer, is just too convenient,
meaning Baranovsky was probably framed by dirty
prosecutors in on the heist. Again, the mob would not
organize a protest when it could simply put a gun to the
heads of the father, son and their wives, and stuff them into
the truck of a used Lada for a vacation by the city landfill.
Denis Katsyv would surely crack.
Into the Black Hole
The logic of crime, law and corruption results in the
implosion of the Simpson-Prevezon alt-universe into a
black hole, sucking in everything including light. Faced
with the undeniable reality of the Hermitage Capital case
in the context of Magnitsky’s investigation into the tax
fraud, Obama’s DOJ had no choice but to accept
Browder’s complaint by the New York Southern district
prosecutors and the Manhattan federal court. The problem
was, however, the Kremlin’s leverage on Eric Holder and
Loretta Lynch for their green light on the Uranium One
deal.
Operation Eldorado, which nabbed the Prevezon money in
New York, was part of an international police investigation
into the inter-bank routing of that $22 million stolen from
the Russian taxation agency along with the loot from
Hermitage Capital through a labyrinth of foreign banks,
including the streams that passed through Cyprus where
Prevezon is registered. Katsyv was then forced to dump his
luxury apartments near Wall Street.
The Manhattan court case was filed by assistant U.S.
attorney Preet Bharara, an Obama-Holder political
appointee, who famously engaged in tweet storms with
with the incoming President Trump. His firing, however,
was due to his refusal to accept the order from Attorney
General Jeff Sessions for with remaining district-level
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federal attorneys to resign as part of a much-overdue
house-cleaning and reshuffle.
Two days after his resignation, Bharara’s successor Joon
Kim rammed through a $5.9 million settlement, on the day
before the trial was scheduled to begin. The DOJ hailed
this rotten deal as a win-win outcome. The fact is that
Veselitskaya had won hands-down with her checkmate,
another frustration for plaintiff Browder.
The delighted liberal news media heaped scorn on
William Browder, a grudge match that goes back to his
paternal grandfather, leader of the pro-Soviet Communist
Party (CPUSA) who became a turncoat by cooperating
with the FBI during World War II. The left has never
forgiven or forgotten their No.1 renegade. His
mathematician father was derided by both the left and the
right, and Bill Browder himself left the U.S. and
relinquished American citizenship due to ostracism,
moving to London where he partnered with the
controversial private banker Edmond Safra.
The Untouchables
Why was Prevezon and the Katsyvs treated like royalty by
the DOJ-FBI and the Obama administration? Rumored
irregularities in the Uranium One deal, which shipped US.-
origin uranium, including plutonium content, without an
export license from Canada to Russia. Unreported
shipments of higher grade uranium were in addition to the
yellow-cake from Russian-owned mines in the U.S. Bill
Clinton received a heavily publicized $500,000 speaking
fee from the buyer Rosatom.
A yet-to-be verified report is the removal of high-level
nuclear hexafluoride (HEX) in unmarked trucks from the
DOE-funded reprocessing facility in Paducah, Kentucky.
Plant workers spotted drivers were speaking a foreign
language other than Spanish, possibly indicating a
clandestine removal operation arranged by transport boss
Pyotr Katsyv, who’s since obviously had major leverage
on the Obama regime. Attorney General Eric Holder and
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton sat on the committee that
approved the uranium transfer to Russia at the time when
Vladimir Putin made no secret about this strategic plan for
Russia to become the world’s top nuclear supplier.
Mr. Kim in Moldova
More than $220 million was moved in early 2008 through
at least 5 major Russian banks, with a minor share
laundered through Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia and Finland.,
while another batch flowed into British tax havens. The
larger sum was funneled from the Russian Krainy bank, a
subsidiary of the Alfa group, to the accounts of dummy
companies Bunicon-Impex and Elenast at two banks in
Moldova, the transit point. The funds were reportedly for
purchases of toilets and sinks, but instead were channeled
onward into Cyprus, a haven of preference for Russian
crooks. The destination was UBS in Switzerland, into the
account of Prevezon, according to the Organized Crime
and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP). So try to
explain that away, Mr. Simpson and Sen. Feinstein.
When confronted by revenue agents, Denis Katsyn said
the funds held by a Mr. Petrov for real-estate investments
in Moldova, where deposited into Bunicon and Elenast,
accounts which were opened for a “debt repayment” from
a “Mr. Kim.” Kim? Perhaps then Supreme Leader Kim
Jong Il, father of the present regime boss?
There are not many Koreans in Moldova, a small nation of
4.2 Romanian speakers with a common cultural heritage
with next-door Romania. Although politically aligned with
the EU and NATO, Moldova has a special relationship
with the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK),
through a trade relationship based on the export of
Moldovan wine to malnourished North Koreans. The only
affluent market for this fine alcoholic product in the
vicinity of North Korea is Beijing, where nary a drop is
available on the massively stocked shops brimming with
cheap Australian and Chilean labels.
On a map of Eastern Europe, landlocked Moldova
resembles a fat grasshopper caught in the open mouth of a
large toad, which is Ukraine, to the east. It gets cheesy
now because its capital Chisinau is near Odessa, the hub of
illegal sales of nuclear materials and missile technology
including the Zenit satellite launcher rocket and the
Yushnoye-Yushmash-built Cyclone missile.
Ukraine still supplies missile technology to Russia despite
their military conflict, in blatant disregard for territorial
integrity over financial gain. In exchange, Russia
reprocesses nuclear fuel for the Ukrainian energy industry,
a Western concern that prompted Westinghouse to enter
the market until declared bankrupt by its owner firm
Toshiba. Ukraine remains an open market for Shinzo
Abe’s “strategic cooperation” with Kiev on defense
technology and cyber-security, to the South Koreans and
the Israelis, while its small arms bazaar is a shopper’s
paradise for Africans and Arabs.
To get goods past hijackers and road blocks into Moldova
for customer Kim, the key is logistical security along
roadways since every shipment to a port, railhead or air-
cargo hangar is hauled by truck. Now that’s a job for
experienced transporters, preferably Ukrainians and
Russians, trained and supervised by the Katsyv family,
those hale fellows well met in the Solntsevskaya Bratva
aka The Brotherhood.
By the slightest 3 degrees of separation under the Black
Sun, the Obama-Holder-Hillary gang are connected via
Prevezon/Bratva to Mr. Kim’s pyrotechnics productions.
Hawaiians, in Obama’s home state, have a lot to look
forward to on the Fourth of July, if not sooner.
Keeping up with the Kims and Katsyvs, sadly for their
nemesis Bill Browder, is never guaranteed, they being
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clever tightwads. The $5.9 million court settlement in New
York, arranged by Preet Bharara, never came through to
Browder, because the Prevezon money is frozen by
banking authorities in chocolate-loving corrupt Belgium,
the original Pizzagate nation in the headquarters of the EU
and NATO. The system is rigged.
Different Rules for High Rollers
The flaunting of local and international laws on money-
laundering by the Katsyvs and Velenitskaya vindicate
Sergei Magnitsky for his claim of systematic fraud with
high-level collusion from within a “reformist” regime. The
accountant never realized that self-righteous Western
governments were in on the scam. If the Putin regime has
been so determined to reform the Russian system with
strict new rules, why did the Kremlin abet the flagrant
criminality of the Katsyns? As in most countries with a
high-profile foreign strategy, there is a two=tier policy on
capital flight.
Ordinary citizens, your average Tom, Dirks and Igors, are
discouraged and heavily punished for transferring small
sums out of the homeland, as shown in the Obama
Treasury’s FATCA regulations, which makes it nearly
impossible for small-timers to open or keep business
accounts in non-US banks abroad. Meanwhile, hedge
funds and corporations like Apple and Microsoft, with the
army of accountants and lawyers, can move money
anywhere on the globe without complaint from the
Treasury.
In contrast to the hoi polloi, wealthy insiders and former
bureaucrats or intelligence officials who perform those
unsavory tasks to advance foreign policy, for example
“unofficial aid” to the Mr. Kims and other rogues, their
dirty work of character assassination of critics and
lobbying to sunset sanctions is not only tolerated but
quietly encouraged. After being caught by regulators, a
few bank officials receive a slap on the hand for failing to
spot the money laundering, but they’re soon hired by
another bank with an understanding sympathetic smile.
Globalism’s Crooked Elite
For all its efforts to deny the Magnitsky accusations of
official complicity in tax theft, Moscow isn’t doing
anything about crooks useful to the state that Washington,
London or Paris hasn’t done, except on a smaller scale.
Money laundering by insiders is a component of “selective
globalism”, tolerated whenever useful for politicians and
diplomats even those who posture as nationalists, as shown
in the Trump administration’s laxity toward those lavish-
spending Russian-style sneaks, the Kushners, whereas
studious small-time clean-cut American lad Carter Page
who aspired to be an international policy player was
snuffed and scapegoated as fall guy for the Beltway
partners of the Kremlin after their bogus accusations in the
Trump-Russia Dossier.
 Lesson: In politics, there’s no such thing as a level playing
field, or to paraphrase Napoleon Bonaparte: “Fairness is a
word found only in the lexicon of losers.”
America’s Jewish-owned news media that so eagerly
supported the Magnitsky Act then turned around to hail the
Kremilin-run Prevezon-Fusion team’s gem called the
Trump-Russia Dossier. Thus Bloomberg, NYT, WSJ,
Reuters, NBC and others on the Simpson paid planted-
story list proved to be as consistent in principle as a
Kosher pork chop.
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In this black comedy, the tragic figure of Sergey
Magnitsky who died for his belief in personal integrity and
fiscal accountability will hopefully someday become the
ethical standard for fiscal propriety. Meanwhile, as for
William Browder, following his grandfather’s sojourn
inside Russia, he should have realized before starting out
to make it rich in Russia that the only game for a foreigner,
even someone with his background and connections, in the
casino called Moscow is Russian roulette. Bang!
 Sarah Huckabee Sanders To WH Reporters On Fake News
Awards: “I Know You’re All Waiting To See If
You’re Big Winners” (VIDEO)
By Jim Hoft
Thursday, January 18, 2018

The first Fake News Awards are scheduled for Wednesday Then she added:
afternoon by the Trump White House.
“I know you’re all waiting to see if you’re big
winners. I’m sure.”

Hah!

Today White House spokesperson Sarah Huckabee

Sanders told the press room, after yesterday’s outrageous
spectacle, the awards will be later this afternoon.

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 Tax Bill Windfall: As 65 Companies
Award Bonuses Networks Air Just Two Stories
By Aly Nielsen And Julia A. Seymour
January 18, 2018 8:22 AM EST
Thousands of workers across the U.S. were awarded
bonuses, wages hikes or higher retirement account matches
this year thanks to the tax reform bill recently passed by
the GOP and signed into law by President Donald Trump.
But this huge economic story affecting so many was
practically ignored by the network evening news shows in
2018. Between Jan. 1, and Jan. 12, there were only two
stories mentioning companies handing out bonuses or
raising wages. And one of those didn’t even mention the
decision’s connection to recent tax cuts. ABC World News
Tonight with David Muir ignored the story entirely those
two weeks.
At least 65 companies of all shapes and sizes including big
names like Walmart, JetBlue and Southwest Airlines
announced bonuses, greater 401(k) contributions and/or
increased base wages (often to $15) in that two week
timeframe. Those announcements followed at least 63
other companies’ decisions to raise wages or give out
bonuses between Dec. 20, and Dec. 29, according to
Americans for Tax Reform. Tax cuts passed Dec. 20.
Companies specifically cited the lowered corporate tax rate
as the reason for their decision.
"We applaud Congress and the President
for taking this action to pass legislation,
which will result in meaningful corporate
income tax reform for the transportation
sector in general, and for Southwest
Airlines, in particular," Southwest Airlines
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Gary
Kelly said in a press release Jan. 2.
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Several days later, on Jan. 8, Southwest gave out $1,000
cash bonuses to all full-time and part-time employees who
were employed with the airline as of Dec. 31, 2017.
It wasn’t just big airlines either. Local businesses like
Anfinson Farm Store of Cushing, Iowa, and Charlotte Pipe
and Foundry Company of North Carolina, in addition to
Visa, local and national banks, utility companies and car
dealerships all took steps to reward their employees or
communities (through charitable contributions) and
attributed the acts to the tax bill’s passage.
The millions of dollars being awarded and touching
communities across the United States should have been a
huge news story. And it was, just not on the broadcast
networks which have proved hostile to the Trump
administration and opposed tax cuts. MRC analysts found
that network statements throughout November and
December Congressional debate over tax reforml were 81
percent negative.
Yet, World News Tonight ignored the positive economic
story while CBS Evening News with Jeff Glor spent just 19
seconds total. Those seconds aired Jan. 11, as CBS
reported Walmart’s minimum wage hike, but omitted both
the GOP tax bill’s role and more than 100 other companies
which had made similar announcements by that night.
NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt devoted one minute,
44 seconds to the story on Jan. 11, citing raises and
bonuses at Walmart and other companies.
“Walmart’s one of more than 100
companies passing on some of the savings
after Congress cut the corporate tax rate
from 35 percent to 21 percent,” NBC News
correspondent Gabe Gutierrez reported.
As Nightly News admitted, a majority of the raise and
bonus announcements made in December and January
credited the GOP tax legislation.
American Airlines CEO Doug Parker and President Robert
Isom announced bonuses on Jan. 2.
“We are pleased to announce that in light
of this new tax structure and in recognition
 of our outstanding team members,
American will distribute $1,000 to each
team member (excluding Officers) at our
mainline and wholly owned regional
carriers. These distributions will total
approximately $130 million and will be
made in the first quarter of 2018,” American
Airlines said in a letter to employees.
Other companies had different ways of spreading the
wealth of the corporate tax cut. Utah-based Rocky
Mountain Power said it would pass the “benefit of this tax
cut” on to its customers. Nationwide Insurance, Visa and
People’s Bank all increased contributions and matching
levels to their employees’ 401(k) accounts. Other
companies, including Capital One, Regions Financial
Corporation and U.S. Bancorp, raised their minimum wage
to $15 an hour.
MusicNotes, an online sheet music company based in
Wisconsin, said it was giving every employee an
.
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additional three percent salary increase, on top of existing
raises.
“The 3% salary increase is tied specifically
to corporate tax reform,” the MusicNotes
press release stated.
Between Dec. 20, 2017 and Jan. 12, 2018, at least 128
companies announced plans to pass on some of their tax
savings on to their employees and customers, according to
a list compiled by Americans for Tax Reform. Companies
continued to be added to the list after that time. As of Jan.
17, the list included nearly 200 companies and was still
being updated.
The media’s failure to cover the positive impact of the tax
cuts fit their negative overall coverage of the issue. During
the congressional debate over tax reform in November and
December, the broadcast network evening newscasts
churned out 173 minutes of coverage, most of it negative.
During those two months, a separate MRC analysis tallied
49 explicitly positive statements about tax reform from
network reporters/anchors, or non-partisan sources such as
taxpayers or experts. That compares to 203 explicitly
negative statements during the same time period, which
translates to 81% negative spin.
Methodology: MRC Business watched all weeknight
evening news shows on ABC, CBS and NBC between Jan.
1, 2018, and Jan. 12, 2018, looking for coverage of
businesses raising wages, giving out bonuses or taking
other actions because of the GOP tax bill’s passage. Only
two stories were found.
 BREAKING VIDEO: James O’Keefe EXPOSES Twitter
Bans Users Under Pressure From Chinese Government
By Joshua Caplan
Thursday, January 18, 2018

Project Veritas founder James O’Keefe himself must respond, and take steps to
released a brand new video exposing increase Twitter’s transparency.”
Twitter’s practice of banning users due
Despite being available in both Hong Kong and Taiwan,
to pressure from foreign governments.
Twitter is blocked in mainland China.
On January 1st, Conrado Miranda, a
Executive Kathy Chen was hired as Twitter’s Head of
former senior software engineer at
China in April 2016, yet exited the company just 8 months
Twitter admitted to Project Veritas that
later.
the social media giant routinely bars
users at the behest of the Chinese “Now that the Twitter APAC team is
government. working directly with Chinese advertisers,
this is the right time for me to leave the
company,” tweeted Chen.

Project Veritas founder James O’Keefe issued a second

warning to Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey over the weekend.
The undercover journalist teased footage of the social
media executive grabbing coffee at San Francisco hot-spot,
Blue Bottle Coffee.
“Monday morning we are releasing more shocking
undercover video from Twitter engineers exposing how
they take your private information, share it, exploit it and
abuse it,” O’Keefe said.
As The Gateway Pundit‘s Cristina Laila reported, the
undercover footage revealed Twitter pays hundreds of
employees to view everything you post in private
messages including “sex messages” and nude photos.
Video source: veritasvisuals
Miranda also revealed the Chinese government will hack
Twitter if the social media company fails to comply with
its request to ban an account.
After the video’s release, O’Keefe tweeted,
“This video begs the question – is
@Twitter even an American company? Do
they really hold American ideals? Or is the
idea of “free speech” just a marketing tool
for them to harvest your data? @jack

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 CNN Knows Better Than The President’s Doctor?
Network Claims Trump DOES Have Heart Disease
By Scott Whitlock
January 18, 2018 12:51 PM EST

Never let reality get in the way, CNN. After the White
House released the largely positive data from Donald
Trump’s physical, CNN's Sanjay Gupta refused to accept
the findings and overruled the doctor who actually
examined the President. Asked on Tuesday if Trump had
heart disease, Dr. Ronny Jackson responded,
very ill etc.), doesn’t mean they get to keep the
conclusions they already had in mind. That would be…
unhealthy.
(For more on CNN’s obsession with Trump’s health, go
here.)

“No, not at all… I think he had great A partial transcript is below:

findings across the board, but the one that
stands out more than anything to me is his
New Day
cardiac health. His cardiac health is
1/17/18
excellent.”
8:32am ET

Appearing on Wednesday’s New Day to talk about this,

Dr. Gupta contradicted the President’s doctor, claiming,
“So the President has heart disease.
Those numbers qualify him for having
heart disease. And it clearly needs a
plan to try and prevent some sort of
heart problem down the road.”
ALISYN CAMEROTA: President Trump getting a clean bill of
health. The White House physician did say the president is
overweight and does not exercise enough. But, overall, he said
his health is excellent.
So let's discuss with CNN chief medical correspondent, Dr.
Sanjay Gupta, and Dr. Kevin O'Connor, who also Vice President
Biden's physician. Okay, gentlemen, it's great to have you here
because you see different findings and conclusions in the data
and in the results that the -- the exam results that you saw. So,
Sanjay, let me start with you. Here is President Trump's official
body mass index. He is reportedly yesterday, 6'3" tall, though
that is different from previous official exams where he was 6'2".
So somehow he has grown while being in the White House. And
his weight was 239, meaning his body mass index is 29.9. What
do you see here?

Co-host Alisyn Camerota, not a doctor, made dire

predictions for the President’s health in the next few years:

So in 2009 the president's calcium score,

before he was president, was 34. In 2013,
before he was president, it was 98. Today
it's 133. And as you see from the little
cheat sheet, fine print below, a score of
over 100 means a high risk of heart attack
or heart disease within three to five years. DR. SANJAY GUPTA: Yes, I mean, you know, this is -- this is
math -- this is based on the numbers that Dr. Jackson provided.
Clearly, the President should exercise and eat healthier. And, you know, this is a body mass index ratio. It's -- a body
His doctor said exactly that. But just because the mass index is not a perfect ratio by any means, but it is a good
journalists at CNN didn’t get the expected result (crazy, sort of indicator. And at 29.9 means someone is overweight.

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Thirty, just to give you a little bit of context, means someone is
obese. So --
CAMEROTA: OK, so he is that -- that 0.1 away from being in the
obese category?
GUPTA: That's right. So, you know, borderline obese I think is
what -- is how many doctors would probably describe that.
CAMEROTA: Dr. O'Connor, what do you see in what happened
yesterday in the results?
DR. KEVIN O'CONNOR: Well, as far as the results,
potato/potato. Somebody is overweight or they're not overweight
and I really don't get hung up on a point here or a point there. I
don't think they're --
CAMEROTA: But don't you think it's significant if he were in the
obese category?
O'CONNOR: It would be a significant word. You know, nobody
wants to hear that word. Nobody wants to see that on their chart.
But how you would treat it, no, that's not a huge difference.
CAMEROTA: But, Dr. O'Connor, do you
think that the president's clean bill of
health, that he did pass with the flying
colors that the White House doctor was
saying, or did you see some -- any
warning signs?
O'CONNOR: I didn't see anything distressing. I view physical
exams, they're either reassuring or non-reassuring. And
President Trump's exam, by all of the information that Dr.
Jackson gave is -- seems to be reassuring.
CAMEROTA: Okay.
O'CONNOR: There are certainly different colors to paint it with.
You -- there's room to grow. I want him to be much more fit.
Sleeping better would be a much -- you know, a good thing for
him. But it sounds like Dr. Jackson's plan seems to be
addressing them and now it's just a matter of compliance.
CAMEROTA: Sanjay, correct me if I'm wrong, but you did see
some troubling signs when you look at the data. So let me put up
for everybody. There's this thing called the calcium score. If you
have high cholesterol, your doctor sometimes encourages you to
get a calcium looks to see if the plaque is already building up in
your arteries.
So in 2009 the president's calcium
score, before he was president, was 34.
In 2013, before he was president, it was
98. Today it's 133. And as you see from
the little cheat sheet, fine print below, a
score of over 100 means a high risk of
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heart attack or heart disease within
three to five years. What do you make of
these findings?
GUPTA: Well, I mean, that's concerning. I mean I agree with Dr.
O'Connor on this point, that you want to take patients at this point
in time. And I think what Dr. Jackson was saying yesterday in the
White House was, we've assessed the function of President
Trump's heart. They did an echo cardiogram, they did a stress
test and there was not cause for concern there.
But when you look at the findings you just put up there, Alisyn,
there coronary calcium score is a score that a lot of cardiologists
use to try and be predictive and be proactive. And if the number
gets up at over 100, that is concerning to a lot of doctors. It's
concerning because you can start to say, well, if you do nothing
different, if you -- if things don't change, you can start to predict
the likelihood of having some sort of heart event, cardiac event, a
heart attack or something like that, within a certain number of
years.
And you see the trajectory of President Trump's numbers. No
doubt -- and I think Dr. Jackson alluded to this -- based on --
because of his diet and because of his lack of exercise, that
would be part of the reason those numbers have likely gone up.
And they have continued to go up despite the fact that he's been
on medications.
So the president has heart disease.
Those numbers qualify him for having
heart disease. And it clearly needs a
plan to try and prevent some sort of
heart problem down the road.
CAMEROTA: Dr. O'Connor, does the calcium score concern
you?
O'CONNOR: It concerns me, just like Sanjay said, it's evidence
that, yes, the -- they're not the coronary vessels that he was born
with, but the function of his heart was better addressed by the
stress echo and they were reassuring numbers.
But I look for actionable information. And the -- this is actionable
information. We know his cholesterol is suboptimal. He's on an
anti- cholesterol medication. And it sounds like Dr. Jackson's
going to increase the dose of that, which is appropriate. He's on
a baby aspirin a day, which is appropriate. You know, you look at
microscopic inflation to see if any of those plaques (ph) are at
risk for breaking off and going down range. But it sounds like the
things that can be reasonably done for a man with this situation
are being done.
The other ways to look at risk are some models that are age-old,
the Framingham study --
CAMEROTA: Yes.
O'CONNOR: Gives the Farmingham scale. And if you plug in the
numbers we received yesterday into that, it puts him around 11
percent, which would be a high/low or a low/intermediate risk,
which is about -- is about right.
CAMEROTA: Okay. I want to ask about his cognitive state
because questions obviously have been raised recently about
that. And there was a moment that was troubling, at least to
viewers, where the president slurred his speech at an event. And
there was no explanation given for what was happening until
yesterday. So let me play that moment to remind people.
[Clip of Trump slurring his words.]
CAMEROTA: OK. So people wanted an explanation. Obviously
after that, what was that? It was so different than his normal way
of speaking. So yesterday, for the first time, the White House
doctor explained that he had given the president Sudafed and
that causes dry mouth and that that's what happened that day.
That was helpful. But, Sanjay, tell us also what the doctor
revealed about any cognitive tests that he gave the president.
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GUPTA: Yes. Well, what Dr. Jackson basically said was that at
the president's request he administered a cognitive test. And I've
just got to point out, I mean I've never heard of a president
getting a cognitive test in the 16 years that I've been reporting on
this. So this was a bit unusual. I mean it's not often the president
asks --
CAMEROTA: Well, but, I mean, maybe it was to put to bed those
questions. Maybe the president -- President Trump wanted to put
to bed those questions so he specifically asked for it.
GUPTA: Yes. I think that that certainly could be the reason. But it
was the president's request for this test. And, you know, to give
you a little bit of framework, this is a -- it's a pretty simple test. I
mean it's about a ten-minute test. They ask you to identify certain
animals on the screen, to be able to count backwards from 100
by seven, to recite as many words as you can beginning with a
certain letter, like the letter "f," within a minute. And you get the
idea here. Draw a cube. Draw a clock. Things like that. Things
that most people are able to do. And the president scored a
perfect score, a 30 out of 30, according to Dr. Jackson.
 Wow! Scottevest CEO Says He Advertises On FOX News
Because Their Viewers “Gullible” And “F*Cking Idiots”
By Jim Hoft
Thursday, January 18, 2018

Scott Jordan is the founder and CEO of

SCOTTeVEST.

The company advertises their products on FOX News.

Wow.

For some reason Scott thought it would

be a good move to call his customers
“f*cking idiots.”

After a moment of clarity Scott took down the post and put
up an apology.

.On Sunday Scott Jordan decided to attack his customers The apology was posted on Tuesday!
on Facebook.

Scott said he advertised on FOX News because the viewers

are gullible and ‘f*cking idiots.”

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 Selective Memory: CNN's Cuomo Denies
Own Show Accused GOP Of Sexism Against Warren
By Kristine Marsh
January 18, 2018 11:51 AM EST
CNN’s Chris Cuomo certainly seems to have a selective
memory when it comes to recalling how his own show has
responded to Democrat and Republican “scandals.”
After Senator Cory Booker launched an angry lecture
against Homeland Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen for not
remembering whether or not President Trump said
“sh**hole” during a private White House meeting last
week, the RNC took a note from the left, accusing Booker
of “mansplaining” to Nielsen.
Cuomo defended Booker on New Day Thursday, grilling
RNC chairwoman Ronna McDaniel over the charge, even
ludicrously claiming that had the same incident happened
with a Republican Senator and a female Democrat, the
media wouldn’t have batted an eyelash.
The problem is, a similar situation did happen just a year
ago, and CNN’s own reaction was much different then that
it was this week.
Cuomo began his interview by asking McDaniel “why”
she would accuse Booker of “mansplaining” when Booker
was only trying to get Nielsen to answer his question.
“You accused Booker of 'man-splaining' to
Secretary Nielsen, who is of course a
woman. Why, why did you call it that?” he
first asked.
McDaniel argued that had the situation been reversed
politically, the media would’ve responded with the same
accusation of sexism.
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“Chris, I just think it would have been
covered differently if it were a
Republican senator yelling or lecturing
a woman coming before the Senate, not
giving her a chance to explain herself,
grandstanding,” she charged.
But Cuomo didn’t agree.
“She was there for a long time. She was
answering, she kept saying the same
things,” he contested.
Cuomo then played a clip from an earlier segment where
Booker responded to the RNC’s charge, and self-
righteously huffed that he was “insulted”
because he was only calling out Nielsen
for “lying” about the “overt bigotry
coming out of the White House.”
Acknowledging that he wouldn’t get into Booker’s “lying”
charge, Cuomo again pressed McDaniel, asking her if she
expects women to get different treatment than a man:
In this age of recognizing women as
equal once and for all, on all levels, why
would he have to treat Nielsen
differently? She's so strong, she’s so
competent,she’s so empowered. Why
would he have to talk to her differently
than he would have to talk to a man?
McDaniel agreed Nielsen shouldn’t have to be treated
differently, but still argued that Booker’s reaction was
“disrespectful” to her position and was “mansplaining.”
“How is it mansplaining just because she’s
a woman is what I’m saying!” Cuomo
asked.
Finally McDaniel compared the situation to how Democrat
Senator Elizabeth Warren has been protected by the media.
“There’s a hypocrisy of how Elizabeth
Warren is treated,” McDaniel started to
say but was talked over by Cuomo who
 kept denying there was any kind of sexist
treatment towards Nielsen.
“They talk to men like that all the time,
Ronna! They talk to men like that, all the
time,” he gushed.
“There’s a hypocrisy between how
Elizabeth Warren is treated versus how
Secretary Nielsen is treated,” she finally
got out.
“The president calls her Pocahontas,”
Cuomo tried to turn the blame on Trump.
McDaniel gushed, “When Democrats
interrupt Elizabeth Warren, the media
goes crazy, and when it just happened
to---” before Cuomo interrupted.
“When has that ever happened?” he
actually asked, perplexed.
McDaniel informed him,
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“It happened a year ago,”
but was talked over the CNN anchor. She’s right. Last
February, the media as a whole, but specifically Cuomo’s
own show, threw a hissy fit when a disruptive Elizabeth
Warren was asked to be quiet by Senate majority leader,
Mitch McConnell, during a hearing confirming Attorney
General Jeff Sessions. The media hoopla over the incident
lasted for months, with several outlets mirroring CNN in
accusing the GOP of sexism.
Hilariously, Cuomo was sitting right next to his co-anchor,
Alisyn Camerota, when she charged McConnell with
“sexism” for “silencing” Warren at the time, yet somehow
he didn’t remember any of this in his conversation with
McDaniel, Thursday.
Still contesting McDaniel, Cuomo joked that it was
“almost impossible to interrupt Elizabeth Warren,”
anyway, before adding this whopper of a fabrication:
Who says that when Warren gets
interrupted, people go crazy in the
media? Even the Pocahontas thing gets
laughs these days, and that's about as
offensive as you see in political
mainstream dialogue. The president
gets away with that on the regular.
McDaniel repeated her argument that Booker was
“disrespectful” to Nielsen and was grandstanding for a
chance to run for president in 2020, and the interview
quickly wrapped up after that.
 Remember The CIA’s Heart Attack Gun? CNN Predicts
That President Trump Will Die From A Heart Attack
Kit Daniels
January 18th, 2018

CNN keeps predicting Trump will die of But for Trump to suddenly die of a heart attack from
a heart attack, which brings to mind the “natural causes,” the public must be conditioned to believe
CIA poison dart gun that can trigger he was at risk for one.
one.
Conveniently enough, CNN now has this weird obsession
Revealed by the Church Committee in 1975, the “heart with Trump’s “risk” of a heart attack:
attack gun” is a modified 1911 that can shoot a dart with a
deadly poison that’s nearly undetectable – which is perfect
for political assassinations.

“The poison was frozen into some sort of

dart and then it was shot at very high
speed into the person,” said CIA
whistleblower Mary Embree. “When it
reached the person it would melt inside
them, and there would be a tiny red dot on
their body, which was hard to detect.”
“There wouldn’t be a needle or anything
like that left in the person.”
According to the American Mirror:

Because of Trump’s calcium score, CNN

Then-CIA Director William Colby confirmed the gun
could fire a special dart which “potentially would be able
to enter the target without perception,” adding that an
autopsy would fail to detect the dart’s poison.
Of course, the heart attack gun is 40-year-old technology,
so it’s theoretically possible to now deliver heart attack-
inducing toxins to someone without needing a dart.
predicted the president will have a “heart
attack or heart disease” in “3-5 years.”
But [CNN medical analyst Sanji] Gupta was
more aggressive.
“So the president has heart disease,” he
declared.
Yesterday, CNN host Brian Stelter didn’t
accept Dr. Ronny Jackson’s findings
[Trump’s examiner], either.
Why is the network making an armchair diagnosis that
Trump suffers from “heart disease,” despite his recent
physical indicating excellent health?

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 House Intel Committee Votes To Release
Simpson Testimony; ‘Info Suggests Docs
Catastrophically BAD For DEMS’
By Usafeaturesmedia
Posted On January 18, 2018

“Blocking documents is a super weird thing memo documenting abuse of the FISA
to do if, as Democrats assert, all they want program,” Pergram tweeted.
is transparency”

(National Sentinel) Trump Dossier: The House In another tweet, the Washington Examiner‘s Byron York
Intelligence Committee quietly voted to approve the called the release a “major development.
release of “a memo documenting abuse of the FISA
program,” a move journalists believe could be
After noting that the memo, which is classified, could be
“catastrophically” bad for Democrats, reports Fox
viewed in a secure room now by all House members, York
News’ Chad Pergram.
tweeted the importance of the document?

In a tweet, Pergram also noted that while the full

“Report contains answer to question of
committee voted to release a transcript of Glenn Simpson,
whether FBI/DOJ used Trump dossier to
co-founder of Fusion GPS, earlier, Democrats on the
secure FISA warrant to spy on Americans,
intelligence panel moved to block the release of other
plus other issues. Now, whole House can
documents, including, he believes, the memo.
know. Public still in dark. 3/3”
FISA is a reference to the Foreign Intelligence
Surveillance Act; under the act, the U.S. intelligence
community must request surveillance warrants from the
FISA court, which meets in secret.

There has been speculation that the infamous Trump

dossier, which was commissioned by Fusion, paid for in
part by the Hillary Clinton campaign, and which has been
the subject of intense congressional scrutiny, was used to
justify obtaining a FISA court warrant to spy on the 2016
presidential campaign of GOP nominee Donald J. Trump.

“Fox is told that while the Intel Cmte voted

in favor of the Simpson transcript,
Democrats blocked the release of other
documents. The committee has also voted
on a motion by Rep. Pete King (R-NY) to
make available to all House members a
Sean Davis, co-founder of The Federalist, tweeted after
learning of the document and its release,
“Blocking documents is a super weird thing
to do if, as Democrats assert, all they want

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 is transparency. What are they trying to
hide?”
Davis then added,
“Schiff and the rest of the House Intel
Democrats saw the DOJ/FBI/FISA docs on
the dossier over a week ago. The lack of
any leaks plus their votes today to block
release of that info suggest the documents
are catastrophically bad for Dems.”
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House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes, R-
Calif., recently told fellow Republicans he has seen
evidence demonstrating clear “abuse” of government
surveillance programs by the Justice Department and FBI.
As reported exclusively by investigative correspondent
Sara Carter of Circa News,
“The unverified dossier alleging
connections between President Trump’s
campaign and the Russians was used as
evidence by the FBI to gain approval from
a secret court to monitor members of
Trump’s team.”
Last week House Freedom Caucus Chairman Mark
Meadows, R-N.C., said,
“Some of the things that will be coming out
are so unbelievable that the FBI and DOJ
would actually allow it to happen. And I
would also say that there are other
agencies… We are focusing in, honing in
on that target.”
 House Investigators Find Pakistani IT Workers
Gained “Unauthorized Access” To Congressional Servers:
Where’s The MEDIA?
By JD Heyes
Thursday, January 18, 2018
For several months the latest scandal tied to the
Democratic Party has been quietly building. I say “quietly”
because as usual, the disgustingly dishonest Democrat-
friendly “mainstream media” has been silent about it.
But one intrepid reporter at The Daily Caller has been
tracking and documenting the burgeoning scandal after
unearthing it last year. And now he just blew the lid off it.
“House investigators concluded that
Democratic IT aides made unauthorized
access to congressional servers in 2016,
allegedly accessing the data of members
for whom they did not work, logging in as
members of Congress themselves, and
covering their tracks, according to
a presentation summarizing the findings of
a four-month internal probe,” writes The
DC’s Luke Rosiak, detailing the latest
findings in the biggest scandal you’ve not
heard or read about.
Some months ago Rosiak reported that the aides, brothers,
and relatives who are originally from Pakistan (and are
currently back in Pakistan) were believed to have been
improperly accessing the servers and accounts of 44
Democratic lawmakers including Rep. Debbie Wasserman
Schultz and former Rep. Rahm Emanuel (now mayor of
Chicago).
Capitol Police and House officials became suspicious of
Imran, Abid, and Jamal Awan and others after they were
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caught making authorized access to Democratic members’
data.
What they were doing matched a “classic method for
insiders to exfiltrate data from an organization,” according
to the presentation, continuing to do so even after being
told to stop their activities.
Rosiak reports that there is evidence to believe that the
data of numerous Democratic members might have
secretly been stored not on designated servers but rather
aggregated onto a single server.
Investigators and federal authorities noted as well that the
entire server has been stolen, by the way.
But it gets worse. It appears as though Democratic leaders
misrepresented the seriousness of the breach and data theft
to their members, as noted by the differences in what
investigators have actually found and the fact that 44
Democrats did not beef up their system security which is
typical after a breach.
A summary of the investigation, written by the House
Office of Inspector General under the bold heading
“UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS” states that
“5 shared employee system administrators
have collectively logged into 15 member
offices and the Democratic Caucus
although they were not employed by the
offices the accessed.”
Investigators found evidence that a House “server is being
used for nefarious purposes and elevated the risk that
individuals could be reading and/or removing information”
that is very likely sensitive (or personally damaging,
perhaps?).
In addition to the Awans, Imran’s wife Hina Alvi is named
along with friend Rao Abbas. Abid’s Ukrainian wife
Natalia Sova along with another associate, Haseeb Rana,
were also identified as being involved in the breaches or at
least associated with them. (Related: There is nothing
more despicable than a Democrat.)
The summary notes that one of the system administrators
“logged into a member’s office two months
after he was terminated from that office.”
Further, investigators believe there was malicious intent:
“This pattern of login activity suggests
steps are being taken to conceal their
activity.”
Rosiak noted that statements made to him by some
Democratic House members indicate they were
misinformed or at least not fully told about the seriousness
of the breaches.
“This is the first I’ve heard about that,” Rep.
Emmanuel Cleaver of Missouri said of the
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cybersecurity issues, though he employed
nearly every member of the Awan group.
“The only thing I’m aware of is that he’s
being charged with bank fraud,” Rep.
Joaquin Castro of Texas, who employed
Jamal and is also a member of the House
Intelligence Committee, told Rosiak.
House and Democratic officials told affected chiefs of staff
in February 2017 that the Awans and others were being
banned from the network. There were no Republican staff
members present. Briefers never said anything about the
cybersecurity concerns, according to several Democrats.
And wouldn’t you know it? The Democrat-aligned
‘establishment media’ isn’t telling them, either.
Go figure.
 Trump NAILS Democrats Over BUDGET, GOVT.
SHUTDOWN With This SIMPLE Statement
To The Press (Video)
By Usafeaturesmedia
Posted On January 18, 2018

No deal before Friday by midnight means that all non-
essential government functions would shut down
“But again, the group that loses big would
be the military, and we’re never letting our
military lose at any point,” he said.
“We’re going to fund our military, we’re
going to have a military that we’ve never
had before because we’ve just about…just
about never needed our military more than
now. Thank you very much,” the president
added.

(National Sentinel) Presidential: President Donald J.

Trump used his bully pulpit to push for a long-term budget
deal in Congress and to avoid a government shutdown
during a visit to the Pentagon on Thursday.

As lawmakers from both parties rush to find a

compromise, most Democrats have dug in their heels and
have said they would not support any budget deal that did
not include a pathway to citizenship for so-called DACA
“Dreamers” — illegal aliens currently in the U.S. who
were brought in by their parents.

No deal before Friday by midnight means that all non-

essential government functions would shut down.
However, other federal employees would still have to
report to work, though they would not be getting paid until
the budget impasse is over and government funding is
resumed.

The active-duty military is part of that group of “essential”

federal employees, and that includes troops that are
currently deployed overseas in war zones.

Trump addressed this with reporters.

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 Scarborough: Trump Doctor
Is ‘Shameful’ ‘Sycophant’, ‘Political Hack’
By Chris Reeves
January 18, 2018 2:36 PM EST
On Thursday’s Morning Joe, co-host Joe Scarborough
doubled down on his promotion of the “girther” conspiracy
theory by repeatedly attacking the character and integrity
of Rear Admiral Ronny Jackson, the official Physician to
the President. Drawing his points in large part from a
Washington Post column written by Dana Milbank,
Scarborough unleashed his contempt at Jackson for giving
Trump a clean bill of health.
Joe labeled the doctor a “shameful”
man who “sounded like a sycophant”
and used “the words of a political
hack.”
While this was happening, co-host Mika Brzezinski
chimed in occasionally to wonder about whether or not
Jackson was lying about his medical report, at one point
stating:
“It doesn’t sound like he wrote it.”
Although the segment in question began with Scarborough
and his fellow panelists insisting that they were not trying
to promote “girtherism” or attack Dr. Jackson, Joe
apparently couldn’t help himself, declaring almost
immediately that
“the doctor certainly has taken on the
[...] lifeform of other lifeforms inside the
Trump White House. He, he sounded
like a sycophant. He didn’t sound like a
doctor.”
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Scarborough then proceeded by reading from or
paraphrasing large parts of the Milbank column that he
found to be insightful [the transcript below adheres to what
Joe said, not necessarily the exact wording of Milbank or
Dr. Jackson]:
SCARBOROUGH: Uh, Dana Milbank: I was not
alarmed about the president’s health, but the doctor’s.
Rear Admiral Ronny Jackson was so effusive in extolling
the totally amazing, surpassingly marvelous, superbingly
[sic] stupendous and extremely awesome health of the
president, the doctor sounded almost Trump-, Trumpian.
Quote: The president’s overall health is excellent, he said,
excellent eight times: Hands down, there’s no question that
he is in the excellent range. . . . I put out the statement that
the president’s health is excellent, because his overall
health is excellent. . . . Overall, he has very good health.
Excellent health.
BRZEZINSKI: It doesn’t sound like he wrote it.
SCARBOROUGH: [continuing to paraphrase/quote
Milbank and Jackson] And just how excellent is the
excellent Excellency’s health? Incredible cardiac fitness.
He has incredible genes. He has incredibly good genes,
and it’s just the way God made him. And after Sanjay
Gupta pointed out that he was borderline obese, the doctor
replied that Trump's heart is in the excellent category. And
not just his heart!
[Joe starts to speak in condescending,
babying, mocking, whining tone]
The doctor rhapsodized about Trump’s
vision, his stamina. He has more energy
than just about anybody. And Trump is
very sharp, and very, very articulate. . . .
Very, very sharp, very intact. . . .
Absolutely no cognitive or mental
issues whatsever [sic] . . . . The
president did exceedingly well. And
then they said: Well, but he is borderline
obese. To which the doctor said that if
he’d eaten better over the past 20 years,
he might live to be 200.
Scarborough’s increasingly mocking tone and his inability
to accurately read from Milbank’s column got worse and
worse until Brzezinski finally stepped in to exclaim: “God,
what did he say about Obama?” (Mika was probably
referring to Jackson’s time as Obama’s White House
physician.) Joe, trying to portray Jackson as being
sycophantically pro-Trump, flatly replied: “Uh, the
President's, uh, uh, cholesterol is a little high. Uh, he
checked out well.” Brzezinski pledged that she was going
to “look it up,” and she spent much of the rest of the
segment doing so on her smartphone.
At this point, perhaps sensing how far astray he had gone
in impugning Jackson’s character, Scarborough half-
heartedly threw in some praise for the doctor before
continuing to paint him as a bloviator:
SCARBOROUGH: You know, which is, I,
I'm sure this guy is a great guy, great
physician, blah blah blah. He shouldn't
have sounded so Trumpian first of all.
And second, Willie,-
BRZEZINSKI: Well, did he write it?
SCARBOROUGH: -he works in a White
House where just about everybody who
makes public statements lie [sic]. So, if
he's shocked that somebody’s going: Eh,
okay, well. The White House spokesman
said we weren't gonna have a cognitive
exam, made a point to say no cog- -- and
suddenly we have a cognitive exam? And
he can tell what lions and, and, and
rhinos and giraffes and little monkeys
are? Great, okay. That's fine. Um, but it
was -- I don't know. It was, it was
Trumpian, to say the least.
Yes Joe, the test that Trump took has questions like that
because it’s looking for DEMENTIA, that thing you’ve
been saying Trump has for months now. People who are
suffering from dementia have trouble answering those
simple questions because their minds are deteriorating. As
the liberal news site Vox explained [emphasis mine]:
The Montreal Cognitive Assessment, or MoCa, is a tool
designed to spot the symptoms of dementia that come with
a neurodegenerative disease like Alzheimer’s or
Parkinson’s. According to Jackson, Trump requested a
cognitive test during his annual physical, and is the first
president to have undergone one.
To the able-minded, some of the
questions might look overly simple or
silly.
It asks, for instance, for the patient to identify the names of
a few animals, and correctly state their date and location. It
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has basic tasks like counting backwards by seven, and
drawing a clock that reads 10 past 11.
These are some of the basic mental
processes that tragically slip away from
people with dementia.
Scarborough’s complete ignorance about dementia is
pretty disturbing given his prominent role in pushing the
“Trump literally has dementia” conspiracy theory.
Joe wasn’t done with attacking Dr. Jackson’s integrity,
however. After reiterating his belief that Trump’s reported
weight of 239 pounds must be wrong, Scarborough also
went after Jackson for saying that Trump’s sleep habits are
not a problem:
SCARBOROUGH: Well, and, do you, do you, do you
know what el-, do you know what else is also odd, Willie?
You won't find a reputable doctor in
America-
BRZEZINSKI: [using smart phone] Yeah, I’m looking for-
.
SCARBOROUGH: -that will tell you
getting four hours of sleep-
WILLIE GEIST: Right.
SCARBOROUGH: -a night is good for
you. They will all say the same thing: Get
four hours of sleep a night–over time,
your cognitive abilities start to
degenerate. Not a single respectable
doctor in America would say what he said.
So, are we questioning his integrity?
No, we're not. I'm just questioning his
motivations. I mean, does, maybe he likes
eating at the White House mess lot. I don't
know why. But, but his own words-
JONATHAN LEMIRE: Yeah, it was-.
SCARBOROUGH: -are not the words of a
physician. They're the words of a
political hack.
Actually, they’re the words of a real doctor who knows
what he’s talking about. While most adults do need
roughly 7-9 hours of sleep a night, a small proportion of
the population, known as “short-sleepers,” have genes that
enable them to get by on 4-6 hours of sleep a night. As
reported by the BBC and Business Insider, several current
and past world leaders, CEOs, or other elite figures have
had this ability. If Trump is a genetically predisposed
short-sleeper, then his sleep habits are indeed not a
problem, as Dr. Jackson reported.
Scarborough closed out the segment by lambasting
Jackson for “whitewashing” Trump’s health:
SCARBOROUGH: He gets four hours of
sleep a night. He has one of the highest
stress jobs in the world. And for this guy
to come out and whitewash all that and
say that he's in great shape and -- oh, he
could exercise a little bit. Oh, he could do --
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but if he ate better, he could live to be 200
years old. What extraordinary genes, et
cetera, et cetera, et cetera.
BRZEZINSKI: This is, I think -- point
made.
SCARBOROUGH: Come on, that's just
shameful.
When even Mika thinks you’ve gone a bit overboard,
maybe it’s time to start considering pulling back from the
precipice?
 Lindsey Graham BAITS CNN Info Babe
Into Asking THIS About TRUMP, Then Lowers The Boom
By Usafeaturesmedia
Posted On January 18, 2018

“Let me tell you what, you can be dark as Bash complied and Graham
charcoal and lily white — it doesn’t matter answered, “Absolutely not.”
as long as you’re nice to him”
Graham went on to explain,

“Let me tell you what, you can be dark as

charcoal and lily white — it doesn’t matter
as long as you’re nice to him,” Graham
explained. “You could be the pope and
criticize him — it doesn’t matter, he’ll go
after the pope.
“He’s a street fighter,” Graham noted
further. “It’s not the color of your skin that
(National Sentinel) Media Miss: Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-
matters, it’s not the content of your
S.C., appeared on CNN Thursday to discuss once again
character, it’s whether or not you show him
comments reportedly made by President Donald J. Trump
respect or like him.”
during recent negotiations over an immigration reform bill
at the White House.
Graham noted that Trump no longer needs to be a “street
fighter,” which is how he got elected — beating Graham,
Graham, who was in the room at the time with a number of
in fact, along with 15 other GOP candidates.
other lawmakers, was asked by Dana Bash if Trump called
countries like Haiti and African nations “sh*tholes,”
implying that he intentionally singled out countries where “What we need now is a leader,” Graham
most citizens are black. continued, pointing out that Trump has
moments of brilliance and that the country
is behind him on a plethora of issues that
“You can keep asking me all day long and
must be addressed.
I’ll say the same thing,” Graham
responded. “Why don’t you ask me, ‘is he a “There are real estate markets and there
racist?’” are political markets,” the senior South
Carolina Republican said, and each can
“That was my next question,” Bash
only bear so much.
admitted.
“Okay well, why don’t you ask me?”
Graham said coolly.
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 New York Times Psychiatrist Calls
For New Law To Prevent Trump From Nuking Us All
By Chris Reeves
January 18, 2018 5:49 PM EST
On Wednesday, The New York Times published an op-ed
from guest contributor Steven Buser, a clinical psychiatrist
who previously worked for the U.S. Air Force.
Unfortunately, instead of providing actual insight about
President Trump’s mental health, Buser used his authority
as a former evaluator of airmen who worked with nuclear
weapons as a license to commit psychiatric malpractice.
Without providing any concrete evidence,
Buser portrayed Trump as a potential
existential threat who is mentally
unstable enough to launch an
“impulsive first strike nuclear attack” on
some unnamed foe.
In response to this imaginary crisis, Buser urged Congress
to pass a bill that would seriously hinder America’s
capacity to respond to nuclear threats.
Buser introduced his piece by laying out the basics of the
Nuclear Personnel Reliability Program (P.R.P.) and its
importance in keeping the country safe, but did not linger
for long on the technical specifics of the program. After
admitting that White House physician Ronny Jackson’s
evaluation of Trump showed that the President was “no
doubt” in “decent shape,” Buser moved straight to his
argument for why Trump is too mentally unfit to be
allowed to handle America’s nuclear arsenal [emphasis
mine]:
I have not had the opportunity to
examine the president personally, but
warning signs abound.
What if I had reliable outside information
that Airman Trump displayed erratic
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emotions? That I saw very clearly that he
was engaging in cyberbullying on
Twitter? That he had repeatedly made
untruthful or highly distorted
statements? That his language implied he
engaged in sexually abusive behavior?
That he appeared paranoid about being
surveilled or persecuted by others, that he
frequently disregarded or violated the rights
of others?
These are the sorts of things that set off alarms for Air
Force psychiatrists. I certainly could not certify him as
“P.R.P. ready” without more extensive psychological
evaluation.
I can’t read Buser’s mind to figure out exactly what
examples he was thinking about here, but his last line
accusing Trump of being paranoid about surveillance
seems to be a reference to the now-famous kerfuffle
between the President and The New York Times over
Trump’s claim that Trump Tower was wiretapped by the
Obama administration. Even though the Times published a
front page article last year with the headline “Wiretapped
Data Used in Inquiry of Trump Aides,” which appeared
to support that very accusation, NYT reporters attacked
Trump as a paranoid liar for making it.
If that is the tired old point that Buser was trying to
resurrect, then perhaps he would be interested in looking at
more recent reporting by CNN that found the following
[emphasis mine]:
US investigators wiretapped former
Trump campaign chairman Paul
Manafort under secret court orders
before and after the election, sources tell
CNN, an extraordinary step involving a
high-ranking campaign official now at the
center of the Russia meddling probe.”
The government snooping continued into early this year,
including a period when Manafort was known to talk to
President Donald Trump.
Whoops, looks like Trump wasn’t crazy after all. If the rest
of Buser’s unspoken examples are as bad as this one, then
his case is in serious trouble.
However, apparently unconcerned by the notion of having
to actually back up his claims with evidence, Buser piled
on to his baseless assertions by musing about how Trump’s
rhetoric was partially responsible for the panic caused by
Hawaii’s false ballistic missile alarm this past weekend
[emphasis mine]:
It does not take a former Air Force
psychiatrist to point out that our country
finds itself in a place unlike any we’ve ever
been before. Saturday morning’s alarm in
Hawaii, as residents read alerts that
incoming ballistic missiles were on their
way, is a wakeup call to the very real
danger we’re facing. Global tension and
angst are significantly heightened.
We’ve been here a few times before, but
unlike those other times our
commander-in-chief adds, without
equivocation, to this angst almost daily
with his words and actions. We have
always assumed that the person at the top
has the mental fitness to meet whatever
standards the Air Force set for the rest of
the chain of command. What keeps me up
at night? The realization that, at the
worst possible time, we have a chief
executive who I believe would probably
fail the P.R.P.
Buser concluded his article by pleading for Congress to
take action now to pass the Restricting First Use of
Nuclear Weapons Act of 2017, a bill that would restrict the
president’s ability to use nuclear weapons without
Congressional approval [emphasis mine]:
It’s unlikely that the military will act on its
own to require the president to submit to an
Air Force psychiatrist’s evaluation. But
there are other options. A bill in the House,
with support in the Senate, called the
Restricting First Use of Nuclear
Weapons Act of 2017, explicitly
prevents any president from initiating a
nuclear first strike without
Congressional approval. This should be
common sense for any politician to support,
because it assures that the checks and
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balances intended by the framers of the
Constitution remain intact. But equally
important, it remedies a glaring failure
within the nuclear chain of command
and mitigates one of the greatest
dangers of our nuclear ages: the
possibility of an unhinged president
executing a calamitous decision that
endangers millions of Americans, and
potentially millions of others around the
globe.
No president, including Mr. Trump, should have the
unilateral power to begin a nuclear war.
Congress must protect the American
people, and taking away the option of an
impulsive first strike nuclear attack is a
clear and sane way to prevent a
dangerous and insane result.
Unhinged pieces like this are the reason why the American
Psychiatric Association established as one of its principles
of ethics the following rule:
The “Goldwater Rule”:
On occasion psychiatrists are asked for an
opinion about an individual who is in the
light of public attention or who has
disclosed information about himself/herself
through public media. In such
circumstances, a psychiatrist may share
with the public his or her expertise about
psychiatric issues in general. However, it is
unethical for a psychiatrist to offer a
professional opinion unless he or she has
conducted an examination and has been
granted proper authorization for such a
statement.”
Buser’s lack of a specific diagnosis (that is, not offering a
“professional opinion”) for Trump may allow him to
technically skirt this ethical guideline, but raising the alarm
as he did about a sitting U.S. president being a threat to
millions of lives certainly violates the spirit of the rule and
displays a crass lack of respect for a profession that should
never be politicized.
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 WOW! Sara Carter Reveals FISA Memo
Is So “Explosive” That It Could END Mueller Investigation
By Joshua Caplan
Thursday, January 18, 2018

The House Intel panel’s passage of New

York Republican Rep. Peter King’s
motion to release the FISA abuse memo
to fellow House members has rocked
Washington, D.C.
Lawmakers from Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) to Rep. Lee
Zeldin (R-NY) have called for the classified memo’s
immediate release. According to Fox News contributor
Sara Carter, the contents of the memo are so “explosive,”
that it could end special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia
probe once and for all.
But the government official, who viewed the document
said
“it will be tough for a lot of people to see
this and especially the media, which has
been attempting to deemphasize the
dossier. It’s going to punch a hole in their
collusion narrative.”
On Thursday, the House Intelligence Committee quietly
voted to make available to fellow House members “a
memo documenting abuse of the FISA program,”
reports Fox News’ Chad Pergram. Rep Lee Zeldin (R-NY)
is demanding the secret memo be released immediately.

Sara Carter reports:

“Just read the classified doc @HPSCI re
FISA abuse. I’m calling for its immediate
A review of a classified document outlining what is
public release w/relevant sourced material.
described as extensive Foreign Intelligence Surveillance
The public must have access
Act abuse was made available to all House members
ASAP! #Transparency.”
Thursday and the revelations could lead to the removal of
senior officials in the FBI and Department of Justice,
several sources with knowledge of the document stated.
These sources say the report is “explosive,” stating they
would not be surprised if it leads to the end of Robert
Mueller’s Special Counsel investigation into President
Trump and his associates. […]

Congressional members are hopeful that the classified

information will be declassified and released to the public.

“We probably will get this stuff released by

the end of the month,” stated a
congressional member, who asked not to
be named.

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 “Releasing this classified info doesn’t
compromise good sources & methods. It
reveals the feds’ reliance on bad sources &
methods,” added Zeldin.

As The Gateway Pundit‘s Jim Hoft reported, Rep. Matt

Gaetz (R-FL) joined Liz Claman on FOX Business
Network to discuss the FISA abuse report.

Rep. Gaetz told Claman:

“The allegations contained in this important

intelligence document go to the very
foundations of our democracy and they
require an immediate release to the public
in my opinion.”

Carter’s story comes amid reports former White House

Strategist Steve Bannon has reached a deal to meet with
Mueller, rather than appear before a grand jury.
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 "Explosive", "Shocking" And "Alarming"
FISA Memo Set To Rock DC, "End Mueller Investigation"
By Tyler Durden
Thu, 01/18/2018 - 22:25

All hell is breaking loose in Washington D.C. after a four-

page memo detailing extensive FISA court abuse was
made available to the entire House of Representatives
Thursday. The contents of the memo are so explosive, says
Journalist Sara Carter,

that it could lead to the removal of senior

officials in the FBI and the Department
of Justice and the end of Robert
Mueller's special counsel investigation.
These sources say the report is
“explosive,” stating they would not be Lawmakers who have seen the memo are calling for
surprised if it leads to the end of Robert its immediate release, while the phrases "explosive,"
Mueller’s Special Counsel investigation "shocking," "troubling," and "alarming" have all been used
into President Trump and his associates. - in all sincerity. One congressman even likened the report's
Sara Carter details to KGB activity in Russia.

“It is so alarming the American people

have to see this,” Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan
told Fox News. “It's troubling. It is
shocking,” North Carolina Rep. Mark
Meadows said. “Part of me wishes that I
didn't read it because I don’t want to
believe that those kinds of things could
be happening in this country that I call
home and love so much.”

Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y., offered the motion on Thursday

A source close to the matter tells Fox News that "the memo
details the Intelligence Committee's oversight work for the
FBI and Justice,
including the controversy over
unmasking and FISA surveillance."
An educated guess by anyone who's been
paying attention for the last year leads to
the obvious conclusion that the report
reveals extensive abuse of power and
highly illegal collusion between the
Obama administration, the FBI, the DOJ
and the Clinton Campaign against
Donald Trump and his team during and
after the 2016 presidential election.
to make the Republican majority-authored report available
to the members.
“The document shows a troubling
course of conduct and we need to make
the document available, so the public
can see it,” said a senior government
official, who spoke on condition of
anonymity due to the sensitivity of the
document. “Once the public sees it, we
can hold the people involved
accountable in a number of ways.”
The government official said that after
reading the document “some of these
people should no longer be in the
government.” -Sara Carter

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 Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz (R) echoed Sara Carter's
sentiment that people might lose their job if the memo is
released:

Deputy AG Rod Rosenstein

“I believe the consequence of its release
will be major changes in people
currently working at the FBI and the
Department of Justice,” he said,
referencing DOJ officials Rod Rosenstein
and Bruce Ohr

Meanwhile, Rep. Matt Gatetz (R-FL)

said not only will the release of this
memo result in DOJ firing, but "people
will go to jail."

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Former Secret Service agent Dan Bongino says

"Take it to the bank, the FBI/FISA docs

are devastating for the Dems."

Releasing the memo to the public would require a

committee vote, a source told Fox, adding that if
approved,

it could be released as long as there are

no objections from the White House
within five days.

Reactions from the citizenry have been on point:

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 Of all the recent developments in the ongoing
investigation(s), this one is on the cusp of turning into a
genuine happening.

Even WikiLeaks has joined the fray, offering a reward in

Bitcoin to anyone who will share the memo:

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 INTEL EXPERTS: “Heads Will Roll” When FISA Intel
Memo Released – Rosenstein And Ohr
Fired Immediately (Video)
By Jim Hoft
Thursday, January 18, 2018

that it could end special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia

probe once and for all.

Tonight Rep. Gaetz added that Rod Rosenstein and Bruce

Ohr, the demoted agent at the Department of Justice, will
be immediately fired after the memo is released.

Lou Dobbs and Chris Farrell from Judicial Watch

discussed the explosive memo Thursday night on Lou
Dobbs Tonight.

The House Intel panel’s passage of New York Republican

Rep. Peter King’s motion to release the FISA abuse memo
to fellow House members has rocked Washington, D.C.

Lawmakers from Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) to Rep. Lee

Zeldin (R-NY) have called for the classified memo’s
immediate release. According to Fox News contributor
Sara Carter, the contents of the memo are so “explosive,”

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 Obama FBI/DOJ/FISA Abuse Report Goes To Full House
Of Representatives After Democrats Try To Block
Access From Fellow Lawmakers
- What Are Democrats So Scared Of?
By Susan Duclos - All News Pipeline
January 18, 2018
The House Intelligence Committee took two votes, one
was to release the highly publicized testimony from Fusion
GPS founder Glenn Simpson, and it appears the measure
passed unanimously. The other passed strictly along party
lines, with Democratic committee members attempting to
block the release of a brief report which summarizes the
Obama era FBI/DOJ FISA abuses, which reportedly also
includes the answer as to whether the FBI and/or the DOJ
used the discredited, and unverified, Steele dossier to
obtain FISA warrant to surveil the Trump campaign team
members.
The vote wasn't even to to release the summary to the
public because it contains classified information, the
Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee were
attempting to block the rest of the 435 members of
Congress from being allowed to see whether the FBI and
DOJ, under Obama, had abused their positions in order to
spy on an opposing party's presidential candidate and
president-elect.
WHY THIS IS SO IMPORTANT
The bottom line answer to this is that Democrats on the
committee attempted to prevent the rest of the House of
Representatives from seeing the proof that the Obama
administration violated keys aspects of the law, abused the
system, and did so with impunity, until now.
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To get the full context of how brutal the battle to get
information to the public has been, we go back for a brief
recap, starting in March 2017, when House Intelligence
Committee chairman David Nunes made headlines by
exposing to reporters that the Intelligence community,
under Obama had "incidentally" collected information, via
surveillance on Trump transition team members after the
election.
After left-wing activists filed ethics complaints against
Nunes, he temporarily handed over the reigns of the Russia
investigation to Representative Mike Conaway, with
assistance from Representatives Trey Gowdy and Tom
Rooney, until the Ethics Committee determined he did not
violate any ethics rules.
That was the long story short, feel free to follow the links
for the detailed versions.
In December 2017, after the ethics committee cleared
Nunes, he announced that as the investigation had
progressed they had uncovered evidence of "abuse" on the
part of the intelligence community during the Obama
presidency.
“I believe there's evidence that abuses
have occurred," Nunes said in his first
interview since the House Ethics
Committee dismissed allegations he had
wrongly released classified information as
part of the panel’s Russia investigation.
"We have had an ongoing investigation into
DOJ [Department of Justice] and FBI since
mid-summer for both FISA [Foreign
Intelligence Surveillance Court] abuse and
other matters that we can't get into too
much. But it is very concerning."
Nune's stated at the time
"I hate to use the word corrupt, but they
become so dirty that, who is watching the
 watchmen? Who is investigating these
people? There is no one."
Now, evidence that Democrats and Republicans on the
House Intelligence Committee have had for over a week,
can be seen by the full House of Representatives, via a
secure room since information within the brief report is
still classified. They will know, but as of now, the public
will not.... unless of course Gateway Pundit is right in
saying "let the leaking begin."
Co-founder of the Federalist, Sean Davis states, via
Twitter
"Schiff and the rest of the House Intel
Democrats saw the DOJ/FBI/FISA docs on
the dossier over a week ago. The lack of
any leaks plus their votes today to block
release of that info suggest the documents
are catastrophically bad for Dems."
Note- A fair amount of snark there as it was Schiff that is
believed to have leaked information from the classified
testimony of Donald Trump Jr., during the testimony, to
CNN, that Wikileaks had provided him with an encryption
code to a release before they had released it to the public,
only to later have to correct their report, showing the email
sent to Don Jr. had been sent by someone else, after
Wikileaks had already released the information in question
to the public, therefore negating the entire implication that
there was some type of collusion between Don Jr. and
Wikileaks.
That particular screw up by CNN, and
others, made President Trump's Fake
News Awards of 2017 list, ranking as
number 3.
The implication by Davis is clear, had the information
contained in the report vindicated Democrats or the Obama
administration, Schiff or his Democratic cohorts would
have been leaking like a faucet, but since not a peep has
been leaked to the mainstream media in over a week about
the report, it is damaging to Democrats and the intelligence
community from the Obama era.
The fact that Democrats fought so hard to prevent even the
full House of Representatives from seeing this report,
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gives more credence to three sources, two congressional
members, one person in the DOJ, that told Sean Hannity,
"100 percent the dossier was used at least
in part, one person said was significantly a
part of getting the FISA warrant." Sara
Carter from Circa had also received
confirmation from a variety of sources that
"the dossier was absolutely used as part of
the FBI's ability to gain a warrant to
basically spy on members of the Trump
campaign."
In the video clip from that discussion, Hannity and Carter
are joined by chairman of the Freedom Caucus Rep. Mark
Meadows and former chairman Rep. Jim Jordan, where
Meadows argued at the time to
"let every member have access, not only to
that FISA application, but to all the
outstanding work that Chairman Nunes has
put forth in terms of gathering documents."
He went on to state, "it is time that every
member has the access to those
documents. So we are calling on our
leadership to make that available."
Rep. Jordan takes it a step further, saying that once the full
House gets to see this information, then the chorus will
grow stronger to
"declassify this, make this public so the
American people can understand once and
for all what exactly happened."
Watch the entire segment, because there are members of
Congress, fighting for transparency, not only to the full
Congress, but so that the general public, "we the people"
that pay their salaries, can be informed of exactly what was
done, whether the DOJ/FBI and the Obama administration
abused their positions in order to frame a President-elect
from the opposing party.
Jordan's point above from last week is also one Political
Analyst Byron York makes at Washington Examiner on
Thursday in his report about the vote to allow the full
House to see the report.
Which raises another question: When will
the public know? Obviously, the more
House members know about the dossier
investigation, the more likely its classified
results are to leak. That might happen at
any time.
But Republicans can pursue another
strategy, as well. The House itself can
declassify documents under certain
conditions. If enough members support
declassifying the House Intel report, then
the House as a body could move to
declassify the information in it. And then
the public would know.
It's unclear whether that will happen. Much
depends on lawmakers' reaction to the
report. But after months of delays and
frustration, things appear to be moving
quickly on the dossier front. They'll likely
move faster in coming days, after more
lawmakers have taken a look at the new
report.
court in order to obtain the surveillance on the Trump
campaign after the election, then every single bit of
evidence obtained by the special counsel or any other
investigative body, including the intelligence community,
that stemmed from that FISA warrant, is all "fruit of the
poisonous tree," and cannot be used in a court of law.
Fruit of the Poisonous Tree- A doctrine that
extends the exclusionary rule to make
evidence inadmissible in court if it was
derived from evidence that was illegally
obtained. As the metaphor suggests, if the
evidential "tree" is tainted, so is its "fruit."
The doctrine was established in 1920 by
the decision in Silverthorne Lumber Co. v.
United States, and the phrase "fruit of the
poisonous tree" was coined by Justice
Frankfurter in his 1939 opinion in Nardone
v. United States.
The bottom line question is obvious:
What are Democrats so scared of in the
Steele dossier report that they actually
voted against allowing the their fellow
congress men and women from seeing it?

BOTTOM LINE

While it has taken over a year to get to this point, York is

right, seeing this vote to allow all members of Congress to
have access to the information contained in the report, a
little over one week since the information became
available, is incredibly fast in terms of how long
Congressional actions generally take, which means things
are heating up pretty quickly now.

As to why this is so very important.... if the unverified,

Clinton and DNC funded, Kremlin sourced, Steele dossier
was used in any way to commit fraud against the FISA
.

