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 Matthews Admits Media Show Trump Tape
Because It’s ‘Fun,’ Trump’s ‘Wagging The Dog’ On Syria
By Curtis Houck
April 12, 2018 12:04 AM EDT
On Wednesday’s zany edition of Hardball, MSNBC host
Chris Matthews admitted during the A-block that the news
media “love to play” the infamous Access Hollywood tape
with President Trump over and over again because it’s
“fun” and “everyone” will think the President would be
“wagging the dog” to attack Syria to distract from the
Mueller probe.
This is the latest attempt by someone in the liberal media
to chide the President for wanting to respond to a deadly
chemical weapons attack. Prior to the Michael Cohen raid,
everything seemed kosher but actions is now a distraction
or “wagging the dog.” So it’s fair to wonder whether
those individuals actually support standing up to horrific
acts if it forces them to spend less time on their beloved
Russia probe.
Matthews started this charade in speaking to The
Washington Post’s Ashley Parker, wondering whether he
“know[s] he's under suspicion that he
might be wagging the dog” if he makes a
move militarily with “those missiles he
talks about being nice and smart and all
that.”
Parker thankfully rebutted Matthews, telling him:
“[P]eople in the White House sort of
outright dismiss the wag the dog theory,
and their argument is that on something
as serious as what to do with Syria and
launching possible air strikes that there
has been a very deliberative process.”
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Matthews turned next to Connecticut Democratic Senator
Richard Blumenthal, remarking that
“[t]his is a strange time and you cannot
satirize it” as “I’ve never seen anything
like this.”
The pundit then pivoted to that Access Hollywood
admission:
You get the Access Hollywood thing, which
networks and us included love to play it
over and over again. It’s a — it’s fun. There
it is. It so amazes me where he's saying
these horrible embarrassing things that
cost Billy Bush his job but not him doing the
whole thing here for the show and at the
same time, you've got him talking in almost
like caressing language about my nice,
smart missiles.
Following some boilerplate rhetoric from Blumenthal,
Matthews tried (and failed) the same schtick with New
York Times chief White House correspondent Peter Baker:
The consequences within six hours, every European
newspaper will have to the pictures of the hospital scenes.
It's always there. Absolutely predictable. The people being
brought into the hospitals on gurneys, bloodied faces,
missing whatever and that is the first reaction. Imagine that
across the front page, atop of the fold from the latest
Access Hollywood still. It seems like this is going to be
connected whatever good thinking people believe is the
best for this President, everyone's going to be thinking wag
the dog.
Baker pushed back, in part telling him
“it's unfortunate timing obviously, but I
think the one thing that the White House
has going for it is because we have
been in this scenario before.”
To see the relevant transcript from MSNBC’s Hardball on
April 11, click “expand.”
MSNBC’s Hardball MATTHEWS: This is a strange time and you cannot satirize it.
April 11, 2018 You're my age pretty much. I have to tell you. I’ve never seen
7:08 p.m. Eastern anything like this. A couple of things. You get the Access
Hollywood thing, which networks and us included love to play it
over and over again. It’s a — it’s fun. There it is. It so amazes me
where he's saying these horrible embarrassing things that cost
Billy Bush his job but not him doing the whole thing here for the
show and at the same time, you've got him talking in almost like
caressing language about my nice, smart missiles. I mean, it's
strange. Senator, to hear — well, you see the whole thing. It's all
on television except the words the president used. He's talking
back to the Russians who if nothing else are Marshall in their use
of weapons. That’s all they’ve got is a gas station and an arsenal
and he's saying we've got nicer smarter missiles than you.

CONNECTICUT DEMOCRATIC SENATOR RICHARD

BLUMENTHAL: And he is in effect telegraphing in a way that he
CHRIS MATTHEWS: Ashley, your paper and you especially with
said he never would criticize other presidents for doing what the
a few other people have been amazing at getting close to the
military moves may be. He is sitting with his generals and using
President, figuring out what he’s up to. Does he know that every
that time which should be devoted to talk about the Syrian threat
move he makes right now especially with the use of military
to denounce the Department of Justice and call a raid in New
weaponry, those missiles he talks about being nice and smart
York on his lawyer a disgrace to the nation. It is beyond strange
and all that, if he uses them, it will be suspect that he does. Does
and embarrassing. It actually undermines the credibility of the
he know he's under suspicion that he might be wagging the
United States of America abroad and the office of presidency is
dog?
so diminished as a result.

ASHLEY PARKER: I will say that people in the White House sort
MATTHEWS: Peter Baker, we all know from past times we
of outright dismiss the wag the dog theory, and their argument is
thought a quick military strike would be our solution. The
that on something as serious as what to do with Syria and
consequences within six hours, every European newspaper will
launching possible air strikes that there has been a very
have to the pictures of the hospital scenes. It's always there.
deliberative process in place, you know, from the National
Absolutely predictable. The people being brought into the
Security Council principals meeting this week to smaller briefings
hospitals on gurneys, bloodied faces, missing whatever and that
for the President and I will say my reporting shows that the White
is the first reaction. Imagine that across the front page, atop of
House has largely been focused on an orderly, methodical
the fold from the latest Access Hollywood still. It seems like this is
process at least and perhaps only when comes to Syria. That
going to be connected whatever good thinking people believe is
said, the President tweet this morning sort of threatening Russia
the best for this President, everyone's going to be thinking wag
and talking about the U.S. smart missiles that may rain down
the dog.
caught everyone, the Pentagon, his own aides, his own advisors
totally by surprise and they sort of had to scramble to figure out
how to respond. So, even within something as serious as this
and a process they are working to be disciplined on because they
do understand the stakes, especially those around the President,
something like an impulsive early morning tweet will still occur as
we saw and can sort of throw everything into chaos at least for
several hours.

PETER BAKER: Well, it's unfortunate timing obviously, but I think

the one thing that the White House has going for it is because we
have been in this scenario before and we have considered the
United States has considered action like this before, there's less
suspicion of it this time than in the past. At this point, a chemical
attack last year, Trump ordered a missile strike. The idea that
there's another chemical attack and he might consider it does not
seem out of place given his own history, given the history that
President Obama considered something like this in 2013 and
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you've got Theresa May in Britain and Emmanuel Macron in right. The timing is unfortunate and it’s something that will be
France both likely it seems like to participate in an operation so it cited and used against President Trump and against the United
would not be a unilateral move by President Trump, but you're States.

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 US Corporations Expect Best 1st Quarter Profits Ever! —
Net Income After Taxes Expected To Increase
14% An Unheard Of Number!
By Jim Hoft
April 12, 2018, 7:50 Am
1st Quarter 2018 Results are just starting
to be reported for US companies and
expectations are that because of
President Trump’s economic measures,
the ‘bottom line’ or net profits for these
companies will be the best 1st Quarter
results ever!
2017 was a very good year for the Dow, S&P 500 and all
the major US stock indices. The Dow set numerous
records such as having 70 all- time highs by year’s end.
President Trump’s first year in office was arguably the best
year ever for the Dow. (See our summary of year-end
results including the Dow).
The S&P 500 also had an incredible year. 2017 was the
first year in the S&P 500’s history that every month netted
a positive increase for the overall index, and it increased a
total during the year of 21.7%. The same index by
October reached a record set 20 years prior by recording
its 6th straight day ending in a new all-time high.
President Trump’s efforts to increase jobs through growth
paid off as regulations were cut and industries like coal
and oil were virtually opened up for business
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through regulation cuts. In addition, the tax code was
revamped resulting in a tax regime that is more business
and individual friendly. Tax rates were cut and Americans
and American companies were awarded significant
changes to their tax rates starting in 2018.
For individual tax payers the Trump tax cuts will lower
rates and double the amount of standard deductions from
each payer’s tax bill. Corporate results will be just as
significant with the corporate rate being cut from 35% (one
of the highest rates in the world) to 21%.
As a result of these tax cuts, most US
Corporation will deliver a net income in
their financial results that is 14% greater
than prior year.
This starts in the 1st Quarter of 2018 and the results for
many major companies will begin being reported in the
next few weeks.
This means that for every large
corporation reporting financial
results in the US, the net
income after taxes will be
increased by 14% – an unheard
of increase!
With many companies reporting their best year’s results
ever in 2017, and the economy on fire, and taxes being cut
by 14% – expectations are that the net income for these
companies in the 1st Quarter of 2018 will be the best ever
and this will continue from this point forward!
President Trump is doing what he
promised and just because many in the
media won’t report his many successes,
doesn’t mean they aren’t happening.
MAGA!
 FLASHBACK: Before They Loved James Comey,
The Liberal Media Trashed Him
By Geoffrey Dickens
April 12, 2018 8:40 AM EDT
The hype for James Comey’s book tour (set to launch on
ABC Sunday evening with an hour-long George
Stephanopoulos special) began last November 2 when
CBS’s Gayle King teased it during an interview with the
former FBI director:
“We’re getting a first look this morning at
fired-FBI Director James Comey’s new
memoir....His publisher says the book will
explore good, ethical leadership.” Co-host
Norah O’Donnell exclaimed: “Something
tells me that’s going to be a good book!”
And while liberal journalists are clearly hoping for Comey
to dish the dirt on President Donald Trump, there was a
time when they hammered him as a partisan hack whose
investigation into then-candidate Hillary Clinton’s e-mail
scandal was sneaky sabotage of an all-but-certain
Democratic victory in 2016.
Just days before Election Day – when Comey announced
that FBI was pursuing new leads into the investigation
Clinton’s e-mail server scandal – CNN’s senior legal
analyst Jeffrey Toobin called it a “stink bomb.” On the
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October 30 edition of NBC’s Meet the Press moderator
Chuck Todd wondered if “Comey has put the finger on the
scale for Donald Trump.” His colleague Andrea Mitchell
fretted
“This is just the worst possible situation for
the FBI, for the country, for Hillary Clinton.”
At that time The Big Three (ABC, CBS, NBC) networks
went into attack mode against Comey, turning what
should have been a scandal about Clinton into a rampage
against the FBI director. From October 28 through October
31, 2016 MRC analysts reviewed all statements (by
reporters, analysts, and partisans) that took a position on
Comey and Clinton and found criticisms of Comey (88)
swamped those of Clinton (31) by a ratio of almost 3 to 1.
There were a handful of statements that praised either
Comey (10) or Clinton (4).
MRC analysts also discovered that the Big Three
networks’ evening (ABC’s World News Tonight, CBS
Evening News, NBC Nightly News) and morning show
programs (ABC’s Good Morning America, CBS This
Morning, NBC’s Today) devoted a total of 2 hours, 19
minutes and 49 seconds to the Comey story during those
four days.
The following are just some of the media’s worst
overreactions to Comey’s investigation of Clinton during
and even after the 2016 campaign:
Comey’s “Stink Bomb”
“Even I, as a lowly assistant U.S. Attorney
in the 1990s, knew there was a bedrock
principle at the Justice Department....you
don’t interfere in elections. Two months
before, you go dark. You don’t start making
public disclosures. You don’t issue
subpoenas, you don’t issue indictments on
the eve of election and I don’t see what
possible justification James Comey had to
violate that principle....Why throw that stink
bomb at the very end of the campaign?”
— CNN legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin on
CNN Newsroom with Brooke Baldwin,
October 31, 2016.
Comey “Put the Finger on the Scale” for
Trump
“John Podesta, the campaign chairman
wrote on Medium, he said, ‘By being vague
and obfuscating, Comey opened the door
to conspiracy theories’ – which you’ve been
saying. And there’s now a surge of fund-
raising for Trump and his team. Do you
think Comey has put the finger on the scale
for Donald Trump?”
— Moderator Chuck Todd question to
Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook
on NBC’s Meet the Press, October 30,
2016.
Comey’s Decision “Worst Possible
Situation for...the Country”
“This is just the worst possible situation for
the FBI, for the country, for Hillary Clinton
certainly....If she’s elected, she has to live
with James Comey who has a ten-year
term. That is a very hostile situation and a
dangerous situation.”
— Correspondent Andrea Mitchell on
NBC’s Meet the Press, October 30,
2016.
Did Comey Forever Destroy FBI’s
Credibility?
“A lot of Democrats are incensed by James
Comey’s actions. Dianne Feinstein, senator
Dianne Feinstein, called his actions
‘appalling.’ Howard Dean, former
Democratic candidate for president, says,
quote, ‘He may have destroyed the
credibility of the FBI forever. Put himself on
the same side as Putin.’ Do you agree with
that?”
— Moderator George Stephanopoulos to
Democratic vice presidential nominee
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Tim Kaine on ABC’s This Week, October
30, 2016.
Can Clinton and Dems Survive “Comey
Effect?”
Correspondent Andrea Mitchell: “The
2016 campaign now again turned upside
down by FBI Director James Comey, this
time deciding that those Hillary Clinton e-
mails on Anthony Weiner’s laptop were
either all duplicates or not related to
government business. The question is now,
though, is it too late to undo the political
damage?....Can the e-mail damage be
undone? With polls opening just 24 hours
from now, the Clinton campaign worries the
good news may not catch up to the bad
news of Comey’s first letter 10 days ago.”...
Meet the Press host Chuck Todd: “I think
at the end of the day, we’re going to look
back and say, this may have cost the
Democratic Party one or two Senate seats.
What this also did down the ballot to
galvanize Republicans to basically vote like
Republicans again....we may look at the
makeup of the Senate and say, a Comey
effect.”
— NBC’s Today, November 7, 2016.
Comey’s “Integrity and Impartiality”
Questioned
Host Chris Hayes: “Whether or not
Comey’s intervention has affected the
presidential race, it’s clear that his
disclosure and the spate of now competing,
one might say warring FBI leaks that have
followed have raised serious questions
about the FBI’s integrity and impartiality.”...
American Urban Radio Networks
correspondent April Ryan: “What does
this do to an election a few days out? And it
sets a precedent. It’s a bad precedent.
We’ve never seen this before.”
Hayes: “Nope.”
Ryan: “And I just tell you, the integrity of
Comey as well as the FBI is in question. It
makes you wonder. You go back in history
and think about some of the things we read
in the history books about things that were
happening to leaders like Dr. King and
others. You know, you just wonder, you just
wonder.”
— MSNBC’s All In with Chris Hayes,
November 2, 2016.
J. Edgar Comey?
“Since President Obama named James B.
Comey director of the F.B.I. in 2013, the 6-
foot-8 former prosecutor has spoken often
of dark chapters in the bureau’s history,
notably J. Edgar Hoover’s order to wiretap
the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and use
the tapes to try to drive the civil rights
leader to suicide. ‘The reason I do those
things,’ Mr. Comey said in a talk at
Georgetown University last year, ‘is to
ensure that we remember our mistakes and
that we learn from them.’ His point: The
nation’s leading law enforcement agency
must preserve investigations from any taint
of political motive or extralegal influence.
So it may be especially painful to Mr.
Comey that today, after his second
sensational public statement on the F.B.I.’s
investigation of Hillary Clinton’s email,
some critics and historians are comparing
him to Hoover....But before Mr. Comey,
Hoover was the last F.B.I. director to be
accused – at least by some historians – of
trying to influence a presidential election,
by feeding useful scraps of information on
Harry S. Truman, a Democrat, to the
campaign of Thomas E. Dewey, a
Republican.”
— Scott Shane and Sharon LaFraniere
in October 31, 2016 New York Times
article.
Clinton Team “Upset” with Comey and
“They Should Be”
Co-host Mark Halperin: “James Comey is
getting horrible advice. He is interfering in
this election, he is responding to Congress.
Congress has no business knowing about
the closing and opening of criminal probes.
I don’t understand what the guy is doing.
But from a pure political point of view: It’s a
nightmare for the Clinton administration –
campaign. I know why they’re upset, they
should be.”...
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Co-host John Heilemann: “At this
moment it does seem like we have a
problem with the FBI Director. And I
actually think whether you are a Democrat
or a Republican. If you are just looking on
the merits, you would agree on the one
thing – one thing that John Podesta said –
which is that James Comey should come
out, and stand in front of a podium and
explain what the hell you’re doing here.”
— Bloomberg New’s With All Due
Respect, October 28 2016.
Comey Has Turned the FBI Into “A Wing
of the Republican Party”
Host Anderson Cooper: “Jeff, first of all,
on this whole Marc Rich document dump
from the FBI, is it just a coincidence that it
happened now?”
Senior Legal Analyst Jeffrey Toobin:
“Well, perhaps. It is certainly
bizarre....Coming on top of the director,
Comey’s very unusual and controversial
release last week, it just makes the FBI
look like a wing of the Republican party.”
— CNN’s Anderson Cooper 360,
November 1, 2016.
Comey “Destroyed” His Reputation by
“Trying to Swing “Election”
“If we don’t hear more from Comey, we just
have to conclude that he was trying to
swing election. And *that* should be the
story.”
— October 28, 2016 tweet by New York
Times columnist Paul Krugman.
“Mr. Comey was subjected to a constant
barrage of demands that he prosecute her
for...something. He should simply have
said no. Instead, even while announcing
back in July that no charges would be filed,
he editorialized about her conduct – a
wholly inappropriate thing to do, but
probably an attempt to appease the right. It
didn’t work, of course. They just demanded
 more. And it looks as if he tried to buy them
off by throwing them a bone just a few days
before the election. Whether it will matter
politically remains to be seen, but one thing
is clear: he destroyed his own reputation.”
— New York Times columnist Paul
Krugman in October 31, 2016 article
“Working the Refs.”
Comey Fail
“Comey has said high-profile investigations
make him feel pressured to things quickly,
and do it well. Tonight, his critics are
wondering if he has failed on both counts.”
— Correspondent Jeff Pegues on CBS
Evening News on October 28, 2016.
“Unprecedented” That FBI Director
“Injected” Himself Into Political Process
“What is also striking is the extent to which
the FBI director of the United States is
allowing himself to be injected into this
political campaign. Unprecedented that he
would have released the information he
released after a decision not to recommend
indictment.”
— Former NBC’s Meet the Press host
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and CNN political analyst David Gregory
on CNN’s Wolf, October 28, 2016.
Hillary Lost Because of Sexism in
Comey’s FBI?
“I think what Jim Comey did was to throw
overboard Justice Department procedures
because of political reasons – his own
internal politics – because of the hatred for
Hillary Clinton within the FBI and because
of this delicate balancing act he was trying
to pull off with Republicans in Congress
principally. And I think that, that was a
horrendous decision on his part and one
that he should and probably does regret. I
think there was misogyny. And I think we
tolerate sexism in this country, whether it’s
in, you know, the legal profession or
corporations or in our politics.”
— CNN political analyst David Gregory
on CNN’s New Day, May 3, 2017.
Pressing for Comey to Resign
Bernie Sanders: “I think that Comey acted
in an outrageous way during the campaign.
And, you know, no one can say that this
was the decisive and this was what elected
Trump, but clearly his behavior during the
campaign in terms of what he said in the
week or two before the election was
unacceptable. And it is interesting that he is
not doing investigations about the possible
– possible ties between Trump’s campaign
and the Russians.
Moderator George Stephanopoulos:
“Should he step down?”
— ABC’s This Week, January 15, 2017.
 Deep State Shielding UNCLASSIFIED Comey Memos
From Congress Ahead Of His Book Release (Video)
Posted On April 12, 2018

“I was writing today about the Comey

(National Sentinel) Stonewalling: The FBI and Justice
Department are keeping unclassified memos belonging to
fired FBI Director James Comey from lawmakers and
congressional investigators ahead of his book release.
memos. The fired FBI director is planning
his big bookselling extravaganza to start
this weekend. And these memos that
Comey wrote are being treated like the
highest state secrets inside the Justice
Department,” he continued.
“Members of the Oversight Committees
have asked to see them. They’ve only been
allowed to be seen by one or two people.
There’s an FBI minder in the room all the
time, no copies are allowed, no note taking
is allowed. Most of these things are not
even classified,” he said.
Watch, per Lou Dobbs Tonight:

The documents are being treated as though they are state

secrets, with FBI officials refusing to allow congressional
investigators to view the memos outside of a safe
room, The Gateway Pundit reported.

During an appearance with Fox News‘ Lou

Dobbs, Washington Examiner columnist Byron York said
the secrecy is unwarranted while stonewalling
congressional committees that have demanded to see them
appears to be tied to the upcoming release of Comey’s new
book on Tuesday.

“The public needs to know. There is too

much secrecy out,” York said.
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 ACLU Celebrates Raid On
Trump’s Lawyer: ‘The Rule Of Law Is Alive’
By Joel B. Pollak
12 Apr 2018
The American Civil Liberties Union
(ACLU) has published an article
celebrating the FBI raid on Donald
Trump’s personal lawyer as a victory for
the rule of law — not a violation of
attorney-client privilege and the
president’s constitutional rights.
Earlier this week, the FBI raided attorney Michael Cohen’s
office, apartment, and hotel room, seizing materials that
included communications from Trump to his lawyer. The
government typically cannot have access to those
communications. In cases where it is necessary to study
such communications, the FBI establishes a supposedly
independent “taint team” that sifts through the material
and, theoretically, only passes on evidence to prosecutors
that does not violate attorney-client privilege.
However, critics allege that there is great potential for
abuse, especially in a politically-charged case like this.
They point out that such raids on attorneys are very rare,
and argue that the president’s Fourth Amendment right to
privacy, Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination,
and Sixth Amendment right to counsel have been
compromised.
Harvard Law School professor emeritus Alan Dershowitz,
one of the country’s foremost defense lawyers and a civil
libertarian who supported Hillary Clinton for president,
condemned the raid.
“If this were Hillary Clinton being
investigated and they went into her
lawyer’s office, the ACLU would be on
every television station in America jumping
up and down,” he told Fox News this week.
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However, the ACLU not only condones the raid on
Trump’s; it is applauding it.
ACLU legal director David Cole wrote on the
organization’s website:
The ACLU is the nation’s premier defender of privacy,
and we’ve long maintained that the right of every
American to speak freely to his or her attorney is essential
to the legal system. These rights are protected by the
Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Amendments, and we are second
to none in defending them — often for people with whom
we fundamentally disagree.
But we also believe in the rule of law as an essential
foundation for civil liberties and civil rights. And perhaps
the first principle of the rule of law is that no one — not
even the president, let alone his lawyer — is above the
law. And no one, not even the president, can exploit the
attorney-client privilege to engage in crime or fraud.
The attorney-client privilege has always included a “crime-
fraud exception,” which provides that if you are using the
attorney-client relationship to perpetrate a crime, there is
no privilege.
…
We don’t know all the reasons and circumstances for the
FBI search of Cohen’s office and home. News reports
suggest that the focus is on Cohen’s payments to two
women, adult film star Stormy Daniels and former Playboy
model Karen McDougal to suppress their stories of affairs
with Donald Trump, and that these payments may have
been illegal. But what is clear is that prosecutors had to
overcome high hurdles to obtain the search warrant. That
the warrant was issued is not a sign that the attorney-client
privilege is dead. It is, on the contrary, a sign that the rule
of law is alive.
Notably, Cole did not mention the requirement that search
warrants only be issued upon a finding of probable cause.
In addition, the government apparently did not exhaust
other means of obtaining the same information from
Cohen that it seized in the raid.
 Trump Pauses On Syrian Strike
– Crushing Hopes Of Warhawks Everywhere
By Jim Hoft
April 12, 2018, 9:04 Am

POTUS TRUMP:

Never said when an attack on Syria would

take place. Could be very soon or not so
soon at all! In any event, the United States,
under my Administration, has done a great
job of ridding the region of ISIS. Where is
our “Thank you America?”

President Trump paused on a Syrian

airstrike today saying he never
promised an attack in the first place.

President Trump tweeted this out Thursday morning.

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 Rand Paul Warns ‘Trump Haters’
At FBI Still Have Top-Secret Security Clearance
Senator Demands That Exposed Enemies Of President Trump ‘Should Be Fired’
Steve Watson - Infowars.Com
April 12, 2018

“[a]ll FBI employees must maintain a Top

Secret security clearance”.
“Because of security concerns and law
enforcement sensitivities, the FBI does not
reveal the specific accesses granted to
particular employees.” Brower added.

Appearing on Fox News, Senator Paul warned that this

potentially means the exposed officials, who called Trump
“an idiot” and “a loathsome human,” can still access
Senator Rand Paul revealed Wednesday information regarding the investigation, posing a potential
that two FBI officials who were removed threat to national security.
from special counsel Robert Mueller’s
investigative team because they sent
texts admitting a strong disliking for
President Trump STILL have access to
classified information.

The Senator tweeted out a copy of a response he was sent

in March to an earlier letter Paul penned asking whether
FBI agent Peter Strzok and FBI lawyer Lisa Page still had
security clearances.

“So if [Strzok and Page are] still FBI

agents, which apparently they are,” Paul
told Fox News’ “Outnumbered Overtime,”
“the [FBI’s] non-answer specifically really is
an answer, and [it] says they can search
our databases.”

In their communications to each other, the two FBI

officials who were romantically involved, also referred to
an FBI secret society and an ‘insurance policy’ for if
Trump was elected.

“Peter Strzok and Lisa Page are enemies

of President Trump. They were spending
time at work trying to figure out how to
keep him from being president, and if he
were president, trying to have some sort of
insurance policy to, I guess, prevent him
The response, from FBI Assistant Director Gregory from acting as president,” Paul noted.
Brower reads
Paul urged that Strzok and Page
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 “need to be fired. At the very least, they
need to be suspended from any privileges
to look at these databases until it’s
determined whether or not they can still
remain at the FBI.”

