Three of the four congresswoman Trump says should go back to their original countries were born in the United States. The fourth came to the US at age 10. All were duly elected to the Congress.
So interesting to see “Progressive” Democrat Congresswomen, who originally came from countries whose governments are a complete and total catastrophe, the worst, most corrupt and inept anywhere in the world (if they even have a functioning government at all), now loudly......
EXCLUSIVE (Reuters) - President Donald Trump’s personal attorney, Rudy Giuliani, was paid $500,000 for work he did for a company co-founded by the Ukrainian-American businessman arrested last week on campaign finance charges, Giuliani told Reuters.
Ken Starr's Whitewater investigation lasted 4 years, produced nothing. 7 congressional committees, including Gowdy's, investigated Benghazi from 2013-2016, found nothing. Mueller has charged 20 people/entities, won five guilty pleas since May 2017.
(Reuters) - The U.S. Navy announced on Thursday it had relieved the commander of the U.S. aircraft carrier Theodore Roosevelt, who wrote a scathing letter that leaked to the public asking Navy leadership for stronger measures to control a coronavirus outbreak onboard.
Exclusive: The district attorney investigating whether former U.S. President Trump illegally interfered with Georgia’s 2020 election has hired an outside lawyer who is a national authority on racketeering, a source familiar with the matter told Reuters.
Over 70 former Republican national security officials including ex-CIA and FBI chiefs will endorse Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden on Friday while launching a scathing indictment of President Donald Trump.
They didn’t.
Republican observers were there. Trump had “a nonzero number of people in the room,” one of his attorneys told a federal court last Thursday evening.
“I’m sorry, then what’s your problem?” asked U.S. District Judge Paul S. Diamond, refusing to halt the count.
Yikes! Hill names former Nunes aide Kash Patel as the person she believes was the NSC official she was told Trump wanted to speak with about Ukraine even though Patel was not involved in Ukraine policy.
Fake News
@CNN
is reporting that I am “still using personal cell phone for calls despite repeated security warnings.” This is totally false information and reporting. I haven’t had a personal cell phone for years. Only use government approved and issued phones. Retract!
BREAKING
@AramRoston
w/exclusive: (Reuters) - Lev Parnas, an indicted Ukrainian-American businessman who has ties to Trump’s personal lawyer, Giuliani, now prepared to comply w/requests for records and testimony from congressional investigators, his lawyer told Reuters on Monday.
Former DNI James Clapper to Reuters on Trump proclaiming his trust in Putin: "The fact the
@POTUS
would take Putin at his word over that of the intelligence community is quite simply unconscionable." (2)
After WH spox Sarah Sanders fails to reject Russian request to question former US Amb to Russia Michael McFaul, State spox Heather Nauert calls the Russian request "absolutely absurd" and "We do not stand by those assertions" the Russian government makes.
The new doctor on President Trump's coronavirus task force is a critic of lockdowns who has pushed for kids to go back to schools and for the return of college sports. Dr. Scott Atlas has no expertise in public health or infectious disease mitigation.
(CNN) The Nevada company that hosted an indoor campaign rally for President Donald Trump attended by thousands of people will face a fine of $3,000 for violating state coronavirus guidelines banning large gatherings.
This is very very false. Official stats: There were 9.01 million Pennsylvania residents registered to vote on Nov. 3. Turnout was more than 6.9 million voted.
Fox News also shares some responsibility for inciting the assault on the Capitol by amplifying Trump’s incendiary lies about election fraud and giving a platform to those who promoted them.
Fox's Pete Hegseth claims that the seditious mob that attacked the US Capitol and left pipe bombs in the area was really just "there to support the President of the United States and defend our republic" from "The Left."
A source familiar with the probe called the Sept. 1 deadline (asserted by Giuliani) “entirely made-up" and "another apparent effort to pressure the special counsel to hasten the end of his work."
This will be ruled unconstitutional: government, violating 1st amendment as held by the Supreme Ct. On June 21, 1989, a deeply divided United States Supreme Court upheld the rights of protesters to burn the American flag in a landmark First Amendment decision.
Trump/Strassel are so wrong.