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 Top Dossier Reporter Discovers Bizarre Contradiction In
Testimony of Fusion GPS’s Glenn Simpson
by Joshua Caplan
Thursday, January 18, 2018
Fusion GPS co-founder Glenn Simpson
might have even more explaining to do.
The Daily Caller‘s Chuck Ross, one of
the leading reporters covering the
Steele dossier scandal, discovered a
“discrepancy,” between Simpson’s
House and Senate testimony relating to
his relationship with banker Bill
Browder.
Simpson first told Senate investigators that he
met Browder prior to 2009. Later, he gave
contradictory statements to House investigators, first
claiming he had never met Browder, then saying he knew
him from a while back while he was a reporter at the Wall
Street Journal.
“Very big discrepancy here in Simpson’s
Senate and House testimony. In Senate,
says he met Bill Browder when he was with
Wall Street Journal (pre-2009). He told
House he didn’t know who Browder was
when he took up Prevezon case in 2013,”
tweeted Ross.
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Simpson told Senate investigators,
“I’ll add that, you know, I’ve done a lot of
Russia reporting over the years. I originally
met William Browder back when I was a
journalist at the Wall Street Journal when I
was doing stories about corruption in
Russia. I think the first time I him he
lectured me about — I was working on
a story about Vladimir Putin corruption and
he lectured me about how have Vladimir
Putin was not corrupt and how he was the
best that ever happened to Russia. There
are numerous documents that he published
himself, interviews he gave singing the
praises of Vladimir Putin. At that time I was
already investigating corruption in Putin’s
Russia.”
Simpson told House investigators,
“And so they approached me originally in
late 2013 with this matter. I didn’t know
anything about Prevezon, didn’t know
anything about most of this stuff. Didn’t
 know who Browder was, William Browder Why is Simpson’s brain freeze noteworthy? Fusion GPS
was. allegedly assisted the Russian government in an attempt to
“imprison or murder,” banker Bill Browder, “a London-
based banker who spearheaded the Magnitsky Act, a
sanctions law vehemently opposed by the Russian
government,” reports the Daily Caller’s Chuck Ross.

Via the Daily Caller,

Browder made the allegation in response to the recent

revelation that Fusion GPS and its founder Glenn Simpson
compiled what he says is false information about him that
was given to Yuri Chaika, Russia’s prosecutor general, and
to Donald Trump Jr. during the infamous June 2016
Trump Tower meeting. […]

It was previously known that the Washington, D.C-based

Fusion GPS’s investigation of Browder was beneficial to
Oops. the Russian government and its effort to reverse the
Magnitsky Act. But it was revealed only last week that
information Fusion collected on Browder was shared
directly with Chaika, whose position is the Russian
equivalent of the U.S. attorney general.

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 The Smoking Gun II:
The FBI’s Concerted Effort To Interfere
With The 2016 Presidential Election
Dr. Robert Owens
January 18, 2018
Hillary and her crew get a pass for colluding to stack the
deck against Bernie. No matter what the evidence
revealed, the FBI nomenclature predetermined that New
York’s sixth crime family was untouchable.
Congressional insiders report they have uncovered new
irregularities and contradictions inside the FBI’s probe
of Hillary Clinton’s email server.
Investigators say there is written evidence that the
FBI found evidence that some laws were broken when the
former secretary of State and her top aides transmitted
classified information through her insecure private email
server.
That evidence includes passages in FBI
documents stating the “sheer volume” of classified
information that flowed through Clinton’s insecure emails
was proof of criminality.
According to Sean Moran in Breitbart,
“Former FBI Director James Comey’s
original memo regarding former Secretary
of State Hillary Clinton’s private email
server was edited by FBI staffers to remove
five references suggesting Clinton engaged
in activities that would suggest felony and
misdemeanor charges, according to
obtained copies of the original memo.”
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Looking into this matter, Senate Homeland and
Government Affairs Committee by Chairman Ron Johnson
(R-WI) states,
The edits to Director Comey’s public
statement, made months prior to the
conclusion of the FBI’s investigation of
Secretary Clinton’s conduct, had a
significant impact on the FBI’s public
evaluation of the implications of her
actions. … This effort, seen in light of the
personal animus toward then-candidate
Trump by senior agents leading the Clinton
investigation and their apparent desire to
create an ‘insurance policy’ against Mr.
Trump’s election, raise profound questions
about the FBI’s role and possible
interference in the 2016 presidential
election.”
Was there a concerted effort to interfere in the election of
2016? Yes, there was. And the activities of those who
sought to impose their handpicked candidate Hillary
Clinton, the last nail in our coffin need to be brought to
light.
According to Andrew C. McCarthy in National Review,
“When you look at it hard, two conclusions
are impossible to escape: First, at the
height of the 2016 campaign, Obama
intelligence officials anxiously adopted
Christopher Steele’s allegations of
traitorous conduct by then-candidate
Donald Trump rather than first subject his
“dossier” to rigorous investigation — even
though Steele himself admits that his “raw,”
“unverified” reports might not be true.
Second, at the same time the FBI was
receiving Steele’s reports — which were
based on multiple-hearsay from
anonymous Russian sources, and paid for
by the Clinton campaign — Obama
 intelligence officials were briefing
congressional leaders about them, thereby
ensuring that they’d be publicized just six
weeks before Election Day.”
This was a brazen attempt to weaponize Steele’s raw
unverified ‘Intelligence’ seeking to use it to sink Trump’s
campaign.
This so-called intelligence was bought and paid for by the
Clinton campaign. It used unverified sources and
introduced what is now believed to be deceptive stories
from a foreign power perhaps designed to influence the
election by spreading false stories about Trump. If there
was any Russian influence in all of this it was the
introduction of it by the Clinton campaign and their bogus
intelligence.
According to Scott Uehlinger, a retired CIA Station Chief
and Naval Officer in Newsmax,
“As we move into 2018, we are seeing a
rapid unravelling of the infamous Fusion
GPS-Christopher Steele ‘dossier.’ With this
discredited report dies the false narrative
that the Trump Administration was involved
in collusion with the Russian government.
It’s about time — the Justice Department
investigation into ‘Russian collusion’ was
always the fruit of this poisoned tree.
What should be disconcerting to Americans
is that this document ever saw the light
of day; much less that it formed the
centerpiece of an official USG
.
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investigation. The whole sad affair
demonstrates how far the professionalism
of our Justice Department and Intelligence
service has fallen in the wake of the
rampant politicization that was the hallmark
of the Obama Administration.”
Add to this the team of anti-Trump ideologues assembled
by Prosecutor-in-Chief Mueller and the whole process is
rotten from day one.
House Majority Whip Representative Steve Scalise (R-
LA) stated,
“You’ve seen an exposure of what I think is
a lot of corruption and real concerns that
have been raised about the special
counsel. In fact, just the credibility of the
special counsel is very much in question.
Because, as you mentioned, so many of
the people that Mueller brought in, the
people working on that, were very anti-
Trump in the campaign, and still to this day.
… So, I think just the impartiality of this
investigation has been called into question,
and I have some real serious concerns
about it.”
Calling this a witch-hunt is giving witch-hunts a bad
rap. Personally, I believe all of this is part of a silent coup
designed to bring down the President. Planned and
executed by the Deep State. To be forewarned is to be
forearmed. As this parody of justice continues, at least no
one can say we haven’t known what was going on and
what is coming.
 BREAKING=> Rep. Matt Gaetz: I Believe This Will Not
End Only With Firings – I BELIEVE PEOPLE WILL GO
TO JAIL #Muellergate #Releasethememo (VIDEO)
By Jim Hoft
Thursday, January 18, 2018

Tonight Rep. Gaetz told Sean Hannity

that not only will the release of this
memo result in DOJ firing but that
people will go to jail!

Rep. Matt Gaetz: I believe this will not end just with
firings. I believe there are people who will go to jail. I was
very persuaded by the evidence.

Via Hannity:

The House Intel panel’s passage of New York Republican

Rep. Peter King’s motion to release the FISA abuse memo
to fellow House members has rocked Washington, D.C.

Lawmakers from Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) to Rep. Lee

Zeldin (R-NY) have called for the classified memo’s
immediate release. According to Fox News contributor
Sara Carter, the contents of the memo are so “explosive,”
that it could end special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia
probe once and for all.
.

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 WIKILEAKS Offers Reward Up To $1 Million For Access
To FISA Abuse Memo #Releasethememo
By Jim Hoft
Thursday, January 18, 2018

special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia probe once and

for all.

Rep. Matt Gaetz later told Sean Hannity,

“I believe people will go to jail.”

Tonight Wikileaks offered $1 million for

access to the FISA abuse memo.

On Thursday a classified DOJ memo on

the FISA abuse by top officials rocked
Washington DC–

The House Intel panel’s passage of New York Republican

Rep. Peter King’s motion to release the FISA abuse memo
to fellow House members has rocked Washington, D.C.

Lawmakers from Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) to Rep. Lee

Zeldin (R-NY) have called for the classified memo’s
immediate release.

According to Fox News contributor Sara Carter, the

contents of the memo are so “explosive,”that it could end

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 Sean Hannity: I Have A Message Tonight For The Special
Counsel Robert Mueller – Your Witch Hunt Is Now Over
(VIDEO) #Releasethememo
By Jim Hoft
Thursday, January 18, 2018

Sean Hannity warns Special Counsel Sean Hannity:

Robert Mueller — Your witch hunt is
now over. Based on today’s events I have a
message tonight for Special Counsel
Robert Mueller. Your witch hunt is now
over. Time to close the doors…

It is more disturbing than we thought. And right now our

sources are telling us that the abuse of power is far greater
than Watergate… What we are talking about tonight are
the abuse of the powerful tools of intelligence that we use
to spy on people. Those tools were used against an
opposition candidate, and president elect and his entire
team. And it was done not only under false pretenses but
with the with help of Hillary Clinton. She bought and paid
for the dossier that they filled with Russian lies…

The House Intel panel’s passage of New York Republican Via Hannity:
Rep. Peter King’s motion to release the FISA abuse memo
to fellow House members has rocked Washington, D.C.

Lawmakers from Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) to Rep. Lee

Zeldin (R-NY) have called for the classified memo’s
immediate release. According to Fox News
contributor Sara Carter, the contents of the memo are so
“explosive,”that it could end special counsel Robert
Mueller’s Russia probe once and for all.

Sean Hannity dropped a bomb on

Special Counsel Robert Mueller tonight–

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 Rep. Gaetz Over FISA Warrant/Dossier Scandal:
‘I Believe People Will GO TO JAIL’ (Video)
By Usafeaturesmedia
Posted On January 19, 2018

“I believe this will not end just with firings” Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, in discussing the revelations
contained in the memo, added:

“This should never happen in a country like

America.”

He said that if a majority of the House Intelligence

Committee votes to release the memo, it would then go to
the White House for review. If the president gives his
approval, then the memo — or parts of it — would be
released to the public.
(National Sentinel) Epic Scandal: During a Thursday
evening appearance on Fox News‘ “Hannity” program, Gaetz added that the entire Mueller probe
Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., predicted that officials within the “is a fallacy” that was “built on fiction, a lie.”
Department of Justice and the FBI would not only be fired He noted that not a single Democrat on the
over alleged ties to a bogus FISA warrant obtained by the Intelligence Committee voted in favor of the
Obama administration and used to spy on the Trump memo’s release.
campaign.
Per Hannity, watch:
He and other Republican lawmakers are calling on the
House Intelligence Committee to release a reportedly
explosive but classified “FISA memo” that members who
have read it say it lays out scandalous behavior on the part
of the previous administration that goes well beyond
Watergate.

The panel quietly voted earlier this week to release the

memo to the full House. Members have already pored over
the document, which they must do in a secure room due to
its Top Secret classification.

On Hannity, Gaetz predicted that the memo’s contents

would lead to serious consequences for all involved.
Gaetz and others have also said that there is nothing in the
memo that would compromise U.S. national security.
“I believe this will not end just with firings. I
believe there are people who will go to jail.
I was very persuaded by the evidence,” he Chris Farrell, the director of investigations for government
watchdog group Judicial Watch, said the memo was
said.
grossly “over classified.” He also said he believes that
“corrupt law enforcement officers” within the federal
According to Fox News contributor Sara Carter, the government — including former FBI Director James
contents of the memo are so “explosive” that it could lead Comey — should be fired, at a minimum.
to the end of special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russian
collusion probe.
.

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 ‘SH*T IS ABOUT TO HIT THE FAN’: Ex-Secret Service
Agent Warns ‘Devastating’ FISA Memo
Set To ‘Expose’ Obama
By Joshua Caplan
Friday, January 19, 2018

The House Intel panel’s passage of New

York Republican Rep. Peter King’s
motion to release the FISA abuse memo
to fellow House members has rocked
Washington, D.C.

“My sincere apologies for the expletive but

SHIT IS ABOUT TO HIT THE FAN. The
former Obama administration’s going to
have a lot of explaining to do.”

Lawmakers from Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) to Rep. Lee

Zeldin (R-NY) have called for the classified memo’s
immediate release. According to Fox News contributor
Sara Carter, the contents of the memo are so “explosive,”
that it could end special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia
probe once and for all.
“Take this check and cash it, the
Former Secret Service agent Dan Bongino warned the Democrats are in a full blown panic right
release of the FISA report will destroy the image of his now over the #Obamagate scandal that’s
former boss Barack Obama. about to become a nightmare for them.
Watch them all scurry like roaches when
the lights come on it.”
“Take it to the bank, the FBI/FISA docs are
devastating for the Dems. The whole image
of a benevolent Barack Obama they’ve
disingenuously tried to portray is about to
be destroyed. The real Obama, the
vengeful narcissist, is going to be exposed
for all to see,” tweeted Dan Bongino

“Release the memo and watch the rats run

away like the cowards they are. Your mind
is about to blown, and your eyes open, to
both the power of the federal govt, and the
vengefulness of an Obama administration
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hellbent on destroying Trump,” added Last week, Bongino called the Steele
Bongino. dossier firestorm is “the most explosive
scandal.”
It’s getting ready to burst!” the former
Secret Service agent added.

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 Biggest Scandal In American History - 'Is This The KGB?'
Lawmakers Explode After Reading Classified Memo
Democrats Tried To Hide - People 'Will Go To Jail'
- Contact Information For House Intelligence Committee At The Bottom
Of The Article - Tell Them To #Releasethememo
By Susan Duclos - All News Pipeline
January 19, 2018
On Thursday ANP reported that Democrats attempted to
prevent the full House of Representatives from reading a
classified House Intelligence Committee memo that details
the abuse of Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA)
by the upper echelons of the DOJ and FBI under Obama in
order to investigate Donald Trump, but access was granted
after a party line vote.
We asked "What are Democrats scared
of?
"You think about, ‘is this happening in
America or is this the KGB?’ That’s how
alarming it is." - Rep. Scott Perry, Fox
News
The reactions by Republican House members that have
now seen that memo, pretty much answers that question,
and the implications of their public statements after
reading the memo, is nothing short of terrifying. While
they could not reveal the explicit information within the
memo due to it being classifIed, they are demanding the
memo be declassified and that the American public be
shown, with a #ReleaseTheMemo campaign.
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While politicians are known to get hyperbolic, the fact that
Republican House members are demanding the public get
to see the memo detailing the abuses under the Obama
administration, while stating things like "Part of me wishes
that I didn’t read it because I don’t want to believe that
those kinds of things could be happening in this country
that I call home and love so much," as chairman of the
Freedom Caucus Rep. Mark Meadows told Fox News, tells
us exactly why every single Democrat on the House
Intelligence Committee voted against letting their fellow
lawmakers see it.
Rep. Matt Gaetz called the memo "jaw-dropping" while
demanding full transparency, stating "There is no higher
priority than the release of this information...," before
telling Sean Hannity of Fox News,
"I think that this will not end just with firings.
I believe there are people who will go to
jail."
He said what he saw in the memo also
explains why Senate Judiciary Committee
Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA) and
Judiciary Subcommittee Chairman Lindsey
Graham (R-SC) recently referred the
Fusion GPS dossier author Christopher
Steele for a criminal investigation.
“I think there will be criminal implications
here,” Gaetz added.
Gaetz did not stop there,
"Every single Democrat on the Intelligence
Committee voted against even allowing
other members of Congress to see this
information, so you know they’re going to
fight against release to the American
people," he added. "What are the
Democrats so afraid of? Why don’t they
 want the American people to know the truth
about what was going on with the
government, how that impacted the
president, his transition, his campaign and
it just seems interesting to me that
Democrats don’t want us to know what
the entire basis was in the first place for
the Mueller probe they want to drag this
out through the midterm elections to try
to embarrass this president and distract
this Congress from the critical work we
have to do to save this great country. Let’s
release the documents."
Hannity asked Gaetz
"Does Mueller need to disband?" Gaetz
responds "Absolutely, this was a lie built on
corruption built on a sham. The entire
investigation is a fiction. It's a fallacy, and
when the American people see how this
began, when the American people see how
different people interacted with one
another, how organizations were infected
and infiltrated and subjected to tremendous
bias of individuals and how that really
played out, I think that every American will
understand how absolutely ludicrous it is
that we continue to allow the Mueller probe
to go forward. It needs to end because the
entire basis is a lie"
Listen to Rep. Jordan and Rep. Gaetz below on Sean
Hannity.
Multiple House Republicans took to Twitter to offer their
reactions, with Rep. Steve King stating "I have read the
memo. The sickening reality has set in. I no longer hold
out hope there is an innocent explanation for the
information the public has seen. I have long said it is
worse than Watergate. It was #neverTrump &
#alwaysHillary. #releasethememo.
Rep. Meadows tweeted
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"I viewed the classified report from House
Intel relating to the FBI, FISA abuses, the
infamous Russian dossier, and so-called
"Russian collusion." What I saw is
absolutely shocking. This report needs to
be released--now. Americans deserve the
truth. #ReleaseTheMemo."
Rep. Louie Gohmert –
"Read the CLASSIFIED
@HouseIntelComm memo on repeated
FISA warrant abuses. The truth may not
set the guilty free but it needs to come out.
Release the #FISAMemo: "then he added a
link to Sara Carter's article about the
memo.
Sara Carter has been at the forefront of reporting on the
FISA abuses, well before the MSM even attempt to spin
the data, and according to her report that Gohmert linked
to, her sources are telling her
"they would not be surprised if it leads to
the end of Robert Mueller’s Special
Counsel investigation into President Trump
and his associates."
Rep. Lee Zeldin –
"Immediately #ReleaseTheMemo
#FISAMemo & ALL relevant material
sourced in it. Every American needs to
know the truth! We wouldn't be revealing
any sources & methods that we shouldn't;
only feds' reliance on bad sources &
methods."
Rep. Raúl R. Labrador –
"Just read the Intelligence Committee
memo. The public has a right to know the
information regarding the FBI and the DOJ.
#releasethememo."
Also under the #ReleaseThemMemo hashtag, Wikileaks
has put out a $1 million reward offer to anyone willing to
"leak" the memo, stating "#ReleaseTheMemo:
Do you know someone who has access to
the FISA abuse memo? Send them here:
https://wikileaks.org/#submit WikiLeaks will
match reward funds up to $1m sent to this
unique Bitcoin address:
3Q2KXS8WYT6dvr91bM2RjvBHqMyx9CbPMN or
marked 'memo2018': https://wikileaks.org/donate."
 (115 Congress, Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence)
BOTTOM LINE - #RELEASETHEMEMO - WHAT
NEEDS TO HAPPEN NOW
House Intelligence Committee Majorty Staff - (202) 225-
4121/ Minority Staff - (202) 225-7690
According to House rules the Intelligence Committee can
take a vote to release the memo to the public, then the
(202) 224-3121 for the U.S. House switchboard operator
information would go to President Trump and unless he
had an objection which would then force the entire House
House Contact Page –
to vote on the measure, the report could be declassified and
offered to the public at large.
https://www.house.gov/representatives/find-your-
representative
Given President Trump's insistence this whole time that
the entire Mueller investigation was a witch hunt, as well
Directory of Representatives –
as his highlighting multiple examples of corruption he has
noted within certain intelligence agencies, there is little
https://www.house.gov/representatives
chance that the President would object to this report being
declassified and made public.

While we do not often suggest calling Congress, this is an

issue that could end all the antics we have seen to bring
down a duly elected President, finally cause a public
outcry to see the corrupt individuals within the FBI and
DOJ held accountable, so we will add the contact
information below.

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 CONFIRMED: Obama DOJ Used Information From
Dossier Author Christopher Steele To Spy On
Trump Campaign Official
By Joshua Caplan
Friday, January 19, 2018
According to a new report, the Obama
Justice Department relied on
information obtained by former British
spy, Christopher Steele, to spy on
Trump campaign aide, Carter Page,
during the final days of the 2016
presidential election.
Steele infamously compiled the
discredited dossier detailing alleged sex
acts performed by then-businessman
Donald Trump inside a swanky Moscow
hotel suite in 2013.
The Wall Street Journal reports:
Congress is probing the Obama
administration’s decision to use research
by an ex-British spy to justify, in part,
surveillance of an associate of Donald
Trump, as Republican scrutiny rises of law-
enforcement actions during 2016
presidential campaign. In the final days of
the campaign, the Justice Department used
information from Christopher Steele, a
former British intelligence official, as part of
its request for a secret court order to
monitor Carter Page, a foreign policy
adviser to Mr. Trump and his ties to Russia,
say people familiar with the matter. At the
time, Mr. Steele was working for a research
firm that was being paid by the Democratic
Party and Hillary Clinton’s presidential
campaign. He produced a 35-page
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dossier of salacious and unverified
allegations involving Mr. Trump that the
president has dismissed as false.
Steele, who was tasked with compiling the
‘Trump dossier’ for opposition research firm
Fusion GPS, recently admitted in court that
the discredited document contains “limited
intelligence.”
Steele also admitted part of
“his final December memo,” was unvetted.
“Such intelligence was not actively sought;
it was merely received,” Steele added.
In addition, a new report by the Washington Post reveals a
senior FBI official shared intelligence with dossier author
and former British spy Christopher Steele.
The FBI agent revealed the name of its Trump campaign
mole, volunteer George Papadopoulos, to Christopher
Steele on October 1st, 2016.
As The Gateway Pundit previously reported, it has long
been suspected the FBI used the Steele dossier, which
alleged Russian ties to the President’s campaign
associates, to convince a judge to grant them a FISA
warrant, allowing them to secretly monitor Carter Page.
The Hill reported:
FBI Director James Comey has cited the
dossier in some of his briefings with
lawmakers in recent weeks as one of the
information sources used by his bureau to
bolster its probe, U.S. officials briefed on
the investigation told CNN.
The FBI is investigating Russian efforts to
interfere in the 2016 election, as well as
any potential ties between the Trump
campaign and Moscow.
The secret court that oversees the Foreign Intelligence
Surveillance Act (FISA) granted the FBI a warrant to
monitor the communications of Page, a former national
security adviser on Trump’s campaign.
The court that deals with any topic related to FISA
awarded the FBI a warrant to monitor communications
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involving Page back in 2016, Page was a former national
security advisor on the President’s campaign.
There is no specifics yet on how much of the dossier was
cited when the FISA application was made but the
investigative agency would’ve had to corroborate some of
the claims to be awarded the warrant.
 PBS/NPR Poll Finds Trump's
First Year A 'Failure',
NPR Exaggerates It
By Tim Graham
January 19, 2018 7:30 AM EST
Your taxpayer-supported news producers at PBS and NPR
paid for a new poll pronouncing Trump’s first year flopped
with the voters: 53 percent said Year One was a failure,
while 45 percent picked Success.
But break down the numbers by party, and the division is
predictable: 87 percent of Democrats pronounced Trump a
failure, and 87 percent of Republicans checked the success
box. Among independents, it was 50 percent failure, 41
percent success, nine percent unsure. (Typically, the poll's
sample was 32 percent Democrat, 25 percent Republican,
43 percent independent/other.)
Sadly, on Thursday's Morning Edition broadcast, NPR
didn't do a partisan breakdown as they sounded the Failure
alarm. Anchor David Greene and political analyst
Domenico Montanaro underlined Bad News. They couldn't
even note 45 percent said it was a success:
DAVID GREENE: We have a report card this morning for
President Trump as we approach the one-year anniversary
of his inauguration. It comes from a new NPR/PBS
NewsHour/Marist Poll fresh out this morning, and it is not
good news for the president. A majority of Americans, 53
percent, say his first year in office has been a failure....
So we've heard all year that President Trump's approval
ratings have been, you know, at record lows. So I guess
this isn't too surprising, but can you dig into why exactly
Americans have been unhappy with his performance?
DOMENICO MONTANARO: Yeah. If you look at the
issues, I mean, look at foreign policy. Fifty-four percent of
Americans say American foreign policy has deteriorated in
the last year under this president. Most pressing for a lot of
people is North Korea. Fifty-eight percent disapprove of
this president's handling of North Korea, and more than 70
percent say they're worried about war breaking out with
the country.
GREENE: Wow. That's striking that that
people would think a war could be
happening soon.
MONTANARO: Absolutely.
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And it's a huge number, and it's why so
many people you can see were so
scared when that false alarm went out in
Hawaii over the weekend.
Actually, poll respondents were asked if foreign policy had
"gotten better" or "gotten worse" under Trump, not if it
had "deteriorated," as Montanaro exaggerated it.
Montanaro did hint that core Trump supporters were
pleased with Trump, that "91 percent say that his year has
been a success, but he hasn't played much to the middle."
NPR briefly noted the positive results, but quickly returned
to Trump being "underwater" on the tax cut:
GREENE: So if he can look at his base as really being
behind him, as one positive, are there any other positives
in these numbers that the president could look at?
MONTANARO: Yeah, and they shouldn't be overlooked
because they're big things - the economy and his handling
of ISIS. You know, they're OK numbers for him. You
know, by a margin of 48 to 40, people say that they
approve of the way he's handled going after the terrorist
organization ISIS. And the economy, most people say, is
pretty good. So, you know, those are big things, obviously,
especially in an election year. But his signature legislative
achievement, the tax bill, still unpopular. And he's going to
try to sell that today. He's underwater with that. You know,
only 36 percent of the country approves of it, and most
people, 6 in 10, think that his policies are aimed at helping
the rich. Just a quarter say that he's trying to help the
middle class.
Somehow, NPR couldn't find the numbers on the
economy: 44 percent say it's better, and only 18 percent
say it's worse, while 35 percent said it stayed about the
same. A Nexis search of NPR transcripts found there has
been no mention of record stock-market highs over the last
few days. What Dow 26,000?
Strangely, the PBS NewsHour did not report any of these
poll results on Thursday night. Perhaps they are waiting
for David Brooks and Mark Shields to "debate" (well,
agree) that Trump is in terrible shape.
 Breaking: Rep. Gaetz: Memo Will Be Released Soon –
Laws Were Broken – Heads Will Roll In DOJ And FBI –
#Releasethememo (VIDEO)
By Jim Hoft
Friday, January 19, 2018

On Thursday a classified DOJ memo on
the FISA abuse by top officials rocked
Washington DC–
Rep. Matt Gaetz later told Sean Hannity,
“I believe people will go to jail.”
On Friday morning Rep. Gaetz joined
America’s Newsroom to discuss the
explosive memo.
Gaetz says he believes the memo will be
released soon.
Representatives. And this is a matter of such importance
that I think we need to do it immediately…
If we get this memo into the public
square heads are going to roll at the FBI
and the Department of Justice…
What I’m worried about is that the cast of characters in the
memo are not a group of people that are gone. Many of
these people are still in our government. They still wield
influence… It’s easy to see after reading this memo why
Senator Grassley and why Senator Graham wanted to refer
this matter for criminal prosecution. Laws were broken…

I have every confidence after speaking

to Paul Ryan and Devin Nunes that after
we go through the right procedures and
provide notifications to the executive
branch that we will release this memo…

Via America’s Newsroom:

Rep. Matt Gaetz: Our republic is in jeopardy if we allow

this type of a palace coup environment to continue to
persist and that’s why I’m one of the members of Congress
who will be encouraging today Intelligence Chairman
Devin Nunes to release the memo. We can have a vote in
the Intelligence Committee, a vote in the full House of

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 Fusion GPS Founder:
FBI May Have Paid Expenses For
Anti-Trump Dossier Author
By Aaron Klein
19 Jan 2018
TEL AVIV — Glenn R. Simpson, the co-
founder of the controversial opposition
research firm Fusion GPS, stated in
testimony it “makes sense” to him that
the FBI paid for a trip to Rome by the
former British spy who was contracted
by Simpson’s company to produce the
largely discredited 35-page anti-Trump
dossier.
Fusion GPS hired Christopher Steele, a former British
intelligence agent, to do the work cited in the anti-Trump
dossier. Last July, Steele reportedly traveled to Rome,
where he met with an FBI contact to supply the agency
with the anti-Trump dossier and other information he
found during the course of his anti-Trump work.
Steele’s dossier reportedly served as some of the basis for
the FBI’s investigation into Trump’s 2016 presidential
campaign and unsubstantiated claims of coordination with
Russia.
In August 22 testimony released last week and reviewed in
full by Breitbart News, Simpson stated that Steele’s
outreach to the FBI was “something that Chris took on his
own.”
Simpson stated that as far as he knew Fusion GPS did not
fund Steele’s trip to Rome to meet with the FBI. He said
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he believes that the trip expenses may have been
reimbursed by the FBI.
“I don’t think we did,” Simpson stated,
referring to whether Fusion GPS paid for
Steele’s travel to Rome to meet with the
FBI. “I have no information that we paid for
it.”
He continued:
“Again, this sort of emphasizes, you know,
the point I was making earlier which was
this was something that I considered to be
something that Chris took on on his own
based on his professional obligations and
not something that was part of my project.”
“So it makes sense to me that he was
reimbursed by them,” he stated, referring to
the FBI.
Just before those statements, Simpson was asked:
“Do you know who paid for Mr. Steele’s trip
to Rome to meet with the FBI?”
Simpson replied:
“I have read recently that — I think in a
letter from Senator Grassley that the FBI
reimbursed the expense. But to be clear, I
mean, that’s it. He was, to my knowledge,
not been (sic) compensated for that work or
any other work during this time.”
Simpson was likely referring to a March 6 letter from
Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley requesting
information and documents about the FBI’s ties to Steele,
including whether the agency utilized Steele for its
investigation into Trump and whether the FBI paid Steele
or intended to pay him.
The Washington Post reported in February that Steele
“reached an agreement with the FBI a few weeks before
the election for the bureau to pay him to continue his work,
according to several people familiar with the
arrangement.”
Ultimately, the FBI did not pay Steele, the Post reported.
The Post report continued:
Communications between the bureau and
the former spy were interrupted as Steele’s
now-famous dossier became the subject of
news stories, congressional inquiries and
presidential denials, according to the
people familiar with the arrangement, who
spoke on the condition of anonymity
because they were not authorized to
discuss the matter.
The FBI’s national press office did not
return a Breitbart News request seeking
comment on whether the agency paid for
Steele’s Rome trip or reimbursed him for
any expenses.
In March, CNN cited people familiar with
the matter as saying that the FBI
reimbursed Steele for some expenses.
CNN reported:
The FBI reimbursed some expenses of the
former British intelligence operative who
produced a dossier containing allegations
of President Donald Trump’s ties to Russia,
people familiar with the matter said. …
An official familiar with the discussions said
the FBI didn’t hire Steele as an informant,
but that the arrangement instead allowed
for expenses to be paid. It couldn’t be
learned how much he was paid and for how
long.
In his interview on Capitol Hill in August,
Simpson was grilled about whether he had
any knowledge of previous financial
arrangements between Steele and the FBI.
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Here is a transcript of that exchange, which includes
questions from lawmakers and interjections from Steele’s
attorney, Josh Levy:
Q: Was Fusion aware of the reports that the FBI considered —
let me rephrase. Was Fusion aware that the FBI considered
paying Mr. Steele to investigate Mr. Trump and his associates?
SIMPSON: When?
Q: At any time.
LEVY: When you say “paying,” what do you mean by that?
DAVIS: Providing money.
LEVY: For a fee? Are you talking about reimbursements?
DAVIS: Fees or reimbursements in this context.
SIMPSON. We’ve learned that. We know that now. In fact, it
was –
LEVY: Learned what?
SIMPSON: Well, we learned — sometime after the election we
learned that Chris had discussed working for the FBI on these
matters after the election and that that didn’t happen.
Q: Did Mr. Steele discuss that with you at the time?
SIMPSON: He didn’t discuss it — I don’t remember exactly when
he mentioned this to me, but he mentioned to me at some point I
think after the election that he had discussed this with them.
FOSTER: So prior to news reports to that effect? In other words,
you learned it from him
LEVY: Wait. You asked two different questions. I’m trying to
figure out which one you want him to answer.
FOSTER: The last one.
LEVY: What was the last one?
FOSTER: You learned it from the news and not from him? Are
you saying you learned it from him?
LEVY: Learned what from him?
FOSTER: That he discussed with the FBI having the FBI pay Mr.
Steele.
SIMPSON: I don’t remember.
LEVY: The witness is yawning. Let’s take a break.
MUSE: We will attribute that to fatigue as opposed to the
questions.
 “Sickening Reality Has Set In – Worse Than Watergate”:
Rep. Steve King Demands Congress #Releasethememo
By Joshua Caplan
Friday, January 19, 2018

On Thursday night, Rep. Steve King (R-IA) joined the

chorus of lawmakers demanding the classified FISA
abuse memo be released.

“Releasing this classified info doesn’t compromise good

sources & methods. It reveals the feds’ reliance on bad
sources & methods,” added Zeldin.

“I have read the memo. The sickening reality has set in. I
no longer hold out hope there is an innocent explanation
for the information the public has seen. I have long said it
is worse than Watergate. It was #neverTrump &
#alwaysHillary. #releasethememo,” tweeted King.

Rep. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) called the classified report

compiled by the House Intelligence Committee is “deeply
troubling” and raises serious questions as it relates to the
‘Russian collusion’ investigation.

On Thursday, the House Intelligence Committee quietly
voted to make available to fellow House members “a
memo documenting abuse of the FISA program,”
reports Fox News’ Chad Pergram. Rep Lee Zeldin (R-NY)
is demanding the secret memo be released immediately.
“The classified report compiled by House Intelligence is
deeply troubling and raises serious questions about the
upper echelon of the Obama DOJ and Comey FBI as it
relates to the so-called collusion investigation,” tweeted
DeSantis.

“Just read the classified doc @HPSCI re FISA abuse. I’m

calling for its immediate public release w/relevant sourced
material. The public must have access
ASAP! #Transparency.”

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“While the report is classified as Top Secret, I believe the
select committee should, pursuant to House rules, vote to
make the report publicly available as soon as possible.
This is a matter of national significance and the American
people deserve the truth.”

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 The FISA Memo Is All The Ammunition
Trump Needs To Take On The CIA
Tom Luongo
January 19, 2018

FISA is an abomination. Let’s get that out of the way. And
since I don’t believe there are any coincidences in U.S. or
geo-politics, the releasing of the explosive four-page FISA
memo after Congress reauthorized FISA is suspicious.
Former NSA analyst (traitor? hero?) turned security state
gadfly Edward Snowden came out in favor of President
Trump vetoing the FISA reauthorization now that the full
extent of what the statute is used for is known to members
of the House Intelligence Committee, who are rightly
aghast.
Officials confirm there’s a secret report showing
abuses of spy law Congress voted to
reauthorize this week. If this memo had been
known prior to the vote, FISA reauth would
have failed. These abuses must be made
public, and @realDonaldTrump should send the
bill back with a veto. https://t.co/BEwJ9EyIq0
— Edward Snowden (@Snowden) January 19,
2018
But, like I said, timing in these things is everything. And
the timing on this leak is important.
Someone leaked this memo to the House Intelligence
Committee with the sole intention of giving President
Trump the opportunity to do exactly what Snowden is
arguing for.
government are the secret intelligence
agencies that have such power and secrecy
that they act even without the knowledge of
Congress. There are many things that they do
with impunity. Then there is the ‘Deep State,’
which is the military industrial complex, all of the
industrial corporations and their lobbyists, and
they have all the money, power and greed that
give all the money to the Senators and
Congressmen. So, they are connected, but they
are really two different entities. It is the
shadow government . . . specifically, the
CIA, that is going after Donald Trump. It is
terrified that some of its dealings are going to
be exposed. If they are, it could jeopardize the
entire organization.” [emphasis mine]
Court the Military Against the Spooks
And as I’ve talked about at length, I’ve felt from the
moment Trump was elected he was going to have to ally
himself with the U.S. military to have any chance of
surviving, let alone achieve his political goals.
Trump’s final campaign ad was a clarion call to action. It
was a declaration of war against both the Shadow
Government and the Deep State. And it ensured that if he
won, which he did, they would immediately go to war with
him.

And well Trump should. This is the essence of draining

the swamp. It is the essence of his war with the Shadow
Government. If one makes the distinction between the
Deep State and the Shadow Government, like former CIA
officer Kevin Shipp does, then this falls right in line with
Trump’s goals in cleaning up the rot and corruption in the
U.S. government. In a recent interview with Greg Hunter
at USAWatchdog.com,

Shipp explains,

“I differentiate between the ‘Deep State’ and the And you don’t declare war like this if you aren’t prepared
shadow government. The shadow for the biggest knock-down, drag-out street brawl of all
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time. If you aren’t prepared for it, don’t say it. And for
the past year we’ve been left wondering whether Trump
was 1) prepared for it 2) capable of pulling it off.
Trump’s continued needling of the establishment; playing
the long game and demonizing the media which is the tip
of the Shadow Government’s spear while strengthening the
support of both the military (through his backing them at
every turn) and his base by assisting them destroy the false
narratives of globalism has been nothing short of amazing.
As a hard-core, jaded politico, I can tell you I never
thought for a second he had the ability to what he’s already
done. But, as the past few months have pointed out, the
real power in the world doesn’t rest with the few thousand
who manipulate the levers of power but the billions who
for years stood by and let them.
And those days of standing by are gone.
So, Trump cozying up to the military, cutting a deal with
the military-industrial complex (MIC) has the Deep State
now incentivized to fight the Shadow Government for
him. The tax cut bill, while a brilliant example of political
knife-fighting, is fundamentally about shoring up the
finances of the corporations that make up the MIC through
the repatriation of foreign-earned income, lowering the
corporate tax rate and stealing even more of the middle
class back from the Democrats.
Trump had the right strategy from the beginning. Civil
Wars turn on what the police and the military do. They are
instigated by and fanned by the spooks, but it is the
soldiers and the cops who decide the outcome.
.
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And so here we are.
FISA, It’s Everywhere You Don’t Want it to Be
Trump has called the Democrats’ and RINOs’ bluff on
DACA and chain-immigration as a vote-buying scheme
with zero political fallout. He’s properly reframed the
looming government shutdown on their inability to stick to
their original agreements.
His much-maligned Justice Department is now rolling up
traitors associated with Uranium One, pedophiles and
human traffickers all over the country and preparing for a
showdown with blue state governors and attorney generals
over “Sanctuary” grandstanding.
By leading the charge, he gave strength to the patriots
within both the Shadow Government and the Deep State
organizations to leak the material needed to keep his
campaign afloat.
And as each new thing drops at the most inopportune time
for the political establishment mentioned ad nauseum in
that final campaign ad linked above, you have to wonder
just how big the revolt inside these organizations is.
Because, right here, right now, Trump can demand the
release of this FISA memo and use it to torpedo the very
thing that allowed the entire “Russia Hacked Muh
Election” nonsense and send it back to the sh$&hole it was
spawned from in the first place, the CIA and the DNC.
And if that means for a few months the FISA courts are
inoperable while a new bill and a new set of rules is
drafted so be it.
 More GOP Lawmakers DEMAND Release
Of FISA Memo: ‘Sickening Reality Has SET IN’
By Usafeaturesmedia
Posted On January 19, 2018

“This is a matter of national significance “a memo documenting abuse of the FISA

and the American people deserve the truth” program,” reports Fox News’ Chad
Pergram.

Rep. Lee Zeldin, R-N.Y., wants the memo released right

away.

(National Sentinel) Obamagate: More and more

Republican lawmakers are demanding release of a
classified “FISA memo” currently held by the House
Intelligence Committee many believe will reveal a major
Obama-era scandal.
“Just read the classified doc @HPSCI re
In particular, Republicans believe that the Obama FISA abuse. I’m calling for its immediate
administration politicized U.S. law enforcement and public release w/relevant sourced material.
intelligence agencies in an attempt to undermine the The public must have access ASAP!
presidential campaign of Donald J. Trump. #Transparency,” he tweeted.
“Releasing this classified info doesn’t
On Thursday, Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, commented on the compromise good sources & methods. It
memo on Twitter, calling it “sickening.” reveals the feds’ reliance on bad sources &
methods,” added Zeldin.
“I have read the memo. The sickening
reality has set in. I no longer hold out hope
there is an innocent explanation for the
information the public has seen. I have long
said it is worse than Watergate. It was
#neverTrump & #alwaysHillary.
#releasethememo,” he tweeted.

Meanwhile, Rep. Ron DeSantis, R-Fla., said the classified

report compiled by the House Intelligence Committee is
“deeply troubling,” adding that raises serious questions as
it relates to special counsel Robert Mueller’s Trump-
Russia “collusion” probe.
On Thursday, the House Intelligence Committee quietly
voted to make available to fellow House members
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 make the report publicly available as soon
as possible. This is a matter of national
significance and the American people
deserve the truth.”

“The classified report compiled by House

Intelligence is deeply troubling and raises
serious questions about the upper echelon
of the Obama DOJ and Comey FBI as it
relates to the so-called collusion
investigation.”

He added:

“While the report is classified as Top

Secret, I believe the select committee
should, pursuant to House rules, vote to
.

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Rep. Jim Jordan Joins Growing Chorus For Release Of
Classified Intel Memo #Obamagate
#Releasethememo (Video)
By Jim Hoft
Friday, January 19, 2018

On Thursday a classified DOJ memo on

the FISA abuse by top officials rocked
Washington DC–
Rep. Matt Gaetz later told Sean Hannity, “I
believe people will go to jail.”
Rep. Jim Jordan:
What I read today in that briefing room was
as bad as I thought it was. And every single
American citizen should have the ability to
see that information to know exactly what
our FBI was up to… It shocked me…
That’s why we’re calling for every bit of that
information that we got to see to be made
public for you to see, for journalists to see,
and more importantly for the American
public to see.

Former Freedom Caucus Chair Jim

Jordan joined the growing chorus to
release the classified memo last night.

Jordan joined Sean Hannity to discuss

this devastating development.
.

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 House Rejects Democratic Effort
To Impeach Trump As Shutdown Looms
By Cristina Marcos
01/19/18 11:17 AM EST
The House on Friday once again rejected an effort by Rep.
Al Green (D-Texas) to impeach President Trump, in a sign
of inflamed partisan tensions ahead of a midnight deadline
to avoid a government shutdown.
Green, who has agitated for Trump’s impeachment for
months, forced a procedural vote on articles of
impeachment following Trump’s Oval Office comments
last week describing Haiti and African nations as “shithole
countries” while expressing a preference for immigrants
from places like Norway.
It failed by a 355-66 vote, with three
Democrats voting "present."
Trump made the comments during a meeting with
members of Congress about a potential deal to shield
young immigrants brought to the U.S. illegally from
deportation while enhancing border security. Those talks
have been in limbo since that meeting, which in turn has
led to an impasse over keeping the government open.
Green previously forced a vote on articles of impeachment
last month, which failed due to most Democrats joining
with Republicans to table it. House Minority Leader Nancy
Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Minority Whip Steny Hoyer (D-Md.)
both oppose calling for impeachment at this point, citing
the ongoing investigations of whether the Trump campaign
coordinated with the Russian government during the 2016
election.
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Eight more Democrats voted in favor of impeaching
Trump than a month ago, demonstrating the growing
support on the left for pushing Trump out of office.
A total of 58 Democrats voted in favor of
impeachment in December, primarily the
most liberal lawmakers and fellow
members of the Congressional Black
Caucus (CBC).
Green’s latest articles of impeachment are similar to those
he offered last month, but updated with Trump’s “shithole”
comments from last week.
Trump, Green alleges in the articles of impeachment, has
“brought the high office of president of the
United States in contempt, ridicule,
disgrace and disrepute” and “has sown
discord among the people of the United
States.”
Aside from the latest controversy from Trump’s
immigration meeting, the articles of impeachment cite
Trump’s travel ban; push to prevent transgender people
from serving in the military; attempts to cast equal blame
on white supremacists and counter-protesters for violence
in Charlottesville, Va.; and attacks on NFL players
kneeling during the national anthem to protest police
brutality.
Most Democrats aren’t ready at this point to support
impeachment out of concerns that it would be premature.
Instead, Democratic leaders are endorsing an effort from
members of the CBC and House Judiciary Committee to
censure Trump for describing Haiti and African nations as
“shithole countries.”
The censure resolution, unveiled Thursday,
calls on Trump to apologize for remarks it
describes as “hateful, discriminatory and
racist, and cannot and should not be the
basis of any American policy.”
CBC Chairman Cedric Richmond (D-La.) said that Despite breaking with Trump over the comments, GOP
Democrats may try to force a vote on the censure leaders are highly unlikely to support efforts to censure
resolution if GOP leaders don’t bring it up for him.
consideration on the floor.
Democrats also introduced a resolution to censure Trump
Some Republicans have joined with Democrats in over his handling of the Charlottesville violence, but
criticizing Trump for the comments. Speaker Paul Ryan Republicans similarly dismissed it.
(R-Wis.) used milder language than Democrats, saying that
Trump’s remarks were “very unfortunate” and
“unhelpful.”
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 Crooked Cop Comey Desperately Tries To Distract From
Damning FISA Memo – Fails Miserably
By Cristina Laila
Friday, January 19, 2018

On Thursday, the House Intelligence
Committee quietly voted to make
available to fellow House members “a
memo documenting abuse of the FISA
program,” reports Fox News’ Chad
Pergram.
Fired FBI Director James Comey tried to distract from the
media firestorm by tweeting about immigration. He failed
miserably because Trump supporters slammed him with
tweets about the FISA memo.
Crooked cop Comey tweeted,

Shortly afterwards, DeSantis said the classified report “Saw “Come From Away” in New York City
compiled by the House Intelligence Committee is “deeply tonight. @wecomefromaway is an
troubling” and raises serious questions as it relates to the inspiring story of kindness on 9/11 across
‘Russian collusion’ investigation. all human divides, and in the midst of pain
and turmoil. Great message for today. And
DeSantis called out Comey directly. the producer let me hold the Newfoundland
cod prop.”
“The classified report compiled by House
Intelligence is deeply troubling and raises
serious questions about the upper echelon
of the Obama DOJ and Comey FBI as it
relates to the so-called collusion
investigation,” DeSantis tweeted.

News of the FISA memo sent shock waves through social

media Thursday.

GOP Reps were demanding the memo be made public

because Americans deserve to know the truth about the
Russia investigation.

Investigative reporter Sara Carter said the FISA memo is Trump supporters came through as always using the
so explosive it could end the Mueller investigation. hashtag #ReleaseTheMemo

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 Bongino: ‘SH*T Is About To HIT THE FAN’
For Dems, OBAMA, Over ‘Devastating’ FISA Memo
From House Intel Committee
By Usafeaturesmedia
Posted On January 19, 2018

“Take it to the bank, the FBI/FISA docs are

devastating for the Dems”

Continuing, he added:
(National Sentinel) Exposure: Former Secret Service
agent and conservative pundit Dan Bongino predicted “My sincere apologies for the expletive but
Thursday that things are about to get intense with SHIT IS ABOUT TO HIT THE FAN. The
Democrats over the House Intelligence Committee’s former Obama administration’s going to
decision to release a “FISA memo” that could expose their have a lot of explaining to do.”
party for duplicity in the 2016 election.

For days some House Republicans have been calling for on

the panel to release the classified memo, including Reps.
Matt Gaetz of Florida and Lee Zeldin of New York. As
noted by Circa News and Fox News contributor Sara
Carter, the memo contains “explosive” revelations that
could even end special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe of
alleged “collusion” between President Donald J. Trump’s
campaign and Russian government operatives.

In addition, Bongino forecast that the memo’s contents

“Take this check and cash it, the
would also harm the image of former President Barack
Democrats are in a full blown panic right
Obama.
now over the #Obamagate scandal that’s
about to become a nightmare for them.
“Take it to the bank, the FBI/FISA docs are Watch them all scurry like roaches when
devastating for the Dems. The whole image the lights come on it,” he continued.
of a benevolent Barack Obama they’ve
disingenuously tried to portray is about to
be destroyed. The real Obama, the
vengeful narcissist, is going to be exposed
for all to see,” he tweeted.

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 “Release the memo and watch the rats run
away like the cowards they are. Your mind
is about to blown, and your eyes open, to
both the power of the federal govt, and the
vengefulness of an Obama administration
hellbent on destroying Trump,” Bongino
said.
For days on his CRTV Podcast, Bongino has been poring
over and explaining details of an investigation he and
.
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others have launched into the origins and machinations
surrounding the so-called “Trump dossier.”
For months many Republicans have speculated that the
document, which contains salacious details about the
president as well as the central allegation that his campaign
colluded with Russia, was used by the FBI to obtain a
surveillance warrant from the FISA court so the Obama
administration could spy on the Trump campaign.
The dossier’s contents are thus far unsubstantiated and are
likely a fabrication, Bongino and others have said. That
means the surveillance warrant would have been obtained
under a false — and perhaps political — pretense.
Last week, Bongino declared it the “most
explosive scandal” that was “about to
burst.”
 When Will The Good Guys In The FBI And DOJ Stand Up
And Petition To Have Their Dirty Leaders
Removed From Office?
By Jim Hoft
Friday, January 19, 2018

It’s time! We hear about the good FBI

and DOJ detectives and attorneys. Now It’s clear that the current AG
it’s time for them to stand up and Jeff Sessions is not
demand that the dirty leaders in their complying with subpoenas
organizations be brought to justice. from Congress so why would
we believe that he would
Where are the good guys? For years now, the FBI and bring these people to
DOJ have been infiltrated at the top with corrupt and justice.
criminal individuals. The corruption started at the top.
‘Dirty Cops’ and former FBI Heads Mueller and Comey
are part of the deep state and they clearly have stacked the Congress is doing what they can but America needs good
leadership at the FBI with their fellow deep state criminals. guys in these organizations to become heroes and put
(Rod Rosenstein, Andrew McCabe, Peter Strzok, etc…) justice first.

One former FBI Agent was on Varney and Co and he Is today the day that the good guys
described the corrupt actions of the deep state within the stand up and demand justice in our
US justice department – justice department and FBI? Stand up
patriots and step forward and “Drain the
Clearly there must be some good FBI employees and Swamp”!
retired employees that will stand together to demand the
corrupt leaders of the FBI be removed and brought to
justice?

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 Snowden: Trump Must Veto Reauthorized
NSA Spying Powers In Light Of FISA Memo
By Tyler Durden
Fri, 01/19/2018 - 12:20
Donald Trump must veto reauthorized NSA spying powers
which passed both the House and the Senate
yesterday without a single reform, in light of
an explosive four-page memo said to detail sweeping
FISA Abuses by the FBI, DOJ and the Obama
Administration during and after the 2016 presidential
election, says former NSA contractor and whistleblower
Edward Snowden.
The memo was circulated to the entire House of
Representatives, prompting GOP lawmakers to call for its
immediate release to the public.
Snowden, who exposed the NSA's expansive mass
surveillance program, contends that the expansive FISA
Amendments Reauthorization Act never would have passed
if the memo had been distributed before the vote. The
Senate broke a filibuster led by Rand Paul (R-KY) and
Ron Wyden (D-OR) on Tuesday evening, voting 65-34,
while the House voted last week 256-164 in favor of the
bill with almost no changes.
The reauthorized FISA bill constitute the "crown jewels"
of the Intelligence Community's spying powers, section
702, which allows the NSA to gather intelligence on
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foreigners overseas by surveilling fiber optic internet
hubs where data enters the US.
Even President Trump voiced skepticism about
reauthorizing the bill in a tweet earlier this year, where he
claimed it had helped the Obama administration spy on the
Trump campaign, although he infamously flip-flopped
later.
While section 702 prohibits the targeting of Americans,
US Intelligence agencies have used "backdoor" methods
to search intercepted communications to spy on Americans
without a warrant. The reauthorized bill allows the NSA to
collect traffic on the Tor network along with VPN traffic -
two methods of communication designed to enhance
privacy and anonymity online.
Research released last year showed that
the NSA and the FBI, both of which have
access to data collected under 702,
had violated its powers hundreds of
times by conducting unlawful searches
and improperly targeting a person or
account for surveillance.
Since then, over 40 privacy and
transparency groups have called on
Congress to reform the government's
section 702 powers.
They argued that compelling the NSA to get a warrant
before accessing Americans' data would have no impact on
foreign intelligence gathering efforts. Other legislative
efforts would compel the government to reveal the
approximate number of Americans surveilled under
section 702, a promise made by both the Obama and
Trump administrations that was later withdrawn. -ZD.net
Human Rights Watch called the reauthorized spying
powers "direct threats" to democracy and human rights,
while the Open Technology Institute says the bill "codifies
and may even expand the government's most concerning
practices."
Per the Wall Street Journal, Majority Leader Mitch
McConnell exhorted his colleagues to back extending the
program ahead of Thursday's vote, calling it "one of the
most important tools" for national security officials. By
passing the bill, Congress rejected efforts by a coalition of who are inadvertently caught up in surveillance by
conservative Republicans, civil libertarians and liberal American intelligence agencies.
Democrats to enact new privacy protections for Americans
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 Schumer Sycophant: Acosta Makes A Fool
Of Himself At Briefing, Schooled By Mulvaney
By Curtis Houck
January 19, 2018 12:32 PM EST
Hours ahead of a possible government shutdown, CNN
Chief White House Correspondent Jim Acosta debased his
already self-centered act by playing the role of sycophant
on Friday morning for Senate Minority Leader Chuck
Schumer (D-N.Y.) by tangling with Office of Management
and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney over basic facts
about Senate procedure.
“I was going to ask about your comment
at the beginning of this, you said it is
the Schumer shutdown. How can it be
the Schumer shutdown when the
Republicans control the White House,
the House and the Senate?” Acosta
complained.
Thankfully, Mulvaney didn’t mince words in schooling
Acosta, citing basic Senate rules about needing 60 votes to
pass budgetary measures (such as continuing resolutions):
MULVANEY: Come on, you know the
answer to that as well as anybody. I mean,
I have to laugh when people say that, oh,
we control the House and the senate and
the White house.
ACOSTA: You do.
MULVANEY: Why can't you get this done?
You any as well as anybody it takes 60
votes in the Senate to pass appropriations
bill, right? You know that.
ACOSTA: I know that but —
MULVANEY: So you only have 51 votes in
the Senate, then you have to have
Democrat support in order to keep the
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government to fund the government. So,
that's the answer to your question.
Acosta tried to save face by blaming the President for not
wanting to go along with the Democratic pleas to save the
illegal immigrants known as DREAMers. Referring to last
week’s publicized White House meeting, Acosta fretted
how that
“seemed to be a fairly productive
meeting and then the whole process got
blown up and if I may, it seems that the
whole process was blown up by the
President's comments.”
The CNN hack then lobbied Mulvaney to just go along
with the Democrats and DREAMers so we can move on,
but the former conservative South Carolina congressman
gave Acosta a history lesson:
[W]hen Republicans tried to add a
discussion about ObamaCare to the
funding process in 2013, we were accused
by Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer of
inserting a non-fiscal — a non-financial
issue into the spending process in order to
shut the government down. How is that not
exactly what is happening today? There is
no reason that you have to deal with DACA
this week. There’s no reason to deal with
DACA before...the middle of February.
DACA doesn't expire until March 5th. This
is purely an attempt by the Senate
Democrats, led by Mr. Schumer, it’s why
we call it the Schumer shutdown, to try and
get a shutdown they think this President
gets blamed for.
Despite the fact that White House director of legislative
affairs Marc Short later noted that the bipartisan group of
Senators working on a DREAMer deal haven’t produced
concrete legislation yet, Acosta used his post-briefing live
shot on CNN to resume his Friday meltdown:
Well, shutdowns are a tough sale...and it sounds like, at
this point, this White House is bracing for the likelihood
that this government is going to shut down. You heard
during this briefing with the legislative affairs director,
Marc Short and the director of Office of Management and
Budget, Mick Mulvaney — the director Mick Mulvaney
saying this is the Schumer shutdown and they're trying to
make the case that, well, because they need Democratic
votes in the Senate to go along with what was passed in the
House that this is somehow the responsibility of
Democrats. That's just going to be a hard sell when you
have Republicans in charge of the White House, the House
and the Senate, and you've been talking about that for
some time.
Acosta reiterated his tacit opinion that
Trump should be to blame for the
government shutdown over his “s***hole
countries” line and quipped that Mulvaney
promised “a kinder, gentler shutdown” in
which “[t]he National Parks are going to
be open, the trash may not get picked
up but you can still visit your National
Park.”
Here’s the relevant transcript from CNN’s At This Hour on
January 18:
CNN’s At This Hour
January 19, 2018
11:24 a.m. Eastern
JIM ACOSTA: I was going to ask about your comment at the
beginning of this, you said it is the Schumer shutdown. How can
it be the Schumer shutdown when the Republicans control the
White House, the House and the Senate?
MICK MULVANEY: Come on, you know the answer to that as
well as anybody. I mean, I have to laugh when people say that,
oh, we control the House and the senate and the White house.
ACOSTA: You do.
MULVANEY: Why can't you get this done? You any as well as
anybody it takes 60 votes in the Senate to pass appropriations
bill, right? You know that.
ACOSTA: I know that but —
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MULVANEY: So you only have 51 votes in the Senate, then you
have to have Democrat support in order to keep the government
to fund the government. So, that's the answer to your question.
ACOSTA: The President asked Congress to come up with a
solution for the DREAMers. Congress was in the room, members
of Congress were in the room with the President last week. It
seemed to be a fairly productive meeting and then the whole
process got blown up —
MULVANEY; We’re not — when Republicans tried to —
ACOSTA: — and if I may, it seems that the whole process was
blown up by the President's comments. And so why keep the
Democrats and the DREAMers and get out of this?
MULVANEY: — when Republicans tried to add a discussion
about ObamaCare to the funding process in 2013, we were
accused by Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer of inserting a non-
fiscal — a non-financial issue into the spending process in order
to shut the government down. How is that not exactly what is
happening today? There is no reason that you have to deal with
DACA this week. There’s no reason to deal with DACA before
the end of February — excuse me, the middle of February.
DACA doesn't expire until March 5th. This is purely an attempt by
the Senate Democrats, led by Mr. Schumer, it’s why we call it the
Schumer shutdown, to try and get a shutdown they think this
President gets blamed for.
AYESHA RASCOE: You’re saying that you need Democrats
support in the Senate —
MULVANEY: We got it in the House.
RASCOE: — so are there any concessions that this White House
is willing to make to try to get support from those Democrats that
you need?
MULVANEY: Again, go back to what I said at the opening, they
don't oppose anything in there. They support CHIP. In fact, every
member of the Financial Subcommittee or something — a
Democrat has voted for this exact CHIP extension, right?: They
don't want the Cadillac tax to go into place. They’ve always
supported clean CRs. Why would you have to — those are
concessions. Ordinarily, you would just simply put up a clean CR,
let them vote it, and, again, it worked in the House, several
Democrats who voted for it.
(....)
MARC SHORT: And, Jim, back to your question, the reality is
there is no legislation for them to pull up. They say there is this
Flake-Durbin-Graham proposal. There is not legislation to vote
on. So, when they say we need to have DACA solved before you
do a continuing resolution to keep the government open, there
isn't actually a bill for them to even vote on, which I think shows
that this is really about politics and not really about policy.
(....)
BRIANNA KEILAR: Okay, Jim, you were there. You asked a
question and the budget director said it is Democrats, it takes 60
votes, it requires Democrats in the Senate. What did you think of
that whole show we just witnessed?
ACOSTA: Well, shutdowns are a tough sale, Brianna, and it
sounds like, at this point, this White House is bracing for the
likelihood that this government is going to shut down. You heard
during this briefing with the legislative affairs director, Marc Short
and the director of Office of Management and Budget, Mick
Mulvaney — the director Mick Mulvaney saying this is the
Schumer shutdown and they're trying to make the case that, well,
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because they need Democratic votes in the Senate to go along
with what was passed in the House that this is somehow the
responsibility of Democrats. That's just going to be a hard sell
when you have Republicans in charge of the White House, the
House and the Senate, and you've been talking about that for
some time. I thought it was interesting to note that when I asked
the question about DACA, the fix for the DREAMers, that Marc
Short said that there was no legislative vehicle to get that
accomplished. As you know, there has been a gang of six
working on such a legislative vehicle, some kind of legislation to
make that happen. It just seems at this point that there is a
refusal on the Republican side to allow that to be brought into this
process and I think what they're dealing with is at this point,
Brianna, is just sort of the fallout of what happened last week
when the President essentially blew up this process. He had a
very productive meeting over her at the White House with
members of congress from both parties and then a couple of
days later there was that very fiery meeting that happened
behind closed doors where the President made some pretty
offensive remarks and ever since then, there just has not been
very much progress from a bipartisan basis. And so, you heard
Mick Mulvaney coming here and saying listen, we're making this
a kinder, gentler shutdown. The National Parks are going to be
open, the trash may not get picked up but you can still visit your
National Park. People are going to go to work — federal workers
are going to go to work but they won't get paid. The question is
how long can that drag on.
 #Obamagate – A Complete List Of DOJ And FBI
Corruptors And Criminals Destroying
The US From Within
By Jim Hoft
Friday, January 19, 2018
The Deep State FBI and Department of
Justice (DOJ) were once considered
institutions full of integrity and honor
before the Obama Presidency. Now they
are riddled with corruption and led by a
group of deceiving, criminal and corrupt
leaders who are working to overthrow
the Trump administration which
threatens to uncover their many corrupt
and criminal actions over the past many
years. Today these swamp monsters
may begin to be exposed.
As published in late December, here is a
list of Deep State criminals –
A number of individuals, in the FBI and DOJ, are using
their power to prevent President Donald Trump from
governing as he was duly elected to do and are doing all
they can to overturn the election that put the President in
place.
The entire Mueller investigation is a scam created by these
individuals to overthrow the US government. Their
desperate actions are a clear indication that they have
much to hide. Former United Nations Ambassador John
Bolten called the recent actions against President Trump
the first Coup D’état in US History –
Below is our list of corrupt, criminal and
treasonous operatives within the DOJ
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and FBI who need to be brought to
justice –
Eric Holder -According to the Guardian Obama’s first
Attorney General Eric Holder was –
the first sitting member of a president’s
cabinet in US history to be held in contempt
of Congress after Republicans vented their
fury over a bungled gun-tracking
investigation.
Seventeen Democrats, under pressure from the pro-gun
lobby the NRA, joined 238 Republicans to carry a criminal
contempt resolution against Holder. A currently serving
attorney general has never before been censured in this
way.
The criminal contempt resolution, passed by 255 to 67,
with most Democrats walking out of the chamber en masse
before the vote, related to Operation Fast and Furious, a
federal investigation launched in Arizona designed to
ensnare gun smugglers involved with the Mexican drug
cartels.
Thursday’s vote was of symbolic value, pointing to the
almost total collapse of trust between the two main parties
in Congress. Republican anger has been fueled by a
conspiracy theory that Fast and Furious was deliberately
set up to fail by the Obama administration to pave the way
for greater federal gun controls
Holder was AG during Obama’s first term and he therefore
was AG during not only during the fast and furious scandal
but the many other corrupt activities that occurred during
Obama’s first term. He signed off on the Uranium One
deal where the Obama administration approved the sale of
20 percent of US uranium to Russia while at the same
time, no doubt was involved in the cover up of FBI
Director Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russia where
the
“FBI knew, as of November 2009, of
criminal activities by Tenex, the U.S.
 affiliate of Russia’s nuclear energy agency,
Rosatom.”
Loretta Lynch – Obama’s second corrupt AG oversaw the
FBI and DOJ that set Hillary Clinton free during the email
scandal after obvious criminal actions a week after Lynch
met Bill Clinton on an Arizona tarmac in a botched
clandestine meeting before the election. After the Trump
win Lynch released the following bizarre video and call to
arms for the deep state –
Robert Mueller – Dirty Cop and former FBI Head Robert
Mueller is the epitome of the deep state. As head of the
FBI he failed to prosecute anyone for emailgate, fast and
furious, Clinton foundation, etc. He never recused himself
as the special counsel in the Trump – Russia farce in spite
of numerous conflicts of interest. His entire team is a
group of deep state liberal corrupt attorneys and
investigators. His investigation is a crime as exemplified
by the recent report that the Mueller team unlawfully
obtained transition emails from the Trump team that were
protected under attorney – client privilege. Mueller is also
famous for hand delivering uranium to Russia on an airport
tarmac per Hillary Clinton instructions.
James Comey – Mueller’s partner in crime and protégé
led the FBI after Mueller’s departure. He won a deep state
award for best corrupt actor when he led the Clinton email
investigation, treated it as a special case, and then let
Hillary off with no charges. His presentation for why she
should be let go was a masterpiece and showed he may
also be a bit of a lunatic. He let Hillary go twice during the
election in spite of obvious crimes to every American. –
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Sally Yates – The acting AG when President Trump took
over who defied the President’s immigration order and was
fired for doing so.
Rod Rosenstein – At Rosenstein’s recent testimony in
front of the House he showed how truly creepy he is. He
answered nothing and constantly sniffed his nose like a
cocaine addict. He was involved in the Russia coverup at
the time of the sale of Uranium One and he and Mueller
have been accused of abusing ‘Secrecy Powers’ in hiding
information about the Trump investigation from Congress
for months.
Andrew Weissman – Weissman is one of the Trump
haters on Mueller’s team who praised Yates for defying
President Trump’s travel ban before being removed by
Trump. The MSM praised her as well. Mueller’s selection
of Weissman says it all. Weissmann is famous for pushing
charges against Arthur Anderson and Merrill Lynch in the
2000’s that were eventually overturned by the Supreme
Court 9 – 0 and an Appellate Court a year later. Thousands
lost their jobs because of Weissmann’s errors. He has
served as general counsel at the FBI and as an assistant
U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of New York. —
Weissmann donated $2,300 to the
Obama Victory Fund in 2008, $2,000 to
the DNC in 2006 and at least $2,300 to
the Clinton campaign in 2007.
Andrew McCabe – FBI Head after Comey was fired by
President Trump, McCabe is in the middle of the scheme
to overthrow the government. His wife ran for office in
2016 and her campaign received hundreds of thousands in
Hillary related campaign donations at the same time
McCabe was involved in the Hillary emails cover-up. In
spite of this, McCabe didn’t recuse himself from the
Hillary investigation until a week before the 2016 election.
His name was on an email involved in drafting Comey’s
exoneration of Clinton. The distribution list is all deep
state –
 living. Her specialty was with Russia and Trump. This was
all kept secret until recently.

James Baker – The FBI General Counsel who is being

reassigned by new FBI Director Christopher Wray
following a leak investigation.

Peter Kadzik – Kadzik was a DOJ Assistant Attorney and

was outed as a mole for the Hillary Clinton campaign in an
email released by WikiLeaks.