Senator Paul is flagging this up not only because of the

anti-Trump bias within the FBI, but also because he is
keen to see reforms to FISA’s Section 702 to require a new
warrant whenever intelligence agencies request to search a
database containing information on American citizens that
has been collected while carrying out foreign surveillance.
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 Watch Live: Mike Pompeo Faces
Grilling From Dems During Confirmation Hearing
By Tyler Durden
Thu, 04/12/2018 - 09:50
CIA Director and former Indiana Congressman Mike
Pompeo will face off against Senate Democrats Thursday
morning during his confirmation hearing to succeed Rex
Tillerson as Secretary of State.
Watch it live below:
According to excerpts leaked to CBS, Pompeo is trying to
communicate to lawmakers that he will be a very different
Secretary of State than Tillerson.
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At the outset, Pompeo will offer assurances that he will be
a very different secretary of state than Rex Tillerson.
Pompeo will, according to excerpts of his
opening statement, promise to keep in
regular contact with lawmakers, will "do my
best to pick up your calls on the first ring"
and "be a regular visitor to the Capitol."
He'll also tell lawmakers that he's already
met with hundreds of State Department
staffers, whom, he said "shared how
demoralizing it is to have so many
vacancies and, frankly, not to feel relevant."
He'll aim to help the State Department
culture "find its swagger once again."
The hearing was set to begin at 9:30, but has been delayed.
It should be starting any minute.
 Trump Insists That If He
Wanted To Fire Mueller, It Would Be Done
By Maegan Vazquez, CNN
Updated 1209 GMT (2009 HKT) April 12, 2018
Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump said Thursday
that if he wanted to fire special counsel Robert Mueller, he
would have months ago.
"If I wanted to fire Robert Mueller in
December, as reported by the Failing New
York Times, I would have fired him. Just
more Fake News from a biased
newspaper," Trump tweeted Thursday
morning.
Trump was disputing a New York Times report published
Tuesday that said the President sought to fire Mueller in
December following reports that Mueller was seeking
Trump's financial records. CNN has also reported that
Trump has wanted to fire Mueller for months.
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The legality of firing Mueller has been a topic of
conversation inside the White House since the indictments
of former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort and
his deputy, Rick Gates, last fall, a source told CNN.
White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said Tuesday
that the President "certainly believes he has the power" to
fire him.
On Tuesday, CNN also reported that Trump is considering
firing Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, who
oversees the Mueller probe.
The news of potential DOJ firings comes following a raid
on the office and hotel room of Michael Cohen, the
President's personal attorney and confidante. Referred by
Mueller to seek a search warrant, authorities sought
information that included payments allegedly made to keep
women silent about affairs with Trump more than a decade
ago.
Some of Trump's legal advisers have told him that their
team now has a stronger case in firing Rosenstein because
believe he crossed the line in what he can and cannot
pursue with the raid, CNN reported Tuesday.
A White House official said earlier this week that Trump
and his legal team are re-evaluating whether the President
should sit down for an interview with Mueller's team in
light of the raid.
 Steve Bannon Has A Plan To “Cripple” The
Mueller Witch Hunt – Here’s How He Would Do It
By Joshua Caplan
April 12, 2018, 10:25 Am
According to reports, former Trump
strategist Steve Bannon has been
pitching White House officials on a plan
to “cripple,” special counsel Robert
Mueller’s Russia probe.
National Post reports:
Stephen Bannon, who was ousted as
White House chief strategist last summer
but has remained in touch with some
members of President Donald Trump’s
circle, is pitching a plan to West Wing aides
and congressional allies to cripple the
federal probe into Russian interference in
the 2016 election, according to four people
familiar with the discussions.
The first step, these people say, would be
for Trump to fire Deputy Attorney General
Rod Rosenstein, who oversees the work of
special counsel Robert Mueller III and in
recent days signed off on a search warrant
of Trump’s longtime personal lawyer,
Michael Cohen.
Bannon is also recommending the White
House cease its cooperation with Mueller,
reversing the policy of Trump’s legal team
to provide information to the special
counsel’s team and to allow staff members
to sit for interviews.
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And he is telling associates inside and
outside the administration that the
president should create a new legal
battleground to protect himself from the
investigation by asserting executive
privilege — and arguing that Mueller’s
interviews with White House officials over
the past year should now be null and void.
In an interview with the Washington Post, Bannon said
President Trump wasn’t adequately advised about the
implications of not “involving executive privilege.”
“It was a strategic mistake to turn over
everything without due process, and
executive privilege should be exerted
immediately and retroactively,” Bannon
said.
Currently, the White House has not signaled its willingness
to consider Bannon’s proposal.
“If you say his name in front of the
president, it’s not a pretty sight,” a Trump
administration official told the Washington
Post.
“The president really goes off about him.”
As The Gateway Pundit previously reported, the Trump-
Russia witch hunt has expanded yet again with special
counsel Robert Mueller now probing additional meeting in
the Seychelles.
NJ.com reports:
The sources said several of those meetings
took place around the same time as
another meeting in the Seychelles between
Erik Prince, founder of the security
company Blackwater, Kirill Dmitriev, the
director of one of Russia’s sovereign
wealth funds, and Crown Prince
Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, the
effective ruler of the United Arab Emirates
(also known as “MBZ”). Details of that
earlier meetingwere first reported by the
Washington Post last year. […]
 The inquiry into the meetings in the
Seychelles suggests there is growing
interest on the Mueller team in whether
foreign financing, specifically from Gulf
states, has influenced President Trump and
his administration.
.
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Documents obtained by this reporter, and
interviews with those familiar with the
probe, suggest Mueller is also looking at
other foreign influencers,
including individuals from Russia and from
Saudi Arabia.
 National Enquirer Parent Company
Paid $30K For Trump Rumor, Withheld Story
Kelcey Caulder
Apr 12, 2018 | 11:13 Am
The Associated Press reported Thursday that American
Media Inc. (AMI) paid a former doorman at one of
President Donald Trump's New York City buildings
$30,000 for a rumor about Trump but never ran the story.
AMI, which owns the National Enquirer, offered doorman
Dino Sajudin $30,000 in order to gain rights “in
perpetuity” to a rumor he'd heard about Trump's sex life —
that the president had a child with a Trump World Tower
employee.
President Trump's personal attorney, Michael Cohen, told
the AP that he spoke with the Enquirer about the rumor as
a spokesman for Trump while the magazine was
researching the story but denied having any knowledge
about payments to Sajudin.
According to reports, federal investigators searched for
communications between Cohen, AMI's chief executive,
and top editors at the Enquirer during a raid on his office
earlier this week.
Cohen has been accused of protecting Trump's image
through hush agreements and large cash payments, like the
one he made to adult film star Stormy Daniels just 11 days
.
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before the 2016 election. AMI has denied that Cohen
played any part in its decision to stop looking into
Sajudin’s rumor.
RadarOnline, another AMI publication, published a
report Wednesday that said the Enquirer researched the
story for four weeks before deciding the rumor was not
true and ending its investigation. Dylan Howard, the
editor-in-chief at the Enquirer and an AMI executive, told
the AP that the information “lacked any credibility.”
Four longtime Enquirer staff members contradicted
Howard's statement during interviews with the AP. They
said that the investigation led them to “potentially
promising reporting threads” but that they were told to end
their research anyway.
Jerry George, a former reporter and editor at AMI for
nearly three decades, said it wasn’t like the company to
“go around cutting checks for $30,000 and
then not using the information.”
Sajudin, who was released from his agreement with AMI
after the 2016 election, could now face a $1 million fine if
he disclosed the rumor or terms of his deal with AMI.
The AP said it could not determine the validity of the
rumor about President Trump.
Former Playboy model Karen McDougal recently filed a
lawsuit against AMI so that she could break her silence on
an alleged affair she claims she had with Trump.
The media company paid her $150,000 for her story about
the reported affair and then did not run the story.
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 Pompeo Reveals He Was
Interviewed By Mueller In Russia Probe
KELCEY CAULDER
APR 12, 2018 | 11:56 AM

Menendez appeared unhappy with his responses and said

he did not think the special counsel would have instructed
Pompeo not to speak to Congress about the interview.

“For me, these questions being answered

Mike Pompeo, President Donald Trump's nominee for
secretary of state, revealed Thursday that special counsel
Robert Mueller has interviewed him as part of his Russia
investigation.
“I spoke with special counsel Mueller, who
interviewed me. He requested an interview.
I cooperated,” Pompeo told Sen. Bob
Menendez (D-N.J.) during his confirmation
hearing.
Menendez questioned Pompeo, who is the current director
of the CIA, about his involvement in the investigation, but
Pompeo refused to answer because it is ongoing.
truthfully in a forthcoming way are critically
important,” Menendez told him. “It goes to
the essence of how you approach one of
the most critical issues that we have, and
your unwillingness to speak to it is troubling
to me.”
Last June, The Washington Post reported that President
Trump asked Pompeo and Director of National
Intelligence Dan Coats to intervene in the Russia probe by
convincing then-FBI Director James Comey to refocus his
attention away from Michael Flynn.
Pompeo said Thursday that the president never asked him
to “anything improper.”
Watch the video below:

“I think it is most appropriate that while

these investigations continue, I not speak
to the conversations I've had with the
various investigative bodies,” he said.

Pompeo also declined to answer questions about private

conversations he may have had with President Trump
about the investigation, noting that he would be “happy” to
speak about the administration's policies and work.

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 MSNBC: Ryan Not Quitting Over Trump
Will Be ‘Stain On His Political Reputation Forever’
By Kyle Drennen
April 12, 2018 12:17 PM EDT
Appearing on MSNBC Live With Stephanie Ruhle
Thursday morning, faux conservative New York Times
Columnist Bret Stephens ranted that House Speaker Paul
Ryan’s refusal to resign in protest after Donald Trump’s
election in 2016
“is going to be a stain on his political
reputation forever.”
Anchor Stephanie Ruhle was leading a panel discussion on
Speaker Ryan’s Wednesday announcement that he was
retiring from Congress after serving out the remainder of
his term. She was focused on trashing his legislative
legacy by pointing to the nation’s budget deficit – not
something liberals on MSNBC have been concerned with
in the past. She then turned to Stephens and asked:
“That’s what we’re faced with, with this
deficit. Do you think that’s why – really why
Paul Ryan’s walking out the door?”
Stephens dismissed the financial topic, and instead
proclaimed:
“No, I think Paul Ryan’s walking out the
door because the Republican Party has
become unmanageable, ungovernable,
and embarrassing.”
The sanctimonious pundit then added:
“And I think that his only mistake was
not having done so two years earlier,
which is going to be a stain on his
political reputation forever.”
Ruhle lamented that Ryan wasn’t using his exit from
Capitol Hill to attack the President:
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“But if that’s why he was leaving, this
would be his moment to stand up and
say that. This would be his moment to
say, ‘I can’t stand with Trump for X, Y
and Z.’
Instead, he’s touting tax cuts and he will not be around to
have to live through the impact of said cuts.”
After’s Politico’s Chief Economic Correspondent Ben
White declared that Ryan’s legacy was going to be
“these annual trillion-dollar deficits,”
Stephens chimed in again, asserting that Ryan’s
willingness to serve as House Speaker during the Trump
presidency was immoral:
Look, maybe. I think the real legacy of
Paul Ryan, when historians look back
on it, won’t be a matter of deficits, it will
be the moral capitulation of Republicans
who knew better or who should have
known better, to the forces of Trumpism
within the party.
And that started with him in the fall of 2016, when he
nearly dis-endorsed the President, and went crawling back
and kept crawling back for more. I think this is, at some
internal psychological level, the culmination of that. I’m
glad he wants to spend more time with his family, have
more equal parenting with his wife.
But in a sense, there’s something
almost Shakespearean about the career
trajectory of Paul Ryan. A guy who at
some level understood what he was
doing, but was unwilling to admit it and
stand up and fight it. That was his – that
was his flaw.
Ruhle smugly concluded:
“Listen, there’s a history of people who
stand with Trump, they blow up.”
According to MSNBC, the only legitimate reaction by
Republicans in Washington to Trump’s election was for
them to immediately resign in disgust.
On Wednesday night, the channel’s most
unhinged left-wing bomb thrower Lawrence
O’Donnell went on a tirade declaring Ryan
to be the worst Speaker of the House in
American history – a list of people that
includes slave owners and accused
pedophile Dennis Hastert.
Here is a transcript of the April 12 segment on Ruhle’s
9:00 a.m. ET hour show:
9:48 AM ET
PAUL RYAN [R-WI, HOUSE SPEAKER]: Probably the two
biggest achievements for me, our first, the major reform of our
tax code for the first time in 36 years, which has already been a
huge success for this country. And that’s something I’ve been
working on my entire adult life. And after tax reform, addressing
our military readiness crisis, that was a top priority that we got
done last month as well.
STEPHANIE RUHLE: Time for Money, Power, Politics. That, of
course, was outgoing Speaker Paul Ryan toting what he sees as
his biggest accomplishment during his time in office. The
Speaker’s announcement that he will not seek re-election comes
48 hours after the CBO confirmed that by next year the federal
deficit will be nearly $1 trillion, and will exceed that $1 trillion by
2028. One of the main causes of the soaring deficit, the
achievement that [the] House Speaker is so proud of. Right
there in my prompter, it says tax reform. I’m letting the world
know it’s not tax reform, it was a tax cut. Those are two different
things.
Bret, Ben, you are back with me. I want to start with a tweet my
friend Steve Schimdt just put out, “Paul Ryan is responsible for
adding trillions to the national debt. It is hard to understand what
a trillion is. Maybe this helps. A million seconds is 12 days. A
billion seconds is 30 years. A trillion seconds is 3,000 years [sic].”
That’s what we’re faced with, with this deficit. Do you think that’s
why – really why Paul Ryan’s walking out the door?
BRET STEPHENS [NEW YORK TIMES COLUMNIST]: No, I
think Paul Ryan’s walking out the door because the Republican
Party has become unmanageable, ungovernable, and
embarrassing. And I think that his only mistake was not having
done so two years earlier, which is going to be a stain on his
political reputation forever.
RUHLE: But if that’s why he was leaving, this would be his
moment to stand up and say that. This would be his moment to
say, “I can’t stand with Trump for X, Y and Z.” Instead, he’s
touting tax cuts and he will not be around to have to live through
the impact of said cuts.
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BEN WHITE [POLITICO CHIEF ECONOMIC
CORRESPONDENT]: Yeah, I mean, you make a good point on
this being tax cuts, not tax reform. To give Ryan a little bit of
credit, he wanted it to be tax reform. He had these ideas at the
outset to reduce the deficit and debt impact over ten years. This
is the old Republican Party that was concerned about this stuff –
RUHLE: Okay, but Ben, that’s nonsense.
WHITE: It’s not what happened. I’m just saying.
RUHLE: Who cares what he wanted? I want to be 5'8" and
smoking hot, but I’m 5'4" and sitting here with you two.
WHITE: Well, there you go. I’d like to be 20 pounds lighter. Yeah,
but his legacy –
RUHLE: Like, he wanted to get tax reform done, great. But he
also wanted to president.
WHITE: Sure, sure, sure. But I mean, that is the reality of the
Republican Party he’s in now and his legacy is, in fact, these
annual trillion-dollar deficits. And we’re talking in 2028 a $30
trillion national debt, that is 100% of our GDP. That is the point
where debt markets start to care, you pay higher interest rates, it
hurts your economy, it chokes off growth. That is the legacy that
he’s going to have to live with.
STEPHENS: Look, maybe. I think the real legacy of Paul Ryan,
when historians look back on it, won’t be a matter of deficits, it
will be the moral capitulation of Republicans who knew better or
who should have known better, to the forces of Trumpism within
the party. And that started with him in the fall of 2016, when he
nearly dis-endorsed the President, and went crawling back and
kept crawling back for more. I think this is, at some internal
psychological level, the culmination of that. I’m glad he wants to
spend more time with his family, have more equal parenting with
his wife. But in a sense, there’s something almost
Shakespearean about the career trajectory of Paul Ryan. A guy
who at some level understood what he was doing, but was
unwilling to admit it and stand up and fight it. That was his – that
was his flaw.
RUHLE: Listen, there’s a history of people who stand with Trump,
they blow up.
(...)
 Clinton Lawyer Turned Over Never-Before-Seen
Documents To Inspector General Showing Hillary Email
Probe Was ‘Botched’ (VIDEO)
By Joshua Caplan
April 12, 2018, 1:05 Pm

In an exclusive interview with Bill making a phone call and researching my

O’Reilly, former White House Special book, that I consider James Comey to have
Counsel to President Bill Clinton, Lanny acted unethically and he should have been
Davis, reveals he shared never-before- fired by Barack Obama and Loretta Lynch
seen documents with Inspector General because he violated Justice Department
Horowitz showing the FBI’s policies. By holding a press conference and
investigation into Hillary Clinton’s email expressing his opinion publically on the
usage was ‘botched.’ evidence. That’s a firing offense…. I gave
them documents that were never seen
Photo credit: Patriot Post before but posted two months after the
election, that showed that the whole email
investigation was botched. That’s where I
think the Inspector General will come down
on Comey very hard.”

DAVIS:

“I was interviewed by the Inspector Video credit: billoreilly.com

General. I have only told one reporter that Start clip at 7:34 for the partial transcript above.
and it was never written. This is my first
time to say that I was interviewed after, I,
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 Dirty Cop Mueller And FBI Nabbed RNC Finance
Committee Documents With Michael Cohen’s Computers
By Jim Hoft
April 12, 2018, 1:41 Pm
In July 2017 Conservative talk show
host legend, Rush Limbaugh took to the
airwaves vigorously defending
President Trump against special
counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia
investigation.
Via The Rush Limbaugh Show:
They don’t have any limits. There are no
parameters. The Justice Department has
not limited the scope of Mueller’s
investigation at all. So here’s what this also
is. As it stands now, the Mueller
investigation is probably going to be the
biggest, most massive opposition research
operation ever conducted in American
politics. With this investigation having no
bounds and no limits, this team can go
anywhere to find any dirt whatsoever. In
fact, for the presidential election in 2020,
this is a godsend. A team of Obama-Hillary
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donors investigating every aspect of a
sitting president that they detest.
An opposition research festival that has
been sanctioned by law, an opposition
research investigation that can go
anywhere as deep as it wants to dredge up
anything they can find on a sitting president
and to heck with what comes of the
investigation. The data being produced
here, I mean as much as things leaked
now, it wouldn’t be a challenge at all to
have some of whatever they find end up in
the presidential campaign of 2020. An
investigation certified by the president’s
own Justice Department to investigate him!
A free pass with an unlimited budget! There
has never been an opposition research
examination or investigation or operation
that even gets close to this!”
Rush was right!
On Tuesday the Special Counsel Robert Mueller ordered
the FBI to raid the home and business of Trump Attorney
Michael Cohen.
Not only was this an assault on client-
attorney privilege – it also allowed the
Mueller Special Counsel and the New
York District attorneys to examine the
Republican Party finance records.
Michael Cohen is the deputy finance
Chairman of the RNC.
So these partisan Democrats who have no respect US law
have in their possession the RNC finance records.
But you can trust dirty cop Mueller. He
certainly will not do anything illegal or
unethical with the records, right?
Fortune reported:
The raid, which incensed President Trump
to the point that he declined to rule out
firing Mueller, not only shined the spotlight
 on yet another Trump associate who is
possibly under investigation, but, also puts
it, indirectly at least, on the Republican
National Committee. Cohen is also the
deputy finance chairman of the RNC, which
is responsible for the bulk of its fundraising
operations – and is the third member of the
committee, including the former chairmen –
to have come under severe scrutiny in
nearly as many months.
In January, casino mogul Steve Wynn, who was then
chairmen of the committee, announced his resignation
after the Wall Street Journal published an explosive report
detailing decades worth of sexual misconduct allegations,
.
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including a $7.5 million settlement between Wynn and a
former manicurist at one of his properties, who said he had
forced her to have sex with him.
And in March, the New York Times reported that Elliot
Broidy, who, like Cohen, serves as Deputy Finance
Chairman of the RNC, is under scrutiny for using his
access to Trump to advocate for softer policies towards
Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates in an order to
procure lucrative contracts for his contracting company.
The Times also reported that month that Broidy used his
access to Trump as marketing fodder for his clients,
offering favors like a trip to the President’s Mar-A-Lago
resort and tickets to V.I.P inauguration events.
 White House Insider: Mueller Can “F*Ck Off;”
Trump Won’t Dance For Special Counsel
By Admin
Posted On April 12, 2018
President Trump was considering a sit down with Special
Counsel Robert Mueller earlier this week, according to
White House insiders, but that has drastically changed.
After Mueller’s team raided Trump’s lawyer Michael
Cohen’s office and home, White House insiders said
Mueller lost any chance to entice the President for an
interview. Trump has directed his legal team to pursue
other legal strategies absent a meeting with Mueller.
“He can f*ck off,” the White House insider
said. “That’s our unofficial position on Mr.
Mueller and his team.”
Does President Trump echo that sentiment?
“Absolutely,” the official confirmed.
The White House insider said the raid on Cohen is the
“third strike” against Mueller as far as the administration is
.
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concerned because it was an “end run” around lawyer-
client confidentiality and nothing more.
What were the previous two strikes?
The FBI’s Peter Strzok and Lisa Page, two former
members of Mueller’s team who lambasted Trump in
private text messages that have been partially published,
the source said.
“Mueller is playing with loaded dice,” the
White House official said, noting that his
Justice Department boss and handler Rod
Rosenstein in enabling a rogue
investigation. “But the President has some
moves of his own and he will make them
soon.
“Very soon.”
 CNN Panelists Refer To Paul Ryan As A 'Coward',
President Trump As 'Insane'
By Ryan Foley
April 12, 2018 2:46 PM EDT
During Wednesday's edition of Anderson Cooper 360, the
Democrats on the panel took a few shots at departing
House Speaker Paul Ryan as well as President Trump.
CNN political commentator Symone Sanders referred to
Ryan as a "coward" while her fellow panelist Maria
Cardona described President Trump as "insane."
Shock waves erupted among talking heads on all the cable
networks after Ryan announced that he would not run for
re-election to the seat he has held for the past eighteen
years. The panel on AC 360 speculated as to why he
decided to step down. Ryan has stressed that his desire to
spend more time with his family served as the primary
motivating factor in his decision to call it quits, adding that
he “doesn’t want to be just a weekend dad.”
During an interview with CNN’s Jake Tapper, Speaker
Ryan admitted that he and President Trump “definitely
have different styles” but maintained that “we have a
common agenda that we agree on and we want to get it
done and we know it’s going to make a big difference in
people’s lives.”
As panelist Jackie Kucinich tried to argue that Ryan had a
negative relationship with President Trump that caused
him to step down, Alice Stewart, who once worked for Ted
Cruz, reminded her that Speaker Ryan accepted the
position reluctantly in the first place. Congressman Ryan
first became House Speaker in the fall of 2015 following
an abrupt resignation from his predecessor, John Boehner.
Stewart added that the Speaker has “checked his three
main priorities politically,” passing tax reform, reducing
federal regulations and raising a lot of money.
Symone Sanders, who worked on Bernie Sanders’ (no
relation) Presidential campaign, argued that something else
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can explain Ryan’s departure: “He knows a blue wave is
coming. And Paul Ryan was a coward and got out of the
way.” She continue her tirade against Ryan, saying “He
could either...take his family, his kids, himself through a
very tumultuous midterm election” or “he could bow out
gracefully.” She concluded “I think he chose the latter
because that was the easier path.”
Nearly five minutes into the segment, the final panelist,
Maria Cardona, finally weighed in. While she agreed that
Ryan “is a committed family man and father,” she said that
“I almost guarantee you that if this President was sane,
normal, and that you could count on him to make, you
know, good, again, in any other era, normal decisions,
even as a Republican, and I’m saying this is a Democrat, I
can almost guarantee you that he would not be retiring.”
Not surprisingly, panelist Steve Cortes, who worked on the
Trump campaign, had a problem with Cardona’s
characterization of the President, asking her “are you on
the record saying the President’s insane then?” She
answered with a resounding “yes” until host Anderson
Cooper jumped in and asked “You don’t really believe
he’s...” Cardona then seemed to push back, saying “No.”
Cortes then asked her again “is he insane?” and she
deflected with a variety of responses as Cortes continued
to press her: “I don’t think he’s got the temperament to be
President,” “I have never thought...he has had the fitness
for office. I think he’s unqualified. I don’t think he’s
knowledgeable,” “I don’t think he cares about knowing
anything about governing.” The back and forth wrapped up
when Cortes told her “You twice said he’s insane and now
you won’t say that.” Cardona replied: “You take how you
will.”
As the segment drew to a close, Sanders still felt quite
confident about a blue wave, referring to Paul Ryan as “the
writing on the wall for Republicans.” One thing is for sure:
a brand new speaker will take the gavel at the start of the
116th Congress. Should the new speaker have an R next to
their name, the media and the left will surely do everything
in their power to smear him or her, just like they did with
Paul Ryan and continue to do with President Trump.
A transcript is below.
Anderson Cooper 360
04/11/18
09:40 PM
ANDERSON COOPER: House Speaker Paul Ryan announced
today that he’s retiring from Congress at the end of his term this
coming January. Speaker Ryan says he doesn’t want to be just a
weekend dad. And in an interview with Jake Tapper, he said he
has no plans to run for office again, any office, at least not while
his kids are growing up. Jake asked what Ryan thought about the
speculation on Capitol Hill that the decision also had something
to do with the President’s temperament and character. Here’s
what he said.
SPEAKER PAUL RYAN: We’re very different people. I’m from
the Upper Midwest, I’m not from New York. We’re from a different
generation. So we definitely have different styles but what we
learned after we got to know each other because we didn’t know
each other at all in the campaign and yeah, we had a pretty, we
had a lot of friction in our relationship. What we learned is we
have a common agenda that we agree on and we want to get it
done and we know it’s going to make a big difference in people’s
lives. And that’s what we are elected to do.
COOPER: Back now with the panel. Jackie, do you think he’s
telling the truth here?
JACKIE KUCINICH: I think he is telling the truth about wanting to
be with his family. I've interviewed Paul Ryan several times over
the course of my career. And almost every time he would say,
talk about how much he missed his kids, how much he missed
his family. And he did lose his own father when he was a teen.
And that looms large in his life. That said, I do think, you heard
that patient tone to his voice. I do think he did have a lot of
trouble coping with this President. He would frequently get up on
the podium and say, I haven't seen the tweet. The tweet speaks
for itself, which is code for, I don't want to talk about this. Also,
though, you can't, you can’t disregard his conference, how
difficult it was to maintain, to try to lead a group of people that
doesn't really want to be led. And sometimes doesn't want to
pass stuff. And sometimes doesn't want to go along with what he
and other leadership wanted. They just want to fight. So I think
there were several moving parts to this. But you can't, you can't
have out the President.
ALICE STEWART: I think a lot of people are trying to read more
into it than this. I truly believe that the Speaker, you know, we all
recall, he came into this reluctantly.
COOPER: He was very reluctant.
STEWART: From the very beginning he said, look, you know,
I've got kids, I want to spend time with my kids and he reluctantly
took the position, but he, he embraced it. He's gone out and
raised $115 million for the Republican Party. And look, his goals,
professionally, was to pass historic tax reform, to rein in federal
regulations and to raise a lot of money. So he's checked his three
main priorities politically, now it's time to focus on...
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SYMONE SANDERS: Look, Paul Ryan's shining
accomplishment as Speaker is passing tax cuts for the wealthiest
Americans and corporations, which he said there's lasting
implications. Yes, lasting for Exxon. Not lasting for -- you know,
Sally, Sue, Tommy, and Joe, who live in those Midwest states
that he likes to talk to about. And his other shining
accomplishment is defending Donald Trump at every single turn,
maybe vaguely, but doing so. So I think it took a toll on him. He
knows a blue wave is coming. And Paul Ryan was a coward and
got out of the way.
COOPER: You think that’s, that he knew, that he believed a blue
wave is coming?
SANDERS: I think that's what it is. I mean, look, Paul Ryan was
faced with a decision. He could either suffer his...take his family,
his kids, himself through a very tumultuous midterm election, one
where his seat could even be in jeopardy, because Randy Bryce
was definitely gaining ground that hashtag, the iron stash as
everyone talks about. And lose and face a devastating loss or he
could bow out gracefully. He could try to spin it and say, that, you
know, we passed these tax cuts, we got done what we said we
wanted to “get done,” which is absolutely not true. And I'm going
out on top. I think he chose the latter because that was the easier
path.
COOPER: Steve, do you think he's jumping ship before
Democrats come in?
STEVE CORTES: You know, again, as I’ve said many times, I
think, I think November is going to be very, very tough for the
Republicans. And I think perhaps, Symone, I think you thought I
was going to defend Speaker Ryan. Far from it, okay? I think that
he and his ilk are part of the problem. And I'm not sad, quite
frankly, to see him go. I'm very happy that he got tax cuts done.
Wonderful. But we talked about the "Access Hollywood" tape
earlier. He was one of the first Republicans to jump ship when
things really got hard in October of 2016. And I for one won't
forget that, as somebody from the campaign. That was a searing
mark against him.
SANDERS: Praise the Lord for common decency.
CORTES: So now he's good?
SANDERS: In that moment, in that moment yes...
COOPER: All right, one at a time. Maria?
MARIA CARDONA: So, I agree, I believe that he is a committed
family man and father. I think all of that rings true. But I almost
guarantee you that if this President was sane, normal, and that
you could count on him to make, you know, good, again, in any
other era, normal decisions, even as a Republican, and I'm
saying this as a Democrat, I can almost guarantee you that he
would not be retiring.
CORTES: All right, Maria, are you on record saying the term. Watch the Trump folks, because I think a lot of them are
President’s insane then? going to try to push him out earlier. You're already kind of seeing
the drum beat on Fox News.
CARDONA: Yes.
COOPER: Would you want to see him out, Steve?
CORTES: He’s insane? Okay.
KUCINICH: Do you want to see him out? Because right now
CARDONA: Yes. there's going to be a leadership battle for six months.