ATT spokesman from Tuesday: “Like all companies, we are required by law to provide information to government and law enforcement agencies. In all cases, we ensure that requests for assistance are valid and that we act in compliance with the law.”
Volker, a Republican witness, further demolishes key GOP talking point: says he told Rudy Giuliani that the "allegations against Vice President Biden are self-serving and not credible."
FBI Director Wray to Congress last month: "I will say that a majority of the domestic terrorism cases we've investigated are motivated by some version of what you might call white supremacist violence.”
Tucker Carlson: White supremacy is "actually not a real problem in America." Calling white supremacy and issue is "a hoax" and "a conspiracy theory used to divide the country"
Trump falsely accused DC
@MayorBowser
of refusing to send DC police to held Secret Service control protesters outside White House. Secret Service statement sez: "The Metropolitan Police Department and U.S. Park Police were on the scene."
New Pew poll: About twice as many Americans say their greater concern is that state governments will lift restrictions on public activity too quickly (66%) than not quickly enough (32%).
The devaluation of people as human beings is a tool that has been used by despots throughout history to justify genocide and crimes against humanity. I witnessed it myself in the Balkans.
NEW YORK, June 11 (Reuters) - U.S. oil output and global oil demand will likely post bigger records this year than previously expected, the U.S. Energy Information Administration said on Tuesday.
The agency now expects U.S. oil output to grow by around 310,000 bpd.
a sedated-sounding Trump is getting absolutely no response to his speech in York, Pennsylvania, and the people behind him look bored out of their minds
Investigators in a criminal probe of Trump’s real-estate business are combing thru millions of pages of newly acquired records with an eye toward identifying witnesses who can bring the documents to life for a jury, say two people familiar with the probe.
NSA Bolton calls Iran nuclear deal worst foreign policy decision in US history. Not decision by W Bush administration - of which he was senior member - to invade Iraq, a decision that claimed hundreds of thousands of lives, cost trillions and still is shaking the Mideast.
My staff has been in contact with local emergency personnel regarding the Forbes Avenue bridge collapse in Pittsburgh. We will continue to closely monitor the situation. Wishing a speedy recovery to those who are injured.
Democrat Mark Kelly has a double-digit lead over Sen. Martha McSally (R) among Arizona voters, according 2 a Fox News poll released Wednesday. Half of surveyed Arizona voters sed they would vote for Kelly, while 37 percent said they would vote for McSally.
A day ahead of Trump’s visit to Arizona, GOP Senator Martha McSally proposes giving taxpayers *$4,000 each* to take a vacation.
Couples would get $8,000 in vacation tax credits, plus $500 per kid.
Ryan is being misleading. Firstly, the January 2017 Intelligence Community assessment did not examine whether the Russian election attack impacted the election outcome. Secondly, Mueller has yet to weigh in on this issue. So no, it's not yet "clear."
WaPo surveyed all 249 Republicans on Capitol Hill. 25 acknowledge that Biden won. 2 insist that Trump won. And "another 222 GOP members of the House and Senate — nearly 90% of all Republicans serving in Congress — will simply not say who won the election."
Dana Rohrbacher response to Assange lawyer's allegation:
"At no time did I talk 2 President Trump about Julian Assange. Likewise, I was not directed by Trump or anyone else connected with him to meet with Julian Assange. I was on my own fact finding mission at personal expense."
This is so wrong. I was in DC streets last night. Most of the violence - and there was very little - was perpetrated by law enforcement. Protesters and clergy were teargassed - b4 the 7 pm curfew - so Trump could have photo-op at a church. And most protesters left before curfew.
D.C. had no problems last night. Many arrests. Great job done by all. Overwhelming force. Domination. Likewise, Minneapolis was great (thank you President Trump!).
Former data scientist at Florida Dept of Health, who charges she was fired for refusing to manipulate C-19 data, says state police raided her home this morning.
1/
There will be no update today.
At 8:30 am this morning, state police came into my house and took all my hardware and tech.
They were serving a warrant on my computer after DOH filed a complaint.
They pointed a gun in my face. They pointed guns at my kids..
@aarondmiller2
I didn’t hear an admission he lied to the nation and the world about massive election fraud but he did lie about his supporters never endorsing political violence or disrespecting law enforcement. I watched them do both last Wednesday on Capitol Hill. And remember his rallies?