The Entire Mueller Investigative Team – in addition to

those listed above, below are the others on the Mueller
team –

 Rush Atkinson, an attorney on detail from the Criminal

Recently it was reported that McCabe is planning on
retiring in 90 days from the FBI. He should be instead tried
for treason.
Peter Strzok – Nobody knew this crook’s name until a
few weeks ago. The Lead Inspector on the Clinton email
scandal and Trump – Russia farce. This guy had a god –
complex and thought it was his mission to stop Trump and
help Hillary. He’s a crook in every sense of the word and
should be in jail and tried for treason.
Lisa Page – Strzok’s mistress at the DOJ. Another Trump
hater in the deep state. She is on the Mueller investigative
team and on detail from the FBI’s Office of the General
Counsel and a former trial attorney with the Criminal
Division’s Organized Crime and Gang Section –
Investigated Ukrainian oligarch Dmitry
Firtash, a one-time business partner of
former Trump campaign manager Paul
Manafort, at the DOJ.
Bruce and Nellie Ohr – He worked at the DOJ and she
worked at Fusion – the company that slanders people for a
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Division’s Fraud Section at the Department of Justice
— Donated $200 to Clinton in 2016
 Peter Carr – DOJ spokesman under Barack Obama.
 Andrew Goldstein, a public corruption prosecutor on
detail from the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Southern
District of New York
— Worked under Trump-basher Preet Bharara in
the liberal New York southern district.
 Adam Jed, an appellate attorney on detail from DOJ’s
Civil Division. — Defended Obamacare at the DOJ.
 Elizabeth Prelogar, an appellate attorney on detail
from the Office of the Solicitor General. -Fluent in
Russian; former law clerk to Justices Ruth Bader
Ginsburg and Elena Kagan.
 James Quarles, a former partner at WilmerHale and a
former assistant special prosecutor for the Watergate
Special Prosecution Force. –Former assistant special
prosecutor on the Watergate Special Prosecution
Force.
 Jeannie Rhee, a former partner at WilmerHale who
has served in the Office of Legal Counsel at DOJ and
as an assistant U.S. attorney for the District of
Columbia. — Rhee is a Clinton Foundation Lawyer
 and former Deputy Assistant Attorney General in
the Office of Legal Counsel under Barack Obama.
 Brandon Van Grack, an attorney on detail from the
Justice Department’s National Security Division.
— Led a grand jury inquiry in Northern Virginia
scrutinizing former Trump associate Michael
Flynn’s foreign lobbying.
 Aaron Zebley, a former partner at WilmerHale who
has previously served with Mueller at the FBI and has
served as an assistant U.S. attorney in the Eastern
District of Virginia. — Worked with Robert Mueller at
the WilmerHale firm.
 Aaron Zelinsky, an attorney on detail from the U.S.
Attorney’s Office in the District of Maryland. — Worked
under Assistant AG Rod Rosenstein in Maryland.
 Zainab Ahmad, a top national security prosecutor on
detail from U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Eastern District
of New York.
 Michael Dreeben, an appellate attorney on detail from
the Office of the Solicitor General, described by former
colleagues as one of the brightest criminal law experts
of the past two generations.
Jeff Sessions – The biggest disappointment of the year. At
first the thought was that Sessions was compromised but
now he appears to be a card carrying member of deep
.
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state. He did everything he could to create the Mueller
investigation and has done nothing to address the many
Obama and Hillary crimes. He must go.
Chris Wray – The current FBI Director, Wray shows that
he is part of the problem by allowing individuals like
Baker and Strzok to move departments and McCabe to
retire without being held accountable.
Honorable Mention –
Aaron Rouse – He’s the Head of the FBI investigation
into the Las Vegas shootings and murder of 59 concert
goers and he’s a Comey appointee. The fact that we know
so little and that the MSM is burying the story is proof of
more FBI corruption related to this incident.
Of course Barack Obama and the
Clintons are the godfathers!
These people must be brought to
justice. Concocting a fake investigation
to remove the duly elected President of
the United States, Donald Trump, is
criminal. #ObamaGate
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 Former Trump Aide Omarosa May Have Taped White
House Discussions, Fears Mueller Wants To Talk To Her
BY Flo Anthony & Denis Slattery
Friday, January 19, 2018, 4:00
Former White House staffer Omarosa Manigault-Newman
may have taped confidential West Wing conversations and
fears being caught up in special counsel Robert Mueller’s
probe, sources told the Daily News on Thursday.
The former reality TV star’s official last day in the Trump
administration is Saturday — despite the abrupt
announcement of her departure last month — and her next
step seems to be lawyering up.
The soon-to-be former assistant to President Trump and
director of communications for the White House Office of
Public Liaison has held exploratory meetings with several
high profile attorneys for potential representation, a source
told The News.
Manigault-Newman has met with Harvey Weinstein’s
former attorney Lisa Bloom and former Bill Cosby lawyer
Monique Pressley, among others
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It is not immediately clear why the former “Apprentice”
star is seeking legal help, but those with knowledge of her
unceremonious removal from the White House say she is
“very concerned” that trouble is on the horizon.
The 43-year-old apparently believes she may become a
fixture in Mueller’s investigation into possible connections
between the Trump campaign and Russia’s election
meddling.
“Everyone knows Omarosa loves to record people and
meetings using the voice notes app on her iPhone,” a
source disclosed. “Don’t be surprised if she has secret
audio files on everyone in that White House, past and
present staffers included.”
A recent ban on personal cell phones in the West Wing,
which followed the release of Michael Wolff’s explosive
White House tell-all was related to Manigault-Newman’s
track record of recording conversations, the source added.
But a White House insider balked at the idea of Manigault-
Newman being privy to any inside information that could
be relevant to Mueller’s probe — or of interest to anyone
else for that matter.
Interest in a political memoir the exiled staffer has been
“nonexistent,” according to the administration source. A
recent report from Life & Style Weekly claimed
Manigault-Newman could get upward of $10 million for a
book deal.
The White House and Manigault-Newman did not respond
to requests for comment.
 Sebastian Gorka: Shocking Trump Russia Investigation
Memo Just The Beginning; Calls For Scandal
To Be Named #Obamagate
By Kristinn Taylor
Friday, January 19, 2018

Former Trump administration official Dr. Sebastian Gorka

posted several tweets early Friday morning (EST)
commenting on the summary memo about the Obama
administration’s involvement with the Trump-Russia
investigation that has sparked outrage among
Congressmen who have seen the secret memo by the
House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. Gorka
said his sources are telling him the corruption was
government wide and that the ensuing scandal should be
called “ObamaGate”

Dr. Sebastian Gorka, screen image.

Gorka wrote, keying off a controversial March 4, 2017

tweet by President Donald Trump, “My sources tell me
tonight that the “nuclear” memo is just the beginning. By
the end of it all, the tapping of candidate
@realDonaldTrump’s phone will be the least of the Left’s
problems. #ObamaGate”

Gorka followed with, “The corruption was government

wide. The CORRECT name for this storm is: #ObamaGate
Use nothing else online. RT this Tweet. And lay siege your
representatives by phone starting at 9AM Friday. Demand
they release the memo.”

Gorka concluded with, “#ObamaGate will reverberate all

the way up to and THROUGH November 2018.”

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Gorka posted several other tweets and retweets late
Thursday and early Friday on the memo. More:
“When the ghastly Truth is revealed we will all owe
@DevinNunes a massive debt of gratitude. Not all heroes
are found on a battlefield.
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Gorka also retweeted video comments by two shocked
congressmen who have read the secret memo, Rep. Mark
Meadows (R-NC) and Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) who are
among those calling for the memo’s release to the public.
Gorka retweeted a video clip from an interview then
President Barack Obama gave in 2016 guaranteeing “no
political influence in any investigation conducted by the
Justice Dept. or the FBI.”
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 “Who Is Running This Admin!”:
Tom Fitton Rages Over FISA Memo, Courts Protecting
“Massive” Deep State Corruption
By Joshua Caplan
Friday, January 19, 2018
On Thursday, the House Intelligence
Committee quietly voted to make
available to fellow House members “a
memo documenting abuse of the FISA
program,” reports Fox News’ Chad
Pergram.
Judicial Watch president Tom Fitton is
now demanding Congress release the
bombshell FISA abuse memo, while
taking a swipe at the courts for
protecting Deep State corruption.
“#ReleaseTheMemo and everything else on Clinton-
Obama DOJ, FBI-Russia collusion/illegal
leaking/unmasking/illegal spying on @RealDonalTrump
team scandal. @JudicialWatch FOIAs being stonewalled
in federal court on this massive corruption by
DOJ/FBI/NSA. Who is running this admin!” tweeted
Fitton.
As The Gateway Pundit‘s Jim Hoft reported Friday, Rep.
Matt Gaetz believes the FISA memo will see the light of
day.
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“I have every confidence after speaking to
Paul Ryan and Devin Nunes that after we
go through the right procedures and
provide notifications to the executive
branch that we will release this memo,” the
Florida lawmaker told Fox News‘
“America’s Newsroom.”
Fitton recently revealed federal courts are stonewalling the
conservative watchdog’s efforts to obtain information
about “any payments made by the FBI, Justice Department
to the dossier authors.”
Credit: Judicial Watch
According to reports, the FBI agreed to pay former British
spy and dossier author Christopher Steele to continue
digging up dirt on Trump and Russia.
The FBI pulled out of this arrangement once Steele was
publicly identified in media reports.
Paul Sperry of the New York Post has also confirmed the,
“FBI picked up the tab for Steele dossier
along with Hillary; FBI paid Steele’s travel
and other expenses.”
 FLASHBACK: Watch Adam Schiff Change His Tune
Before And After He Reviews Top Secret House Intel
Docs Showing FISA Abuse (VIDEO)
By Cristina Laila
Friday, January 19, 2018

VIDEO:
High ranking member of the House Intel
Committee Adam Schiff (D-CA) knows
he’s in hot water as the FISA memo
bubbles up to the surface.

Before Adam Schiff reviewed top secret intel docs he was

appearing on news outlets saying there is ‘more than
circumstantial evidence’ of Trump-Russia collusion.

After he reviewed the classified docs Chairman Nunes

looked at which showed Trump was illegally unmasked by
Obama’s hacks, he clammed up and changed his tune.
Schiff began saying he ‘can’t go into the contents of the
documents’.

Many also began to speculate that it was Adam Schiff who

started leaking tidbits of Don Jr.’s closed-door House
Panel interviews to CNN in a desperate attempt to keep the
‘Trump-Russia’ story alive.

Nunes then went to brief the President on the information

in the intelligence reports before meeting with the
Intelligence Committee.

The left-wing lunatics including high ranking House Intel

Watch Adam Schiff change his tune after seeing the FISA
abuse. He knew Chairman Nunes was onto something and
actively blocked him from investigating with a bogus
ethics probe.
THE TIMELINE…
Committee member Adam Schiff came unglued and hit
Nunes with a probe that lasted eight months. Nunes
slammed the accusations as “entirely false and politically
motivated”.
The House Ethics Committee announced in early
December it cleared Chairman Nunes of claims he
mishandled classified information after dragging it out for
eight months!

Chairman Devin Nunes (R-CA) walked away from the WHY IT’S SIGNIFICANT…
House Intelligence Committee Russia probe in April after
he said in a press conference in March that Trump and his Rep. Adam Schiff knew all along there was FISA abuse
associates were unmasked after viewing intelligence and actively worked to block Chairman Nunes from
reports.
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revealing the information. If Schiff was honest and
allowed Chairman Nunes to release the information he had
about the FISA abuse and illegal unmasking back in March
or April of 2016, Robert Mueller would never have been
appointed as Special Counsel to oversee the bogus Russia
witch hunt.
Attorney General Jeff Sessions recused himself from the
‘Russia’ investigation on March 3rd of 2016 after intense
pressure from political hacks. Sessions was accused of
lying under oath about his meeting with Russian
Ambassador Kislyak. It later came out that Sessions indeed
did nothing wrong and CNN was forced to correct yet
another botched Russia story.
.
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Rod Rosenstein then came in as Deputy AG and former
FBI Director Robert Mueller was subsequently appointed
Special Counsel to oversee the Russia investigation on
May 17th, 2016.
Millions of taxpayer dollars have been wasted on dirty cop
Robert Mueller and his team of liberal hacks. They should
be forced to pay every penny back. Robert Mueller has
known the entire time Hillary’s phony dossier was used to
obtain a FISA warrant yet he marched on with the witch
hunt.
Everyone involved needs to be prosecuted and put in
prison including suspected leaker Adam Schiff who has
known this entire time the Russia investigation was a
political witch hunt.
 Mainstream Media Tries To Ignore BOMBSHELL FISA
Abuse Memo As Illegal FBI And DOJ Spying On Trump
Campaign Set To Be Exposed!
Alex Thomas
January 19th, 2018

“Our republic is in jeopardy if we allow this type

of a palace coup environment to continue to
persist and that’s why I’m one of the members
of Congress who will be encouraging today
Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes to release
the memo,” Gaetz said.

A bombshell FISA abuse memo that not only could end the
Mueller investigation but also could contain direct
evidence of illegal FBI and DOJ spying on the Trump
campaign, in order to help Hillary Clinton, is set to be
released in the coming days, according to multiple media
reports.

Congressman Matt Gaetz appeared on Fox News this

morning to reveal his belief that the memo will be released
in the coming days and will send shockwaves throughout
Washington D.C.
Infowars reports:
Amazingly, the mainstream media is largely doing
everything in their power to either ignore this story or
downplay it completely, with anti-Trump news network
CNN not even covering the bombshell as of Friday
morning.

The classified Department of Justice memo is

suspected to contain evidence of illegal FBI and
DOJ spying on the Trump campaign at the
behest of Hillary Clinton.

According to journalist Sara Carter, the memo is

so “explosive” that it could lead to “the end of
Robert Mueller’s Special Counsel investigation
into President Trump and his associates.”

Numerous lawmakers are calling for the

document to be publicly released, with Rep.
Steve King describing it as “worse than
Watergate”.

Appearing on Fox News, Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-

FL), who previously asserted that people will
“go to jail” over the memo, suggested that the
release of the document is on the horizon.

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A quick scan of the networks homepage showed that they
had completely ignored the story, instead opting for a
plethora of anti-Trump disinformation pieces while being
sure to protect their ally, Hillary Clinton.
Watson reported:
The FISA memo bombshell, a scandal dubbed
“worse than Watergate” by one Congressman,
is being completely ignored by CNN this
morning, with zero coverage on the network’s
home page.
The memo, which was viewed by members of
the House on Thursday, is said to contain
“shocking” evidence of top Department of
Justice and FBI officials abusing the the Foreign
Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) in order to
illegally spy on the Trump campaign.
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“This was essentially deep state political
opposition research being conducted inside
government for a considerable period of time.
The information, gathered on Clinton’s political
opposition, was then weaponized against the
candidacy of Donald Trump,” summarizes the
Conservative Treehouse blog.
As Watson rightfully noted, by any definition of news, this
story is absolutely HUGE and it would take purposeful
deception on the part of any network who doesn’t cover it.
Regardless, in the coming days we could finally see the end
of the sham Russian investigation as well as criminal
charges against those who used the power of the federal
government in a desperate attempt to take out Trump
before he even won the election.
 Sean Hannity Warns “BIGGEST TICK TOCK EVER!!”
As Bombshell FISA Memo Rocks Washington
By Joshua Caplan
Friday, January 19, 2018
Amid demands by Republican
lawmakers to release the bombshell
FISA abuse report, Fox News host Sean
Hannity issued his biggest “tick tock,”
ever, declaring “vindication,” is on the
horizon.
On Thursday, the House Intelligence
Committee quietly voted to make
available to fellow House members “a
memo documenting abuse of the FISA
program,” reports Fox News’ Chad
Pergram.
“Biggest Tick Tock Ever!! Vindication!”
tweeted Hannity.
As The Gateway Pundit‘s Jim Hoft reported Thursday
evening, Hannity issued a stern warning to special counsel
Robert Mueller.
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Sean Hannity: Based on today’s events I
have a message tonight for Special
Counsel Robert Mueller. Your witch
hunt is now over. Time to close the
doors…
It is more disturbing than we thought. And right now our
sources are telling us that the abuse of power is far greater
than Watergate… What we are talking about tonight are
the abuse of the powerful tools of intelligence that we use
to spy on people. Those tools were used against an
opposition candidate, and president elect and his entire
team. And it was done not only under false pretenses but
with the with help of Hillary Clinton. She bought and paid
for the dossier that they filled with Russian lies…
Via Hannity:
Lawmakers from Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) to Rep. Lee
Zeldin (R-NY) have called for the classified memo’s
immediate release. According to Fox News contributor
Sara Carter, the contents of the memo are so “explosive,”
that it could end special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia
probe once and for all.
 Flashback: Maxine Waters: “Obama Has Put In Place”
Secret Database With “Everything On Everyone”
(Video) #Releasethememo
By Jim Hoft
Friday, January 19, 2018

What did Maxine know — And when did
she know it?
With all of the DC rumblings about a classified memo that
proves Obama, the FBI and DOJ was spying on his
political opponents — We thought it would be a good idea
to revisit this 2014 interview by Auntie Maxine.
“The President has put in place an
organization with the kind of database that
no one has ever seen before in life,”
Representative Maxine Waters told Roland
Martin on Monday.
“That’s going to be very, very powerful,”
Waters said. “That database will have
information about everything on every
individual on ways that it’s never been
done before and whoever runs for
President on the Democratic ticket has to
deal with that. They’re going to go down
with that database and the concerns of
those people because they can’t get
around it. And he’s [President Obama]
been very smart. It’s very powerful what
he’s leaving in place.”

Via Free Republic:

Back in 2014 Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) told Roland

Martin in a February interview,

Waters: “Obama has put in place the

kind of database… will have everything
on every individual.”

Before It’s News has the transcript:

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 “I Can’t Believe They Did That!”:
Rep. Ron Desantis Stunned By FISA Memo,
Reveals Its “Central Theme” (VIDEO)
By Joshua Caplan
Friday, January 19, 2018

On Friday, Rep. Ron DeSantis (R-FL)

told “Fox & Friends,” that he believes
the bombshell FISA memo should be
released to the American people.
“Let’s get that out there so the
American people can see how this
whole collusion thing was going on
during the campaign,” the
Florida lawmaker told Fox News.

As The Gateway Pundit‘s Jim Hoft reported Friday, Rep.

Matt Gaetz believes the FISA memo will see the light of
day.

“I have every confidence after speaking to

Credit: Fox News
Asked if he could confirm information compiled by
dossier author Christopher Steele was used by the Obama
administration to spy on Trump officials, DeSantis told
host Brian Kilmeade,
“I think that’s one of the central issues in
the memo and I definitely want all
Americans to be able to read what actually
happened in that respect.”
.
Paul Ryan and Devin Nunes that after we
go through the right procedures and
provide notifications to the executive
branch that we will release this memo,” the
Florida lawmaker told Fox News‘
“America’s Newsroom”
According to Fox News contributor Sara Carter, the
contents of the memo are so “explosive,” that it could end
special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia probe once and
for all.

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 House Conservatives Want Bombshell
Memo Released As Part Of Shutdown Talks
By Tyler Durden
Fri, 01/19/2018 - 13:15
House GOP members have approached Speaker Paul Ryan
about incorporating a vote to make public an explosive
new FISA abuse memo as part of government shutdown
negotiations.
The four-page document, circulated to the full House
yesterday, is said to detail egregious abuses of surveillance
by the FBI, DOJ and Obama administration against the
Trump campaign during and after the 2016 US presidential
election.
The facts contained in the Republican majority-authored
report is said to be "jaw-dropping and demand full
transparency," according to Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL),
while the top ranking Democrat on the House Intel
Committee, Adam Schiff (D-CA) dismissed the memo as
"profoundly misleading" talking points drafted by
Republican staffers.
"Rife with factual inaccuracies and referencing
highly classified materials that most Republican
Intelligence Committee members were forced to
acknowledge they had never read, this is meant
only to give Republican House members a
distorted view of the FBI," said Schiff,
adding "This may help carry White House
water, but it is a deep disservice to our law
enforcement professionals."
The effort to integrate the Memo's public release with the
stopgap government shutdown bill is being led by
Freedom Caucus Chairman Mark Meadows of North
Carolina along with caucus co-founder Jim Jordan of Ohio.
Jordan confirmed that some conservatives
had "highlighted" in continuing resolution
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talks that it was "extremely important" that
the memo go public. He said it was not
something they were requiring of the
Republican leadership in return for votes. "But it
was something we definitely talked about -- that
needs to happen," Jordan added.
Meadows earlier referred to “subplots” of promises the
Freedom Caucus was able to extract from the leadership
before he agreed to support the continuing resolution.
“Mr Meadows and Mr. Jordan and many
conservatives want to include in this
negotiation a requirement that the House
make public intelligence documents that
highlight the unfair treatment of the
president” by the FBI and the Justice
Department, Gaetz said. -Bloomberg
Mark Meadows (R-NC) and Jim Jordan (R-OH)
“Part of me wishes that I didn't read it, because
I don’t want to believe that those kinds of things
could be happening in this country that I call
home and love so much," said Meadows.
Several other GOP Congressmembers have weighed in as
well.
"I have read the memo," tweeted Rep. Steve
King (R-IA), adding "The sickening reality has
set in. I no longer hold out hope there is an
innocent explanation for the information the
public has seen. I have long said it is worse
than Watergate. It was #neverTrump &
#alwaysHillary. #releasethememo."
Calls for the memo's release have dominated social media
since its existence was made known, with many suggesting
it be leaked in similar fashion to Dianne Feinstein's
publication of transcripts of a closed-door testimony before
the Senate Judiciary Committee by opposition research
firm Fusion GPS co-founder Glenn Simpson.

Meanwhile...

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Rep. Mark Meadows UNLOADS On ‘Absolutely Shocking’
FISA Memo: I Thought This ‘Would Never Happen In A
Country That Loves Freedom!’ (VIDEO)
By Joshua Caplan
Friday, January 19, 2018

On Thursday night, Freedom Caucus

leader Rep. Mark Meadows (R-NC)
joined the chorus of lawmakers
demanding the classified FISA abuse
memo be released.
Summing up his impassioned remarks
on the House floor, Meadows tweeted, “I
viewed the classified report from House
Intel relating to the FBI, FISA abuses,
the infamous Russian dossier, and so-
called “Russian collusion.” What I saw
is absolutely shocking. This report On Thursday, the House Intelligence Committee quietly
needs to be released–now. Americans voted to make available to fellow House members “a
deserve the truth. #ReleaseTheMemo.” memo documenting abuse of the FISA program,”
reports Fox News’ Chad Pergram. Rep Lee Zeldin (R-NY)
is demanding the secret memo be released immediately.

The most poignant part of Meadows’ remarks was when

the lawmaker said I thought this “would never happen in a
country that loves freedom!”

On Thursday evening, Rep. Steve King (R-IA) joined

Meadows in calling for the memo’s immediate release.

“I have read the memo. The sickening

reality has set in. I no longer hold out hope
there is an innocent explanation for the
information the public has seen. I have long
said it is worse than Watergate. It
was #neverTrump & #alwaysHillary. #relea
sethememo,” tweeted King.
.

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 President Trump Lights Up Twitter After He Fires Off
Tweet About FISA Abuse During The
2016 Presidential Election
By Cristina Laila
Friday, January 19, 2018

program,” reports Fox News’ Chad

President Trump riled up conservatives
after he took to his Twitter account
Friday tweeting about the FISA 702 re-
authorization bill he just signed.
President Trump also slammed the FISA abuses that took
place during the 2016 presidential election.
Pergram.
News of the FISA memo spread like wildfire on social
media after GOP Reps came forward demanding the
document be released to the American public.
Investigative reporter Sara Carter said the FISA memo is
so explosive it could end the Mueller investigation.
Trump’s supporters were whipped up into a frenzy under
his tweet calling for the FISA memo to be released.

Conservatives were calling on Trump to

#ReleaseTheMemo underneath his tweet.
President Trump cannot unilaterally release the memo; the
House Intel committee must vote in favor of the release
pursuant to House rule X.
“Just signed 702 Bill to reauthorize foreign
intelligence collection. This is NOT the
same FISA law that was so wrongly
abused during the election. I will always do
the right thing for our country and put the
safety of the American people first!”

On Thursday, the House Intelligence

Committee quietly voted to make
available to fellow House members “a
memo documenting abuse of the FISA

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 Video: Russiagate Has Blown Up
In The Face Of Its Originators –
The FBI, DOJ, And Hillary Clinton
Paul Craig Roberts
January 19, 2018

If you believed one word of Russiagate, you now must

laugh or cry at your incredible gullibility.

This scandal should also bring down the presstitute media

who have done the dirty work for the conspiracy against
Trump.

It is exactly as I told you. Russiagate is a conspiracy

between the FBI, the DOJ, and the Hillary campaign to
overturn Donald Trump’s election.

We have treason committed at the highest levels of the FBI

and Department of Justice and the Democratic National
Committee.

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 NBC News Reporter Smears House Republicans As
‘Joining Together’ With Russian Propagandists On
#Releasethememo Campaign
By Kristinn Taylor
January 19, 2018

This is how a media smear works. House Republicans

view a secret memo on the Obama administration’s spying
on the Trump campaign, express outrage at what they
learned and demand the memo be released to the American
people so they can see what their government was doing.

A left wing site, Hamilton68, that tracks alleged, but

unnamed, “Russia-linked influence networks on Twitter”
announces those alleged networks are promoting the
Release the Memo hashtag.

Then NBC News reporter Ken Dilanian trumpets the

unsubstantiated findings of the left wing group with a false
statement accusing House Republicans of working with
Russian propagandists, “Russian propagandists and House
Republicans have joined together to embrace
#releasethememo.

https://dashboard.securingdemocracy.org/

Of course The Gateway Pundit is listed on the Hamilton68

site as one of the ‘Top Domains’, ‘Top URLs’ and ‘Top
Trending URL’s in its report on Release the Memo.

Business Insider published an article that tried to diminish

the Release the Memo campaign as a Russian influence
operation.

Russia-linked Twitter accounts are working overtime to

help Devin Nunes and WikiLeaks

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Republican lawmakers are pushing for the House
Intelligence Committee to release a memo written by the
panel’s chairman, Rep. Devin Nunes, that outlines
purported surveillance during the transition period against
President-elect Donald Trump by former President Barack
Obama’s administration.
And Russia-linked Twitter bots have jumped on the
bandwagon.
#ReleaseTheMemo is the top-trending hashtag among
Twitter accounts linked to Russian influence operations,
according to Hamilton 68, a website launched last year that
says it tracks Russian propaganda in near-real time.
The frequency with which the accounts have been
promoting the hashtag has spiked by 233,000% over the
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past 48 hours, according to the site. The accounts’
references to the “memo,” meanwhile, have increased by
68,000%.
The most-shared domain among the accounts has been
WikiLeaks, and the most-shared URL has been a link to
WikiLeaks’ “submit” page.
WikiLeaks said on Thursday that it would reward anyone
with access to the
“FISA abuse memo” who chooses to submit it to
the site. The Russia-linked accounts have
evidently been sharing the “submit” page to
push the memo’s release…”
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Screen images of The Gateway Pundit listed on Hamilton 68 – GMF Securing Democracy Alliance website on January 19,
2018.
Naturally, Hollywood Democratic Party activist Alyssa Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) joined the smear attack,
Milano repeated the House GOP-Russia smear.
“Dear @housegop: When Russian bots &
Wikileaks are cheering your brainwashing
#TrumpRussia memo, you should ask yourself
whose bidding are you really doing.”

See how this works?

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 Hannity To Special Counsel Mueller:
‘Your WITCH HUNT Of Team Trump Is Now OVER’
As FISA Memo Threatens To BLOW
By Usafeaturesmedia
Posted On January 19, 2018

“Biggest Tick Tock Ever!! Vindication!”
“What we are talking about tonight are the
abuse of the powerful tools of intelligence that
we use to spy on people. Those tools were
used against an opposition candidate, and
president elect and his entire team,” he said, a
reference to the campaign of President Donald
J. Trump.

“And it was done not only under false pretenses

but with the with help of Hillary Clinton. She
bought and paid for the dossier that they filled
with Russian lies,” the Fox News host
continued.

(National Sentinel) Tick-Tock: On his Thursday evening
program, Fox News host Sean Hannity claimed that, based
on information he has gleaned from sources familiar with
the contents of a four-page House Intelligence Committee
memo on alleged FISA court abuses by the Obama
administration, special counsel Robert Mueller’s “witch
hunt” probe may soon be about to end.
On Friday, Hannity dropped another major hint that
bombshell information was coming, along with
“vindication.”
“Biggest Tick Tock Ever!! Vindication!” he
tweeted.

Based on today’s events I have a message tonight for

Special Counsel Robert Mueller. Your witch hunt is now
over. Time to close the doors,” Hannity said.

“It is more disturbing than we thought. And right

now our sources are telling us that the abuse of
power is far greater than Watergate,” the host
added.
.

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 TRUMP ATTORNEY: We Are Hearing The FISA
Abuse ‘Went Further Than Just Spying On
Trump’s Campaign’ (VIDEO)
By Cristina Laila
January 19, 2018
An attorney for Trump, Jay Sekulow said on
his broadcast Jay Live Friday that he is
hearing the FISA abuse went deeper and
further than just spying on Trump’s
presidential campaign.
On Thursday, the House Intelligence Committee quietly
voted to make available to fellow House members “a
memo documenting abuse of the FISA program,” reports
Fox News’ Chad Pergram.
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News of the FISA memo spread like wildfire on social
media after GOP Reps came forward demanding the
document be released to the American public.
Investigative reporter Sara Carter said the FISA memo is
so explosive it could end the Mueller investigation.
Attorney Jay Sekulow said the FISA abuse is way worse
than we all think.
“The 4 page memo detailing facts about the
FBI’s use of FISA warrants to surveil members
of the Trump campaign in 2016. I will tell you
this and may even be deeper than that is what
we are hearing. So it may be further than that,”
Sekulow said.
President Trump cannot unilaterally release the memo; the
House Intel committee must vote in favor of the
release pursuant to House rule X.
Sekulow and other lawmakers believe the 4 page FISA
memo could be released as soon as Friday evening.
 Kilmeade: ‘Trump Rallies
PATRIOTIC Americans Like Andrew Jackson’
By Usafeaturesmedia
Posted On January 19, 2018
“Donald Trump is like Andrew Jackson in many
ways”
(National Sentinel) Presidential: Fox News personality
and budding historian Brian Kilmeade has paid President
Donald J. Trump a high compliment in comparing him to
another populist president, Andrew Jackson.
Kilmeade — author of “Andrew Jackson and the Miracle
of New Orleans: The Battle That Shaped America’s
Destiny” – made his remarks Wednesday on SiriusXM’s
Breitbart News Tonight in an interview with Breitbart
News’s Senior Editors-at-Large Rebecca Mansour and Joel
Pollak.
After Mansour’s description of Jackson as “America’s
first populist president,” Kilmeade connected the 7th and
45th presidents via their very similar use of national fame
.
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as a tool towards pursuing, and capturing, the nation’s
highest elected office.
“Steve Bannon was one of the first to point out,
Donald Trump is like Andrew Jackson in many
ways,” said Kilmeade.
“That similarity where Donald Trump made his
name in business; Andrew Jackson became the
most famous man in America because he was
able to rally a country that was flat on its back in
a war that we weren’t ready to fight and win one
of the most decisive impactful battles in our
nation’s history,” he added.
“I remember on election night, we were at the
Trump victory party covering it. When it looked
like Trump was going to win, [former NYC
Mayor] Rudy Giuliani came downstairs to talk to
the press, and most of the journalists were
totally shell-shocked, and he said to them, ‘We
haven’t seen a victory like this since Andrew
Jackson.’ That was the first name on his mind.
It was amazing,” the Fox News host said.
 “The Most Explosive Scandal In US History”: Ex-Secret
Service Agent Warns FISA Memo Leaves Obama
With Only Two Options
By Joshua Caplan
January 19, 2018
The House Intel panel’s passage of New
York Republican Rep. Peter King’s motion to
release the FISA abuse memo to fellow
House members has rocked Washington,
D.C.
On Friday, former Secret Service agent Dan
Bongino warned Obama has just two
options left once the FISA memo is
released.
The Obamagate spying scandal is about to expose Obama
for what he was, a vengeful, power-hungry, narcissist.
Bank on it.
Posted by Dan Bongino on Friday, January 19, 2018
“The most explosive scandal in US history is
unfolding and Obama admin officials won’t have
any place to hide,” tweeted Bongino
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The former Secret Service then laid out Obama’s options.
“After they #ReleaseTheMemo Obama will only
have two options: OPTION 1) I didn’t know
anything about the most important CI
investigation in American history, despite being
notified about it, or OPTION 2) I did know and I
approved of using the police state to spy on my
opposition.”
On Thursday, former Secret Service agent Dan Bongino
warned the release of the FISA report will destroy the
image of his former boss Barack Obama.
“Take it to the bank, the FBI/FISA docs are
devastating for the Dems. The whole image of a
benevolent Barack Obama they’ve
disingenuously tried to portray is about to be
destroyed. The real Obama, the vengeful
narcissist, is going to be exposed for all to see,”
tweeted Dan Bongino
 “My sincere apologies for the expletive but SHIT become a nightmare for them. Watch them all
IS ABOUT TO HIT THE FAN. The former scurry like roaches when the lights come on it.”
Obama administration’s going to have a lot of
explaining to do,” Bongino added.

Last week, Bongino called the Steele dossier firestorm “the

most explosive scandal.”
“Take this check and cash it, the Democrats are
in a full blown panic right now over It’s getting ready to burst!” the former Secret
the #Obamagate scandal that’s about to Service agent added.

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 Adam Schiff Breaks His Silence On FISA Memo As
Pressure Mounts On House Committee To
#Releasethememo
By Cristina Laila
January 19, 2018
On Thursday, the House Intelligence
Committee quietly voted to make available
to fellow House members “a memo
documenting abuse of the FISA program,”
reports Fox News’ Chad Pergram.
News of the FISA memo spread like wildfire on social
media after GOP Reps came forward demanding the
document be released to the American public.
Investigative reporter Sara Carter said the FISA memo is
so explosive it could end the Mueller investigation.
Ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee
Adam Schiff (D-CA) is in full blown panic mode as the
release of the FISA memo looms. Schiff is in the middle of
the corruption as a ranking House committee member. He
has fiercely worked to block Chairman Nunes from
exposing the illegal unmasking and FISA abuse that took
place during the 2016 presidential election.
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Adam Schiff broke his silence about the FISA memo on
Friday.
Schiff blasted the FISA memo in a statement to CNN:
[the memo is] “profoundly misleading set of
talking points drafted by Republican staff
attacking the FBI and its handling of the
investigation.”
Rep. Adam Schiff knows he’s in hot water as the FISA
memo bubbles up to the surface which is why he is
attacking it as ‘Republican talking points’.
Schiff knew all along there was FISA abuse and actively
worked to block Chairman Nunes from revealing the
information. If Schiff was honest and allowed Chairman
Nunes to release the information he had about the FISA
abuse and illegal unmasking back in March or April of
2016, Robert Mueller would never have been appointed as
Special Counsel to oversee the bogus Russia witch hunt.
Millions of taxpayer dollars have been wasted on dirty cop
Robert Mueller and his team of liberal hacks. They should
be forced to pay every penny back. Robert Mueller has
known the entire time Hillary’s phony dossier was used to
obtain a FISA warrant yet he marched on with the witch
hunt.
Everyone involved needs to be prosecuted and put in
prison including suspected leaker Adam Schiff who has
known this entire time the Russia investigation was a
political witch hunt.
 Gregg Jarrett: I Suspect This FISA Document Will Show
Numerous Felonies By Top Officials — With Up to 10
Years Behind Bars (VIDEO)
by Jim Hoft
January 19, 2018

Attorney and FOX News analyst Gregg Jarrett
joined Sean Hannity on Friday night to discuss
the explosive FISA document that was released
to the House Intelligence Committee this week.
Gregg Jarrett says the document will show “numerous
felonies” by top Obama DOJ and FBI officials. Jarrett then
adds that the criminal actions may result in up to 10 years
in prison.
officials at the FBI and Department of
Justice.
There’s a federal felony statute it’s called Deprivation of
Rights Under Color of Law and it says that a government
official cannot use their government position to deprive
somebody of their constitutional rights. Here it’s the
constitutional right to privacy… If the DOJ goes into a
federal judge using a fake false document to obtain a
warrant to spy that’s a violation, it’s a felony, it’s 10 years
behind bars.

Via Hannity:

Gregg Jarrett: Top officials should be impeached which

means they can’t hold another government position.

But I suspect this intel document is going to

reveal multiple felonies by high ranking
.

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 Former Obama Secret Service Agent On FISA Memo:
"The Real Obama, The Vengeful Narcissist, Is Going To Be
Exposed For All To See"
Tim Brown
January 19, 2018
A former secret service agent who was assigned to
protective duty under Barack Hussein Obama Soetoro
Sobarkah, has been extremely vocal about the FISA
memo, which congressmen are saying needs to be released
to the public and that people should be going to jail over,
said,
"The real Obama, the vengeful narcissist, is
going to be exposed for all to see."
Author Dan Bongino is no stranger, and in the past 24
hours he has been pointing to something that he warned of
back in March 2017 when he tweeted, "#ObamaGate is
going to blow wide-open this week.
On Thursday, Bongino followed up that tweet saying that
it took a little longer expected, which he attributed to the
"extreme depravity" of the Democrats.
He warned that Democrats would attempt to smear Rep.
Devin Nunes (R-CA), but will ignore the facts contained in
the memo, which is a simple Saul Alinsky tactic.
"The deranged Democrats’ strategy going
forward, given the panic over the memo, is
going to be a full-fledged attack on Devin
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Nunes, Bongino said. "These are sick people,
never forget it."
"Don’t get distracted," he said.
Bongino, who left the secret service in 2011 to pursue a
seat in the US Senate, said that the American people must
be allowed to see what the Obama administration did in
their names, and called Obamagate "the biggest scandal of
our generation."
Additionally, he said the American people must also
witness the unparalleled abuses of power and the police
state tactics of the Obama administration, which are
allegedly contained in the memo.
And while we know the fake news mainstream media will
do everything in their power to cover for the usurper-in-
chief and his minions, Bongino believes that they will not
be able to handle what's about to be exposed.
"The hack media won’t be able to cover up the
shitstorm that’s coming ashore," he said.
In fact, he taunted the media a little bit.
He addressed "media hacks" and said,
"You’d better get your thinking caps on and start
preparing your bullshit cover stories for the
Obama admin now. And you’d better get real
creative because once they
#ReleaseTheMemo the roaches are gonna
start scurrying."
Though the former secret service agent believes the
debunked anti-Trump dossier is important because of who
was behind it, he said that the real question is
“Why was the Obama administration spying on
team Trump in the first place?"
According to Bongino, Obama doesn’t have “plausible
deniability” and stupidity isn’t a defense.

In fact, he went on to point out that there would be only

two real options for Obama once the memo was released.

OPTION 1) I didn’t know anything about the

most important CI investigation in American
history, despite being notified about it, or

OPTION 2) I did know and I approved of using

the police state to spy on my opposition.

"He’s going to be crying, not laughing, I

promise," said Bongino referring to
Obama. "ObamaGate is going to make the IRS
scandal look like a Leave it to Beaver episode."

Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) pointed out the irony in the

debate on FISA and the memo that representatives want to
see released. Take a listen to Dan's show from Friday for in depth
coverage of what is about to unfold.
"Irony Alert: House Intel members who shoved
fake reform of FISA, a day later reveal
bombshell evidence that FISA was abused by
Obama officials," Senator Paul tweeted on
Friday.

This entire FISA mess is nothing short of unconstitutional

in the first place. People think they can just make up laws
that undermine our Constitution and that it's ok. It's not.
This memo, if what is being said about it is true, and I have
no reason to doubt the truth of it, should demonstrate that
the entire FISA system should be abolished. It should
have been done a long time ago. In fact, it should never
have been authorized in the first place.

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 Donald Trump Jr. on FISA Memo:
“This Is the Stuff You Read About from Banana
Republics” (Video) #ReleaseTheMemo
January 19, 2018 by Jim Hoft

On Thursday a classified DOJ memo on the On Friday night Donald Trump Jr. joined Tucker Carlson
FISA abuse by top officials rocked to discuss the memo.
Washington DC.

The House Intel panel’s passage of New York Republican

Rep. Peter King’s motion to release the FISA abuse memo
to fellow House members has rocked Washington, D.C.
Lawmakers from Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) to Rep. Lee
Zeldin (R-NY) have called for the classified memo’s
immediate release.

According to Fox News contributor Sara Carter, the

contents of the memo are so “explosive,”that it could end
special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia probe once and
for all.
Don Jr. told Tucker this is “the stuff you read about from
Rep. Matt Gaetz later told Sean Hannity, banana republics.”

“I believe people will go to jail.”
This morning Donald Trump Jr. tweeted out about the
explosive memo.
Donald Trump Jr.: If all of these guys are saying
people’s heads are gonna roll, people are going to get fired
and people are actually going to go to jail, I think the
American people deserve to know… It’s the double
standard the American people are being fed by the
Democrats in total complicity with the media. That’s why
neither have any trust from the American people
anymore… Look, what I’ve seen and what I’ve learned
over the past few months is bordering on disgusting. So
there would be little doubt in my mind that it be possible.
But this isn’t the America that I thought would happen.

This is the stuff you read about from banana

republics.

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 UPDATE—> 63 GOP Lawmakers Petition Chairman
Nunes to Release Classified and Explosive
FISA Memo #ReleaseTheMemo
by Jim Hoft
January 19, 2018
to fellow House members has rocked Washington, D.C.
IT’S OFFICIAL…. Lawmakers from Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) to Rep. Lee
Zeldin (R-NY) have called for the classified memo’s
GOP lawmakers today petitioned immediate release.
Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes to
release the classified and explosive FISA According to Fox News contributor Sara Carter, the
memo. contents of the memo are so “explosive,”that it could end
special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia probe once and
On Thursday a classified DOJ memo on the FISA abuse by for all.
top officials rocked Washington DC–
Rep. Matt Gaetz later told Sean Hannity, “I believe people
The House Intel panel’s passage of New York Republican will go to jail.”
Rep. Peter King’s motion to release the FISA abuse memo

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Ten Republican lawmakers signed on the letter to
Chairman Nunes.

Steve King
Matt Gaetz
Mark Meadows
Jim Jordan
Andy Biggs
Scott Perry
Ted Yoho
Jody Hice
Louie Gohmert
Barry loudermilk
Brian Babin

UPDATE: Rep Matt Gaetz told Tucker Carlson that 63

GOP members of Congress have petitioned Rep. Nunez
to release the memo.
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 Trump’s First Year In Office Was A MAJOR SUCCESS
For Him And The U.S.: Here’s WHY
By Usafeaturesmedia
Posted On January 20, 2018
There were other accomplishments as well, which Trump
managed to achieve despite being attacked endlessly
(National Sentinel) Presidential: By any measure,
President Donald J. Trump had a successful first year in
office, despite a dearth of major legislative
accomplishments due in large part to near-universal
Democratic opposition.
The president scored well on his turnaround of the
moribund Obama economy, while scoring foreign and
domestic policy gains that formed a good basis for more
progress in 2018.
The Economy
In eight years, President Obama never saw a single quarter
of 3 percent growth in GDP, but Trump has twice in his
first year.
In addition, Wall Street has had a stellar year. The Dow
Jones Industrial Average has skyrocketed some 42 percent
since Trump’s November 2016 election victory and 31
percent since Inauguration Day, closing on Friday at 26,
071.71, while the NASDAQ closed at 7,336.38, both at
new records. This is particularly advantageous for ordinary
Americans who have seen meteoric gains in their 401k and
other market-based retirement plans.
Also, job growth has been substantial, with 2 million new
jobs added to the economy in just a single year, as the
unemployment rate fell to around 4 percent. Workforce
participation is also the highest its been in a decade.
rd
At the end of the 3 Quarter the national GDP reached
$19.5 trillion for the highest recorded GDP in U.S. history.
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Economists believe this is just the beginning. The Trump-
GOP tax reform and tax cut plan is expected to lead to
sturdy corporate growth, which will lead to more
employment, higher pay — and fewer federal taxes for
more than 85 percent of Americans.
Foreign Policy
Trump entered office vowing to unleash the U.S. military
on ISIS so as to defeat the Islamic militant group as
quickly as possible. While new problems are arising in
Syria and Iraq, the Islamic State has been soundly
defeated. “Both Syria and Iraq have declared victory over
ISIS and due to President Trump’s resolve, less than 1,000
ISIS fighters are estimated remaining,” The Gateway
Pundit reported.
Meanwhile, Trump’s focus on rebuilding the U.S. military
and refocusing it for near-peer, great-power war after more
than 15 years fighting small brushfire conflicts in the
Middle East and Southwest Asia is paying dividends.
Training is shifting away from insurgencies back to great
power conflict; as Russia and China rise, the United
States’ and NATO’s deterrent capability is being bolstered.
What’s more, the president has the support of most in
Congress for building a bigger Navy and more robust,
capable forces.
Domestic Policy
Trump has kept his promises to cut bureaucracy and the
regulatory state, which is in turn also driving economic
growth. Some of the president’s first executive orders
included a near-government-wide hiring freeze and
instructions to all federal agencies that for every new rule
they implemented, two must be cut. The resulting
reduction of federal compliance costs on businesses and
industries has been phenomenal.
As noted by The Gateway Pundit, Trump’s actions have
included:
 Dismantling Obama’s climate change initiatives.
 Travel bans for individuals from a select number of
countries embroiled in terrorist atrocities.
 Enforcing regulatory reform.
  Protecting Law enforcement.
 Mandating for every new regulation to eliminate two.
 Defeating ISIS.
 Rebuilding the military.
 Building a border wall.
 Cutting funding for sanctuary cities.
 Approving Keystone and Dakota pipelines.
 Reducing regulations on manufacturers.
 Placing a hiring freeze on federal employees.
 Exiting the US from destructive, expensive and wholly
inappropriate global trade deals like TPP
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In addition, Trump kept his promise to appoint
constitutional-minded federal judges and justices. His first
pick for the U.S. Supreme Court was Neil Gorsuch.
There were other accomplishments as well, which Trump
managed to achieve despite being attacked endlessly by
the establishment media, being under investigation by a
special counsel — which is beginning to look more and
more like it was an Obama political operation — and near-
constant opposition from Democrats and threats of
impeachment.
 Rep. Matt Gaetz To Tucker Carlson:
Shocking FISA Memo Will Prove Mueller Witch Hunt Is
“Rotten To The Core” (VIDEO)
By Joshua Caplan
January 20, 2018

Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) joined Fox News

host Tucker Carlson Friday evening and
assured the shocking FISA abuse memo will
prove special counsel Robert Mueller’s
Russia investigation is “rotten to the core.”

Republican lawmakers have begun lobbying

Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes to release the memo.
“Earlier this morning, I examined the classified,
four-page memo
from @HouseIntelComm regarding the FBI,
Asked why the FISA memo is a “big deal,” the Florida DOJ, and the so-called #RussianCollusion. To
Republican replied, put it simply, “WOW.” I joined the call
to #ReleaseTheMemo. Americans deserve truth
“‘I believe that once the American people have and transparency,” tweeted Rep. Jody Hice (R-
the opportunity to evaluate the allegations and GA).
claims in this memo, it will become evident the
activities of the last administration, the crimes I The letter was signed by Steve King, Matt Gaetz, Mark
believe were committed, and the total shame Meadows, Jim Jordan, Andy Biggs, Scott Perry, Ted
that this Mueller investigation is, built on a false Yoho, Jody Hice, Louie Gohmert, Barry Loudermilk and
premise and rotten to the core, Tucker.’ Brian Babin, reports Jim Hoft of The Gateway Pundit.
According to Fox News contributor Sara Carter, the
contents of the memo are so “explosive,” that it could end
special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia probe.
Additionally, the memo’s release could lead to the
prosecution of top FBI and Justice Department officials,
contends Carter.
On Thursday evening, Gaetz told Fox News host Sean
Hannity that he believes the memo’s release will lead to
government officials going to prison.
“I believe this will not end just with firings. I
believe there are people who will go to jail. I
was very persuaded by the evidence,” Gaetz
told Hannity.
Via Hannity:

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 Democrats Chose ILLEGAL Aliens
Over U.S. Military Personnel By Letting Govt. Shut Down
By JD Heyes
Saturday, January 20, 2018
For days last week, top Democrats including Senate
Minority Leader Chuck #SchumerShutdown threatened to
allow the government to shut down if they didn’t get their
way: A “clean” piece of legislation that would legalize 1-3
million “Dreamers” who, for one reason or another, are in
the United States illegally.
On Saturday at midnight, they made good on their threat:
Most Democrats chose to allow government funding to
expire after Republicans passed a one-month stopgap
spending bill that would have kept the government open.
And kept U.S. troops at home and in war zones around the
world paid. As it stands now, they won’t be getting paid,
thanks to Democrats’ zeal and preference for people who
are in our country illegally and who otherwise have no
right to be (nor have they ever had a right to be).
“This is the One Year Anniversary of my
Presidency and the Democrats wanted to give
me a nice present. #DemocratShutdown,”
President Donald J. Trump tweeted early
Saturday morning.
He added,
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“Democrats are far more concerned with Illegal
Immigrants than they are with our great Military
or Safety at our dangerous Southern Border.
They could have easily made a deal but
decided to play Shutdown politics instead.
#WeNeedMoreRepublicansIn18 in order to
power through mess!”
(Related: Line in the sand: House Freedom Caucus chair
vows NO DACA amnesty in upcoming spending bill.)
“Democrats are holding our Military hostage
over their desire to have unchecked illegal
immigration,” he posted at 9:27 am. “Can’t let
that happen!”
Other Republicans agreed with the president: The
Democrats do own this shutdown, and what’s more, there
isn’t any changing that fact, since their votes are now on
record.
In a statement, White House spokeswoman Sarah
Huckabee Sanders said,
“Senate Democrats own the Schumer
Shutdown.
“Tonight, they put politics above our national
security, military families, vulnerable children,
and our country’s ability to serve all Americans.
We will not negotiate the status of unlawful
immigrants while Democrats hold our lawful
citizens hostage over their reckless demands,”
 she continued. “This is the behavior of
obstructionist losers, not legislators. When
Democrats start paying our armed forces and
first responders we will reopen negotiations on
immigration reform.”
“During this politically manufactured Schumer
Shutdown, the President and his Administration
will fight for and protect the American people,”
she concluded.
There was some crossing of the aisle, to be fair. Five
Democratic senators — Joe Donnelly of Indiana, Doug
Jones of Alabama, Claire McCaskill of Missouri, Heidi
Heitkamp of North Dakota and Joe Manchin of West
Virginia — voted with the majority of Republicans to
advance a funding bill the House passed just hours earlier.
And some Republicans voted no — Jeff Flake of Arizona,
Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, Rand Paul of
Kentucky and Mike Lee of Utah. Flake did so because he’s
a #NeverTrump RINO whose quick to criticize the
president no matter what he does (but he’s out in
November anyway; retiring because he can’t get enough
support to avoid a primary). The other three, led by
Graham, did not want another month’s worth of funding
because it would lead to another political standoff next
.
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month. Plus, nine years of continuing resolutions is
destroying military readiness.
But the fact is, the Republicans had given Democrats
something — a six-year reauthorization of a children’s
health insurance entitlement.
That wasn’t enough. They wanted amnesty for illegal
aliens too, even though there is still plenty of time to tackle
that issue (March 5 is the cut-off date for a DACA deal).
Republicans needed 60 votes in order to advance their
legislation and get it passed; the final tally was 50-49 (Sen.
John McCain did not vote because he is absent getting
treatment for his brain cancer).
Bottom line:
Most Republicans voted for a bill that would
have kept the government open (and our troops
paid); most Democrats voted against that,
choosing illegals instead.
It’s all on the record now and Democrats can’t lie or spin
their way out of it.
Trump was right. Electorally speaking, this was a gift.
 Inauguration Anniversary:
The Most Obnoxious Attacks on Trump
By Geoffrey Dickens
January 20, 2018 11:45 AM EST

unfit. Where were the folks seven months ago, ten months
ago, two years ago?”

— Washington Post columnist Jennifer Rubin on

MSNBC’s The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell,
August 22.

Psychoanalyzing 'Unhinged' Trump

“He’s unhinged, it’s embarrassing and I don’t mean for us,

the media because he went after us, but for the country.
This is who we elected President of the United
States....There was no gravitas. There was no sanity....If
you watch that speech as an American, you had to be
thinking what in the world is going on? This is the person
we elected as President of the United States? This petty,
this small, a person who who’s supposed to pull the
country together?”
— Host Don Lemon reacting to Trump speech in
Arizona, on CNN Tonight, August 22.
'Sociopathic' Trump Is 'Danger to the World'
“Donald Trump is a deeply damaged human being. He is a
sociopathic, malignant narcissist, and he happens to be the
– you know, the electoral system, not the American
people, but the Electoral College has sort of vomited this
thing up and it landed in the Oval Office and it needs to be
removed. It’s a stain. It’s a big glob on the carpet there. It
needs to be removed and that means impeachment or the
25th Amendment. This man is a danger to the world.”

— Former MSNBC host Ron Reagan Jr. on

MSNBC’s Hardball, October 25.

Trump Is a 'Basket Case'

“[Republican] members publicly, privately are

acknowledging that guy is a basket case, that he cannot
serve, he cannot lead the party. My regret is they’ve all
been so cowardly for so long and did nothing to stop him
and it took this long to whisper on background that he was

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Trump Is 'Unfit to Be Human'
“He [Donald Trump] was a coward. He didn’t have the
spine to stand-up as leader of the United States and I feel
that to be shameful. I’m glad Republicans are calling him
out on it. I’m glad elected leaders in the Republican Party
are finally, finally stopping looking the other way and
confronting the fact that he’s not only not fit to be
president. In my book, his lack of empathy, his lack of
leadership, his lack of courage, he’s unfit to be human.”
— Political commentator Ana Navarro, in response to
Trump’s Charlottesville, VA speech as aired on CNN
Newsroom with John Berman and Poppy Harlow,
August 14.
'Menace' Trump Needs to Be Impeached
“The thing about Trump is, the things he has said seriously
about nuclear weapons is quite frightening. I’ll give you a
couple. To Chris Matthews, he asked, ‘Why do we make
them, he said, if we wouldn’t use them?’ Ok. The
possibility of nuclear war between Japan and North Korea:
‘It would be a terrible thing. If they do, they do.’ Good
luck. Enjoy yourselves, folks. He said he was open to
nuking Europe because ‘it’s a big place.’...Why doesn’t
everybody face it? He needs to be taken out of office. He
needs to be impeached. He is a menace. You say Kim Jong
Yum-yum is crazy? So is he. So is he. Get real. Come on.
He is nuts and we’re in the middle of it!”
— Co-host Joy Behar on ABC’s The View, April 3.
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'Detached From Reality' Trump Taking Us to Nuke
Showdown
“We are headed towards a nuclear showdown....We heard
this months ago, that we are going to have a ground war in
Korea. They’ve believed that inside the White House for a
very long time. And yet, he [Donald Trump] is completely
detached from reality....You have somebody inside the
White House that the New York Daily News says is
mentally unfit, that people close to him say is mentally
unfit, that people close to him during the campaign told me
had early stages of dementia.”
— Co-host Joe Scarborough on MSNBC’s Morning
Joe, November 30.
Trump's 'Anti-Semitic' Overtones
Anchor George Stephanopoulos: “Students of history
will take note of that slogan, America first.”
Correspondent Terry Moran: “It’s a loaded term in
American history. Now, he defined it here as total
allegiance to the United States of America, and it is
something, as Cecilia said, this is why he was sent here by
people who want to hear that message of America first.
However, it carries with it overtones from the 1930s when
an anti-Semitic movement saying, ‘We don’t want to get
involved in Europe’s war. It’s the Jews’ fault in Germany!’
Charles Lindbergh led them. It is a term, as he defined it
his way, but the words themselves carry very ugly echos in
our history.”
— ABC News live coverage of Trump inauguration,
January 20, 2017.
Trump Is 'Flat-Out, Full Racist'
“Donald Trump is a racist. He isn’t just a white
supremacist – he’s a flat-out, full racist, and unless your
definition of a racist is you hung somebody from a tree, he
is a racist.”
— Former New York Times reporter David Cay
Johnston about ESPN’s Jemele Hill calling Trump a
“white supremacist, as aired on MSNBC’s AM Joy,
September 16.
Trump 'Denies Reality'
“Will President Trump deny reality on a daily basis? Will
he make up his own false facts and fake stats? What will
the consequences be? Will reporters give up trying to fact
check? Is that the goal? To wear us down, to wear us
out...Do citizens in dictatorships recognize what’s
happening right here right now? Are they looking at the
first two days of the Trump administration and saying,
‘Oh, that’s what my leader does?’ What should we learn
from them today?”
— Host Brian Stelter on CNN’s Reliable Sources,
January 22, 2017.
Trump's 'Treacherous' Attacks on the Press
“Trump’s attacks on the American press as ‘enemies of the
American people’ are more treacherous than Richard
Nixon’s attacks on the press. Nixon’s attacks on the press
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were largely in private. There’s a history of what ‘enemy
of the people,’ that phrase means as used by dictators and
authoritarians including Stalin including Hitler....We’ve
never seen in an American president such open
authoritarian moves and rhetoric. This is a terrible time
we’re living in..”
— CNN political analyst and former Washington
Post editor Carl Bernstein on CNN’s Reliable Sources,
February 19.
Freak Out Over 'Covfefe'
“If something like that [Trump typo] can stay on Twitter
for six hours, what does that say about who controls the
information coming out of the White House? And what if
somebody hacked into Twitter and posted a message that
could have global implications? Saying something
like...‘I’m going to launch nuclear weapons’....This kept
me up last night! I was up until two in the morning
wondering when this tweet was going to go away.”
— Correspondent Katy Tur reacting to Donald Trump
accidentally typing “covfefe” in a tweet, as aired
on MSNBC Live, May 31.
'Madman' Trump's 'Dangerous' Tweets
“We have become desensitized to these tweets and that
they are dangerous...It’s not the madman [North Korean
dictator Kim Jon Un] with his hand on the button, it’s his,
it’s the madman [Donald Trump] with his finger on his
Blackberry or whatever iPhone that could tweet.”
— Co-host Mika Brzezinski on MSNBC’s Morning Joe, Trump Is a 'Deranged' 'Racist' 'Man Child'
September 18.
“We have a man child who is deranged and racist in this
office. But it takes a lot of other silent people to go along
with it. And we’re seeing those silent people in
Congress....We are seeing all kinds of people who for
small, personal, trivial gains are willing to see their
country turned into the real s-hole.”

— Political analyst Anand Giridharadas on MSNBC’s

Morning Joe, January 15, 2018.

Trump Is a 'Terrorist' Sympathizing 'White

Supremacist'

“The President is a white supremacist – we heard in

Charlottesville the President is a terrorist sympathizer, and
our President is a clear and present danger to non-white
people in America....Unless the Democratic party realizes
that this man is an enemy to non-white people in America
– and this is not an exaggeration – everything in his Trump the Tyrant
rhetoric and policy has said so – we will be in danger as a
sovereign nation.”
“[The Founders] wrote a Constitution that would have
checks and balances on a tyrannical president. They never,
— The Root’s politics editor Jason Johnson on
ever let their imaginations be darkened by the possibility
MSNBC’s All In, January 11, 2018.
of a compliant Congress in the face of a tyrannical
president. But that appears to be exactly what we have in
2018.”

— Host Joe Scarborough on MSNBC’s Morning Joe,

January 15, 2018.

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 Republican Signals Progress
In Securing Public Release Of FISA Abuses Memo
By Daniel Chaitin
Jan 20, 2018, 7:16 PM | Updated Jan 20, 2018, 8:29 PM

But a source told the Washington Examiner that a meeting

took place to discuss the process for the memo's release,
but cautioned more details need to be ironed out before a
final decision is made.

In a recent Fox News interview, Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio,

said the process, if set in motion, would likely entail
another intelligence panel vote. After that, he said,

"if the executive branch gives the thumbs up

"Great news! Our efforts to #ReleaseTheMemo have been effective
they go public."
and the HPSIC plans to begin the process to release the
FBI/FISA/Russia memo," tweeted Rep Dave Joyce. (AP Photo/Zach Republican senators appear to have had their interest
Gibson)
piqued too, but appear out of luck, at least for the time
being. CNN reported Saturday that Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky.,
Rep. Dave Joyce, a Republican from Ohio, declared wants to read the memo, but was turned down. His
Saturday that the House Intelligence Committee "plans to spokesman, Sergio Gor, said Paul is "determined" to read
begin" the release of the memo that allegedly contains it, added CNN's Manu Raju.
revelations about U.S. government surveillance abuses.
Gor confirmed the details of Raju's tweet to the
His tweet is promising for dozens of conservatives who Washington Examiner.
have rallied in recent days for the four-page memo to be
made available to the general public. They suggest it
Raju also indicated that Senate Majority Whip John
contains evidence that the Obama administration used
Cornyn, R-Texas, was blocked from reading the memo but
FISA warrants to spy on both the Trump campaign and
did receive a briefing on it from House Intelligence
transition team — charges Obama officials have long
Committee Chairman Devin Nunes, R-Calif.
denied.
Cornyn's office did not return a request for comment.
"Great news! Our efforts to #ReleaseTheMemo
have been effective and the HPSIC plans to
begin the process to release the Joyce's tweet Saturday comes one day after 65 lawmakers
FBI/FISA/Russia memo," Joyce announced. signed a letter calling on Nunes to publicly release the
memo.
He added that the process may take up to and beyond 19
congressional work days. Led by Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., the Republicans said the
report, which by a party-line vote in the intelligence panel
was released to the entire House, should be publicly
Great news! Our efforts to #ReleaseTheMemo
released immediately along with any other relevant
have been effective and the HPSIC plans to
information.
begin the process to release the
FBI/FISA/Russia memo. This may take up to
19+ Congressional work days but Americans "After reading the document, we were shocked
deserve to know the truth.— Dave Joyce and frustrated, but it has deepened our belief in
(@RepDaveJoyce) January 20, 2018 the vital importance of transparency," states the
letter, which was also signed by Joyce and
Jordan.
A request for further comment from Joyce's office was not
immediately returned.

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 "This important memo will be of interest to
anyone who cares about America and our
democratic system of government," the letter
continues. "We are writing to request the
immediate release of this document to the
public, as well as any relevant ancillary
information. The audience of this document
should not be limited to Members of Congress
— the American people deserve to know the
information it contains."
became clear to him why Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa,
chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and Sen.
Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., recommended the Justice
Department criminally investigate the author of the Trump
dossier, former British spy Christopher Steele.
The top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee,
Adam Schiff, called the memo a
"profoundly misleading set of talking points."

Today, I led a group of 65 lawmakers in a letter

“[T]he Majority voted today on a party-line basis
to Chairman Nunes of the House Intelligence
to grant House Members access to a profoundly
Committee urging the release of the FISA
misleading set of talking points drafted by
Memo to the public. The American people
Republican staff attacking the FBI and its
deserve to know the information it contains.
handling of the investigation,” Schiff, D-Calif., in
#ReleaseTheMemohttps://t.co/zcTr5QOKSQ
a statement Thursday. “Rife with factual
pic.twitter.com/J6aQT7wXxN— Rep.
inaccuracies and referencing highly classified
Matt Gaetz (@RepMattGaetz) January 20, 2018
materials that most of Republican Intelligence
Committee members were forced to
Members have been blocked from discussing the memo in acknowledge they had never read, this is meant
detail due to a waiver they signed, according to The Hill. only to give Republican House members a
They have described it as being supported by classified distorted view of the FBI.”
documents and interviews that most lawmakers have not
been allowed to see — putting knowledge of its veracity in
The push to release the memo comes amid a partial
doubt.
shutdown after the Senate failed to pass a short-term
spending bill late Friday that was already approved by the
Gaetz has gone as far to suggest people could "go to jail" House.
due to the contents of the memo and special counsel
Robert Mueller's investigation, which is examining
Editor's note: This report has been updated to include a
possible collusion between the Trump campaign and the
response from Sen. Rand Paul's spokesman.
Kremlin, is "a lie built on corruption." He also said it
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 As Trump Gives Out Fake News Awards, WikiLeaks
Reminds the World BOTH Parties Are Liars
By Rachel Blevins
January 20, 2018
While the same media outlets that have been openly
critical of President Trump became the topics of his “Fake
News Awards,” the entire event was filled with hypocrisy,
and served as a depiction of the pot calling the kettle
black—both entities have spent a significant amount of
time lying to and misleading the public.
WikiLeaks, an organization that the mainstream media
have attempted to claim is a pro-Trump, pro-Russia
propaganda firm, took to Twitter to point out the hypocrisy
surrounding the awards:
“While WikiLeaks, as a primary source
organization with a perfect verification record
welcomes debate over ‘fake news’ it should be
noted that along with the U.S. establishment
press, the Trump administration is a frequent
source of false information,” the organization
claimed.
The statement is notable because it serves as a reminder of
the relationship between WikiLeaks and the Trump
administration. When Trump was running for office, and
WikiLeaks was releasing emails from members of the
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Democratic National Committee, Trump was more than
happy to credit the organization when citing the damning
information that it released about his opponent, Hillary
Clinton.
However, now that Trump is in office, he has made no
attempt to pardon WikiLeaks’ founder, Julian Assange,
who is currently living at the London embassy in Ecuador
after he was granted political asylum.
Trump has also openly criticized Chelsea Manning, the
Army whistleblower who helped to put WikiLeaks on the
map by releasing 700,000 files and documents that
revealed atrocities committed by the U.S. military in Iraq.
Trump’s hypocrisy when it comes to WikiLeaks is notable
because it serves as a reminder of his hypocrisy when it
comes to foreign policy. He uses stories of innocent
children killed by airstrikes and the dangers of blowback
when it suits him but ignores those same factors when they
challenge his administration’s policies.
When Trump was viewed as the “outsider” candidate in
the 2016 election, and he needed support from an anti-
establishment fan base, he was fully in support of holding
Saudi Arabia accountable for the role it played in the 9/11
terrorist attacks. However, once Trump was in office, his
tune quickly changed, and Saudi Arabia became the first
stop on his first foreign trip as president—paving the way
for the completion of the largest single arms deal in U.S.
history.
Trump’s cozy relationship with Saudi Arabia has resulted
in pure genocide in the poorest country in the Middle East.
While the massacre was initially started by the Obama
Administration, the Trump Administration’s foreign policy
has only made conditions worse in Yemen, where the
latest records show that since 2015, 5,000 children have
been killed or injured, 3 million were born into war, and
1.8 million children are acutely malnourished.
“A stable, unified and independent Syria
ultimately requires post-Assad leadership in
order to be successful,” Tillerson said. “The
departure of Assad through the UN-led Geneva
process will create the conditions for a durable
peace within Syria and security along the
border for Syria’s neighbors.”

Trump’s hypocrisy on foreign policy extends to Syria,

where he began criticizing Obama’s attempts to invade the
country in 2013. He also used his time on the campaign
trail to accuse the Obama Administration of helping to
create ISIS in its attempts to overthrow Assad.

However, despite Trump’s rhetoric, Secretary of State Rex

Tillerson boasted a “new” strategy in Syria centered
around long-term U.S. military presence that would
eventually lead to overthrowing President Bashar al-Assad,
during a speech at Stanford University’s Hoover
Institution.

Tillerson vowed that the U.S. will stay until

“ISIS and Al-Qaeda in Syria suffer an enduring
defeat; do not present a threat to the homeland;
and do not resurface in a new form; and that
Syria never again serves as a platform or safe
haven for terrorists to organize, recruit, finance,
train and carry out attacks on American citizens
at home or abroad or against our allies.”
Tillerson also said the U.S. still seeks to overthrow Assad
“through an incremental process of
constitutional reform and UN-supervised
elections.”
Ultimately, Trump is correct in stating that the mainstream
media has published stories about him that were false or
misleading. But Trump is guilty of the exact same offenses
that he accusing CNN and MSNBC of committing.
While one might wonder why the mainstream media
would focus more on Russiagate than on the dramatic
increase in civilian casualties, or the escalation of military
spending under the Trump Administration, they should
also realize that in order to provide accurate and honest
coverage of Trump, the media would have to admit that he
is only continuing the exact same thing his predecessors
have been doing—and the media has been covering up—
for years.