CORTES: Okay. I want to put that on the record. CARDONA: Right.

COOPER: You don't really believe he's... KUCINICH: If Ryan does stay in.

CARDONA: No. SANDERS: For a position that might even not be available,
though.
CORTES: She just said it. That's why.
KUCINICH: So you're hearing...well, even for the top, to lead the
party. And right now, you're hearing kind of from the Freedom
COOPER: I'm asking.
Caucus, you're hearing some agitation to get him out.
CORTES: She said it twice.
CORTES: I think we need dramatically new leadership. I think
that the bill the President signed, and by the way, I criticized the
COOPER: I know, I know. President when I think it's, it’s correct. And the bill he signed, the
spending bill was outrageous. I put some blame at the
CARDONA: I don't think that he is fit for office. I don’t think that President's feet. I put far more blame at the Speaker's feet. That
he... should have never come out of the Congress. Given that, do we
need new leadership on the Republican side in the Congress?
CORTES: Is he insane? Absolutely?

CARDONA: I don't think he's got the temperament to be
President.
CORTES: You said it twice. Is he insane?
CARDONA: I don't think that he is normal in terms of his reaction.
That goes to his immaturity emotionally.
CORTES: Is he insane?
CARDONA: I have never thought he has, he has had the fitness
for office. I think he's unqualified. I don't think he's
knowledgeable.
CORTES: Is he insane?
CARDONA: I don't think he cares about knowing anything about
governing.
CORTES: You twice said he’s insane and now you won't say
that.
CARDONA: You take how you will.
KUCINICH: I just want to...I wanted to add one thing to watch
going forward, Speaker Ryan says he's going to stay speaker
through the end, through November, until he's done with his
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COOPER: All right, Alice?
STEWART: You're pushing Maria to say that again, but here's
the thing, his temperament that I disagree with on many
occasions and many do, is the same during the campaign as it is
now. And the fact is he won and people voted for him anyway.
And I disagree with his tone and demeanor but agree with his
politics. I think the policies that he's putting forward are reflective
of the Republican Party. But we have to understand...
CARDONA: You do? You think they're reflective of the
Republican Party?
STEWART: Yes. And I think the fact that his temperament hasn't
changed and he was elected anyway, I think we just need to...
CARDONA: I think that’s a different place, though. I really don't.
COOPER: I've got to take a break. But Symone, very quickly?
SANDERS: I just want to say, I mean, look, when it comes to
November, regardless of what everyone is saying right now
about all of the, his temperament and what not, when folks are
out there in the states, polling is saying and what people are
saying is they care about health care and the economy and these
taxes. Republicans ran away, people ran away from the tax cut in
Pennsylvania. Paul Ryan is the writing on the wall for
Republicans.
 Report: Former Trump Building Doorman Claiming
POTUS Has Love Child Is A “Pathological Liar”
By Joshua Caplan
April 12, 2018, 3:45 Pm

The ex-wife of the former Trump
doorman claiming the President had a
love child with a housekeeper says he is
“a pathological liar.”
rumor that Trump fathered a child with an employee at
Trump World Tower in Midtown.
Sajudin reportedly approached the Trump-friendly
supermarket tabloid in 2015 saying he heard about the love
child from staffers.

After the story broke, Sajudin issued the following

statement.

“I was instructed not to criticize President

Trump’s former housekeeper due to a prior
relationship she had with President Trump
which produced a child.”

New York Daily News reports:

“He’s infamous for making up stories,” Nikki

Benfatto said of her former husband Dino
Sajudin.
“He’s seen the chupacabra. He’s seen
bigfoot. One of our friends who passed
away, he saw him too, walking down the
street.”

Sajudin is at the center of explosive new reports detailing a

$30,000 payment from the National Enquirer to silence a
.

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 CNN's Unhinged Philip Mudd
Snarls 'Dirtbag' At Trump
By P.J. Gladnick
April 12, 2018 3:58 PM EDT
Can anybody remember a time in the past year when
CNN's counterterrorism analyst Philip Mudd did not
become completely unhinged? When he isn't hurling racial
epithets around he has threatened harm upon President
Donald Trump. In his latest madman incarnation, Mudd
shocked even the CNN Newsroom host John Berman on
Thursday morning by snapping that Trump is a "dirtbag."
While watching the following video, just note the
absolute hate that seems to pour out of not only Mudd's
snarling mouth but also his eyes, the very windows to a
seemingly twisted soul:
JOHN BERMAN: “Late last night, the
president really, really wanted people to
watch Fox News. So much so that he
tweeted over 50.4 million of his Twitter
followers to tune in. Minutes later, probably
not coincidentally, Sean Hannity said this.”
[clip starts]
SEAN HANNITY: “Look at the Mueller
crime family. And, of course, we are now
on day 329 of the Mueller witch hunt and
there’s still zero evidence of collusion. And
then look at Mueller’s merry band of
Democratic donors. Couldn’t find one
Trump supporter to work on the special
counsel case? Take a look at the side of
your screens. Tens of thousands of dollars
to Democrats, Hillary Clinton, Barack
Obama. Not a single penny to Donald
Trump.”
[clip ends]
Here's some context:
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Hannity's remarks about the "Mueller crime
family" were obviously a reaction to former
FBI Director James Comey calling
President Trump a "mob boss" on
Wednesday.
In fact, Comey's charge was even carried by CNN:
Washington (CNN)---During his first sit-
down interview since being fired last year,
former FBI Director James Comey
reportedly compared President Donald
Trump to a "mob boss."
Now, let us return to the interview where Mudd almost
predictably loses his marbles yet again:
BERMAN: “Joining me now, Mark Preston,
CNN’s senior political analyst, and Phil
Mudd, CNN counterterrorism analyst with a
career in the FBI and the CIA. Phil, if I can,
I want to get your reaction to Sean Hannity
calling Robert Mueller a crime boss?”
PHILIP MUDD: “Well, I spent four and a
half years by Robert Mueller. This is a
storied prosecutor. One of the most
legendary FBI directors. Spent 12 years as
an FBI director for both President Bush and
President Obama. A decorated military
veteran, being compared to a crime boss,
when he’s investigating a man who
bragged about his genitalia during a
campaign, who lied about the Obama birth
certificate during the campaign and said so,
who’s press secretary lied within 24 hours
of getting into the White House, who lied
about the Trump Towers being wired,
who’s got, what, 17, 18 women — I lost the
number of fingers to count on how many
women who have said something do —
who said he did something inappropriate,
who’s advisers have quit because they lied
to federal investigators about everything
from financial fraud to their involvement
with the Russian ambassador. So you’ve
got that dirtbag telling me that one of the
most storied FBI directors ever is a crime
boss? You put them side by side and you
tell me what we got here, John. Facts are To understand the depths of Mudd's fanatical hate, and
facts. Robert Mueller’s an American why he should never be allowed anywhere near the
legend. The president is a dirtbag. I President without going through a metal detector at least
mean, I don’t know what to tell you, I’m twice followed by a thorough cavity search, take a look at
so pissed off. I spent four years with his assassination threat from last year.
Mueller. He’s a great guy.”
At this point, a shocked Berman interrupted
Mudd's lunacy stream. After that
interruption, Mudd then continued back on
his unhinged track.
BERMAN: “Well, I should say, Phil, you
know, your statement there is about the
president of the United States. That’s a
remarkable statement or a notable
statement from someone who worked
for the government.”
MUDD: “Oh, come on, John, he spoke
about his genitalia.”
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 Meghan McCain DESTROYS Behar:
How Dare You Equate Trump And Kim Jong-Un
By Scott Whitlock
April 12, 2018 5:06 PM EDT

Token conservative View co-host Meghan McCain on

Thursday unloaded on the liberal Joy Behar when she
compared Donald Trump to thug dictators like Kim Jong-
un and Vladimir Putin. It all started when Behar sneered,

“We have gotten to the point in this world

now where we have to rely on the sanity of
Kim Jong-un and Putin over the President
of the United States. That's where we're
at.”

As though a long simmering tension had been brought to

the surface, McCain shot back:
“My issue is the moral relativism between
someone like Kim Jong-un and Putin and
President Trump. I think it’s sort of easy to
sit here and do that.”
This rapid fire exchange occured with McCain educating
her liberal co-host:
Except, of course, Kim Jong-un DOES do that.
McCain hammered Behar:
“It's hard for me to sit here with moral
relativism about many things with Trump. If
you think Kim Jong-un, Vladimir Putin and
Bashar al Assad and President Trump are
the exact same thing, it's when you lose
all arguments with me in every way!”

Proving she was beyond logic, Behar insisted:

“What I'm saying is I see the two of them

with backing off of war, and I see Trump
provoking war.”

A transcript is below:

The View
4/12/18
JOY BEHAR: Do you think Kim Jong-un is
11:15
less moral than Trump? Do you?
MEGHAN MCCAIN: Oh, my God! SARA HAINES: Do you know what's funny is I remember the
BEHAR: On what topic? good old days when he was friends with dictators because now
that he is threatening them, I don't know which one is scarier.
MCCAIN: Putin is aiding and abetting
Assad right now!
SUNNY HOSTIN: Oh, good point. Good point.
BEHAR: On what topic?
MCCAIN: Chemical gassing of children!
Last time I checked, America isn't doing
that to anyone!
BEHAR: Kim Jong-un doesn't do that.

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JOY BEHAR: We have gotten to the point in this world now
where we have to rely on the sanity of Kim Jong-un and Putin
over the president of the United States. That's where we're at.
We're hoping because one of the guys over there said, “We do
not do diplomacy by tweet.” Thank you. Thank you.
HOSTIN: What makes me nervous is I don't know this president
is able to compartmentalize things in a way that a president
should. So when he has all the Stormy Daniels stuff and the
personal attorneys, law firm and home being raided by the FBI, I
just wonder if that is agitating him so much. Does he then lean
toward making emotional decisions?
BEHAR: Bill Clinton was famous for being able to
compartmentalize. Monica Lewinsky. Syria.
HOSTIN: Yeah. And can he do that?
MEGHAN MCCAIN: There is no way for him to win though. When
he says nothing about Russia, people get angry. When he is
threatening Russia, people also get angry. I think we really need
to pick our battles. I know it’s sort of funny to laugh at. We're
talking about genocide in Syria.
WHOOPI GOLDBERG: I totally get that. You know what? I don't
mean to cut you off. Go ahead. I don't want to cut you off. Go
ahead.
MCCAIN: No, it's fine. Everyone —
GOLDBERG: All right. I just -- I'm just, like, look. I have been -- I
have questioned stuff. And I'm at the point where if you are going
to wag yourself around and say, “I'm a big guy,” then don't --
don't not point out that other folks have had to do the same thing
because —
HOSTIN: Hypocrisy.
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GOLDBERG: You thought you were going to be able to do this.
MCCAIN: That's not my issue. My issue is the moral relativism
between someone like Kim Jong-un and Putin and President
Trump. I think it’s sort of easy to sit here and do that. But the
reason why —
BEHAR: Do you think Kim Jong-un is less moral than Trump? Do
you?
MCCAIN: Oh, my God!
BEHAR: On what topic?
MCCAIN: Putin is aiding and abetting Assad right now!
BEHAR: On what topic?
MCCAIN: Chemical gassing of children! Last time I checked,
America isn't doing that to anyone!
[Cheers and applause]
BEHAR: Kim Jong-un doesn't do that. What are you talking
about?
MCCAIN: Joy, I'm trying — I'm really trying right now and I know
that you are — and there is frustration about the way we're
communicating about this, and I completely understand it. It's
hard for me to sit here with moral relativism about many things
with Trump. If you think Kim Jong-un, Vladimir Putin and Bashar
al Assad and President Trump are the exact same thing, it's
when you lose all arguments with me in every way!
BEHAR: What I'm saying is I see the two of them with backing off
of war, and I see Trump provoking war. That's what I think.
MCCAIN: Trump is not provoking war! Do you know how you
provoke war? By the aiding and abetting — if there’s any
understanding of history on this. Assad would not have the power
he has on this if it weren’t for Putin amping him up, giving him
military — bombing hospitals. Putin did that! Trump didn't do that!
The moral relativism of this!
BEHAR: I'm talking about the way he is provoking everybody.
GOLDBERG: [Interrupting]: All right! We’ll be right back.
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 Leaker Comey Questions Trump’s Integrity – Trashes
Trump’s Marriage In New Memoir
By Cristina Laila
April 12, 2018, 6:13 Pm
Fired FBI Director James Comey had the
nerve to question Trump’s integrity in
his new book “A Higher Loyalty.”
Comey leaked classified memos to the
liberal media through a friend in order to
prompt a special counsel investigation
into an innocent president.
The former FBI Director also misled the FISA court when
he signed off on a FISA application to authorize a wiretap
on Trump. He knew Hillary’s dossier was a fraudulent
document.
James Comey has ZERO integrity and
he deserved to be canned.
The New York Times reported:
In his absorbing new book, “A Higher
Loyalty,” the former F.B.I. director James
B. Comey calls the Trump presidency a
“forest fire” that is doing serious damage to
the country’s norms and traditions.
“This president is unethical, and untethered
to truth and institutional values,” Comey
writes. “His leadership is transactional, ego
driven and about personal loyalty.”
Comey also personally insults Trump over
his physical features, including Donald
Trump’s “smaller hands.”
Comey is what Saul Bellow called a “first-class noticer.”
He notices, for instance, “the soft white pouches under”
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Trump’s “expressionless blue eyes”; coyly observes that
the president’s hands are smaller than his own “but did not
seem unusually so”; and points out that he never saw
Trump laugh — a sign, Comey suspects, of his “deep
insecurity, his inability to be vulnerable or to risk himself
by appreciating the humor of others, which, on reflection,
is really very sad in a leader, and a little scary in a
president.”
James Comey even trashed Trump’s marriage.
Buried in Hillary’s phony dossier was a salacious story
about Trump urinating on Russian prostitutes.
According to the New York Post, Trump expressed to
Comey that it bothered him if there was ‘even a one
percent chance’ his wife, Melania, thought it was true.
Comey said he privately wondered why Melania might
think there was even a 1 percent chance the allegations
were true, claiming there is “zero chance” his own wife
would believe such a claim.
“In what kind of marriage, to what kind of
man, does a spouse conclude there is only
a 99 percent chance her husband didn’t do
that?” he writes in the book, which hits
shelves April 17.
James Comey is a corrupt dirty cop who should have been
fired immediately after Trump was sworn into office.
He has joined other corrupt players such as James Clapper
and John Brennan in the fight against Trump.
They are no longer former intel chiefs; they are political
operatives actively working to undermine a duly elected
president.
Comey’s book hits shelves on April 17th; he will also be
sitting down for an interview with sycophant George
Stephanopoulos on Friday.
Brace yourselves; the media will be obsessing over
Comey’s book and slobbering all over him for the next few
months.
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 President Trump: Every Time You See Me Hit On TV,
You Know That I’m Draining The Swamp (VIDEO)
By Jim Hoft
April 12, 2018, 6:44 Pm

During his opening remarks Trump

reminded Americans that he continues
to drain the swamp.
“From the day I took the oath of office, I’ve
been fighting to drain the swamp. And
sometimes it may not look like it, but
believe me, we are draining the swamp,
and there are a lot of unhappy people. You
can see that every day. All you have to do
is turn on the news. Every time you see me
hit, you know that I’m draining the swamp.”

What a great line.

President Donald Trump met with
Donald Trump never needed to be
working Americans on Thursday in the
President of the United States.
White House Rose Garden.
He took the job to drain the swamp and
The event on Thursday was meant to honor the working that is what he’s doing.
men and women who make this country great.
Several of the business owners and workers in attendance Trump was the right leader at the right time.
took time thanking President Trump for their tax cut
bonuses.

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 Comey: Classified Info Would Have ‘Cast Serious Doubt’
On Loretta Lynch Handling Clinton Investigation
Justin Caruso - Media Reporter
6:45 PM 04/12/2018

Democrats to call for his firing,” she

added.

Former FBI director James Comey wrote in his new book

that classified information could have “cast serious doubt”
on Loretta Lynch’s ability to investigate Hillary Clinton’s
email server in 2016.
ABC News reports,
“Comey writes that he felt obligated to take
more of a personal role as the public face WASHINGTON, DC – JULY 19: U.S. President Barack Obama (C)
speaks to the media after meeting with Attorney General Loretta
of the investigation rather than deferring to Lynch (L) and FBI Director James Comey in the Oval Office at the
then-Attorney General Loretta Lynch – in White House July 19, 2016 in Washington, DC. The president was
part because of something involving Lynch briefed following the July 7 sniper killings of five Dallas police
that he cryptically refers to as a officers working a protest and Sunday’s killing of three police
officers in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. (Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty
‘development still unknown to the American Images)
public to this day.'”
The government learned of this information in 2016. The
book does not reveal anything about the information.
Comey also wrote that
“the unverified material would undoubtedly
have been used by political opponents to
cast serious doubt on the attorney
general’s independence in connection with
the Clinton investigation.”
Comey is re-entering the public eye after being fired by
President Trump in 2017. His book is critical of Trump,
even making remarks about Trump’s personal appearance.
Meanwhile, many Republicans are going on the offensive
against Comey, a man they see as dishonest and a leaker.
RNC Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel said this week,
“James Comey’s publicity tour is a self-
serving attempt to make money and
rehabilitate his own image.”

“Comey is a liar and a leaker, and his

misconduct led both Republicans and

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 BOOM! GOP Launches Hard-Hitting ‘Lyin’ Comey’
Website Ahead Of Former FBI Chief’s Book Release
By Cristina Laila
April 12, 2018, 6:59 Pm

Also highlighted on the website are

quotes from disgruntled Democrats
bashing Comey’s credibility:
“The FBI has no credibility,” the website
quotes Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., as
saying in January 2017.
“Maybe he’s not in the right job,” House
Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif.,
is quoted as saying in November 2016.

The RNC launched a hard-hitting website aimed to paint

fired FBI Director James Comey as the liar he truly is just
days before his memoir “A Higher Loyalty,” is set to hit
shelves.

The GOP played off of Trump’s nickname for ‘Lyin’ Ted

Cruz during the 2016 primaries and named the website
‘Lyin Comey.’

According to an RNC official, the website

www.LyinComey.com will be fact-checking Comey’s new
book and highlighting contradictions.

Fox News reported:

“James Comey’s publicity tour is a self-

serving attempt to make money and
rehabilitate his own image,” RNC
Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel said.
“Comey is a liar and a leaker, and his
misconduct led both Republicans and
Democrats to call for his firing. If Comey
wants the spotlight back on him, we’ll make
sure the American people understand why
he has no one but himself to blame for his
complete lack of credibility.”
The official told Fox News that the RNC
has prepared a rapid response team to
respond to claims made in Comey’s book,
compiled a research team to fact check,
and created a “war room” to monitor his
appearances.
“…badly overstepped his bounds,” Hillary
Clinton said in September 2017.
“I do not have confidence in [Comey] any
longer,” the site quotes Senate Minority
Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., as saying
in November 2016.
James Comey was fired nearly one year ago and continued
his attacks on President Trump from his Twitter account,
often taking shots in cryptic tweets.
Comey is a liar and a leaker. Not only did he deserve to be
fired but he should also be prosecuted and put in prison.
Leaker Comey will be sitting down for an interview with
sycophant Stephanopoulos Friday.

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 Flashback: “We Came, We Saw, He Died!” – Hillary
Clinton Calls For US To Bomb Syria
By Jim Hoft
April 12, 2018, 7:10 Pm

Last July Hillary Clinton called on the

US to bomb the hell out of Syria.

Reuters reported:

In her first interview since her stunning

presidential election defeat by Republican
rival Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton on
Thursday called for the United States to
bomb Syrian air fields.
Clinton, in an interview at the Women in the
In October 2011 Hillary Clinton joked World Summit in New York, also called
Russian interference in the 2016
and laughed about the death of
presidential election a theft more damaging
Muammar Gaddafi. than Watergate.
“We came. We saw. He died.”
Via Mike Cernovich:

–This was post was updated to reflect date of Hillary’s

comments.
Libya today remains a failed state with
Islamists in control of much of the
country.
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 QAnon Is US Military Intelligence That
Recruited Trump For President To Prevent Coup D’etat
Written By Dr. Michael Salla
April 12, 2018

QAnon is military intelligence and close to

Trump, and the intelligence we’ve getting,
that we’ve explained on Infowars, really is a
lot of the inside script.

While Corsi didn’t name the generals or provide hard

evidence for his startling claim, an examination of public
comments by President Trump, QAnon and related
political events do make Corsi’s extraordinary claim very
plausible.

It’s important to note that Corsi’s speech happened only a

day after a tweet by President Trump featuring him with
20 senior U.S. military officials who dined with him the
According to veteran investigative reporter and best selling previous night:
author, Dr. Jerome Corsi, he was approached three years
ago by a group of generals and told that Donald Trump had
been recruited by U.S. military intelligence to run in the
2016 Presidential elections, and subsequently help remove
corrupt Deep State officials from positions of power. Corsi
claims that QAnon represents the same group of senior
military intelligence officials who are exposing the Deep
State corruption and officials involved in a history of
treasonous actions against the U.S. Republic.

This is what Corsi said at a meeting on April 11, which

also featured the founder of InfoWars.com, Alex Jones:

About three years ago a group of Generals

came to me, and it was explained to me
that they were ready to conduct a coup
d’etat. They were ready to move Barack
Obama from office with military force. And
then a few weeks later I got another call
and said they were reconsidering.
You know why they were reconsidering?
[audience calls out answers] Because they
talked to Donald Trump, and Trump had
agreed he would run, and they agreed that
if he would run, they would conduct their
coup d’etat as a legitimate process, rooting
out the traitors within government. And
that pact between the military and Donald Only hours after Trump’s tweet, QAnon posted a message
Trump has held, as we have been commenting about the photo’s significance:
interpreting and watching, and Alex has
been following QAnon.
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 risk to the Obama objective. 10 Days after the election
Rogers travels to President-Elect Trump without notifying
those who were involved in the intel scheme.

It would be fair to conclude that QAnon is acting with the

approval or support of Admiral Rogers, and that
intelligence data is being anonymously leaked to expose
the extent of Deep State corruption.

Another interesting aspect of the photo tweeted by Trump

In the photo, the man next to Vice President Pence and
Trump is Admiral Michael Rogers, the head of the
National Security Agency. It was Rogers who travelled to
Trump Tower on November 17, 2016, a week after the
Presidential election, without the knowledge of his
superiors in the Obama administration.
The next day, the Washington Post ran a story saying that
senior Defense and Intelligence officials in the Obama
administration were aghast at Roger’s action:
showing him, Pence and Secretary of Defense, James
Mattis, flanked by 20 uniformed military officers, is that 9
were on his right, and 11 on his left. Was this symbolism
for the 911 event that is regarded by Corsi, Jones and
many in the US Patriot community as a false flag event,
orchestrated by corrupt Deep State officials that had
manipulated both the Bush (43) and Obama
administrations?
It’s worth examining Corsi’s claim that a group of generals
were prepared to launch a military coup given the level of
Deep State corruption and control prior to Trump choosing
to run. Could this have been possible?
According to a November 2, 2017 post by QAnon, if
Hillary Clinton had won the election or results were
overturned in her favor, a military coup would indeed have
occurred given her level of corruption:

In a move apparently unprecedented for a military officer,

Rogers, without notifying superiors, traveled to New York
to meet with Trump on Thursday at Trump Tower. That
caused consternation at senior levels of the administration,
according to the officials, who spoke on the condition of
anonymity to discuss internal personnel matters.