Moreover, Carter Page already had been identified by the FBI as a Russian intelligence recruitment target in 2013 in the SVR NOC case in NYC. What? When he joined the campaign, the FBI should have just ignored that?
That was an abjectly false statement by
@PressSec
. The Russia investigation was NOT based on the Steele dossier and, in fact, began BEFORE it. Specifically, when Trump campaign aide Papadopoulos bragged to Australian diplomat about Russia offering campaign help.
Nothing will be settled until the Pakistani military/ISI stop their decades old use of Islamist extremist proxies to wage asymmetric warfare across its borders in Afghanistan and India.
What do I know about branding, maybe nothing (but I did become President!), but if I were Boeing, I would FIX the Boeing 737 MAX, add some additional great features, & REBRAND the plane with a new name.
No product has suffered like this one. But again, what the hell do I know?
Is Robert Mueller ever going to release his conflicts of interest with respect to President Trump, including the fact that we had a very nasty & contentious business relationship, I turned him down to head the FBI (one day before appointment as S.C.) & Comey is his close friend..
'No Blame?' "...a nationwide review conducted by ABC News has identified at least 54 criminal cases where Trump was invoked in direct connection with violent acts, threats of violence or allegations of assault." via
@ABC
Not one person in my family will ever touch the Covid-19 vaccine.
That is the decision that we have made, unabashedly, as a family.
Medical freedom is an individual right that should NEVER be infringed upon and any person who thinks otherwise has no place in our government.
Sr. Admin. official tells me re Syria withdrawal: “Senior officials across the Administration agree that the President’s decision-by-tweet will recklessly put American and allied lives in danger around the world, take the pressure off of ISIS allowing them to reconstitute, and...
The president and the RNC have been clear that they are trying to concoct ways to overturn the results of a free and fair democratic election. And if you’re a GOP official affirming the integrity of the election —
@C_C_Krebs
@GaSecofState
@Commish_Schmidt
— they will attack you.
The president of the United States once again promotes bogus Moscow-supported conspiracy theory that his own former homeland security adviser said White House officials told him was false. And does it on Fox.
Trump says "flipping," a standard tactic used by law enforcement and prosecutors - like Mueller - to make cases, "almost ought to be illegal" because "it's not fair." Stunning.
Nunes, continuing effort to out whistleblower, presses Vindman to answer question about IC individual, but Vindman refuses to discuss any individual in the IC. He repeats he doesnt know the WB. His attorney sez Vindman will adhere to hearing rules and not discuss IC personnel.
EXCLUSIVE: Fox Corp shareholders demanding company records that may show whether directors and executives properly oversaw Fox News' coverage of former President Trump's election-rigging claims, sources told Reuters, in possible prelude to lawsuits.
Macron asks for end to Russian attacks on civilians, preservation of civilian infrastructure and road access, says French presidency, which says Putin confirmed his willingness to engage on all three points (Reuters)
I lived in former Yugoslavia, covered all 4 wars, including before, during, after the Kosovo conflict. The docs signed today were not the great breakthru Trump and Grenell tried to sell. Mostly restart a dialogue and commits the sides to implementing deals they already signed.
Rep. Mo Brooks was the first speaker at the Trump rally on Wednesday just before the mob attack on the Capitol. He urged Trump supporters to start “kicking ass.”
“My brother Jimmy Hill was killed yesterday in Chernihiv, Ukraine. He was waiting in a bread line with several other people when they were gunned down” by Russian military forces, his sister, Cheryl Hill Gordon, wrote on Facebook.
@lrozen
@NatashaBertrand
Agreed. Steele never had a formal relationship nor was paid by the FBI for the Dossier. So he could not be fired as an informant. Nor could be break any rules on informants. The memo is plain just wrong on this.
BREAKING President Donald Trump and his intelligence chief have pushed for quick declassification - over IC objections - of a document disputing the 2017 intelligence community finding that Russia acted to help Trump get elected in 2016, say three U.S. government officials.
Responding to an outcry from medical experts, Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Stephen Hahn on Tuesday apologized for overstating the life-saving benefits of treating COVID-19 patients with convalescent plasma.