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 Gaetz: FISA Memo Will PROVE That Mueller
Investigation Is All Trump Says It Is – A
‘ROTTEN Witch Hunt’ (Video)
By Usafeaturesmedia
Posted On January 20, 2018

Gaetz predicted that people would be fired and that some quick end to Mueller’s probe of the Trump campaign and
will “go to jail” transition team.

During the same interview, Gaetz predicted that people

would be fired and that some will “go to jail.”

“I believe this will not end just with firings. I

believe there are people who will go to jail. I
was very persuaded by the evidence,” Gaetz
told Hannity.

During his interview with Carlson, the host asked why, if

(National Sentinel) Collusion Hoax: Florida Republican
Rep. Matt Gaetz told Fox News host Tucker Carlson
Friday evening during his program that the four-page FISA
Memo drafted by the House Intelligence Committee
contains information that he believes will prove President
Donald J. Trump correct about special counsel Robert
Mueller’s Russia “collusion” probe.
the memo contains evidence of lawbreaking, it is illegal
for Gaetz and others who have seen its contents to discuss
specifics.
Gaetz acknowledged the irony, but said the memo is
classified top secret, thus prohibiting members by law
from discussion specifics publicly.

In response to Carlson asking what they memo is such a Watch:

“big deal,” Gaetz noted,

“I believe that once the American people have

the opportunity to evaluate the allegations and
claims in this memo, it will become evident the
activities of the last administration, the crimes I
believe were committed, and the total shame
that this Mueller investigation is, built on a false
premise and rotten to the core, Tucker.”

Last week Circa News investigative reporter and Fox News

contributor Sara A. Carter said sources have told her the
contents of the memo are so “explosive” they could spell a
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 The Media, LBJ, Clinton
And The Trump S-Hole Firestorm
By Jeffrey Lord
January 20, 2018 4:00 PM EST
The basic fact is in dispute.
According to Illinois Senator Dick Durbin, a Democrat,
the President of the United States used the word (this being
a family publication I will clean it up) “s-hole” to describe
Haiti and Africa in a discussion about immigration.
According to others present, not so. Reported The Week:
“Sen. David Perdue (R-Ga.), Sen. Tom Cotton
(R-Ark.), and Department of Homeland Security
Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen on Sunday all denied
hearing President Trump call Haiti, El Salvador,
and African nations ’s…hole countries’ during a
Thursday meeting on immigration policy.
Purdue said on ABC's This Week that the quote
is a ‘gross misrepresentation’ of Trump's
remarks, while Cotton said in a CBS interview
that he ‘didn't hear’ it, and Nielsen said on Fox
News Sunday that she doesn't ‘recall him
saying that exact phrase.’”
But let’s put aside the “did he” or didn’t he” aspect of this.
For the sake of discussion, let’s assume he said it.
The real story here is the media’s massive attack of
hyperventilation over this. It reminds of nothing so much
as your average American junior high school where
breathless just-pubescents are gossiping aghast and agog at
the latest titillating rumor about what happened in science
lab. And doing so with malicious intent.
Let’s take a stroll through memory lane. It is the mid-
nineteen sixties and the president is Democrat Lyndon
Johnson. Here is this description of LBJ from historian
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Doris Kearns Goodwin, who at the time was a young aide
to Johnson. She says in this C-SPAN interview that she
would have conversations with the President when he was
in the bathroom. This was a regular occurrence. And she
wasn’t alone. She describes then-national security advisor
McGeorge Bundy — a prim and proper former Harvard
Dean — of being thus summoned while LBJ was on the
toilet doing his, um, duty.
Bundy reluctantly comes in but stands by the wall, back to
the defecating President. LBJ, irritated, keeps telling him
to “come closer, come closer” and Bundy, still with back
to his chief, does so. Until, LBJ would later recount to
Goodwin, LBJ barks that he’s in danger of sitting on the
President’s lap. There was also the sight of the President
occasionally urinating in the sink, exposing his private
parts and so on. Now read this from historian Robert
Dallek’s LBJ biography Flawed Giant: Lyndon Johnson
and His Times 1961-1973.
“Almost all of Johnson’s outrageous personal
behavior was hidden from the public. In the
sixties, journalists largely kept their knowledge
of presidential transgressions of the sort
Johnson committed to themselves. And not just
because current mores dictated such
journalistic restraint; reporters and publishers,
who had been a partisan force against (1964
GOP presidential nominee Senator Barry)
Goldwater, were reluctant to undermine
someone as progressive as LBJ. True,
privately, he was sometimes a Neanderthal
whose crudeness offended them, but in public
he was an unflinching advocate of social
reforms that promised large improvements in
the lives of all Americans, particularly minorities
and women. And the media, reflecting the
current national mood, found much to say for a
President with a genuine passion for righting
historic wrongs.”
To say that there is a liberal media bias is to understate.
Think of all the media air time and print space devoted to
the Trump “s-hole” remark. CNN alone is reported to have
used the entire word 195 times, as reported right here at
NewsBusters by Tim Graham. Reported Tim:
 “In the contest for Most Offended News
Network after President Trump reportedly
referred to African nations as “s***hole”
countries, CNN wins hands down. NewsBusters
staff combed through CNN transcripts on Nexis
for the S-hole word in the 24 hours of January
12 – the first full day after The Washington Post
reported the controversy – and found CNN
staffers and CNN guests uncorked the profanity
195 times in one day.
That doesn't count Saturday, Sunday or Monday. They
could be headed for 1,000 by now. It also doesn't count the
amount of time they put the S-word on screen (sometimes
twice, as you can see on Cuomo's temporary prime time
show.)
Compare that to Fox News Channel. Their curse count was
zero. FNC told staff and guests not to say it.”
Fox reported the story, they just didn’t use the word whole.
What one was seeing in all of this was yet another bold
example of a liberal media double standard at work. And
for a reason. Just as the liberal media of the 1960s would
not report on Johnson’s crude and “Neanderthal” behavior
because they considered him to be “progressive”, so now
in their monumental hatred for Trump they will take one
curse word and magnify it a zillion times over to paint
Trump as in fact LBJ really was. There has never been a
single story in Trump’s entire career that he summons staff
members to discuss whatever while he sits on the toilet.
There have been zero reports of his urinating in a sink. But
that doesn’t mean a thing, because in fact Trump is the
Great Disrupter of the Washington Way of Doing Things,
he’s a Republican and he does dastardly things like appoint
conservatives to the Supreme Court and the lower federal
courts. And, of course, more.
Which, in the mind of the liberal media, gives them license
to do to Trump that which their predecessors staunchly
resisted doing to LBJ.
This past week marked the 20th anniversary of the birth of
the Clinton-Lewinsky scandal. Recall, as many have been
doing, how the story broke. Here is the headline:
Over here at The Daily Wire the significance of this
headline, broken by Matt Drudge’s Drudge Report, is
written up this way by reprinting the exact story as Drudge
reported it, headlines and all:
01/17/98 NEWSWEEK KILLS STORY ON WHITE
HOUSE INTERN
.
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BLOCKBUSTER REPORT: 23-YEAR OLD, FORMER
WHITE HOUSE INTERN, SEX RELATIONSHIP WITH
PRESIDENT
“At the last minute, at 6 p.m. on Saturday
evening, NEWSWEEK magazine killed a story
that was destined to shake official Washington
to its foundation: A White House intern carried
on a sexual affair with the President of the
United States!
The DRUDGE REPORT has learned that reporter Michael
Isikoff developed the story of his career, only to have it
spiked by top NEWSWEEK suits hours before publication.
A young woman, 23, sexually involved with the love of
her life, the President of the United States, since she was a
21-year-old intern at the White House. She was a frequent
visitor to a small study just off the Oval Office where she
claims to have indulged the president's sexual preference.
Reports of the relationship spread in White House quarters
and she was moved to a job at the Pentagon, where she
worked until last month.
The young intern wrote long love letters to President
Clinton, which she delivered through a delivery service.
She was a frequent visitor at the White House after
midnight, where she checked in the WAVE logs as visiting
a secretary named Betty Curry, 57.
The DRUDGE REPORT has learned that tapes
of intimate phone conversations exist.”
There was more. Oh so much more. But the essence here is
that just as the 1960s liberal media refused to report on
LBJ’s behavior, so the 1990’s liberal media was
determined to spike the story of the decade because it
would damage the progressive Bill Clinton. There was no
Internet and no Drudge in the 1960’s. But both had arrived
by 1998 — not to mention Fox News and talk radio - and
Clinton wound up getting impeached.
Now? Now this decades-old battle is on yet again. Just as
the liberal media protected LBJ and tried to protect Bill
Clinton, so now they have made it their goal in life to
destroy the Trump presidency. This is the core of what the
endless Trump-Russian collusion stories are about. Not to
mention the attempt to revive the Trump-sexually-
harrassed-these-women stories. And others.
In this case? One common curse word is enough for the
liberal media to work with - to spend endless hours
discussing, publicizing, analyzing, embroidering and more.
They do it, of course, for a reason.
But this time Americans are on to the game.
 Clinton Ally Tom Steyer Blasts
Lawmakers For Failing To Impeach Trump
By Tyler Durden
Sat, 01/20/2018 - 15:40
It appears Billionaire Clintonite Tom Steyer is surprised
that the nationwide ad campaign he bankrolled to urge
members of Congress to impeach President Trump hasn’t
yielded results by now.
Steyer went off on both Republicans and Democrats
Friday after a House vote on articles of impeachment
garnered a paltry 66 votes.
"This vote is not a reflection of whether or
not Trump has passed the threshold for
impeachment, which he did months ago,"
Steyer said Friday in a press statement after the
vote. "It is a failure by members of Congress
to do what’s right to keep the American
people safe."
Steyer, a billionaire former hedge fund manager from
liberal California, launched his ‘Need to Impeach’
movement in October of 2017. While more than four
million people have signed his petition, Democrats aren’t
particularly happy with the initiative. Democratic leaders
believe pushing for impeachment could hurt their party’s
chances in the midterms later this year. Steyer underscored
his campaign by sending copies of Michael Wolff’s book
“Fire and Fury” to every lawmaker.
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Nancy Pelosi has criticized an impeachment campaign as
being impractical and suggested it distracts from special
counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation.
Steyer, who supported former Secretary for State Hillary
Clinton’s presidential run, backs the Mueller investigation
but thinks there is an
“open and shut case that [Trump] has met
the criteria for impeachment” - though he
has yet to produce specific evidence of this.
According to the Daily Caller, there was speculation that
Steyer was using his $20 million impeachment drive to run
for office. But he rebutted this earlier this month during a
press conference in Washington.
Steyer said he will spend 2018 dumping
millions of dollars into campaigns to unseat
Republicans instead of campaigning for
California’s open gubernatorial seat.
But regardless of whether Steyer ultimately runs, this
cringe-worthy video he made to kick off the "Need to
Impeach" campaign will live on the Internet forever...
 BOMBSHELL: Classified Memo Detailing Obama
Targeted Trump Campaign With Bogus FISA Court
Warrant… “Is This America Or The KGB?”
Asks Stunned GOP
By JD Heyes
Saturday, January 20, 2018

of the FISA program,” Fox News correspondent

Pergram tweeted on Thursday.

In another tweet, the Washington Examiner‘s Byron York

called the release a “major development.

“Report contains answer to question of whether

FBI/DOJ used Trump dossier to secure FISA
warrant to spy on Americans, plus other issues.
Now, whole House can know. Public still in
dark,” he added.

You won’t hear about this on the Fake News Network or (Related: DEEP STATE: Rep. Jordan says FBI paid
read much in the Washington Post, New York Times, or for, then based its Team Trump probe on BOGUS
any other establishment media outlet because it is a ‘dossier’ (Video.)
scandal that is potentially damaging to their hero president,
Barack Obama, his administration, and Democrats in
general.

In recent days, the House Intelligence Committee voted to

release a Top Secret memo detailing what is believed to be
massive abuse of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act
(FISA) court by the Obama administration and Deep State
political operatives within the Department of Justice and
the FBI.

In particular, it is believed that the 44th president and his

political sycophants deliberately fabricated “intelligence”
— using the so-called“Trump dossier” with its baseless,
unsubstantiated allegations, to justify getting a
“counterintelligence” surveillance warrant from the FISA
court.
The memo, which remains Top Secret for no good reason
What did they need the warrant for? Who was and as such must be viewed in a secure room, has since
the target? That would be the campaign of been seen by a number of lawmakers — well, Republican
Donald J. Trump. lawmakers, because they seem to be the only ones who are
trying to get to the bottom of this massive, scandalous
abuse of our political and justice systems.
“Fox is told that while the Intel Cmte voted in
favor of the Simpson transcript, Democrats
blocked the release of other documents. The And all of them who have read it are shocked, stunned, and
committee has also voted on a motion by Rep. worried about the future of our republic. It’s that bad.
Pete King (R-NY) to make available to all
House members a memo documenting abuse
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 “You think about, ‘is this happening in America
or is this the KGB?’ That’s how alarming it is,”
Rep. Scott Perry of Pennsylvania told Fox
News, one of the few major news outlets
tracking this story.
“It is so alarming the American people have to
see this,” Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan added.
“It’s troubling. It is shocking,” North Carolina
Rep. Mark Meadows noted further. “Part of me
wishes that I didn’t read it because I don’t want
to believe that those kinds of things could be
happening in this country that I call home and
love so much.”
Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz said he could see a number of
people within the FBI and DoJ who not only could lose
their jobs but be indicted as well.
“I believe the consequence of its release will be
major changes in people currently working at
the FBI and the Department of Justice,” he said,
referencing DOJ officials Rod Rosenstein and
Bruce Ohr.
He told Fox News host Sean Hannity,
“I believe this will not end just with firings. I
believe there are people who will go to jail. I
was very persuaded by the evidence.” He
further noted that he believes it was entirely
appropriate for GOP Sens. Chuck Grassley and
Lindsey Graham to refer the matter to the
.
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Trump Justice Department for criminal
prosecution.
“I don’t take lightly making a referral for criminal
investigation. But, as I would with any credible
evidence of a crime unearthed in the course of
our investigations, I feel obliged to pass that
information along to the Justice Department for
appropriate review,” Grassley said in a
statement.
Finally, former Secret Service agent Dan Bongino, who
has been tracking this issue on his CRTV program, also
sees trouble ahead not just for the Obama officials
involved, but for the former president himself.
“Take it to the bank, the FBI/FISA docs are
devastating for the Dems. The whole image of a
benevolent Barack Obama they’ve
disingenuously tried to portray is about to be
destroyed. The real Obama, the vengeful
narcissist, is going to be exposed for all to see,”
he tweeted.
 Rep. Jim Jordan: ‘Shocking’ FISA Memo Context
Revealed Proving MASSIVE Corruption At
‘HIGHEST Levels’ (Video)
By Usafeaturesmedia
Posted On January 20, 2018
“The anti-Trump bias, the pro-Clinton bias and
then think about the text messages that talks
about an insurance policy to make sure Donald
Trump is not elected”
(National Sentinel) Obamagate: During a Friday evening
appearance with Fox News‘ Martha McCallum, Ohio
Republican Rep. Jim Jordan discussed the “shocking”
FISA memo released to lawmakers by the House
Intelligence Committee that ostensibly details massive
abuse of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court by the
Obama administration.
Specifically, the four-page memo reportedly proves that
the Obama White House misused the FISA process to
improperly obtain a surveillance warrant against members
of President Donald J. Trump’s campaign and transition
team under the guise of a counterintelligence operation.
Jordan, who said he’s read the memo, appeared with
McCallum to discuss the context to the memo.
“I know that you are, you’re all not talking about
the classified information in this four page
document put together by [House Intelligence
Committee Chairman] Devin Nunes [R-Calif],
basically collates all of their investigation that he
wanted all of you to see,” McCallum said.
“You’ve read it. Do you believe that there is a
crime in there committed by the DOJ and FBI or
members of those entities?”
“Look, what I believe is what my colleagues
have said, what I’ve said is the American
people need to see this. We want the journalists
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in this great country to see this. Mostly, we want
the American people to understand what the
FBI did, how wrong it was, and again, we’re not
allowed to talk about it,” Jordan said.
“The last point [Fox News correspondent] Ed
[Henry] made was right on target. The
committee could meet today, could meet
tomorrow — if the majority of the committee
votes to release this — it goes to the White
House, the White House could say ‘thumbs up’
or ‘thumbs down,'” Jordan continued, alluding to
the fact that Trump would have to approve the
memo’s public release.
“My guess is there going to say ‘thumbs up’ and
then it’s out there and the American people can
see what took place at the highest levels of our
FBI, at the highest levels of the Justice
Department that should not happen in this great
nation,” Jordan added.
McCallum said some have compared the alleged scandal to
Watergate, calling it much more serious, then pressed
Jordan for more specifics regarding Obama administration
actions.
“Again, I can’t talk about the specifics, that’s
why we’re pushing so hard make it public so we
can talk about the specifics,” he responded.
“But think about what we knew a long time ago.
“The Clinton campaign paid for the dossier.
Think about those text messages from Lisa
Page and Peter Strzok, where they talk about
— remember the text messages where they talk
about ‘walking through Wal-Mart, I can smell
the Trump supporters’ — the derision they have
for the people who supported the president,”
Jordan said.
“The anti-Trump bias, the pro-Clinton bias and
then think about the text messages that talks
about an insurance policy to make sure Donald
 Trump is not elected by the American people,”
he said.

Watch (video credit Fox News):

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 House Republicans 'Charting Path'
To Release Explosive FISA Memo
By Debra Heine
January 20, 2018
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes, R-Calif., (AP
Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
House Republicans, led by House Intelligence Committee
Chairman Devin Nunes, are reportedly in the process of
moving forward on releasing the explosive classified
memo on alleged surveillance abuses.
According to the Washington Examiner's Byron
York, Reps. Nunes, Gowdy, and Goodlatte met on
Saturday to discuss memo and chart a path forward.
In addition to York, Rep. Dave Joyce (R-Ohio) also shared
information about the effort to release the memo on
Twitter Saturday.
According to Joyce, the House Permanent Select
Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI) is in the process of
releasing the classified memo. The process may take up to
19 congressional work days.
.
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A group of 65 Republican lawmakers pushed for the
immediate release of the alleged bombshell document in a
letter to Nunes on Friday.
In the letter, Florida Rep. Gaetz states thate “the audience
of this document should not be limited to Members of
Congress — the American people deserve to know the
information it contains.”
Approximately 180 members have now read the memo,
including at least three Democrats, according to York.
CNN reported on Saturday that Republicans on the HPSCI
were "considering using an obscure committee rule" to
bypass executive branch declassification hurdles in order
to publicly release the memo.
Rep. Mike Conaway, the Texas Republican leading the
committee's Russia investigation, said he believed the rule
"had never been invoked in the committee's 40-
year history."
The four-page memo reveals what some Republicans are
calling “shocking,” “troubling,” and “alarming”
government surveillance abuses under President Obama.
One congressman — Rep. Scott Perry (R-Pa.) — even
likened the details of the memo currently circulating in
Congress to "KGB activity in Russia."
Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) said that when the details of the
document become known, not only are some Obama
holdovers currently serving in the Trump administration
going to get fired, they are going to jail.
If the committee votes in favor to make the bombshell
document public, it falls on President Donald Trump to
decide whether it should be released.
Democrats Unsure On How To Respond To Explosive FISA
Memo On DOJ-FBI-Obama Lies And Corruption That
Was Written By GOP Staffers
By Jim Hoft
January 21, 2018
Democrat lawmakers and the far left mainstream media is
in a panic over the classified FISA Memo that was
released last week on Capitol Hill.
The memo is described as “jawdropping” and will end the
Mueller witch hunt and result in firings and potential
prison terms for crooked officials in the FBI and DOJ.
Over 100 Republican lawmakers have signed on a letter to
petition House Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes to
release the memo to the public.
Only one Democrat has taken the time to review the
memo.
Democrats know this is very bad.
They really have no idea what to do about this political
nuclear bomb.
The Huffington Post is trying to redirect attention away
from the memo by claiming it was written by Republican
staffers.
House Republicans spent the end of the workweek telling
everyone who would listen that the American people must
be allowed to see a top-secret four-page document that
could bring an end to special counsel Robert Mueller’s
investigation into Russian interference with the 2016
elections.
One thing about that document: Republican staffers wrote
it.
The memo Republican staffers compiled reveals
information that is “absolutely shocking,” “sickening,”
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“jaw-dropping” and “worse than Watergate,” GOP
members of Congress said Thursday and Friday. The
document could send government officials to jail, one
congressman said.
“Is this happening in America or is this the
KGB?” asked another…
…The document, which alleges abuses of the Foreign
Intelligence Surveillance Act during the FBI’s quiet
counterintelligence investigation into the Trump campaign
in the final months of the 2016 election, was actually
compiled by Republican staffers on the House Intelligence
Committee. That committee voted along partisan lines this
week to allow any member of Congress to take a peek at
the document themselves. Republican members soon
flocked to a secure room to read the memo written by their
allies — and then ran to tell the press about it.
Sara Carter, a Fox News contributor, wrote in a blog post
on her personal website that the “bombshell” document
“could lead to the removal of senior officials in the FBI
and Department of Justice” and potentially spell the end of
the Mueller probe. Carter’s post was widely shared on
Twitter, including by Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas),
former Rep. Jack Kingston (R-Ga.), Tom Fitton of Judicial
Watch and former White House official Sebastian Gorka.
Ahead of Carter’s appearance on Fox News’ “Hannity” on
Thursday night, Sean Hannity used the story to send a
“message” to Mueller.
“Your witch hunt is now over,” Hannity said,
addressing the Republican special counsel who
was unanimously confirmed as FBI director in
2001 by the U.S. Senate, which a decade later
unanimously voted to extend his term past the
10-year limit. “Time to close the doors.”
 House Memo Could Reveal ‘Palace Coup’ Attempt
By Jasper Fakkert
January 20, 2018 3:57 Pm Last Updated: January 20, 2018 10:44 Pm
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton at a rally in Coral
Springs, Fla., on Sept. 30, 2017. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
A secret memo by the House Intelligence Committee
detailing potential criminal conduct inside the DOJ and
FBI during the 2016 elections has sent shockwaves
through Washington.
A group of 65 members of congress are now calling on
Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee Devin
Nunes to hold a vote to release the memo to the public.
While the contents of the memo remain classified,
lawmakers who have seen it have reacted with shock, and
have spoken to the disturbing evidence laid out in the
memo.
“Our republic is in jeopardy if we allow this type
of a palace coup environment to continue to
persist,” Congressman Matt Gaetz said in an
interview with Fox News in talking about the
memo.
Members of the House have been careful not to divulge
any of the classified information contained in the memo,
but have given plenty of hints as to the subject matter it
deals with.
“Think about what we knew a long time ago, the
Clinton campaign paid for the dossier. Think
about those text messages of Lisa Page and
Peter Strzok, where they talk about … an
‘insurance policy’ to make sure Donald Trump is
not elected president,” said congressman Jim
Jordan (R-Ohio) in an interview with Fox News.
An investigation published by The Epoch Times on Jan. 18
showed the web of connections related to the Trump
dossier and a possible conspiracy between the Clinton
campaign, the Obama administration, law enforcement,
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and intelligence community, to prevent Trump from being
elected president.
At the heart of the conspiracy was the Russia collusion
narrative presented in the so-called Trump dossier.
After it failed to stop Trump from becoming elected, it
became the main attack narrative against his presidency,
with the ultimate goal being to force him out of office
using impeachment.
Top Democratic lawmakers, including House minority
leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), had publicly stated they
were waiting on special counsel Robert Mueller to
complete his investigation to begin impeachment
procedures.
However, we have now learned that the Trump dossier, a
piece of opposition research paid for by the Clinton
campaign and the DNC, was the driving force behind the
collusion allegations.
Payments for Fusion GPS, the company behind the
dossier, had been hidden for over a year by the Clinton
campaign and the DNC by having funneled them through
law firm Perkins Coie, and mislabeling them in FEC
filings.
The dossier, which was made to look like an intelligence
document, was produced by Christopher Steele who
almost exclusively used Russian Kremlin linked sources
for the information.
Nellie Ohr, who previously worked for the CIA’s Open
Source Works project, was also hired by Fusion GPS to
work on the dossier. Her husband, Bruce Ohr, was a high
ranking DOJ official who was demoted last month after it
was revealed he had secretly met with Fusion GPS co-
founder Glenn Simpson as well as Steele.
The dossier made its way to the FBI through FBI agents
that Steele talked to as well as through Sen. John McCain
(R-Ariz.) who had sent one of his associates, David
Kramer, to London to meet with Steele and obtain a copy
of the report. In a statement released in January 2017,
McCain said he had personally delivered the dossier to FBI
Director James Comey.
National Security Reporter Sara Carter reported on Jan. 10
that the so-called Trump dossier was used, in part, by the
FBI to obtain a FISA warrant to spy on Trump’s campaign.
Simultaneously two of President Barack Obama’s top
aides, National Security Adviser Susan Rice, and U.S.
Ambassador to the UN Samantha Power made dozens, if
not hundreds of so-called unmasking requests for the
identities of members of Trump’s team in intelligence
reports, both before and after the election.
A separate investigation by the DOJ Inspector General
found that the lead investigator on the Trump case, Peter
Strzok, had send over 9,500 text messages to a high profile
FBI lawyer who worked for deputy FBI Director Andrew
McCabe. In the text messages they show a clear bias in
favor of Hillary Clinton and a disdain for Trump.
Strzok was also the lead investigator on the Hillary Clinton
investigation.
In one message between Strzok and Page, they describe a
meeting they had in the office of McCabe in which they
described an “insurance policy” to prevent Trump from
getting elected.
President Trump said in an interview with the Wall Street
Journal on Jan. 11 that Strzok had committed treason.
In his remarks Trump made reference to the “insurance
policy” that had been discussed by Strzok, Page, and
McCabe.
Treason is defined under article 3 in the U.S. Constitution
as aiding enemies against the United States or levying war
against it.
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Under U.S. law, treason is punishable by death or
imprisonment for a minimum of five years.
Lawmakers who have seen the memo, whose content
extends beyond the information we already know, have
described it as shocking, with one lawmaker invoking the
KGB to describe what happened.
“I have read the memo,” Rep. Steve King (R-
Iowa) wrote on Twitter. “The sickening reality
has set in. I no longer hold out hope there is an
innocent explanation for the information the
public has seen. I have long said it is worse
than Watergate. It was never Trump and always
Hillary.”
Congressman Gaetz said after having seen the memo that
“heads are going to roll at the FBI and the
Department of Justice.”
“There is no way everyone keeps their job … I
think that there could be people who face
criminal consequences as a result of the
activities that are laid out in this memo,” he
said.
 White House On #Schumershutdown: Dems Holding
Americans, U.S. Military, Hostage Over Illegal Aliens
By Usafeaturesmedia
Posted On January 20, 2018

“During this politically manufactured Schumer
Shutdown, the President and his Administration
will fight for and protect the American people”
and our country’s ability to serve all Americans.
We will not negotiate the status of unlawful
immigrants while Democrats hold our lawful
citizens hostage over their reckless demands,”
she continued.

“This is the behavior of obstructionist losers, not

legislators. When Democrats start paying our
armed forces and first responders we will
reopen negotiations on immigration reform,”
Sanders added.

“During this politically manufactured Schumer

Shutdown, the President and his Administration
(National Sentinel) Shutting Down: The White House on will fight for and protect the American people.”
Friday issued a blistering statement following the
expiration of government funding, leading to a partial
The House continuing budget resolution to fund the
shutdown of the government, blaming it squarely on
government through February 16 (and the Children’s
Democrats and their Senate leader, Charles Schumer of
Health Insurance Program for six years) failed a cloture
New York.
vote in the Senate on a largely party line vote, 50 to 49.

In the statement, White House Press Secretary Sarah

All Democrats voted against cloture except Senators Joe
Huckabee Sanders made it clear that President Donald J.
Donnelly of Indiana, Doug Jones of Alabama, Claire
Trump was putting American citizens first and foremost in
McCaskill of Missouri, Heidi Heitkamp of North Dakota
any budget and related negotiations, but that Democrats
and Joe Manchin of West Virginia.
were more interested in gaining protections for people in
the country illegally, no matter when or how they came.
All Republicans voted for cloture except Jeff Flake of
Arizona, Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, Rand Paul of
“Senate Democrats own the Schumer
Kentucky and Mike Lee of Utah. Senate Majority Leader
Shutdown,” Sanders said. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky voted no for procedural
reasons.
“Tonight, they put politics above our national
security, military families, vulnerable children,
An absent John McCain of Arizona did not vote.
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 Chairmen Devin Nunes & Trey Gowdy
Plot “Never-Before-Used Procedure” To #Releasethememo
By Joshua Caplan
January 21, 2018

According to the Washington Examiner‘s Republicans believe it is unlikely they would

Byron York, Judiciary Committee Chairman
Bob Goodlatte (R-VA), Oversight Committee
Chairman Trey Gowdy (R-SC) and
Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin
Nunes (R-CA) huddled together Saturday to
discuss a “never-before-used procedure”
for releasing the “shocking” FISA abuse
memo.
have to go that far; why would President Trump
object to the release of a document allegedly
showing that Obama administration officials
abused the law in investigating Trump? But
even if there were an objection, the feeling is
the House would go ahead.

On Friday, Republican lawmakers started publicly

lobbying Nunes to release the memo.
Washington Examiner reports:
“Earlier this morning, I examined the classified,
four-page memo
There’s no doubt Republicans want the public
from @HouseIntelComm regarding the FBI,
to see the classified memo. To get it out, they
DOJ, and the so-called #RussianCollusion. To
are studying a never-before-used procedure
put it simply, “WOW.” I joined the call
whereby House Intelligence Committee
to #ReleaseTheMemo. Americans deserve truth
members would vote to make the memo public,
and transparency,” tweeted Rep. Jody Hice (R-
after which the president would have five days
GA).
to object.
The letter was signed by Steve King, Matt Gaetz, Mark
If the president had no objection, the memo
Meadows, Jim Jordan, Andy Biggs, Scott Perry, Ted
would become public after those five days. If
Yoho, Jody Hice, Louie Gohmert, Barry Loudermilk and
the president did object, the matter would go to
Brian Babin, reports Jim Hoft of The Gateway Pundit.
the full House, which could vote to overrule the
president’s objections and release the memo
anyway.

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 Goofball Adam Schiff Doesn’t Want ‘Explosive’ FISA
Memo Released Because He Thinks We’re Too
DUMB To Understand It
By Usafeaturesmedia
Posted On January 21, 2018
Republicans who have read the memo say differently
(National Sentinel) Ignorance: Reports last week said that
not a single Democrat on the House Intelligence
Committee voted in favor of releasing an “explosive”
FISA memo that Republicans have hinted contains
evidence of Obama-era abuse of the secretive FISA court
in order to spy on the Trump campaign.
On Saturday during an appearance on CNN, the panel’s
ranking member, California Democrat Adam Schiff,
attempted to explain his party’s opposition: Americans
won’t understand what’s in the memo.
“It is essentially a set of talking points that
Republican Intel staff drafted. Based on
highly classified materials which most of
Republican members were forced
acknowledge,” he said.
“They’ve not even read. So they don’t know
how distorted these talking points are. But it’s
part of the narrative they want to push out.
Interestingly enough, they’ve made common
cause once again with Russian bots because
Russian bots are pushing their narrative out
there,” Schiff added.
“It’s in a redux of the campaign. We have
Assange and Wikileaks and Russian trolls and
bots saying, you know, hash tag whatever the
GOP narrative is. That ought to tell you a lot
about what’s driving this,” he said.
Asked why he doesn’t just support release of the memo to
the public so that the American people can make up their
own minds, Schiff said:
“Well, because the American people
unfortunately don’t have the underlying
materials and therefore they can’t see how
distorted and misleading this document is.
“The Republicans are not saying make the
underlying materials available to the public.
They just want to make this spin available to the
public,” he said.
“I think that spin, which is a attack on the FBI, is
just designed to attack the FBI and Bob Mueller
to circle the wagons for the White House. And
that’s a terrible disservice to the people, hard
working people at the bureau, but more than
that, it’s a disservice to the country,” Schiff
claimed.
In a statement to CNN Friday, Schiff slammed the memo,
branding it a
the
the “profoundly misleading set of talking points
the drafted by Republican staff attacking the FBI
to and its handling of the investigation.”
Republicans who have read the memo say differently.
They claim it contains explosive evidence indicating that
the Obama administration abused the FISA court warrant
process, likely in an effort to spy on the Trump campaign
— a completely politicization of the U.S. intelligence
community and the Department of Justice.
Watch, via Tea Partier:
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 Rep. Matt Gaetz Drops Major Clue About Fisa Memo,
Hints “Fraud” Committed To Obtain Spy
Warrants (Video)
By Joshua Caplan
January 21, 2018
On Saturday evening, Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL)
dropped a major clue on the “Justice With
Judge Jeanine” program about what is
inside the bombshell FISA abuse memo. The
Florida Republican told Fox News host
Judge Jeanine Pirro that Americans will not
only be “shocked,” at the way U.S.
government officials obtained information,
but also at how it was “authenticated.”
Credit: Compassionate Conservatism
When asked about the contents of the memo, Rep. Gaetz
replied,
“There are 4 pages of a memorandum prepared
by the Intelligence Committee that will shock
the conscience of this country when it comes to
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the horrific abuses that occurred during the last
admin. and that I believe continue to pose a
threat to Donald Trump’s presidency.”
Later in the interview, Rep. Gaetz hinted the memo
outlines how the U.S. government may have committed
fraud by presenting the courts with “false information,” to
obtain FISA warrants.
“You’re aware as a Judge of the way evidence
has to be authenticated and presented to a
court to get a warrant,” began the Florida
Republican.
“It has to be probable cause to sign a warrant,”
Judge Jeanne interjected.
“Of course, and prosecutors and
investigators cannot perpetrate frauds on
the court by presenting false information or
information they know to be false,” Rep.
Gaetz continued.
The lawmaker’s statements come on the heels of reports
that the House Permanent Select Committee on
Intelligence will begin the process to release the memo.
 White House Voicemail Blames
Democrats For Government Shutdown
By Tyler Durden
Sun, 01/21/2018 - 11:07

Hours after the federal government shutdown now in "Do your job Democrats: fund our military and
effect, callers to the White House (202.456.1111) were reopen our government #SchumerShutdown."
greeted to a new voicemail blaming Congressional
Democrats for "holding government funding" hostage to
an "unrelated immigration debate."

Thank you for calling the White House. Unfortunately, we

cannot answer your call today, because Congressional
Democrats are holding government funding, including
funding for our troops and other national security
priorities, hostage to an unrelated immigration debate. Due
to this obstruction, the government is shut down. In the
meantime, you can leave a comment for the president at
www.whitehouse.gov/contact. We look forward to taking
your calls as soon as the government reopens.

With both sides "dug in" for what could become a

protracted shutdown, Republicans and Democrats are
already at each other's throats playing the blame game.
After the hashtag #SchumerShutdown began trending on
Twitter, #TrumpShutdown was soon to follow. Meanwhile, Secretary of Defense James Mattis issued a
memorandum to military personnel:

"I recognize the consequences of a government

shutdown. You have my personal commitment
that the Department's leadership will do our
best to mitigate the impacts of the disruptions
and any financial burdens to you and your
families.

Steady as she goes - hold the line. I know our Nation can
count on you."
In addition to the new voicemail message, the White
House issued a statement calling Democrats "obstructionist
losers, not legislators, " while Press Secretary Sarah
Sanders Tweeted

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 Are you not entertained?

Meanwhile, Chuck Schumer threw mud back at

Republicans, claiming

"This will be called the #TrumpShutdown. There

is no one who deserves the blame for the
position we find ourselves in more than
President Trump."
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 BREAKING: FIVE MONTHS Worth of Peter Strzok Text
Messages GO MISSING – FBI Cites Mystery “Glitch”
By Joshua Caplan
January 21, 2018
Additional text messages sent and received
by disgraced FBI agent Peter Strzok have
been handed over Congress, reports the
Associated Press.
In yet another twist to the Peter Strzok saga,
the FBI failed to hand over a block of the
agent’s text messages because they have
gone missing.
Credit: magaruler
AP reports:
But the department also said in a letter to
lawmakers that its record of messages sent to
and from the agent, Peter Strzok, was
incomplete because the FBI, for technical
reasons, had been unable to preserve and
retrieve about five months’ worth of
communications. New text messages
highlighted in a letter to FBI Director
Christopher Wray by Sen. Ron Johnson, the
Republican chairman of the Senate’s Homeland
Security and Governmental Affairs Committee,
are from the spring and summer of 2016 and
involve discussion of the investigation into
Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server.
They reference Attorney General Loretta
Lynch’s decision to accept the FBI’s conclusion
in that case and a draft statement that former
FBI Director James Comey had prepared in
anticipation of closing out the Clinton
investigation without criminal charges.
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According to The Hill’s John Solomon,
newly obtained text messages between
Strzok and Bureau lawyer Lisa Page
demonstrate more anti-Trump bias at the
agency than previously known.
The FBI agent, once a fixture of special counsel
Robert Mueller’s Russia probe, told Page that
he enjoyed seeing then Fox News host Megyn
Kelly “going after,” Trump during the debates.
Solomon reports:
When the two shared a National Public Radio
article on the opening of Trump’s new hotel in
Washington, the two could barely contain their
disdain.
“That’s one place I hope I never stay in,” Page
wrote.
Strzok replied. “Agreed. I hope it fails horribly.”
Occasionally the two also opined about the media in
general. Strzok, for instance, called a New York Post
article about agents unhappy with the outcome of the
Clinton email case “stupid,” and referred to Fox anchor
Chris Wallace as a “turd.”
After one of the presidential debates, Strzok also had an
observation about then-Fox anchor and current NBC
anchor Megyn Kelly.
“Vaguely satisfying to see Megyn Kelly (who
had Botox and looks HORRIBLE) utterly going
after Trump,” he texted.
Last month, Fox News published a portion of the
approximately 10,000 texts messages sent between FBI
agent Peter Strzok and lawyer Lisa Page. Among the
messages is an exchange revealing Strzok and Page
discussed an ‘insurance policy,’ against a Trump
presidency.
Least we forget Page sent a text to Strzok stating,
 ‘Trump should go f*ck himself’.

The dots are connecting. Top FBI brass were working with
Hillary Clinton to make sure she was exonerated from her
criminal investigation while simultaneously building a
case against Donald Trump.

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 New Strzok/Page Texts Suggest Lynch Knew
About Clinton Exoneration Well Before Comey
Announcement
By Debra Heine
January 21, 2018
Loretta Lynch
Former Attorney General Loretta Lynch already knew that
ex-FBI Director James Comey would not recommend
charges against Hillary Clinton when she announced she
would accept any FBI recommendation, according to new
documents turned over to the Senate Homeland Security
and Governmental Affairs Committee (HSGAC).
Comey announced that he would not recommend charges
against Clinton during a press conference on July 5, 2016.
Lynch had previously stated that she would the accept the
"determinations and findings" of the FBI's investigation,
suggesting she was completely out of the loop.
That revelation and others were found in 384 pages of text
messages exchanged between FBI employees Peter Strzok
and Lisa Page that the Justice Department turned over to
HSGAC on Friday. Strzok and Page are the two FBI
officials who made pro-Clinton and anti-Trump comments
while working on the Clinton email and the Russia
collusion investigations. In one particularly damning text,
the two discussed needing an “insurance policy” in the
event Trump were to become president.
Unfortunately, in the cover letter accompanying the texts,
the FBI notified Congress that they “failed to preserve”
five months' worth of the pair's text messages
exchanged during the period between Dec. 14, 2016 and
May 17, 2017.
The texts that we have are illuminating. As Sharyl
Attkisson reported at The Hill, the timeline of the text
messages indicates that Lynch knew that Clinton would
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not face charges "even before the FBI conducted its three-
hour interview with Clinton, which was supposedly meant
to gather more information into her mishandling of
classified information."
On July 1, 2016, as the Lynch announcement became
public, Page texted Strzok:
Page: And yeah, it’s a real profile in
couragw [sic], since she knows no
charges will be brought.
Clinton reportedly met with Strzok and Justice Department
lawyer David Laufman at the FBI for a three and a half
hour interview on July 2, 2016.
In February of 2016, Page texted Strzok that then-
candidate Trump
“simply can not [sic] be president.”
Other text messages suggest that they tweaked their
investigation in reaction to Trump’s victory in the
Republican primaries. On May 4, 2016, Strzok and Page
exchanged the following text messages:
Page: And holy shit Cruz just dropped out
of the race. It’s going to be a Clinton Trump
race. Unbelievable.
Strzok: What?!?!??
Page: You heard it right my friend.
Strzok: I saw trump won, figured it would
be a bit…Now the pressure really starts to
finish MYE…
Page: It sure does. We need to talk about
follow up call tomorrow.
“MYE” stands for “midyear exam” and was the FBI case
name for the Clinton email investigation.
Text messages exchanged between the pair also suggest
that the FBI covered for then-President Obama by omitting
damaging language in FBI Director Comey’s July 5, 2016,
statement.
The original draft noted that Clinton had improperly used
personal email to contact President Obama while abroad in
the territory of sophisticated adversaries. According to the
text exchange, an FBI official then removed President
Obama’s name and stated that Clinton had simply emailed
“another senior government official.” In the final statement
as delivered by Comey on July 5, both references were
omitted entirely.
Other texts suggest Strzok and Page intended to subvert
rules governing preservation of their discussions about FBI
matters. In April of 2016, Page texted:
Page: so look, you say we text on that
phone when we talk about Hillary because
it can’t be traced…
Keep in mind, ethics professor Comey famously told
reporters in October of 2015 that his people
"don't give a rip about politics."
In its letter to HSGAC Friday, the FBI disclosed that it had
“failed to preserve” five months' worth of text messages
exchanged between Strzok and Page -- two key officials
involved in two major controversial investigations.
“The Department wants to bring to your
attention that the FBI’s technical system for
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retaining text messages sent and received
on FBI mobile devices failed to preserve
text messages for Mr. Strzok and Ms.
Page,” Stephen Boyd, the assistant
attorney general for legislative affairs at the
Justice Department, wrote to Wisconsin
Sen. Ron Johnson, the chairman of
HSGAC.
Boyd attributed their failure to produce the evidence to
“misconfiguration issues related to rollouts,
provisioning, and software upgrades that
conflicted with the FBI’s collection
capabilities.”
Boyd wrote:
“The result was that data that should have
been automatically collected and retained
for long-term storage and retrieval was not
collected.”
Similarly, the IRS also suffered computer malfunctioning
issues during the Obama years, admitting to "losing" key
emails sought by the House Oversight Committee when it
was investigating the IRS targeting scandal.
 OUTRAGED Freedom Caucus Chairman
Mark Meadows Calls For Second Special Counsel After
FBI “Loses” Strzok Text Messages
By Jim Hoft
January 21, 2018

It’s about time.

Earlier today the Associated Press reported

the FBI failed to hand over a block of anti-
Trump agent Peter Strzok and his mistress
Lisa Page’s text messages to Congress.

The FBI said the text messages

mysteriously went missing.

The FBI told Congress they lost the Strzok-

Page texts between Dec 2016 and May 2017.

On Sunday afternoon Rep. Jim Jordan

called for a second special counsel
investigation of the corrupt FBI.

And on Sunday night Freedom Caucus

chairman followed Rep. Jordan and called
for a special counsel to investigate the
corruption at the FBI.
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 Sara Carter: ‘Explosive’ FISA Memo
Release Could Come ANYTIME (Video)
By Usafeaturesmedia
Posted On January 21, 2018

“The House Intelligence Committee is going to month but the soonest could be anytime this
hold another vote” week,” she added.

Carter also believes that once the memo is released, it

could lead to the unraveling of special counsel Robert
Mueller’s probe into alleged Trump campaign “collusion”
with Russia.

Watch:

(National Sentinel) Release: Circa News investigative

reporter and Fox News contributor Sara Carter said the
explosive FISA memo reportedly containing details about
how the Obama administration abused the surveillance
court so it could spy on the Trump campaign may be
released this coming week.

The memo, written by the House Intelligence Committee,

may contain some disturbing evidence that President
Obama’s administration relied on a bogus, politicized
opposition research document — the infamous “Trump
dossier” — to get a surveillance warrant from the FISA Rep. Dave Joyce announced Saturday that the House
court to put Trump campaign officials under surveillance. Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSIC) had
launched the process to release the explosive FBI-FISA-
“The House Intelligence Committee is going to Russia classified memo.
hold another vote. This vote will be made for the
public,” Carter said on Sunday’s “Fox &
Friends.”

“They’re sure it’s going to pass because

Republicans are going to pass on the party line
to make this available to the public. Then the
memo will go to the president where the
president will have five days to decide whether
or not to declassify the memo,” she added.

The memo is currently classified top secret, which many
believe is an over classification.
“And what I’m being told from my sources he
will declassify that memo for the public. They’re
actually hoping the memo gets declassified very
soon, the latest I’ve heard is the end of the
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“Great news! Our efforts to #ReleaseTheMemo
have been effective and the HPSIC plans to
begin the process to release the
FBI/FISA/Russia memo. This may take up to
19+ Congressional work days but Americans
deserve to know the truth,” he tweeted.
 CONFUSION: DOJ Claims Five Months Of Strzok-Page
Texts Missing — Yet IG Says He Received Them In August
By Joshua Caplan
January 21, 2018
Additional text messages sent and received communications. New text messages
by disgraced FBI agent Peter Strzok have highlighted in a letter to FBI Director
been handed over to Congress, reports Christopher Wray by Sen. Ron Johnson, the
the Associated Press. In yet another twist to Republican chairman of the Senate’s Homeland
the Strzok saga, the FBI failed to hand over Security and Governmental Affairs Committee,
a block of the agent’s text messages are from the spring and summer of 2016 and
between Dec. 14, 2016, and May 17, 2017 involve discussion of the investigation into
because they have gone missing. Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server.
[…]
Or did they go missing?
In addition to the communications already made public,
the Justice Department on Friday provided Johnson’s
committee with 384 pages of text messages, according to a
letter from the Wisconsin lawmaker that was obtained by
The Associated Press.

But, according to the letter, the FBI told the department

that its system for retaining text messages sent and
received on bureau phones had failed to preserve
communications between Strzok and Page over a five-
month period between Dec. 14, 2016, and May 17, 2017.
May 17 was the date that Mueller was appointed as special
counsel to oversee the Russia investigation.

According to Johnson’s letter, the Bureau told Stephen

AP reports: Boyd, the Assistant Attorney General for the Office of
Legislative Affairs, that due to FBI-provided Samsung 5
mobile phones with software upgrades that “conflicted,”
But the department also said in a letter to
lawmakers that its record of messages sent to with “collection capabilities,” the text messages could not
and from the agent, Peter Strzok, was be recorded.
incomplete because the FBI, for technical
reasons, had been unable to preserve and
retrieve about five months’ worth of

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However, according to the Daily Caller’s Chuck Ross, the
FBI claimed it the reportedly missing text messages to
Justice Inspector General Michael Horowitz on August
10th, 2017.
Strzok, who then served as the FBI’s No. 2
counterintelligence official, conducted many of the biggest
interviews in the investigation, including with Clinton and
her top aides, Huma Abedin and Cheryl Mills.
“After finding a number of politically-oriented
text messages between Page and Strzok, the
OIG sought from the FBI all text messages
between Strzok and Page from their FBI-issued
phones through November 30, 2016, which
covered the entire period of the Clinton e-mail
server investigation,” Horowitz wrote to
Grassley and Johnson on Wednesday.
Full letter is on next page:
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The FBI handed over those messages on July 20, 2017.
After reviewing those exchanges, Horowitz expanded the
investigation to include all of the text messages exchanged
between Strzok and Page from Nov. 30, 2016 to July 28,
2017.
Horowitz’s office received those messages on Aug. 10.
Here is a screenshot from Justice Department Inspector
General Michael Horowitiz’s letter to Grassley and
Johnson confirming the FBI successfully sent over Page
and Strzok’s text messages.
Credit: Strzok Text Messages Deleted – Letter From Ron
Johnson to Christopher Wray Letter
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 STUNNING=> OBAMA And HILLARY Exchanged
Unsecured Emails In Territory Of “Hostile Adversary” —
FBI COVERED IT UP!
By Joshua Caplan
January 21, 2018

Additional text messages sent and received

by disgraced FBI agent Peter Strzok were
recently handed over to Congress, reports
the AP.

Buried in the report are text messages

between Strzok and FBI lawyer Lisa Page
discussing how hackers likely obtained an
email exchange between then-President
Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton.

The exchange was later covered-up by the
FBI after the incident was removed from
Comey’s closing statement on Clinton’s
email investigation.
However, during a White House press briefing, press
secretary Josh Earnest admitted Obama did in fact
exchange emails with hrd22@clintonemail.com, strongly
suggesting he was aware of Clinton’s private email
account.

AP reports:
During the 2016 presidential campaign, Wikileaks released
Obama’s emails to Clinton.
One of the messages references a change in
language to Comey’s statement closing out the
email case involving Clinton, Trump’s His pseudonym was bobama@ameritech.com.
Democratic opponent in the 2016 presidential
election. While an earlier draft of the statement
said Clinton and President Barack Obama had
an email exchange while Clinton was “on the
territory” of a hostile adversary, the reference to
Obama was at first changed to “senior
government official” and then omitted entirely in
the final version.

As The Gateway Pundit‘s Jim Hoft reported, Obama told

CBS’s Bill Plante that he first learned about Clinton’s
private email use use “through news reports,” implying he
didn’t exchange emails with his Secretary of State.

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arlier this month, Senator Ron Johnson (R-WI) released
Comey’s closing statement on the FBI’s Clinton email
investigation.
The Hill‘s John Solomon revealed:
Ex-FBI Director James Comey’s original
statement closing out the probe into Hillary
Clinton‘s use of a private email server was
edited by subordinates to remove five separate
references to terms like “grossly negligent” and
to delete mention of evidence supporting felony
and misdemeanor violations, according to
copies of the full document.
Comey also originally concluded that it was “reasonably
likely” that Clinton’s nonsecure private server was
accessed or hacked by hostile actors though there was no
.
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evidence to prove it. But that passage was also changed to
the much weaker “possible,” the memos show.
Comey’s original draft stated, “Although there is evidence
of potential violations of the statute proscribing gross
negligence in the handling of classified information and of
the statute proscribing misdemeanor mishandling, my
judgment is that no reasonable prosecutor would bring
such a case.”
In the closing statement, the terms “gross negligence” and
“misdemeanor mishandling” where edited to “potential
violations of the statutes.”
In December, Johnson alleged “hostile actors” had likely
gained access to Clinton’s private email server containing
classified information.
 Utter And Complete Panic Over FISA
Abuse Memo Roils Democrats - Game Changing Proof Of
'Brazen Plot' To Frame An Incoming President
With A False Russian Conspiracy'
- Democrats Caused Government Shutdown To Distract
Public From #Releasethememo Campaign
By Susan Duclos - All News Pipeline
January 21, 2018

KGB. Every member that saw the memo came out with
demands that the House Intelligence Committee declassify
the document and release it to the public at large.

In the midst of the public outcry where millions of

Americans called Congress to demand the release of the
memo, Democrats in the Senate, in a blind panic over the
upcoming release of the memo, took a calculated risk to
shutdown the government, with the liberal mainstream
media playing their part by focusing their headlines on the
issues causing the government shutdown. This also
allowed the MSM to avoid finally informing their audience
Democrats in utter and complete panic decided to force a
that the Independent Media was correct over the last year
government shutdown onto America to distract the public's
in asserting the whole Russia collusion with Trump
attention from the classified four-page House Intelligence
storyline, and the Mueller investigation, was nothing more
Committee memo which details Foreign Intelligence
than planned hoax upon the American people, by U.S.
Surveillance Act (FISA) abuses by the Obama
intelligence agencies to discredit a sitting President.
administration and Intelligence agencies like the FBI and
DOJ during his presidency.
The reason Democrats did this in their panic was because
while they knew the four-page memo will be released,
In the first article of the #ReleaseThe Memo series we at
Americans will finally be informed of the rampant
ANP detailed a House Intelligence Committee vote where
corruption and abuses during the Obama administration,
every single Democrat on the committee voted against
and they needed to buy time to converge on a storyline, the
releasing a four-page memo which details FISA abuses,
"spin" and talking points they wanted the MSM to run
under the Obama administration, to the full 435 members
when it does happen.
of Congress. Republicans approved it in a party line vote,
allowing access only in the secure room because of
classified information contained within the document.

We asked in that initial article,

"What are Democrats so scared of?"

In part Two of the #ReleaseTheMemo series, that question

was answered as members of the House that entered that
private room and read the details of the corruption and
politicization of the intelligence community, came out and
went on camera, visibly shaken over what they had read,
with one Representative even comparing those rampant
abuses by the Obama administration to actions used by the
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 release of just the memo, but they are requesting the
PART THREE OF THE #RELEASETHEMEMO supplementary information which provides the basis for
SERIES the information contained within the four-page memo be
released as well, without jeopardizing any classified
Approximately 140 House members have now seen the sources.
classified memo, with reports indicating that only one
House Democrat even bothered to read it. The ranking
Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, Adam
Schiff, having failed in his attempt to prevent the full
House from accessing the four-page FISA abuse memo,
has started floating the upcoming "spin" the media is
expected to rally around when the memo is released to the
public.

His first act was to go on CNN to start the ball rolling,

(video at the link) claiming the memo "is essentially a set
of talking points that the Republican Intel staff drafted"
based on highly classified information. His second claim is
that the "talking points" are "distorted," part of a
"narrative" Republicans want to push, and then he attempts
to connect that to the "Russians!" His claimed is based on
the NeverTrump website Hamilton 68 that claims Russian-
linked accounts were also pushing the #ReleaseTheMemo
hashtag.

His most demonstrably false claim is his response to the

question of why the FISA abuse memo should not be
released to the public so "Americans can make the
decision for themselves."

Schiff's reply was

"Well, because the American people

unfortunately don’t have the underlying
materials and therefore they can’t see
how distorted and misleading this
document is. The Republicans are not
saying make the underlying materials
available to the public.
They just want to make this spin available to the public. I
think that spin, which is a attack on the FBI, is just
designed to attack the FBI and Bob Mueller to circle the
wagons for the White House. And that’s a terrible
disservice to the people, hard working people at the
bureau, but more than that, it’s a disservice to the country.”
That is is a categorical lie, evidenced by the publicly
available letter sent to Chairman of the House Intelligence
Committee David Nunes, that 65 House members signed,
in which they
"request the immediate release of this
document to the public, as well as any
relevant ancillary information."
In case Rep. Schiff has forgotten, "ancillary" means
"providing necessary support to the primary activities or
operation of an organization, institution, industry, or
system." Meaning Republicans are not just requesting the
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There is no way to overstate the importance of getting the
FISA abuse memo and the relevant ancillary information,
released to the public, for a variety of reasons.
ONE: This is the first phase of of revealing
the "Russian/Collusion" narrative that the
MSM, Democratic politicians and liberal
websites have spent the last year pushing,
is in fact false.
TWO: It is also the first item of proof that
will become publicly available that shows
the Independent Media's assertion for the
past year that the Obama administration
actively abused their power, politicizing the
intelligence agencies, in order to frame a
member of the opposing political party that
has won an election in an attempt to
delegitimatize a sitting President in the
minds of the American public. The
mainstream media and Democrats have
spent an entire year claiming those
allegations were "fake news," and just
"conspiracy theories."
 THREE: Via public statements over the last
two days, by House Representatives that
have read the FISA abuse memo, indicate
that it proves that the FISA warrant to
surveil members of the Trump campaign,
after the election, was obtained using the
unverified and discredited Steele dossier
that was paid for by the Clinton campaign
and the DNC, and to which the information
contained within came partially from
Russian sources.

FOUR: Once released and the liberal

media are forced to report on its contents,
no matter what "spin" they put on it, their
audiences, those that still trust the biggest Former federal prosecutor, Joe diGenova, was interviewed
liberal networks, will finally get to see how by The Daily Caller News Foundation, in where he
badly they have been misled by the names describes the truth that is starting to finally seep out about
they trusted. As political commentator the Obama Administration’s
Wayne Allen Root states "Liberals who only
watch CNN and MSNBC probably haven’t
"brazen plot to exonerate Hillary Clinton"
a clue what’s about to hit them. Trust me,
and "frame an incoming president with a
that light at the end of the tunnel is a train
false Russian conspiracy."
headed straight for the Democrat Party."
While the interview with diGenova is over 30 minutes, the
FIVE: With the entire special counsel
details he provides of former FBI directors "farce" of an
investigation being predicated on the
investigation into Hillary Clinton, saying that the FBI
original surveillance of the Trump
campaign team, if that surveillance was
obtained by tainted means, every single "followed none of the regular rules, gave
scrap of evidence that stemmed from that her every break in the book, immunized all
original surveillance is also tainted under kinds of people, allowed the destruction of
the Fruit of the Poisonous Tree doctrine. In evidence, with no grand jury, no
other words, as you will hear in the Sara subpoenas, no search warrants."
Carter interview below, the whole Mueller
investigation "unravels." Via The DC:

According to Sara Carter, who has been consistently ahead DiGenova condemned the FBI for working
of the curve on this issue, going back to the original so closely with the controversial Fusion
underlying scandal of how the Obama administration GPS, a political hit squad paid by the DNC
abuse their positions to start "unmasking" American and Clinton campaign to create and spread
names, in violation of the spirit of the FISA rules and the discredited Steele dossier about
regulation, up until the details of what is inside of this President Donald Trump. Without a
four-page FISA abuse memo, the proceedings to bring justifiable law enforcement or national
about the release of this memo to the public has begun. security reason, he says, the FBI “created
She asserts it could take until the end of the month but that false facts so that they could get
some of her sources say it could be released by next week surveillance warrants. Those are all
if the House Intelligence Committee moves fast enough to crimes.” He adds, using official FISA-702
get it onto the president's desk so he can approve the “queries” and surveillance was done “to
release. She also claims her sources tell her, the President create a false case against a candidate,
is expected to immediately agree to have it released. and then a president.”

The interview also details:

An April 2017 99-page FISA court

opinion that "describes systematic and on-
going violations of the law [by the FBI and
their contractors using unauthorized
disclosures of raw intelligence on
Americans]," which he calls "stunning stuff,
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and; Journalists being paid by Fusion GPS,
who created the Kremlin sourced Steele
dossier as part of opposition research for
Hillary Clinton and the DNC against the
then president-elect Donald Trump, which
was then used by the FBI and/or the DOJ,
to obtain the FISA warrant to surveil the
Trump campaign. He called that "the
complete antithesis of American journalism
and the first amendment."

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 Whoops! FBI ‘Loses’ Five Months
Of Texts Between FBI Agents Peter Strzok And Lisa Page
By Kristina Wong
21 Jan 2018
The Federal Bureau of Investigation has
lost about five months of text messages
between two top officials, Peter Strzok
and Lisa Page, who openly disparaged
then-candidate Donald Trump while
working on the Clinton email
investigation and the Russia probe
investigation, according to a top
Republican senator.
The officials in question are Peter Strzok and Lisa Page —
the two senior FBI officials who had texted each
other hundreds of text messages in which they shared how
much they loathed Trump and spoke of an “insurance
policy” in the case of Trump’s election.
Senate Homeland Security Committee Chairman Ron
Johnson (R-WI) revealed in a January 20, 2018, letter to
FBI Director Christopher Wray that the FBI said their
technical system failed to preserve texts exchanged
between Strzok and Page between December 14, 2016,
though May 17, 2017.
“The loss of records from this period is
concerning because it is apparent from
other records that Mr. Strzok and Ms. Page
communicated frequently about the
investigation,” Johnson said in his letter.
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Michael Doran, senior fellow at the Hudson Institute,
astutely noted that May 17, 2017, was the date that the
Special Counsel was convened.
What a weird coincidence!
“Misconfiguration issues related to rollouts,
provisioning, and software upgrades”
destroyed the Strzok-Page text messages
during a period that ended on May 17, the
very day Mueller started. How bizarre is
that? It's almost as if it was planned that
way.
— Mike (@Doranimated) January 21, 2018
The inspector general first found the texts between Strzok
and Page while investigating whether political bias played
a role either in the Clinton email investigation or the
investigation into the Trump campaign.
Strzok was deputy chief of counterintelligence, played a
leading role on the Clinton investigation, and reportedly is
the one who watered down language that could have held
criminal implications for Clinton. He oversaw the Trump
investigation when it was opened in July 2016.
Strzok and Page were assigned to the special counsel
investigation, but after the Justice Department inspector
general found the texts, Strzok was promptly removed.
Page had left weeks earlier, reportedly because her
assignment to the special counsel had ended. Strzok was
engaged in an extramarital affair with Page.
Johnson said in the letter that he learned of the missing
texts on January 19 after the FBI handed over an additional
384 texts to the committee.
According to Johnson, Strzok and Page discussed speeding
up the investigation into Clinton once it became clear that
Trump would be the Republican presidential nominee.
“Now the pressure really starts to finish
[midyear exam],” Strzok wrote, using the
secret name for the Clinton email
investigation. “It sure does,” Page replied.
Johnson also revealed texts between Strzok and Page that
showed they discussed efforts to water down then-FBI
Director James Comey’s statement on the Clinton email
investigation.
An original statement was going to reveal that Clinton
wrongly used her personal email in an exchange with
“the president while Secretary Clinton was
on the territory of such an adversary.”
“Given that combination of factors, we
assess it is possible that hostile actors
gained access to Secretary Clinton’s
personal email,” it said.
However, on June 30, 2016, “the president” was replaced
with “another senior government official,” Strzok notified
Page. The final statement scrubbed the whole reference.
Strzok and Page suggested that then-Attorney General
Loretta Lynch knew that there would be no charges against
Clinton even before they interviewed her and other key
witnesses.
After Lynch announced that she would rely on the
recommendation of Comey’s determination in the Clinton
email investigation, due to the impropriety of her meeting
with Bill Clinton on a tarmac, Strzok texted Page that her
statement “looks like hell.”
Page responded:
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“And yeah, it’s a real profile in couragw
[sic], since she knows no charges will be
brought.”
At that time, Clinton, along with other key witnesses, had
not yet been interviewed by the FBI.
Johnson is now asking the FBI to follow up with more
details about the lost records and about whether it has
conducted searches of non-government issued devices.
Other lawmakers are demanding answers.
House Judiciary Committee member Rep. Ron DeSantis
(R-FL) said in a tweet Sunday: “FBI Director Wray needs
to provide an explanation for why the FBI deleted six
months’ worth of Strozk-Page text messages sent during
the Trump transition and early months of the Trump
presidency. Was evidence about the anti-Trump ‘insurance
policy’ deleted?”
Doran tweeted:
“People must go to jail. It’s critical. Our gov
will not regain legitimacy unless the public
believes that elite crimes get punished. And
by ‘jail’ I do not mean a fellowship at
Harvard’s Kennedy School. Being
surrounded by academics can feel like
incarceration, but it’s not jail.”
House intelligence committee staffers have put together a
four-page classified memo that reportedly explains how
the FBI relied upon the salacious and unverified Trump
dossier to investigate the Trump campaign. That is
expected to be released in the upcoming weeks.
 Senate Republicans Reject Trump's
"Nuclear Option" As Shutdown Negotiations Continue
By Tyler Durden
Sun, 01/21/2018 - 11:24

Update: That didn't take long:

Bloomberg is reporting that, according to an

aide to Majority Leader Mitch McConnell,
Senate Republicans are opposing invoking the
nuclear option, something President Trump
urged them to do in a tweet this morning.

Meanwhile, Speaker Paul Ryan told reporters that House

Republicans would support a bill that would kick the can
to Feb. 8 if the Senate can pass it. While Republicans have
picked up a few Democratic votes, they don't have nearly
enough to overcome a filibuster, something that requires
60 votes.
***
The first full day of the January 2018 government
shutdown saw a spate of hurried but ultimately fruitless
negotiations, and already the White House - which has
been accused of exacerbating the problem by constantly
shifting its negotiating position - has had enough: In a
tweet this morning,
President Donald Trump said Republicans
should consider invoking “the nuclear
option” to eliminate the possibility of an
opposition fillibuster - allowing Republicans to
pass a long-term spending bill with a simple
majority (there are 51 Republican senators).
Lawmakers in both parties are fighting to win the PR
"blamegame" battle, hoping to brand their political
opponents as the ones who are ultimately held accountable
by the public for the shutdown. Democrats argue that,
because Republicans control Congress and the White
House, the public will inevitably blame them. Republicans
have insisted that Democrats are being “obstructionist” and
have sought to label it “the #Schumershutdown” after the
Democratic leader in the Senate, Chuck Schumer.
Per the Hill, Democrats have complained loudly about the
difficulty of negotiating with the president, telling media
that Schumer and Trump were close to a deal during a
Friday afternoon meeting until conservative Republicans
interceded and shut it down. Subsequently, Schumer said
that "Negotiating with this White House is like negotiating
with Jello."

Right now, the Senate can approve presidential nominees

for the courts and executive branch departments with a
simple majority, but traditional legislation is still subject to
a fillibuster that requires 60 votes to overcome.

Kicking off an early morning flurry of tweetstorm, Trump

congratulated Republicans in Congress:

"Great to see how hard Republicans are

fighting for our Military and Safety at the
Border. The Dems just want illegal
immigrants to pour into our nation
unchecked. If stalemate continues,
Republicans should go to 51% (Nuclear
Option) and vote on real, long term budget, no
C.R.’s!"

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On Sunday, Congress is holding an unusual session that
may be lawmakers’ last chance for a quick end to the
shutdown, Bloomberg reports.
While the partial shutdown began officially at 12:01 a.m.
Saturday, federal agencies are largely waiting until
Monday to implement it. That gives lawmakers one more
deadline to act before the shutdown is in full force. Here’s
a summary of what will shut down during the shutdown.
Publicly, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and
Schumer have resisted being moved from their opposite
positions. Behind the scenes, a senior House Republican
told Bloomberg Saturday that vote-counters were being
told a deal could be reached Sunday to reopen the
government. To be sure, Goldman Sachs - which has
singular insight into the innerworkings of the executive
branch thanks to the fact that its alumni are helping run the
government - believes there’s a 60% chance the shutdown
could "last up to a few weeks."
As discussed yesterday,
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Democrats are holding out for a deal to
enshrine DACA protections for 690,000
undocumented immigrants who were
brought to the US as children - a deal that,
hopefully, limits the money spent on
Trump’s border wall.
Republicans, meanwhile, want a long-term deal that
includes boosts to military spending.
Schumer said yesterday he still wants a bipartisan deal that
sets budget caps for defense and non-defense spending,
protects young undocumented immigrants from
deportation, and provides disaster relief funds.
Meanwhile, McConnell has promised to keep fighting.
"We’ll be right back at this tomorrow and as
long as it takes" to pass a spending bill,
McConnell said Saturday evening.
To be sure, some Democrats - particularly those from
states where Trump defeated Clinton by a sizable margin -
are sounding more flexible about the terms of reopening
the government, seeking more of a solid path toward an
immigration bill and other goals than immediate action.
Circling back to Trump’s push for the so-called "nuclear
option", Congressional Republicans haven’t yet
commented on whether they’re considering it, although we
expect the "official" GOP position on the matter will be
disclosed later in the day.
 GOP Lawmaker: “Absolutely”
The FISA Memo IS THE SMOKING GUN (Video)
By Jim Hoft
January 21, 2018

On Saturday Rep. Dave Joyce announced that the House
Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSIC) had
launched the process to release the explosive FBI-FISA-
Russia classified memo.
Rep. Ralph Norman (R-SC) told FOX News
today the FISA Memo is the “Smoking Gun.”
Rep. Norman: This was not written by Republicans. This
is a memo that was uncovered along with other documents
that were deemed classified. All we’re saying is let the
Intelligence Committee vote on it and let the public see
what the public needs to see. This will make Watergate
look like child’s play…

Rep. Norman then goes on to tell Leland

Vitter “absolutely” this is the smoking gun.