As mentioned in my previous article, the Clintons’

The Washington Post went on to report that a
corruption began with Bill’s term as Governor of the State
recommendation had been previously made to President
of Arkansas, where he supported CIA drug running
Obama to remove Rogers in October 2016 by James
operations out of Mena, Arkansas. As investigative
Clapper (Director of National Intelligence) and Ashton
reporter Roger Morris discovered, there were many
Carter (Secretary of Defense). This coincided with a FISA
documents showing how the Clintons financially
court approving a request made by President Obama for
benefited, and even photos showing Bill using cocaine.
his administration to spy on Trump’s campaign.
This made it easy for the Deep State to manipulate Bill
Clinton throughout his Presidency.
Given recent disclosures about FISA court orders
approving the Obama administration spying on Trump, the
As Bill’s Presidency was coming to an end, Hillary’s rise
timing suggests that Rogers had travelled to New York to
to high political office was made possible, according to
warn Trump that the intelligence community were spying
QAnon, by the CIA assassinating John F. Kennedy’s Jr.,
on him under the authority of a FISA court order. This is
who was a threat to her plan to run for New York’s open
how one analyst explained the sequence of events:
US Senate seat in the November 2000 election.
NSA Director Admiral Mike Rogers didn’t want to
participate in the spying scheme (Clapper, Brennan, Etc.),
which was the baseline for President Obama’s post
presidency efforts to undermine Donald Trump and keep
Trump from digging into the Obama labyrinth underlying
his remaining loyalists. After the October spying
operation went into effect, Rogers unknown loyalty was a
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If Clinton had indeed been helped in this sinister way by
the Deep State, it is easy to understand how important she
was to their future plans, and how deeply compromised
she was.
These are only some of the “corrupt and dirty” events
mentioned by QAnon, which the Clintons were deeply
involved in, all of which facilitated Deep State power.
As to Corsi’s claim that military intelligence had recruited
Trump to run and thereby prevent a Clinton victory
through a rigged election, here is what QAnon had to say
on the topic back on October 31, 2017:
Corsi did not elaborate on the three generals that
approached him in 2015, but it would be a fair to guess
that Lt. General Michael Flynn was involved. As a former
head of the Defense Intelligence Agency, Flynn would
have been aware of the deep corruption underscoring the
Clintons and the dirty tricks played by the CIA in support
of the Deep State.
Flynn famously led chants of “lock her up” at the 2016
Republican convention when discussing Hillary Clinton.
Flynn’s appointment as Trump’s National Security
Advisor, and quick departure less than a month later,
appears to have been a major setback for the Military
Intelligence community secretly backing the Trump
administration. On October 28, 2017, QAnon first began
releasing information on message boards. Presumably, this
was done to enlist public support in exposing and taking
.
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action against corrupt public officials impeding Trump’s
policies and the Military Intelligence community’s plans.
The level of information on Deep State control and
corruption released by QAnon in over 1100 posts to date is
astounding in its scope and impact. A number of false
flag events have been revealed, the most significant being
a January 13, 2018 nuclear ballistic missile attack against
Hawaii, which was intended to start a major regional war.
The knowledge that these revelations are coming from
senior military intelligence officials working closely with
the Trump Administration to overcome the corrupting
power and influence of the Deep State is highly
significant.
One can only guess what will happen if the military
intelligence community succeeds in its plans to overcome
the corruption and dirty tricks of the Deep State. While I
don’t personally support many of Trump’s policies that
have a right wing, pro-business, conservative agenda that
guts many necessary welfare programs, I nevertheless
recognize many positive benefits from dismantling the
Deep State.
Exposing and removing corrupt Deep State officials will
open the door to many life changing technologies that have
been suppressed for decades, to finally be released to the
public. It appears that this is what Trump was referring to
during his Inauguration speech on January 20, 2017:
We stand at the birth of a new millennium, ready to unlock
the mysteries of space, to free the earth from the miseries
of disease, and to harness the energies, industries and
technologies of tomorrow.
These technologies are so advanced that a Star Trek-like
future is well within the reach of all of us. This merits
keeping, at the very least, an open mind about the Trump
administration, what Corsi was told about a possible coup
d’etat and the 2016 election, and what QAnon is revealing
to us.
 Joe Digenova: “Dirty Cop” James Comey Was
“Compromised” From Beginning Of Hillary
Email Probe (VIDEO)
By Joshua Caplan
April 12, 2018, 8:02 Pm

On Wednesday evening, Joe DiGenova

slammed James Comey, branding
the fired FBI Director as a “dirty cop,”
unfit to sign off on the Hillary Clinton
email probe. The former U.S. Attorney
also railed against Deputy Attorney
General Rod Rosenstein and Attorney
General Jeff Sessions over the FBI’s
raid on Trump lawyer Michael Cohen’s
offices.

“Rod Rosenstein is so incompetent,

compromised and conflicted that he can no
longer serve as the deputy attorney
general.”
“It’s so appalling in every sense,” diGenova
added.

Later, diGenova turned his ire toward Robert Mueller,

accusing the special counsel of causing major harm to the
Justice Department.

“I have to tell you that what Bob Mueller is

doing and has done is destroying the
Department of Justice. And for Jeff
Sessions to sit there like a bump on a log
and do nothing about it is
disgraceful,” diGenova said.
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 Poll: Robert Mueller Loses Majority
Support After FBI Raids Trump’s Lawyer
By John Nolte
12 Apr 2018
Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s raid
on President Trump’s personal attorney
Michael Cohen has backfired in the eyes
of voters, according to Rasmussen
Reports.
Prior to what many are describing as Mueller’s
unprecedented stunt, the special counsel and former
Obama official was held in high regard by a majority of
the public. Back in October, a full 52 percent believed
“Mueller’s investigation is an honest attempt to determine
criminal wrongdoing.”
That number is now down -6 points to just 46 percent.
Moreover, the number of voters who now see Mueller’s
probe is a “partisan witch hunt” has jumped a full +8
points, from 32 percent to 40 percent.
Only 14 percent remain undecided.
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Overall, public opinion moved against Mueller by a full 14
points. What was a 20 point (52 – 32 percent) favorable
rating is now just a 6 point advantage.
The loss of Mueller’s support among a majority of voters
is also worth noting.
Also worthy of note is that Trump’s approval rating has
edged up since the raid.
Mueller was originally appointed to investigate what has
now been revealed as a partisan hoax dreamed up by
Democrats and their allies in the intelligence bureaucracy
and mainstream media: the idea that Trump and/or his
campaign colluded with the Russians to fix the 2016
presidential election.
The only wrongdoing that has so far been found in the
Russia probe has been at the hands of disgraced former
FBI director James Comey’s immediate subordinates and
the unprecedented unmasking committed by the Obama
administration as a means to use foreign surveillance
warrants to spy on Trump officials during the presidential
campaign and the transition.
Various reports indicate that that Mueller raid on Trump
attorney Michael Cohen (who by all accounts had been
cooperating fully with document requests) was in pursuit
of records and privileged attorney-client communication
pertaining to Trump’s personal life and rumored extra-
marital affairs from over a decade ago.
Mueller is now much more widely seen, not as a man
investigating a legitimate crime, but as a zealous
prosecutor investigating a man in the hopes of finding a
crime that will overturn a presidential election.
 Obama Campaign Harvested Data From 100 Million More
Facebook Users Than Cambridge Analytica
By Jim Hoft
April 12, 2018, 9:02 Pm

Facebook announced in early April that the data of up to

87 million users may have been improperly shared with a
political consulting firm connected to President Trump
during the 2016 election.

The news STUNNED the American

media elites!

CNN cheered the brilliant strategy of the

Obama campaign.
The news shocked the political world
and launched two full days of
congressional hearings into Facebook
practices.

But in 2012 the Obama campaign

harvested data from 190 million
Facebook users.
The media cheered the sheer brilliance
of the Obama campaign.

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 Even Chris Matthews, ‘Hardball’
Panelists Blast Comey’s ‘Cheap’ Shots At Trump In Book
By Curtis Houck
April 12, 2018 9:25 PM EDT
Despite largely salivating over the leaked copies of James
Comey’s book to news outlets, there was plenty of
consternation during the Thursday edition of MSNBC’s
Hardball, thanks to host Chris Matthews and other guests
taking issue with Comey’s “cheap stuff” going after the
President’s hand size, height, and skin color.
In fact, Matthews predicted without any pushback that
such lines in the Comey book could be used by the
President, his allies, and Comey detractors in criticizing
the former FBI Director as he begins his book tour next
week.
Matthews spent time singing the accolades of the book
with “juicy” details and quipping that Comey has
“throw[n] the book at Trump,” but he made sure to offer
some criticism.
He first brought up Trump’s physical appearance in asking
The Washington Post’s Philip Rucker:
“Two more questions, the small hands
reference which I thought was a bit
cheap but also the more serious
question about Trump's admitting he
likes oaths of loyalty.”
Rucker told him that Comey found Trump to be “smaller
in person, shorter rather in person” with hands that
were smaller than Comey’s and his face being orange. He
added that Comey
“would look at the sort of center of his
eyes where he suspected there were
tanning goggles,” making for “a real
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personal attack in this book leveled at
the President.”
Matthews brought this back up to Rucker’s colleague
Robert Costa and what he made
“of Comey putting in this cheap stuff
about his hands and all” because “I
always believed in if you write a book,
your weakest, cheapest charge
becomes your vulnerability, that people
will focus on that and take you apart”
with this being pitched as “a personal
vendetta.”
Matthews continued later:
He’s not going to go after the main
charges. He's going to go after motive on
the part of Comey. Now, he has said this
whole thing is a vendetta by the deep state.
There's Comey, a classic product, a figure
of the deep state...this guy writes a book in
which he makes fun of his hand size, his
physique, he makes fun of the fact that he’s
smaller than he thought, showing this
prejudice toward him....I can see Trump
making a big deal out of it and saying this
is what I've been saying. These characters
have been out to get me and it's clear by
language of this book that's what their
motive is just to get me personally.
Later, PBS correspondent Yamiche Alcindor made a
similar observation, seeming befuddled that Comey would
put that in his book and create an image of Comey,
according to a source close to Trump, as a “mean” person
who
“just wanted to put in there to sell your
book.”
Another key observation came from Matthews,
Bloomberg’s Shannon Pettypiece, and even New York
Times columnist Bret Stephens that the book has thus far
revealed little about Comey or the President that people
haven’t already heard or come to understand about either
man.
Along with Comey’s October 2016 letter about Hillary
Clinton, Stephens argued that the two prongs could be
used by the President to his advantage to paint Comey as
“a condescending prig.”
To see the relevant transcript from MSNBC’s Hardball on
April 12, click “expand.”
MSNBC’s Hardball
April 12, 2018
7:04 p.m. Eastern
CHRIS MATTHEWS: Two more questions, the small hands
reference which I thought was a bit cheap but also the more
serious question about Trump's admitting he likes oaths of
loyalty.
PHIL RUCKER: That's right. He talks about the loyalty oath and
this is something that Comey got into in his Senate testimony that
we remember. There was that one-on-one dinner Comey had
with president trump in the green room of the White House where
the President asked for his personal loyalty. They sort of went
back and forth. Comey made clear it wouldn't give his personal
political loyalty, that he’d be loyal to the truth. They sort of left it at
that, but after that point, Trump went through a litany of
accusations against him to try to convince Comey they weren't
true beginning with the sexual assault allegations brought up
during the campaign. He talked about that moment at that
campaign rally where he mocked New York Times reporter Serge
Kovaleski who is disabled and said that was not true and went
through other examples, as well.
MATTHEWS: What about the small hands reference?
RUCKER: Yeah, the small hands reference. He describes
meeting Trump for the first time at that briefing in Trump Tower
and noticing a few things about his physique. One that he thinks
Trump was smaller in person, shorter rather in person than he
appears on television. Trump is 6'3" but Comey is 6'8". Comey
also describes his hands, says they're smaller than mine, being
Comey's and he describes his face as being orange and that he
would look at the sort of center of his eyes where he suspected
there were tanning goggles. It's a real personal attack in this
book leveled at the President.
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MATTHEWS: Yeah, that’s it what strikes me.
(....)
MATTHEWS: What do you think of Comey putting in this cheap
stuff about his hands and all? I always believed in if you write a
book, your weakest, cheapest charge becomes your vulnerability,
that people will focus on that and take you apart. If it looks like a
vendetta — a personal vendetta, doesn't that hurt Comey’s case
on the facts even if he has the facts?
ROBERT COSTA: I haven't read the book, so I don’t want to
speculate too much but I will say what's more important about
this book about — is what it outlines about potential conduct by
the President, possible obstruction of justice, how does the
Mueller probe look at the Comey book? How do people in
Congress look at the Comey book? The little things do matter
politically. They’re going to create headlines, but in the big picture
of this presidency, his behavior, conduct, his actions, that's what
matters.
(....)
MATTHEWS: Bret Stephens, your thoughts about this, big
picture?
BRET STEPHENS: Well, the big picture is it doesn't sound like
Comey's book reveals anything we don't already know about the
President from his skin tone to the size of his hands to his
behavior, but the larger picture I think here is a political one,
whatever Mueller comes out with in a report about obstruction,
unless there are like very clear black letter violations of the law,
the question is simply going to be, how it's perceived, how it's
perceived among wavering Republicans of whom there are, of
course, an ever greater number, what happens in November and
whether Democrats can then move forward with a case — a case
for impeachment. I do think that the obstruction charge is likely to
be the most damaging against the President because that's
where it seems we have the greatest amount of evidence that the
President tried to tamper with an investigation.
(....)
MATTHEWS: With these, I don't want to make too big a thing
about it, but I’m trying to think of this from a way — Trump —
he’s is cornered right now — what the president would go after.
He's not going to go after the main charges. He's going to go
after motive on the part of Comey. Now, he has said this whole
thing is a vendetta by the deep state. There's Comey, a classic
product, a figure of the deep state, but in the FBI for years, this
guy writes a book in which he makes fun of had I hand size, his
physique, he makes fun of the fact that he’s smaller than he
thought, showing this prejudice toward him. It may not be a big
thing but I can see Trump making a big deal out of it and saying
this is what I've been saying. These characters have been out to
get me and it's clear by language of this book that's what their
motive is just to get me personally. Your thoughts? What will
Trump do with that?
 MATTHEWS: Let me just add a little political piece here — a
partisan piece from the Hillary people and I mean they’re still out
there. They're very angry. Lanny Davis is not the only one who
believes that ten days before the 2016 election, Comey dropped
the bomb on Hillary Clinton when he came out and said she's still
under investigation. So, I'm not sure he's going to have a lot of
allies on the center left or the left in this coming days. Anyway,
I'm talking about Comey.

(....)

COSTA: He may believe that, but there's a calculation to make if

he's only a subject at this moment in the probe and not a criminal
target, if he still has a choice to make about whether to sit for an
interview or not. He's being told by white house officials and his
attorneys to stay cool, relatively cool when it cops to the real
decisions he has to make with regard to the investigation.
They're fine with him firing off different tweet but they'd like him to
stay cool, not do the interview. NBC has sharp reporting tonight
on that and hope to weather this storm, both the book and the
investigation and the report.

MATTHEWS: Bret, your big bet right now, where is it heading?
Right now, this year. We're talking now about a possible report
from Mueller late May, next month. This is April. This thing is
moving.
STEPHENS: I would be stunned if the President doesn't fire the
Deputy Attorney General Mr. Rosenstein well before then and, by
the way, I have to tell you, based on what I've just heard about
the book, if I were the President, I would be actually relatively
happy about the idea of a Comey book tour because Comey can
do himself a great deal of damage. Let's not forget that the kind
of damage he did himself in 2016. The President has an
opportunity to paint Comey not just as a creature of the deep
state but as a condescending prig and at the end — look, the
important point is that beyond the legal maneuvers, this is a
political question about whether the American people want to
keep this President or not and the President, if he knows nothing
else, he understands that.
.
SHANNON PETTYPIECE: I thought there would be more of a
smoke gun in here. I think that was the expectation and I think
this does say a lot of things that people know. They know that
Comey does not like the president's personality. I mean, they
know that the president has done and said a lot of outrageous
things and I think this just sort of will reinforce the narrative that a
lot of people have in their mind and not necessarily change
anyone's narrative.
(....)
YAMICHE ALCINDOR: But talking about his hands, talking about
his color? I was just — I was just texting with someone who
knows President Trump pretty well and that person said that
seems like a distraction. It seems like you just wanted to put in
there to sell your book and to be mean.

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 Even A Former Clinton Staffer Isn’t A
Comey Fan — ‘I’m With The RNC On This’
Justin Caruso - Media Reporter
9:48 PM 04/12/2018

CNN commentator and longtime Clinton associate Paul The book also contains disparaging remarks about
Begala said that he agrees with Republicans in their Trump’s physical appearance.
criticism of former FBI directer James Comey on CNN
Thursday.

WATCH:

“I have no love for James Comey. I’m with

the RNC on this. I don’t know if he’s a liar,
though. That’s a difference. He’s not a liar.
I don’t know that he lied, but the problem is
he told the truth very selectively, attacking
Hillary Clinton and not ever revealing that
Trump himself was under investigation,
too,” Begala said.

Comey’s upcoming book will be critical of President

Trump, according to many news reports.
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FITTON: Comey Illegally Leaked His Memos To Prompt A
Special Counsel Then Doubled Down And Used Them For
His Memoir – Where’s The DOJ?
By Cristina Laila
April 12, 2018, 10:07 Pm
Former FBI Director James Comey
illegally leaked memos he kept of his
conversations with Trump to the liberal
media in order to prompt a special
counsel.
It looks like Comey also used the classified memos for his
new memoir “A Higher Loyalty.”
“The DOJ has yet to lift a finger,” said
Judicial Watch president, Tom Fitton.
Comey penned 7 memos stemming from 9 private
conversations he had with Trump.
Although 4 out of the 7 memos contained classified
information, it is also argued by experts that all 7 memos
are considered classified.
In James Comey’s new memoir, he revealed a private
conversation he had with the president then trashed
Trump’s marriage to First Lady Melania.
Buried in Hillary’s phony dossier was a salacious yet
unverified story about Trump urinating on Russian
prostitutes.
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Comey reveals the private conversation he had with Trump
about the salacious allegations of the “golden showers.”
According to the New York Post, Trump expressed to
Comey that it bothered him if there was ‘even a one
percent chance’ his wife, Melania, thought it was true.
Comey said he privately wondered why Melania might
think there was even a 1 percent chance the allegations
were true, claiming there is “zero chance” his own wife
would believe such a claim.
“In what kind of marriage, to what kind of
man, does a spouse conclude there is only
a 99 percent chance her husband didn’t do
that?” he writes in the book, which hits
shelves April 17.
Comey also wrote about his private dinner at the White
House with President Trump just weeks after the president
was sworn into office.
Yahoo reported:
Comey writes that to him,
“The demand was like Sammy the Bull’s
Cosa Nostra induction ceremony,” referring
to Salvatore “Sammy the Bull” Gravano, a
former leader of the Gambino crime family,
whose testimony ultimately helped convict
mob boss John Gotti.
Comey responded with silence, he writes in the book, and
Trump moved the conversation along. Later in the dinner,
Trump returned to the subject:
“I need loyalty.”
“You will always get honesty from me,”
Comey writes that he responded.
“That’s what I want, honest loyalty,” Trump
said.
“You will get that from me,” Comey
responded.
President of Judicial Watch Tom Fitton was furious
Comey once again used his private [classified] memos for
public use and pointed out that the DOJ has yet to lift a
finger.
Tom Fitton tweeted:
We already know Comey took FBI records
and illegally leaked them to get a special
counsel appointed as part of his vendetta
against @realDonaldTrump. Now it looks
like he doubled down and used them also
to write a book. And the DOJ/FBI has yet to
lift a finger.
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In February, Judicial Watch sued for FBI docs on Comey’s
new memoir.
FBI officials are usually required to submit transcripts for
pre-publication review. JW wants to know whether Comey
got special treatment, like he did when he leaked info to
the media.
Comey’s book hits shelves on April 17th; he will also be
sitting down for an interview with sycophant George
Stephanopoulos on Friday.
Brace yourselves; the media will be obsessing over
Comey’s book and slobbering all over him for the next few
months.
 Nets Fawn for Comey Book Excerpts
Blasting Trump, Apology for Angering Hillary
By Nicholas Fondacaro
April 12, 2018 10:11 PM EDT

“They launched into a strategy session

about how the spin what we'd just told
them to the public,” Comey reportedly
bemoaned.

NBC Nightly News anchor Lester Holt began the

newscast by proclaiming:

“For months he held his silence but

tonight James Comey, a looming
shadow into the investigation into the
Trump campaign, is finally telling his
The liberal media don’t appear to show any signs of story.”
whiplash due to their wild love/hate relationship with
former FBI Director James Comey. He was obviously still
in their good graces Thursday evening with the three major
network news outlets (ABC, CBS, and NBC) and Spanish-
language network Univision hyping excerpts from his
soon-to-be-released book A Higher Loyalty. The three
touted how Comey “blasted” President Trump for being
“unethical” and his apparent apology to Hillary Clinton.

Both CBS and NBC kicked off their programs with the
news of the leaked passages from Comey’s book.

“We are going to begin tonight with

James Comey's response. In a new
book, details of which are just out, the
former FBI Director, fired a year ago by
the president fires back, taking aim at
everything from the President's actions
to his appearance,” announced CBS
Evening News anchor Jeff Glor.
CBS Justice correspondent Jeff Pegues focused on
Comey’s recollection about Trump’s attitude when briefed
on the Democrat-funded, salacious dossier compiled by
former British spy Christopher Steele:
Comey says the president focused on one
of the most salacious allegations in the
dossier, that he Hadsell a sexual encounter
in a Moscow hotel room. Comey writes,
"Trump strongly denied the allegations,
asking rhetorically, I assumed, whether he
seemed like a guy who needed the service
of prostitutes."
White House correspondent Kristen Welker jumped right
into some of the more incendiary comments Comey hurled
at the President.
“In his explosive soon to be released
book, former FBI Director James Comey
calls the president ‘untethered to the
truth,’ ‘unethical,’ ‘ego-driven,’” she
eagerly repeated.
As Welker was finishing her report, she touched on
Comey’s apology to Hillary Clinton:
“As for Comey and his regrets about
some of the language he used during
the investigation into Hillary Clinton,
Comey says ultimately he believes he
did the right thing.”

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Meanwhile on ABC’s World News Tonight, the network
zeroed in on Comey’s smear of Trump acting like an
infamous mafia underboss.
“Comey claims at that dinner, President
Trump told him, ‘I need loyalty. I expect
loyalty,’” ABC chief Justice correspondent
Pierre Thomas recalled. “In his book,
Comey writes, he thought to himself,
‘The demand was like ‘Sammy The
Bull's’ Costra Nostra induction
ceremony.’”
Salvatore Gravano was a member of the Gambino crime
family in New York City.
And in wrapping up his report, Thomas reported on
Comey’s apology to Secretary Hillary Clinton:
Comey expresses some regrets about
Clinton, writing quote, “I’ve read she has
felt angered towards me personally and I’m
sorry for that. I'm sorry I couldn't do a better
job explaining to her and her supporters
why I made the decisions I made.” End
quote. And David, for Comey, it's personal.
He writes, “this president is unethical, and
untethered to truth and institutional values.”
On Univision, they said:
“During an interview with the ABC
television network, James Comey called
Donald Trump a mafia boss while
promoting his book A Higher
Loyalty which goes on sale next Tuesday.”
If they were this excited on Thursday, the liberal networks
will be busting at the seams on Monday following ABC’s
Sunday night interview with Comey and that's not to
mention the book's Tuesday release.
CBS Evening News
April 12, 2018
6:31:20 PM Eastern [2 minutes 3 seconds]
JEFF GLOR: We are going to begin tonight with James Comey's
response. In a new book, details of which are just out, the former
FBI Director, fired a year ago by the president fires back, taking
aim at everything from the President's actions to his appearance.
Here's Jeff Pegues.
[Cuts to video]
JEFF PEGUES: Comey does not mince words when it comes to
describing how he feels about the President. In his book, A
Higher Loyalty, the former FBI Director blasts President Trump
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as "Untethered to truth" and goes on the say his leadership is
"ego-driven and about personal loyalty." Comey's book suggests
there was tension from the beginning, even before the
inauguration. Comey briefed Trump on the allegations contained
in the then-unsubstantiated dossier on Russian interference in
the election.
Comey writes about the Trump team, "They were about to lead a
country that had been attacked by a foreign adversary, yet they
had no questions about what the future Russian threat might be.”
Instead, Comey writes, “they launched into a strategy session
about how the spin what we'd just told them to the public.”
Comey says the president focused on one of the most salacious
allegations in the dossier, that he Hadsell a sexual encounter in a
Moscow hotel room. Comey writes, "Trump strongly denied the
allegations, asking rhetorically, I assumed, whether he seemed
like a guy who needed the service of prostitutes."
Comey also wrote about the oval office meeting where he says
the president asked him for his loyalty. He testified about that
before Congress.
(…)
[Cuts back to live]
PEGUES: Comey said that moment reminded him of a mobster's
induction ceremony. He also said when he was fired, then DHS
Secretary John Kelly told him he was sick about the situation.
Comey says Kelly told him that he “didn't want to work for
dishonorable people.” The White House denies that Kelly used
that language. Kelly, of course, is now the White House chief of
staff. Jeff?
GLOR: Jeff Pegues, thank you very much.
NBC Nightly News
April 12, 2018
7:01:23 PM Eastern [2 minutes 47 seconds]
LESTER HOLT: Good evening. For months he held his silence
but tonight James Comey, a looming shadow into the
investigation into the Trump campaign, is finally telling his story.
The former FBI boss fired by President Trump is about to release
his new book and tonight quotes attributed to that book reveal
Comey's interactions with the President, how he saw the limits of
loyalty and what he got wrong about the Clinton e-mail
investigation. NBC's Kristen Welker has details.
[Cuts to video]
KRISTEN WELKER: In his explosive soon to be released book,
former FBI Director James Comey calls the president “untethered
to the truth,” “unethical,” “ego-driven” and even compared him to
fame mob hit man Sammy "The bull." According to reports of
excerpts not confirmed by NBC News, the book A Higher Loyalty
gives new details about interactions Comey had with the
president including that now infamous dinner where Comey said
Mr. Trump demanded his loyalty. Comey writing, the President
said quote, “I need loyalty, I expect loyalty.” Comey was pressed
on Capitol Hill about the dinner.
(…)
WELKER: Comey also reportedly writes that he regrets some of
the wording he used in the press conference in which he
announced the decision not to prosecute Hillary Clinton for her
use of a private e-mail server. The President fired Comey last
May that led to the appointment of the special counsel Robert
Mueller.
(…)
[Cuts back to live]
WELKER: As for Comey and his regrets about some of the
language he used during the investigation into Hillary Clinton,
Comey says ultimately he believes he did the right thing. Lester?
HOLT: Kristen Welker at the White House, thank you.
ABC's World News Tonight
April 12, 2018
6:38:50 PM Eastern [2 minutes 10 seconds]
DAVID MUIR: We do move on now, and to that breaking news
back home involving former FBI Director James Comey, who was
fired by the President. In his new book about to be published, he
reveals what he says played out with President Trump before he
was fired. Their conversations, that private dinner. And the
President's demand for loyalty. Comey now comparing the
President to a mafia boss. Here's ABC's Chief Justice
correspondent Pierre Thomas tonight.
[Cuts to video]
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PIERRE THOMAS: In his upcoming new book, former FBI
Director James Comey likens President Trump to a mafia boss.
Describing a presidential demand at a hastily arranged White
House dinner.
(…)
THOMAS: Comey claims at that dinner, President Trump told
him, "I need loyalty. I expect loyalty." In his book, Comey writes,
he thought to himself, "The demand was like Sammy ‘The Bull's’
Costra Nostra induction ceremony.” That dinner was just one
week after the inauguration. A few months later, Comey was
gone, fired by the President.
In his book, Comey describes an emotional call he received
shortly after from John Kelly, then Homeland Security secretary,
now White House chief of staff. Comey says Kelly told him he
"Intended to quit in protest because he didn't want to work for
dishonorable people who would treat someone like Comey in
such a manner." Comey writes, "I urged Kelly not to do that,
arguing that the country needed principled people around this
president. Especially this president."
[Cuts back to live]
MUIR: Pierre Thomas joins us tonight from the White House. And
Pierre, James Comey also writes about Hillary Clinton and his
decision to reopen the investigation into her e-mails, less than
two weeks before the election, which many of her supporters
believe cost her the election.
THOMAS: That's right, David. Comey expresses some regrets
about Clinton, writing quote, “I’ve read she has felt angered
towards me personally and I’m sorry for that. I'm sorry I couldn't
do a better job explaining to her and her supporters why I made
the decisions I made.” End quote. And David, for Comey, it's
personal. He writes, “this president is unethical, and untethered
to truth and institutional values.” David?
MUIR: Pierre Thomas with us, as well tonight. Pierre, thank you.
 ‘If This Had Been Hillary Clinton’s Lawyer…’
— Alan Dershowitz Brings The Truth On CNN
Justin Caruso - Media Reporter
10:39 PM 04/12/2018

CNN’s Jeffrey Toobin and Harvard professor emeritus see that kind of material. There’s a way of
Alan Dershowitz went head to head Thursday night over eliminating it.”
the FBI raid against Trump lawyer Michael Cohen.
Toobin said,
WATCH:
“It’s a violation if a judge sees it…”

Dershowitz responded by pointing out that the Justice

Department and FBI have a history of leaking.