The aluminum tubes were not misinterpreted intelligence.
Chalabi’s “defectors” were not misinterpreted intelligence.
Salman Pak was not misinterpreted intelligence.
The US Govt & my boss at the time Colin Powell did not lie about WMD. The word “lie” involves intent. There was no intent; we got it wrong. We misinterpreted intelligence & assumed Saddam was hiding WMD when he was hiding his lack of WMD. No more, no less.
“We were the first to assert that the more complicated the forms assumed by civilization, the more restricted the freedom of the individual must become.” Benito Mussolini
Rudy Giuliani just claimed links between (evidence-less) voter fraud, Dominion/Smartmatic supporters of the late Hugo Chavez, Black Lives Matter, Antifa and George Soros (an anti-Semitic trope). And the hair die is still streaking down the sides of his head.
Context: Paxton has been under indictment for securities fraud - which he denied - since 2015 and several top aides have quit, accusing him of bribery and abuse of power. Which he denies. There’s more.
Ron Johnson is using his questioning time during the Capitol security hearing to promote a conspiracy theory that the January 6 insurrectionists weren't actually Trump supporters, but were "provocateurs" and "fake Trump protesters"
Exclusive: Erik Prince - founder of the private security firm Blackwater and a prominent supporter of President Trump - has been pushing a plan to deploy a private army to help topple
#Venezuela
President Maduro, four sources told Reuters.
Welcome back America! Congratulations to
@JoeBiden
and
@KamalaHarris
for their election! While we are about to celebrate the 5th anniversary of the Paris Agreement, this victory symbolizes our need to act together more than ever, in view of climate emergency. 🇺🇸
#Election2020
“Reports indicate that Secretary Pompeo personally made the recommendation to fire Mr. Linick, and it is our understanding that he did so because the Inspector General had opened an investigation into wrongdoing by Secretary Pompeo himself.”
Russian missile slammed into a children’s playground early this morning, seriously damaging this Mykolaiv apartment block, but miraculously causing no deaths. Not a single military site nearby.
“I do wish that Mr. Bolton would have come in to the House under oath and testified,” Sen. Tim Scott tells
@jonkarl
.
“The problem is that when you’re selling it in a book, you’re not putting yourself in a position to be cross-examined.”
“Trump has demonstrated that he lacks the character and competence to lead this nation and has engaged in corrupt behavior that renders him unfit to serve as president,” the group plans to declare in a full-page ad in The Wall Street Journal on Friday.
Context: original May 1 deadline was set by former Republican president who surrendered US bargaining leverage, made no plans to evacuate US-affiliated Afghans, invited the Taliban to Camp David, had to be stopped by senior aides from ordering full US withdrawal last December.
President Biden's disastrous decision not to move the August 31st deadline to evacuate all Americans and Afghans was cemented by his administration’s prior ill-conceived timeline agreement with the Taliban instead of the conditions on the ground.
Spokesperson of Izzuddin Al-Qassam Brigades, Abu Obaidah:
“We thank the Islamic Republic of Iran who provided us with weapons, money and other equipment! He gave us missiles to destroy Zionist fortresses, and helped us with standard anti-tank missiles!”
Trump Is Being Manipulated by Putin. What Should We Do? The author of this extraordinary op-ed is a Republican member of the House Intelligence Committee and former undercover CIA officer.
Translation: Mulvaney confirms Trump still rejects intelligence community's finding on Russia interference and believes discredited conspiracy theory Crowdstrike forged report Russia hacked the DNC servers. "It is completely debunked," sed former homeland sec adviser Bossert.
BREAKING: Trump's chief of staff says the president "absolutely" mentioned to him that "corruption related to the DNC server" was part of the reason "why we held up the money"
I remember when Democrats & some in the media demanded the indictment of people in the incoming Trump administration for “having phone calls” with foreign leaders to discuss upcoming changes in U.S. foreign policy
@TheHoustonWade
Thank you for honoring this amazing man and my dear friend and the other MoH recipients recognized for putting their lives on the line to fight for their comrades and serve their country.
JD Vance on CNBC says that if immigration was the path to prosperity, then "America would be the most prosperous country in the world." (Who wants to tell him ... )