The 4 page memo contains evidence that the Obama

administration used FISA warrants to spy on both the
Trump campaign and transition team — charges Obama
officials have long denied.

On Sunday morning investigative reporter Sara Carter told

FOX and Friends Weekend that the memo could be
released to the public this week.
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 Rep. Jim Jordan Is FED UP, Demands Second Special
Counsel After FBI Loses Peter Strzok’s Text Messages
By Joshua Caplan
January 21, 2018

Strzok & Lisa Page following the ’16 election.

The time for a second special counsel is now,”
tweeted the Ohio lawmaker.

Additional text messages sent and received

by disgraced FBI agent Peter Strzok have
been handed over to Congress, reports
the Associated Press.
In yet another twist to the Strzok saga, the
FBI failed to hand over a block of the agent’s
text messages because they have gone
missing.
AP reports:
This isn’t the first time Jordan has publicly suggested a
But the department also said in a letter to second counsel be appointed.
lawmakers that its record of messages sent to
and from the agent, Peter Strzok, was Appearing before the House Judiciary Committee on
incomplete because the FBI, for technical December 13th, 2017, Deputy Attorney General Rod
reasons, had been unable to preserve and Rosenstein was grilled by Jordan in relation to Strzok’s
retrieve about five months’ worth of role in both the Hillary Clinton email investigation and
communications. New text messages Mueller-Russia probe.
highlighted in a letter to FBI Director “This is unbelievable,” Jordan lamented to
Christopher Wray by Sen. Ron Johnson, the Rosenstein, demanding to know what “fact
Republican chairman of the Senate’s Homeland pattern” would be required for a second special
Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, counsel to be appointed.
are from the spring and summer of 2016 and
involve discussion of the investigation into “I think the public trust in this whole thing is
Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server. gone,” Jordan asserted.
They reference Attorney General Loretta
Lynch’s decision to accept the FBI’s conclusion
in that case and a draft statement that former
FBI Director James Comey had prepared in
anticipation of closing out the Clinton
investigation without criminal charges.
Following reports of the FBI’s mystery “glitch,” Rep.
Jordan Jordan (R-OH) is renewing his call for a second
special counsel to investigate the former Mueller team
member.
“First the IRS destroyed emails pivotal to our
investigation of their political targeting. Now the
FBI “failed to preserve” texts between Peter
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 GOP Lawmaker Suspends Paycheck
Until Military Gets Paid Too #Schumershutdown
By Cristina Laila
January 21, 2018

The House budget resolution failed a cloture vote in the

Senate on a largely party line vote, 50 to 49.

The Schumer Shutdown went in to effect shortly after

midnight Saturday.

The Democrats chose illegal aliens over our wonderful

men and women serving in the Military. Let that sink in.

Georgia GOP Lawmaker Jody Hice announced he will

suspend his pay until the military gets paid too.

Meanwhile our military isn’t receiving a paycheck.

American Forces Network provides entertainment and

other services to our service members overseas. Due to
Schumer’s shutdown, our men and women overseas
currently do not have access to this network.

Rep. Jody Hice is a man with integrity.

Hice suspended his pay while Nancy Pelosi and the House
Dems went to a fancy Italian dinner in Washington D.C.

Hice tweeted, “If our servicemembers aren’t getting paid,

then neither am I. Today, I informed the Chief
Administrative Office that I’ll have my pay withheld until
a funding bill is passed & gets our men & women in
uniform their hard-earned pay. It’s your move,
@SenSchumer. #SchumerShutdown”
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 MUST SEE VIDEO=> Former Federal Prosecutor Details
“Brazen Plot” By FBI And DOJ To Exonerate Hillary And
“Frame” Donald Trump
By Jim Hoft
January 21, 2018

discredited Steele dossier about President Donald Trump.

According to an interview with the Daily Caller, a former
federal prosecutor says the truth is starting to seep out
about the Obama Administration’s “brazen plot to
exonerate Hillary Clinton” and “frame an incoming
president with a false Russian conspiracy.” –
Without a justifiable law enforcement or national security
reason, he says, the FBI “created false facts so that they
could get surveillance warrants. Those are all crimes.” He
adds, using official FISA-702 “queries” and surveillance
was done “to create a false case against a candidate, and
then a president.” In this highly detailed video interview,
he holds up an unreported April 2017 99-page FISA court
opinion that “describes systematic and on-going violations
of the law [by the FBI and their contractors using
unauthorized disclosures of raw intelligence on
Americans]. This is stunning stuff.” DiGenova thinks
Fusion GPS and Crowdstrike, the DNC’s private security
firm, were among the redacted contractors of the FBI.
DeGenova states –

People that were senior career civil servants

Joe diGenova, a former federal prosecutor, connects the
dots on former Obama administration Justice Department
and FBI officials who may have “violated the law, perhaps
committed crimes” to politicize law enforcement and
Here is the video –
surveillance against political opponents. He says former
FBI Director James Comey conducted a fake criminal
investigation of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton
as they
violated the law, perhaps committed crimes,
and covered up crimes by a Presidential
candidate [Hillary]. But more than that, they
tried to frame an incoming President with a
false Russian conspiracy that never existed
and they knew it and they plotted to ruin him
as a candidate and then destroy him as a
President. That’s why this is important. That’s
why connecting the dots is important, because
the FBI now has to be completely reconstructed
from the ground up.”

“followed none of the regular rules, gave her

every break in the book, immunized all kinds of
people, allowed the destruction of evidence,
with no grand jury, no subpoenas, no search
warrants. That’s not an investigation. That’s a
Potemkin village. It’s a farce.”

DiGenova condemned the FBI for working so closely with

the controversial Fusion GPS, a political hit squad paid by
the DNC and Clinton campaign to create and spread the
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 "Brazen Plot To Exonerate Hillary Clinton" And Frame
Trump Unraveling, Says Former Fed Prosecutor
By Tyler Durden
Sun, 01/21/2018 - 22:30

A former Federal Prosecutor sat down with The Daily
Caller to give perhaps the most comprehensive rundown
of the Obama Administration's
"brazen plot to exonerate Hillary Clinton" and
"frame an incoming president with a false
Russian conspiracy."
And everybody knew it was a farce. The
problem was, she didn't win.
And because she didn't wain, the farce became a very
serious opera. It wasn't a comic opera anymore, it was a
tragic opera. And she was going to be the focus.
What this is about, this is about a lavabo, a
cleansing of FBI and the upper echelons of
the Department of Justice.

We're going to discover that the Attorney

In this highly recommended 30 minute interview with Joe
diGenova, the former Special Counsel who went after both
the Teamsters and former NY Governor Elliot Spitzer,
paints a very clear picture of collusion is painted between
the Obama administration, the FBI, the Clinton campaign
and opposition research firm Fusion GPS.
From the Daily Caller:
General, Loretta Lynch, her deputy Sally
Yates, the head of the national security
division John Carlin, Bruce Ohr and other
senior DOJ officials, and regrettably, lying
attorneys. People who were senior career civil
servants violated the law, perhaps committed
crimes, and covered up crimes by a
presidential candidate - but more than that,
they tried to frame an incoming president
with a false Russian conspiracy that never
existed, and they knew it,
and they plotted to ruin him as a candidate and then
destroy him as a president. That's why this is important.
That's why connecting the dots is important.

The FBI used to spy on Russians. This time

they spied on us. what this story is about - a
brazen plot to exonerate Hillary Clinton from a
clear violation of the law with regard to the way
she handled classified information with her
classified server. Absolutely a crime,
absolutely a felony. It's about finding out why -
as the Inspector General is doing at the
department of justice - why Comey and the
senior DOJ officials conducted a fake
criminal investigation of Hillary Clinton.
Followed none of the regular rules, gave her DiGenova condemned the FBI for working so closely with
every break in the book, immunized all kinds the controversial Fusion GPS,
of people, allowed the destruction of
evidence, no grand jury, no subpoenas, no a political hit squad paid by the DNC and
search warrant. That's not an investigation, Clinton campaign to create and spread the
that's a Potemkin village. It's a farce. discredited Steele dossier about President
Donald Trump.
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Without a justifiable law enforcement or national security
reason, he says, the FBI “created false facts so that they
could get surveillance warrants.
Those are all crimes.” He adds, using official
FISA-702 “queries” and surveillance was
done “to create a false case against a
candidate, and then a president.” -Daily
Caller
During the interview, DiGenova holds up and references a
previously unreported and heavily redacted 99-page FISA
court opinion from April, 2017, which
"describes systematic and on-going
violations of the law [by the FBI and their
contractors using unauthorized disclosures
of raw intelligence on Americans]. This is
stunning stuff."
NSA Admiral Mike Rodgers: An American
Hero
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diGenova also discusses the immense risks taken by
retiring NSA director, Mike Rogers - who briefed Trump
on Nov. 7, 2016 about the Obama administration's
surveillance of the Trump team. The next day, the
Presidental transition team was moved out of Trump tower
and into the president-elect's Bedminster, NJ golf course
until they could sweep for bugs.
Uranium One and other matters
Also discussed in the interview are the Uranium One
scandal, Mueller's "tainted" probe, and the consequences
of the Democrats regaining control in the November
midterms - which would most certainly lead to an effort to
impeach Trump.
“It’s important for the House to complete its
work now,” says diGenova.
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Text Messages Reveal Peter Strzok And Mistress Lisa Page
Knew Charges WOULD NOT BE FILED Against Hillary
— BEFORE She Was Interviewed
By Jim Hoft
January 21, 2018
The FBI released nearly 400 pages of
additional text messages between FBI agent
Peter Strzok and his mistress and former
Lisa Page.
As TGP’s Josh Caplan reported earlier today the text
exchange between Strzok and Page shows Loretta Lynch
knew former FBI Director James Comey was not going to
charge Hillary Clinton for her crimes.
Now this…
Strzok and Page also knew charges would
not be filed even before Hillary Clinton was
interviewed by James Comey on July 4th
weekend in
They all knew Crooked Hillary would walk
before her interview with Comey!
FOX News reported:
The Justice Department has given various
congressional committees nearly 400 pages of
additional text messages between two FBI
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officials who were removed from Special
Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into
alleged collusion between the Trump campaign
and Russian officials.
One of the newly discovered messages, lawmakers said,
appeared to indicate that Peter Strzok and Lisa Page knew
that charges would not be filed against Democratic
presidential candidate Hillary Clinton as a result of the
investigation into her email server — before Clinton was
interviewed by the bureau.
Strzok and Page were pulled off the probe last summer
after it emerged that some of their messages to each other
included anti-Trump content. Strzok, an FBI
counterintelligence agent, was reassigned to the Bureau’s
human resources division after the discovery of the
exchanges with Page, with whom he was having an affair.
According to a Saturday letter to FBI Director Christopher
Wray from Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., the chairman of the
Senate Homeland Security Committee, the Justice
Department provided 384 pages of messages to lawmakers
on Friday. However, Johnson noted that additional texts
sent between Dec. 14, 2016 and May 17 of last year were
not preserved by the FBI’s system.
 Why The #Schumershutdown Should
Be Blamed Entirely On The Democrats
By Michael Snyder
January 21, 2018
For years the Democrats have been using the leverage of a
potential government shutdown to get virtually whatever
they want from the Republicans in Congress. For those of
us that are true conservatives, it has been absolutely
infuriating to watch this same drama play out over and
over again, but this time around the Democrats may have
overplayed their hand. In addition to demanding their way
on pretty much every single budget issue, the Democrats
also want Republicans to compromise on DACA.
Fortunately, the Trump administration and the Republicans
in Congress are standing firm against the ridiculous
demands of the Democrats, and this government shutdown
will continue until somebody finally blinks.
Many are calling this the “#SchumerShutdown” because it
was the Democrats in the Senate that would not agree to
the extremely generous agreement that the Republicans
were offering. The mainstream media is freaking out and
trying to pin the blame on Trump, but that isn’t going to
work this time.
So how long will this shutdown ultimately last? Well, the
truth is that there is a possibility that it could be brought to
an end very quickly. In fact, the Washington Post is
reporting that a “bipartisan group of moderate senators” is
trying to get something done tonight…
With the start of the workweek for many federal
employees less than 24 hours away, a bipartisan group of
moderate senators huddled in hopes of reaching an accord
on immigration and federal spending they hoped would
pave the way to reopening the government by Monday
morning.
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“I think that there will be a breakthrough
tonight,” said Sen. Lindsey O. Graham (R-
S.C.), one of the negotiators. Others
involved in the meeting said they were
“close”to an arrangement.
But of course any deal will not be a long-term solution.
According to Bloomberg, the current deal being discussed
would only fund the government through February 8th…
A group of Senate moderates working on a compromise
plan to break the stalemate over funding and immigration
that forced a partial shutdown of the government were set
to deliver a set of options Sunday to party leaders.
About 20 centrist senator from both parties worked out a
set of options to extend stopgap funding for the
government through Feb. 8. Part of the plan would include
a commitment for a separate vote on legislation to put into
law a program that protects from deportation some of the
undocumented immigrants brought to the U.S. as children.
That is a central demand of Democrats.
To me, it is absolutely ridiculous that we ever got to this
point.
On day one of the Trump administration, the Senate should
have used the so-called “nuclear option” to change the
rules so that Senate Democrats can no longer hold funding
bills hostage. Republicans have control of the White
House, the Senate and the House of Representatives, and
we should be able to get bills passed with a simple
majority vote in the Senate. This is a point that President
Trump made on Twitter earlier today…
Great to see how hard Republicans are fighting for our
Military and Safety at the Border. The Dems just want
illegal immigrants to pour into our nation unchecked. If
stalemate continues, Republicans should go to 51%
(Nuclear Option) and vote on real, long term budget, no
C.R.’s!
Unfortunately, Mitch McConnell is a big-time RINO and a
spineless jellyfish. After Trump’s tweet, he once again
reaffirmed that his position is that he is completely against
using the “nuclear option”. The following comes from
CNBC…
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is
against using the so-called “nuclear option”
to end a budget stalemate and reopen the
federal government, despite President
Donald Trump’s urging.
“The Republican Conference opposes
changing the rules on legislation,” a
representative for McConnell said in a
statement Sunday morning.
This is yet another example that shows that we need new
Republican leadership in Congress. I am the only
candidate in Idaho’s first congressional district that is
publicly calling for Mitch McConnell and Paul Ryan to
resign from their leadership positions, and if you believe in
what we are trying to do, I hope that you will support us as
we work tirelessly to win this incredibly tight race.
During this government shutdown, our troops will not be
paid, but Democrats in Congress are going about their
business as if nothing has changed. For example, it is
being reported that Nancy Pelosi invited every Democratic
member of the House out to a very expensive Italian
restaurant on the first night of the shutdown…
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According to media reports, House Minority Leader Nancy
Pelosi (D-CA) invited the 192 Democrat Members of the
House of Representatives out to dinner at a fancy Italian
restaurant in Washington, D.C. Saturday during the first
day of the government shutdown.
And reporter Robert Costa is reporting that some members
of the House are already complaining that they aren’t
enough towels in the House gym…
Members also complaining to me that the House gym lacks
enough towels this morning and they wonder if it’s
because of the shutdown.
Oh the humanity!
It is time for the Republicans to put the Democrats in their
place. The American people gave Republicans control in
Washington because they want our government to move in
a more conservative direction. There simply is no excuse
for giving in to the Democrats every time a government
shutdown is looming.
The Democrats have become like spoiled children that are
accustomed to always getting everything that they want,
and my hope is that this time the Republicans will finally
say that enough is enough.
 No Deal: Government Shutdown To
Continue For 3rd Day As Senate Sets Monday Noon Vote
By Tyler Durden
Sun, 01/21/2018 - 21:38

Any hope that the 2-day government shutdown could be on a measure that would fund the government through Feb.
suddenly resolved with an early morning vote on Monday 8.
morning died moments ago when Chuck Schumer said
"there is no deal" while Senate Majority Leader Mitch Furthermore, by the looks of things...
McConnell said he is canceling the previously
scheduled 1am procedural vote and instead the Senate
will vote on the stopgap spending bill at noon Eastern on
Monday, with the government set to remain closed at least
until the vote.

... this shutdown may indeed continue "for

McConnell also said that his intention is to resolve several
issues including immigration as quickly as possible, and to
move to DACA on Feb. 8 if no deal has been done by then
and govt stays open.
Meanwhile, the Senate Democratic Leader Chuck
Schumer, objecting to earlier vote timing, said
"we have yet to reach an agreement on path
forward."
As discussed earlier, a flurry of activity on Capitol Hill had
stoked hopes that a deal to end the shutdown might be
reached before furloughs for hundreds of thousands of
government workers kick in on Monday. Instead, the
Senate is now set to vote at noon on Monday to end debate
weeks" as Goldman predicted on Friday. And
while the market may not care for now, should
the funding gap extend into late February and
early March, just days ahead of the debt ceiling
X-Date, the S&P will - sooner or later - be
reacquainted with gravity.
Even on Monday, it remains unclear if there will be 60
votes to end debate, given opposition from Senate
Democrats to the measure. And, as explained yesterday,
without a drop in the stock market to "mediate" and force
politicians to negotiate, the question now is how deeply the
two sides will dig in further as the work week begins.
Finally, for those wondering if there was any reaction in
the market to the ongoing shutdown news, the answer: of
course not.

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 Wait.. What? Loretta Lynch Already Knew Comey Would
Let Hillary Go Free When Announcing She
Would Accept FBI’s Conclusion
By Joshua Caplan
January 21, 2018
Additional text messages sent and received
by disgraced FBI agent Peter Strzok have
been handed over to Congress, reports
the Associated Press.
According to an exchange between Strzok
and Bureau lawyer Lisa Page, then-
Attorney General Loretta Lynch reportedly
knew former FBI Director James Comey
would let Hillary Clinton off the hook in her
email investigation when she announced the
Justice Department would “defer” to the
FBI’s conclusion.
AP reports:
They reference Attorney General Loretta
Lynch’s decision to accept the FBI’s conclusion
in that case and a draft statement that former
FBI Director James Comey had prepared in
anticipation of closing out the Clinton
investigation without criminal charges.
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In another exchange, the two express displeasure about the
timing of Lynch’s announcement that she would defer to
the FBI’s judgment on the Clinton investigation. That
announcement came days after it was revealed that the
attorney general and former President Bill Clinton had an
impromptu meeting aboard her plane in Phoenix, though
both sides said the email investigation was never
discussed.
Strzok said in a July 1 text message that the timing of
Lynch’s announcement “looks like hell.” And Page
appears to mockingly refer to Lynch’s decision to accept
the FBI’s conclusion in the case as a “real profile in
courag(e) since she knows no charges will be brought.”
Lynch is suspected of aiding Clinton during the 2016
presidential election. The former Justice Department
head has denied allegations she assured the Clinton
campaign that the FBI’s email probe would not stretch far
into the 2016 presidential race.
Former FBI Director James Comey testified to lawmakers
that he confronted Lynch over what he perceived as a
potential tipping of the scale for Clinton during the
election. According to reports, when Comey
confronted Lynch for the perceived bias, he was met with a
“steely silence that lasted for some time,” before he asked
to leave her office.
As The Gateway Pundit previously reported, Comey
admitted Lynch attempted to reframe the investigation into
Clinton’s private email server. The chief legal officer of
the United States allegedly directed Comey to refer to
Clinton’s email probe as a “matter,” instead of an
“investigation” or “probe.”
 More Texts Turned Over From
FBI Agent Taken Off Mueller Team
ERIC TUCKER - Associated Press
January 21, 2018

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department has
turned over to Congress additional text messages involving
an FBI agent who was removed from special counsel
Robert Mueller's investigative team following the
discovery of derogatory comments about President Donald
Trump.
But the department also said in a letter to lawmakers that
its record of messages sent to and from the agent, Peter
Strzok, was incomplete because the FBI, for technical
reasons, had been unable to preserve and retrieve about
five months' worth of communications.
New text messages highlighted in a letter to FBI Director
Christopher Wray by Sen. Ron Johnson, the Republican
chairman of the Senate's Homeland Security and
Governmental Affairs Committee, are from the spring and
summer of 2016 and involve discussion of the
investigation into Hillary Clinton's use of a private email
server. They reference Attorney General Loretta Lynch's
decision to accept the FBI's conclusion in that case and a
draft statement that former FBI Director James Comey had
prepared in anticipation of closing out the Clinton
investigation without criminal charges.
The FBI declined to comment Sunday.
Strzok, a veteran counterintelligence agent who also
worked the Clinton email case, was reassigned last
summer from the team investigating ties between Russia
and Trump's Republican presidential campaign after
Mueller learned he had exchanged politically charged text
messages — many anti-Trump in nature — with an FBI
lawyer also detailed to the group. The lawyer, Lisa Page,
left Mueller's team before the text messages were
discovered.
The Justice Department last month produced for reporters
and Congress hundreds of text messages that the two had
traded before becoming part of the Mueller investigation.
Many focused on their observations of the 2016 election
and included discussions in often colorful language of their
personal feelings about Trump, Clinton and other public
figures. Some Republican lawmakers have contended the
communication reveals the FBI and the Mueller team to be
politically tainted and biased against Trump — assertions
Wray has flatly rejected.
In addition to the communications already made public,
the Justice Department on Friday provided Johnson's
.
committee with 384 pages of text messages, according to a
letter from the Wisconsin lawmaker that was obtained by
The Associated Press.
But, according to the letter, the FBI told the department
that its system for retaining text messages sent and
received on bureau phones had failed to preserve
communications between Strzok and Page over a five-
month period between Dec. 14, 2016, and May 17, 2017.
May 17 was the date that Mueller was appointed as special
counsel to oversee the Russia investigation.
The explanation for the gap was "misconfiguration issues
related to rollouts, provisioning, and software upgrades
that conflicted with the FBI's collection capabilities."
In Johnson's letter to Wray, he asks whether the FBI has
any records of communications between Strzok and Page
during that five-month window and whether the FBI had
searched their non-FBI phones for additional messages. He
also asks for the "scope and scale" of any other records
from the Clinton investigation that have been lost.
One of the messages references a change in language to
Comey's statement closing out the email case involving
Clinton, Trump's Democratic opponent in the 2016
presidential election. While an earlier draft of the
statement said Clinton and President Barack Obama had an
email exchange while Clinton was "on the territory" of a
hostile adversary, the reference to Obama was at first
changed to "senior government official" and then omitted
entirely in the final version.
In another exchange, the two express displeasure about the
timing of Lynch's announcement that she would defer to
the FBI's judgment on the Clinton investigation. That
announcement came days after it was revealed that the
attorney general and former President Bill Clinton had an
impromptu meeting aboard her plane in Phoenix, though
both sides said the email investigation was never
discussed.
Strzok said in a July 1 text message that the timing of
Lynch's announcement "looks like hell." And Page appears
to mockingly refer to Lynch's decision to accept the FBI's
conclusion in the case as a "real profile in courag(e) since
she knows no charges will be brought."
Days later, on July 5, Comey announced the FBI's
recommendation that no criminal charges were merited.

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 The Mainstream Media Doesn’t Want To Talk About
#ReleaseTheMemo, But This Could Be The
Biggest Scandal In D.C. Since Watergate
By Michael Snyder
January 21st, 2018
Republican members of Congress are pushing for the
release of a memo that reportedly shows that government
surveillance powers were illegally used against Donald
Trump during the presidential campaign, and that the
Obama administration, the FBI and Hillary Clinton
illegally colluded in a concerted effort to try to destroy
Trump’s chances of winning the presidency. If these
allegations turn out to be true, this will be the biggest
scandal in American political history, but so far the
mainstream media doesn’t want to talk about it. Other
than Fox News, it is hard to find any coverage of this
memo on any of the mainstream news networks. But as
you will see below, Republican members of Congress are
making a tremendous amount of noise about it.
Only certain members of Congress have been able to read
this memo so far. In order to take a look at it, these
members of Congress have had to go to a secure room in
the depths of the Capitol, and they are not permitted to
reveal the details of what they have read.
But some Republican members of Congress that have seen
it are speaking out, and what they have revealed so far is
extremely alarming…
“It’s troubling. It is shocking,” Rep. Mark
Meadows (R-NC) told Fox News. “Part of
me wishes that I didn’t read it because I
don’t want to believe that those kinds of
things could be happening in this
country that I call home and love so
much.”
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“The facts contained in this memo are jaw-
dropping and demand full transparency.
There is no higher priority than the
release of this information to preserve
our democracy,” said Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-
FL), a member of the Judiciary Committee,
which oversees the DOJ and the FBI.
Another Judiciary Committee member, Rep. Steve King
(R-IA), called what he saw in the memo “sickening” and
said it was “worse than Watergate.”
Actually, Representative King had a whole lot more to say
about the memo than that. Here is the full quote that he
posted on Twitter…
I have read the memo.
The sickening reality has set in. I no
longer hold out hope there is an innocent
explanation for the information the public
has seen. I have long said it is worse
than Watergate. It was #neverTrump &
#alwaysHillary. #releasethememo
A sitting member of Congress says that this is “worse than
Watergate” and the mainstream media doesn’t want to talk
about it?
Once upon a time the mainstream media at least tried to be
fair, but at this point they are extremely hesitant to publish
anything that does not fit with the narrative that the
Democrats are good and the Republicans are bad.
This memo could be the thing that causes all hell to break
loose in Washington. According to Representative Matt
Gaetz, “people could lose their job” once this memo gets
out…
Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz said he believed people could lose
their jobs after the memo is released.
“I believe the consequence of its release
will be major changes in people
currently working at the FBI and the
Department of Justice,” he said,
 referencing DOJ officials Rod Rosenstein
and Bruce Ohr.
“You think about, ‘is this happening in
America or is this the KGB?’ That’s how
alarming it is,” Pennsylvania Rep. Scott
Perry said.
And not too long ago, U.S. Representative Jody Hice
added his voice to those calling for the release of this
memo…
Earlier this morning, I examined the
classified, four-page memo from
@HouseIntelComm regarding the FBI,
DOJ, and the so-called #RussianCollusion.
To put it simply, “WOW.” I joined the call to
#ReleaseTheMemo. Americans deserve
truth and transparency.
I know that most people have such short attention spans
these days, but this is one scandal that we cannot let go.
Even though members of Congress are not supposed to
reveal the contents of this memo, Representative Gaetz
says that it reveals “horrific abuses” that were committed
during the Obama administration that will “shock the
conscience of this country”…
When asked about the contents of the memo, Rep. Gaetz
replied,
“There are 4 pages of a memorandum
prepared by the Intelligence Committee
that will shock the conscience of this
country when it comes to the horrific
abuses that occurred during the last
admin. and that I believe continue to
pose a threat to Donald Trump’s
presidency.”
Later in the interview, Rep. Gaetz hinted the memo
outlines how the U.S. government may have committed
fraud by presenting the courts with “false information,” to
obtain FISA warrants.
We need to make as much noise as possible until the
American people are allowed to see this memo.
And if it is as bad as many people believe that it is, a
whole lot of people from the Obama administration and the
Clinton campaign need to go to prison.
Fortunately, there are already indications that we are going
to get to see this memo soon. According to Representative
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Dave Joyce, the process of getting this memo released to
the public has already begun…
Great news! Our efforts to #ReleaseTheMemo have been
effective and the HPSIC plans to begin the process to
release the FBI/FISA/Russia memo. This may take up to
19+ Congressional work days but Americans deserve to
know the truth.
As I have been stressing repeatedly in recent weeks, we
must restore the rule of law in this nation if we want the
American people to have faith in the system.
President Trump is fighting tirelessly to do the right thing,
but there are dark forces inside the government that
desperately want to keep the truth from being exposed. I
really like how Tom Luongo described this struggle in one
of his recent pieces…
Trump’s continued needling of the establishment;
playing the long game and demonizing
the media which is the tip of the Shadow
Government’s spear while
strengthening the support of both the
military (through his backing them at every
turn) and his base by assisting them
destroy the false narratives of globalism
has been nothing short of amazing.
As a hard-core, jaded politico, I can tell
you I never thought for a second he had
the ability to what he’s already done.
But, as the past few months have pointed out, the real
power in the world doesn’t rest with the few thousand who
manipulate the levers of power but the billions who for
years stood by and let them.
And those days of standing by are gone.
If Hillary Clinton had won the election, we would have
never learned about any of this corruption that is going on
behind the scenes.
The Trump presidency is our golden opportunity to take
our government back, and I plan to be a big part of the
solution once I get to Congress. Nobody is above the law,
and I believe that this memo could be a tipping point.
It is time for Hillary Clinton, John Podesta
and the rest of that crowd to go to prison,
and the American people should accept
nothing less.
 Rep Desantis Rips FBI Director Wray Over ‘Missing’
Strzok Text Messages: “Was Evidence Of The Anti-Trump
‘Insurance Policy’ Deleted?”
By Cristina Laila
January 21, 2018
According to the Associated Press,
additional text messages sent and received
by disgraced FBI agent Peter Strzok have
been handed over to Congress.
The FBI ‘failed to preserve‘ five months of text messages
between Trump hating FBI agent Peter Strzok and his
mistress Lisa Page, blaming a technical glitch.
The ‘missing’ Strzok text messages were sent
between Dec. 14, 2016 to May 17, 2017, which is the exact
same day that Robert Mueller was appointed as Special
Counsel.
AP reports:
But the department also said in a letter to
lawmakers that its record of messages sent to
and from the agent, Peter Strzok, was
incomplete because the FBI, for technical
reasons, had been unable to preserve and
retrieve about five months’ worth of
communications.
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Rep. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) has been on the front lines
fighting the Deep State Mueller witch hunt. He is calling
for the declassification of all docs related to the Russia
dossier including the 4 page FISA memo which will most
likely put an end to the Russia hoax once and for all.
DeSantis tweeted on Sunday,
“FBI Director Wray needs to provide an
explanation for why the FBI deleted six months’
worth of Strozk-Page text messages sent during
the Trump transition and early months of the
Trump presidency. Was evidence about the
anti-Trump “insurance policy” deleted?”
One of the most damning Strzok-Page text messages to
surface was the discussion about an “insurance policy”
against a Donald Trump victory. Deputy Director of the
FBI Andrew McCabe was also a part of this discussion.
“I want to believe the path u threw out 4
consideration in Andy’s office-that there’s no
way he gets elected-but I’m afraid we can’t take
that risk. It’s like an insurance policy in unlikely
event u die be4 you’re 40.”
President Trump previously accused Peter Strzok of
“treason“. Is this why the messages have mysteriously
gone missing?
 Was Lynch Coordinating With Comey
In The Clinton Investigation?
By Sharyl Attkisson, Opinion Contributor
01/21/18 04:05 PM EST
Former Attorney General Loretta Lynch knew well in
advance of FBI Director James Comey's 2016 press
conference that he would recommend against charging
Hillary Clinton, according to information turned over to
the Senate Homeland Security Committee on Friday.
The revelation was included in 384 pages of text messages
exchanged between FBI officials Peter Strzok and Lisa
Page, and it significantly diminishes the credibility of
Lynch's earlier commitment to accept Comey's
recommendation — a commitment she made under the
pretense that the two were not coordinating with each
other.
And it gets worse. Comey and Lynch reportedly knew that
Clinton would never face charges even before the FBI
conducted its three-hour interview with Clinton, which
was supposedly meant to gather more information into her
mishandling of classified information.
On July 1, 2016, as the Lynch announcement became
public, Page texted Strzok:
Page: And yeah, it’s a real profile in
couragw [sic], since she knows no charges
will be brought.
There are other revelations within the text messages. But
in the cover letter accompanying them, the FBI notified
Congress that many additional text messages are missing.
According to the FBI, its “technical system for retaining
text messages sent and received on FBI mobile devices
failed to preserve text messages for Mr. Strzok and Ms.
Page from December 14, 2016 to approximately to [sic]
May 17, 2017.”
The reason?
(M)any FBI-provided Samsung 5 mobile
devices did not capture or store text
messages due to misconfiguration issues
related to rollouts, provisioning, and
software upgrades that conflicted with the
FBI’s collection capabilities. The result was
that data that should have been
automatically collected and retained for
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long-term storage and retrieval was not
collected.
In a letter to FBI Director Christopher Wray sent
yesterday, the head of the Senate Homeland Security
Committee Ron Johnson, a Republican from Wisconsin,
called the loss of records “concerning.”
Strzok and Page communicated in a voluminous fashion
via text message while allegedly having an illicit affair.
Strzok was a key figure in the Hillary Clinton exoneration
and reportedly interviewed President Trump's former
national security adviser Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn (which
resulted in Flynn pleading guilty to lying to the FBI). Until
last summer, Strzok and Page were both members of
Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s team investigating
the allegations of collusion between Russia and Trump's
campaign. Neither has been accused of wrongdoing.
The text messages seem to indicate that some within the
FBI were making investigatory decisions based on
Trump’s ascendancy among the Republican field of
presidential candidates. On May 4, 2016 Strzok and Page
had the following text message exchange:
Page: And holy shit Cruz just dropped out
of the race. It’s going to be a Clinton Trump
race. Unbelievable.
Strzok: What?!?!??
Page: You heard it right my friend.
Strzok: I saw trump won, figured it would
be a bit…Now the pressure really starts to
finish MYE…
Page: It sure does. We need to talk about
follow up call tomorrow.
“MYE” stands for “midyear exam” and was the FBI case
name for the Clinton email investigation.
The text exchanges also indicate the FBI substituted, and
then omitted, damaging language in FBI Director Comey’s
July 5, 2016 statement that recommended Clinton not be
charged. The original draft noted that Clinton had
improperly used personal email to contact President
Obama while abroad in the territory of sophisticated
adversaries. According to the text exchange, an FBI
official then removed President Obama’s name and stated
that Clinton had simply emailed “another senior
government official.” In the final statement as delivered by
Comey on July 5, both references were omitted entirely.
Other texts suggest Strzok and Page intended to subvert
rules governing preservation of their discussions about FBI
matters. In April of 2016, Page texted:
Page: so look, you say we text on that
phone when we talk about Hillary because
it can’t be traced…
In previous text messages produced to the House of
Representatives, Strzok and Page discussed needing an
“insurance policy” in the event Trump were to become
president. The newest batch of text messages turned over
.
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on Friday show that in February of 2016, Page texted
Strzok that then-candidate Trump “simply can not [sic] be
president.”
Any neutral observer would have to be concerned about
supposed missing evidence from a premier law
enforcement and intel collection agency as well as the
types of discussions and conflicts of interest apparently at
issue with key officials within the FBI. It’s one more piece
of a developing story that unfortunately points to alleged
misconduct by some at top levels in our intelligence
community. If the allegations bear out, it could have huge
implications for a number of investigations handled by the
officials in question over the past decade — not just cases
related to the 2016 campaign.
The FBI did not immediately respond to a request for
comment.
 This Week Proves The Media Has
Completely Lost It When It Comes To President Trump
Onan Coca
January 21, 2018
It wasn’t just Hurt who noticed the media’s outright
insanity, Sean Hannity had it pegged down too.
This past week may be the time we look back upon as the
moment the mainstream American media finally snapped
and lost their marbles.
Did you notice it?
It came at the confluence of the media questioning the
President’s mental fitness and the beginning to transition
to questioning his physical fitness.
Then his Doctor, a respected medical professional, stepped
in and told them that the President was healthier than most
men his age and that there was no reason to question any
of his faculties, either mental or physical.
This is the moment that the media went absolutely
bonkers.
Charles Hurt argued on Fox News that while this Doctor’s
report might end the “unfit” discussion with normal
people, the media seems absolutely bought in to the idea
that the President must be sick. The media seems to NEED
President Trump to be unwell.
I don’t think it’s going to end the crazy
talk that we’ve heard. That whole thing
was just — the hour-long, I mean, it was
truly extraordinary and it just reveals
the absolute absurdity that we’ve
reached in terms of people going after
the president in the press, the clips that
you just showed.
They may have been from Saturday
Night Live last Saturday.
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It’s absolutely bonkers how much these
people they despise the president. CNN
sent in a doctor, their doctor, their on-
air doctor (Dr. Sanjay Gupta) to offer a
second opinion. It’s just absolutely
ridiculous.
Now, after that frenzied display, members
of the media should have their owned
heads examined. I said this before. Hating
Trump is their heroin. It’s their drug. And
they are completely hooked on their drugs.
They’re like addicts. The only thing that
gives them a fix is attacking the president
minute-by-minute.
And the media is so completely utterly
unhinged and deranged, and today’s press
conference is just their latest episode. Ever
since President Trump announced his
candidacy, the blind sheep in the liberal
media, who live in their own bubble, and
bounce their own recycled talking points
and their own little echo chamber, they
have been rushing to create a new crisis
after a new crisis after a new crisis, and
their recent hyperventilation has reached
extreme levels. Even for their pathetically
low standards, by the way.
It’s one crisis, one panic, one total
meltdown after another where they repeat
the exact same words, meaning, NBC,
ABC, CBS, “New York Times,”
“Washington Post,” they use the same
commentary until something better can be
blown out of proportion comes along.
And for the last couple of weeks, the
media’s schizophrenia has been on full
display. It’s gone from a year of saying
President Trump colluded with Russians,
there is no evidence. President Trump is
going to start a nuclear war. They are not
 mad that it was, in fact, Bill Clinton that
gave North Korea billions and promised, it’s
going to be a good deal for the American
people. The media being BFFs with Steve
Bannon, you know, they were friends for at
least three days because he made
comments that they like for once, in the
giddiness over Bannon’s comments of
Michael Wolff’s phony book.
Finally, Hannity’s colleague Tucker Carlson piled on,
wondering if the media shouldn’t be seeking medical
attention themselves, for their… Trump Derangement
Syndrome.
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The problem is widespread folks, and you can see it in just
about any news outlet you can think of – from television to
print.
Look, we’re not saying that the media shouldn’t hold the
President accountable – they most certainly should – we’re
saying that the media should maintain some semblance of
decorum and impartiality in their coverage.
Did you know that 90% of the major
network television coverage of President
Trump in 2017 was NEGATIVE? That’s
unheard of.
President Obama’s coverage was more positive than
negative and the entire Obama era was rife with war,
terrorism, and economic stagnation.
Things were so bad that the party in power, the Democrats,
got crushed in election after election, until the nation had
handed the GOP more power than they’d seen in over 100
years… and yet most of Obama’s coverage was positive.
Meanwhile, 2017 was a pretty good year for the USA in
terms of practical policy.
The economy is humming along, the market is climbing,
ISIS has been eviscerated in Iraq and Syria, things in the
world are actually calming down… and 90% of the
coverage on Trump is negative?
Something is wrong here, and it’s the media’s fault… not
Trump’s.
 Sara Carter: ‘Explosive’ FISA Memo
Release Could Come ANYTIME (Video)
By Usafeaturesmedia
Posted On January 21, 2018

“The House Intelligence Committee is declassified very soon, the latest I’ve heard
going to hold another vote” is the end of the month but the soonest
could be anytime this week,” she added.

Carter also believes that once the memo is released, it

could lead to the unraveling of special counsel Robert
Mueller’s probe into alleged Trump campaign “collusion”
with Russia.

Watch:

(National Sentinel) Release: Circa News investigative

reporter and Fox News contributor Sara Carter said the
explosive FISA memo reportedly containing details about
how the Obama administration abused the surveillance
court so it could spy on the Trump campaign may be
released this coming week.

The memo, written by the House Intelligence Committee,

may contain some disturbing evidence that President
Obama’s administration relied on a bogus, politicized
opposition research document — the infamous “Trump Rep. Dave Joyce announced Saturday that the House
dossier” — to get a surveillance warrant from the FISA Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSIC) had
court to put Trump campaign officials under surveillance. launched the process to release the explosive FBI-FISA-
Russia classified memo.
“The House Intelligence Committee is
going to hold another vote. This vote will be
made for the public,” Carter said on
Sunday’s “Fox & Friends.”
“They’re sure it’s going to pass because
Republicans are going to pass on the party
line to make this available to the public.
Then the memo will go to the president
where the president will have five days to
decide whether or not to declassify the
memo,” she added.
“Great news! Our efforts to
The memo is currently classified top secret, which many #ReleaseTheMemo have been effective
believe is an over classification. and the HPSIC plans to begin the process
to release the FBI/FISA/Russia memo. This
“And what I’m being told from my sources may take up to 19+ Congressional work
he will declassify that memo for the public. days but Americans deserve to know the
They’re actually hoping the memo gets truth,” he tweeted.

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 Obama’s Speech From The 2013 Shutdown
Drops A NUKE On The Schumer Shutdown
Thomas Phippen
January 21, 2018

and government employees who would be affected by the

Then-President Barack Obama had stern words after the
Republican minority in the Senate shut down the
government for 16 days in 2013 over funding for
Obamacare.
“You don’t like a particular policy or a
particular president? Then argue for your
position. Go out there and win an election.
Push to change it. But don’t break it,”
Obama said in remarks Oct. 17, 2013, after
Congress reached a deal to reopen the
government. “Don’t break what our
predecessors spent over two centuries
building. That’s not being faithful to what
this country’s about.”
“Now, there’s been a lot of discussion lately
of the politics of this shutdown,” Obama
said. “But let’s be clear. There are no
winners here. These last few weeks have
inflicted completely unnecessary damage
on our economy.”
The government shut down again early Saturday after the
Senate failed to pass a temporary funding bill. Democrats
voted against the measure and demanded a deal to address
illegal immigrants who have protection under the Obama-
era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program.
Both parties have spent the past week fighting over who is
more responsible for the shutdown. Republicans blame
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer for fighting for
illegal immigrants more than the military service members
shutdown.
“Senate Democrats own the Schumer
Shutdown. Tonight, they put politics above
our national security, military families,
vulnerable children, and our country’s
ability to serve all Americans,” White House
Press Secretary Sarah Sanders said in a
statement Saturday. “We will not negotiate
the status of unlawful immigrants while
Democrats hold our lawful citizens hostage
over their reckless demands. This is the
behavior of obstructionist losers, not
legislators.”
Democrats, meanwhile, have placed the blame on
Republicans who control the House, and the Senate by a
narrow majority, and President Donald Trump for failing
to negotiate, but neither side appears to be making specific
policy demands.
Schumer himself decried the politics of brinksmanship that
led to the 2013 shutdown.
“No matter how strongly one feels about an
issue, you shouldn’t hold millions of people
hostage,” Schumer said on ABC’s “This
Week” in 2013. “That’s what the other side
is doing. That’s wrong, and we can’t give in
to that.”
Obama’s 2013 charge that the GOP should “go out there
and win an election” if they didn’t like his policies proved
prophetic. Republicans gained nine Senate seats a year
later in the 2014 midterm elections, ending nearly eight
years of a Democratic majority in that chamber.

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 Greenfield Admits CNN Acts Like
Trump Indictment ‘Imminent’ In Russia Probe
By Nicholas Fondacaro
January 21, 2018 6:27 PM EST

whining about how the liberal media wasn’t doing more to

amplify the voices of liberals.

“The majority in this country oppose

Trump. It seems to me The New York
Times or other sources could at least
have equal expression for those voices,”
she bemoaned.

Greenfield appeared shocked by Tanden’s ignorance of

how The New York Times operated.

During a debate about how important it was to listen to the
views of average Trump voters on CNN’s Reliable
Sources Sunday, political commentator Jeff Greenfield
noted that the outlet hyped the Russia investigation to the
point where it seemed as though the President would be
indicted at any second. This, as political commentator
Neera Tanden of the Center for American Progress and
former Hillary Clinton policy director, claimed that the
media didn’t listen to the anti-Trump resistance enough.
“Well, if you are a regular reader of The
New York Times, for the last two and a
half years you have gotten a full dose of
view that Donald Trump is hellaciously
unfit to be president,” he stated.
Greenfield made it obvious that he wasn’t a fan of Trump
but noted that he recently wrote a piece sharing the views
of those who supported the President.

Towards the end of their discussion, Greenfield was

commenting on how many people listen to certain media
outlets because it catered to what they wanted to hear.

“And I was told it's like sinking into a

nice warm bath. And I think on both
sides of the divide, people are sinking
into nice warm baths to reconfirm what
they believe,” he explained.

He then suggested that CNN was one of those kinds of

places where the anti-Trump could find some solace:
Yet Tanden wouldn’t stop complaining about the
The idea that when I watch CNN “resistance” not getting covered enough:
sometimes, I think, I expect the indictment
on Donald Trump to be imminent because
I think the issue is:
the focus on Russian collusion and that
issue is very strong. And if you turn on
MSNBC, you're going to get pretty much a Does the mainstream media want to cover
nightly dose of the prosecutor's case both of these voices, the people marching
against Donald Trump. on the streets as well as the people who
still support Donald Trump. I think both of
those are reasonable. But when you have a
Meanwhile, as Greenfield was admitting that CNN and
variety of outlets that continue to go to the
other outlets cater to the anti-Trump crowd, Tanden was
voices of one side, I think people -- liberals

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 are legitimately asking questions about
that.
It’s hilarious that Tanden could still claim that the media
wasn’t supportive of anti-Trump forces when part of the
conversation was about how it was a special event for The
New York to have writers supporting Trump. And add to
that Greenfield admitting that CNN was hyping a Trump
indictment long before the conclusion of the special
counsel probe.
The relevant portions of the transcript are below:
CNN
Reliable Sources
January 21, 2018
11:27:49 AM Eastern
BRIAN STELTER: “Are Trump supporters still supporting
Trump?” This has been a frequent feature of news coverage for
the past year. Focus groups, interview, panels, stories all about
why Trump voters are still with him. And some liberals hate it.
They hate it! They say reporters are wasting time talking to
Trump supporters. That those voters are practically in a cult. That
they’ve signed up with a race and never going to change. That's
what liberal critics say. On the other side, there's concern these
features sometimes treat voters like an exotic species. Like
Trump supporters are like animals in a zoo.
(…)
STELTER: That's why The New York Times decision to devote
Thursday's editorial page to letters from Trump supporters was
such a big talker. There were all of these letters all across the
page. It was a decision by the Times to want to hear those
voices, and what did I see on social media? I saw a lot of people
saying, “I don't want to hear it. I'm canceling my subscription. I
can't take it anymore.” I think it’s worth talking about in more
detail because it's been something that's come up, again and
again, all year long.
(…)
NEERA TANDAN: I actually think it's fine to hear from Trump
voters. I think the challenge is that we don't hear enough of the
resistance. (…) The majority in this country oppose Trump. It
seems to me The New York Times or other sources could at
least have equal expression for those voices.
STELTER: Jeff, what do you think?
JEFF GREENFIELD: Well, if you are a regular reader of The
New York Times, for the last two and a half years you have
gotten a full dose of view that Donald Trump is hellaciously unfit
to be president. Just today, if you pick up the Times there is an
editorial basically calling him out in harsh terms and at least four
op-ed pieces in varying degrees saying that Trump is utterly unfit
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to be president. And I thought it was useful, for one day, for The
New York Times to present views of people who say, “You know
what? We know he has problems. But here's why we're for him.”
I always thought that one of the terrible mistakes of 2016 from
the point of view of the Democrats was to kind of assume, and I
think a lot in the press did too, that Trump so violated everything
we thought about norms of the candidate that there was no
chance he would be elected. And if you’re going to be serious
about looking at the political terrain, it's important to know that
there are people not imbued with nativist or racial grievance
issues who see in Donald Trump a guy who's delivering for them.
I just did a piece yesterday for PBS only talking with
conservatives. Some of whom who have come to terms with
Trump and say, “You know, he’s okay.” And some of whom are
absolutely unremittingly against him on grounds of character.
This is the kind of dialogue that I think we need.
(…)
TANDAN: I appreciate The New York Times editorial page is
doing this, but it also needs-- other outlets need to do other
voices as well.
(…)
TANDAN: I think the issue is: Does the mainstream media want
to cover both of these voices, the people marching on the streets
as well as the people who still support Donald Trump. I think both
of those are reasonable. But when you have a variety of outlets
that continue to go to the voices of one side, I think people --
liberals are legitimately asking questions about that.
STELTER: Jeff?
GREENFIELD: Well, I remember talking years ago to a United
States senator who would go home and watch Keith Olbermann
when he was on MSNBC beating up Bush. I said: “Why do you
do that?!” And I was told it's like sinking into a nice warm bath.
And I think on both sides of the divide, people are sinking into
nice warm baths to reconfirm what they believe. The idea that
when I watch CNN sometimes, I think, I expect the indictment on
Donald Trump to be imminent because the focus on Russian
collusion and that issue is very strong. And if you turn on
MSNBC, you're going to get pretty much a nightly dose of the
prosecutor's case against Donald Trump.
(…)
 Lindsey Graham Taunts Donald Trump,
Then Gets Slammed By WH
By Neil Munro
21 Jan 2018
The White House’s deputy spokesman
slammed pro-amnesty GOP Sen.
Lindsey Graham after the Senator
suggested that President Donald
Trump’s immigration priorities are
determined by one of his aides.
“As long as Stephen Miller is in charge of
negotiating immigration, we’re going
nowhere,” Graham complained about
Miller, who worked with then-Senator
Jeff Sessions to successfully sink
Graham’s “Gang of Eight” amnesty in 2013.
“He’s been an outlier for years,” Graham
complained Sunday while telling the
reporters that employers in his state of
South Carolina need a steady supply of
cheap imported workers.
White House spokesman Hogan Gidley promptly pushed
back at Graham, who has worked with Democratic Sen.
Dick Durbin and other pro-amnesty advocates to
undermine the President’s “Buy American, Hire
American” policy:
As long as Sen. Graham chooses to
support legislation that sides with people in
this country illegally and unlawfully instead
of our own American citizens, we’re going
nowhere. He’s been an outlier for years.
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Gidley’s public rebuke may reduce Graham’s media-
magnified influence in the immigration debate.
Graham was with Durbin on January 11 when Trump
studied and rejected their huge “Gang of Six” amnesty.
Later, Durbin spread the claim that Trump used the word
“shithole” when he was criticising immigration quotas for
poor African countries. Durbin’s claim caused a scandal
and pushed Democrats to block the 2018 stopgap funding
bill.
Senator Graham:
"As long as Steven Miller is in charge of
negotiating immigration we are going no
where. He’s been an outlier for years.”
pic.twitter.com/6aR42Jeiu7
— Alan He (@alanhe) January 21, 2018
Graham’s claim about Miller echoes the Democrats’
talking points.
In numerous events, senior Democratic leaders taunt
Trump by saying he cannot make a deal on immigration,
that he keeps changing his views and that relies on his
deputies.
“Negotiating with President Trump is like
negotiating with Jell-O. That’s why this will
be called the Trump shutdown,”
Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer said
Saturday.
The Democrats’ claims fly in the face of the 2016
campaign — where Trump’s much-described immigration
policy was a critical reason for voters’ rejection of Hillary
Clinton — and are undermined by Trump’s official
statements and many immigration-related Tweets.
Thank you to the great Republican
Senators who showed up to our mtg on
immigration reform. We must BUILD THE
WALL, stop illegal immigration, end chain
migration & cancel the visa lottery. The
current system is unsafe & unfair to the
 great people of our country – time for
change!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump)
January 4, 2018
The anti-Miller theme has been echoed by a growing
number of Democratic activists.
Thank you Lindsey Graham for putting the
blame where it rightfully belongs-with that
arrogant, xenophobic, impetuous little turd
Steven Miller.A 30 yr old toddler whose
behavior is so irrational Jake Tapper had to
have security remove him from the news
desk he was so querulous.
— Deborah Lamson (@knowgirl1) January
21, 2018
Curious how Trump would react to stories
that portray Steven Miller as the puppet
master on immigration, manipulating his
boss to push his own views.
— Tom Wright (@thomaswright08) January
9, 2018
Pro-American activists scoffed at Graham’s complaints
and suggested that Graham thinks President Trump is so
insecure that he can be made angry at Miller.
O I think Grahm is doing it on purpose to
try and manipulate and make president
.
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mad at Miller for thinking he's in charge and
not the President
— Lion & Lamb (@ljm_scuba) January 22,
2018
Of course that's what's going on. It's so
transparent that I'm almost embarrassed
for them. https://t.co/NYoiyocpRc
— Mark Krikorian (@MarkSKrikorian)
January 22, 2018
Graham was a never-Trump during the 2016 primaries,
where he tried to support Jeb Bush’s campaign and called
Trump a “race-baiting, xenophobic bigot.”
When meeting with the press, Graham has praised
immigration for supplying South Carolina businesses with
a steady supply of cheap labor. Graham’s emphasis on
cheap labor is rarely mentioned by the establishment
media.
Sen. Graham Dances Around The Reality
That Stephen Miller Is An Overt White
Nationalist…which means stopping any
immigration from people-of-color-populated
countries and encouraging immigration
from white-populated countries, like
Norway #TrumpShutdown
pic.twitter.com/rZJns6kQ0K
— Trump's ZombieLand
(@StevenReyCristo) January 22, 2018
 UNREAL: Email Exchange Between OBAMA And
HILLARY In Adversary’s Territory UNSECURED, Likely
HACKED; FBI Covered It Up
By Usafeaturesmedia
Posted On January 21, 2018

The revelation comes after the FBI handed over additional

emails to Congress The revelation comes after the FBI handed over additional
emails to Congress sent between FBI agent Peter Strzok
and his mistress, FBI lawyer Lisa Page.

In an interview with CBS News‘ “60 Minutes,” then-

President Obama told interviewer Bill Plante that he first
learned about Clinton’s use of a private email server
“through news reports.”

(National Sentinel) Compromised: Then-Secretary of

State Hillary Clinton and President Obama exchanged
unsecured email while in the territory of a hostile
government, meaning it was likely intercepted, but the FBI
hid it from Congress.

As reported by The Associated Press:

One of the messages references a change

in language to Comey’s statement closing
out the email case involving Clinton, But during a White House press briefing, press secretary
Trump’s Democratic opponent in the 2016 Josh Earnest admitted Obama did in fact exchange emails
presidential election. While an earlier draft with hrd22@clintonemail.com, strongly suggesting he was
of the statement said Clinton and President aware of Clinton’s private email account.
Barack Obama had an email exchange
while Clinton was “on the territory” of a Wikileaks released Clinton’s emails, including between
hostile adversary, the reference to Obama her and Obama during the 2016 election. His pseudonym
was at first changed to “senior government was bobama@ameritech.com.
official” and then omitted entirely in the final
version.
.

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 Who's Lying: FBI Says 5 Months Of Texts "Lost," Yet IG
Horowitz Says His Office Received Them In August
By Tyler Durden
Mon, 01/22/2018 - 08:49
A major contradiction has been discovered between
yesterday's revelation that the FBI "lost" five months of
text messages, and a claim by the DOJ's Inspector General,
Michael Horowitz - who claimed his office received the
texts in question between FBI employees Peter Strzok and
his mistress Lisa Page last August.
Michael Horowitz testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee
.
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Knowledge of the missing texts was revealed in a Saturday
letter from Ron Johnson (R-WI), Chairman of the Senate
Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee
(HSGAC) - after the Committee received an additional 384
pages of text messages between Strzok and Page,
several of which contained anti-Trump / pro-Clinton
bias. The new DOJ submission included a cover letter
from the Assistant AG for Legislative Affairs, Stephen
Boyd, claiming that the FBI was unable to preserve text
messages between the two agents for a five month
period between December 14, 2016 and May 17, 2017 -
due to "misconfiguration issues" with FBI-issued Samsung
5 devices used by Strzok and Page (despite over 10,000
texts which were recovered from their devices without
incident).
However - as the Gateway Pundit's Josh Caplan points out,
the lost text messages are in direct contradiction to a
December 13, 2017 letter from the DOJ's internal
watchdog - Inspector General Michael Horowitz, to Senate
Judiciary Committee Chuck Grassley and HSGAC
Chairman Ron Johnson, in which he claims he received
the texts in question on August 10, 2017.
In gathering evidence for the OIG's ongoing 2016 election
review, we requested, consistent with standard practice,
that the FBI produce text messages from the FBI-issued
phones of certain FBI employees involved in the Clinton
email investigation based on search terms we provided.
After finding a number of politically-oriented text
messages between Page and Strzok, the OIG sought
from the FBI all text messages between Strzok and
Page from their FBI-issued phones through November
30, 2016, which covered the entire period of the Clinton e-
mail server investigation. The FBI produced these text
messages on July 20, 2017. Following our review of
those text messages, the OIG expanded our request to
the FBI to include all text messages between Strzok and
Page from November 30, 2016, through the date of the
document request, which was July 28, 2017.
The OIG received these additional messages on August
10, 2017.

This glaring contradiction suggests someone is lying or Administration for what many believe to be egregious
perhaps simply incompetent. abuses of power.

Did Horowitz's office *think* they had received the texts

in question without actually verifying? Did the DOJ screw
up and fail to read Horowitz's letter before "losing" the text
messages so that "leaky" Congressional investigators
wouldn't see them? Either way, this question needs
answering.

While you can draw your own conclusions, keep in mind

that Inspector Horowitz has been described as your
archetypical Boy Scout bureaucrat - who as we reported
two weeks ago - fought the Obama administation to
restore powers taken away from the OIG by then-Attorney
General, Eric Holder.

After a multi-year battle, Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-

UT) successfully introduced H.R.6450 - the Inspector
General Empowerment Act of 2016 - signed by a defeated
lame duck President Obama into law on December 16th,
2016, cementing an alliance between Horrowitz and
both houses of Congress.

And Congress has been very engaged with Horowitz's

investigation; spoon-feeding the OIG all the questions they
need in order to nail the DOJ, FBI and the Obama As such, the OIG report is expected to be a bombshell,
while also satisfying a legal requirement for the

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Department of Justice to impartially appoint a Special As illustrated below, the report will go from the Office of
Counsel to launch an official criminal investigation into the Inspector General to both investigative committees of
the matter. Congress, along with Attorney General Jeff Sessions.

OIG report flowchart, courtesy TrumpSoldier (@DaveNYviii)

At this point, Horowitz's office needs to clarify whether or

not they indeed took delivery of the "lost" text messages. If
the OIG does have them, it will be interesting to get to the
bottom of exactly what the DOJ claims happened, and
particularly juicy if they're caught in a lie.

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 Former Federal Prosecutor Details Obama’s ‘BRAZEN
PLOT’ To Exonerate Hillary Clinton And ‘FRAME’
Donald Trump (Video)
By Usafeaturesmedia
Posted On January 22, 2018
“That’s why connecting the dots is
important, because the FBI now has to be
completely reconstructed from the ground
up”
(National Sentinel) Obamagate: A former federal
prosecutor said in an interview it is beginning to look a lot
like the Obama administration launched a plot to ensure
that Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton
would not only win the 2016 election, but frame then-GOP
nominee Donald J. Trump for a crime in the process.
In an interview with The Daily Caller, Joseph DiGenova
lays out in detail what he believes the Obama
administration did, based on a slew of reports over the past
few months that appear to show a distinct pattern of abuse
within the FBI, the Department of Justice, and elements of
the intelligence community.
He noted that former Obama administration Justice
Department and FBI officials may have “violated the law,
perhaps committed crimes” to politicize law enforcement
and surveillance against political opponents.
He said then-FBI Director James Comey conducted a
phony criminal investigation of Clinton’s mishandling of
classified materials as they
“followed none of the regular rules, gave
her every break in the book, immunized all
kinds of people, allowed the destruction of
evidence, with no grand jury, no
subpoenas, no search warrants. That’s not
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an investigation. That’s a Potemkin village.
It’s a farce.”
The former federal prosecutor also lashed out at the FBI
for apparently working with Fusion GPS, a Democrat-
aligned opposition research firm, to produce the infamous
“Trump dossier” using a former British spy who was in
contact with Russian government operatives.
The dossier was paid for in large part by the Clinton
campaign and the Democratic Party.
DiGenova said that without a justifiable law enforcement
or national security reason, he says, the FBI
“created false facts so that they could get
surveillance warrants. Those are all
crimes.”
And he said that by using official FISA-702
“queries,” surveillance was done
“to create a false case against a candidate,
and then a president.”
During the interview, DiGenova held up an unreported
April 2017 99-page FISA court opinion that
“describes systematic and on-going
violations of the law [by the FBI and their
contractors using unauthorized disclosures
of raw intelligence on Americans]. This is
stunning stuff.”
He added that he believes Fusion GPS and Crowdstrike,
the DNC’s private security firm, were among the redacted
contractors of the FBI.
“People that were senior career civil
servants violated the law, perhaps
committed crimes, and covered up crimes
by a Presidential candidate [Hillary]. But
more than that, they tried to frame an
incoming President with a false Russian
 conspiracy that never existed and they
knew it and they plotted to ruin him as a
candidate and then destroy him as a
President,” DiGenova said.
“That’s why this is important. That’s why
connecting the dots is important, because
the FBI now has to be completely
reconstructed from the ground up.”

Watch:

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 Government Shutdown:
Congress Debates Illegal Immigration As
By Janet Phelan
January 22, 2018
The US government is on a shutdown due to the failure of
Congress to reach consensus about illegal immigration.
Upping the ante, Trump has released an ad concerning
murders committed by illegal immigrants, focusing on
Luis Bracamontes, charged in the 2014 killings of two
police officers in Sacramento, California. The ad shows a
leering Bracamontes stating,
“The only thing that I %&$#** regret is that I
%&$#** just killed two.”
While crimes committed by illegal immigrants or anyone
else is a matter of grave concern, one might also want to
take a hard look at what sort of murders are being funded
by the government.
MURDERS ABROAD
The Trump administration has loosened the Obama-era
rules on drone strikes, allowing the CIA to expand its
foreign targets to include foot soldiers and others without
skills or leadership status. As a result, Trump’s estimated
civilian kills in war-torn countries far exceed Obama’s. As
reported here, in just nine months Trump’s estimated
civilian deaths due to drone strikes were 4,500. In eight
years in office, Obama’s total civilian death toll due to
drones was estimated at from 2,300 to 3,400.
MURDERS AT HOME
Let’s take a look at domestic kills. That would be
American citizens killed by government forces within the
US. According to Killedbypolice, which tracks police
murders through media reports, 1188 people were killed by
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law enforcement in 2017. An additional 68 people have
been killed by police since January 1 of 2018.
The Bureau of Justice Statistics maintains records of
inmates who die while in jail or prison. A recent BJS
report states that from 2001 to 2013, a total of 42,157 died
while in state prison. Most of these deaths were reportedly
due to illness. Suicide accounted for 2577 of these deaths,
while accidents were listed as causing 411 deaths and
homicides, 762. The total number of jail deaths listed for
the year 2013 was 967, with 34% of these reported as
suicides. As noted in the Washington Post, “More than 70
percent of the inmates who died in local jails were not
convicted at the time they died.” A number of questions
have been raised concerning the suicide deaths.
MURDERS OF PEOPLE IN NURSING HOMES
There are extra-judicial murders funded by our
government which are not reported as such. There is no
website tracking the murders of the elderly in nursing
homes or hospitals, no Government Accountability Office
reports detailing these deaths, although the anecdotal
reports are increasing in number. Recently, in Hollywood,
Florida, twelve nursing home deaths were ruled to be
homicides, a stunning departure from the fact that most
nursing home deaths are not investigated and when they
are, as in the case of Charles Castle, a cover-up often
ensues. Family members who report concerns of the fate
of parents or friends under a court-authorized adult
guardianship often find themselves under a gag order, as
was Janet Pipes in Arizona, Ginny Johnson in North
Carolina and a multitude of others. These gag orders
mandate jail time for those who persevere in making such
reports. Others, such as Debra Ashby, whose father is
under a guardianship in California, are sued for alleged
“defamation.”
A request for precautionary measures for Ashby’s father,
Leon Bridges, has been filed by the human rights group
Ku’untik with the Inter- American Commission on Human
Rights, which has yet to take action. The guardian is now
suing Ashby for a cool million, citing harm to his
reputation.
“BLACK PROJECT” MURDERS
A “black project” involving doppelganger pharmaceuticals
ensures the death under “plausible deniability” of a target–
elderly, political or you name it. Numerous attempts have
been made to turn these doppelganger or imposter
pharmaceuticals over to regulatory agencies, including the
Chemical Weapons Convention at the Hague and the Inter-
American Commission on Human Rights. Thus far, all
agencies contacted have refused to accept any evidence
that heart attack drugs are now being disguised as Big
Pharma pills and dispensed to unsuspecting individuals.
As discussed in this article and elsewhere, a disturbing
number of people who had access to classified information
have fallen to their deaths. Others, such as inventor
Stanley Meyer, were poisoned. A growing number of
American citizens, as well as others across the globe, are
now stating that unconventional weapons are being tested
on them. These weapons include microwave and directed
energy weapons as well as chemical and biological
weapons.
When individuals first started coming forward with these
claims, they were largely dismissed as “tin foil hats” and
mentally deranged. However, these claims have gained
momentum and credence and those who are now alleging
such weapons testing include a number of former
government agents, such as ex-NSA employees Bill
Binney and Karen Stewart and former FBI agent Geral
Sosbee, among others. The entire “tin foil hat” designation
took a major hit when recent news reports detailed that
these very same weapons had been trained on US Embassy
personnel in Cuba.
Karen Stewart, who served as an analyst with the NSA for
28 years before stumbling upon what she terms an illegal
blackmail operation within the NSA itself, now sleeps in a
self-styled bunker, with shielding to protect her from
unconventional weapons attacks. Recent medical reports
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show heart and brain irregularities, including internal
bleeding, which appear to have been caused by the
directed energy bombardment. Her pet cat, Yoshi, recently
succumbed after the frequency of attacks ramped up and a
pet dog has now been diagnosed with fatal cancer.
Writes Stewart,
….right now America and much of the
world is being covertly destroyed by the
unelected, mentally and morally rabid
within the Deep State holding our
government hostage with their secret army
of hand-picked civilian sociopaths and
“extermination technicians” from the utter
dregs of humanity, hired and trained under
the guise of National Security.” Ironically,
she points out that these technicians are
funded by taxpayer monies “earmarked for
our protection.”
And this brings us to the nut of the issue. As long as the
dollars–our dollars–continue to flow to support attacks on
us, be they through trigger-happy police who are not
prosecuted for their actions, through judges who routinely
ignore the law in order to funnel more warm bodies into
predatory guardianships or through intelligence assets who
are self enriching through high-tech attacks on innocent
people, we will likely continue to experience more of the
same.
So while the US government is on shutdown, it might be
fruitful to revisit the purpose of government, which is to
protect its citizens. Certainly the issue of illegal
immigration deserves critical attention. We don’t want to
give harbor to illegal criminal elements who will rape, rob
or kill us. Nor should we be funding police, medical
institutions, courts or intelligence agents to do the same.
 OUTRAGE: GOP Lawmakers DEMAND Second
Special Counsel After FBI ‘Loses’ Peter Strzok Texts
By Usafeaturesmedia
Posted On January 22, 2018

“If it wasn’t already clear we need a second Now the FBI ‘failed to preserve’ texts
special counsel, it’s abundantly clear now” between Peter Strzok & Lisa Page
following the ’16 election. The time for a
second special counsel is now,” he
tweeted.