“A.)–Judges are more trust worthy. They

“It is true that privileges should be
honored,” Toobin said, “But, just because
you have a privilege doesn’t mean you
should be exempt from being…”
“I’m not exempting the lawyer or the judge
and the priest,” Dershowitz said. “I’m
talking about the client, the penitent and
the patient. It’s their rights that are being
violated, and there’s no reason why any
government agent should ever be able to
.
don’t leak,” he said. “We know that the
Justice Department and the FBI are like a
sieve. They leak everything, they have a
motive to leak.”
“Second, members of the taint team, with a
wink and a nod, can communicate
effectively. That’s how the Oliver North
case was lost. We should not be trusting–
the ACLU, to its everlasting shame, came
out today and justified and defended the
search without going into any of these
issues. If this had been Hillary Clinton’s
lawyer, can you imagine the ACLU coming
out and justifying this search, or defending
it?”

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 OUCH!…TRUMP Destroys “Leaker And Liar”
James Comey An “Untruthful Slime Ball”
By Jim Hoft
April 13, 2018, 7:51 Am
President Trump:
Former FBI Chief is launching his anti-Trump book tour
this week after being fired for dereliction of duty in 2017.
Comey was given permission to write the book by the
intelligence committee and is launching his book tour this
weekend.
Comey is doing this as the deep state continues its soft
coup to remove the democratically elected president.
On Friday President Trump destroyed Comey on Twitter.
Ouch!
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James Comey is a proven LEAKER &
LIAR. Virtually everyone in Washington
thought he should be fired for the terrible
job he did-until he was, in fact, fired. He
leaked CLASSIFIED information, for which
he should be prosecuted. He lied to
Congress under OATH. He is a weak and
untruthful slime ball who was, as time has
proven, a terrible Director of the FBI. His
handling of the Crooked Hillary Clinton
case, and the events surrounding it, will go
down as one of the worst “botch jobs” of
history. It was my great honor to fire James
Comey!
 James Comey Admits He Never Told POTUS
Trump That Steele Dossier Was Funded By DNC (VIDEO)
By Joshua Caplan
April 13, 2018, 8:37 Am
In his highly anticipated interview with
ABC’s George Stephanopoulos, fired
FBI Director James Comey admitted that
he never told President Donald Trump
that the Steele dossier was funded by
his political opponents.
Partial transcript via Charlie Spiering of Breitbart News:
STEPHANOPOULOS: “Did you tell him
that the Steele dossier had been financed
by his political opponents?”
COMEY: “No. I didn’t.”
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STEPHANOPOULOS: “But did he have a
right to know that?”
COMEY: “That it had been financed by his
political opponents? I don’t know the
answer to that.”
As The Gateway Pundit’s Kristinn Taylor
previously reported, WaPo revealed last October that
Hillary Clinton and the Democratic National Committee
paid for the Fusion GPS dossier alleging Russian ties with
the presidential campaign of Republican Donald Trump
and sordid phony personal smears of Trump.
In fact, Paul Sperry of the New York Post has said both the
DNC and Clinton campaign had more control over the
dossier than most people realize.
Sperry tweeted,
“DNC & Hillary Clinton campaign had
contractual control over how the product
they paid for was used & disseminated.
That means Simpson & Steele had to first
consult with Clinton campaign lawyers
before taking the dossier to the FBI & to the
media. Ergo, Hillary coordinated FBI hit”
 Comey: Getting Wedgies
As A Kid Prepared Me For President Trump
By Jim Hoft
April 13, 2018, 8:47 Am
Leaker and liar James Comey is launching his much
anticipated self-aggrandizing memoir this weekend.
The fired FBI director is making the rounds on the talk
shows and his fiction novel will no doubt be the talk of
liberal pundits all weekend.
The former FBI chief says getting
wedgies as a kid prepared him for
President Trump.
Comey is in legal trouble for leaking
classified documents to the press and
for lying ton Congress.
.
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NJ.com reported:
Decades before former FBI Director James
Comey says he faced the mob boss-like
tactics of President Trump, the fired
lawman got an early lesson in bullies
growing up in Allendale, he writes.
In Comey’s book, “A Higher Loyalty,” the
1978 Northern Highlands Regional High
School graduate describes suffering
through body-shaming, wedgies and
getting shoved into lockers, according to
the Washington Post, which obtained an
advance copy of the already best-seller.
Comey, who says Trump demanded a
loyalty pledge, links lessons from his
upbringing in Bergen County to his public
clash with the president. Trump ultimately
canned Comey amid the investigation into
Russian meddling in the 2016 election.
“Surviving a bully requires constant
learning and adaptation. Which is why
bullies are so powerful, because it’s so
much easier to be a follower, to go with the
crowd, to just blend in,” Comey writes.
 James Clapper Claims Comey’s New Story Is A ‘Truthful
Portrayal,’ Then Plugs His Own Book [VIDEO]
Nick Givas - Media And Politics Reporter
8:49 AM 04/13/2018
Former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper
said former FBI Director James Comey is telling the truth
about his encounters with the Trump administration,
before plugging his own book on CNN’s “New Day”
Friday.
Comey’s new book, “A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and
Leadership,” tells the story of his interactions with
President Donald Trump and his experience as FBI
director before and after the 2016 presidential election.
Comey is critical of Trump’s leadership style and even
mocks his physical appearance.
“Well, I think above all it is a truthful
portrayal of how, you know, of Jim’s
observations, his feelings and what
occurred,” Clapper said. “People can take
issue with decisions Jim made and things
that he did. But in my view, knowing Jim as
I do — I think whatever he did, he did it for
what he felt were the best reasons and
were in the best interests of the country.”
WATCH:
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“And of course I’m kind of comparing notes
here because I’ve got a book coming out
next month which also talks about some of
the same events,” Clapper continued. “And
I’m sure that the same accusations are
going to be levied at me as well.”
Host Alisyn Camerota read a physical description of
President Donald Trump from Comey’s account and asked
if Clapper included similar passages in his book.
“Maybe I should have. But I don’t get that
specific,” Clapper replied. “Jim didn’t
generate the salacious details. And so he
chose to include some pretty specific,
graphic details about his impressions of
President Trump. Well, that’s the nature of
those kind of books. So I don’t fault him for
it. I just, in my case, chose not to include
details like that.”
 Ari Fleischer: In A Town Of Grandstanders,
Comey Is One Of The Biggest
Virginia Kruta
8:55 AM 04/13/2018
Former White House press secretary Ari Fleischer attacked
former FBI Director James Comey on Thursday evening,
saying that
“in a town full of grandstanders, Comey is
one of the biggest.”
Fleischer, who served under George W. Bush, appeared on
the “Ingraham Angle” on Fox News Thursday evening to
discuss the upcoming release of Comey’s memoir, “A
Higher Loyalty,” and the media frenzy surrounding it, and
he made it clear that he was not impressed by Comey’s
judgment. He framed Comey’s behavior, both as FBI
Director and since leaving the Justice Department, as a
warning for Special Counsel Robert Mueller.
Bob Mueller is not James Comey. What James Comey
shows is that prosecutors who have bad judgment will
make mistakes, and not everybody is perfect at the DOJ or
the FBI.
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That’s an interesting and important reminder for Bob
Mueller, as he goes forward, but what we know about
James Comey … is that the things he did before the
election were wrong, and that goes back to the Bush
administration too.
Fleischer then recalled one instance when Comey had
“created this whole drama” about himself when it wasn’t
necessary.
“It was a program that the FBI had
previously approved, the Justice
Department previously approved, and then
James Comey had this dramatic moment at
a hospital to reverse everything the Justice
Department previously did. In a town of
grandstanders, he’s one of the biggest,
often against good judgment.”
 Trey Gowdy: Nobody Has Politicized FBI More In Last
Few Days Than James Comey (VIDEO)
By Joshua Caplan
April 13, 2018, 9:41 Am

In an interview with Fox News Friday, Gowdy said. “I hope he let them do it so
Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC) lamented the he’s not disseminating classified
chilling effect that James Comey’s book information. My guess is he did,” Gowdy
tour was having on the FBI. added.
“But the writing of the book in general and
then some of the things that he’s talking
about are just frankly beneath the dignity of
some really important offices he once
held.”

Gowdy attacked the former FBI chief for

politicizing the bureau.
“I can’t think of anyone who’s done a better
job of politicizing the FBI than he has in the
last 36 to 48 hours, by talking about
tanning bed goggles and the length of a
tie,” the Republican lawmaker told the
hosts of “Fox & Friends”.
“That is beneath the dignity of the offices
that he held.”
“I’m really disappointed, whether or not the
intelligence community vetted this book,”
.

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 Comey Admits He Hid That Dems Funded Steele
Dossier From Trump – ‘Wasn’t Necessary For My Goal’
Christian Datoc - Breaking News And Engagement Editor
9:31 AM 04/13/2018

James Comey told ABC’s George Stephanopoulos that he
did not tell President Trump the infamous Fusion GPS
dossier was funded by the DNC because he didn’t view it
as necessary.
“Did you tell him the Steele dossier had
been financed by his political opponents?”
Stephanopoulos asked the former FBI
director in an interview set to air on Sunday
night.
“No, I don’t even think I used the words
‘Steele Dossier,'” Comey responded. “I just
talked about additional material.”
WATCH:
Comey wrote in his upcoming book that POTUS
reportedly reached out to him and asked him to specifically
investigate the salacious claims in the dossier.
Trump allegedly pressed Comey at a January 2017 dinner
to disprove the “golden showers” so that there wasn’t
“even one percent chance” First Lady Melania Trump
would think they were “true.”
“He just rolled on, unprompted, explaining
why it couldn’t possibly be true, ending by
saying he was thinking of asking me to
investigate the allegation to prove it was a
lie,” Comey explained. “I said it was up to
him.”

President Trump hit back at Comey Friday morning in a

series of tweets.

“Did he have a right to know that?”

Stephanopoulos asked as a follow-up.
“That it had been financed by his political
opponents? I don’t know the answer to
that,” Comey conceded. “It wasn’t
necessary for my goal, which was to alert
him that we had this information.”

(RELATED: Media Spreads Fake News About

Republicans Funding Steele Dossier)

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 Liar Comey: It’s Possible Trump
Was With Hookers “Peeing On Each Other”
By Jim Hoft
April 13, 2018, 9:50 Am

The FBI knew the dossier was a

fraudulent document created by political
activists but used it to spy on Trump
anyway.

The New York Post reported:

Ex-FBI director James Comey said “it’s

Former FBI Chief is launching his anti-Trump book tour
this week after being fired for dereliction of duty in 2017.
Comey was given permission to write
the book by the intelligence community
and is launching his book tour this
weekend.
Comey is doing this as the deep state continues its soft
coup to remove the democratically elected Republican
president.
Comey admitted in a Friday interview that he NEVER told
the President the Steele Dossier used to spy on him, his
Transition Team, his business, his family and his
Administration, was funded by the DNC and Hillary
Clinton campaign.
possible” President Trump was with
hookers “peeing on each other” in Moscow,
according to excerpts of a new interview
released Friday.
“I honestly never thought these words
would come out of my mouth, but I don’t
know whether the current president of the
United States was with prostitutes peeing
on each other in Moscow in 2013,” Comey
said in a “20/20” episode set to air Sunday.
“It’s possible, but I don’t know.”
The former top G-man recalled the moment
Trump floated the idea of investigating the
pee-tape allegations during a private dinner
Jan. 27, 2017 – saying it would bother him
if there was “even a 1 percent chance” that
wife Melania believed them.

Comey also told Democrat George

Stephanopoulos that “it’s possible”
Trump was with hookers who were
“peeing on each other.”

Comey is in legal trouble for lying to Congress and for

leaking classified information for the press.
.

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 Ex-CIA Director John Brennan Lashes Out
At POTUS Trump Amid Comey Book Tour Mania
By Joshua Caplan
April 13, 2018, 10:10 Am

As The Gateway Pundit’s Jim
Hoft reported, former FBI Chief Comey
is launching his anti-Trump book tour
this week after being fired in 2017.
His handling of the Crooked Hillary Clinton
case, and the events surrounding it, will go
down as one of the worst “botch jobs” of
history. It was my great honor to fire James
Comey!”

Like clockwork, former CIA chief John Brennan lashed

Comey was given permission to write the book by the out at Trump over the Comey slam.
intelligence committee and is launching his book tour this
weekend.
“Your kakistocracy is collapsing after its
lamentable journey. As the greatest Nation
On Friday, President Donald Trump took a blowtorch history has known, we have the opportunity
James Comey on Twitter. to emerge from this nightmare stronger &
more committed to ensuring a better life for
“James Comey is a proven LEAKER & all Americans, including those you have so
LIAR. Virtually everyone in Washington tragically deceived.”
thought he should be fired for the terrible
job he did-until he was, in fact, fired. He
leaked CLASSIFIED information, for which
he should be prosecuted. He lied to
Congress under OATH. He is a weak
and…..

The term “kakistocracy” means “a system of government

which is run by the worst, least qualified, or most
unscrupulous citizens.”

That’s a rich term to use considering what an unmitigated

….untruthful slime ball who was, as time disaster the Obama administration was.
has proven, a terrible Director of the FBI.
.

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 ‘UNACCEPTABLE’ – Kellyanne Slams
Comey For Questioning Trump’s Marriage
Saagar Enjeti - White House Correspondent
10:13 AM 04/13/2018

White House counselor Kellyanne Conway pushed back
strongly Friday against former FBI director James
Comey’s questioning of President Donald Trump’s
marriage, in a forthcoming tell all book.
“It bothered [President Trump] if there was
‘even a one percent chance’ his wife,
Melania, thought it was true,” Comey wrote
in his book and noted to Good Morning
America. “In what kind of marriage, to what
kind of man, does a spouse conclude there
is only a 99 percent chance her husband
didn’t do that?”

Conway took particular exception to this portion of the

interview saying

“I find that particular excerpt to be really

egregious and over the top and
unacceptable. I hope people of all political
stripes. Including those who didn’t like
James Comey in late October of 2016 to
Comey’s claim centers around repeated alleged attempts push back on it.” She sarcastically
by Trump to ask him to investigate claims in a salacious characterized him as a “pyschoanalyst” and
dossier alleging a 2013 encounter between the President a “marriage counselor” flatly
and prostitutes in Moscow. The former FBI director claims declaring “frankly put, that’s none of his
Trump called him and raised the issue to him on several business.”
occasions asking for the FBI to disprove the claim in order
to put his wife at peace.

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 Chris Wallace Surprised At
‘How Bitchy’ Comey’s Book Is
Christian Datoc - Breaking News And Engagement Editor
10:28 AM 04/13/2018
“Fox New Sunday” host Chris Wallace dismantled James
Comey’s new book, A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and
Leadership, during a Friday morning hit on Fox.
Wallace opened by stating he
“may be the only person in America who
hasn’t” received a copy of the book — set
to be released next week — before saying
he is surprised at “how little new there is in
the book.”
WATCH:
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“We get a lot of opinions, very unpleasant
opinions of the president by James Comey,
but in terms of hard facts — you know
people are talking about bombshells —
there are none,” he continued. “Basically
everything that he said, in terms of the
facts of what the president did, he already
has testified before a congressional
committee.”
“At one point he says while he thinks the
president’s behavior may have been
unethical, it may not have been illegal.”
“The other thing that surprises me, frankly,
is how bitchy the book is,” Wallace sassed.
“Comey goes out of his way to say the
president isn’t as tall as he thought he was.
He checked out the size of his hands the
first time they shook hands, that he noticed
that the president seemed to have little
white half moons under his eyes, maybe he
had sun-tanning goggles that he wore.”
“One could argue that by getting into the
kind of political food fight that James
Comey has done more damage to his own
reputation than he has to President
Trump’s.”
 Tim Kaine Back’s Up Comey’s
Claim Of Trump Team’s Mob Tactics
Nick Givas - Media And Politics Reporter
10:29 AM 04/13/2018

Democratic Sen. Tim Kaine of Virginia supported former

FBI Director James Comey’s new book on CNN’s “New
Day” Friday and said Comey’s claims have a “ring of
truth” to them.

“This president is unethical, and untethered to truth and

institutional values,” Comey writes in his book “A Higher
Loyalty,” according to The New York Times. “His
leadership is transactional, ego driven and about personal
loyalty.”

“Just the excerpts that I’ve read, this untethered to truth

line just has a complete ring of truth to it based on what
we’ve seen in the first 15, 16 months of the
administration,” Kaine told CNN’s Chris Cuomo. “Also, I
thought it was interesting that Director Comey sort of
analogizing the Trump team to like mob folks that he’s
prosecuted.”
“When Comey talked about it as a little bit like a mob
organization, that also has the ring of truth to it,” he added.
Kaine said he doesn’t see a practical use for the book
among lawmakers but hopes it will enlighten the public
and wake them up for the perilous times to come.

WATCH: “We’re in a very, very challenging time right now. And I

don’t know if the book will offer us, you know, who are in
the House and Senate any guidance about what we have to
do,” Kaine concluded. “But it may help the American
public understand the completely unprecedented times
we’re living in.”
.

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 Gowdy: Comey’s Book Is
‘Beneath The Dignity’ Of The FBI
Chuck Ross - Reporter
10:40 AM 04/13/2018
South Carolina Rep. Trey Gowdy on "Fox & Friends,"
April 13, 2018. (YouTube screen capture/House Oversight
Committee)
South Carolina Rep. Trey Gowdy blasted James Comey on
Friday over the former FBI director’s forthcoming book,
calling it “beneath the dignity” of the bureau.
“I can’t think of anyone who’s done a better
job of politicizing the FBI than [Comey] has
in the last 36 to 48 hours,” Gowdy said on
“Fox & Friends.”
“I think it’s sad,” he added.
Comey has received some criticism for taking petty jabs at
President Trump’s physical appearance in the book, “A
Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership.”
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In one section, Comey writes of his first meeting with
Trump — at an intelligence briefing on Jan. 6, 2017 —
that the Republican’s
“face appeared slightly orange, with bright
white half-moons under his eyes where I
assumed he placed small tanning goggles,
and impressively coiffed, bright blond hair,
which upon close inspection looked to be
all his.”
“I remember wondering, how long it must
take him in the morning to get that done.”
Comey, who is 6’8″, also writes that he made a point of
checking the 6’3″ Trump’s hand size.
“As he extended his hand, I made a mental
note to check its size. It was smaller than
mine, but did not seem unusually so,”
Comey writes.
Comey, who was fired by Trump on May 9, also describes
Trump as similar to a “mob boss” who is “untethered to
truth.”
“Some of the things that he’s talking about
are just frankly beneath the dignity of some
of the offices that he held,” Gowdy said
Friday.
 White House Supports ‘Ability To
Speak Freely’ On Social Media
By Ashley Rae Goldenberg
April 13, 2018 11:30 AM EDT

The White House officially waded into the controversy
surrounding conservative censorship on social media.
During a press briefing on Wednesday, White House press
secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders answered a question by
a Breitbart reporter about conservative voices who say
they have been suppressed online, particularly by
Facebook. The reporter, Michelle Moons, asked Sanders,
“Is the White House concerned with Facebook’s efforts to
silence conservatives?”
brought up by multiple members of Congress, such as Sen.
Ted Cruz (R-Texas), to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg
during his congressional testimony.
Zuckerberg responded to Cruz’s questions about
Facebook’s political neutrality by saying that he tries to
“root out” political bias, although he understands the
concern, given Facebook is located in Silicon Valley, “an
extremely left-leaning place.” He also said that he is “very
committed to making sure that Facebook is a platform for
all ideas,” including conservative ideas.

“Certainly, the White House would always support, not

just conservatives, but everyone having the ability to speak
freely on a number of platforms across this country, and
certainly support the constitution that provides that right,”
Sanders responded.

While the U.S. Constitution does not guarantee Americans

the right to use Facebook, Twitter, or any other social
media outlet, many conservatives have said they’ve been
censored for their political views online. The issue was

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 EXCLUSIVE: Leaked Emails Show Democrats Planning
Nationwide Protests Over Mueller Investigation,
Believe Firing Imminent
Joe Simonson - Media Reporter
11:55 AM 04/13/2018

Democrats believe President Donald Trump will take
action to stop the Russia investigation this weekend and
are contacting local organizers around the country to plan
protests, leaked emails to The Daily Caller News
Foundation show.
Connecticut Democratic Rep. Jim Himes sent an email out
to field organizers in Norwalk and other towns in his home
state Friday outlining his concerns that the president will
fire either Attorney General Jeff Session, FBI Director Rod
Rosenstein, or special counsel Robert Mueller.
A source connected to the Himes campaign told TheDCNF
that the Democrats need “contingency plans” set up in case
Trump takes action. The same source said other Democrats
nationwide are sending similar notices out to staff
members as well.
The leaked email, authored personally by Himes, says that
the congressman believes “that in the next 48 hours, it is
more likely than not that the President acts against
Attorney General Sessions, Deputy AG Rosenstein, and
It is not clear how Himes has gotten this impression, but it
should not be seen as an effort to drum up the base or as a
fundraising effort.
“I have a hard time believing that Jim would
send this out without being 85 percent
certain” about the firings, the source told
TheDCNF.
Himes also writes that he believes it is “likely that the
President will order an attack on Syria” this weekend.
“In both cases, constitutional order and rule
of law are at stake. As a consequence, it is
important that we speak and act in a
coordinated manner,” Himes wrote to
Connecticut party officials, referencing the
need for organizers to begin planning.
In the case of the president ending Mueller’s investigation,
Himes told confidants that “Congress must act
immediately to require the preservation of all documents
and work product, and to re-establish the investigation via
statue,” adding that “this must be the sole initial priority.”
.
As Congress acts, Himes calls for “organized, persistent
and peaceful demonstrations with a clear demand must be
the goal.” Democrats are organizing protests in small
towns and cities, not just locations like Washington, D.C.,
and New York City, according to emails seen by
TheDCNF.
The firing of any Department of Justice officials will come
in tandem with “an attack on Syria,” which “will likely be
undertaken rapidly and remotely.” The congressman also
notes that he believes “such an attack would be
unconstitutional,” but that “Presidents of both parties have
done violence to the requirement that Congress authorize
non-defensive military action,” referring to both the
George W. Bush and Barack Obama administrations.
Himes ends his email with a quote from President
Abraham Lincoln and a call for action.
“Public sentiment is everything. With public
sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it,
nothing can succeed,” he wrote before
adding, “You’ve proved Lincoln right
several times in the last 14 months,”
referring to previous anti-Trump protests. “It
may be time to do it again.”
Progressive organizations like MoveOn have also been
working with Democratic Party officials over the last 48
hours to assist in any potential protests. Members of both
organizations refer to the demonstrations as the “Mueller
Firing Rapid Response event,” according to documents
viewed by TheDCNF
Trump has repeatedly signaled his frustration with the
direction of the Mueller probe. After FBI investigators
raided Cohen’s office Monday, the president described the
incident as “disgraceful” and an “attack on our country.”
Previous reports have alleged that Trump has often times
expressed his desire to end the investigation, believing it
has expanded far beyond its initial scope and that it is a
“witch hunt.”

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 REPORT: Deputy AG Rod Rosenstein
Ready To Be FIRED By President Donald Trump
By Joshua Caplan
April 13, 2018, 12:02 Pm

NBC News reports that Deputy Attorney
General Rod Rosenstein is prepared to
be terminated from the Justice
Department.
George W. Bush in a conversation that has been widely
reported and that Comey describes in his forthcoming
book.
One source who spoke to Rosenstein said he seemed fully
aware he may soon lose his job and was at peace with the
possibility, confident he had done his job with integrity.

Rosenstein has said in recent private conversations that

history will prove he did the right thing by firing Comey in
May 2017, claiming that the American people do not have
all the facts about what led to his decision to write the
memo that led to Comey’s dismissal, the sources said.

One source told The Wall Street Journal

that Rosenstein’s firing is “a matter of
when, not if.”

The report comes after Trump and Rosenstein met for what
the White House described as ‘routine Department
business.’

In those conversations, he has repeated the phrase,

“Here I stand,” a reference to Martin

Luther’s famous quote, “Here I stand, I can
do no other.”

Coincidentally, former FBI Director James Comey, whom

Rosenstein fired, repeated the same phrase to President

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This week, Trump hammered Rosenstein for extending the
FISA warrant on Carter Page.

“Much of the bad blood with Russia is

caused by the Fake & Corrupt Russia
Investigation, headed up by the all
Democrat loyalists, or people that worked
for Obama. Mueller is most conflicted of all
(except Rosenstein who signed FISA &
Comey letter). No Collusion, so they go
crazy!” Trump tweeted.
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 Shock: ABC, CBS Taken Aback By
‘Petty,’ ‘Personal’ Comey’s ‘Score Settling’
By Scott Whitlock
April 13, 2018 12:16 PM EDT

In a surprising twist, ABC and CBS journalists on Friday Journalist Cecilia Vega on ABC’s Good Morning America
were taken aback by the “petty” and “personal” way in was shocked by how rough the ex-FBI Director sounds in
which James Comey goes about “settling some scores,” his new book:
even comparing him to J. Edgar Hoover.

On CBS This Morning, Jeff Pegues

highlighted Comey “taking shots at the
President... talking about his height and
some of his physical characteristics. This is
James Comey definitely settling some
scores here.”