(National Sentinel) Obamagate: Republican lawmakers

are demanding that the Department of Justice appoint a
second special counsel to look into how the FBI could
have lost a group of texts involving disgraced
counterintelligence agent Peter Strzok.
Over the weekend, The Associated Press reported that the
Justice Department turned over to Congress an additional
batch of text messages involving Stzrok, but that for
‘technical reasons’ could not retrieve about five months’
worth of communications.
The AP noted further:
In addition, House Freedom Caucus chairman Rep. Mark
New text messages highlighted in a letter
Meadows, R-N.C., echoed Jordan’s call.
to FBI Director Christopher Wray by Sen.
Ron Johnson, the Republican chairman of “Unreal. We’ve been asking for the
the Senate’s Homeland Security and remaining text messages between anti-
Governmental Affairs Committee, are from Trump FBI agents (and former Mueller
the spring and summer of 2016 and involve team members), Peter Strzok and Lisa
discussion of the investigation into Hillary Page. The FBI now says the texts are
Clinton’s use of a private email server. ‘missing.’ If it wasn’t already clear we need
They reference Attorney General Loretta a second special counsel, it’s abundantly
Lynch’s decision to accept the FBI’s clear now,” he tweeted.
conclusion in that case and a draft
statement that former FBI Director James
Comey had prepared in anticipation of
closing out the Clinton investigation without
criminal charges.
Following revelations about that so-called glitch, Rep. Jim
Jordan, R-Ohio, renewed his earlier call for a second
special counsel to begin probing what he and other
Republicans say is a mounting scandal.
“First the IRS destroyed emails pivotal to
our investigation of their political targeting.
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 ANOTHER Fusion GPS ‘Expert’ Lied During Testimony
About His Work With Dossier – Was At Meeting With
Velsenitskaya After Don Jr. Mtg
By Jim Hoft
Monday, January 22, 2018
Another Fusion GPS “Russia Expert” Edward
Baumgartner MISREPRESENTED/LIED ABOUT his
work in relation to scurrilous “Steele dossier.”
Baumgartner was with GlennSimpson at the meeting with
Russian lawyer Velsenitskaya after she went to Trump
Tower to see Donald Trump Jr.
Page • Feinstein • Simpson • Steele • Baumgartner (Sott)
Andrew Bostom reported:
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Fusion GPS Russian expert Ed Baumgartner spoke with
reporters in early January where he discussed his election-
related research.
“I was never made aware of Chris Steele’s
work or the dossier, and it was kept that
way deliberately. I would have had nothing
to add, anyway.”
But that is not what Glenn Simpson told Senate
investigators about Baumgartner.
Simpson told the Senate that Baumgartner helped Steele,
who was banned from entering Russia, figure out which
hotels Trump stayed in while in Russia and if anyone ever
offered him anything while there. But he did that mostly
by
“reading Russian newspaper accounts and
that sort of thing.”…
…Simpson dissembled in similar fashion when asked if he
talked to Veselnitskaya about her meeting with Donald
Trump Jr. at Trump Tower on June 9, 2016, where she
lobbied against Magnistky Act sanctions with a come-on
about offering dirt on Clinton that never materialized.
 Here’s PROOF That CNN’s Constant
TRUMP Hate Has NO Impact On The American People
By Usafeaturesmedia
Posted On January 22, 2018
“You are starting to see that uneasiness
about the economy sort of dissipate”
(National Sentinel) Irrelevant: For a year, CNN has been
laser-focused on the alleged “collusion” scandal between
the campaign of President Donald J. Trump and the
Russian government.
The network has covered the issue from every angle
imaginable, at times publishing or broadcasting
information that turned out to be totally false.
On Sunday one of the network’s reported admitted,
however, that CNN‘s continued coverage of a ‘scandal’ for
which no evidence has yet to substantiate is having little
impact with the American people.
“I’m so interested to see how the Russia
investigation affects things, because so far,
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out in these districts when you talk to
people about Russia, and that’s all we talk
about at CNN basically, they say they don’t
care,” Maeve Reston, a national politics
reporter for the network, said on “Inside
Politics.”
“It doesn’t have any effect on their lives,”
he continued.
Reston’s network, along with MSNBC, have both focused
heavily on the collusion scandal. But in recent weeks, there
has been an emerging body of evidence that the collusion
narrative was a hoax created by the Obama administration
to help Hillary Clinton and defeat, or undermine, Trump.
Reston also noted on Sunday that in her interviews with
voters, she is witnessing a growing confidence in the
economy during Trump’s first year in office.
“You are starting to see that uneasiness
about the economy sort of dissipate,” she
said, as reported by The Daily Caller.
“Remember, even in 2016 when we went
out to these swing states and talked to
voters, there was still this fear that things
were suddenly going to turn down again,”
she continued. “You don’t feel that as much
anymore.”
 “Very Suspicious,” “Hard To Believe”:
Congressional Investigators Call BS On
FBI Losing Strzok-Page Texts
By Joshua Caplan
Monday, January 22, 2018
Additional text messages sent and
received by disgraced FBI agent
Peter Strzok have been handed over to
Congress, reports the Associated
Press. In yet another twist to the Strzok
saga, the FBI failed to hand over a block
of the agent’s text messages between
Dec. 14, 2016, and May 17, 2017 because
they have gone missing.
Or did they go missing?
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AP reports:
In addition to the communications already
made public, the Justice Department on
Friday provided Johnson’s committee with
384 pages of text messages, according to
a letter from the Wisconsin lawmaker that
was obtained by The Associated Press.
But, according to the letter, the FBI told the department
that its system for retaining text messages sent and
received on bureau phones had failed to preserve
communications between Strzok and Page over a five-
month period between Dec. 14, 2016, and May 17, 2017.
May 17 was the date that Mueller was appointed as special
counsel to oversee the Russia investigation.
According to Johnson’s letter, the Bureau told Stephen
Boyd, the Assistant Attorney General for the Office of
Legislative Affairs, that due to FBI-provided Samsung 5
mobile phones with software upgrades that “conflicted,”
with “collection capabilities,” the text messages were not
recorded.
However, according to the Daily Caller’s Chuck Ross, the
FBI claimed it the reportedly missing text messages to
Justice Inspector General Michael Horowitz on August
10th, 2017.
“After finding a number of politically-oriented text
messages between Page and Strzok, the OIG sought from
the FBI all text messages between Strzok and Page from
their FBI-issued phones through November 30, 2016,
which covered the entire period of the Clinton e-mail
server investigation,” Horowitz wrote to Grassley and
Johnson on Wednesday.
The FBI handed over those messages on July 20, 2017.
After reviewing those exchanges, Horowitz expanded the
investigation to include all of the text messages exchanged
between Strzok and Page from Nov. 30, 2016 to July 28,
2017.
Horowitz’s office received those messages on Aug. 10.
Here is a screenshot from Justice Department Inspector
General Michael Horowitiz’s letter to Grassley and
Johnson confirming the FBI successfully sent over Page
and Strzok’s text messages.

Credit: Strzok Text Messages Deleted – Letter From Ron Johnson to Christopher Wray Letter

On December 13th, Horowitz confirmed to Johnson and Grassley that the text messages were received. However, just over a
year later, Johnson, citing Boyd, said the FBI never handed over the text messages.

Credit: ZeroPointNow

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The conflicting reports raise new questions about
verification processes used by the Justice Department and
FBI. Horowitz may have told Senate investigators that he
received something, but had not verified they were indeed
the text messages he requested.
Conversely, did the FBI knowingly or unknowingly send
the wrong documents to Horowtiz, only for Inspector
General’s Office to realize they were in possession of the
incorrect documents?
“First the IRS destroyed emails pivotal to
our investigation of their political targeting.
Now the FBI “failed to preserve” texts
between Peter Strzok & Lisa Page
following the ’16 election. The time for a
second special counsel is now,” tweeted
the Ohio lawmaker.

According to Byron York of the Washington Examiner,

Congressional investigators are deeply skeptical of the FBI
losing the text messages:

“Very suspicious,” said one investigator

about the news. “Hard to believe,” said
another.

When asked to rate his trust of the FBI on a scale from 1 to

10, the investigator quickly answered,

“Zero.”

Following reports of the FBI’s mystery “glitch,” Rep.

Jordan Jordan (R-OH) is renewing his call for a second
special counsel to investigate the former Mueller team
member.
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 Interior Secretary Zinke Hits Back At Reports
He’s On The Outs With Trump: ‘He’s The BEST
BOSS I’ve Ever Worked For’
By Usafeaturesmedia
Posted On January 22, 2018
“When he feels like I’m off the mark –
believe me – he calls and he’s not shy”
(National Sentinel) High Praise: Interior Secretary Ryan
Zinke said Sunday that an Axios report claiming he is on
the outs with President Donald J. Trump are incorrect
while defending a decision to exclude coastline off of
Florida from oil exploration.
The Axios report claimed Trump is “angry” about the
move and described it as a “mistake.” A former Interior
Department official is quoted calling Zinke’s decision
“clumsy” and an “unforced error.”
But in an interview with Breitbart News on SiriusXM,
Zinke countered that his relationship with the president is
“great,” and that he’s “the best boss I’ve ever worked for.”
“He’s the best boss that I’ve ever worked
for. … He’s given me a lot of latitude, and
his guidance is to win — pretty good
guidance,” he told Breitbart News Deputy
Political Editor Amanda House.
“The president and I talk all the time. We
are absolutely in sync,” Zinke said, which
essentially echoed the description by Axios’
sources of a working relationship between
the two men with “a lot of goodwill.”
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Zinke also pushed back against an allegation by an
unnamed source within the department that he had gone
“rogue” with his decision to delist Florida’s offshore
regions from being eligible for new oil exploration.
“Florida is different in the currents – I’m a
geologist – it’s different in geology,” he
explained.
“Florida has a moratorium, by federal law,
that prevents drilling until 2022. Every
member of the Florida delegation wrote me
personally. The governor, who is a friend,
asked for an immediate meeting, and the
executive order that the president signed,
did not include the Eastern Gulf for review,”
Zinke continued.
“It was the right move to remove Florida’s
coastline from consideration,” he said,
adding that he is confident in America’s
ability to tap into oil and gas resources off
the remainder of the country’s coastlines.
He said that under the Obama administration, around 94
percent of offshore drilling was shut down.
As for Trump,
“He doesn’t micromanage, he just expects
results and he holds me accountable,” he
told House. “When he feels like I’m off the
mark – believe me – he calls and he’s not
shy. His mind works at a million miles an
hour and I have to justify what I’m doing.
“He’s the best boss I’ve ever worked for,”
Zinke repeated, “and I’ve had some
unbelievable leaders in the military.”
 TRUMP Thumps Democrats Again For
Putting Interests Of Illegals Over US Citizens
By Jim Hof
Monday, January 22, 2018

Trump continued the attacks on Monday morning.

On Friday night Democrats shut down

the US government for illegal alien
rights.

The minority party cut off military

paychecks in favor of DREAMER illegal
immigrants.
The US Senate will vote on the
#SchumerShutdown Monday at noon.

President Trump slammed the Democrats all weekend over

the shutdown.

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 THERE’S MORE? Chairmen Nunes & Gowdy
Plot Releasing Supporting Documents With
Explosive FISA Memo
By Joshua Caplan
Monday, January 22, 2018

According to the Washington in support of the FISA memo. In a statement to CNN, Rep.
Examiner‘s Byron York, Judiciary Matt Gaetz (R-FL) said he is in favor of the move.
Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-
VA), Oversight Committee Chairman CNN reports:
Trey Gowdy (R-SC) and Intelligence
Committee Chairman Devin Nunes (R-
Republicans appear to be charging ahead
CA) huddled together Saturday to
with their plan to publicly release the
discuss a “never-before-used
document and potentially some of the
procedure” for releasing the “shocking”
underlying intelligence so long as
FISA abuse memo.
sources and methods are not disclosed.
“If we’re going to go through the
process anyway of declassifying the
memo, are there some of the supporting
documents that might not reveal
sources and methods but might answer
key questions that the memo does
raise?” said Rep. Matt Gaetz
[…] “Chairman Goodlate and Chairman
Gowdy and Chairman Nunes each sort of
have jurisdiction over elements, and they
are meeting and discussing a process
now that I think will lead to greater
transparency.”

After millions of Americans called on Congress to release

the memo, Rep. Dave Joyce (R-OH) announced Saturday
that the process has begun.

Washington Examiner reports:

There’s no doubt Republicans want the public to see the

classified memo. To get it out, they are studying a never-
before-used procedure whereby House Intelligence
Committee members would vote to make the memo public,
after which the president would have five days to object.

If the president had no objection, the memo would become

public after those five days. If the president did object, the
matter would go to the full House, which could vote to Last Thursday, the House Intelligence
overrule the president’s objections and release the memo Committee quietly voted to make available
anyway. to fellow House members “a memo
documenting abuse of the FISA program,”
reported Fox News’ Chad Pergram.
In addition to the procedure, the three lawmakers are
plotting how to go about releasing additional intelligence
.
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Shutdown Ending, And Nancy Pelosi CAN’T Get Out From
Under This ‘Dark Cloud’ Hanging Over DC
By Doug P.
Posted At 12:43 Pm On January 22, 2018

Senator Chuck Schumer is announcing that Senate

Democrats plan to vote today to re-open the federal
government and at least temporarily end the shutdown,
pending debate in the next couple of weeks over DACA.

Something wrong, Nancy?

In the House, Nancy Pelosi continues to be troubled by

what she called “Armageddon”:

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 Unsealed FISA Court Ruling Shows 85% Of Obama’s FBI
And DOJ 704-5 FISA Searches Were Illegal And Illegally
Provided To Government Outsiders
By Jim Hoft
Monday, January 22, 2018

that 85% of the Section 704

and 705(b) FISA searches made
during this time were non-
compliant with applicable laws
and therefore criminal.

FISA 705 warrants deal with US citizens outside of the

country.

A Report was released in April of 2017

that received no publicity until recently.

The report was a ruling on the results of

an investigation or audit into FISA
searches made by Obama’s FBI and
DOJ during Obama’s time in office.

The report shows Obama’s FBI and DOJ

participated in widespread criminal
searches and criminal sharing of data In addition, the report cites that
with non authorized entities outside of at the same time that Obama’s
government. DOJ and FBI were illegally
searching Americans against
On April 26, 2017, an unsealed FISA Court Ruling their rights and unbeknownst to
unveiled a number of criminal activities that Barack them, Obama’s FBI was
Obama’s FBI and DOJ participated in during his time in providing this information to
office. The report to date received little attention. Now
outside contractors who had no
interest is brewing due to the recent actions of Congress
business or legal cause or
and the report that is expected to be released in the
upcoming weeks. claim the information.

The FISA Court Ruling shows widespread abuse of the The level of corruption within
FISA mandate. According to the report, Obama’s FBI and DOJ is shocking.
To date no one has been charged
Obama’s FBI and DOJ with crimes or is in jail as a result of
performed searches on the many crimes committed by this
Americans that were against group of hoodlums.
their 4th Amendment rights.
This went on for years. One
paragraph in the report states

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 The END? Missing FBI Texts May Form Basis For
MOTION TO DISMISS Mueller Special Counsel
‘Witch Hunt’ Against Team Trump
By Usafeaturesmedia
Posted On January 22, 2018
“Strzok has already been outed as anti-
Trump, leading to his dismissal from the
probe”
(National Sentinel) Shut it Down: Legal experts believe
that the FBI’s loss of text messages pertaining to disgraced
FBI counterintelligence agent Peter Strzok could form the
basis of a motion to dismiss special counsel Robert
Mueller.
Over the weekend the Department of Justice turned over a
new batch of text messages to Congress involving
Strzok, but that for ‘technical reasons’ could not retrieve
about five months’ worth of communications.
The messages “are from the spring and
summer of 2016 and involve discussion of
the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s use of
a private email server,” the AP reported.
“They reference Attorney General Loretta
Lynch’s decision to accept the FBI’s
conclusion in that case and a draft
statement that former FBI Director James
Comey had prepared in anticipation of
closing out the Clinton investigation without
criminal charges.”
However, that missing batch of messages may be
something President Donald J. Trump’s lawyers can use to
form the basis of a motion to dismiss Mueller, according
to Rachel Stockman and Ronn Blitzer, writing at Law and
Crime.
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“Strzok has already been outed as anti-Trump, leading to
his dismissal from the probe, and his past communications
with [FBI lawyer and mistress Lisa] Page showed a
potential Justice Department bias towards Hillary Clinton,”
they wrote.
“The fact that now nearly half a year’s
worth of text messages between Strzok
and Page during the time leading up
to Robert Mueller‘s appointment as Special
Counsel weren’t preserved by the Justice
Department will surely fuel motions from
Team Trump’s lawyers against the
investigation,” they said.
“Months of text messages don’t just
accidentally disappear,” the pair wrote,
adding:
One past conversation between Strzok and
Page indicated that former Attorney
General Loretta Lynch knew there would
be no charges filed against Clinton well
before that investigation ended. Given the
significant evidence of impropriety in the
Clinton case, a foregone conclusion of
innocence before the FBI wrapped up their
investigation looks shady at best. Trump’s
lawyers will surely argue that after those
messages came to light, the DOJ
intentionally “lost” those five months’ worth
of other messages.
They also speculated that former Trump campaign
manager Paul Manafort, who his fighting his indictment by
the FBI, will “jump all over this.”
“Throw in this evidence that the
investigation may have been tainted before
Mueller even took over, and that the DOJ
could be covering up damaging
information, and a motion to dismiss
alleging prosecutorial misconduct is a near
certainty,” Stockman and Blitzer said.
Lawyers who spoke to the reporters disagreed that it was a
slam dunk for the defense. They said there would have to
be clear evidence of bias and malfeasance on the part of
the FBI for a judge to chose the “nuclear option” of
dismissing the entire case.
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Still, if such evidence were to be found, legal experts say a
judge might have little choice but to dismiss, as happened
recently in the government’s case against Nevada rancher
Cliven Bundy.
 Are The Supremes About
To Give Trump A Second Term?
By Bob Fitrakis - Harvey Wasserman
January 22, 2018
The US Supreme Court may be about to make a second
Trump term inevitable.
The nine “Justices” have just heard oral arguments in an
Ohio voter registration case. If their decision goes with
Secretary of State Jon Husted, it would mean Republicans
like him throughout the United States will be able to scrub
from the voter rolls millions of citizens merely because
they are suspected of wishing to vote Democrat.
In Ohio alone, millions of Ohio voters have tried to vote
on Election Day over the past four presidential elections,
only to find their names were erased from the pollbooks.
What’s technically at stake is whether the federal
government has the right to demand fairness in purging
voter registration rolls. Or will the secretaries of the
various states be free to purge whomever they want.
In other words, it’s supposedly a “state’s rights” case.
But this is a country where an Attorney-General who
fought for state’s rights to avoid accepting racial
integration is now overriding the explicit choice of some
thirty states to enjoy legal marijuana.
In Ohio, secretary Husted has become infamous for his
extremely aggressive partisan purges. The state has
roughly 5.5 million voters. GOP secretaries of state have
become experts at the selective purging game.
In 2004, then-Secretary of State J. Kenneth Blackwell,
stripped some 309,000 voters from the rolls and nearly all
came from heavily Democratic cities – Cleveland,
Cincinnati and Toledo. In Cleveland, nearly a quarter,
24.96% of all voters were removed from the voting rolls.
Blackwell simultaneously served as co-chair for the state
campaign to re-elect Bush/Cheney. Despite the obvious
conflict of interest, Blackwell was officially in charge of
running that election. The election was decided by less
than 119,000 votes, giving George W. Bush a victory over
John Kerry, who never said a word.
As many as 300,000 of those votes were flipped on
electronic “push and pray” machines by a Bush family
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consigliere operating on an unbid state contract with a
bank of servers in Tennessee between 12:20am and 2am
election night.
Between the 2004 and 2008 presidential elections, an
extensive study conducted by the Free Press examining all
of the voter registration rolls in the state’s 88 counties
found that 1.25 million had been scrubbed from the rolls.
Again, these purged voters were overwhelming from
Democratic precincts.
The latest Husted tactic is to mail letters to citizens who
have not voted in the last two elections. He demands they
write him back to confirm where they live. Husted’s letters
do not contain return envelopes.
The now-defunct welfare rights organization ACORN and
the Obama campaign had to engage in a massive project to
re-register the voters before Election Day.
In the run up to the 2012 presidential election, the Free
Press exposed the fact that 1.1 million voters had been
purged, according to public records. The purges were
highest in poor, minority and urban precincts.
The rural county boards of elections that are
overwhelmingly Republican rarely strip any voters from
the voting rolls.
In other words, if you receive junk mail from the Secretary
of State, along with all the other junk mail you get, it’s not
enough that it got to you without bouncing back. Husted
instead demands a personal response, or else he will void
your right to vote.
Part of his public excuse is that citizens who have died
may remain on the voter rolls. But the obvious solution
would be to link directly with the state’s coroner offices
and integrate death notices into the management of the
voter rolls.
Husted is also notorious for seizing on minuscule miscues
to pitch ballots. An omitted middle initial, a name that has
changed, forgetting to write your birthdate on an absentee
ballot, or putting something on the wrong line….all are fair
game for Husted to make sure you don’t cast a ballot, or
that if you do it’s a provisional which he will then pitch in
the trash depending on your age, skin color or social class.
In the 2016 election, Husted’s office failed to send
absentee ballots to more than a million citizens, again
virtually all in urban areas.
What can’t be explained is why, in a computer age with
unlimited hard drives in a state that requires voters to show
ID at the polls, you would strip any registered voters
unless you knew they had died or you had evidence they
no longer lived in the county.
Should the Court allow this to continue, GOP Secretaries
of State around the US can be counted on to purge voter
rolls deep and wide enough to swing almost any election.
The White House recently established a national
commission to move the stripping to a new level.
Blackwell was a charter member. So was Kris Kobach of
Kansas (KKK) who pioneered the use of the Crosscheck
computer program to strip the rolls in some thirty GOP-
controlled states.
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Last month Trump suddenly, without explanation,
abolished the commission. But as investigative reported
Greg Palast has shown, the registration stripping has been
moved into the Department of Homeland Security. Where
Kobach’s commission was opaque, now the partisan purge
process with be essentially invisible. State officials who
refused to provide critical information to Kobach may now
have no choice with DHS.
In other words, America’s Trump-run FBI/KGB/Savak
apparatus may now have the power to silently and
invisibly remove enough potential voters to elect and re-
elect whoever it wants.
That might include not only Trump, but Husted, who is
running to become Ohio’s lieutenant-governor, and
Kobach, who wants to be governor of Kansas.
This and much else could turn on the Supremes’ decision
on the Ohio case. Should Husted’s right to purge whoever
he wants from the voter rolls be confirmed by the Court,
our sham elections will become an even bigger charade.
 Mulvaney SCHOOLS #Schumershutdown
Over His Claims About Trump And Govt. Funding:
‘He Needs To Go Back And Take A Civics Class’
By Usafeaturesmedia
Posted On January 22, 2018
Political observers sat Democrats believed they were going
to be harmed politically for allowing the shutdown to
continue
(National Sentinel) Civics 101: White House Budget
Director Mick Mulvaney said Monday before the Senate
voted on a short-term measure to reopen the federal
government that it was wrong of Senate Minority Leader
Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., to blame President Donald J.
Trump.
During an interview on Fox News, host Bill Hemmer asked
Mulvaney about the then-ongoing shutdown.
“I heard your lead-in where Chuck
Schumer said only the president can open
this government,” Mulvaney said.
“Mr. Schumer needs to go back and take
basic civics.
“It is up to the Congress to fund the
government. Not the president of the
United States. Only the Democrats in the
Senate right now hold the keys to opening
the government,” he said.
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The Senate voted 81-18 on a temporary funding bill that
would reopen the government by day’s end if it passes the
House, where that seems likely.
Mulvaney called for bipartisanship to get a budget passed
and said that success or failure rested with Democrats.
“We’ve already seen four or five democrats
already vote for keeping the government
open,” he said. “Working in a bipartisan
fashion. We need more of those. This
government cannot open again until at
least nine Democrats support the measure.
So it’s entirely in their hands.”
The president also would not link any Deferred Action for
Childhood Arrivals (DACA) legislation to the current
shutdown and plans to negotiate on immigration after
the government reopens, Mulvaney noted.
“Let’s be perfectly clear where the
president is. He was negotiating on DACA
before the shutdown. He wants to continue
discussions about DACA, but it will be after
the shutdown,” Mulvaney concluded.
“We’re not going to be held hostage. We
are not going to allow the Democrats to
force a discussion on DACA by forcing a
shutdown.”
Political observers sat Democrats believed they were going
to be harmed politically for allowing the shutdown to
continue, hence the reason for the deal-making.
 Chris Matthews On Blame Game:
‘Hard Left’ Hates Trump, Wants Government Closed
By Scott Whitlock
January 22, 2018 1:21 PM EST

The government reopened on Monday after Democrats

reversed course, apparently failing to get their demands Will other liberals in the press note this transparently
met on “ironclad commitments” about DACA. This obvious point?
prompted an admission from an unlikely source on the
state of liberalism: A partial transcript is below:

Chris Matthews denounced some on the

“hard left” who “don’t care” about the
impact of the shutdown.

As the Democratic hard line stance crumbled, the Hardball

host conceded,

“So there is still this split on the left of the

Democratic Party.... A lot of Democrats on
the left don't want to look like they're in bed
with Republicans on any occasion!”

Matthews added,
“There's a hard left out there that doesn't
want to be seen as, together, too cozy with
Republicans, especially in the era of
Trump.”
The liberal journalist admitted that some on the left care
more about slamming the President than they do the
country:
Hardball
1/22/18
12:35
CHRIS MATTHEWS: I want to go to Nicolle. I haven't heard from
you today. It's interesting to me. I thought it was like seems old
times when Dick Durbin was talking about the old Senate where
they actually had bipartisan agreement. I worked there for Ed
Muskie and those guys. They actually got together on the budget.
They had the same budget, national budget. But I thought it was
interesting you're going to see Chuck Schumer voting with the
Republicans come this roll call as it begins now.
He's going to stick with it. Whereas Pelosi — We're getting word
that Pelosi and Hoyer are not going to vote with majority if this
thing passes today. So there is still this split on the left of the
Democratic Party — not that Hoyer is on the left, but he's
concerned with it — A lot of Democrats on the left don't want to
look like they're in bed with Republicans on any occasion! So it
isn't just a hard right. There's a hard-left out there that doesn't
want to be seen as, together, too cozy with Republicans,
especially in the era of Trump.
12:37

Still, Democrats, some, would like to be seen on the MATTHEWS: Still, Democrats, some, would like to be seen on
progressive side of any issue and are willing to say, the progressive side of any issue and are willing to say, “I don't
care if the government is opening or not, I'm going to vote
against it opening.”
‘I don't care if the government is opening or
not, I'm going to vote against it opening.’
.
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 “My Gut Tells Me This Is Probably Bigger”:
Rep. Jim Jordan Hints Missing Strzok Texts Is Next
MAJOR Scandal To Rock FBI
By Joshua Caplan
Monday, January 22, 2018

Following reports of the FBI’s mystery “glitch,” Rep.

Jordan Jordan (R-OH) renewed his call for a second
special counsel to investigate the former Mueller team
member.

“First the IRS destroyed emails pivotal to

our investigation of their political targeting.
Now the FBI “failed to preserve” texts
between Peter Strzok & Lisa Page
following the ’16 election. The time for a
second special counsel is now,” tweeted
the Ohio lawmaker.

Additional text messages sent and

received by disgraced FBI agent
Peter Strzok have been handed over to
Congress, reports the Associated Press.
In yet another twist to the Peter Strzok
saga, the FBI failed to hand over a block
of the agent’s text messages because
they have gone missing.

AP reports:

But the department also said in a letter to lawmakers that

its record of messages sent to and from the agent,
Peter Strzok, was incomplete because the
FBI, for technical reasons, had been
unable to preserve and retrieve about
five months’ worth of communications.
New text messages highlighted in a letter to FBI Director In a statement to the Daily Caller‘s Chuck Ross, the Ohio
Christopher Wray by Sen. Ron Johnson, the Republican lawmaker hinted the missing Strzok-Page text messages
chairman of the Senate’s Homeland Security and might be the next major scandal to rock the FBI.
Governmental Affairs Committee, are from the spring and
summer of 2016 and involve discussion of the
The Daily Caller reports:
investigation into Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email
server. They reference Attorney General Loretta Lynch’s
decision to accept the FBI’s conclusion in that case and a The revelation that the FBI “failed to
draft statement that former FBI Director James Comey had preserve” five months worth of anti-Trump
prepared in anticipation of closing out the Clinton agents’ text messages is evoking
investigation without criminal charges. memories of Lois Lerner, the IRS official
whose emails mysteriously disappeared
during congressional investigations into her
targeting of conservative non-profit groups.
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 “The [Lois] Lerner thing was huge,” Ohio Recently, former IRS senior executive Lois G. Lerner
Rep. Jim Jordan told The Daily Caller. “My asked that her testimony in an upcoming class-action case
gut tells me this is probably bigger.” to remain sealed.

In September of last year, the Department of Justice has The former Obama official is accused of targeting
announced it would not charge former IRS official Lois hundreds of groups due to their conservative beliefs.
Lerner in the highly controversial IRS scandal, which saw
numerous Conservative groups allegedly targeted by the
Department.

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 MIC DROP: Guy Benson BLISTERS Schumer, Rewrites
His Shutdown Statement (Bonus Pelosi SLAM)
By Sam J.
Posted At 1:15 Pm On January 22, 2018

Watching Chuck Schumer trying to save face after he

convinced Democrats to shut down the govt over the
weekend and then having to give up may be the funniest
thing we have seen since Trump got elected.

They definitely can’t speak to the real issue behind why

they shut it down, otherwise, they’d have to admit to being
children throwing a temper tantrum who don’t know how
to govern.

Guy Benson really summed it up best:

Wonder when the Democrats will get sick of so much

LOSING?!

Heh.

Oh, and a bonus Nancy Pelosi slam because it’s going to

be that kind of day today:

And it’s only January 22.

So all they really have at the end of the day is, ‘BUT
TRUMP.’

Someone just get her some crumbs, she’ll be fine.

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 BREAKING: Schumer TAPS OUT — Senate Reaches
Deal To End Shutdown — With DACA Negotiations
By Joshua Caplan
Monday, January 22, 2018

Minority Leader Sen. Chuck Schumer McConnell, R-Ky., said he intends to allow debate on
(D-NY) announced Monday afternoon immigration before Feb. 8.
that the Senate has reached a short-
term agreement to end the government
shutdown. According to the New York
Democrat, negotiations on DACA will be
taken up before the next scheduled
shutdown on February 8th.

CNBC reports:

Senators appeared optimistic they had the votes to end the

government shutdown Monday after leaving meetings
more confident about a compromise deal to allow
Congress to pass a short-term funding bill.

The chamber is expected to shortly vote to advance a

stopgap bill to keep the government open through Feb. 8.

“We will vote today to reopen the

government,” said Senate Minority Developing…
Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y.

Schumer said Democrats have received assurances that the

Senate will take on immigration issues, such as the
Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or
DACA. Earlier Monday, Senate Majority Leader Mitch
.

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 Bullshit - added here for balance
Year One Report Card: Donald Trump Failing
By Wim Laven
January 22, 2018
One year into his presidency Donald Trump has failed and
is showing no growth in his role.
As of January 18th 2018 53-58 percent of Americans
disapprove of the job he is doing, 37-45 percent approve.
There is little trust in the president. Donald Trump told his
2,000th lie on his 355th day in office. He lies at a scale and
pace never seen in the United States before. He has yet to
acknowledge even a single one of his dishonest statements.
He lies about things that don’t matter, like the size of his
inauguration crowd (pants on fire). He lies about things
that are easily researched, blaming Obama for a London
embassy deal that George W. Bush made. He lies about
things that are important, like “Nobody knows” if Russia
interfered in the 2016 election. He isn’t even good at lying,
he just does it all the time.
As of Nov. 7, 2017 he’d tweeted 2,461 times since the
election, using Twitter to bully, name call, spread fake
news, reverse his own policies, and countermand his own
cabinet. His unceremonious firings look bad, sometimes
disgraceful. His transgender ban in the military, failed. It’s
as if he is convinced his new role is some synthesis of his
backroom dirty businessman dealings and a reality show in
the White House.
His crony-friendly tax bill, which will add $1.4 trillion to
the national debt and net him millions, is his only big
legislative win—and, as is usually the case with his wins, a
major loss to working Americans.
At the moment Trump is blocking the pathway to avoid a
government shutdown over the Children’s Health
Insurance Program. It is a baffling move as it angers
Republicans who’ve worked hard on the bipartisan effort.
Meanwhile he’s making excuses claiming that democrats
want a shutdown to avoid talking about the success of the
tax bill (persistent dishonesty).
Has he learned anything?
The greatest credit Donald Trump earns is allowing the
diplomacy of the Iran Deal to hold up. After months of
campaigning against Barack Obama’s Iran Deal—he
called it “disastrous” and questioned “who would make
that deal?” The Iran Deal continues to deliver increases in
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safety and security with low costs. But he only receives
partial credit here because of his persistent threats and
dishonesty regarding the diplomacy and because he is up
against deadlines this month, whether to slap U.S.
sanctions back on Tehran or not. His inability to lead may
be the only reason that the Iran Deal is still in place.
Trump’s civilian kill rate while fighting ISIS eclipsed
Obama’s in seven months. Under his command the
Associated Press estimates that between 9,000 and 11,000
civilians died in the battle to free Mosul alone.
Investigation reveals that civilian casualties in Iraq have
been 31 times higher than acknowledged. Trump has taken
Obama’s “highly unsatisfactory” policy and pushed it into
the realm of “complete failure.” The U.S. is also alleged to
have used white phosphorus in Syria; the use of white
phosphorus in populated areas is a violation of
international law.
Ret. General Petraeus routinely spoke to Congress to let
them know that non-combat operations were both more
effective and less costly (both in terms of dollars and
human life). Trump’s use of military force appears to
function more an extension of his ego than deliberate
strategy, just like replacing E Pluribus Unum with Make
America Great Again. But he doesn’t see “out of many,
one,” he sees “my military.” He has routinely insulted
those who’ve served, and sacrificed, despite escaping from
service because of supposed bad feet.
Angela Merkel was recognized as “leader of the free
world” by international press early in Trump’s
administration, an unofficial title that has reflected the
U.S.’s role in global politics, and been attached to the US
president for decades. No longer. His withdrawal from the
Paris Accord and abdication of the U.S.’s role in the G20
reveal strikingly poor leadership as well as his refusal to
accept the facts of climate science and the dangers of
climate change.
His competitive and often coercive attitude has lost more
than it has gained. Previously friendly and collaborative
relationships are disappearing, in fact the world has voted
against Trump several times most notably when U.N.
Votes Overwhelmingly To Condemn U.S. Decision On
Jerusalem, a 128-9 loss, which left the U.S. “taking
names.” The tough talk only reveals his impotence in
dealing with increased threats. North Korea is another
unfortunate example of this reality. Diplomacy is at work
in the Korean peninsula, North and South Korea will
march together under one flag at the Olympics, but Trump
pokes the nuclear power, that could attack us or could be
bluffing, with childish tweets. A one-trick pony: he bosses,
bullies, and makes threats.
“I would bomb the [expletive] out of them”
was an ignorant campaign promise; sadly,
he has shown no growth. His grade in all
areas is reflective of his inability to learn,
adapt, change, evolve, or improve. He
simply hasn’t matured in his role.
Recommendations for improvement: Trump has only
developed two conflict management temperaments:
avoidance and competiveness; he will be greatly benefitted
by developing skills in accommodation, compromise, and
collaboration. He is unable to fill key positions and reduce
worker turnover. He also has shown poor judgment in
many of his appointments, choosing corrupt cronies over
.
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qualifications has not gone well. These deficiencies have
an exaggerated and cumulative impact.
He could benefit from competent mentoring, but he is
unwilling to follow the paths of former Presidents: ex.
While they chose to volunteer on Martin Luther King Jr.
day, Trump decided to go golfing instead. He has to stop
calling white supremacists “some very fine people” and
fueling racial antagonisms by pardoning people who’ve
run self-proclaimed “concentration camps.”
The Mueller investigation is clearly distracting him from
his job duties. Trump should spend less time with Fox &
Friends and more time with the President’s Daily Brief.
The Fox & Friends coverage appears to fuel that
distraction, and the Daily Briefings could help him to
make much better policy and strategy decisions. In the last
analysis he is clearly unqualified for the position and
unable to adapt to the rigors of the job—he does global
damage every day he is in office—the true preference
would be for him to resign.
 Trump Attorney Reveals Stunning Timeline Of What
Strzok And Page Discussed In ‘Missing’
FBI Text Messages (VIDEO)
By Cristina Laila
Monday, January 22, 2018

“From December 14th 2016 to May 17th of

An attorney for Trump, Jay Sekulow
revealed the stunning timeline of what
was discussed between Trump-hating
FBI agent Peter Strzok and his mistress
Bureau lawyer Lisa Page in the
‘missing’ text messages.
On Monday, Jay Sekulow broke down the timeline of
‘missing’ text messages which begins on December 14,
2016 and goes through May 17, 2017 which is the same
day Robert Mueller was appointed as Special Counsel.
2017–here’s what was going on. You had
the Flynn conversation with the senior
transition officials as been reported in the
press so their conversations about that–
missing.”
“Buzzfeed publishes the Steele dossier
January 11th 2017–text messages
between the two are missing,” Sekulow
said.
“Peter Strzok interviews Michael Flynn on
January 24th 2017, the text messages
between them are missing.”
“Comey is fired by the president of the
United States May 9th 2017, their text
messages are missing,” Sekulow
continued.
“Robert Mueller Special Counsel appointed
May 17 2017-text messages missing based
on a glitch.”

Jay Sekulow said what the FBI has done can be considered

‘willful destruction of evidence’.

According to the Associated Press, additional text
messages sent and received by disgraced FBI agent Peter VIDEO:
Strzok have been handed over to Congress.

The FBI ‘failed to preserve‘ five months of text messages

between Trump hating FBI agent Peter Strzok and his
mistress Lisa Page, blaming a ‘technical glitch’.

Sekulow is furious over this stunning development and

gave a play-by-play of the chain of events that took place
during that time period on his radio show Jay Live.

“Guess what is missing?! That is the key

here…guess what’s missing?” Sekulow
began.
.

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 What Is She Smoking?! Joy Reid Argues ‘Nothing’
Is More ‘Predictable’ Than Media Backing Republicans
By Curtis Houck
January 22, 2018 3:30 PM EST

 2017: The Year the News Media Went to War Against

a President
 NBC: GOP Will Get ‘Disproportionate Amount of
Blame’ for Government Shutdown
 NYT’s Porter: GOP, Kentucky Medicaid Reform ‘Will
Let Some Americans Die’

In addition,

my colleague Tim Graham wrote an

Is Joy Reid drunk or on drugs? Has she been hacked? Is
her behavior just an act? It’s tough to say on any particular
day, but Monday brought forth one of the craziest things to
come across the internet and particularly Twitter on the
issue of media bias.
October 17, 2016 piece citing a Center for
Public Integrity report that found “more
than 96 percent” of political donations by
“journalists, reporters, news editors or
television news anchors — as well as
other donors known to be working in
journalism” went to Hillary Clinton.

Behold, this absolutely asinine, nutty, and prosperous
claim from MSNBC’s AM Joy host less than two hours
after Senate Democrats agreed to end the government
shutdown:
So, sure, Joy. Tell us how the media are out to get liberals.
Reid is the same person who not only offered an insanely
false take last week about National Review’s David
French, but viciously attacked this writer as ugly and a
hater of Jesus.

At any rate, Reid was promptly condemned for her tweet:

Can you imagine that Reid gets paid a great deal of money
to spew these boiling hot takes? Sadly, yes because this is
the state of American journalism and the country’s broader
discourse in 2018.

This post would never end if it cited every single example

of liberal media bias and the delirious assertion that the
media is biased in favor of Republicans and conservatives.
Instead, here are just a few stories published on
NewsBusters within the past week:

 Trump and Republicans a ‘Danger’ to Children and

‘Non-White People’
 Evening News Cover Women’s March Three Times
More Than March for Life
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 GOP Gains 13 Points On Democrats In
One Month In Latest Polling After Trump Tax Cut Miracle
By Jim Hoft
Monday, January 22, 2018

And that is without little help for

Republicans by the liberal mainstream
media.

The Trump economy is

taking hold and it is on fire.
But liberal media will not report on it —
And Republican Party is neutered
weaklings.

Charles Payne at FOX Business News and economist Liz

Peek discussed the roaring economic numbers today on
FOX Business Network.

In December Democrats led But the corrupt liberal media refused to report on this good
Republicans by 18 points in CNN’s news.
generic party polling.
Charles Payne: So from housing to wages to corporate
One month later Republicans are down profits and investment, there are remarkable things that are
only 5 points after passing the Trump happening to this economy and nobody will talk about it.”
tax cuts.

And that’s before Americans start

seeing the increase in their paychecks
starting in February.

Axios reported:

Congressional Republicans have seen a bounce in generic

polling against Democrats after passing tax cuts last
month. A new CNN poll tightened the margin to 5 points
— with Democrats at 49% and Republicans at 44%. The
same poll showed Democrats leading by 18 points last
month. Jobs in all sorts of industries stifled by
the Obama Administration are making a
And meanwhile Democrats shut down resurgence due to their confidence in
government for amnesty for illegal the Trump economy.
aliens.
Coal mining, steel and oil are all on the
That ought to do wonders for their extreme upswing.
polling once that settles in.
The increase in jobs in these areas is
impacting an increasing number of jobs

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 and income in other areas like the
restaurant business.
The Atlanta Fed reported that the GDP
in the 2nd Quarter is expected to move
above 4% for the first time in years.
.
None of this will be touched on by the
liberal mainstream media (MSM).
The media is too busy waging war on
President Trump.

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 TOO Stupid To Insult:
Rob Reiner Claims THIS Is Why The Gov Shut Down,
Gets Archie Bunker’d
By Sam J.
Posted At 12:04 Pm On January 22, 2018

Rob Reiner is giving Chelsea Handler a run for her money And honestly, claiming all immigrants are just one color is
for writing the dumbest tweets on Twitter. pretty racist, Rob.

True story.

We make fun of her a LOT (she is like an endless supply

of dumb), but Reiner is coming in a close second with this
sort of garbage:

And they think they can blame Republicans for shutting

Yes. Democrats shut down the government because down the govt and call them racist in the process.
they’re all racists.
Like Rob did.
Oh, wait. He was trying to say Republicans are racist …
yeah, no. Sadly for them, the only idiots buying that already support
Democrats anyway.
House Republicans passed a bipartisan CR that would
have kept the govt running but Senate Dems said NO. And
stop with this racist BS, Rob. The GOP doesn’t care what
color the immigrants are, they just want them to come here
legally.
This is not difficult.

Like others in Hollywood, he’ll pat himself on the back for

supporting the little people, especially the little brown
people even though his assuming all immigrants are just
one color and from one country makes him incredibly
racist.
And a meathead.

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 James Woods Unleashes On Anti-American Democrats:
‘Send The Illegal Aliens To Schumer’s House’
By Cristina Laila
Monday, January 22, 2018

The Democrats are the enemy of the American people. Patriotic actor James Woods unleashed
on the Democrats Monday. He also
They side with illegal aliens over our own military issued a stern warning about the DACA
servicemen and women. scam.
“This is why the government is shut
Anti-American Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer down… Thank you, #Democrats”
(D-NY) shut down the government Friday night as Senate
Dems dug in their heels on DACA.

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi celebrated and

bragged about protecting the invaders (DREAMERS).

BOOM!

Chuck Schumer announced Monday

afternoon the Senate had reached a
short-term agreement to end the
government shutdown in an 81-18 vote.
According to Schumer, negotiations on
DACA will be taken up before the next
scheduled shutdown on February 8th.

A recent study of DACA Dreamers found that most of

these new Democrat voters reside in Republican states.

And today a NEW REPORT

found that there are actually
3.6 MILLION DREAMERS IN
THE UNITED STATES!

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 “Send them to Schumer’s house. Or
Pelosi’s. These children, full of dreams,
need the welcoming arms of our Democrat
leaders…” Woods tweeted.

Woods then issued a stern warning,

Woods then said, “The #DACA scam is a plan to pervert our

sacred electoral process. Make no mistake.
“#Democrats would burn the Constitution This is an organized coup by Democrats.
for a single illegal vote.” DACA is a @DNC sanctioned invasion.”

James Woods is 100% correct. A leaked memo shows

DACA recipients are critical to Democrats’ ‘future
electoral success’.

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 Nets Reach Back To 2013 To Trash Trump;
Ignore Schumer Shutdown Hypocrisy
By Kyle Drennen
January 22, 2018 4:21 PM EST
After Democrats shut down the government on Friday over
their demand to protect illegal immigrants from
deportation, all three broadcast networks spent the
weekend reaching back to 2013 to accuse Donald Trump
of changing his mind on the legislative tactic. At the same
time, NBC, ABC and CBS completely ignored the stunning
hypocrisy of Democratic leader Chuck Schumer.
On Saturday’s NBC Today, correspondent Kristen Welker
proclaimed:
“The President’s views on a shutdown
have really shifted....during the 2013
shutdown, under former President
Obama, Mr. Trump said Obama and the
Democrats ‘want this shutdown,’
arguing, ‘the buck always stops with the
president.’” She confidently concluded:
“So all of that makes it difficult for the
President to completely shift the blame
now...”
Reporting on the shutdown for ABC’s Good Morning
America on Sunday, correspondent David Wright similarly
hyped the years-old quote:
“During the 2013 government shutdown,
citizen Trump accused President Obama
of failing to lead.”
A soundbite ran of Trump stating at that time:
“You have to get everybody in a room, you
have to be a leader. The President has to
lead.”
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A clip followed of Wright grilling White House policy
adviser Marc Short:
“Why isn’t he following his own
advice?”
Finally, on Saturday’s CBS This Morning, correspondent
Major Garrett also went back through the archives:
“During the last government shutdown,
Mr. Trump said the fault was President
Obama’s.”
The same 2013 soundbite of Trump was featured.
On Monday, GMA co-host George Stephanopoulos raised
Trump’s commentary about the last shutdown while
interviewing White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders:
“If the President’s top priority is getting the
government reopened, why not call
everybody down to the White House today,
Democrats, Republicans together in the
Oval Office? Back when President Obama
was in office, that’s exactly what Donald
Trump was calling on him to do.”
Talking to White House Budget Director Mick Mulvaney
on Monday’s CBS This Morning, co-host Gayle King
lectured:
“Well, you have experience, Director
Mulvaney, with a shutdown. You voted for it
over the issue of ObamaCare back in 2013
and now the Democrats are holding it up
for DACA. Why was it okay back in 2013
and not okay now?”
While the liberal media were busy claiming Republicans
were shifting their views for political expediency, the hosts
and correspondents managed to cover-up the fact that in
2013, now-Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer
specifically promised that he would never shut down the
government over the issue of immigration policy.
If the networks want to go back in time to find
embarrassing past quotes to use against politicians, that’s
fine, but they should be prepared to do that to both sides,
not just the one they’re rooting against.
 Mainstream Media Largely Ignores
March For Life Despite Trump’s Historic Address
Lisa Bourne
Mon Jan 22, 2018 - 6:57 Pm EST
WASHINGTON, D.C., January 22, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) –
The major mainstream media networks’ typical editorial
approach of all but ignoring the largest pro-life gathering
in the United States was not affected much by the first-
ever live stream address of the March for Life by a sitting
president on Friday.
Hundreds of thousands of Americans uniting from across
the country and beyond in Washington D.C. to give a
visible witness for unborn life garnered the same
negligible mention from the mainstream press just as they
have for nearly all of the 44 years prior.
The “big 3” television networks devoted a combined 2
minutes and 6 seconds of coverage to the 2018 March for
Life in their evening news coverage, according to a study
from the Media Research Center (MRC).
The networks gave this small amount of coverage despite
the large numbers of pro-life Americans converging upon
the nation’s Capitol and also President Donald Trump
addressing the March for Life live from the Rose Garden.
READ: Trump’s historic speech to
March for Life: Abortion is ‘wrong, it has
to change’
Those joint 126 seconds came in Friday evening coverage
from ABC and NBC. The third network, CBS, aired
nothing on the March.
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MRC called the amount of time allotted by the networks to
the March, “embarrassing.”
“This march made history, as the president
addressed the March for Life live via
satellite,” the MRC report said. “But that
wasn’t enough for the media.”
The announcement two days before the March that Trump
would speak via live stream made headlines.
Trump is the first president to directly address the March
for Life by live-stream video. Previously, two former
Republican presidents had called into the March to give
their support - Ronald Reagan in 1987, and George W.
Bush in 2003 and 2004. While Trump’s speech got some
coverage in a number of media outlets, the March itself
remained largely uncovered.
In addition to giving minimal coverage to the March for
Life, the networks gave much more to the Women’s March
the next day, a report from The Blaze noted.
Another MRC study showed that the pro-abortion
Women’s March received three times the coverage from
ABC, NBC and CBS than the networks gave the March for
Life.
MRC’s 2018 study on March for Life network coverage
showed this year’s coverage of the pro-life event from
television networks closely matched what they gave in
2013, 2014, 2015, and 2016.
There was a spike in coverage last year when Mike Pence
and White House counselor Kellyanne Conway spoke in
person at the March for Life – Pence being the first sitting
vice president to do so. Last year the networks gave the
event 21 minutes, 51 seconds.
USA Today carried Trump’s live stream speech for the
March this year, noting the historic aspect of Trump’s
address.
The mainstream media remains in a perpetual tiff with the
president, with Trump charging media bias against him
from a number of outlets rising to the level of “fake news,”
and some quarters countering that the president’s charges
amount to threats to free speech.
A December report from the MRC showed that major
news broadcast reporting on Trump in September,
October, and November were hostile to the president.
Pro-life advocates have long decried the media’s ignoring
of the March for Life and bias in favor of abortion.
FoxNews.com published a report on Friday that spoke of
March history, included remarks from March for Life
President Jeanne Mancini and listed some of the speakers
and event specifics. The Hill had an op-ed in advance of
the March from a pro-life Catholic medical doctor with
plans to take part. The Hill covered Trump’s address to the
March as well, along with a number of other outlets.
.
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Pro-life, faith-based and other alternative media
consistently give the March for Life fitting coverage, and
some have reported on the large imbalance in reporting
from the major mainstream outlets.
Two years ago, mainstream media at all levels were
compelled to give slightly more mention to the 2016
March for Life, as countless busloads of March pilgrims
were stranded on the Pennsylvania turnpike traveling home
from the March. The magnitude of the storm and degree to
which it affected travel captured mainstream media
coverage and shed light on both the March and the pro-life
witness of many who were stranded.
The media still tried to play down March attendance with
the storm.
Two days before last year’s March for Life during an
interview with ABC President Trump called out the
mainstream media for failing to cover the March.
 “Americans Will Be Surprised How Bad It Is”: GOP Rep.
Admits “Deeply Disturbing” FISA Memo Shook Him To
The Core (VIDEO)
By Joshua Caplan
Monday, January 22, 2018
According to the Washington
Examiner‘s Byron York, Judiciary
Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-
VA), Oversight Committee Chairman
Trey Gowdy (R-SC) and Intelligence
Committee Chairman Devin Nunes (R-
CA) huddled together Saturday to
discuss a “never-before-used
procedure” for releasing the “shocking”
FISA abuse memo. As Republicans plot
the best pathway forward for releasing
the memo, more lawmakers are coming
forward to reveal how shocking its
contents are.
According to Rep. Dave Joyce (R-OH), the memo is
“deeply disturbing.”
Source: OilGuy
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Fox News reports:
Rep. Dave Joyce, a Republican from Ohio,
told Fox News on Monday that the
intelligence committee plans to work on
releasing the document but warned that
once Americans see it, they’ll
“be surprised how bad it is.”
The process of releasing the memo could take up to 19
congressional working days which puts its release around
mid-March. The document’s release would first need
approval from House Intelligence Committee Chairman
Devin Nunes, R-Calif., who can decide to bring the
committee back together for a vote. If the majority of the
committee votes to release the memo, it would then be up
to President Trump.
If he says yes, the memo can be released.
Joyce said he’s personally read the memo twice and
“it was deeply disturbing as anyone who’s
been in law enforcement and any American
will find out once they have the opportunity
to review it.”
What was Joyce so shaken by? During an appearance
on CNN‘s morning show “New Day” last Friday, Rep.
Chris Stewart (R-UT) told host Chris Cuomo that the
“essence” of the “shocking,” FISA abuse memo centers
around whether or not the FBI and Justice Department
provided false information to the FISA court for the
purpose of obtaining spy warrants.
“It’s primarily dealing with the Department
of Justice and FBI and imagining this, did
they propose or provide information to the
FISA courts, and was that information
accurate? That’s the essence of this,” Rep.
Stewart revealed to Cuomo.
 Donald Trump Thanks ‘Crazy Jim Acosta’
For Reporting Shutdown Victory
By Charlie Spiering
23 Jan 2018
President Donald Trump thanked CNN’s
Jim Acosta, after he spotted the CNN
report that his administration was
celebrating a shutdown victory.
“Even Crazy Jim Acosta of Fake News
CNN agrees,” Trump wrote, quoting part of
the report. “Thank you for your honesty,
Jim!”
Even Crazy Jim Acosta of Fake News CNN agrees:
“Trump World and WH sources dancing in
end zone: Trump wins again…Schumer
and Dems caved…gambled and lost.”
Thank you for your honesty Jim!
.
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— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump)
January 23, 2018
“Now there is no denying the president and
his allies are spiking the football after the
shutdown,” Acosta reported on Monday
evening. “‘Trump wins again’ is how one
source described it to me. Another White
House official crowed that the Democrats
caved on the shutdown.”
It appears that @realDonaldTrump
watched this clip from @Acosta
https://t.co/SgzrrWBYsG
pic.twitter.com/hNrUOgqX6E
— Charlie Spiering (@charliespiering)
January 23, 2018
Acosta reported that Trump would travel to Davos,
Switzerland to the global economic summit after the
shutdown.
“While the president will be tasting
chocolate in Switzerland, Democrats will be
licking their wounds in Washington,” he
concluded.
 Donald Trump Just Said WHAT
About CNN’s ‘Crazy’ Jim Acosta?!
By Greg P.
Posted At 8:48 Am On January 23, 2018

Well, will wonders never cease. President Donald Trump

just thanked CNN’s “Crazy” Jim Acosta for his honesty:

That was unexpected.

It appears this is the clip Trump was responding to:

Libs and journos, of course, were still not happy with the Never change, guys. Never. Change.
president’s praise of CNN’s chief White House
correspondent: Related:

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 There IS A DEEP STATE! Text Messages Reveal SECRET
SOCIETY Within Justice, FBI, Working
AGAINST TRUMP (Video)
By Usafeaturesmedia
Posted On January 23, 2018

The missing messages cover a crucial window, as the gap perhaps they may not have done that
occurs between the presidential transition and the launch (checked their bias at the door),” he said.
of Robert Mueller’s Russia probe
“There’s certainly a factual basis to
question whether or not they acted on that
bias. We know about this insurance policy
that was referenced in trying to prevent
Donald Trump from becoming president,”
he continued.
“We learned today from information that in
the immediate aftermath of his election that
there may have been a ‘secret society’ of
folks within the Department of Justice and
the FBI to include Page and Strzok to be
(National Sentinel) Bombshell: Attorney General Jeff working against him,” the Texas lawmaker
Sessions said on Monday that disgraced FBI said, in a bombshell.
counterintelligence agent Peter Strzok and his mistress,
FBI lawyer Lisa Page, exchanged some 50,000 text Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., also reviewed the texts with
messages, but added that figure does not include five Radcliffe. Watch:
months’ worth of ‘missing’ texts the bureau said were lost
in a database glitch.
“We will leave no stone unturned to confirm
with certainty why these text messages are
not now available to be produced and will
use every technology available to
determine whether the missing messages
are recoverable from another source,”
Sessions said in a statement provided to
Fox News. “If we are successful, we will
update the congressional committees
immediately.”

The missing messages cover a crucial window, as the gap

occurs between the presidential transition and the launch
of Robert Mueller’s Russia probe — where both officials
previously were assigned.

After reviewing all of those messages, Rep. John Ratcliffe,

R-Texas, told Fox News he believes there is a “secret
society” within the Justice Department and the FBI that
worked feverishly to undermine Donald J. Trump’s
Regarding the missing texts, which Gowdy and Radcliffe
candidacy and presidency.
found incredulous, Sessions noted further:

“What we learned today in the thousands of

text messages that we’ve reviewed that
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 “I have spoken to the Inspector General legal disciplinary action measures will be
and a review is already underway to taken.”
ascertain what occurred and to determine if
“We need to get to the bottom of it and find
these records can be recovered in any
out what exactly happened,” Rep. Jim
other way. If any wrongdoing were to be
Jordan, R-Ohio, told Fox News.
found to have caused this gap, appropriate
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 The Scandal That Keeps On Giving: FBI Claims It
“LOST” Months Of Text Messages Belonging To Disgraced
Anti-Trump Agent Peter Strzok
By JD Heyes
Monday, January 22, 2018
When the complete (and unbiased) history is written on
President Barack Obama’s administration, future
generations of Americans will come to learn that his was
the most corrupt in the country’s history.
Forget Teapot Dome. Forget Watergate. Forget Bill
Clinton’s sexual proclivities. Barack Obama has them all
beaten, and by a wide margin.
Because, for all the world, it appears as though Barack
Obama took over a Deep State apparatus that was
assembled long before 9/11, but weaponized by his
predecessor, George W. Bush, against the American
people in the years afterward.
The FBI, once heralded the world over as one of
democracy’s greatest law enforcement creations, was
reduced to the role of political enabler during the Obama
years. Led by Attorney General Eric Holder, a far-Left
sycophant who lied to the Senate Judiciary Committee by
hiding the fact that he stuck up for Islamic terrorists, the
Justice Department and FBI — along with intelligence
community operatives — colluded to thwart Donald J.
Trump’s presidency.
In recent months we discovered that top FBI
counterintelligence agent Peter Strzok had a particular
anti-Trump, pro-Hillary Clinton bias. We learned that he
and others within the FBI and Department of Justice
discussed an “insurance policy” that would keep Trump
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out of office or so undermined during his time in office as
to render him ineffective.
In recent days, we learned that the Justice Department
finally turned over scores of text messages sent or received
by Strzok to Congress, which had been requesting them for
some time. But then we also learned that the highly
technologically sophisticated Federal Bureau of
Investigation somehow, some way, “lost” five months’
worth of Strzok texts.
Five months worth. Gee — wonder where
they went? And more importantly, we
wonder what they would reveal were they
to suddenly ‘show up.’
The timeframe for the texts delivered to Congress from
late winter/spring/early summer of 2016, about the time
the two eventual presidential nominees were being
decided. So this is interesting in that, given all we know
about Strzok’s distinct bias against Trump and the
“insurance policy” discussion, it certainly seems like the
FBI and Justice Department are continuing to hide
damning evidence that the Obama administration was
dirty, dirty, dirty. (Related: Here’s the man who outed
Trump-hating FBI agent Peter Strzok.)
On Monday one of President Trump’s personal lawyers,
Jay Sekulow, laid out the timeline for the missing emails,
which date from sometime in December 2016 through
May 17, 2017 — the day that Robert Mueller was named
special counsel to investigate bogus claims of “Trump-
Russia collusion.”
During his radio show, Jay Live, Sekulow said,
“Guess what is missing? That is the key
here…guess what’s missing?”
He said:
“From December 14th, 2016 to May 17th,
2017 — here’s what’s going on,” he
 continued. “You had the [former national that he interviewed Flynn, it’s a sure bet Congress would
security advisor Michael] Flynn want to know what he had to say about those events.
conversation with the senior transition
officials as has been reported in the press, Because you know he would have texted about those
so there are conversations about that — events.
missing.
“Buzzfeed publishes the [former British spy Sekulow says what the FBI allegedly has
Christopher] Steele dossier January 11th, done amounts to “willful destruction of
2017 — text messages between the two evidence.” For us, the FBI’s role in all of
are missing,” Sekulow continued. this is the scandal that keeps on giving.
“Peter Strzok interviews Michael Flynn on
January 24th, 2017, the text messages See more coverage of treason inside the FBI and former
between them are missing. [Then-FBI DOJ by reading Treason.news.
Director James] Comey is fired by the
president of the United States May 9th,
2017, their text messages are missing,” the
Trump attorney said.
“Robert Mueller Special Counsel appointed
May 17, 2017 — text messages missing
based on a glitch,” he said.

Those were all very significant events in the timeline of

the Trump presidency thus far. And given Strzok’s
involvement in the Clinton email investigation and the fact

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 Report: Source Says FBI Must Now
Prove 'Missing Texts' Claim Is Not Bureau Wrongdoing
By Debra Heine
January 22, 2018
Demoted FBI agent Peter Strzok. Image via YouTube.
Increasingly skeptical members of Congress now suspect
that a cover-up of epic proportions is unfolding before
their eyes.
According to a source who communicated with Fox News,
the FBI must now prove that the loss of five crucial
months of text messages between FBI officials Peter
Strzok and Lisa Page was not a result of FBI wrongdoing.
The source was described by Fox News as a member of the
congressional committee investigating the FBI's handling
of the Clinton email investigation.
"The FBI must show now that the missing
texts are not obstruction of congressional
oversight or destruction of evidence," the
source reportedly stated.
Senate and House investigators also reportedly have a
number of questions for Justice Department Inspector
General Michael Horowitz, who has also been
investigating the FBI's handling of the Clinton email
investigation.
According to the Washington Examiner's Byron York, first
and foremost, investigators want to know if Horowitz or
anyone else has the missing texts.
"Congressional investigators will also be
asking: 'Does the FBI's explanation make
sense? Is there evidence to support it?
Were other Samsung phones not recorded
as a result of technical problems between
December 14, 2016 and May 17, 2017?'"
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So far, the FBI isn't commenting:
Even if the FBI's story checks out, investigators in the
House and Senate want to know if there is a way to find
the missing texts, the Examiner reports:
Who would have the power to do so?
Horowitz's investigation is an administrative
review, not a criminal probe, and does not
have the authority to compel production of
some information.
Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs
Chairman Ron Johnson fired off a letter with further
questions to FBI Director Christopher Wray on Saturday:
Does the FBI have records of any other communications
between Strzok and Page? What texts has the FBI
produced to the inspector general? How extensive was the
alleged glitch that allegedly resulted in the lost texts?
Johnson also asked whether the FBI has
"conducted searches of Mr. Strzok and Ms.
Page's non-FBI-issued communications
devices or accounts to determine whether
federal records exist on those nonofficial
accounts."
That is an apparent reference to instances in the texts in
which Strzok and Page told each other that they were
switching to iMessage for further conversation, suggesting
they might have moved their discussion of sensitive topics
from their government-issued Samsung devices to private Here is the Washington Examiner's recap of critical events
Apple devices. in the Trump-Russia affair that took place between
December 2016 and May 2017:

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 Nets Censor Revelation FBI Lost 400 Texts
From Two Shady Anti-Trump Officials
By Nicholas Fondacaro
| January 22, 2018 11:41 PM EST

There were disturbing revelations out of the FBI over

the weekend when it was made public that the Bureau had
The missing text messages between FBI agent Peter Strzok
somehow lost roughly 400 text messages between an anti-
and FBI lawyer Lisa Page (who he was cheating on his
Trump investigator and a lawyer he was romantically
wife with), were from the crucial time period between
involved with. Since then, there have been calls from
Election Day and the appointment of Special Counsel
Republican members of Congress for another special
Robert Mueller. And as Herridge explained, that period
counsel to investigate the FBI’s shady handling of the
was under intense scrutiny because the two claimed to
Clinton e-mail and Russia investigations. But despite this
have had some sort of anti-Trump “insurance policy”:
bombshell news, the three major network news outlets
(ABC, CBS, and NBC) have been dead silent.
Look, that five-month window really covers some of the
big events. One lawmaker said to me today: If Strzok and
During their Monday evening newscasts, there was not a
Page that this so-called “insurance policy” this is when
single second dedicated to bringing up this highly
there would be evidence that it was implemented in some
damaging development. Instead of reporting on the FBI,
way. After the president was elected, during the transition
ABC’s World News Tonight gushed about the Super Bowl,
when he’s briefed on the dossier, Flynn's interview by
CBS Evening News reported that Minnie Mouse got her
Strzok as part of the Russia case, then the firing of Comey
own star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, and NBC
and the appointment of the special counsel. I mean, these
Nightly News fawned over yet another royal wedding in
are the big pillars of this investigation.
the U.K.
Herridge also noted that, of the messages that are still
Where the networks wanted to censor the revelations, Fox
present, it was discovered that the outcome of the Clinton
News Channel’s Special Report covered them in detail.
e-mail probe was known well in advance of her interview
with FBI investigators and went right to the top of the
“Late today, Fox News obtained a DOJ.
statement from Attorney General Jeff
Sessions confirming that two FBI officials
“Four days after [Attorney General Loretta]
have sent more than 50,000 text messages
Lynch met with Bill Clinton on an Arizona
over a two-year period,” reported Chief
tarmac … and a day before Hillary Clinton's
Intelligence Correspondent Catherine
FBI interview, on July 1, 2016, Strzok tells
Herridge. “The Justice Department’s
Page: ‘Timing looks like hell. Will appear to
internal watchdog, the Inspector General, is
be choreographed.’ Page agreed and later
now investigating whether the missing
replied: ‘It’s a real profile in courage. Since
records can be recovered and whether
she knows no charges will be brought.’”
their disappearance was deliberate.”
“The texts appear to undercut Comey's July
2016 claim he acted alone when

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 recommending against criminal charges,”
Herridge added.
After these revelations were made public, Ohio Republican
Congressman Jim Jordan compared the FBI’s
mishandling of the text messages to the mysterious
disappearance of e-mails of IRS official Lois Lerner who
was abusing her position to target Tea Party groups, which
the liberal media shrugged at as well.
Transcript below:
Fox News Channel
Special Report
January 22, 2018
6:20:46 PM Eastern [3 minutes 26 seconds]
BRET BAIER: This is a Fox News Alert. Lawmakers are going
over several hundred pages of newly released texts between two
former members of the team run by the special counsel
investigating Russian Collusion. But getting most of the attention
tonight is what they are not seeing. Here’s Chief Intelligence
Correspondent Catherine Herridge. Good evening Catherine.
CATHERINE HERRIDGE: Well, good evening Bret. Late today,
Fox News obtained a statement from Attorney General Jeff
Sessions confirming that two FBI officials have sent more than
50,000 text messages over a two-year period. The Justice
Department’s internal watchdog, the Inspector General, is now
investigating whether the missing records can be recovered and
whether their disappearance was deliberate.
[Cuts to video]
JIM JORDAN (R-OH): Of course we need a second special
counsel to get to the bottom of all this and answer the many
questions we have.
HERRIDGE: Congressional Republicans are calling out the FBI
after learning five months of text messages between two key
bureau officials in the Clinton e-mail and Russia investigations
are missing. The text messages between FBI agent Peter Strzok
and his then-mistress FBI lawyer Lisa Page range from
December 2016, one month after President Trump’s election, to
May, when then FBI Director James Comey was fired and
Special Counsel Robert Mueller took over the Russia case.
According to this letter from Senator Ron Johnson, who chairs
the Governmental Affairs Committee, the FBI blamed a technical
problem for the bureau's failure to capture and preserve the
records.
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DAVE JOYCE: (R-OH) People need to be terminated or
prosecuted because they say they lost these things but I don't
think Verizon or AT&T or the phone companies have lost those
records.
HERRIDGE: The nearly 400 pages of text provided to Congress
suggest then-Attorney General Loretta Lynch knew the FBI would
recommend against prosecution before Hillary Clinton's July
2016 FBI interview about mishandling classified information.
Four days after Lynch met with Bill Clinton on an Arizona tarmac,
where they claimed to discuss grandchildren, and a day before
Hillary Clinton's FBI interview, on July 1, 2016, Strzok tells Page:
"Timing looks like hell. Will appear to be choreographed." Page
agreed and later replied: “It’s a real profile in courage. Since she
knows no charges will be brought.”
The texts appear to undercut Comey's July 2016 claim he acted
alone when recommending against criminal charges.
JAMES COMEY: I have not coordinated this statement or
reviewed it in any way with the Department of Justice or any
other part of the government.
[Cuts back to live]
HERRIDGE: In a separate development over the weekend, the
Republican chairmen of the House Intelligence, and Judiciary
and Oversight committees met behind closed doors to discuss
the next steps for the four-page memo that alleges government
surveillance abuses during the 2016 election. A Senior Democrat
says the memo omits key details and the findings are
exaggerated. Bret.
BAIER: Just doing the math here, 50,000 texts over two years.
That averages to 68 and a half texts per day. 68 and a half. This
is in a crucial time period.
HERRIDGE: Look, that five-month window really covers some of
the big events. One lawmaker said to me today: If Strzok and
Page that this so-called “insurance policy” this is when there
would be evidence that it was implemented in some way. After
the president was elected, during the transition when he’s briefed
on the dossier, Flynn's interview by Strzok as part of the Russia
case, then the firing of Comey and the appointment of the special
counsel. I mean, these are the big pillars of this investigation.
BAIER: Well, we’ll see if someone has the text and we’ll stay on HERRIDGE: You bet.
it. Catherine, thank you.

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 Deep State WAR With Trump Proves
The People Have Lost Control Of Their Government
By JD Heyes
Monday, January 22, 2018
Days before President-elect Donald J. Trump was
inaugurated, Democratic Sen. Charles Schumer of New
York issued a warning to the incoming commander-in-
chief: Don’t pick a fight with the U.S. intelligence
community.
Specifically, Schumer was responding to Trump’s
criticism of reports that U.S. intelligence agencies had
clear evidence that Russia interfered in the 2016
presidential election to help Trump defeat Democratic
nominee Hillary Clinton, ostensibly because Moscow
‘didn’t like Clinton.’
During a January 2017 interview on reliably statist and
Left-wing MSNBC, Schumer said the president-elect was
being “really dumb” in ‘picking a fight’ with the
intelligence community.
“Let me tell you: You take on the
intelligence community — they have six
ways from Sunday at getting back at you,”
Schumer cryptically said. “So, even for a
practical, supposedly hard-nosed
businessman, he’s being really dumb to do
this.”
Think about that for a moment. Here was an establishment
politician — a Democrat, sure, but more than anything else
an establishment politician —
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admitting that the Deep State was more
powerful than the president of the United
States, the person to which the intelligence
community is supposed to answer (as well
as the American people).
Schumer was also tacitly admitting that the intelligence
community — part and parcel of the Deep State — was
also more powerful than Congress, which is supposed to
have oversight responsibility.
How could that be? How could it be that the intelligence
apparatus of the United States had become a power unto
itself, beyond the scope of the Executive Branch and
beyond the control of Congress?
Could it be that over the years and decades, there was an
intentional effort by past presidents and members of the
political establishment in both parties to establish the
intelligence community as the de facto head of the
country? Because for all intents and purposes, it now is.
As NationalSecurity.news noted in a December 2016
analysis, intelligence community’s narrative that Trump
and Russia ‘colluded’ to ‘steal the election’ from Hillary
Clinton because President Vladimir Putin had a personal
animus against her never made any sense. We now know
why (though we suspected even back then): The Clintons
have so many nefarious, nebulous ties to Putin and his
government she would, as president, be beholden to
anything he wanted. She would have become the Russian
mole in the White House.
But instead, we’ve been lead to believe it’s Trump who’s
the Manchurian president. And it’s all been based on a
narrative that has been manufactured by a politicized
U.S. justice system, FBI, and Deep State intelligence
apparatus. (Related: DEEP STATE: Rep. Jordan says
FBI paid for, then based its Team Trump probe on
BOGUS ‘dossier’.)
Republicans in Congress increasingly believe, for instance,
that the Obama administration — nay, the former president
himself — was behind a plot to destroy Trump’s
candidacy, then his presidency after he unexpectedly beat
Clinton in November 2016. We’re discovering more and And, We’re Likely To Learn
more by the day now, as ours and other alternative media That Obama Was
outlets publish more information about how the Obama
regime manipulated the FISA court to obtain a surveillance Orchestrating All Of It, Which
warrant so they could spy on Trump’s campaign. — If True — Proves That The
Deep State Not Only Exists,
We’re discovering that the so-called But That It’s A Super-
“Trump dossier” was likely used to justify Nationalist Force That
that warrant, despite the fact that is Operates Outside Of The
complete garbage. We’re learning that
operatives within the FBI and Justice
Confines Of The Constitution,
Department were involved in its creation. Congress, And Even The
We’ve learned that it was originally Presidency Itself.
supposed to be opposition research, paid There Is Much More To Come Regarding
For By Trump’s Opponent. This Subject. Stay Tuned. Read
Deepstate.News For More Details.
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 The FISA Abuse Memo Unveiled; What Exactly Is In The
Memo, According To Intel Insiders
By Investigative Bureau
Posted On January 22, 2018
This has been republished from Sept. 20,
2017 — Four months ago, when the FISA
scheme was spelled out definitively by Intel
veterans at True Pundit. Little did we know
the information would ever go public. But
this summarizes what to largely expect
when the FISA Abuse memo is unveiled.
From the beginning it was a set up to find dirt on Trump
campaign insiders and if possible to topple Donald
Trump’s presidential aspirations.
Before and after the 2016 election. And while this
operation had many moving parts and alternating players,
the mission to unseat Trump never changed. And it
remains ongoing.
Paul Manafort was wiretapped. Cater Page was
wiretapped. Donald Trump Jr. was wiretapped. Jared
Kushner was wiretapped. Gen. Michael Flynn was
wiretapped. And likely there were others.
And none of it was very legal.
In fact, most of it was very illegal, according to federal law
enforcement sources who are blowing the whistle on a
sweeping scheme to undermine the Executive branch and
the electorate’s choice for president of the United States.
And according to high ranking FBI sources, the Bureau
played a definitive role in plotting this sweeping privacy
breach. But the FBI had much help from the NSA, CIA,
the Office of of the Director of National Intelligence,
Treasury financial crimes division under DHS, and the
Justice Department, federal law enforcement sources
confirmed.
The Deep State caretakers involved are familiar names:
James Comey (FBI), John Brennan (CIA), James Clapper
(ODNI), Loretta Lynch (DOJ), Jeh Johnson (DHS),
Admiral Michael Rogers (NSA). And then-director of
GCHQ Robert Hannigan who has since resigned from the
esteemed British spy agency.
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President Barack Obama’s White House too could be
implicated, sources said. But while evidence certainly
points to involvement of the Obama administration,
sources said they did not have access to definitive
intelligence proving such a link.
Here is what we now know, per intelligence gleaned form
federal law enforcement sources with insider knowledge of
what amounts to a plot by U.S. intelligence agencies to
secure back door and illegal wiretaps of President Trump’s
associates:
 Six U.S. agencies created a stealth task force,
spearhead by CIA’s Brennan, to run domestic
surveillance on Trump associates and possibly Trump
himself.
 To feign ignorance and to seemingly operate within
U.S. laws, the agencies freelanced the wiretapping of
Trump associates to the British spy agency GCHQ.
 The decision to insert GCHQ as a back door to
eavesdrop was sparked by the denial of two FISA
Court warrant applications filed by the FBI to seek
wiretaps of Trump associates.
 GCHQ did not work from London or the UK. In fact the
spy agency worked from NSA’s headquarters in Fort
Meade, MD with direct NSA supervision and guidance
to conduct sweeping surveillance on Trump associates.
 The illegal wiretaps were initiated months before the
controversial Trump dossier compiled by former British
spy Christopher Steele.
 The Justice Department and FBI set up the meeting at
Trump Tower between Trump Jr., Manafort and
Kushner with controversial Russian officials to make
Trump’s associates appear compromised.
 Following the Trump Tower sit down, GCHQ began
digitally wiretapping Manafort, Trump Jr., and Kushner.
 After the concocted meeting by the Deep State, the
British spy agency could officially justify wiretapping
Trump associates as an intelligence front for NSA
because the Russian lawyer at the meeting Natalia
Veselnitskaya was considered an international security
risk and prior to the June sit down was not even
allowed entry into the United States or the UK, federal
sources said.
 By using GCHQ, the NSA and its intelligence partners
had carved out a loophole to wiretap Trump without a
 warrant. While it is illegal for U.S. agencies to monitor
phones and emails of U.S. citizens inside the United
States absent a warrant, it is not illegal for British
intelligence to do so. Even if the GCHQ was tapping
Trump on U.S. soil at Fort Meade.
 The wiretaps, secured through illicit scheming, have
been used by U.S. Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s
probe of alleged Russian collusion in the 2016 election,
even though the evidence is considered “poisoned
fruit.”
Veselnitskaya, the Russian lawyer who spearheaded the
Trump Tower meeting with the Trump campaign trio, was
previously barred from entering the United Sates due to
her alleged connections to the Russian FSB (the modern
replacement of the cold-war-era KGB).
Yet mere days before the June meeting, Veselnitskaya was
granted a rare visa to enter the United States from Preet
Bharara, the then U.S. Attorney for the southern district of
New York. Bharara could not be reached for comment and
did not respond the a Twitter inquiry on the Russian’s visa
by True Pundit.
Federal law enforcement sources said Bharara was simply
following the orders of Attorney General Lynch, who
lobbied the State Department to issue the disavowed
Russian a B1/B2 non-immigrant visa. This permitted
Veselnitskaya entry into the United States for the sole
purpose of entrapping Trump associates to use as fuel to
commission wiretaps, federal sources said.
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Veselnitskaya may have been paid as well by the U.S.
government, FBI sources said. It was reported last week
that Steele, who compiled the Trump dossier was paid at
least $100,000 from FBI funds as well. But that came later,
after the wiretapping was well underway.
The illegal eavesdropping started long before Steele’s
dossier. Federal sources said the wiretaps on Trump
insiders began in late 2015, almost a year before the 2016
election. The targets then were Flynn and Page, sources
confirmed. When no smoking gun was recovered from
those initial taps, U.S. intelligence agencies moved to
broaden the scope through their newly-formed alliance.
Intelligence garnered from the British eavesdropping,
which again was merely a front for the NSA, was then
used in August 2016 to secure a legitimate FISA warrant
on Manafort, Trump Jr. and Kushner. That warrant was
issued on or about September, 2016, federal sources
confirm.
It was the third time the cabal of U.S. intelligence agencies
sought a FISA warrant for the Trump associates and this
time it was approved.
FBI sources said finally obtaining the FISA warrant was
important because it provided the agencies cover for
previous illegal wiretapping which they believed would
never be discovered.
“This would make for an incredible string of
Senate hearings,” one federal law
enforcement source said. “I don’t think they
ever thought he (Trump) would win and
information would come out about how they
manipulated evidence.”
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 Release The Memo -
Investigate Uranium One
By SARTRE
January 23, 2018

‘Shocking’ House Intel Memo Allegedly Reveals FISA

Abuse by Senior DOJ and FBI Officials.

Now why is this not the prime news story across the
nation? The significance of the cooperation and
coordination among the guardians for the establishment
has one consuming object; destroy the Donald Trump
Presidency. The organized cover-up strikes deep into the
fabric of whatever weak claim can be made that the deep
state government can be trusted or maintains any
legitimacy.

Proof positive starts and begins with the lack of objectivity

when most ‘Democrats Wouldn’t Even Look At FISA
Memo’… Even The Intercept, left leaning investigative
source, while remaining skeptical about the content within
the memorandum, calls for Four Easy Ways to Release
The Memo. Because of Republican outrage, Glenn
Greenwald and Jon Schwarz offer a method for disclosure.

"This has led to a ferocious outcry on the right to

The utter farce of the Mueller investigation into Trump
collusion with Russia demonstrates the most obscene and
overwhelming pattern of government deceit and deflection
in decades. Enough has been written on this trolling probe
to convince sincere and honest people that the protection
racket thugs are running a confidence game against the
populace and has abandoned any prospect of justice. Still,
the fake news gatekeepers that select what is suitable for
the apathetic public to hear see or read keeps the fairy tale
narrative going to prevent looking into the true crimes
committed by the cabal of establishment globalists.
“release the memo” – and presumably thereby prove
that the Obama administration conducted unlawful
surveillance on the Trump campaign and transition. On
Thursday night, Fox News host and stalwart Trump ally
Sean Hannity claimed that the memo described “the
systematic abuse of power, the weaponizing of those
powerful tools of intelligence and the shredding of our
Fourth Amendment constitutional rights.”
Given the significance of this issue, it is absolutely true
that the memo should be declassified and released to
the public — and not just the memo itself."

The Gateway Pundit reports that Rep. Jim Jordan Reveals 1. Trump can declassify anything he wants.
Context To “Shocking” FISA Memo Proving Corruption
At “Highest Levels” of FBI & DOJ. Also the Washington
2. The House (and Senate) intelligence
Examiner publishes that 65 lawmakers urge Devin Nunes
committees can declassify any material they
to allow release of memo on FISA abuses Finally,
possess.
Breitbart writes the account, ‘Worse Than Watergate’:

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 3. The Constitution protects members of
Congress from prosecution for “any speech
or debate in either House.”
4. Republicans can leak everything to the
news media.
Regretfully, the fourth option does not provide an effective
voice for mass exposé because the concealment starts with
the "Yellow Journalists", better described as presstitutes,
who work overtime pushing their lies and duplicity.
In order to place the evidence that the Obama/Clinton
machine commits serial crimes into context, examine the
connection of Uranium One! The Real Reason Manafort
Was Arrested, with the concealment noise and babble.
"Put simply, Robert Mueller is the fox
guarding the hen-house. With the real
scandal - Uranium One - suddenly breaking
out into the open, Robert Mueller was
forced to act. These spurious charges
being made against Paul Manafort are
nothing but a diversion.
The real crime here is the Uranium One
scandal. Tony Podesta and Hillary Clinton's
other sycophants are in deep kaka!"
Now that the First Indictment Related to Uranium One
Deal Players Unsealed is available, the radioactive half life
of the Clinton contamination deserves to be disposed of
under a zeolite layer for waste removal.
"The Justice Department unsealed the
indictment only weeks after confirmed
receiving multiple referrals for criminal
investigations over the past year related to
Uranium One and the Clinton Foundation.
The U.S. Attorney’s office and the FBI in
Little Rock, Arkansas, have recently
launched a new investigation into “pay to
play” allegations at the Clinton Foundation.
Multiple sources told People’s Pundit Daily
(PPD) the probe is building upon the
progress and evidence of previous
investigations.
Federal agents from Little Rock, where the
Clinton Foundation was started, have
interviewed at least one witness in the last
month, though they are expecting to ramp
up activities in the coming weeks. In
addition to looking into pay-for-play
allegations, the probe is examining
potential tax law violations.
The Trump DOJ also cleared a confidential
informant — who allegedly made tapes of
players speaking about offering bribes to
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the Clinton Foundation — to testify before
Congress on Uranium One. The decision
lifted an unprecedented non-disclosure
agreement put in place by the Obama
Justice Department, allowing him to testify
about what he witnessed undercover.
It could also prove damning to Special
Counsel Robert Mueller III, who ran the FBI
during what numerous experts say appears
to be a scheme to cover-up potential
crimes resulting from the deal."
One of the most disturbing elements that puzzle even the
most hardened political spectator is why has DOJ top cop
Jeff Sessions acted in such a bizarre way when it comes to
investigating the Clinton crime syndicate? The Daily Mail
announces that a New probe into Hillary's role in 'Uranium
One' deal as Jeff Sessions orders Justice Department to
investigate claims of Clinton sleaze. Somehow the lack of
urgency smacks of just another link in the smoke and
mirrors pattern of not bucking the power elite structure.
William F. Jasper writes in the New American, Media
Smother Indictment in Clinton-Obama Uranium One
Russia Deal and adds valuable information to this topic.
"The DOJ statement notes that Lambert is
the “former co-president of a Maryland-
based transportation company that
provides services for the transportation of
nuclear materials to customers in the
United States and abroad.” Among
important facts not mentioned in the DOJ
statement are Lambert-Mikerin-Putin
connections to Hillary Clinton, Bill Clinton,
the Clinton Foundation, Robert Mueller,
Barack Obama, former Attorney General
Eric Holder, and other top Obama
administration officials involved in
facilitating or covering up the Uranium One
treason scandal."
The ample sources cited in this article shines light into the
dark corners of the Clintonista press reporting ban. For this
reason and the subterfuge of criminality goes all the way to
the White House.
"We now know that a silent Coup d’Etat
was launched by Obama, Valerie Jarrett,
Susan Rice, Ben Rhodes, John Brennan,
James Clapper and the senior officials of
the FBI. That coup has been unfolding over
the last two years. Its target is President
Trump."
The FISA Memo will prove to be indefensible and all the
spin, shift to a different topic for the next media cycle or a
blanket blackout void in response to the charges, will
deepen the distrust in the swamp rats. If the treason of
William Jefferson Clinton with his transfer of secret
military nuclear technology to Red Communist China in
the 1990's did not demand a firing squad, what are the
prospects that the wicked witch will drown in the stew of
her own poison?
Blaming Trump for everything is the only cottage industry
that the power gentry have to sell through their manic
celebrity minions. The entire Obama administrative
structure approved the treachery or ignored the payoffs to
the Clinton Foundation. Just maybe the linkage between
the FISA disclosures and the atomic pile of payoffs might
start a chain reaction that nukes the establishment.
As the "Schumer Shutdown" drags on, Trump should just
close the doors on as many federal agencies as possible. Of
course if he followed this path, the impeachment madness
back-stabbers would just use this approach as grounds for
removal from office.
Compare this stretch of spuriousness to the actual high
treason committed by the Clinton clan. It is long overdue
for the Department of Justice to act as a responsible
accuser. DOJ needs to indict and prosecute these co-
conspirators for their crimes that honest juries would
convict upon and any honorable jurists would sentence to
the full extent of the law.
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Focusing upon the culpability correctly for a failed
political and crooked system is the duty of every citizen.
No more excuses. Follow the news on alternative resources
which have become the Real News.
Blocking out the main stream media from your search
response sources is a practical method to use. Avoid the
brain drain that perpetuates the lies and deceptive
disinformation upon your psyche. Engage the social
progressive warriors by refuting the delusions they
promote about their Totalitarian Collectivism.
Demand from your Congressional representatives the
disbanding of the Mueller witch hunt. The Watergate
inquisition was driven by the Washington Post. The Trump
fishing expedition is in search of a crime that does not
exist. It is long overdue to end this massive concealment of
protecting Robert Mueller and his cronies from their own
crimes.
President Trump needs to act decisively. Demand the
resignation of DOJ career obstructionists, fire those who
will not leave and replace AG Sessions if he refuses to
gear up for a comprehensive investigation into Hillary and
the Clinton Foundation, which includes both Bill and
Chelsea. Lastly, the entire Obama junto of perjurers
deserves a long and secure holiday at Gitmo.
 .
FBI Agents Discussed "Secret Society"
Within DOJ And FBI Working To Undermine Trump
By Tyler Durden
Mon, 01/22/2018 - 22:38

Congressional investigators learned from a new batch of

text messages between anti-Trump FBI investigators that Watch:
a "secret society of folks" within the Department of
Justice and the FBI may have come together in the
"immediate aftermath" of the 2016 election to undermine
President Trump, according to Rep. John Ratcliffe (R-TX)
who has reviewed the texts.

Rep. Gowdy deflected a question over a second special

counsel, but mentioned

The new texts were included in a 384-page DOJ document "a text about not keeping
release to Congressional investigators last Friday - during texts," and "more manifest bias against
which Congress was notified in the cover letter President Trump all the way through the
that that five months of text messages from December election into the transition,"
14, 2016 to May 17, 2017 have gone missing (If only the
NSA had copies). and finally Gowdy said he saw a text that

"Director Comey was going to update

Ratcliffe was joined by Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC) to
the President of the United States about
discuss the latest developments with Fox News host
an investigation"
Martha McCallum, when Ratcliffe said:
which would have been Obama - and may, Gowdy
What we learned today in the thousands speculates, have been about the Trump team.
of text messages that weve reviewed
that perhaps they may not have done
that (checked their bias at the door).
There's certainly a factual basis to
question whether or not they acted on that
bias. We know about this insurance policy
that was referenced in trying to prevent
Donald Trump from becoming president.
We learned today from information that
in the immediate aftermath of his
election that there may have been a
secret society of folks within the
Department of Justice and the FBI to
include Page and Strzok to be working
against him.

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Regarding the "secret society," Gowdy said
"You have this insurance policy in Spring
2016, and then the day after the election,
what they really didn't want to have
happen, there is a text exchange between
these two FBI agents, these supposed to
be fact-centric FBI agents saying, 'Perhaps
this is the first meeting of the secret
society.' So I'm going to want to know
what secret society you are talking
about, because you're supposed to be
investigating objectively the person who
just won the electoral college. So yeah --
I'm going to want to know."
As we have been reporting over the last two days, the
FBI "lost" five months of text messages between anti-
Trump FBI agents Peter Strzok and Lisa Page.
The explanation for the gap was
"misconfiguration issues related to
rollouts, provisioning, and software
upgrades that conflicted with the FBI's
collection capabilities."
.
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The missing texts conveniently span the period between
Dec. 14, 2016 and May 17, 2017 –
the day Robert Mueller was appointed to
take over the FBI's probe of alleged
Trump-Russia collusion, and during
the period in which the FBI would
ostensibly have been hard at work on
their "insurance policy" against a Trump
victory - and during the period in which
the "secret society" Rep. Ratcliffe
referred to would have been hard at
work.
A controversy also emerged following the
revelation over the missing "textgate" - in
that the DOJ's internal investigative unit,
the Office of the Inspector General (OIG)
wrote a letter in December of last
year specifically stating that they had
obtained text messages from Strzok and
Page covering the "missing" period
revealed last Friday.
Alas, it appears the Inspector General Michael Horowitz
made this statement in error, as Attorney General Jeff
Sessions said in a Monday statement that Horrowitz was in
fact the one who
"discovered the FBI's system failed to
retain text messages for approximately
5 months," which was confirmed by Fox
News.
A Justice Department spokesperson told
Fox News that the Departments Office of
Inspector General also does not have
any text messages between the two
during that time period.
Not to worry - the DOJ, known for its honesty, will leave
"no stone unturned."
 Dem Sen. Merkley: Trump Not Caving On Amnesty
Because He’s ‘Terrified Of Breitbart Wing’
By Tony Lee
22 Jan 2018
Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-OR) said over the
weekend that President Donald Trump
is afraid to make concessions on
immigration and amnesty issues
because he fears the populist “Breitbart
wing” of the Republican Party.
During a Saturday evening appearance on MSNBC,
Merkley said that Trump did not want to give in to the
Democrats’ demands on amnesty for illegal immigrants
and a permanent Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals
(DACA) fix during the government shutdown debate
because
“he’s essentially terrified of the Breitbart
wing of the Republican Party, so he doesn’t
have the courage to be the closer and
close the deal.”
Merkley also said that when it comes to understanding
policy issues, “there’s no there there” with Trump.
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Democrats and pro-amnesty Republicans like Sen. Lindsey
Graham (R-SC) had hoped that a DACA fix would be a
prelude to a much bigger comprehensive amnesty bill in
which nearly all of the country’s illegal immigrants are
given a path to citizenship.
Graham, along with Sens. Dick Durbin (D-IL) and Jeff
Flake (R-AZ), has been reportedly working on a broader
amnesty bill that would also give legal status to the parents
of illegal immigrant Dreamers. Graham told Trump that
this moment may be the best chance for a permanent
amnesty deal and said he hoped that Trump could be the
closer. He has even tried to convince Trump that Trump
could negotiate a comprehensive amnesty solution that
former Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama
could not get done.
“Obama couldn’t do it. Bush couldn’t do it. I
think you can do it,” Graham told Trump
during a recent White House immigration
meeting. “I’ve never been more optimistic
about an immigration reform proposal
making it to the president’s desk right now.”
 Gowdy: FBI Text From Fall 2016 Says Comey Planned To
Update Obama On Investigation; Update Not Mentioned
By Comey In Senate Testimony Last Year
By Kristinn Taylor
Tuesday, January 23, 2018

Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC), appearing alongside Rep. John

Ratcliffe (R-TX) on the Fox News Channel program The Gowdy’s suspicions appear to be correct as Comey did not
Story with Martha MacCallum Monday night, spoke about disclose updating Obama in the Fall of 2016 about an
an FBI text message that then-FBI Director James Comey investigation into either candiate when he testified before
“was going to update the President of the United States the Senate last year. Comey testified his direct interactions
about an investigation.” Gowdy implied the message was with Obama were rare.
from the Fall of 2016 but that he did not know if the
update was about the Clinton or Trump investigations.
Transcript of Gowdy’s comment Monday night
However, Gowdy seemed to indicate it was about one or (transcribed by Kristinn Taylor).
the other presidential candidates. Either way Gowdy said
he found it “interesting” that Comey planned on updating
President Barack Obama about an investigation. …And I saw an interesting text that
Director Comey was going to update the
President of the United States about an
The text was part of the the latest batch of an estimated
investigation. I don’t know if it was an
50,000 messages between Trump-hating FBI officials Hillary Clinton investigation because
Peter Strzok and Lisa Page who were engaged in an
that had been reopened in the fall of
adulterous affair as they investigated President Donald
2016 or whether it was the Trump
Trump. Ratcliffe told MacCallum there was talk by the investigation. I just find it interesting
FBI couple of an anti-Trump “secret society” within the that the head of the FBI was gonna
FBI and Justice Department (Link to report by TGP’s update the President of the United
Cristina Laila). States who at that point would have
been President Obama.”
“We learned today from information that in
the immediate aftermath of his election that Video clip posted by Fox News:
there may have been a ‘secret society’ of
folks within the Department of Justice and
the FBI to include Page and Strzok to be
working against him.”

The Inspector General recently discovered that the FBI lost

five months worth of texts by Page and Strzok between
December 14, 2016 and May 17, 2017.

Former FBI Director James Comey testifies before the Senate Select
Committee on Intelligence on Capitol Hill on June 8. | Getty (via
Politico)

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Relevant transcript excerpts of Comey’s testimony before
the Senate Intelligence Committee on June 8, 2017 in
which he spoke about his rare interactions with President
Obama (via Politico)
SEN. MARK WARNER (D-VA): And so in all your
experience, this was the only president that you felt
like in every meeting you needed to document
because at some point, using your words, he might
put out a non-truthful representation of that meeting.
COMEY: That’s right, senator. As I said, as
FBI director I interacted with President
Obama, I spoke only twice in three
years, and didn’t document it.
When I was Deputy Attorney General I had a one one-
on-one with President Bush been I sent an email to
my staff but I didn’t feel with president bush the need
to document it in that I way. Again, because of the
combination of those factors, just wasn’t present with
either President Bush or President Obama.
…SEN. MARTIN HEINRICH (D-NM): Mr. Comey, prior
to January 27th of this year, have you ever had a one-
on-one meeting or a private dinner with a president of
the United States?
COMEY: No. Dinner, no. I had two one-
on-ones with President Obama. One to
talk about law enforcement issues, law
enforcement and race, which was an
important topic throughout for me and
for the president. Then once very briefly
for him to say goodbye.
HEINRICH: Were those brief interactions?
COMEY: No. The one about law enforcement and
race and policing, we spoke for probably over an hour,
just the two of us.
.
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…HEINRICH: Did the president in any of those
interactions that you’ve shared with us today ask you
what you should be doing or what our government
should be doing or the intelligence community to
protect America against Russian interference in our
election system?
COMEY: I don’t recall a conversation like that.
HEINRICH: Never?
COMEY: No.
HEINRICH: Do you find it —
COMEY: Not with President Trump.
HEINRICH: Right.
COMEY: I attended a fair number of meetings on that
with President Obama.
…COTTON: You said you did not record your
conversations with President Obama or President
Bush in memos. Did you do so with Attorney General
Jeff Sessions or any other senior member of the trump
Department of Justice?
COMEY: No. I think — I am sorry.
COTTON: Did you record conversations or memos
with the attorney general or any other senior member
of the Obama administration?
COMEY: No.”…
There is no mention in the testimony by Comey of him
briefing President Obama about the Clinton or Trump
investigations, only participating in meetings with Obama
and others about Russia’s interference in the 2016 election.
 ‘No Agenda’ Michael Wolff Bashes
‘Stupid’ ‘Buffoon’ Trump On 'Daily Show'
By Kristine Marsh
January 23, 2018 11:50 AM EST
Fire and Fury author Michael Wolff isn’t done promoting
his tabloid-worthy book just yet. The Daily Show’s Trevor
Noah welcomed Wolff as his guest January 22, and
eagerly lapped up the liberal nonsense the controversial
journalist was selling.
Despite previously claiming that he had “no political
agenda” against the president, Wolff described Trump as
“stupid” and incompetent, and joked with Noah over the
“buffoon” in the White House.
The friendly interview started with Noah commending
Wolff as practically more hated than ISIS by President
Trump. That drew laughs, and the comedian then asked
Wolff if he was “afraid” of what Trump might do to him
because of this tell-all book:
“After writing this book, is there even a tiny
little part of you that's afraid? Because
Donald Trump definitely bears a grudge,”
Noah touted.
The ever-humble journalist claimed that he
actually predicted the president would
“get in touch” with him in “a relatively
short period of time,” so he could “take
credit” for the book, which Wolff
bragged was the “best selling book in
the world,” (guess he hasn’t heard of the
Bible.)
Noah grinned then praised the “fascinating and fun read,”
before asking if the book was more “juicy tidbits” or a
“journalistic foray into the White House.” Wolff wanted to
take credit for both.
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“Yes it is a book about what I saw and what
I heard,” he added. “I mean these are the
greatest bunch of knuckleheads I think,
that have ever been assembled in one
place,” the serious “journalist” gushed.
But The Daily Show host wondered if perhaps he had been
given false information by White House staffers for his
book. Wolff assured Noah that his sources were accurate
because they worked closely with Trump.
“I think everyone in the White House
would agree, that Trump is someone
who should not be president,” Wolff
stated, (as he has said at least a dozen
times in interviews since the book was
released.) He added that this claim “wasn’t
controversial” at all.
“The President of the United States is
surrounded by people who believe he
shouldn't have this job,” Wolff declared
again.
Noah called it a “frightening concept or reality to live in,”
realizing that even Trump’s own staffers didn’t believe he
was a competent leader. That led Wolff to tear down
Trump’s ability to get anything done, claiming he’s “never
negotiated anything,” “doesn’t care about policy” and
“can’t even read a balance sheet.”
After those salacious and unfounded claims, Noah
surmised that Wolff was suggesting Trump was “a
buffoon” who had stumbled into the presidency:
Right. You must forgive me if I'm just
shocked at all of this because you
almost feel like it's depressing that he's
not a mastermind that is planning all of
this. We are just all dealing with a
buffoon is almost what you're saying.
“Yeah, he's stupid,” Wolff happily obliged,
as the audience cheered. Like a high
school bully instead of a grown man, Wolff
kept rolling with the petty insults.
“I mean, it's why -- and one of the most
wounding things you can say to him or that
 people can say about him is that he's
stupid. His head is -- his hair is going up
right now. He's also bald,” he grinned as
the audience laughed.

Noah got one more question in before ending the show.

Seizing on Wolff’s latest claim, that Trump had an
ongoing affair with someone within in the White House,
Noah asked where he got his information, as he couldn’t
find it in the book.

“Where do you get this from?” he asked.

But the sleazy journalist would only
promote his book. “You just have to read
the book,” he reiterated.
“You have to somewhat read between the
lines and you have to see. I'm not going --
just the book -- it's -- it's there,” Wolff said.
.
“But it's not there,” the talk show host
argued back.
“It is there,” Wolff repeated.
Finally Noah wrapped up the interview by praising,
“You're really good at selling the book,
man,” as the show ended.

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 Obama AG Loretta Lynch KNEW That Hillary Wouldn’t
Be Recommended For Indictment By Corrupt COMEY
Before She ‘RECUSED’ Herself
By J. D. Heyes, editor-in-chief
Posted On January 23, 2018
Lynch was already aware of Comey’s plan to clear Clinton
when she announced just days before she would ‘accept
whatever the FBI decided.’
(National Sentinel) The Fix: As the FBI’s investigation
into Hillary Clinton’s mishandling of highly classified
emails was peaking, the most criminally investigated
presidential contender ever made a bold declaration during
a June 2016 interview with Fox News.
When she was asked by correspondent Bret Baier if she
believed the investigation was going to result in charges,
she confidently replied,
“Absolutely that is not going to happen.”
She went on to deny that anyone inside the Justice
Department told her or any of her campaign associates
how the investigation would conclude.
But — how could she possibly know that?
How could Clinton be so confident that
she would be indicted over what was, by
then based on public reporting, obvious
criminal violations of federal statutes
governing how classified materials could
not be handled?
Easy. As we now know, the fix was in
from the beginning.
(Related: Former federal prosecutor details Obama’s
‘BRAZEN PLOT’ to exonerate Hillary Clinton and
‘FRAME’ Donald Trump (Video.)
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She already knew she was never going to be indicted, in
large part because the corrupt Obama administration was
already hatching a plan to undermine the Trump candidacy
with the bogus “Russian collusion” narrative.
But there are additional indications proving that she knew
well ahead of time she wasn’t ever going to be indicted by
the Obama regime (or ever because she and most everyone
else believed she would be our next president).
Recently we discovered that then-FBI director James
Comey had decided months before his infamous July 2016
press conference exonerating Clinton that he would do so
— even before she was even interviewed.
We have also discovered that FBI counterterrorism agent
Peter Strzok changed terminology in Comey’s statement
describing Clinton’s actions from “grossly negligent” —
language drawn straight from the statutes regarding the
handling of classified information — to “extremely
careless,” a legally meaningless phrase that is not
actionable.
And now we learn that then-Attorney General Loretta
Lynch decided to essentially “recuse” herself from
deciding Clinton’s fate because she also knew Comey
wasn’t going to recommend Clinton for prosecution.
As reported by PJ Media’s Debra Heine, according to new
documents that have been turned over to the Senate
Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee,
Lynch was already aware of Comey’s plan to clear Clinton
when she announced just days before she would ‘accept
whatever the FBI decided.’
Comey made his announcement during an unbelievable
press conference on July 5, 2016 —
unbelievable, because before he said “no
reasonable prosecutor” would take up the
case, he laid out everything she had done
wrong (that agents had found up to that
point). And everything Comey laid out was
legally actionable. In other words, the
 national security violations committed by
Clinton were many times worse than
violations by “regular” Americans who did
far less but were nevertheless tried,
convicted and jailed.
Days before his press conference — on June 27 — as
Lynch’s plane sat on the tarmac at the Phoenix airport, it
was boarded by former President Bill Clinton. We were all
led to believe that this meeting was pure chance and that
they two only discussed golf and grandchildren.
Two days later, stories began to appear in the media about
the ‘chance’ meeting, and FBI officials were trying to find
out how details about the meeting leaked.
Then, on July 1, Lynch came out publicly and said that
because of that meeting, she would accept Comey’s
recommendation, whatever it was.
.
The next thing we know, Comey’s exonerating Hillary.
But no, there wasn’t anything wrong or abnormal about
his exoneration or Lynch’s pre-determined decision to step
away from the decision over whether to prosecute Hillary
— right?
Wrong.
Strzok, who was kept in the loop as all of this developed
because he was in charge of Clinton’s email investigation,
received a text from his mistress, FBI lawyer Lisa Page on
July 1, the day Lynch ‘recused’ herself:
‘And yeah, it’s a real profile in courage [sic]
since she knows no charges will be
brought.’
Are you getting briefed on all of this, Attorney General
Jeff Sessions? Hello?

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 Oh Dear: Nets Fret as ‘Buckling’ Dems
‘Blasted By Left-Wing,’ Angry ‘Progressives’
By Scott Whitlock
January 23, 2018 12:00 PM EST
ABC, CBS and NBC on Tuesday spun the end of the
government shutdown from the perspective of angry
liberals, hyping that Democrats are being “blasted by left-
wing,” “progressives” who are unhappy about how the
party bungled the impasse.
CBS This Morning co-host John Dickerson opened the
segment by showcasing liberal rage:
“A three-day federal government shutdown
is over, and Senate Democrats are being
blasted by left-wing groups for buckling
and taunted by President Trump.”
Talking to Senator Sherrod Brown, Cordes avoided
questioning the Democrat on whether the shutdown was a
wise idea in the first place. Instead, she worried about its
failure: “Some of your fellow progressives thought you
should have held out for more.”
There was no doubt that CBS saw winners and losers.
Cordes recounted,
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“The White House argued Democrats
gained little from their hardball strategy.”
Dickerson opened the program by
explaining, “The government is open again
after Senate Democrats backed down from
a budget and immigration standoff. The
president calls it a big win...”
This is a contrast from Monday night when the CBS
Evening News offered a more indefinite spin, avoiding
winners and losers.
Over on Good Morning America, reporter Mary Bruce
fretted that Democrats got rolled with a vague promise:
“This is a huge gamble for Democrats.
They shut down the government over
Dreamers and ultimately it's not clear if
they're going to get what they want.”
In case the threat wasn't clear, she basically restated the
danger:
"But it’s a big risk for Democrats, who shut
down the government over demands that
Dreamers be protected. Now they are
changing course and trusting that the
Republican leader will follow through."
Reporter Cecilia Vega described the President as going on
a “victory lap” and of “gloating.”
NBC’s Today downplayed the whining from the left about
losing, but did note that Trump claimed a win. Peter
Alexander related,
“The President on Twitter also claiming a
big win for Republicans here, dismissing
Democrats for caving.”
A transcript of the CBS segment is below:
SENATOR DICK DURBIN: The issue of immigration, the issue of
the Dreamers, is the civil rights issue of our time.
CORDES: The White House argued Democrats gained little from
their hardball strategy.
SARAH HUCKABEE: I would say that those numbers are much
more in the President's favor than in Senator Schumer's favor.

CBS This Morning

1/23/18
7am tease

JOHN DICKERSON: The government is open again after Senate

Democrats backed down from a budget and immigration standoff.
The president calls it a big win, but a clash is still looming over
DACA.

...

DICKERSON: A three-day federal government shutdown is over,
and Senate Democrats are being blasted by left-wing groups for
buckling and taunted by President Trump. The President
tweeted, "Big win for Republicans as Democrats cave on
shutdown after signing a short-term spending bill."
GAYLE KING: That measure does not deal with the DACA
program for nearly 700,000 undocumented immigrants. Senate
Republicans promise a vote on DACA by next month. Nancy
Cordes is on Capitol Hill with this story. Nancy, good morning.
What a day.
CORDES: Democrats claimed they succeeded by forcing GOP
leader Mitch McConnell to commit to a vote on Dreamer
legislation for the first time. Some of your fellow progressives
thought you should have held out for more.
SENATOR SHERROD BROWN: I think we got a good deal.
CORDES: Connecticut's Richard Blumenthal disagreed. .
SENATOR RICHARD BLUMENTHAL: It eaves the Dreamers out
in the cold, potentially vulnerable to mass deportation.

NANCY CORDES: Really, and while the shutdown may be over, CORDES: Jose Lopez is one of those Dreamers. His parents
lawmakers bought themselves just two and a half weeks before brought him here from Mexico when he was two.
the money is set to run out again. And while Democrats did
extract that promise from the Senate's leader, they got no such
JOSE LOPEZ (Dream Team Los Angeles spokesperson): The
guarantee from House Republicans, meaning, really, they're
time to act was now. I feel like they lost that chance.
facing nearly as much uncertainty as before.
CORDES: He now works as a communications director for a
VOICE: The yeas are 266. The nays are 150 —
nonprofit in L.A.

CORDES: With back-to-back votes to reopen the government —

SENATOR JONI ERNST: The motion to concur is agreed to.
CORDES: — Congress crawled out of a hole it dug itself.
SPEAKER PAUL RYAN: This is not a moment to pat ourselves
on the back, not even close. We very much need to heed the
lessons of what just happened here.
LOPEZ: My biggest fear is that it's been 17 years, there's going
to be another 17 years before we hear anything else.
CORDES: It all depends on how far four congressional leaders
can get in the next 16 days, crafting a compromise that pairs
Dreamer protections with more border security.
REP. STENY HOYER: I pray that neither I nor the Congress will
be in this same position come February 8th.

CORDES: What happened was a three-day partisan standoff CORDES: He may need those prayers because 16 legislative
over something almost every leader claims to want. A bill days, well, that's really six days around here because the House
protecting young immigrants brought to the U.S. illegally as is taking the rest of the week off. That's a very short amount of
children. time to tackle an issue, immigration, that has stymied Congress

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for decades. One bright spot in this spending bill for both sides Health Insurance Program for another six years.
but really for Democrats is the fact that it reinstated the Children's
.

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 Rep. Matt Gaetz Rings The Alarm On Latest FBI
Bombshell: “The United States Of America Is In
Jeopardy!” (VIDEO)
By Joshua Caplan
Tuesday, January 23, 2018

Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) joined

“Hannity,” Monday evening to give his
take on the latest bombshell to rock the
FBI. The Florida Republican told Fox
News host Sean Hannity he believes
the “missing” Strzok-Page text
messages illustrate how precarious of a
position the United States is in when it
comes to law and order.

“It is no longer disputable that a pro-Hillary

Clinton, anti-Donald Trump bias has
intractably infected the FBI, and the United
States of America is in jeopardy as a
consequence!”, warned Gaetz.

Among the messages is an exchange revealing Strzok and

Page discussed an ‘insurance policy,’ against a Trump
presidency.

The Wall Street Journal reported:

An FBI agent’s reference to “an insurance policy” in a

much-debated text message was meant to convey that the
bureau needed to aggressively investigate allegations of
collusion between Donald Trump’s campaign and Russia,
according to people familiar with his account. Rep. Ron DeSantis:

Earlier in the evening, Rep. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) told Fox
News host Lou Dobbs he does not believe the FBI’s
explanation for the missing texts, reported The Gateway
Pundit‘s Jim Hoft.
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“We need to find out where the actual
devices are that Page and Strzok utilized.
There’s no reason they shouldn’t be
produced. We need an answer on that. And
even if there was some type of glitch the
idea that these text messages disappear,
that is not the way it works with modern
technology. I don’t buy this explanation. We
 need more. Think about this too. If the FBI
were investigating any one of your listeners
and they said, “Oh, documents magically
deleted,’ or whatever the FBI was looking
for magically deleted. Do you think for one
minute that they would be able to get away
with it? So similar to the IRS you can’t have
a situation where a powerful government
agency gets to live under a lower
standard.”

Credit: Lou Dobbs Tonight:

On Sunday, we learned additional text messages sent and
received by disgraced FBI agent Peter Strzok had been
handed over to Congress. In yet another twist to the Strzok
saga, the FBI failed to hand over a block of the agent’s text
messages between Dec. 14, 2016, and May 17, 2017
because they went “missing.”

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 Peter Schiff: The Economy Will
‘Blow Up Like A BOMB’ And Trump Will Be The Fall Guy
Mac Slavo
January 23rd, 2018

decline in 14 years. We has the biggest

drop against the Chinese Yuan in nine
years, and in fact, I think this year we’re
gonna fall to an all time record low against
the Yuan. I think we’re gonna hit record
lows against other major currencies like
Euro and the Yen maybe by 2019 or 2020.”

Jones then asks Schiff what Trump is supposed to do to

stop the crash. Schiff says there’s nothing he can do. It’s
set up to crash so the United States will end up with a left-
of-socialist dictator such as Bernie Sanders as the next
president.
Peter Schiff isn’t known for mincing words or
sugarcoating the evidence. The financial broker and “He [Trump] campaigned and said it [the
economist said in an interview stock market] was a bubble. It wasn’t his
bubble. Now it’s his bubble; that’s the
“the economy is going to blow up like a problem. But if he would have said ‘it’s a
bomb,” bubble and it’s going down,’ it wouldn’t
have been his fault. Because part of the
and when that happens, Donald Trump will take all of the cure for the economy is deflating these
blame. bubbles. It has to be done. Someone
has to rip this bandaid off and he was
Not even a full minute into an interview with Alex Jones elected to do it.”
of Info Wars, Schiff says “it’s not a good thing” that the
economy is going to crash and burn.

“Unfortunately, that’s what Trump has

inherited from Obama. But it’s not even
really just Obama, it’s the federal reserve.
It’s the monetary policy that has been
passed like a baton from Clinton to Bush to
Obama and now to Trump. And we’re near
the end of the game and unfortunately,
Trump’s gonna be the fall guy. This
thing is all gonna collapse while he’s
president.”
Jones then asks Shiff to walk him through what an
The tax cuts will give Democrats a reason to blame the economic implosion would look like.
collapse all on the Republicans, says Schiff. And we are
getting close to this collapse. “Here’s how it’s gonna go down. So, what’s
gonna happen is interest rates are gonna
“The important thing, is if you look at what’s keep rising, commodity prices are gonna
happening in the dollar, for example, last keep rising, the dollar’s gonna keep falling,
year was the first year in five years that the so you’re gonna start to see pick-ups in the
dollar went down and it was the biggest official inflation rate. And so, rising

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 consumer prices and rising interest rates
are gonna start to be a powerful headwind
for the economy because Americans are
gonna be spending a lot more money on
basic necessities, if they have an
adjustable rate mortgage…costs are going
up. Credit card debt, auto loans, all this
cheap money is gonna be gradually going
away and the economy is going to be
weakening. And as the economy is
weakening, unemployment is gonna start to
pick up. Now the Fed is gonna see this.
The Fed is gonna see the economy slowing
down, and if they continue to raise rates, it
will go into recession. Now, that’s better
than the alternative.
But, the alternative, if the Federal Reserve decides that
they want to prevent a recession or maybe fight off a
recession if it happens and they don’t recognize it in time,
if they wanna prop up the stock market, then what they
have to do is call off the rate hikes.
In fact, I think that they have to go back
to zero, they have to launch QE4 in
order to keep interest rates from really
spiking and to prop up the market, but
.
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that will set off a currency crisis. The
dollar will plunge, not just make new
lows. That will set of an economic crisis
that’s far worse than the financial crisis
or the recession that we are trying to
avoid.”
Schiff then says the problem is also unfunded liabilities
such as social security and Medicare. He says that China
doesn’t have any of those. The Chinese rely on
themselves, have disposable income, and save 30% of their
income and taxes are almost nothing to keep businesses
booming. While Americans pay a lot of taxes, save only
3%, live paycheck to paycheck, and rely on the deeply
indebted government. Becoming self-reliant and preparing
yourself for this crash will give you a hand up in during
the dollar’s collapse.
Jones then stated that “betting against America,” wasn’t a
good idea. But Schiff fired back.
“I’m not betting against America. I’m
betting against the socialists and
central bankers who have destroyed
America. In the long run, maybe
America’s gonna come back. But first,
we’re gonn have to pay the piper.”
 Why Would Americans Trust AG Sessions To Drain The
Swamp Now? His Actions To Date Show He Is The Swamp!
More And More Calls For His Removal!
By Jim Hoft
Tuesday, January 23, 2018
CNN reported “Sessions’ agenda at DOJ
reflects Trump’s, despite rocky
relationship” – what a joke! Sessions
has been beyond disappointing. He’s
aligned himself with the deep state.
CNN recently listed Jeff Sessions’ accomplishments as US
Attorney General as follows –
In an October memo, he directed all US
attorneys to implement new violent crime
reduction strategies as part of the renewed
DOJ program Project Safe
Neighborhoods…
Sessions has spotlighted the gang’s [MS-
13] brutality and cross-border
connections…
The DOJ has sought in court — with mixed
success — to salvage another of the
President’s signature agenda items: the
travel ban…
the withdrawal of several DOJ directives
that appeared to lessen protections for
transgender people…
Amid calls for more investigations by the
President and several Republican
members of Congress, Sessions has
initiated multiple reviews, in addition to a
probe launched separately by the DOJ
Inspector General…
What an absolute joke! With all that was
wrong with the DOJ and FBI, this is the
result!
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Before the election there were cries to
“Drain the Swamp” and “Lock Her Up” –
But nothing to date has been accomplished to address
either by this AG. Instead, a short time after he was sworn
in, AG Sessions recused himself from anything Russia,
brought in creepy Assistant AG Rod Rosenstein who then
immediately brought in corrupt Robert Mueller to partake
in an illegal, wide-open, unconstitutional witch hunt into
President Trump!
Hillary walks free in spite of more and
more information of widespread
criminal activity with the Clinton
Foundation and the Obama
Administration. The FBI is utterly
corrupt at the top and the DOJ is as
well.
Day after day, we the people, hear and read of more and
more criminal activity within these institutions. Sessions
ignores or announces investigations into these actions by
deep state personnel. Criminals in the FBI continue to
work and get paid. Americans continue to pay their bills.
Mueller commits crimes, steals documents under attorney
– client privledge and is allowed to continue.
Fool us once, shame on you, fool us twice,
shame on us.
More and more Americans are demanding Jeff Sessions to
resign or be removed –
 The US has no more shame
to spare. Sessions must go –
America needs a strong AG
not Jeff Benedict Arnold
Sessions. We all know that
if the deep state, the
Clintons and the Obama
Administration and all these
criminals who committed
criminal acts are not
brought to justice – there
will be no America left for
our children! In Jesus’
Name – Drain the swamp
and Lock her up!

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 Matt Drudge Slams Michael Wolff’s
‘Fabricated Bull***T’ — Trump ‘In Fine Form’
Peter Hasson - Associate Editor
11:23 AM 01/23/2018

talking about his 2020 re-election run!!”

said Drudge, who runs the influential (and
eponymous) Drudge Report.

News reporter Matt Drudge attends the White House

Correspondents' Dinner at the Washington Hilton Hotel on April 30,
2005 in Washington D.C. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Getty Images

News giant Matt Drudge slammed author Michael Wolff

on Tuesday for his depiction of President Trump in his
book, Fire and Fury.

Wolff described Trump as mentally unwell and not

wanting to be president, but Drudge cited a dinner he had
with Trump while trashing Wolff’s book on Twitter as

“fabricated bullshit.” Drudge’s tweet linked to a story from The Hill, which
quoted Wolff saying Trump doesn’t want to be president.
“Time to call out Michael Wolff and his Wolff’s book is filled with errors and the author admitted
fabricated bullshit! I had dinner with the that he doesn’t even know if parts of it are true.
president a few weeks ago and he was in
fine form. He was optimistic, engaged, on
top of the world, loving the job. And already
.

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 Five Months Of Missing Texts
Between Anti-Trump FBI Officials, ABC/NBC Censor!
By Geoffrey Dickens
January 23, 2018 1:46 PM EST
Correction: A previous version of this blog mistakenly
reported there were 50,000 missing texts.
As much as five months worth of texts between two anti-
Trump officials at the FBI are missing, but ABC and NBC
have yet to report on this stunning development. The
missing texts story first broke on Sunday night and while
Fox News was on top of story, the Big Three (ABC, CBS,
NBC) stories had completely ignored it – until CBS This
Morning finally arrived on it in a three-minute Paula Reid
segment on Tuesday’s show.
On Monday, Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced
that the Department of Justice is now looking into 50,000
text messages (That number does not include the five
months’ worth of missing texts) exchanged between two
anti-Trump FBI officials Peter Strzok and Lisa Page.
President Donald Trump also tweeted about the revelations
on Tuesday morning. But the Sessions announcement and
Trump tweet failed to spur either ABC or NBC into
covering the evidence of clear anti-Trump bias at the FBI.
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The following is the sum total of network coverage of
these developments (3 minutes, 1 seconds) as it was aired
on the January 23 edition of CBS This Morning:
NORAH O’DONNELL: Attorney General Jeff Sessions promises
to leave no stone unturned to find missing text messages tied to
the Russia investigation. Republicans say the texts may show
bias by the FBI’s Peter Strzok and Lisa Page who once worked
for special counsel Robert Mueller. Well this morning on Twitter,
President Trump called it one of the biggest stories in a long time
writing, quote “The FBI now says it’s missing five months worth of
lovers Strzok-Page texts, perhaps 50,000, and all in primetime!
Wow!” exclamation point. Paula Reid is tracking the investigation.
Paula, good morning.
[On screen headline: “Missing Texts, FBI Scrutinized Over
Missing Messages Tied to Russia Probe”]
PAULA REID: Good morning. Now Strzok played a key role in
the Clinton e-mail investigation and was then assigned to the
Mueller probe, but he was dismissed after his anti-Trump text
messages were discovered. And now the revelation that the FBI
was not storing many texts during this critical period between the
presidential transition and the day Mueller was appointed is
setting off a political firestorm.
REP. JIM JORDAN: We need to get to the bottom of it and find
out what exactly happened.
REID: Republicans in congress are asking why hundreds of
messages are missing between FBI officials Peter Strzok and
Lisa Page who exchanged thousands of texts frequently
discussing the Clinton investigation as well as their dislike of
Trump. In one from February, 2016, page texted Strzok, then
candidate-Trump “simply cannot be president.” In another, Strzok
calls Trump an idiot and awful.
JAMES COMEY: No charges are appropriate in this case.
REID: Strzok and Page also discussed Comey’s statement
exonerating Hillary Clinton’s use of a private e-mail server. An
earlier draft noted Secretary Clinton e-mailed with President
Obama from her private server. But the sentence was later edited
to replace “the president” with “a senior government official.”
Strzok and Page also discussed using non-work phones to talk
about Clinton so “it can’t be traced.” During the Department of
Justice’s investigation into Strzok, it found texts were missing
between December 14th, 2016, and May 17th, 2017. Those
dates span the presidential transition and the day Robert Mueller
was appointed. The FBI blames software and technical issues
saying employees with many Samsung 5 mobile devices did not
capture texts during that time. Last month on Face the Nation,
Republican Senator James Langford said Strzok’s comments are
also calling into question his role on the Mueller probe.
REID: Yesterday, FBI director Chris Wray visited the White
House to discuss the five months of missing texts that appear to
impact many more agents in addition to Strzok and Page. Now
Strzok is expected to testify on Capitol Hill soon, but a date has
not been set. Gayle?
GAYLE KING: Alright, a lot to discuss there too. Thank
you very much, Paula.

SEN. JAMES LANGFORD: It’s clear this individual within the

Mueller team that was also on the Clinton e-mail investigation
team had a strong bias against now-President Trump.

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 DEVELOPING=> Missing Strzok-Page Text Messages
Could Only Be Deleted By Someone Inside FBI
By Jim Hoft
Tuesday, January 23, 2018
The missing messages may still be recovered according to
experts.
The Washington Examiner reported:
This weekend the FBI released 50,000
text messages between top FBI
Investigator Peter Strzok and his
mistress and top FBI Attorney Lisa
Page.
But the FBI told Congress thousands of
text messages between the two agents
were deleted during a five month period
from December 2016 to May 2017.
The premier international intelligence
agency said they lost them.
The FBI “lost” five months of text messages between
Chief FBI Investigator Peter Strzok and his mistress and
FBI Attorney Lisa Page.
The two agents were using Galaxy S5 phones preloaded
with the Samsung Knox security suite.
Reporter Jack Posobiec says the text messages could not
have been deleted, altered or disabled by anyone other than
an FBI system expert.
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Investigators “may be able to recover
deleted text messages from the cellphones
used by the parties,” agreed Dennis
Williams, a partner at Pathway Forensics
LLC who worked three decades with the
FBI, including as director of the Greater
Houston Regional Computer Forensics
Laboratory.
“If the users were using the Google cloud
as a backup, messages could be found
there. If the phone had been synced with
the FBI desktop computer, or even a home
computer, the messages could also be
located on those devices. If the old phones
are available, forensic exams of those
phones could also recover the messages,”
Vilfer said. “The particular FBI employees
of interest in this case had texted that they
would be using an alternative messaging
system, iMessage. This is on the Apple
platform and would come with similar
sources of possible backups—iCloud, their
personal iPhone or Macs etc. I suspect that
is where some real meat might be as it
relates to their discussions.”
 Is There New Evidence Comey LIED In Sworn
Testimony To CONGRESS Over Scandalous
TRUMP Probe?
By Usafeaturesmedia
Posted On January 23, 2018
“I had two one-on-ones with President
Obama”
(National Sentinel) Conflict: During sworn testimony
before the Senate Intelligence Committee June 8, 2017,
after he’d been fired by President Donald J. Trump, former
FBI Director James Comey testified that he had only had
two interactions with President Obama.
One, he said, was an hour-long conversation with Obama
on policing, law enforcement and race. The other was a
“brief” encounter to say goodbye on Obama’s way out the
door, according to published testimony.
Via Politico:
SEN. MARK WARNER (D-VA): And so in
all your experience, this was the only
president that you felt like in every meeting
you needed to document because at some
point, using your words, he might put out a
non-truthful representation of that meeting.
COMEY: That’s right, senator. As I said, as
FBI director I interacted with President
Obama, I spoke only twice in three
years, and didn’t document it. When I
was Deputy Attorney General I had a one
one-on-one with President Bush been I
sent an email to my staff but I didn’t feel
with president bush the need to document
it in that I way. Again, because of the
combination of those factors, just wasn’t
present with either President Bush or
President Obama.
.
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…SEN. MARTIN HEINRICH (D-NM): Mr.
Comey, prior to January 27th of this year,
have you ever had a one-on-one meeting
or a private dinner with a president of the
United States?
COMEY: No. Dinner, no. I had two one-
on-ones with President Obama. One to
talk about law enforcement issues, law
enforcement and race, which was an
important topic throughout for me and
for the president. Then once very briefly
for him to say goodbye.
But on Monday night during an interview with Fox News,
Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., and Rep. John Radcliffe, R-
Texas, appeared with host Martha McCallum to discuss
some of what they discovered after reviewing 50,000 text
messages exchanged between anti-Trump FBI agent Peter
Strzok and his mistress, FBI lawyer Lisa Page.
Among those, Gowdy said, was a message exchange
discussing Comey’s plans to “brief the president” about an
ongoing investigation close to the November 2016
election.
“And I saw an interesting text that Director
Comey was going to update the President
of the United States about an
investigation,” Gowdy said.
“I don’t know if it was an Hillary Clinton
investigation because that had been
reopened in the fall of 2016 or whether it
was the Trump investigation. I just find it
interesting that the head of the FBI was
gonna update the President of the United
States who at that point would have been
President Obama,” he said.
Nowhere in the published transcript of Comey’s testimony
does he mention briefing Obama about an ongoing
investigation.
 MYSTERY: Unmasking Requests By Samantha Power,
Susan Rice EXPLODED During Period Of
Missing Strzok-Page Texts
By Joshua Caplan
Tuesday, January 23, 2018
In an interview posted to YouTube
Monday, reporter Sara A. Carter told Fox
News host Sean Hannity that Deputy
Attorney Rod Rosenstein likely re-
authorized FISA warrants against
President-elect Donald Trump following
the 2016 presidential election. In
addition, Carter revealed the number of
unmasking requests exploded during
the time frame of the missing Strzok-
Page text messages.
Credit: Maureen Dowling
“We have to ask ourselves, was Rod
Rosenstein involved in re-authorizing those
FISA surveillance warrants?” asked Carter.
“Don’t we believe the timing shows he had
to?” Hannity interjected.
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“We believe the timing shows he had to,”
replied Carter, who then added, “we don’t
have positive proof of that yet, but what we
know of is that those FISA surveillance
warrants were re-authorized again and
again and they were continuing to
investigate President Trump and members
of his team even after the election.”
Carter then turned her attention to the unmasking scandal
embroiling former key Obama officials, U.S Ambassador
to the United Nations Samantha Power and Deputy
National Security Advisor Ben Rhodes.
“You know what’s even more
concerning to my Sean, is the fact that
during those months of those missing
text messages — remember the
unmasking?”
“That is when we discovered — I
remember John Solomon and I wrote
these stories about the unmasking —
that’s when it sped up.”
“That’s when the unmasking went into
high gear,” revealed Carter.
“We have Samantha Power with 300
unmaskings, although she’s denying
that she signed off on those
unmaskings.”
“We have Susan Rice, we have others
within the Obama administration that
have signed off,”
Hannity then asked Carter, “Do we know if
Ben Rhodes did it?”
“We suspect Ben Rhodes was involved
in it,” Carter replied.
Former Obama administration officials are the subject of
intense scrutiny in relation to Congress’ investigation into
‘unmasking’ allegations. According to the Washington
Free Beacon, former United Nations Ambassador
Samantha Power ‘unmasked’ hundreds during her final
year as an Obama administration official.
Washington Free Beacon reports:
Power was first identified by
the Washington Free Beacon last month as
a central figure in a congressional
investigation into efforts by senior Obama
administration officials to obtain classified
intelligence information in what many
allege was an effort to undermine President
Donald Trump and his incoming national
security team.
Power is believed to be the anonymous
official responsible for “hundreds of
unmasking requests during the final year of
the Obama administration,” according to
current and former U.S. officials who spoke
to the Free Beacon about the ongoing
investigation.
Efforts by the former Obama administration
to obtain the names of Trump allies
included in raw intelligence reports have
fueled speculation that subsequent leaks to
the press were orchestrated by the former
administration and its allies in a bid to
damage the current White House and
smear Trump’s most senior confidantes.
.
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When asked why Power would need to be involved in such
gathering of classified intelligence, the source said,
“That’s just not the sort of thing that she
should have been concerned about, unless
she was playing the role of political
operative with the help of the intelligence
community.”
As TGP previously reported, independent journalist and
author Mike Cernovich broke the story that the leaker and
unmasker is former NatSec Advisor, Susan Rice.
On Sunday, we learned additional text messages sent and
received by disgraced FBI agent Peter Strzok had been
handed over to Congress. In yet another twist to the Strzok
saga, the FBI failed to hand over a block of the agent’s text
messages between Dec. 14, 2016, and May 17, 2017
because they went “missing.”
The revelation raises even more questions about possible
collusion between the FBI, Justice Department with the
Obama White House, in an effort to undermine Trump.
 Republican Study Group Wants This DACA Bill,
But It’s The One DEMOCRATS Will HATE The MOST
By Usafeaturesmedia
Posted On January 23, 2018
The bill has emerged as a White House favorite
(National Sentinel) Immigration Deformed: The 150-
member Republican Study Committee is pushing House
Speaker Paul Ryan of Wisconsin to hold a vote on a bill
involving illegal immigrations currently covered under
provisions of the Obama-era Deferred Action on
Childhood Arrivals policy, or DACA.
But it’s likely the one bill Democrats will oppose the most.
As reported by The Daily Caller, the measure, authored by
Rep. Bob Goodlatte, will grant legal status to certain
younger illegal immigrants in exchange for a host of
conservative immigration reforms.
They include: Funding for President Donald J. Trump’s
border wall; limits on chain migration; and an end to the
diversity visa lottery, which critics say favors unskilled
poor over skilled foreigners who can contribute better to
American society.
The bill has emerged as a White House favorite. The
RSC’s steering panel voted to support the measure and is
now calling for a full floor vote.
“The Securing America’s Future Act is the
framework to strengthen border security,
increase interior enforcement and resolve
the DACA situation,” the steering
committee said in a statement, according to
CNN.
“We believe an eventual stand alone floor
vote is essential. We oppose any process
.
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for a DACA solution that favors a backroom
deal with Democrats over regular order in
the House,” the RSC said.
The House measure comes as moderate Republicans and
Democrats work out a deal of their own on DACA in the
upper chamber that isn’t likely to pass muster with the
White House.
As a compromise for Democratic support for a three-week
government funding bill, Senate Majority Leader Mitch
McConnell, R-Ky., agreed to open floor debate on DACA
if a deal is not made in the next government funding bill
due Feb. 8.
As TheDC reported further:
The Securing America’s Future Act —
authored by GOP Reps. Bob Goodlatte of
Virginia, Mike McCaul of Texas, Raul
Labrador of Idaho and Martha McSally of
Arizona — goes beyond the Trump
administration’s DACA demands and tacks
on mandatory e-Verify, punishments for
sanctuary cities, tighter asylum standards,
and significant cuts to legal immigration
levels. It has been endorsed by groups that
favor tighter limits on immigration, such as
the Center for Immigration Studies and
Numbers USA.
The bill does not have backing from some moderate House
GOP members because it doesn’t offer a path to
citizenship for DACA recipients, just renewable legal
status.
“North Carolina Rep. Mark Walker, who
leads the RSC, says the bill will likely need
some modifications to get to a majority of
218 votes. But he believes House
leadership should use it as a starting point
for DACA negotiations,” TheDC reported.
 FBI's Strzok And Page Spoke Of 'Secret Society'
After Trump Election, Lawmakers Say
By Adam Shaw
January 23, 2018

Gowdy said the “secret society” reference occurred the day

after Trump won the presidential election in November
2016.

“There’s a text exchange between these

two FBI agents, these two supposed to be
objective fact-centric FBI agents, saying
that perhaps this is the first meeting of the
‘secret society,'” Gowdy said.

Two top FBI officials under fire for exchanging anti-

Trump text messages during the 2016 election spoke of a
“secret society” the day after President Trump's victory,
according to two lawmakers with knowledge of the
messages.

Peter Strzok -- a top counterintelligence official involved

in both the Hillary Clinton email probe and FBI Special
Counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia probe -- exchanged more
than 50,000 messages with senior FBI lawyer Lisa Page,
with whom he was romantically involved.
“So of course I’m going to want to know
what secret society you’re talking about
House Oversight and Government Reform Committee because you’re supposed to be
Chairman Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., and Rep. John Ratcliffe, investigating objectively the person who
R-Texas, said Monday that among the messages the pair just won the Electoral College; so yeah I’m
exchanged are references to a “secret society” within the going to want to know," he said.
Department of Justice and the FBI.
It isn’t the first time the messages have raised questions
“We learned today about information that in about what may have been going on at the FBI. In one
the immediate aftermath of [Trump’s] previously released message, Strzok appeared to make
election, that there may have been a secret reference to an “insurance policy” against a Trump win.
society of folks within the Department of
Justice and the FBI -- to include Page and
Strzok -- that would be working against
him,” Ratcliffe said Monday on Fox News'
“The Story with Martha MacCallum.”
“I’m not saying that actually happened, but
when folks speak in those terms, they need
to come forward to explain the context with
which they used those terms,” he added.