Co-host John Dickerson pointed out the hypocrisy in the

new book A Higher Loyalty:

“Comey is trying to say there are standards

and a certain ethical bar that the President
is beneath. But, you know, he makes little
digs about the size of the President's
hands, talks about the color of his skin.”
I’m also really struck by the language that
Comey is using to describe the President.
He calls his presidency a forest fire. The
President himself, he says, is ego driven.
And he gets really personal. He talks about
the President’s appearance, saying that he
appeared shorter in person. And this line
was wow to me, he said that he
appeared — the President appeared
orange from tanning.

Dickerson added:

The question is whether those morals he’s

trying to write this book about get caught
up in what is just a political fight and
therefore they look like another tool in that
fight, which actually brings down their GMA co-host George Stephanopoulos, who will interview
ability to measure the standards of our Comey on Sunday night, marveled:
lawmakers. Turns them into just another
thing to use in a back and forth. “Even made comments about the size of
his hands.”
Co-host Gayle King, no conservative, chided that “it looks
like pettiness too.” She quickly added though, “That said, ABC journalist Pierre Thomas even went so far as to
I can't wait to read that book.” invoke liberal boogeyman J. Edgar Hoover:

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 I spoke to a critic last night who said that
the book had an unseemly tell-all quality to
it, especially for a former FBI director, and
was indicative of Comey’s own ego and
desire for the spotlight. Make no mistake,
Comey is a lightning rod, perhaps the best
known and most controversial FBI
director since J. Edgar Hoover.
However, to Stephanopoulos, this makes Comey simply a
“man on a mission,” rather than someone lowering himself
to Trump’s level.
A transcript of the CBS coverage is below. Click “expand”
to read more.
CBS This Morning
4/13/18
7:07am ET
JOHN DICKERSON: Justice correspondent Jeff Pegues is
outside FBI headquarters. Jeff, good morning. Let me ask you
about this book. What strikes you? The news that is in the book
or the scathing tone and judgment from the former FBI director?
JEFF PEGUES; Well, all of those things strike me about this
book. This is Comey not holding back. He is definitely settling
some scores in this book. You know? He talks about some of his
interactions with President Trump, especially during that briefing
in January of 2017 before the inauguration where he was briefing
President Trump or candidate or President-Elect Trump on the
context of that dossier that was compiled by the former British
.
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spy and the Russian investigation. So, there are new details
there. He's talking about the interactions with the President and,
though, he's taking shots at the president, too, with these
personal slights, talking about his height and some of his
physical characteristics. This is James Comey definitely settling
some scores here.
8:02:14
DICKERSON: Fired FBI Director James Comey says President
Trump threatens much of what is good in this nation. Comey
writES about the president in his new memoir, A Higher Loyalty."
The Republican Party calls it self-serving.
GAYLE KING: The book addresses the possibility that Mr. Trump
obstructed justice in part by asking Comey to let go of the
investigation of fired National Security Adviser Michael Flynn. But
Comey writes this: “The behavior I saw while disturbing and
violating basic norms of ethical leadership may fall short of being
illegal.”
NORAH O’DONNELL: Comey also looks at the Hillary Clinton e-
mail server investigation. Republicans have condemned his
handling of the case. Some Democrats say he cost Clinton the
presidency by reopening the probe just before the election.
Comey says that after the election, then-President Obama told
him, “I picked you to be FBI director because of your integrity and
your ability. I want you to know that nothing, nothing has
happened in the last year to change my view.”
DICKERSON: And the President has just tweeted in response to
this, saying “Comey is a leaker and a liar. You know, what's
interesting about this book, Comey is trying to say there are
standards and a certain ethical bar that the President is beneath.
But, you know, he makes little digs about the size of the
President's hands, talks about the color of his skin. The question
is whether those morals he’s trying to write this book about get
caught up in what is just a political fight and therefore they look
like another tool in that fight, which actually brings down their
ability to measure the standards of our lawmakers. Turns them
into just another thing to use in a back and forth.
KING: And it looks like pettiness too. But that said, I can't wait to
read that book.
 Comey Hints At Damaging Information On Loretta Lynch
‘Still Unknown To The American Public’
By Cristina Laila
April 13, 2018, 12:21 Pm
Fired FBI Director and attention whore,
James Comey, is causing quite a stir
with his new memoir “A Higher
Loyalty,” set to hit shelves April 17.
In his new book, Comey personally
attacks Trump and appears to be using
information from his classified memos.
James Comey also hints there is damaging information
about former AG Loretta Lynch ‘still unknown to the
American public.’
Of course there is. We still haven’t seen the unredacted
Clinton-Lynch tarmac meeting documents [apparently a
conversation about golf and grandkids is considered to be
sensitive enough for redactions].
Fox News reports:
James Comey’s cryptic reference in his
new book to “a development still unknown
to the American public” involving then-
Attorney General Loretta Lynch and the
Hillary Clinton email probe is sparking
furious speculation inside and outside the
Beltway.
According to ABC News, Comey writes in
“A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies and
Leadership,” that he became the public
face of the investigation partly because of
the mysterious development which he felt
could cast “serious doubt” on Lynch’s
independence.
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“Had it become public, the unverified
material would undoubtedly have been
used by political opponents to cast serious
doubt on the attorney general’s
independence in connection with the
Clinton investigation,” Comey writes,
according to ABC. He calls the material a
“development still unknown to the
American public to this day.”
In November, Judicial Watch released 29 pages of
Clinton-Lynch tarmac meeting docs which were
previously withheld by the Justice Department.
The FBI wasn’t even concerned about the scandalous
meeting, all they cared about was hiding the details from
the public.
A sitting attorney general met with the spouse of a
presidential candidate who was under FBI investigation at
the time, privately on an airport tarmac.
One week after the Clinton-Lynch tarmac meeting, Hillary
Clinton was exonerated by the FBI of the investigation into
her use of a private email server where she exchanged
highly classified information.
The DOJ continues to stonewall FOIA requests for the
unredacted documents related to this meeting.
In January, an attorney for Trump, Jay
Sekulow was furious after the DOJ
blamed a “glitch” for withholding
‘missing’ Clinton-Lynch tarmac meeting
docs from the ACLJ.
Glitches, golf and grandkids. Nothing to
see here, folks.
 NBC Hails Comey’s ‘Bombshell’
Book And Nasty Attacks, Skips Critics
By Kyle Drennen
April 13, 2018 12:52 PM EDT
NBC’s Today show on Friday provided giddy coverage of
leaks from former FBI Director James Comey’s salacious
new memoir, touting his nasty personal attacks against
President Trump as “bombshell” revelations. While CBS
This Morning and ABC’s Good Morning America found
to time discuss criticism of Comey’s “pettiness” and the
“unseemly tell-all quality” of the book, the NBC morning
show avoided such unflattering critiques of the ex-Bureau
chief.
“Taking his shots. Fired FBI Director
James Comey’s book leaks overnight,
and it’s a bombshell. Calling the
President a liar, comparing him to a
mob boss, and saying his
administration is a ‘forest fire.’
This morning, we have a first look inside the pages,” co-
host Savannah Guthrie excitedly proclaimed at the top of
the broadcast.
Introducing the lead story moments later, Guthrie repeated:
“But first, let’s talk about those
bombshells from former FBI Director
James Comey’s upcoming book.
It’s on everything from the scandals
surrounding the Trump administration to
the President’s relationship with the truth.”
Correspondent Peter Alexander gushed:
“This is surely among the most
anticipated books of the year and it’s
certain to set off the President.”
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The reporter eagerly quoted some of Comey’s most vile
insults of Trump:
“James Comey delivering a scathing
indictment of President Trump, detailing
how Comey says the President lives ‘in
a cocoon of alternative reality.’
Describing him as a ‘congenital liar
devoid of human emotion’ and driven by
personal ego.”
Like Guhtrie, Alexander used the favorite media phrase:
“At the White House this morning, new
fallout from a bombshell book, former
FBI Director James Comey unloading in
a blistering takedown of Trump.”
Claiming that
“Comey still looms large over the Trump
presidency,” Alexander hyped:
“In his explosive new memoir, A Higher
Loyalty, Comey calls the President
unethical and ‘untethered to the truth.’”
The reporter cited one vicious attack line after the other
against the President:
The nation’s former top law
enforcement officer compares President
Trump to notorious mobster, Sammy
The Bull, explaining how his interactions
with the President gave him “flashbacks to
my earlier career as a prosecutor against
the Mob...The boss in complete control.
The loyalty oaths. The us-versus-them
worldview.” All of it, in Comey’s words,
creating “the forest fire that is the
Trump presidency.” “What is happening
now is not normal,” he writes, “it is not fake
news. It is not okay.”
It was only at the very end of the report that Alexander
offered any push-back to Comey’s assertions, with just a
single sentence on the White House response:
 “Just moments ago, the press secretary
here at the White House responded,
saying, ‘One of the few areas of true
bipartisan consensus in Washington is that
Comey has no credibility.’”
At the end of a follow-up report early in the 8:00 a.m. ET
hour, Alexander allowed another single sentence of White
House dissent:
“Just moments ago I spoke to Kellyanne
Conway here at the White House, who
basically is discrediting Comey, saying he
has no credibility, insisting that he is a
disgruntled former employee.”
After Alexander’s initial report at the top of the show,
Guthrie conducted an exclusive interview with former
House Speaker John Boehner.
However, rather provide any criticism of
Comey, the Republican simply called him a
“good public servant” who “did a good job
at the FBI.”
Compare that to CBS This Morning co-hosts John
Dickerson and Gayle King saying that Comey’s personal
insults were beneath him and “looks like pettiness.” The
Today show coverage was also in sharp contrast to ABC
Justice Correspondent Pierre Thomas labeling Comey the
“most controversial FBI director since J. Edgar Hoover”
on Good Morning America.
Even MSNBC anchor Chris Matthews scolded Comey for
taking so many “cheap” shots at the President. Why
couldn’t the Today show have played a clip of that Friday
morning?
Here is a full transcript of the April 13 report:
7:02 AM ET
SAVANNAH GUTHRIE: But first, let’s talk about those
bombshells from former FBI Director James Comey’s upcoming
book. It’s on everything from the scandals surrounding the Trump
administration to the President’s relationship with the truth. NBC
National Correspondent Peter Alexander is at the White House,
been up all night looking at this book. Peter, good morning.
PETER ALEXANDER: Yeah, that’s right, Savannah, good
morning to you. This is surely among the most anticipated books
of the year and it’s certain to set off the President. Overnight, we
got our first full look, James Comey delivering a scathing
indictment of President Trump, detailing how Comey says the
President lives “in a cocoon of alternative reality.” Describing him
as a “congenital liar devoid of human emotion” and driven by
personal ego.
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[ON-SCREEN HEADLINE: Comey vs. The President; Calls
Trump “Untethered to the Truth” in New Book]
At the White House this morning, new fallout from a bombshell
book, former FBI Director James Comey unloading in a blistering
takedown of Trump.
DONALD TRUMP [JANUARY 2017]: There’s James. He’s
become more famous than me.
ALEXANDER: Nearly a year after his firing, Comey still looms
large over the Trump presidency. In his explosive new memoir, A
Higher Loyalty, Comey calls the President unethical and
“untethered to the truth.” And highlights Donald Trump’s apparent
fixation with salacious but unverified details from an intelligence
dossier, including allegations that Russians had recorded Mr.
Trump with prostitutes at a Moscow hotel in 2013. Comey writes,
during a private conversation at Trump Tower in January 2017,
President-Elect Trump “strongly denied the allegations, asking –
rhetorically, I assumed – whether he seemed like a guy who
needed the service of prostitutes.”
“He then began discussing cases where women had accused
him of sexual assault, a subject I had not raised,” Comey writes.
“He mentioned a number of women, and seemed to have
memorized their allegations.”
NBC News obtained a copy of the book, due out on Tuesday,
along with other news outlets, including The Washington Post.
PHIL RUCKER [WASHINGTON POST]: Comey says Trump
called him the next week to mention the dossier again to try to
convince him that the allegations were not true and asked him if
the FBI would investigate them.
ALEXANDER: The nation’s former top law enforcement officer
compares President Trump to notorious mobster, Sammy The
Bull, explaining how his interactions with the President gave him
“flashbacks to my earlier career as a prosecutor against the
Mob...The boss in complete control. The loyalty oaths. The us-
versus-them worldview.” All of it, in Comey’s words, creating “the
forest fire that is the Trump presidency.” “What is happening now
is not normal,” he writes, “it is not fake news. It is not okay.”
Comey also defends his handling of the Clinton e-mail
investigation.
JAMES COMEY: It makes me mildly nauseous to think that we
might have had some impact on the election.
ALEXANDER: Comey now writes, “I have read that she felt anger
toward me personally, and I’m sorry for that.”
Just moments ago, the press secretary here at the White House
responded, saying, “One of the few areas of true bipartisan
.
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consensus in Washington is that Comey has no credibility.” As
for the question of obstruction of justice, Comey describes
himself as a witness and doesn’t draw any conclusions about it.
He says it’s certainly possible that the President was trying to
obstruct justice, but acknowledges he does not know all the
evidence that Robert Mueller’s team may have collected.
 As Comey Book Mania Begins, Never Forget Schumer
Warned Trump That Intel Community ‘Have Six Ways
From Sunday’ To Seek Revenge (VIDEO)
By Joshua Caplan
April 13, 2018, 1:13 Pm

Amid the media frenzy over James Comey’s book tour,
never forget Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer
(D-NY) issued a chilling warning to Donald Trump
after the President-elect suggested in January of last
year that a briefing on Kremlin-linked hack attacks
was delayed to strengthen the Russia interference
narrative.
“So even for a practical supposedly hard-nosed
businessman, he’s being really dumb to do this,” the New
York lawmaker added.
On Friday, Drudge Report founder, Matt Drudge, tweeted
the chilling Schumer quote along with a photo of Comey.

“Let me tell you, you take on the intelligence community,

they have six ways from Sunday at getting back at you,”
Schumer told MSNBC host Rachel Maddow in response to
Trump’s suggestion.

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 Kaboom! Chris Wallace Takes James Comey’s
‘Bitchy,’ ‘Political Food Fight’ Book To The Woodshed
By Curtis Houck
April 13, 2018 1:15 PM EDT
On Friday morning, our friends at Grabien flagged down
quite the takedown of the much-anticipated book by James
Comey thanks to Chris Wallace. The Fox News Sunday
anchor ripped into the former FBI Director for having
written a “bitchy” book full of “opinions” lacking
bombshells that could do
“more damage to his own reputation
than he has to President Trump’s.”
Speaking on America’s Newsroom to co-host Sandra
Smith, Wallace told her almost immediately upon being
asked about it that
“what strikes me is how little new there
is in the book” with “a lot of opinions,
very unpleasant opinions of the
President by James Comey but in terms
of hard facts, people are talking about
bombshells” of which “[t]here are none.”
Wallace noted that much of what Comey stated about
actual “facts of what the President did” were things he’s
already stated in public to congressional committees. For
all the disdain, Wallace pointed to Comey’s admission that
“while he thinks the President’s
behavior may have been unethical, it
may not have been illegal.”
Then Wallace dropped the hammer:
The other thing that surprises me frankly is
how bitchy the book is. Comey goes out of
his way to say the President isn’t as tall as
he thought he was. He checked out the
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size of his hands the first time they shook
hands. That he noticed the President
seemed to have little white half-moons
under his eyes. Maybe he had sun-tanning
goggles that he wore. You know, I think,
one could argue that by getting into the
kind of political food fight that James
Comey has done more damage to his own
reputation than he has to President
Trump’s.
Smith then inquired about Comey comparing Trump to a
mob boss and, once again, Wallace was not impressed.
“What you get is Comey's opinions. He
doesn't like Donald Trump....but you
know in terms of real damage, people
talk about bombshells, all of that is
going to be like Fire and Fury, the
Michael Wolff book. It will be a Fourth of
July sparkler that burns bright for a
week and then just peters out....[Y]ou
know, opinions or comparisons or
rhetoric isn't going to hurt the president.
Facts will and there aren't a lot of new
facts in this book,” Wallace brutally
opined.
He wasn’t done, closing out the segment
by arguing that the President shouldn’t be
tweeting about Comey but instead of not
commenting because that would “help the
book disappear as quickly as possible”
that contains “no new hard evidence of
any crime, of anything illegal.”
To see the relevant transcript from FNC’s America’s
Newsroom on April 13, click “expand.”
FNC’s America’s Newsroom
April 13, 2018
10:04 p.m. Eastern
SANDRA SMITH: Meanwhile, everybody talking about James
Comey's book in Washington this morning.

CHRIS WALLACE: Oh, sure. I have to say I haven’t seen a copy
of it, but I may be the only person in America who hasn’t. The
New York Times has it on the front page and The Washington
Post has it and what strikes me is how little new there is in the
book. We get a lot of opinions, very unpleasant opinions of the
President by James Comey but in terms of hard facts, people are
talking about bombshells. There are none. Basically everything
that he said in terms of the facts of what the President did, he
already has testified before congressional committee and in fact,
at one point he says that, while he thinks the President’s
behavior may have been unethical, it may not have been illegal.
The other thing that surprises me frankly is how bitchy the book
is. Comey goes out of his way to say the President isn’t as tall as
he thought he was. He checked out the size of his hands the first
time they shook hands. That he noticed the President seemed to
have little white half-moons under his eyes. Maybe he had sun-
tanning goggles that he wore. You know, I think, one could argue
that by getting into the kind of political food fight that James
Comey has done more damage to his own reputation than he
has to President Trump’s.
SMITH: Perhaps all just to sell more books, Chris, but one thing
you left out there is this attack and comparison to being to a mob
boss that he made. Here is the excerpt from the book: “The boss
in complete control. The loyalty oath. The us-versus-them
worldview. The lying about all things, large and small, in service
to some code of loyalty that put the organization above morality
and above the truth.” What did you make of that comparison and
that excerpt?
WALLACE: Again, I mean, it goes back to my original point. What
you get is Comey's opinions. He doesn't like Donald Trump and
.
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he’s offended by Donald Trump and he thinks Donald Trump is a
bad guy and yes, he does compare him to a mob boss, but you
know in terms of real damage, people talk about bombshells, all
of that is going to be like Fire and Fury, the Michael Wolff book. It
will be a Fourth of July sparkler that burns bright for a week and
then just peters out. It’s not flattering to the president but it
doesn't seem to me that — you know, opinions or comparisons
or rhetoric isn't going to hurt the President. Facts will and there
aren't a lot of new facts in this book. In fact, if I were the
President, I know he sent out this quite nasty tweet this morning
and called him a slime ball —
SMITH: He did.
WALLACE: — and a liar and a leaker.
SMITH: He did.
WALLACE: All he’s doing is to helping to sell books. He ought to
be quiet. I suspect this book will disappear within a week.
SMITH: And here are those tweets firing back at Comey. The
President writes this morning He says this: “James Comey is a
proven LEAKER & LIAR. Virtually everyone in Washington
thought he should be fired for the terrible job he did-until he was,
in fact, fired. He leaked CLASSIFIED information, for which he
should be prosecuted. He lied to Congress under OATH. He is a
weak and.........untruthful slime ball who was, as time has proven,
a terrible Director of the FBI. His handling of the Crooked Hillary
Clinton case, and the events surrounding it, will go down as one
of the worst “botch jobs” of history. It was my great honor to fire
James Comey!” Says the President this morning.
WALLACE: Yeah, strong letter to follow. I understand why he
wants to do it. Obviously, there is a lot of stuff in the book he is
going to find personally insulting, but not that the President
listens to me or should. But it seems to me that the real story in
this book is that there’s no new hard evidence of any crime, of
anything illegal, and it doesn't really change the equation on
President Trump and what he ought to do is help the book
disappear as quickly as possible and the best thing to do from his
point of view would be to ignore it.
SMITH: Alright, good stuff.
 Highly-Anticipated Inspector General Report
On McCabe Headed To Congress – Release Imminent
By Cristina Laila
April 13, 2018, 1:26 Pm

The highly-anticipated Inspector pleased President Donald Trump and

General report is headed to Congress White House allies who have long
according to three sources, reports portrayed McCabe as compromised by
Politico. anti-Trump bias.
But while the IG report has long been
Although Inspector General Horowitz declined to expected to emerge this month, its release
comment on the time frame of the release of the report, it on Friday — as Trump lambastes former
may be released Friday. FBI Director James Comey as a “slime ball”
— offers the president a potentially potent
Normally an Inspector General releases a report after source of pushback against current and
turning it over to lawmakers. former Justice officials who have helped
propel a Russia investigation that’s edging
ever closer to the president.
The office of Inspector General Michael
Horowitz declined to comment Friday on
the time frame for transmittal of the report
to Capitol Hill. Under normal
circumstances, the IG would publicly
release its report after sending it to relevant
senior lawmakers.

The Inspector General’s report on Fired FBI Deputy

Director Andrew McCabe is only part of a larger report on
misconduct by the DOJ and FBI.
Politico reported:
While the report by Horowitz may be damaging to Deep
The Department of Justice’s inspector State operatives in the FBI and DOJ, he does not have
general is expected to transmit to Congress prosecutorial power which President Trump has very
on Friday a hotly anticipated report vocally criticized.
criticizing former FBI Deputy Director
Andrew McCabe’s disclosures to the media
McCabe was fired by Attorney General Jeff Sessions just
ahead of the 2016 election, according to
hours before he was set to retire for ‘lack of candor’ and
three sources familiar with the timing.
two other reasons.
The report from department’s internal
watchdog formed the basis of Attorney There needs to be a second special counsel appointed in
General Jeff Sessions’ firing of McCabe order for there to be any hope of justice.
last month, less than 48 hours before his
scheduled retirement, a decision that
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 BREAKING: Inspector General Releases FULL
SCATHING REPORT On Andrew McCabe [DETAILS]
By Cristina Laila
April 13, 2018, 1:52 Pm
The highly-anticipated Inspector
General report was headed to Congress
Friday afternoon according to three
sources, reports Politico.
The release of Horowitz’s report on McCabe was reported
to be imminent.
The Office of the Inspector General released the full report
Friday afternoon.
The report by the Office of Inspector General criticizes
McCabe for “lack of candor” regarding his disclosure to
Wall Street Journal reporters before the 2016 election.
McCabe lied at least three times under oath, he lied to the
Inspector General and lied to James Comey.
Not only did McCabe deserve to be fired, he should be
prosecuted and put in prison.
Some of the details about the scathing report about
McCabe’s lack of candor:
We found that, in a conversation with then-
Director Comey shortly after the WSJ
article was published, McCabe lacked
candor when he told Comey, or made
statements that led Comey to believe, that
McCabe had not authorized the
disclosure and did not know who did. This
conduct violated FBI Offense Code 2.5
(Lack of Candor – No Oath).
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We also found that on May 9, 2017, when
questioned under oath by FBI agents from
INSD, McCabe lacked candor when he told
the agents that he had not authorized the
disclosure to the WSJ and did not know
who did. This conduct violated FBI Offense
Code 2.6 (Lack of Candor – Under Oath).
We further found that on July 28, 2017,
when questioned under oath by the OIG in
a recorded interview, McCabe lacked
candor when he stated: (a) that he was not
aware of Special Counsel having been
authorized to speak to reporters around
October 30 and (b) that, because he was
not in Washington, D.C., on October 27
and 28, 2016, he was unable to say where
Special Counsel was or what she was
doing at that time. This conduct violated
FBI Offense Code 2.6 (Lack of Candor –
Under Oath).
We additionally found that on November
29, 2017, when questioned under oath by
the OIG in a recorded interview during
which he contradicted his prior statements
by acknowledging that he had authorized
the disclosure to the WSJ, McCabe lacked
candor when he: (a) stated that he told
Comey on October 31, 2016, that he had
authorized the disclosure to the WSJ; (b)
denied telling INSD agents on May 9 that
he had not authorized the disclosure to the
WSJ about the PADAG call; and (c)
asserted that INSD’s questioning of him on
May 9 about the October 30 WSJ article
occurred at the end of an unrelated
meeting when one of the INSD agents
pulled him aside and asked him one or two
questions about the article. This conduct
violated FBI Offense Code 2.6 (Lack of
Candor – Under Oath).
Read the full report starting after this article.
Investigative reporter Sara Carter reacts to the
breaking news:
 Watch Cernovich break down the IG report on
Periscope:

Independent journalist and lawyer Mike Cernovich

reacted to the Inspector General’s report:

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 FLASHBACK: When An Ex-FBI Director Scolded A
Democratic President As An Immoral Disgrace
By Tim Graham
April 13, 2018 2:01 PM EDT
Given the way the liberal networks are salivating over
James Comey's new book, you'd think it would be huge
news whenever an ex-FBI Director excoriated a President
as an immoral "disgrace." But in October 2005, the
networks barely noticed Louis Freeh's book scolding Bill
Clinton's sleazy misconduct.
On October 9, Freeh was granted 13 minutes from CBS's
60 Minutes, one of the few programs to give his narrative
much attention. Correspondent Mike Wallace read from
Freeh's book: "Whatever moral compass the President was
consulting was leading him in the wrong direction. His
closets were full of skeletons just waiting to burst out."
Wallace narrated:
"Freeh thought Clinton disgraced the
presidency. Clinton felt Freeh was out to
get him and that Freeh was an
insufferable Boy Scout."
He even asked Freeh:
"I'm told that relations got so bad between
you and Bill Clinton that his former chief
of staff, John Podesta, says that Mr.
Clinton always referred to you as that 'F-
ing Freeh,' as though your first name
was F-ing."
This interview did not dominate the network newscasts.
On CBS, it was teased on the preceding Friday (October 7)
on Early Show, but looking at Nexis, it doesn't look like
any CBS program covered him the next day (or week, for
that matter). Widening the search to October 1 to
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November 30 brought no hits for "Freeh" on ABC at all.
The PBS NewsHour had no hits for "Freeh."
NBC aired a David Gregory report on Today on October
10, followed by a Katie Couric interview with Freeh on
October 11 (blogged by Geoff Dickens.) Couric underlined
his record on terrorism "came under blistering attack" by
the 9/11 Commission, "a bipartisan group of very
intelligent individuals." Freeh was on Meet the Press
on October 20.
It remains to be seen if Stephanopoulos throws any
hardball questions at Comey, but Wallace didn't shrink
from questioning Freeh. Back then it wasn't condemned as
atrociously authoritarian to raise questions about FBI
competence. Wallace began with this:
When President Bill Clinton appointed Louis Freeh
director of the FBI, he called Freeh a law enforcement
legend.
And Louis Freeh spent
a controversial eight years as director
before he left in June of 2001. But the 9/11
plot was hatched on his watch, and he's
been criticized by the 9/11 Commission
for not having his agents more focused
on counterterrorism.
Later Wallace brought a string of challenges, including
these:
WALLACE: You mention the 9/11 Commission. They had some
stinging criticism of the FBI. The 9/11 Commission said that even
though you made counterterrorism the FBI's top priority back in
1998, you never shifted your manpower accordingly.
FREEH: Well, what they're referring to there is the fact that when
Congress appropriates FBI resources, particularly FBI agents,
Congress dictates where those people are assigned. In other
words, 100 agents to health care, 100 agents to bank fraud. We
don't get to make those allocations.
WALLACE: You couldn't assign your own people to the jobs that
you felt were most important?
FREEH: That's correct.
.
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WALLACE: (Voiceover) But Freeh acknowledged he could have
shifted more agents to counterterrorism if he'd just asked the
Congress for permission. On 9/11, six percent of FBI personnel
were working on counterterrorism. Twice as many agents were
assigned to drug enforcement.
FREEH: Because that was where the country was focused. The
country was not focused on terrorism before September 11th....
Wallace also questioned Freeh's demand for more computers,
suggesting Congress thought he had "squandered" his previous
computer spending.
 Katty Kay Criticizes Comey's
'Pettiness,' Scarborough Derails
By Bill D'Agostino
April 13, 2018 2:28 PM EDT

"This shows his eye for detail," he

rationalized. "He's an investigator. And
these little notes are sort of his way of
recreating the scene."

Predictably, Friday's cable coverage was flooded with talk

of former FBI Director Comey's new book, which has
cashed in on the highly profitable craze for Trump insider
dirt. But on Morning Joe, BBC reporter Katty Kay broke
ranks when she pointed out that the "pettiness" and
"personal edge" of Comey's narration undermined the
Kay was unmoved by Lemire's weak justification. She
book's credibility.
pointed out that Comey's decision to include petty jabs at
the President brought up otherwise avoidable questions
Kay was joined on the panel by Associated Press White about his credibility and his motive. "It just takes away the
House correspondent and MSNBC political analyst impartiality that he might have been able to summon from
Jonathan Lemire. Having already read the book in full, the nature of his job," she remarked.
Lemire found himself at the center of much of the
morning's discussion. During the second first-hour
Co-host Joe Scarborough quickly derailed the conversation
segment to focus exclusively on Comey's stylized
before Lemire could respond.
recounting of his time in the Trump DOJ, Kay pressed
Lemire to evaluate certain criticisms the book had
received: "There's more art coming," he intoned in a
sing-song voice. He brandished the
day's New York Daily News cover in front
If Comey had written a book that did not have stuff about
of the camera, which featured an
the size of Donald Trump's hands, and how tall he was,
unflattering photo of President Trump and a
and whether he had been wearing goggles under the sun
headline that read, "PEE BRAIN!"
bed, would this have been a more effective take down of
the President than it is at the moment? I'm just wondering
whether that personal edge to it that reveals in Comey a – a When Lemire atempted to continue, Scarborough
pettiness almost, leaves the book and the message stubbornly added,
therefore open to a certain amount of fair criticism?
"Well, a lot of people are certainly talking
"Yeah," Lemire admitted, "I think Comey about the Comey bombshell. So."
has left himself open to some criticism
here." Though his motives cannot be known for certain,
Scarborough appeared intent on shutting down
Lemire noted that the former FBI Director had this discussion, which had brought into question the book's
been criticized for grandstanding and attention- validity. With the crisis safely averted, he put down his
seeking by "people on both the right and the left." prop and yielded the floor for guest Donnie Deutsch to
However, he then attempted to explain away Kay's pontificate about something or other.
complaint that Comey had been overly judgmental of the
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“BIG FIND”=> IG Report Reveals McCabe Reprimanded
Senior FBI Officials For Leaks He Was Responsible For
By Joshua Caplan
April 13, 2018, 2:33 Pm

On Friday, details of Justice Department

Inspector General Michael Horowitz’s
report were released. One of the ‘big
finds’ show then-Deputy FBI Director
Andrew McCabe reprimanded bureau
officials for leaks he was responsible
for.

Via the OIG report:

We also found that McCabe’s actions

contemporaneous with the disclosure in
October 2016, as well as those following it,
reflected an understanding by McCabe that
his authorization of the disclosure was not
consistent with FBI policy. For example, on
October 30 and November 4, following
publication of the WSJ articles referencing
his authorized disclosure about the PADAG
conversation, McCabe called the NY-ADIC
to complain about the CF Investigation
leaks contained in those stories, without
mentioning that he had authorized an
anonymous disclosure rebutting the leaks
and confirming the CF Investigation. Then,
when questioned about the disclosure by
INSD agents in May 2017, McCabe issued
false denials regarding his involvement in
it. Further, after it became apparent that the
OIG knew about his role in the
disclosure, McCabe sought to legitimize his
actions by falsely claiming that he had told
Comey that he authorized the disclosure
and that Comey was fine with his decision.

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As reported by NBC News, the Inspector General found
that “former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe
“lacked candor” on multiple occasions, violated the dept.’s
media policy and constituted misconduct.”
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Fox News has more:
The report, handed over to Congress on Friday and
obtained by Fox News, looked at a leak to The Wall Street
Journal about the FBI’s probe into the Clinton Foundation.
The report says McCabe misled investigators about leaks
and did so in a way that did not fall under a “public
interest” exemption.
“[W]e concluded that McCabe’s decision to
confirm the existence of the CF
investigation through an anonymously
sourced quote, recounting the content of a
phone call with a senior department official
in a manner designed to advance his
personal interests at the expense of
department leadership, was clearly not
within the public interest exception,” the
report says.
 BREAKING: Inspector General Report
Torches Andrew McCabe For Being A Serial Liar
Katie Pavlich
Posted: Apr 13, 2018 2:43 PM
DOJ inspector General Michael Horowitz has released a
scathing report detailing multiple lies, the majority under
oath, told by former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe
before he was fired.
The report shows McCabe lied on multiple occasions
under oath and to inspector general and FBI investigators
about the FBI's criminal investigation into Hillary Clinton,
the FBI's investigation into the Clinton Foundation and
more. He is found guilty in the report of improperly
leaking sensitive information to the Wall Street Journal,
which he then lied about and misled former FBI Director
James Comey.
"The OIG found that then-Deputy Director
Andrew McCabe lacked candor, including
under oath on multiple occasions in
connection with describing his role in
connection with a disclosure to the WSJ,
and that this conduct violated FBI Offense
Codes 2.5 and 2.6. The OIG also
concluded that McCabe’s disclosure of the
existence of an ongoing investigation in the
manner described in this report violated the
FBI’s and the Department’s media policy
and constituted misconduct," the
report states.
The 35-page report goes through McCabe's lies in detail.
Here is a summary:
We found that, in a conversation with then-
Director Comey shortly after the WSJ
article was published, McCabe lacked
candor when he told Comey, or made
statements that led Comey to believe, that
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McCabe had not authorized the disclosure
and did not know who did. This conduct
violated FBI Offense Code 2.5 (Lack of
Candor – No Oath).
We also found that on May 9, 2017, when
questioned under oath by FBI agents from
INSD, McCabe lacked candor when he told
the agents that he had not authorized the
disclosure to the WSJ and did not know
who did. This conduct violated FBI Offense
Code 2.6 (Lack of Candor – Under Oath).
We further found that on July 28, 2017,
when questioned under oath by the OIG in
a recorded interview, McCabe lacked
candor when he stated: (a) that he was not
aware of Special Counsel having been
authorized to speak to reporters around
October 30 and (b) that, because he was
not in Washington, D.C., on October 27
and 28, 2016, he was unable to say where
Special Counsel was or what she was
doing at that time. This conduct violated
FBI Offense Code 2.6 (Lack of Candor –
Under Oath).
We additionally found that on November
29, 2017, when questioned under oath by
the OIG in a recorded interview during
which he contradicted his prior statements
by acknowledging that he had authorized
the disclosure to the WSJ, McCabe lacked
candor when he: (a) stated that he told
Comey on October 31, 2016, that he had
authorized the disclosure to the WSJ; (b)
denied telling INSD agents on May 9 that
he had not authorized the disclosure to the
WSJ about the PADAG call; and (c)
asserted that INSD’s questioning of him on
May 9 about the October 30 WSJ article
occurred at the end of an unrelated
meeting when one of the INSD agents
pulled him aside and asked him one or two
questions about the article. This conduct
violated FBI Offense Code 2.6 (Lack of
Candor – Under Oath).
Lastly, we determined that as Deputy
Director, McCabe was authorized to
disclose the existence of the CF
 Investigation publicly if such a disclosure
fell within the “public interest” exception in
applicable FBI and DOJ policies generally
prohibiting such a disclosure of an ongoing
investigation. However, we concluded that
McCabe’s decision to confirm the existence
of the CF Investigation through an
anonymously sourced quote, recounting
the content of a phone call with a senior
Department official in a manner designed
to advance his personal interests at the
expense of Department leadership, was
clearly not within the public interest
exception. We therefore concluded that
McCabe’s disclosure of the existence of an
ongoing investigation in this manner
violated the FBI’s and the Department’s
media policy and constituted misconduct.
McCabe was fired by Attorney General Jeff Sessions last
month after the FBI Office of Professional Responsibility
and inspector general recommended he be terminated from
his position for a lack of candor. After his firing, which put
his government pension in jeopardy, McCabe hired a D.C.
lobbying firm to set up a legal defense fund. He quickly
raked in more $500,000 and the page was promoted by
Democrats.
Outgoing Oversight Committee Chairman Trey Gowdy
says the report further backs McCabe's justified firing.
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"Today's Inspector General report confirms
FBI Deputy Director McCabe's firing was
justified. The second in command at our
nation's premiere law enforcement agency
should be the epitome of fidelity, bravery
and integrity. The Inspector General found
not only did McCabe divulge sensitive
information, he did it without the
permission, authority, or knowledge of his
supervisor. The report also found a lack of
candor both while under oath and while not
under oath, and a failure to remedy his lack
of candor despite multiple opportunities,"
Gowdy said.
"This report continues to call into question
decisions made by FBI leadership in 2016
and 2017, which is why the Oversight and
Judiciary Committees will continue our joint
investigation into the matter," he continued.
"I remain fully confident in the
professionalism, thoroughness and fact
centricity of Inspector General Horowitz,
and look forward to reviewing the Inspector
General's full report in May."
This story has been updated with additional information.
 **ZING** Sarah Sanders BLASTS
Liar-Leaker James Comey:
His Book Belongs In Bargain-Bin Of
The Fiction Section (VIDEO)
By Jim Hoft
April 13, 2018, 2:46 Pm

White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders enrich his own bank account by peddling a
blasted fired former FBI Chief James Comey at the Friday book that belongs in the bargain bin of the
White House Press Briefing. fiction section. Instead of being
remembered as a dedicated servant in the
Sarah Huckabee Sanders delivered a scathing rebuke of pursuit of justice like so many of his other
Comey when asked about his book release at the presser. colleagues at the FBI, Comey will be
forever known as a disgraced partisan hack
who broke his sacred trust with the
President of the United States, the
dedicated agents of the FBI and the
American people he vowed to faithfully
serve. One of the president’s greatest
achievements will go down as firing
Director James Comey.
**Zing!**

Sarah Huckabee Sanders:

The American people see right through the

blatant lies of a self-admitted leaker. This is
nothing more than a poorly executed PR
stunt by a Comey to desperately
rehabilitate his tattered reputation and

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 IG Report Presents New Evidence Obama DOJ Sought To
Shut Down FBI Investigation Into Clinton Foundation
By Cristina Laila
April 13, 2018, 3:05 Pm
The highly-anticipated Inspector
General report on the firing of former
Deputy Director of the FBI Andrew
McCabe was released Friday afternoon.
The report is very damning; McCabe lied under oath
several times.
The Inspector General report also presented new evidence
Obama’s DOJ sought to shut down the FBI investigation
of the Clinton Foundation.
The report by the Office of Inspector General criticizes
McCabe for “lack of candor” regarding his disclosure to
Wall Street Journal reporters before the 2016 election.
McCabe lied at least three times under oath, he lied to the
Inspector General and lied to James Comey.
Not only did McCabe deserve to be fired, he should be
prosecuted and put in prison.
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The Wall Street Journal, which is at the center of the
accusation against McCabe’s media leaks did previously
report that there was an internal struggle between the DOJ
leadership and FBI agents investigating the Clinton
Foundation.
New details show that senior law-enforcement officials
repeatedly voiced skepticism of the strength of the
evidence in a bureau investigation of the Clinton
Foundation, sought to condense what was at times a
sprawling cross-country effort, and, according to some
people familiar with the matter, told agents to limit their
pursuit of the case. The probe of the foundation began
more than a year ago to determine whether financial
crimes or influence peddling occurred related to the
charity.
Some investigators grew frustrated, viewing FBI
leadership as uninterested in probing the charity, these
people said. Others involved disagreed sharply, defending
FBI bosses and saying Mr. McCabe in particular was
caught between an increasingly acrimonious fight for
control between the Justice Department and FBI agents
pursuing the Clinton Foundation case.
However, page 5 of the Inspector General
report reveals more details of a top DOJ
official expressing concerns FBI agents
were taking overt steps in the Clinton
Foundation investigation during the
presidential campaign.
McCabe–PADAG Call on the CF Investigation (August
12)
McCabe told the OIG that on August 12, 2016, he received
a telephone call from PADAG [Principle Associate Deputy
Attorney General] regarding the FBI’s handling of the CF
Investigation (the “PADAG call”).
McCabe said that PADAG expressed
concerns about FBI agents taking overt
steps in the CF Investigation during the
presidential campaign.
According to McCabe, he pushed back,
asking “are you telling me that I need to
shut down a validly predicated
 investigation?” McCabe told us that the
conversation was “very dramatic” and he
never had a similar confrontation like the
PADAG call with highlevel Department
official in his entire FBI career.

Tom Fitton tweeted:

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 Trump Goes To Town Over DOJ IG Report:
‘McCabe Is Comey!!’, ‘He LIED! LIED! LIED!’
By Justin Baragona
3:52 Pm, April 13th, 2018

As you can see in the tweet above, Trump calls the report a
So now we know that President Donald Trump has seen
“total disaster” before stating McCabe “LIED! LIED!
the Justice Department’s inspector general report on
LIED!” Adding that McCabe was “totally controlled” by
former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe that stated
former FBI Director James Comey, he noted that
McCabe had “lacked candor on multiple occasions and
“McCabe is Comey!!”
violated the department’s media policy.

Ending the tweet with a flourish, the president stated that

there was no collusion and that it was

“all made up by this den of thieves and

lowlifes!”

[image via screengrab]

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 BREAKING: Lawmaker Drafts
Articles Of Impeachment For Deputy AG Rod Rosenstein
By Joshua Caplan
April 13, 2018, 4:02 Pm

Fox News reporter Chad

Pergram tweeted Friday that a lawmaker
has drafted articles of impeachment for
Deputy Attorney General Rod
Rosenstein.

“Fox has learned that articles of

impeachment have been drafted for
Rosenstein..though not filed. It is not clear
which lawmaker drafted the articles…or if
they would go anywhere in cmte or on the
flr,” tweeted Pergram.
In those conversations, he has repeated the phrase, “Here I
stand,” a reference to Martin Luther’s famous quote, “Here
I stand, I can do no other.” Coincidentally, former FBI
Director James Comey, whom Rosenstein fired, repeated
the same phrase to President George W. Bush in a
conversation that has been widely reported and that Comey
describes in his forthcoming book.

One source who spoke to Rosenstein said he seemed fully

aware he may soon lose his job and was at peace with the
possibility, confident he had done his job with integrity.

Rosenstein has said in recent private conversations that

This story is developing.
As The Gateway Pundit reported, Rosenstein is prepared to
be terminated from the Justice Department.
history will prove he did the right thing by firing Comey in
May 2017, claiming that the American people do not have
all the facts about what led to his decision to write the
memo that led to Comey’s dismissal, the sources said.
One source told The Wall Street Journal that Rosenstein’s
firing is “a matter of when, not if.”
The report comes after Trump and Rosenstein met for what
the White House described as ‘routine Department
business.’

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 This week, Trump hammered Rosenstein for extending the
FISA warrant on Carter Page.

“Much of the bad blood with Russia is

caused by the Fake & Corrupt Russia
Investigation, headed up by the all
Democrat loyalists, or people that worked
for Obama. Mueller is most conflicted of all
(except Rosenstein who signed FISA &
Comey letter). No Collusion, so they go
crazy!” Trump tweeted.

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 Acosta, Reid Throw Down With
Sanders Over Comey Criticism ‘Unbecoming’ Of WH
By Curtis Houck
April 13, 2018 4:14 PM EDT
Friday’s White House briefing was raucous with James
Comey’s liberal media-acclaimed book tour set to
officially begin and, yes, CNN’s Jim Acosta played a
prominent role tangling with Press Secretary Sarah
Huckabee Sanders about whether criticizing Comey is
“unbecoming of the presidency” and White House writ
large.
Later, Acosta found help from CBS correspondent Paula
Reid after he ran over the two question limit that Sanders
graciously imposed on the egotistical CNN personality.
Acosta immediately got right to the point in his first
question, seemingly forgetting or choosing not to care
about the criticism the Clinton team leveled at former FBI
Director Louis Freeh when his 2005 book came out:
Sarah, about the content of the President's
attacks on Jim Comey, your attacks on Jim
Comey, isn't all of that a bit unbecoming
the presidency, of this White House to go
after him in such a personal way like that?
Calling him a slime ball and a liar and a
leaker?
Sanders didn’t waste time dismissing this
question, telling him that
“it's unbecoming for the person that is
supposed to be the top law enforcement
official in the United States, the person
that is supposed to protect the people
this country to lie and leak classified
information, certainly to falsify
documents.”
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She argued that Comey’s the one who’s harmed his image
and the White House wasn’t the one that put together
Comey’s book tour:
“I think if anybody created this problem,
it's Jim Comey and he should be the
one held responsible.”
The White House official tried to move on, but Acosta
pled with her to give him a second chance. She acquiesced,
telling him that it was
“because it’s Friday....and you’d
probably get upset...if I didn’t.”
In an attempt to trap her amidst the Mueller probe,
Acosta’s second question was about a 2016 tweet Sanders
sent about attacking FBI agents being something guilty
people do.
She replied that the administration has the
utmost respect for “[t]he rank and file
FBI” but not for some in leadership.
Reid picked up Acosta’s baton, complaining (while
disguising it as a question) with Comey talking points that
the President doesn’t respect the rule of law. Sanders
didn’t take the bait, stating that Trump
“has a lot of respect for the rule of law.”
The CBS liberal hit back by fretting:
But it isn’t just leakers. It’s his own attorney
general, his deputy attorney general, its
special counsel, its the FBI, it’s the judges
who make decisions that he doesn't
like....There’s a whole list of the federal law
enforcement officials that he has
undermined. It’s not just people who have
proven leaked information.
Clearly perturbed, Sanders called out the news media for
“spend[ing] hours upon hours every
single day praising Jim Comey,
 propping him up, giving him a big
platform” and will continue to do so
“endlessly all day today, all day
tomorrow and my guess is every day
next week with very little time given to
the issues that the people care about”
like the drug crisis, the economy, and
Syria.
To see the relevant transcript from April’s White House
press briefing, click “expand.”
White House press briefing
April 13, 2018
3:12 p.m. Eastern
JIM ACOSTA: Sarah, about the content of the President's attacks
on Jim Comey, your attacks on Jim Comey, isn't all of that a bit
unbecoming the presidency, of this White House to go after him
in such a personal way like that?
SARAH HUCAKBEE SANDERS: I think it —
ACOSTA: Calling him a slime ball and a liar and a leaker?
SANDERS: — I think it's unbecoming for the person that is
supposed to be the top law enforcement official in the United
States, the person that is supposed to protect the people this
country to lie and leak classified information, certainly to falsify
documents. I think that's a very big problem and somebody who
has created this problem for himself. I didn't encourage Jim
Comey to go out and do a PR campaign. Congress has asked
Jim Comey to come and testify multiple times multiple times of
which he’s denied being able to do yet he sat down with George
Stephanopoulos for five hours. I think if anybody created this
problem, it's Jim Comey and he should be the one held
responsible.
ACOSTA: If I could just follow —
SANDERS: Right here. I want to keep going.
ACOSTA: — hey, Sarah, if I could just follow-up.
SANDERS: I want to keep moving for the sake of time.
ACOSTS: Other folks got two questions, if I could ask a second
follow-up question?
SANDERS: Sure because it's Friday.
ACOSTA: Well, it’s Friday. Yeah and you’ve probably seen —
SANDERS: And you’d probably get upset, not only that if I didn’t
— SANDERS; The President hasn't undermined them in any
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ACOSTA: No, no. Not at all. Not at all. No, but you’ve probably
have seen this tweet. It was a tweet that you posted before the
election in 2016 when you were attacking FBI agents because
you’re under criminal and you are losing. What do you make of
that now? Isn’t that —
SANDERS: The rank and file FBI are some of the greatest
people in this country. We’ve repeated that time and time again
and certainly have the full support of this administration. I think
that we’ve been very clear though how we feel about some of the
leadership at the FBI the, particularly James Comey. Go ahead,
sorry.
ACOSTA: But when you go after — when you go after over
Comey and Rosenstein
SANDERS: I did give you two, Jim. I’m going to keep moving.
ACOSTA: — and Mueller, doesn’t that mean you are losing?
PAULA REID: Following on that. It was one of the themes to
Comey's book is the President's quote “disdain for the rule of
law” and his continued efforts to publicly undermine federal law
enforcement officials. So, how would you characterize the
President's attitude toward the rule of law and the things that he
said publicly about many of his law enforcement officials.
SANDERS: The President has a lot of respect for the rule of law
but the President does not a lot of suspect for people whose sole
job is to carry out the law and then leak classified information and
they lie to the American public about it. Charlie?
REID: But it isn’t just leakers. It’s his own attorney general, his
deputy attorney general, its special counsel, its the FBI, it’s the
judges who make decisions that he doesn't like.
SANDERS: I'm sorry, I’m not — what was the question?
REID: There’s a whole list of the federal law enforcement officials
that he has undermined. It’s not just people who have proven
leaked information.
capacity, just because he calls out things he finds to be
problematic or concerning, I think that he should do that. If the
FBI is leaking out classified information, the President should
absolutely call that to question. You guys spend hours upon
hours every single day praising Jim Comey, propping him up,
giving him a big platform. We shouldn't praising him, we should
be taking him down, we taking him off of air instead of giving him
minute after minute. This country has a lot of real problems. We
should talk about the economy. We should talk about Syria. We
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should talk about the drug crisis. But instead, we’re going to talk
about Jim Comey. You guys will cover it endlessly all day today,
all day tomorrow and my guess is every day next week with very
little time given to the issues that the people care about. So, the
President has every right to call out that individual that you guys
are propping up and say that there are problems and that we
should be concerned about it.
 BOOM! Nunes, Gowdy & Goodlatte
Demand Rosenstein Turn Over Comey Memos BY
MONDAY
By Joshua Caplan
April 13, 2018, 4:20 Pm

On Friday, House Judiciary Committee
Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-VA.), House
Oversight and Government Reform
Committee Chairman Trey Gowdy (R-
SC), and House Permanent Select
Committee on Intelligence Chairman
Devin Nunes (R-CA) demanded Deputy
Attorney General Rod Rosenstein turn
over copies of fired FBI Director James
Comey’s memos about
conservations with President Donald
Trump — by Monday.
FBI will not allow Congressional investigators to review
“unclassified” Comey documents without supervision.
Byron York:
the public needs to know. There is too
much secrecy out. I was writing today
about the Comey memos. The fired FBI
director is planning his big book selling
his
extravaganza to start this weekend. And
these memos that Comey wrote are being
treated like the highest state secrets inside
the Justice Department.
Members of the Oversight Committees
have asked to see them. They’ve only
been allowed to be seen by one or two
people. There’s an FBI minder in the
room all the time, no copies are allowed,
no note taking is allowed. Most of these
things are NOT EVEN CLASSIFIED!

Via Lou Dobbs Tonight:

As The Gateway Pundit’s Jim Hoft reported, the FBI is

keeping the memos tightly guarded.