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 “I want to believe the path you threw out for
consideration in Andy’s office — that
there’s no way he gets elected — but I’m
afraid we can’t take that risk. It’s like an
insurance policy in the unlikely event you
die before you’re 40…” he wrote.
According to the Wall Street Journal, Strzok claims the
message was addressing a colleague who felt the FBI
could take its time with allegations of Trump/Russia
collusion because Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton
was thought certain to win.
"Andy," meanwhile, may have been a
reference to FBI Deputy Director Andrew
McCabe, who is at the center of new
tensions with the Trump administration.
Axios reported late Monday that Attorney General Jeff
Sessions, urged by President Trump, has been pressuring
FBI Director Christopher Wray to fire McCabe.
The outlet reported that Wray threatened to resign if
McCabe was fired. White House Counsel Don McGahn
reportedly told Sessions that McCabe wasn’t worth losing
the FBI director over and risking another media firestorm
.
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like when Trump axed former director James Comey last
year.
The developments come as the DOJ announced that the
FBI “failed to preserve” five months of texts between
Strzok and Page.
“We will leave no stone unturned to confirm
with certainty why these text messages are
not now available to be produced and will
use every technology available to
determine whether the missing messages
are recoverable from another source,”
Sessions said in a statement provided to
Fox News. “If we are successful, we will
update the congressional committees
immediately.”
The missing messages from Strzok and Page span a crucial
window, between the presidential transition and the launch
of Mueller’s Russia probe. Strzok was removed from the
probe by Mueller after he learned of the messages.
On Tuesday, President Trump described
the missing messages as "one of the
biggest stories in a long time."
 ‘Jaw-Dropping’ Text From STRZOK:
‘No There There’re Re: Trump-Russia COLLUSION
By Usafeaturesmedia
Posted On January 23, 2018
“I think that’s kind of jaw-dropping”
(National Sentinel) Witch Hunt: Disgraced FBI
counterintelligence agent Peter Stzrok sent a text message
to his mistress, FBI lawyer Lisa Page last year expressing
reservations about joining special counsel Robert
Mueller’s investigation of alleged “collusion” between the
Trump campaign and Russia.
Though he did eventually join Mueller’s team — only to
be dismissed after discovery of anti-Trump texts he and
Page exchanged — it appears as though Strzok did not
believe the allegations to be true.
That, says Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., chairman of the
Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
Committee, is “jaw-dropping.”
In an interview with a local talk radio host, Johnson read
the text aloud:
“You and I both know the odds are nothing.
If I thought it was likely, I’d be there no
question. I hesitate in part because of my
gut sense and concern that there’s no big
there there.”
Johnson said that text referred directly to Mueller’s
investigation, which had begun two days earlier. Prior to
that, Strzok was a top investigator on the Clinton email
inquiry, which went nowhere.
.
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“I think that’s kind of jaw-dropping,”
said Johnson.
“In other words, Peter Strzok, who was the
FBI deputy assistant director of the
counterintelligence division, the man who
had a plan to do something because he
just couldn’t abide Donald Trump being
president, is saying that his gut sense is
that there’s no big there there when it
comes to the Mueller special counsel
investigation,” he said.
President Donald J. Trump has always viewed the
investigation as a distraction and a “witch hunt.” He has
regularly claimed the same thing as Strzok — that there is
no evidence of collusion because none took place.
Last week Republicans began pushing for the House
Intelligence Committee and the White House to release a
memo allegedly detailing systematic abuse of the Foreign
Intelligence Surveillance Court, or FISC, by the Obama
administration.
Republicans believe that various operatives within the
Department of Justice and FBI used the unverified “Trump
dossier” to obtain a warrant to spy on Trump’s campaign.
Some Republicans, including Rep. Matt Gaetz of Florida,
believe the so-called FISA memo drafted by the
Intelligence Committee will prove that Mueller’s
investigation is a “sham.”
“I believe that once the American people
have the opportunity to evaluate the
allegations and claims in this memo, it will
become evident the activities of the last
administration, the crimes I believe were
committed, and the total sham that this
Mueller investigation is, built on a false
premise and rotten to the core,” he told Fox
News’ Tucker Carlson.
 Fusion GPS Co-Founder Suggests He Billed Clinton
Campaign Law Firm $160,000 To Pay
Trump Hoax Dossier Author
By Aaron Klein
23 Jan 2018

GOWDY : And how much did you pay Chris Steele?

SIMPSON : I think what we’ve told the committee from

the bank records is that it was ultimately 160,000. That
sounds right to me. I think probably the initial engagement
was for 20 or 30 thousand dollars. There’s, you know,
currency differences between pounds and dollars, so I
don’t remember how it was denominated or exactly how it
was priced.

GOWDY: Now, help me understand this. Would that

payment for Steele have been expensed to the law firm, or
would Fusion have paid that out of its own money that it
received from the law firm?

SIMPSON: I believe, at least if things were running the

JERUSALEM — Testimony released last
week reveals new details about alleged
payments by the law firm that
represented Hillary Clinton’s 2016
presidential campaign and the
Democratic National Committee (DNC)
to the former British spy who authored
the largely discredited 35-page anti-
Trump dossier.
way I hope they ran, it was expensed to the law firm.
GOWDY: So Perkins Coie paid Chris Steele?
SIMPSON: I think it was –I mean, I think we billed them
for it.
Simpson’s statements represent the clearest insight yet
about the specifics of the reported payments to Steele.

In October, the Washington Post reported that in April

Glenn R. Simpson, the co-founder of Fusion GPS,
2016, attorney Marc E. Elias and his law firm, Perkins
disclosed the information regarding the alleged financial
Coie, retained Fusion GPS to conduct the firm’s anti-
exchanges involving the Perkins Coie law firm and ex-
Trump work on behalf of both Hillary Clinton’s 2016
British intelligence agent Christopher Steele. Fusion GPS
presidential campaign and the DNC.
was retained by Perkins Coie to conduct its anti-Trump
work resulting in the questionable dossier.
Neither Elias nor two media relations representatives for
Perkins Coie returned a Breitbart News request seeking
Instead of Fusion GPS receiving lump sums from Perkins
comment on any billing arrangements resulting in
Coie, Simpson testified that he believes Fusion GPS
payments to Steele, despite a Tuesday deadline for
expensed Steele’s payments directly to Perkins Coie.
comment.
Simpson stated that bank records show Fusion GPS paid
Steele about $160,000.
Through Perkins Coie, Clinton’s campaign and the DNC
continued to fund Fusion GPS until October 2016, days
Here is a relevant portion of Simpson’s Novem ber 14
before Election Day, the Post reported.
testimony, released last week, which came during the
following exchange with Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.):

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While it is not clear how much the Clinton campaign or the
DNC paid Fusion GPS, the UK Independent, citing
campaign finance records, reported that the Clinton
campaign doled out $5.6 million to Perkins Coie from June
2015 to December 2016. Records show that since
November 2015, the DNC paid the law firm $3.6 million
in “legal and compliance consulting.”
The BBC reported that the information in the dossier
served as a “roadmap” for the FBI’s investigation into
claims of coordination between Moscow and members of
Trump’s presidential campaign.
Last April, CNN reported that the dossier served as part of
the FBI’s justification for seeking the FISA court’s
reported approval to clandestinely monitor the
communications of Carter Page, the American oil industry
investor who was tangentially and briefly associated with
Trump’s presidential campaign.
That purported FISA warrant is currently at the center of
controversy as House Republicans seek the release of a
memo described as alleging FISA surveillance abuses
under the Obama administration.
Dossier discredited
Major questions have been raised as to the veracity of the
dossier, large sections of which have been discredited. The
dossier contains wild and unproven claims that the
Russians had information regarding Trump and sordid
sexual acts, including the widely mocked claim that Trump
hired prostitutes and had them urinate on a hotel room bed.
Citing a “Kremlin insider,” the dossier,
which misspelled the name of a Russian
diplomat, claimed that Trump lawyer
Michael Cohen held “secret meetings” with
Kremlin officials in Prague in August 2016.
That charge unraveled after
Cohen revealed he had never traveled to
Prague, calling the story “totally fake, totally
inaccurate.”
The Atlantic confirmed Cohen’s whereabouts in New York
and California during the period the dossier claimed
that Cohen was in Prague. Cohen reportedly produced his
passport showing he had not traveled to Prague.
In testimony in May, former FBI Director James
Comey confirmed that the basis for the intelligence
community’s assessment that Russia allegedly wanted
Trump in office was not because the billionaire was, as
Sen. Al Franken (D-MN) claimed during a hearing,
“ensnared in” Russia’s “web of patronage” – just as the
dossier alleged. Instead, the FBI chief provided two
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primary reasons for Russia’s alleged favoring of Trump
over Clinton during the 2016 presidential race.
One reason, according to Comey, was that Putin “hated”
Clinton and would have favored any Republican opponent.
The second reason, Comey explained, was that Putin made
an assessment that it would be easier to make a deal with a
businessman than someone from the political class.
Comey’s statements are a far cry from the
conspiracies fueled by the dossier alleging Putin held
blackmail information on Trump.
Citing current and former government officials, the New
Yorker reported the dossier prompted skepticism among
intelligence community members, with the publication
quoting one member saying it was a “nutty” piece of
evidence to submit to a U.S. president.
Steele’s work has been questioned by former acting CIA
Director Michael Morell, who currently works at the
Hillary Clinton-tied Beacon Global Strategies LLC.
NBC News reported on Morell’s questions about Steele’s
credibility:
Morell, who was in line to become CIA
director if Clinton won, said he had seen no
evidence that Trump associates
cooperated with Russians. He also raised
questions about the dossier written by a
former British intelligence officer, which
alleged a conspiracy between the Trump
campaign and Russia.
…
Morell pointed out that former Director of National
Intelligence James Clapper said on Meet the Press on
March 5 that he had seen no evidence of a conspiracy
when he left office January 20.
“That’s a pretty strong statement by
General Clapper,” Morell said.
Regarding Steele’s dossier, Morell stated, “Unless you
know the sources, and unless you know how a particular
source acquired a particular piece of information, you can’t
judge the information — you just can’t.”
Morell charged that the dossier “doesn’t
take you anywhere, I don’t think.”
“I had two questions when I first read it.
One was, how did Chris talk to these
sources? I have subsequently learned that
he used intermediaries.”
Morell stated,
“And then I asked myself, why did these
guys provide this information, what was
their motivation? And I subsequently
learned that he paid them. That the
intermediaries paid the sources and the
intermediaries got the money from Chris.
And that kind of worries me a little bit
.
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because if you’re paying somebody,
particularly former FSB [Russian
intelligence] officers, they are going to tell
you truth and innuendo and rumor, and
they’re going to call you up and say, ‘Hey,
let’s have another meeting, I have more
information for you,’ because they want to
get paid some more.” He added, “I think
you’ve got to take all that into consideration
when you consider the dossier.”
 Mueller Wants To Question
Trump On Comey, Flynn Firings
By Tyler Durden
Tue, 01/23/2018 - 16:14
Following the news earlier this month that special counsel
Mueller is seeking to question President Trump - and
following today's NYT report that Mueller had interviewed
AG Jeff Sessions - moments ago the Washington Post
reported that Mueller wants to question Trump over his
decision to fire former FBI Director James Comey and the
departure of former national security adviser Michael
Flynn from the White House.
According to two WaPo sources, Trump’s legal team could
present conditions for Trump to interview with Mueller’s
investigators as soon as next week.
The Post also adds that Trump’s lawyers hope to have
Trump answer some of Mueller’s questions in an in-person
interview and some in writing.
Within the past two weeks, the special counsel’s office has
indicated to the White House that the two central subjects
that investigators wish to discuss with the president are the
departures of Flynn and Comey and the events surrounding
their firings.
Mueller has also reportedly expressed interest in Trump’s
efforts to remove Jeff Sessions as attorney general or
pressure him into quitting, "according to a person familiar
with the probe who said the special counsel was seeking to
determine whether there was a “pattern” of behavior by the
president."
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Earlier this month, Trump declined to say whether he
would grant an interview to Mueller and his team,
deflecting questions on the topic by saying there had been
“no collusion” between his campaign and Russia during
the 2016 presidential election.
“We’ll see what happens,” Trump said
when asked directly about meeting with the
special counsel.
While Trump has told has allegedly told his lawyers that
he is not worried about a face to face meeting with the
special counsel, some of Trump’s close advisers and
friends fear a face-to-face interview with Mueller could
put the president in legal jeopardy.
A central worry, they say, is Trump’s lack of precision in
his speech and his penchant for hyperbole.
Roger Stone, a longtime informal adviser to Trump, said
he should try to avoid an interview at all costs, saying
agreeing to such a session would be a “suicide mission.”
"I find it to be a death wish. Why would you
walk into a perjury trap?” Stone said. “The
president would be very poorly advised to
give Mueller an interview", Stone said.
 Attorney General Jeff Sessions Interviewed
By Mueller's Team As Part Of Russia Investigation
David Jackson And Kevin Johnson, USA TODAY
Published 10:25 A.M. ET Jan. 23, 2018
WASHINGTON – Special counsel Robert Mueller's
investigators have interviewed Attorney General Jeff
Sessions in connection with the wide-ranging inquiry into
Russia's interference in the 2016 election and whether
President Trump sought to obstruct justice, a Justice
Department spokesman said Tuesday.
The attorney general is the first Trump cabinet official
known to be interviewed by Mueller's team.
Sessions, who was accompanied by his private attorney
Charles Cooper, was questioned for several hours last
week, said Justice spokesman Ian Prior, who declined to
elaborate on the nature of the questioning.
It was long expected that Sessions would be interviewed,
given his role in the abrupt firing of FBI Director James
Comey last May and his election-year meetings with
Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak.
Mueller is examining whether Trump obstructed justice in
the dismissal of Comey, who had been managing the
Russia inquiry.
While the White House originally said Trump fired Comey
due to his controversial handling of the investigation into
former Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton's
use of private email when she was secretary of State,
Trump later acknowledged in an interview with NBC that
he dismissed Comey because of his handling of the Russia
probe.
Sessions has recused himself from the Russia investigation
because of his his meetings with Kislyak, which he did not
immediately disclose during his confirmation hearing last
year.
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The attorney general's recusal, which was followed by the
appointment by Mueller, immediately drove a wedge
between Trump and Sessions, the first U.S. senator to
endorse Trump's candidacy.
That rift has only festered, with Trump subsequently
acknowledging that he would not have appointed Sessions
as the nation's chief law enforcement officer had he known
that the former Alabama senator would step aside from the
Russia inquiry.
Last summer, it appeared that Trump was moving to
dismiss Sessions when the president publicly assailed his
attorney general in a series of tweets as "weak." At one
point, Sessions offered his resignation, but Trump refused
to accept it.
Yet the president has continued to attack the Justice
Department and FBI for not pursuing a further inquiry into
Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server while she
was secretary of State.
Comey announced in July 2016 that he would not
recommend criminal charges against Clinton, only later to
reopen the inquiry days before the election. While no
charges were ever brought, Comey's actions prompted a
firestorm of criticism from the Clinton who blamed the
former FBI director for contributing to her defeat.
Trump also derided Sessions for not providing adequate
cover from Mueller's inquiry, which has repeatedly
branded as a "witch hunt," accusing the FBI of being
politically biased against him.
Just hours before news of Sessions' testimony broke,
Trump took to Twitter to cite reports that the FBI has been
unable to recover text messages involving two bureau
officials who have been critical of him and who were once
part of Mueller's team.
"In one of the biggest stories in a long time,
the FBI now says it is missing five months
worth of lovers Strzok-Page texts, perhaps
50,000, and all in prime time. Wow!" he
said.
Trump referred to Sessions acknowledgement Monday that The inspector general has been conducting a review of the
the FBI's information system failed to preserve five Justice Department's handling of the Clinton email inquiry.
months of text messages between counter-intelligence
official Peter Strzok and colleague Lisa Page who had It is unclear whether Sessions' interview signals that
disparaged then-candidate Donald Trump in text messages Mueller's inquiry is winding to a close.
during the 2016 election.
Sessions interview comes as the special counsel is
The discovery of the communications earlier this year negotiating with Trump's attorneys for some kind of
prompted Strzok's removal from Mueller's team. Page, testimony from the president.
meanwhile, had returned to her post at the FBI before the
text messages were discovered by investigators working
with the Justice Department's inspector general.
.

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 Trump Nominates
Racketeer For Federal Bench
By Aaron Kesel
January 23, 2018
Very quietly, over Christmastime, President Trump
nominated former Delaware United States Attorney, Colm
F. Connolly, to be a Delaware District Court Justice (see
Congressional – here).
Arguably, as the facts below will detail – not only should
this nomination be denied – Colm’s BAR Card should be
yanked, and Connolly should be in jail.
Question germane – are racketeers the ones promoting the
nomination of Colm Connolly for the federal bench?
According to eToys whistleblower, Laser Steven Haas,
that is exactly what is occurring.
Racketeers are influencing the system of justice!
In 2008, then-Delaware Senator, Joe Biden, intentionally
blocked Colm Connolly’s 1st nomination for the federal
bench!
That’s a very – big – deal!
Back in 2008, then-Senator, Joe Biden, prior to becoming
VP, did overt, deliberate inactions specifically blocking
George W Bush’s nomination of Colm Connolly to be a
Delaware District Court Judge (see 2008 nomination
announcement – here).
Below, you will see the facts, concrete, about Colm
Connolly’s 2nd nomination; which, given the facts of
Senator Biden blocking Colm and the betrayals of the
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public’s trust, means Trump’s renewing efforts is a horrific
notion.
According to the eToys case whistleblower, Connolly is
guilty of betraying the public’s trust, to aid and abet
organized crimes benefiting Colm’s former law firm
partners of Morris Nichols Arsht & Tunnell (MNAT);
because the MNAT would be destroyed if their criminal
works to benefit Goldman Sachs and Mitt Romney’s
interest were to see light of day in an honorable courtroom.
Making the saga extensively heinous and egregious,
people are dead – untimely. Specifically, the undue
influence is so far out of control that the FBI has
threatened the eToys whistleblower, in this case multiple
times, to get him to “back off” (currently, I’m researching
the details of the FBI threats, for another major story, next
week).
Colm Connolly Bad Faith – BACKGROUND FACTS
Laser Haas was the top executive of eToys.com federal
case in 2001. Subsequently, he became a whistleblower
when MNAT and Paul Traub offered Laser a million
dollars and a chance to work as a roaming (criminal)
manager for Bain Capital. In other words, a bribe.
This eToys-related case whistleblower has already
documented to this reporter sufficient evidence of more
than 100 state and federal felony violations – for the cui
bono of Goldman Sachs and Bain Capital; and much of the
crimes transpired during Colm Connolly’s tenure as the
United States Attorney in Delaware.
Unfortunately, Mr. Haas was completely unaware of the
nefariousness and about whom Colm Connolly was
secretly protecting (Sachs and Mitt’s interests), until mid-
2007.
For seven years, from 2001 until 2008, Colm Connolly
betrayed his oath of office, as he declined to investigate
racketeering crimes, in the billions of dollars, which were
being perpetrated by the Morris Nichols Arsht & Tunnell
law firm (MNAT), and their criminal co-conspirator, Paul
Traub.
These facts of Colm Connolly being a “revolving door”
(switching sides) prosecutor, partner of MNAT, and
prosecutor once again, are indisputable because the
Department of Justice – Office of Legal Policy – has
permanently archived Connolly’s résumé, online (here).
(archived)
Colm’s résumé states the following facts…
ITEM 1. Connolly clerked for 3rd Circuit Judge Walter K.
Stapleton (and Stapleton just so happens to have been a
partner of the MNAT.com law firm).
ITEM 2. In 1992, after clerking for MNAT partner, Walt
er K. Stapleton, then Colm became the Delaware Assistant
United States Attorney (and he remained in that post, until
1999).
Goldman Sachs appears to have begun its partnership to do
criminal misdeeds with Mitt Romney/Bain Capital (and
Thomas Lee Partners) in 1997; with the first documented
specious act, being the merger of The Learning Company
with Mattel, in 1999.
Connolly “revolved doors” with the Department of Justice,
multiple times, as Assistant United States Attorney in
1992, until 1999.
Then, as his résumé details, Colm became an MNAT
partner in 1999, remaining there until August 2001, which
is when Colm Connolly returned to the DOJ.
Amazingly, this period of time from 1999 until August
2001 that Colm Connolly was a partner of MNAT, is the
exact era of time that Romney’s 2012 Presidential
Campaign claims Mitt was “retroactively” retired from
Bain Capital (see the Campaign manager, Gillespie,
remarks – here)
During this time period of Connolly switching sides, in
and out of the Justice System, from 1992 until 2008,
Colm’s DOJ office was constantly informed of more than
100 crimes by eToys case whistleblower, Laser Haas.
Mitt Romney’s Roaming Gang
As documented by eToys whistleblower, Laser Haas,
evidence corroborates (chiefly through federal records),
the facts that Mitt Romney owns Bain Capital, which
owned KB, Stage Stores, Learning Company (= 12 million
shares of Mattel), FAO Schwarz, Zainy Brainy and eToys.
KB and eToys are now part of Toys “R” Us.
MNAT is publicly documented to represent both Goldman
Sachs and Bain Capital in Delaware.
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But MNAT and Paul Traub lie under oath, even to this
very day, concealing the major crimes, in the millions of
dollars, concerning Traub and MNAT’s undisclosed
relationship to Bain Capital/KB.
MNAT and Paul Traub defrauded their court-approved
clients; and Delaware State & Federal authorities
(including Colm Connolly and his Assistant Ellen Slights)
refused to investigate and prosecute vast state and federal
crimes.
Furthermore, Mitt owned Stage Stores, when Michael
Glazer was a co-director with Jack Bush (of Dallas Texas);
and Barry Gold was Stage Stores executive assistant,
working for those directors.
Barry Gold inked the hiring of Paul Traub’s law firm of
Traub Bonacquist & Fox (TBF), so that TBF would
become the Stage Stores bankruptcy case, special counsel.
During 2000 through 2005, Michael Glazer also was CEO
of KB; and then, Mr. Glazer has now become the CEO of
Stage Stores.
In the KB case, $100 million was taken out of KB before
Glazer filed bankruptcy.
MNAT openly represents Bain Capital, in the KB case
(link here).
Also, MNAT was representing simultaneously
representing eToys and MNAT was court ordered to
supply Laser’s fee application paperwork, whilst MNAT
was nefariously betraying the court-approved clients to
secretly benefit Goldman Sachs, Bain Capital, and KB.
If the public and decent courts ever became fully aware
that the MNAT law firm has perpetrated sophisticated
crimes to cover up the fact that MNAT deliberately
betrayed its court-approved clients, then it would be the
end of the 80-year-old MNAT law firm.
It wouldn’t be the first time Laser Haas’s whistleblowing
and pursuits of justice compelled a law firm to shut its
doors. (Which we will touch on later; this story isn’t just
about Laser, it is about how serious it is that the rackets are
spread nationwide while infiltrating our courts and
agencies of justice.)
When A=B and B=C, then it is logical that A=C.
Mitt=MNAT and MNAT Colm, thus Mitt=Colm!
Similarly, Goldman Sachs=MNAT and MNAT=Colm thus
Goldman Sachs=Colm!
Everyone knows that if someone dies during a robbery, all
the crooks are guilty of the death, no matter what bit they
play in the organized criminal syndicate.
It is called – transitive logic!
Therefore, in other words, Colm Connolly is just as guilty
for the deaths of Robert Alber and Marty Lackner as the
parties who tried the hardest to cause their untimely
demise.
Such would also greatly embarrass the (DOJ) Department
Of Justice!
This also means that Colm Connolly is guilty of all other
MNAT crimes that Colm buried from the investigation as
federal prosecutor in Delaware.
Such as Goldman Sachs and Mitt Romney are partners;
and Mitt owns Bain Capital.
And Bain owns KB, FAO Schwartz, Zainy Brainy and
eToys.
Though Paul Traub worked under Barry Gold, who was
under Michael Glazer, for Stage Stores that was owned by
Mitt Romney, Traub continued lying under oath, in KB,
eToys and other cases, pretending that Paul Traub, through
hops around to various law firms (such as TBF, Dreier
LLP, Epstein, Becker & Green and others) was an “arm’s
length” / “good faith” 100% “legitimate” Bain Capital
opponent.
Dirty deeds are then perpetuated by the deceivers –
directly connected – such as MNAT, Paul Traub, Barry
Gold, Michael Glazer and Colm Connolly. Doing so, for
the unjust enrichment sake, of Goldman Sachs, Bain
Capital/ Mitt Romney (and Wells Fargo).
Notably, the RICO Act of 1970, was designed to address
these very issues of – what is known as – prosecutorial
gaps!
In other words, crooks like Mitt’s gang and their crooked
lawyers don’t pay corporate taxes by naming their
enterprise as a public company like Toys “R” Us.
Instead, they become non-public – as “Racketeers ‘R’ Us”!
Goldman Sachs took eToys public, in 1999; and Sachs
ripped off eToys investors for nearly a billion dollars by a
classic pump-n-dump stock fraud “spinning” scheme.
In the eToys case, the stock went above $78; but Goldman
Sachs only allowed eToys to receive less than $20 per, for
millions of shares.
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Goldman Sachs split the windfall profits, with hand-picked
friends (see NYT March 2013 article “Rigging the I.P.O.
Game”).
Also in 1999, MNAT handled the merger of Mattel, with
The Learning Company; which resulted in an instant
catastrophic loss, for Mattel investors, of $4 billion dollars
(see this reporter’s story, on the Learning/Mattel, case –
here).
Both the I.P.O. of eToys and Mattel/Learning merger
transpired, in Delaware; which is where the MNAT law
firm represents both Goldman Sachs & Bain Capital.
It also is where Connolly was either the federal prosecutor
to preside over those cases (as well as KB and eToys
bankruptcy fraud cases), or Colm was a partner of the
MNAT law firm.
Lawyers are forbidden under the pretext of law against the
betrayal of a client.
The gravamen of the issues, paramount, is the fact that
attorneys swear an oath to the State Supreme Court and
their BARs – that their duty of loyalty to the client is 1st
and foremost – above all else.
MNAT betrayed its court-approved clients of eToys and
Laser/Laser’s company (Collateral Logistics, Inc., {CLI}),
for the sake of MNAT’s secret, more lucrative clients
(G.E., Wells Fargo, Goldman Sachs & Bain Capital).
Likewise, Paul Traub’s law firms, as eToys creditors
counsel, had a duty to those clients, above all else.
Every time Robert Alber and other eToys shareholders
asked the eToys case Chief Justice (MFW) to be granted a
lawyer, and equity holders committee, as permitted by law,
then MNAT and Paul Traub’s law firms argued to the
court that the shareholders were protected. It is now
obvious MNAT & Traub’s associates were perpetrating
blunt lies (as has been documented in previous articles in
this series Romney’s version of Frank Nitti – is Paul Roy
Traub (here).
This posturing of denying the eToys shareholders their
lawful rights, created a far greater duty of loyalty to the
eToys public company and shareholders such as Robert
Alber – with a far higher duty of loyalty.
As a matter of fact, MNAT & Traub schemed to throw out
Laser, from running eToys and they replaced him with
Paul Traub’s personal friend and TBF paid associate,
Barry Gold; because the racketeers wanted to guarantee
the demise of the eToys public company – which would
permanently doom the eToys shareholders.
It was later confessed, in 2005, of the fact Barry Gold was
a paid member of Paul Traub’s TBF law firm, after Barry
(purportedly) stepped down from working under Michael
Glazer at Stage Stores (see March 1, 2005, Transcripts,
pages 65 thru 69 – here).
Robert Alber suspected Barry Gold and Paul Traub had an
undisclosed relationship; and Alber deposed both Barry
Gold and Paul Traub, on the stand, in October &
November 2002, in the Delaware court, where both Traub
& Barry vehemently denied being associated with each
other (but Laser compelled confessions that such was
erroneous, in 2005)!
Sadly, Alber failed to look at the Stage Stores case; which
is where the smoking gun proof of Barry Gold hiring
Traub’s TBF, for Romney’s company, is part of the docket
record (see Traub’s engagement letter, signed by Barry
Gold, for Stage Stores – here.)
To cement the success of locking Laser out of eToys, so
MNAT, Traub, and Barry Gold could fleece the tens of
millions of dollars, Laser/CLI was able to get Bain
Capital/KB to bid, for eToys assets. Barry Gold swore, in
the fall of 2002, a huge lie, under oath, that Barry and Paul
Traub were “extensive” arm’s length parties, negotiating
(as is required by the Codes & Rules of Law).
Furthermore, Barry stated that all negotiations were done
in “extensive” good faith (see Barry Gold’s Declaration of
November 2002 – here).
MNAT knew this to be false; but MNAT supplied Barry
Gold’s Declaration, under penalty of perjury, to prove to
the parties of interest that the eToys shareholders should be
denied their lawful representation.
Meanwhile, MNAT, continues to commit perjury,
concealing its secret representations of Goldman Sachs &
Bain Capital, as MNAT nominated Paul Traub’s law TBF
firm, to be the party to sue Goldman Sachs for the IPO
frauds in the New York Supreme Court case of eToys v.
Goldman Sachs (case # 601805/2002).
Making a good case that Trump’s administration has
become a part of the ongoing criminal conspiracy, not only
has the President nominated Goldman Sachs fraud
protector, Colm Connolly, to be a Delaware Federal Judge
(with Trump’s own sister a 3rd Circuit Judge – above).
The President also nominated (and got a confirmation) of
Jay Clayton, to be the head of the SEC, which continues to
refuse to investigate or prosecute these obvious cases of
fraud.
Here’s the rub: eToys sued Goldman Sachs in the New
York Supreme Court; and the case is already rigged where
Goldman Sachs law firm of MNAT handpicked Ponzi
schemer Paul Traub to sue Goldman Sachs. Then, to make
matters worse, Goldman Sachs another law firm Sullivan
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& Cromwell represented Goldman Sachs in the eToys v.
Goldman Sachs case.
Jay Clayton was invested in Bain Capital, and a partner of
the Sullivan & Cromwell law firm; which represents
Goldman Sachs – extensively.
On top of all that, Jay Clayton’s wife (Gretchen) is a
partner of Goldman Sachs, working in the very merger and
acquisition division that would be held accountable, should
justice not be stymied, any further.
Back to Colm Connolly’s résumé .
The third (ITEM 3.) in question is the fact, in 1999, Colm
switched sides when Connolly became a partner of
MNAT.
Speciously, there were no investigations or prosecutions of
the Mattel/Learning merger or the eToys I.P.O. fraud
cases.
In 2001, “Laser the Liquidator” became the Delaware
Bankruptcy Court approved fiduciary, over the eToys case.
MNAT and Paul Traub conned Laser unto using his
company, Collateral Logistic’s Inc., (“CLI”) to run eToys;
which doomed Laser to the – must-have – of using a
Delaware law firm.
It is a mandate of law, and case precedents, that a
corporation can only be represented by an attorney at law.
No law lawyer, individual or firm, would dare challenge
the undue power and influences of MNAT, Mitt Romney,
and good ole Goldman Sachs.
Especially when those parties are (secretly known) to have
the protection of handpicked federal prosecutors (like
Colm Connolly, Ellen Slights or James Lackner).
Just a few months prior to the eToys case filing for
bankruptcy, Paul Traub’s TBF law firm, was caught, in
Stages Stores, for failing to disclose Barry Gold and other
persons (see TBF 7-page Affidavit – here).
Traub’s TBF was compelled to file a Supplemental
Affidavit, in Stage Stores; which details various previous
case histories of Paul Traub and Barry Gold.
Susan Balaschak was a TBF partner, who lived in
Houston, where Stage Stores was located.
Paul Traub’s TBF and Susan Balaschak were required, by
law, to be disqualified from the Stage Stores case, in mid-
2000, once the non-disclosure of a conflict if interest, was
discovered.
Had that disqualification occurred, perhaps the nation
would have been spared billions of dollars in material
adverse harms upon the eToys, KB, Fingerhut, Marc
Dreier and Tom Petters Ponzi-related cases.
Laser Haas ran eToys throughout 2001; but he has
continued the fight against obstruction for 17 years.
In 2001, at that time, MNAT, Barry Gold, and Traub’s
TBF deliberately usurped Laser, telling the courts and
eToys parties of interest, under penalty of perjury, with 33
bogus affidavits – that MNAT, Paul Traub and Barry Gold
were 100% – arm’s length/good faith – opponents again an
obvious lie.
Due to Laser’s unrelenting pursuits for justice, MNAT,
Traub’s TBF and Barry Gold were compelled to confess
(some) of their bad faith deeds.
The Delaware Bankruptcy Court Ordered sanctions on
Traub’s TBF & the MNAT, coupled with the court
stipulating it would be “wrong to punish [plaintiff] and
reward conflicted attorneys.”
And, yet, that is exactly what the Chief Justice over the
eToys federal case did.
It is against the law for judges to rule against their own
established doctrine; but the 3rd Circuit took the absurdity
to a whole new level, ruling on Robert Alber’s Appeal to
the 3rd Circuit (case 07-2360) that the Federal Rules of
Appellate Procedure doesn’t apply to the eToys case (see
7th page of 7-page 3rd Circuit ruling – here).
Arguing to the eToys court that she proceed to rule
contrary to her own logic, resulted in Laser being throw
out of the case and Judge Mary F. Walrath ordering the
Delaware Bankruptcy Court Clerk (David Byrd) to
permanently block Laser Haas from filing anything more.
Additionally, the eToys case judge, who was Chief Justice
of the Delaware jurisdiction at that time in the Delaware
Court that handles an estimated 50% of the biggest
bankruptcy cases, the Judge MFW did rule that MNAT,
Traub and Barry Gold could not hide any other
disclosures.
When Laser pointed out there were additional deceits
(specifically, the Bain Capital/ KB & NY Supreme Court
frauds), the Delaware Department of Justice sat in
complete silence and the eToys judge locked out Rule was
applied.
This is a “Color of Law” civil rights violation!
It is also confessed by Paul Traub that his TBF firm
deliberately left erroneous affidavits to remain in the court
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docket record (see the U.S. Trustee’s testimony, in
paragraph 18 – here).
Paul’s deceits were for the sake of concealing conflicts of
interest issues about connections to Goldman Sachs, Bain
Capital, Michael Glazer and Barry Gold (see the 2005
WSJ story – here).
Also, MNAT, as eToys court-appointed counsel for Laser
& Debtor’s counsel for eToys, had deliberately concealed
its conflicts of interest relationship to Goldman Sachs;
which MNAT subsequently confessed (see Judge’s
Opinion sanctioning TBF and MNAT – here).
Further demonstrating how rigged the Delaware Federal
system of justice actually is, the Chief Justice let MNAT
decide on its own, how much to pay, as a fine.
In similar fashion, though the Delaware Justice
Department did a Motion to Disgorge Traub’s TBF for
$1.6 million, there’s absolutely no Motion against MNAT.
Further evidence of how much MNAT is protected, the
very first footnotes of the Delaware Justice Department’s
3rd Circuit Appeal, response brief, actually makes mention
that the United States put forth no Motion against MNAT
(see 3rd Circuit eToys Response Brief – here).
In 2001, Laser stopped Traub & MNAT’s plot to sell the
billion dollar eToys public company assets, to Bain
Capital/KB, for a paltry $5.4 million.
When Laser’s efforts started getting tens of millions of
dollars in higher offers, the crooked lawyers panicked.
As reported by Laser, in court filings and letter to U.S.
Attorney General (here) – the schemers adjusted by trying
to offer Laser a bribe to let Goldman Sachs & Bain Capital
completely destroy and devour all worth, and the existence
of the eToys public company.
Though Laser desired, all his adult life, to become one of
the nation’s big deal makers (that Bain Capital most
certainly is), and despite the fact Laser Haas was offered a
million dollars with the chance to become a Bain Capital
roaming manager (like Jack Bush, Paul Traub, Barry Gold
& Michael Glazer) – Laser flatly turned down the bribe (a
movie moment if its own) and Laser reported it to the
Delaware Department of Justice.
The fourth (ITEM 4.) of interest as detailed by Connolly’s
résumé is the fact that Colm returned to the Delaware
Department of Justice in August 2001.
This time Connolly became the top dog, as the sole federal
senior authority over the Fingerhut, Mattel, KB, eToys,
and cases – as THE United States Attorney over all of the
Delaware federal cases.
Unaware of these issues of case rigging via corruption, of
the federal prosecutors office, the eToys case
whistleblower continued to provide the FBI, SEC & DOJ,
in Delaware with the details of the bankruptcy fraud and
other organized crimes, from Laser’s appointment in 2001,
through his discovery of Colm Connolly’s résumé , in
2007.
Laser continues to fight for justice, for 17 years now, to
this very day.
A few of the racketeering crimes reported, included, but is
not limited to, Bribery, Mail & Wire Frauds, Collusion,
SEC crimes, Obstruction, Perjury, Intimidation of Victim/
Witnesses, Retaliation, Extortion, Bankruptcy Fraud and
Corruption (and unresolved cases of mayhem and murder).
It is noteworthy that the RICO Act only requires that there
are 2 crimes occurring, which have yet to be addressed.
As previously remarked, Laser can document, chiefly
through federal records, there are more than 100 instances
of state and federal frauds/felony violations.
Sad to say, as is typical of organized criminals seeking to
elude justice, those crimes also include multiple instances
of mayhem and homicides that remain unresolved!
Being protected with their secret of Colm Connolly, the
racketeers believed they could continue to get away with
their crimes; and they expanded.
Some of the ongoing criminal escapades yet to be
addressed are the Mattel/Learning, Fingerhut, KB and
eToys cases (including Supreme Court).
To assure no one else would turn down a bribe, they
simply tried to lie as little as possible and publicly flaunted
their bribery schemes.
After all, who was going to arrest them?
Certainly not Colm F. Connolly!
Anyone can readily see how the rackets adapted, as it is in
the papers for all to see. CEO Michael Glazer paid himself
$18 million, and Bain Capital $83 million, prior to Michael
Glazer filing bankruptcy of KB.
You can see some of the case-related facts in the Rolling
Stone September 2012 cover story by Matt Taibbi (here),
which details – some – of the Stage Stores & KB case
bribes and corruption. Including the issue of Mitt Romney
being able to form Stage Stores by Michael Milken junk
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bond fraud monies, which the judge presiding over
Milken’s case allowed to remain in Romney’s hands,
whilst the judge’s wife was an executive getting profit
from the Stage Stores dealings.
Sad to say, Matt Taibbi has no staff, and that resulted in
Matt/Rolling Stone losing out on a Pulitzer Prize.
Some facts Taibbi missed were simple ones in this case
that this writer has been documenting as Laser provides
more and more information of his thousands of evidence
pieces to me.
An interesting fact, noteworthy, is the detail that KB CEO,
Michael Glazer, was a simultaneous Director at Stage
Stores.
Rolling Stone‘s Matt Taibbi also failed to grasp the gravity
of facts, such as the item of MNAT openly representing
Bain Capital of the $83 million depleted KB funds, prior to
bankruptcy filing.
This is an issue compounded by another huge detail Taibbi
missed of the cases being rigged, so blatantly and
flagrantly, where, whilst Paul Traub was being purportedly
punished for his eToys crimes, Traub’s TBF (and also
Traub’s Marc Dreier law firm) had the unmitigated gall to
ask the KB’s case judge’s permission to be the party to
prosecute Glazer and Bain Capital.
This petition by Traub was a crime, just by the asking.
As is par for their course, neither MNAT, nor Paul Traub
would do their lawfully mandated duty to disclose their
conflicts of interests of their being connected to each other,
and their links to DE prosecutor Colm Connolly.
MNAT and Traub’s TBF also conspired against many
more of their court-appointed “clients.”
One of the schemes and artifices to defraud includes
MNAT asking for, and receiving, the court’s permission to
destroy the eToys case financials (see MNAT’s filing –
here).
It is noteworthy to point out the fact that the MNAT
requested for destruction of eToys books and records was
provided to Laser by Jeremy Bates, who was the Sullivan
& Cromwell attorney that represented Goldman Sachs in
the New York Supreme Court case of eToys v. Goldman
Sachs.
After Jeremy Bates provided that (Brady materials) to
Laser Haas, Sullivan & Cromwell removed him from the
eToys v. Goldman Sachs case (be advised, after Bain
Capital/KB stole the eToys.com domain name, the
evolving eToys.com bankruptcy case renamed eToys –
“ebc1”).
Laser couldn’t object to the item, because the conflicted,
bad faith parties concealed this fact and many other of the
deceitful deeds from him.
Similarly, to get the eToys 1000 employees to turn sour on
their new head executive, Laser, the MNAT and Paul
Traub law firms submitted another item (secretly) to the
court so it would approve the doubling of the salaries of
the 1000 employees.
It is absurd to do so while eToys is in bankruptcy!
Immediately, Laser started terminating the 1000
employees; and then his CLI staff also discovered the fact
eToys was not – really – insolvent.
Millions of dollars were hidden and undisclosed all over
the place, including $2 million dollars on deposit in
London.
It is a crime to fail to report assets, in a bankruptcy case;
which in a legitimate era of justice mandates an immediate
prosecution to send a clear message.
Laser still is seeking for a legitimate system of justice for
his eToys case, to this very day, with 17 years of
racketeering, mayhem and homicides, ongoing.
Additionally, Romney’s gang received 12 million shares of
Mattel, resultant of the Learning Company’s cooked books
fraud.
It also was a plan of the racketeers to get Bain Capital to
wind up with KB and eToys into Toys “R” Us, as cheaply
as possible.
Bizarrely, both KB and eToys were put into bankruptcy
multiple times (and they are now in bankruptcy, once
again, under Toys “R” Us).
Bain Capital stiffed creditors and investors, over and over,
again and again; and Taibbi never has detailed the
YUUUGE fact that MNAT and Colm Connolly were
Goldman Sachs and Bain Capital lawyers.
It is even more mindboggling how Taibbi, even now,
doesn’t think his editors will care about Colm Connolly
being Sachs & Bain law firm partner, who continued to
bury the investigations into those parties, as the Delaware
U.S. Attorney (Even more astounding that Rolling Stone is
refusing to do a story on how Trump is nominating so
many Goldman Sachs/Bain Capital affiliated parties who
are in charge of vast Sachs & Bain Cap., cases).
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Real strange! But the plot continues and doesn’t end there.
To be able to assure they get away with the racketeering
crimes, KB & eToys are now at Toys “R” Us, which is
also,currently in bankruptcy.
Paul Traub and MNAT usurped Laser, from eToys by a
coup of planting a paid TBF member, Barry Gold (who
was also a personal partner of Traub’s), into eToys; and
then the fiends locked Laser out of the company.
At that time, the racketeers reduced the sales prices of
eToys, to Bain Capital/KB, which is the very criminal act
that can – this very day – bring down this mile-high house
of untenable cards.
The laws on Bankruptcy Fraud are so stringent that Laser
need not prove the schemes resulted in harm (though Laser
most certainly can do so).
Congress noted the failure to disclose, by putting forth
bogus affidavits, must result in disqualification; and it is
presumed harm was the intent.
In a legitimate realm of justice, Traub, Barry and MNAT’s
confessions would mandate prosecutions, disbarment and
the end of the MNAT law firm (TBF and other firms are
already closed).
Colm Connolly and his assistant, Ellen Slights (Ellen is
still inside the Delaware DOJ, along with other snakes like
Mark Kenney), went way out of their way, along with the
Delaware abusive courts (and the MNAT friendly/infested
3rd Circuit) – to make sure nobody ever investigated,
prosecuted, or even mentioned the dynamics that Colm
Connolly, MNAT, Barry Gold and Paul Traub are
connected to Bain Capital/KB.
Laser is now somewhat bizarrely blessed that the lying
under oath, combined with confessions of deliberately
doing so, and the profuse overt acts to block Laser from
the case, made morose by the destruction/obstruction of
eToys records, when those courts helped the parties who
betrayed their court-approved clients to retaliate against
Laser and eToys shareholders.
With the courts and DOJ aiding and abetting the bad faith
parties, allowing MNAT, Barry Gold and Paul Traub by
the court ordering the reducing sales prices to Bain
Capital/KB, as the bad faith parties also betrayed their
court-approved clients when they simultaneously rigged
the eToys v NY Supreme Court case to fail.
Having evidence of the overt acts of obstruction,
destruction, retaliation, and the removal of Jeremy Bates,
after he provided the hidden document (a smoking gun) to
Laser, along with the new evidence ferreted out by NY
Times reporter, Joe Nocera, of the email bet by Goldman
Sachs Lawton Fitt, on the advance knowledge that eToys
stock would hit $80 – compounded with the fact that
MNAT nominated Paul Traub – when MNAT was
benefiting from acts of perjury.
This enough evidence that anybody else could get back
hundreds if millions (perhaps even a billion) to the eToys
estate. But Paul Traub, Barry Gold, and MNAT (in
criminal conspiracy with Sullivan Cromwell and others)
settled eToys v Goldman Sachs – once the eToys court
permanently locked Laser Haas out of the estate – for a
paltry $7.5 million (that the bad faith parties argued about
how much Paul Traub would get to keep).
In such doings being protected from prosecution by Colm
Connolly, and the corrupt courts refusing to address the
eToys frauds of Bain/KB, then there remains an issue of
fraud upon the courts by court-appointed “officers of the
court.”
According to the U.S. Supreme Court case of In re: Hazel
Atlas Glass v. Hartford Empire, a case can be reopened,
even after nine years, when the issue of fraud on the court
is by the “officers” of the court! (Note: eToys has only
been closed three years.)
Laser knows about Hazel Atlas, because the Delaware
Department of Justice and the eToys case Chief Justice
both cited the case of Hazel Atlas (see DOJ Motion,
paragraph x and eToys Court Published Opinion, page 15
– here).
MNAT Forged Laser HAAS’s Affidavit
MNAT was both eToys court-approved Debtor’s counsel;
and MNAT had two separate eToys case Court Orders to
provide Laser’s CLI entity paperwork to the court for
payment (see eToys case order with note to MNAT partner
Greg Werkheiser – here.)
To assure their schemes would be 100% successful,
MNAT forged a “HAAS Affidavit” to the eToys court
(which was never served upon Laser).
According to MNAT, Barry Gold and Paul Traub, the
HAAS Affidavit (a 2-page document – here) states what
the racketeers claim, entirely waived the rights for
Laser/CLI’s compensation for the millions of dollars in
fees and expenses.
Would everybody who believes Laser actually waived his
rights to be paid millions of dollars – please raise your
hands?
Obviously, this notion is preposterous even to entertain!
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Laser was entitled to a reward of “success fees” for getting
back, more than $50 million, to eToys cash accounts
(instead of the $5.4 million original sales price the bad
faith parties plotted to do.)
According to Laser’s court-approved CLI contracts, Laser
was entitled a 40% split of everything above the $5.4
million that MNAT and Paul Traub initially plotted to sell
eToys for, to Bain Capital/KB.
It would seem the parties were fully confident that their
having rigged the eToys case, from nearly every side,
would prevent Laser from getting higher prices.
Another strange thing is that the Delaware DOJ and
Court’s should have intervened on behalf of Laser, as a
whistleblower.
MNAT and Traub’s law firms had already confessed their
lies under oath, to the Chief Justice; but she accepted the
absurd premise that Laser gave up millions of dollars in
fees and expenses.
It is plain to see that the judge never actually read the 2-
page HAAS Affidavit; because paragraphs 10 and 11
detail the paper was a settlement of expense protocols and
it did guarantee Laser, and his CLI entity, the success fees.
Once the crooks locked out Laser – and Traub’s partner,
Barry Gold, was planted into eToys – the parties continued
to betray their court-approved clients, by reducing the sales
prices of eToys assets, to Bain Capital and KB.
This is a major, federal, bankruptcy/racketeering crime.
Furthermore, Laser had properly approved the suing of
Fingerhut (for botching millions of dollars in customers’
orders); and Laser pushed forward the larger case of eToys
suing Goldman Sachs, for the I.P.O. fraud, in the New
York Supreme Court (case# 601805/2002).
With Laser out of the way, the lawsuit against Fingerhut
was cheaply settled; Paul Traub/Tom Petters Ponzi then
acquired Fingerhut with more stolen millions.
MNAT and Barry Gold furtively nominated Paul Traub to
be the party to sue Goldman Sachs.
In essence, Goldman Sachs sued Goldman Sachs, and
eToys lost a billion dollars, again.
Colm Connolly & SHUTDOWN of Public Corruption
Task Force
It was not until mid-2007 that Laser learned the truth about
Connolly being a partner of the MNAT law firm, which
was an issue of corruption because Laser had repeatedly
asked Colm’s office to investigate and prosecute MNAT.
At that time, with the help of a former task force person
who became a judge, Laser filed an 18 U.S.C. § 3057(a)
Complaint (here), on December 7, 2007, against Colm
Connolly and other betrayers of the public’s trust.
This filing was at the Los Angeles United States
Attorney’s office, where the Public Corruption Task Force
was housed, which was clear across the country from
Delaware’s shenanigans.
Several weeks after Laser’s 3057 Complaint (during the
same time Mitt Romney was running for president the 1st
time) the Los Angeles DOJ Public Corruption Task Force
was shut down and career federal prosecutors were
threatened to keep silent about the reasons why (see L.A.
Times March 2008 article “Shake-up roils federal
prosecutors“).
It really is uncanny how no other mainstream media outlet
picked up on this nationally significant and historic
amount of financial misdeeds story.
Even more mind-boggling how no other media mentions a
word about career federal prosecutors being threatened.
It was completely backward – the case docket records
Laser filing the lawsuit against Trump and Federal
agencies on March 22, 2017; but the Clerk of Court kept
the case hidden from public view – until May 24th.
Staying in The Twilight Zone, Laser’s case against
Trump’s agencies was closed by a judge’s Order on May
5th, 2017 (which just happens to be three days after
Clayton was confirmed as SEC Commissioner, on May
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Unfortunately, there’s still more….
…much, much more!
…Colm Connolly 1st Nomination for Judgeship
Senator Joe Biden – Simply Said NO – Blocking Colm!
This reporter will do a detailed story, in the near future,
discussing the dynamics of the 2017 case where the D.C.
Clerk of Court, perpetuated bad faith manipulations, in
essence rigging Laser’s 2017 case when he sued Trump,
the FBI, SEC, and DOJ, to block Trump’s nomination of
Jay Clayton to be Commissioner of the SEC.
The basis for that filing against Jay Clayton were these
Colm Connolly conflict of interest dynamics, and the
similarities, of working both sides of the fence according
to Laser Haas.
Apparently, to assure Laser’s Jay Clayton story issue
would not go viral, the D.C. District Federal Court Clerk –
unlawfully – blocked Laser’s lawsuit from being put into
the public docket record (please see this picture of the
extremely bizarre court docket below).
2nd and three weeks before the Clerk entered the case into
the public docket record).
This is germane to our Colm Connolly discussion because
Jay Clayton was invested in Bain Capital, whilst also being
a partner of the MNAT sister Sullivan and Cromwell law
firm, which represents Goldman Sachs in the New York
Supreme court case of eToys v. Goldman Sachs.
Jay Clayton has now yanked down his résumé .
Laser alleges Sullivan & Cromwell are partners in the
criminal enterprise success (as the Jeremy Bates dynamic
corroborates).
Laser detailed the Colm Connolly issues in his lawsuit
against Donald Trump to block Jay Clayton to be head of
the SEC.
Therefore, the SEC, FBI, DOJ and Donald Trump’s staff,
are already aware of the Colm Connolly betrayal of the
public’s trust.
Those agencies and their key persons’ failure to act,
continues the vulgar aiding and abetting of the criminal
enterprise.
Even stranger that all of those high-level authorities have
done – absolutely nothing – about the unlawful act of the
D.C. Clerk of Court blocking the case from being entered
into the record by the turning of a federal docket upside
down!
Back in 2008, when the hullabaloo of – Romney for
President – was simultaneously transpiring with the
shutdown of the Public Corruption Task Force, it was
around that time that eToys whistleblower Laser Haas
reached out to Senator Biden (who also was running for
president in 2008).
Before Joe Biden became the VP choice of Barack Obama,
then-Senator Biden took steps to block GWB’s nomination
of United States Attorney Colm F Connolly to become the
Delaware District Court, replacing Judge Kent A. Jordan
(see online article – here).
Senator Biden made no published comments on his not
allowing Colm Connolly to become a judge; but the
Senator flatly refused to sign the requisite Senate slip, to
process forward a Senate vote of Colm Connolly to
become a Delaware federal justice.
Colm was nominated to replace Delaware District Court
Judge, Kent A. Jordan, who was promoted off the eToys
case, to the 3rd Circuit Federal Court of Appeal.
This reporter has been working, for weeks, on another
future story about the troubling dynamics of judges and
other federal employees utilizing willful blindness and
then being promoted off and up from the eToys cases – as
a reward for ignoring Wall Street racketeering.
(Unfortunately, a sudden illness gripped this reporter so
that story is forthcoming with more details.)
For nine years, the Republicans refused to let Obama fill
Judge Jordan’s vacancy.
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Now, during Christmastime, while everyone is distracted
by holiday joy, The Donald has nominated Colm
Connolly, once more, to fill the very Delaware Federal
District Court Judgeship, (where Colm or an affiliated
party will replace Kent A. Jordan’s vacant seat and another
empty seat (out of 4 seats).
It is, as if, it was promised to Colm Connolly, no matter
what!
Arguably, as the facts above show, Senator Biden was
completely justified in blocking Colm Connolly’s
nomination.
Surely, our nation would never, knowingly allow Frank
Nitti to become the Federal Prosecutor of Al Capone cases.
It is common sense what the outcome is likely to be.
Beyond any doubt, Capone would get off, ‘Scot-Free’!
As the eToys related case facts show, Nitti being over
Capone prosecutions is the same exact scenario of Colm
Connolly being in charge of prosecuting Goldman Sachs’
partnership with Mitt Romney’s Bain Capital (racketeering
enterprise cases).
Observably, Sachs & Bain continue to be Scot-Free!
Evidence shows that these issues of many federal crimes,
protected by Colm Connolly corruption, might be the very
reason Mitt’s 2012 Campaign claims Romney was
“retroactively” retired from August 2001 back to February
11, 1999 (see the last page of Mitt’s 2011 Federal
Campaign OGE Finance Form 278 – here).
Romney’s Affidavit also is a telltale.
As Mitt sought (seeks) presidency, MoveOn.org sent a
request in 2012 (here) seeking an official federal
investigation into the facts of whether or not Mitt Romney
committed perjury to our nation!
Can our American economic security be maintained if we
readily allow Romney & Goldman Sachs to benefit from
billions in frauds because they successfully plotted to
obstruct justice?
Does anybody believe the crooks stopped plotting?
Are we going to let them succeed in organized crimes,
under the perverted premise that there are a statute of
limitations, for failures to prosecute?
Really!?
No one can claim whistleblower Laser Haas is remiss
about his claims. He has been unrelenting in his pursuit of
justice for 17 years.
You can see Laser’s letter – here – dated July 30, 2016
(Senate named this Whistleblower’s Day), where Laser
dared the USAG to arrest him, if any single one of 100
allegations are false!
Here is another/different reporter’s story by
PoliticusUSA.com reporter Rmuse, back in 2012 (when
Mitt was against Obama for POTUS), appropriately titled
– “Meet the Man Battling Romney and Bain’s Bankruptcy
Fraud for 12 Years.”
Specifically, Laser documents in a “clear and convincing”
manner (a higher legal standard that is not necessary in a
RICO case) in his naming Goldman Sachs as being in a
20-year rackets partnership with Mitt Romney/Bain
Capital for getting billions of dollars in ill-gotten gains.
Hence, the paramount issue, which was brought to my
attention by [serial] whistleblower (eToys chief executive
Laser Haas, also owns the Fighting-Corruption.com &
Petters-Fraud.com websites) are the 100-plus crimes –
repeating without remorse or relent – because it is not
being prosecuted, while it is protected by despots.
Another question is, has Colm Connolly protected killers;
or, at the very least, is Colm guilty of protecting those that
have paid hitmen to do their bidding?
Transitive logic indicts them all, one and same!
Mayhem & Homicides
The facts provided to this reporter by Laser, about this
Wall Street racketeering being protected also includes
alarming dynamics of mayhem, threats and even
convenient strings of homicides, while it lacks any type of
investigation.
It is well established that everyone involved in a criminal
conspiracy are just as guilty of any resulting homicides,
even if they aren’t the ones actually pulling the trigger…
As the above items and remarks document, it is not as if
the Colm Connolly issues are a single aberrant act of errant
behavior.
For sure, these cases are not a question of missing many of
the crucial details!
Culpability is well established.
Accountability is the real issue at hand!
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Without remorse or relent, dozens of overt acts of
obstruction and retaliation (all of which are RICO –
“predicate act – crimes) by many of the schemers,
continues to occur in order to prevent the eToys-related
cases from being investigated and prosecuted.
At the barest of minimums, Colm Connolly is remiss for
the failure to recuse himself and inform Laser Haas, the
eToys and KB court cases, and all creditors, shareholders
and other parties of interest, about Connolly’s many
conflicts of interest and direct links he had to the targets of
federal inquiry.
Then there’s the shutdown of the Public Corruption Task
Force; and threats against federal prosecutors to keep their
mouths shut.
Due to the many previous filings by Laser with the various
federal agencies and courts, and the lawsuit against our
federal officers, including President Donald Trump – then
there must have been someone who has read Laser’s
federal complaints.
As a matter of fact, Laser has several letters and emails,
other than the Deputy DOJ Director, Lawrence Friedman’s
2005 – email promise (link) – of looking into these
matters.
On top of the fact of the failures by Colm Connolly’s
office to prosecute Paul Traub, after his TBF law firm
confessed in 2005 about deliberately lying to a chief
federal justice, it appears the failure to prosecute the
racketeers emboldened them to spread their enterprise
throughout the country.
Paul Traub has since been listed as the “control” party of
the Tom Petters Ponzi, and partner of fraudster Marc
Dreier (see Petters Ponzi case Receiver’s 2012 Complaint
– here).
Laser sued Romney, Sachs, Colm, MNAT, and Traub in
the Los Angeles District Court for racketeering (after the
eToys judge freed Laser from that jurisdiction when she
locked Laser out of the eToys case; and nobody could –
any longer claim – suing Romney was politically
motivated).
Inexplicably and intolerably, Laser’s RICO case against
Sachs, Romney & Colm was dismissed due to the false
testimony of the racketeering parties, which was aided and
abetted by the Department of Justice acting by willful
blindness as if the criminals in these cases are above the
law!
The Ninth Circuit ruled Laser’s case as “insubstantial.”
(See the two-sentence pathetic ruling – here.)
When is enough – enough – to finally indict Wall Street?
If forcing several law firms to disband, getting dozens in
jail and stopping many national fraud schemes (and
helping make the public aware POTUS wannabe Mitt
Romney is benefiting from such) is – “insubstantial” –
then one has to wonder what will cause federal authorities
to get off their seats – to do their dang jobs!
Are issues of mayhem, threats, and murder insubstantial?
In the KB case, the Delaware Department of Justice came
to the aid of MNAT & Paul Traub’s crimes, petitioning the
court to strike and expunge Laser’s evidence (you can see
the stymie of justice – here).
On top of all that, as previously mentioned Laser had a
direct email correspondence from Deputy DOJ Director,
Lawrence Friedman, promising to address the crimes.
Then, after Laser blew the whistle, a few weeks later in the
KB case the DOJ Deputy Director, Lawrence Friedman,
chose discretion over valor by resigning (see press release
– here).
Enigmatically, Laser has had his life and liberty
threatened, many times. Most recently, these past few
weeks, by the FBI.
In 2008, when the Public Corruption Task Force was shut
down, the FBI also made veiled threats against Laser, way
back then….
Robert Alber was an eToys shareholder who joined
Laser’s efforts for justice, back in 2005.
In mid-2010, Robert Alber had to shoot/kill would-be
assassin, Michael Sesseyoff, in Kingman, AZ after Alber
was told (by Jack Abramoff’s partner, Johann Hamerski)
that “People like you, who turn down a bribe – usually
wake up dead!”
On September 23rd, last year, eToys shareholder Robert
Alber woke up dead – and now is in his grave!
Then, just 3 days later, Colm Connolly’s former assistant,
Ellen Slights, caused a Wilmington, Delaware FBI Agent
to call and threaten Laser Haas.
Oddly enough, the FBI wasn’t threatening Laser with
prosecution for committing any crime.
No, instead, as if the FBI was the strong arm for the
racketeering enterprise, Ellen Slights had the FBI threaten
Laser with prosecution unless Laser completely took Ellen
Slights name off his websites and blogs – and off from
Laser’s submissions to the federal authorities.
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Also, in 2010, the now-deceased mysteriously killed
Robert Alber had worked with Laser to move Anna
Schaeffer to Minnesota to become a private investigator
for Laser’s Petters-Fraud.com website.
Anna Schaeffer also died later on Christmas Eve 2010.
Prior to that, Marty Lackner (a Paul Traub/Tom Petters
Ponzi fraud connection) was found dead in his closet.
Marty’s brother is James Lackner.
That would be Minnesota Assistant United States Attorney
James Lackner, who was the former head of the Criminal
Division of the Minnesota Justice Department (see
Minnesota news story – here).
Like Colm Connolly’s Ellen Slights still being inside the
DOJ, James Lackner is still a federal prosecutor in
Minnesota, who protects Paul Traub, Goldman Sachs &
Bain Capital from prosecution on the Fingerhut deal!
The feds in Minnesota did seize Polaroid, but it was sold
back to Traub for $83 million in a sham auction.
Then Traub’s partners announced a previously unknown
$2 billion dollar license deal for Polaroid
Clearly, this is another hidden asset RICO crime!
Laser then kept harassing Gordon Brothers, which caused
Paul Traub to exit Gordon; and harassing Epstein Becker
& Green resulted in Train having to depart that firm also!
Traub has since started new companies.
Summing things up, until the next story comes..
Significant of 2010 as a possible reason why all these
efforts ended by deaths, could be the fact that Mitt
Romney would begin his 2012 presidential campaign only
one year later.
Colm Connolly’s assistant, Ellen Slights, is still at the
Delaware U.S. Attorney’s office; and – rumor has it – her
husband is a state judge.
As noted earlier in this story, Joe Biden blocked Colm
Connolly before the mayhem and homicides occurred.
Obviously, since then, things have gotten far worse.
MNAT and Paul Traub settled the eToys v Sachs NY
Supreme Court case for a paltry $7.5 million, which Traub
publicly argued, as a Marc Dreier law firm partner, that it
was Traub’s right to keep.
Surely we can’t have racketeers “retroactively” retiring
from their organized crimes?
Also, there can’t be any notion of a statute of limitations
when the crooks own the very federal prosecutors – like
James Lackner, Ellen Slights, and Colm Connolly – who
preside of the cases in question.
This saga is beyond extraordinary, and pure investigations
and prosecutions are beyond long overdue.
Even more disconcerting is that the deaths don’t end there;
on New Year’s Eve 2010, John (“Jack”) Wheeler was hit
in the head and thrown in a Delaware dump.
Video now exists documenting that Jack Wheeler was in
the Nemours Building at the time of his murder (see story
– here).
The Delaware United States Attorney’s office is in the
Nemours Building; and so is the current office of Colm
Connolly at Morgan & Lewis (here).
In a legitimate era of justice, everyone should be
screaming – Hell No – Colm F’n Connolly can never be
allowed to become a federal judge.
These racketeering cases, with mayhem (Laser’s daughter
was abducted after his own lawyer – Henry Heiman –
emailed Laser, Traub’s warnings to “back off”) and
unrelenting corruption, must be investigated!
The more important question is – how much is organized
crime involved in the corrupting our federal systems of
justice?
Is this renewed nomination for Colm Connolly to fill one
of the two vacant judge’s seats, including that of the
promoted off eToys case, Kent A. Jordan – quite possibly
another racketeering crime?
The question is, who – how – and other “why”?
As if all the 100-plus racketeering crimes being protected
by prosecutor and court corruption isn’t enough beyond
the factor that the courts are illegally blocking Laser’s
whistleblowing effort.
Laser can’t sue to block Connolly’s nomination in D.C.
federal court; because, it is more likely than not that the
Clerk would just refuse to docket Laser’s case, as they had
done with the Jay Clayton lawsuit.
Nor can Laser sue in Delaware.
Beyond the factor that the eToys court has ordered the
clerk to block Laser’s filings, it also won’t do any good to
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appeal above to the 3rd Circuit Court presiding over
Delaware.
When Laser and eToys shareholder Robert Alber appealed
the eToys cases to the 3rd Circuit – the Circuit proffered
the absurd ruling that the Federal Rules of Appellate
Procedure do not apply to the eToys bankruptcy case.
On top of that, Walter K Stapleton, the man who Colm
Connolly clerked for, was a partner of MNAT, is a 3rd
Circuit justice.
Then there’s the issue of Delaware District Court Judge
Kent A. Jordan, who threatened Traub and MNAT on
October 16, 2006, which was followed up a few weeks
later with Jordan being promoted off the eToys case to the
3rd Circuit Court that presides over Delaware cases.
There’s also the factor that the FBI is threatening Laser.
The reason behind the most recent FBI threats against
Laser is the fact the local FBI must approve the
nomination of Colm Connolly to become a Federal Judge.
But the local FBI said things are being handled by four
judges.
Are the “4 judges” – unnamed by the FBI – the eToys
judge, and District Court Judge Jordan who is now at the
3rd Circuit?
Also, there’s the 3rd Circuit former MNAT partner, Walter
K. Stapleton, (whom Colm Connolly clerked for).
Finally, there is Judge Alito who has been at the 3rd
Circuit since 1990. His Honor Alito has no excuse for not
understanding the gravity and gravamen of the eToys
related cases; because Alito was a prosecutor of organized
crimes.
Another possibility for the 4th judge could be the fact that
Donald Trump’s sister is also a 3rd Circuit Court Judge.
So the question is, where does one go for justice, when the
racketeers have well-documented undue power and
influence over our federal system of justice?
Nearly everyone Laser was aware of in the eToys case has
died, or has joined the opposing side, or just walked away
with a promotion off the case.
What do you do if Frank Nitti is going to be inserted into
the federal system of justice; and there are no Eliot Ness’s
to prevent it?
Our uncanny President has nominated a former crooked
federal prosecutor who was blocked nine years ago from
becoming a federal judge, so that stalwart may now
become a Federal Judge over the very Delaware corrupt
system.
Most certainly, the nomination – STINKS!
If the racketeers can get away with so much, openly, how
much more are the perpetrators doing in secret?
The 3rd Circuit ruled that the Federal Rules of Appellate
Procedure does not apply to the eToys cases; and that is
the problem with Laser’s eToys Wall Street racketeering
and federal corruption cases, in a nutshell
Our Constitution is being assaulted by those who swore an
oath to protect it; and our Laws, as they were written, are
not being applied.
Now Trump wants a big assault on the Constitution, to
swear another false oath to protect it!
Trump vowed to “drain the swamp;” but, with this
appointing of Colm Connoly, Trump is effectively only
filling the swamp with a big rig.
Trump is allowing for further corruption combined with
the deregulation of Wall Street by his SEC director Jay
Clayton and his Goldman Sachs cronies.
Colm Connolly betrayed the public’s trust, a dozen times.
Colm allowed Goldman Sachs & Bain Cap to destroy the
eToys public company and rip off Mattel of $4 billion.
Connolly’s bad faith also includes aiding and abetting
mayhem and homicides. As a bad faith federal prosecutor,
Colm Connolly allowed MNAT, Paul Traub and Barry
Gold to help Michael Glazer rip off the KB creditors of
$100 million before filing bankruptcy.
Could any one of us 99% take even $1,000 of money out
of our savings before we filed bankruptcy?
It is no small matter of coincidence that Colm Connolly’s
tenure at MNAT was the same exact time Mitt’s
Presidential Campaign claims Romney was “retroactively”
.
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retired from Bain Capital. This visibly corrupt federal
prosecutor got paid at the MNAT law firm before and after
Colm Connolly was a federal prosecutor protecting
Goldman Sachs, Bain Capital, Mitt Romney, Paul Traub,
Barry Gold and MNAT from prosecution.
Even if Colm got paid a meager salary, those parties using
their influence to get Colm a judgeship nomination is a
quid pro quo in 2008 and 2018; because Colm Connolly
has never confessed any of his conflicts of interest.
Making the issues extensively heinous and egregious, is
the fact that Laser’s daughter was abducted after his own
attorney, Henry Heiman, emailed a Traub firm threat for
Laser to “back off” or else. And Colm Connolly did
nothing about it, as a Federal prosecutor.
Even after Paul Traub and MNAT were compelled by
Laser to confess that 33 affidavits were bogus (and Paul
Traub confessed his were deliberate), Colm Connolly’s
office was so willfully blind that the crooked lawyers were
aided to strike and expunge Laser’s evidence. As a result
of Colm Connolly’s willful blindness and his assistant
Ellen Slights remaining inside the Delaware Department of
Justice, to make sure Goldman Sachs & Bain Capital’s
racketeering acts are never prosecuted.
MNAT and Paul Traub’s partnerships in crimes resulted in
Traub expanding the enterprise to New York Marc Dreier
frauds and Minnesota Tom Petters Ponzi. With Robert
Alber dead! Marty Lackner was involved in Petters Ponzi
and Marty was brother of Minnesota Federal Prosecutor
James Lackner; but we can’t ask Marty why he was never
prosecuted – because Marty is dead!
Colm Connolly’s willful failure to prosecute and his
scheme to become a judge are an ongoing effort of a
criminal conspiracy against the United States. Colm is
guilty of being a despot with domestic enemies and no one
is doing anything about it!
There’s also solid, video evidence that Colm Connolly
should be questioned about Jack Wheeler’s homicide; but
the Delaware FBI is already corrupted by Colm Connolly’s
assistant Ellen Slights!