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 Colbert: Trump Should Leave By
Political Means, Not ‘Extreme’ Measures
By Randy Hall
April 13, 2018 5:00 PM EDT
During Thursday night’s edition of The Late Show With
Stephen Colbert on CBS, the liberal host made a surprising
comment about how he believes Donald Trump should
leave the White House.
The journalist continued:
While interviewing guest Diane Sawyer, who had
interviewed the GOP occupant of the White House back in
1999, Colbert concluded:
We have a president now who is under
investigation. Some people are calling for
his impeachment.
I don't actually think that's that great of an
idea because I think that if Donald Trump
should leave office, it should be through
political means, not necessarily through
judicial or extreme constitutional remedies.
“This isn’t the first division in my lifetime,”
he stated. “I remember the Nixon
administration. I remember Watergate.”
The host began his interview of the former ABC World
News anchor by noting:
“You’ve been in the news for so many
years. Give me a little bit of perspective
here because I pretended to be in the news
for years. But you’re actually are the real
thing, a respected journalist.”
“Is there more news now, or does it just
feel like there's more news now?” he
asked. “Or is it the same amount, and it’s
gotten thicker and harder to chew?”
The host then noted that his guest interviewed Trump in
1999, during
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“Oh my goodness,” Sawyer responded
before asserting that current news is
“indigestive, positively indigestive.”
“There’s so much of it, so many venues. It’s
incessant.”
“You know,” she added, “I think some
psychologists have told us -- in another
piece I’m working on -- that there is a
condition they’re looking at which is feeling
inadequate because somebody knew an
alert three seconds before you knew the
alert in the room.”
“How much more can we do this?” Sawyer
asked. “How much faster can we go?”
Colbert then stated: “I’ve got it right here.
The old watch is telling me I've actually
been on the stage before, and my watch
has gone off and I'm, like, why didn't I
make a joke about that?”
“I don't know about you,” the guest stated,
“but I vow I'm not going to look. ‘I'm not
going to look,’ and there we are. We can't
stop.”
“We're like hamsters hitting the pedal to get
another pellet,” the liberal host continued.
“Are we smarter?” Sawyer inquired.
“No, no, no,” Colbert responded. “I’m
dumber. That is for sure.”
 “his first flirtation with running for president.
What was he like then? Has he changed,
or have we changed?”
“Good question,” she replied before noting
that the president “was amazingly
consistent about China and the trade war”
over the years.
“So tariffs back then, too?” Colbert asked.
Sawyer then said that Trump called events in the political
arena “stunts that you do in campaigning,” but he stated:
“They energize me, and people want me
energized, so that’s why I do them.”
“He told us a lot about who he was and
how he campaigned,” she noted.
“And back then no one took him seriously,”
the liberal host responded.
“Well, we’ve changed. We certainly have
changed,” Sawyer replied. “I mean, we’ve
seen the undertow that is pulling us apart.”
“I’m from Kentucky,” and “in my family
alone, there are so many opinions on every
single issue,” she continued. “We’re
tough, and yet we have such trouble
even just addressing what each other’s
feeling.”
.
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The guest then added:
“After all this time in this moment, we’ve got
to think of something different because it’s
not working. “We’re not talking to each
other in a way that actually is making us
illuminated about each other and how we
got here.”
At that point, Colbert noted:
“This isn’t the first division in my lifetime. I
remember the Nixon administration. I
remember Watergate.”
“We have a president now who is under
investigation,” he added. “Some people are
calling for his impeachment.”
“I don't actually think that's that great of an
idea because I think that if Donald Trump
should leave office, it should be through
political means,” Colbert continued, “not
necessarily through judicial or extreme
constitutional remedies.”
Perhaps Colbert believes that Trump can’t be re-elected
during the 2020 election. As someone who hammers the
president every chance he gets, the liberal comedian might
indeed think that. Still, with that contest more than two
years in the future, things might happen that could change
his mind long before then.
Attorney Gregg Jarrett Warns “Things Will End Badly For
Comey” After Reading Former FBI Chief’s New Book
By Cristina Laila
April 13, 2018, 5:14 Pm
Fox News Legal Analyst Gregg Jarrett
warned “things will end badly for
Comey” after reading the former FBI
Director’s memoir “A Higher Loyalty.”
Attorney Gregg Jarrett stated he obtained a copy of
Comey’s new book in advance of the April 17 release date.
By the time Jarrett was halfway through
the book, he said there is nothing that
even resembles the truth in Comey’s
writing.
After Jarrett finished reading Comey’s
book he shredded the former FBI
Director for writing a book of fiction
then warned “things will end badly for
Comey” because “he stole government
documents.”
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Jarrett then slammed former intel Chief
James Clapper for defending Comey.
“Clapper should be in prison for
perjury,” Jarrett said.
Fired FBI Director and attention whore,
James Comey, is causing quite a stir
with his new memoir “A Higher
Loyalty,” set to hit shelves April 17.
In his new book, Comey personally
attacks Trump and appears to be using
information from his classified memos.
Comey penned 7 memos stemming from 9 conversations
he had with Trump. The FBI deemed the memos to be
government documents so Comey was not allowed to take
the memos with him after he was fired.
Although 4 out of 7 of the memos contained classified
information, experts argue all of Comey’s memos are
considered classified.
Comey should not be on a book tour, he should be
prosecuted and put in prison.
Comey’s interview with sycophant George
Stephanopoulos airs Sunday evening at 10 PM EST on
ABC.
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 McCabe Lawyer Hints At Defamation Suit
Against Trump In Statement Following Release Of IG
Report “Stay Tuned”
By Cristina Laila
April 13, 2018, 6:03 Pm

The highly-anticipated Inspector Michael Bromwhich argued many points stated in

General report on the firing of former Inspector General Horowitz’s report, including two of the
Deputy Director of the FBI Andrew at least three charges against McCabe that he lacked
McCabe was released Friday afternoon. candor (lied).

The report is very damning; McCabe lied under oath
several times.
President Trump torched McCabe in a tweet after the IG
report was released.
“He LIED!” Trump said of McCabe then
called the Deep State operatives pushing
the false Russian collusion investigation a
“den of thieves and lowlifes.”
Bromwich accused Trump of subjecting McCabe to ad
hominem attacks before and after his termination.
McCabe’s counsel then hinted he is considering a
defamation suit against Trump and his senior associates.
In response to Trump’s tweet, Bromwich stated:
“Thank you for providing even more material for the
defamation suit we are actively considering filing against
you and your colleagues. Stay tuned.”

Michael Bromwich previously served as Inspector General

Andrew McCabe’s counsel, Michael Bromwich lashed out
at Trump and his senior associates Friday afternoon in a
statement following the release of the IG report.
for the Justice Department under former President Bill
Clinton.
Screenshot of Bromwich’s statement on next page:

Michael Bromwich linked to his official statement and

tweeted:

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 Report: Inspector General Is Investigating
James Comey as a Leaker(VIDEO)
by Jim Hoft
April 13, 2018, 6:27 pm

believes the Inspector General was also

investigating James Comey as a leaker.

Herridge:

McCabe said he believes the Inspector

General is also investigating Comey as a
leaker.

Via Lou Dobbs Tonight:

The highly-anticipated Inspector General report on the

firing of former Deputy Director of the FBI Andrew
McCabe was released Friday afternoon.

The report is very damning; McCabe lied under oath

several times.

FOX News analyst Catherine Herridge says the Inspector

General is also looking at fired FBI Director Comey.

Catherine Herridge told Lou Dobbs on

Friday night that McCabe said he also
.

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 VIDEO: Rosenstein Seen Leaving White House – Wasn’t
Skipping, Laughing And Joking This Time
By Jim Hoft
April 13, 2018, 7:14 Pm

The highly-anticipated Inspector General

report on the firing of former Deputy
Director of the FBI Andrew McCabe was
released Friday afternoon.

The report is very damning; McCabe lied under oath

several times.

Today’s report comes after Trump and Rosenstein met for

what the White House described as ‘routine Department
business.’

TGP reporter Josh Caplan posted this video

earlier today of Rod Rosenstein leaving the
White House.

Notice that Rosenstein was not skipping and Rosenstein was seen laughing and joking as
joking this time. he jumped in his secret service motorcade.

Rosenstein had a completely different demeanor when he

left the White House in January after Andrew McCabe was
fired.

FBI Director Chris Wray and Department of

Justice Deputy Attorney General Rod
Rosenstein were seen leaving the West
Wing of the White House today after Andrew
McCabe was fired.
.

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 DEVELOPING: VP Pence Unexpectedly
Rushes Back To Hotel In Peru As POTUS Trump Set To
Make Announcement On Syria
By Joshua Caplan
April 13, 2018, 7:48 Pm

Members of the press pool traveling with the

Vice President in Lima, Peru are reporting
that Mike Pence is rushing back to his hotel
as President Donald Trump is set to make a
statement on Syria.
“Press pool in Lima with Vice President Pence
is rushing back to the hotel unexpectedly. White
House is telling the press pool that’s here in
Washington to gather,” CNN’s Kaitlan Collins
reported.

“Press traveling with @VP say they’ve now Trump will reportedly make a statement on Syria shortly.
been rushed unexpectedly back to the
motorcade, heading back to hotel. Not
planned,” tweeted NBC reporter Hallie Jackson.

DEVELOPING…

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 BREAKING: President Trump Orders
Precision Strikes On Assad’s Chemical Weapon Sites
By Jim Hoft
April 13, 2018, 7:55 Pm

FOX News is reporting that the US military is

planning a strike on Syria.

President Trump is making an

announcement at 9:00 PM tonight.

FOX News host Bret Baier said National Security Advisor

John Bolton.

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 “Sounds Like WW3!”
– HUGE BLASTS REPORTED
In Center Of Syrian Capital Damascus
By Jim Hoft
April 13, 2018, 8:13 Pm

— Arturas Kerelis (@arturaskerelis) April 14,

2018

Large explosions reported–

HUGE BLASTS REPORTED IN CENTER OF

DAMASCUS MOMENTS AFTER TRUMP
ANNOUNCES MILITARY STRIKE–

At least 8 large blasts.

THERE IS VIDEO COMING FROM DAMASCUS…

Breaking: Preliminary video of missile over

Damascus #Syria pic.twitter.com/I3YrY5dSCN

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 THIS IS AMAZING VIDEO>>>>

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 B-1 Bombers Used In Strike On Damascus –
Syria Fires Missiles At US Tomahawk Missiles (VIDEO)
By Jim Hoft
April 13, 2018, 8:39 Pm

Ruslan Trad

The US used B-1 bombers on Friday in the

military strike on Syria.

Syria reportedly shot defense missiles at the

US Tomahawk Missiles.

The Science Center was a target.

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 Another photo from Damascus.

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Syrian State TV: 13 US Tomahawk Missiles Shot Down
By Jim Hoft
April 13, 2018, 9:03 Pm

President Donald Trump announced on What an amazing photo from Damascus.

Friday in a 9:00 PM press conference that
the US will attack Syrian targets following
the alleged gas attack by the Assad regime
last weekend.
Missiles started flying immediately after the
President’s comments.
Right now in Damascus #Syria
pic.twitter.com/pcmdNoSXv5
— Arturas Kerelis (@arturaskerelis) April 14,
2018
Photo of missile in #Syria heading to intercept
American missile. pic.twitter.com/os83qhVLJ8
— Arturas Kerelis (@arturaskerelis) April 14,
2018

Translated: Syrian TV: Air defense Forces dropped 13

rockets in the livery near

Syrian State Television reported 13

Tomahawk missiles were shot down over
Damascus.

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 Vox: Comey's 'Damning Admission'
That Polls Influenced His Hillary Email Probe
By P.J. Gladnick
April 13, 2018 9:48 PM EDT
Not all liberal media outlets are giving favorable coverage
to former FBI Director James Comey's new book, A
Higher Loyalty. One such media source is Vox which
reminds its readers about why most liberals were
clamoring for Comey to be fired...right up to the moment
when President Donald Trump actually did fire him.
The reason for Vox writer Matthew Yglesias's ire towards
Comey in his April 13 article is that Comey admitted in his
book that he believed the polls that predicted Hillary
Clinton was certain to win the 2016 election so he figured
his re-opening of the probe into her email shortly before
the election would have no effect on the outcome. Yglesias
also admitted that he also believed Hillary was certain to
win and provided a link to his November 7, 2016 article a
day before the election that in retrospect is quite funny to
read.
An upset Yglesias reveals the "damning
admission" in James Comey admits that his
read of the polls may have influenced his
handling of the Clinton email probe:
In his new book A Higher Loyalty, former
FBI Director James Comey admits what
most observers had inferred — that the
overwhelming conventional wisdom that
Hillary Clinton was going to win on
Election Day played a role in his fateful
decision to refocus the campaign on the
email matter in late October.
“It is entirely possible,” Comey writes, “that
because I was making decisions in an
environment where Hillary Clinton was
sure to be the next president, my
concern about making her an
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illegitimate president by concealing the
restarted investigation bore greater
weight than it would have if the election
appeared closer or if Donald Trump were
ahead in all polls. But I don’t know.”
So Comey bought into the premise the MSM was blaring
24/7 before Election Day 2016:
That the election of Hillary Clinton was a
sure thing.
Yglesias then admits that extreme hubris before the
election led almost all liberals to believe that Hillary's
election was a slam dunk. And for our entertainment he
even provided a link to his own hubris on November 7,
2016, a day before the election:
This is, obviously, a mistake that a lot of people made.
Many polling-based models of the election showed Clinton
with an overwhelming — 90 percent or greater — chance
of winning. The main exception was Nate Silver’s 538
which showed her with “only” a 65 percent chance of
winning.
And even some of us who weighed the debate and decided
Silver’s statistical modeling was superior talked ourselves
into the idea that he was wrong anyway due to Barack
Obama’s high approval rating.
Thank you, Matthew for providing us the opportunity to
laugh at your 2016 hubris:
The truth, however, is that by almost all
accounts Hillary Clinton is leading in the
polls and has been leading for essentially
the entire campaign. That’s why all major
election forecasters say that she is more
likely than not to win. So the search for
doubt has settled on Nate Silver’s forecast,
an outlier among poll aggregators, that
pegs Clinton as “only” a 65 percent favorite
rather than the 85 percent or more she is
favored by in other systems.
But even if you buy Silver’s main modeling assumptions
(and I largely do), there’s considerable evidence outside
the realm of things captured by poll aggregators that leads
me to believe that if the polls are wrong, they are more
likely to be underestimating Clinton’s support than
overstating it. Predicting the future is difficult. And if you
are terrified by the prospect of a Trump presidency, even a
10 percent chance he’ll win is pretty scary.
So feel free to stay nervous.
But if someone offers you 2-1 odds on
an election bet, you should probably
take the Clinton side of the wager.
So how did your wagers work out that year, Matt?
.
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And now Yglesias is mad that Comey bought into premise
that he and most of the rest of the liberal media was
promoting back in 2016:
Regardless, this is obviously not an
appropriate criteria for an FBI director to
be using when making crucial
decisions.
So maybe you should have kept your mouth shut back
then, Matt.
 Michael Savage Calls U.S. Strike On Syria “Greatest
Disaster Of The Trump Presidency” (VIDEO)
By Joshua Caplan
April 13, 2018, 10:45 Pm

Michael Savage took to Periscope amid U.S.-

led airstrikes on Syria. The radio legend
called the military operation “the greatest
disaster of the Trump presidency.”

Partial transcript of Savage’s periscope follows:

“I know you are all pouring in and you want to

know my opinion. Do I have to tell you what my
opinion is? My opinion is very clear. This is the
greatest disaster of the Trump presidency
and it’s purely ‘Wag the Dog.’ There was no
reason for this. None whatsoever. As a matter
of fact, just yesterday General Mattis said there
was no evidence Syria had done it. All of a
sudden they are launching Tomahawk missiles.
This is a disaster!”

Before broadcasting on Periscope, Savage tweeted, “We

lost. War machine bombs syria. No evidence Assad did it.
Sad warmongers hijacking our nation.”

President Donald Trump announced on Friday at an 9:00

PM press conference that the US would attack Syrian
targets following the alleged gas attack by the Assad
regime last weekend.

Shortly after, missiles started flying after the President’s

announcement.

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 With Syrian Strike President Trump Encourages
Russia To Join “Civilized Nations As A Force
For Stability And Peace”
By Jim Hoft
April 14, 2018, 7:51 Am
President Trump gave a speech last night on
American TV announcing strikes on Syria by
the US, Britain and France. The most
significant point in his speech may be the
message he sent a directly to Russia.
The President announced the strike at about the same time
it was launched.
The NYT printed the entire speech. Some of the more
significant remarks the President gave were very
powerful and directed towards Russia –
I also have a message tonight for the two governments
most responsible for supporting, equipping and financing
the criminal Assad regime.
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To Iran and to Russia, I ask:
What kind of a nation wants to be associated
with the mass murder of innocent men, women
and children? The nations of the world can be
judged by the friends they keep.
No nation can succeed in the long run by promoting rogue
states, brutal tyrants and murderous dictators. In 2013,
President Putin and his government promised the world
that they would guarantee the elimination of Syria’s
chemical weapons. Assad’s recent attack and today’s
response are the direct result of Russia’s failure to keep
that promise.
Russia must decide if it will continue down this
dark path or if it will join with civilized
nations as a force for stability and
peace. Hopefully, someday we’ll get along
with Russia and maybe even Iran, but maybe
not.
I will say this, the United States has a lot to offer with
the greatest and most powerful economy in the history of
the world.
The President made this offer to Russia in a similar
manner in which the US approached China with North
Korea. As a result of those comments and other actions,
North Korea has asked to sit down
with the President and is even
suggesting it is willing give up its
nuclear weapons.
President Trump virtually eliminated radical evil
ISIS in the Middle East in less than a year. He
has North Korea offering to come to the table
and discuss its nuclear weapons. If he
can prevent gas attacks in Syria and get Russia
to change its policies to stop supporting rogue
states, he will have accomplished the
impossible.
 “A Higher Loyalty” – Comey Used Presidential Polls
To Decide Whether Or Not Hillary Was
Innocent In Email Probe
By Jim Hoft
April 14, 2018, 8:17 Am

“It is entirely possible,” Comey writes, “that

because I was making decisions in an
environment where Hillary Clinton was sure to
be the next president, my concern about
making her an illegitimate president by
concealing the restarted investigation bore
greater weight than it would have if the election
appeared closer or if Donald Trump were ahead
in all polls. But I don’t know.”

Principled Leadership.

Fired FBI Chief James Comey writes in his new book “A

Higher Loyalty” that he let presidential polls determine
how he decided that Crooked Hillary was innocent of
crimes in the FBI criminal probe.

Vox reported:

In his new book A Higher Loyalty, former FBI

Director James Comey admits what most
observers had inferred: that the overwhelming
Once again, Trump was right for firing this
conventional wisdom that Hillary Clinton was
buffoon.
going to win on Election Day played a role in his
fateful decision to refocus the campaign on the
email matter in late October.

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 Russia Mulls Moving S-300 Missile Systems To Syria
Following US Missile Strike
By Jim Hoft
April 14, 2018, 8:59 Am

Russia may consider sending supplies of S-300 missile

systems to Syria in the wake of recent US-led airstrikes,
Russian General Staff Spokesman General Sergey
Rudskoy said.

“I would like to note that a few years ago, taking

into account a pressing request of some of our
Western partners, we stopped supplying S-300
air defense systems to Syria,” Rudskoy said.
But given the latest developments, Moscow
believes it is “possible to return to mulling over
the issue, and not only with regard to Syria but
Russia may move S-300 missile defense
also to other states as well.”
systems to Syria following the US missile
strike on Friday night.
Following the barrage of missiles aimed at “military and
civilian” infrastructure, Damascus intercepted 71 out of
US military officials announced on Saturday
103 projectiles.
morning that EVERY missile fired last night
hit its target.
Syrian air defense systems S-125, S-200, Buk, and Kvadrat
were involved in the operation to thwart the missile strike.
The weapons date back to the times of the Cold War, as
they “were manufactured in the Soviet Union,” the general
added.

Syrian air defenses did all they could to protect the

country. Ruptly footage shows surface-to-air missiles
responding to the “one-time” strike on Damascus.

The offensive in retaliation to the alleged Assad-

orchestrated chemical attack in Douma on April 7 came
just hours before the UN’s Organisation for the Prohibition
of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) experts were scheduled to
Russia Today reported:
visit the site on Saturday to determine whether chemical
weapons had been used there last week.
.

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 Democrat Hack: ‘People Will Burn In Hell’ For
Besmirching Dirty Cops Mueller And Comey (Video)
By Jim Hoft
April 14, 2018, 9:21 Am

On Friday’s broadcast of CNN’s “At This Hour,”

Representative Jim Himes (D-CT) stated that
while it is fair to discuss whether former FBI
Director James Comey handled the Hillary
Clinton email matter properly, “people will rot in
hell for besmirching the reputation, the integrity,
and the professional history” of Comey and
Special Counsel Robert Mueller

Himes said,
Insulting Leaker-Liar Comey is a grave sin.
That’s what Liberal Democrat Jim Himes
says.
Himes told CNN Friday that “people will burn in hell” for
dissing leaker-liar James Comey and dirty cop Robert
Mueller.
“Lots of people, Democrats, lawyers, judges
were very concerned by Comey’s breaking of
protocol and publicly discussing the Hillary
Clinton — remember, it was the Hillary Clinton
investigation that he discussed, while there was
an investigation of Donald Trump. So, you
know, we should have a conversation, and I
think Jim Comey’s reflective about whether he
made the right thing. But the idea that this man
is dishonest, and remember, this is all part and
parcel of the attempt that the White House is
making to besmirch Robert Mueller, a
decorated war hero. That’s what is happening
here.

So, yes, let’s have that conversation about

whether Jim Comey made the right move in
talking about the Hillary Clinton thing, but
people will rot in hell for besmirching the
reputation, the integrity, and the
Breitbart.com reported: professional history of these two men.”

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 DOJ OIG McCabe Report Finds Obama’s FBI and DOJ:
Corrupt, Dishonest, Coordinated and Conspiring
…Complete List of Points
by Jim Hoft
April 14, 2018, 10:47am
The IG’s report related to terminated and humiliated former FBI
Head Andrew McCabe is 39 pages in length.
Below is a list of the most significant points
in the report –
1. In the second paragraph of the introduction of the IG’s
report, now infamous cheater and Peter Strzok
mistress, and McCabe’s former Special Counsel, Lisa
Page, is implicated as being involved in McCabe’s
crimes. (p.1)
2. Clinton Foundation was under investigation in 2016 but
the FBI decided not to release this information to the
public. This information was finally leaked just before
the election to the Wall Street Journal and confirmed in
a second leak instigated by McCabe. (p. 1)
3. In McCabe’s leak to the WSJ, he refutes that he was
being impartial to Clinton due to his connections from
his wife’s State Senate run. He then leaked that the
Justice Department tried to shut down
Clinton Foundation investigation but by
doing this confirmed to the public in his leak that the
investigation was in place. (p. 1)
4. The FBI hid the Clinton Foundation investigation from
the public and it was not confirmed until the McCabe
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leak on October 30th, 2016. The FBI decided
that it was in the public interest not to
share this information with Americans
before the 2016 election. The
reasonableness of the decision to not report to the
public the Clinton Foundation investigation is not
addressed by the IG. (p. 3)
5. McCabe told Comey he didn’t know who leaked and
therefore Comey claims he didn’t know about
McCabe’s leak. (p. 2)
6. McCabe lied numerous times to either investigators or
inspectors and said he didn’t know why Lisa Page
leaked information to the Wall Street Journal. He even
lied and said that he was outside of Washington D.C
when the leak occurred which was not true. (p. 2)
7. When confronted with lying to investigators, McCabe
lied and denied previously lying to investigators. (p. 2)
8. IG Report redacts an individual’s name who discussed
the Clinton Foundation investigation with James
Comey, McCabe and the Special Counsel (presumably
Lisa Page). (p. 7)
9. McCabe states that leaking to the WSJ was the only
time in his career “where he had authorized the
disclosure to the media of a one-on-one discussion
that he had with a member of the Department’s
leadership.” (p. 9) [Note this leaves open the
possibility of other leaks.]
10. FBI Deputy Assistant Director (Peter Strzok) texted
Page about a WSJ article and they noted that they
were not upset about McCabe throwing Justice
Department official under the bus. That day the DOJ
was noted in an article in the WSJ as criticizing Comey
for informing Congress of the Clinton Foundation
investigation. (p. 10) [Note how the FBI and
DOJ only communicate through leaks!]
11. A meeting was held on October 31st, 2016 where
Comey reportedly stated “Need to figure
out how to get our folks to understand
why leaks hurt our organization”. (p. 11)
[The audacity!]
12. McCabe stated that he and Comey discussed on
October 31st, 2016, the October 30th WSJ leak and
says that he told Comey he authorized it. Comey
states that he does not recall McCabe telling him
that McCabe had authorized the call.
 13. McCabe stated that many FBI officials knew he had
authorized the October 30th leak to the WSJ.
“However, none of the potential witnesses identified by
McCabe (FBI-GC, Comey’s Chief of Staff, The
Counterintelligence Assistant Director (“AD-CI”), and
McCabe’s then-Chief of Staff ) corroborated this or
recalled knowing at the time, or even now, that
McCabe had authorized the disclosure.” (pp. 13-14)
14. McCabe refused to sign an inspector’s notes about
his statements to the inspector, specifically noting that
he [McCabe] did not know who leaked the information
in the WSJ October 30th, 2016, report.
15. McCabe stated to an IG employee under oath that he
did not know who authorized October 30th WSJ leak
and then a couple days later called them back to
correct what he said. (pp. 19 and 20)
Overall Comments
1. The tone of the memo chastises McCabe for leaking
that the Clinton Foundation investigation was open, not
to challenge the rationale for not sharing this
investigation with the public, but rather criticizes
McCabe for outing the Justice Department official trying
to shut down the investigation. Although perhaps it may
not be customary to challenge the Departments’
decisions, due to subject in the investigation [the
Clinton Foundation], by not releasing the information
about the investigation the FBI and DOJ
prevented pertinent information from
being reported to the American public
significant to the election. This
information was not released until
October 30th in a leak to the WSJ.
.
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2. Many of the FBI and DOJ characters in the
report appear corrupt, coordinated and
conspiring to assist with the cover up of
the Clinton Foundation investigation and
in leaking information to the press.
3. The report includes little mention of
Anthony Weiner’s laptop emails other than
to mention that a meeting was scheduled to get a
search warrant to request the emails on October 27th,
2016. The emails were the suspected cause for
Comey’s email to Congress on October 28th, 2016,
announcing that the Hillary email scandal was being
reopened. However, per text messages between
Strzok and Page, the FBI knew about the emails in
September 2016 and had sent a team to New York to
review the emails at that time. [The Weiner
emails may be what the Democrats are
most fearful of being released to the
public.]
4. McCabe [and others] clearly broke laws
and FBI policies but no trial date is set
as of today. However, the IG is drafting a letter to
the FBI recommending actions to be taken.
There are numerous contradictions between
FBI employees and each other and with DOJ
employees. The FISA Court report on FISA
abuses stated that James Clapper’s NSA
had an institutional “lack of candor”. It is
clear from this report that the FBI and DOJ
have the same lack of candor.
 NYT's Kakutani Comes Out of Retirement to Praise
'Diligent G-Man' Comey’s Anti-Trump Tome
By Clay Waters
April 14, 2018 12:22 PM EDT
The release of former FBI director James Comey’s book
coaxed Michiko Kakutani, the New York Times’s former,
famously influential chief book critic out of retirement
and, unusually, into the news pages of Friday’s edition.
The online headline praised Comey’s Trump-bashing
tome: “James Comey Has a Story to Tell. It’s Very
Persuasive.”
Kakutani was given over 2,000 words and a full page in
the News section to offer praise for A Higher Loyalty --
Truth, Lies, And Leadership, though the book evidently
has no bombshell news to offer.
Newsbusters Scott Whitlock noticed, surprisingly, that
even the anti-Trump mainstream press finds Comey’s book
distasteful in its personal insults against Trump’s
appearance (his hands, height, and skin tone). Yet the only
criticism Kakutani managed was about the damage Comey
purportedly did to Hillary Clinton’s campaign.
You know Kakutani likes a book when she just quotes it
ad nauseum:
In his absorbing new book, “A Higher Loyalty,” the
former F.B.I. director James B. Comey calls the Trump
presidency a “forest fire” that is doing serious damage to
the country’s norms and traditions.
“This president is unethical, and untethered to truth and
institutional values,” Comey writes. “His leadership is
transactional, ego driven and about personal loyalty.”
....
The central themes that Comey returns to throughout
this impassioned book are the toxic consequences of
lying; and the corrosive effects of choosing loyalty to an
individual over truth and the rule of law. Dishonesty,
he writes, was central “to the entire enterprise of
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organized crime on both sides of the Atlantic,” and so,
too, were bullying, peer pressure and groupthink --
repellent traits shared by Trump and company, he
suggests, and now infecting our culture.
She overegged her already distorted account of the two
personalities:
Put the two men’s records, their reputations, even their
respective books, side by side, and it’s hard to imagine
two more polar opposites than Trump and Comey:
They are as antipodean as the untethered, sybaritic Al
Capone and the square, diligent G-man Eliot Ness in
Brian De Palma’s 1987 movie “The Untouchables”; or
the vengeful outlaw Frank Miller and Gary Cooper’s
stoic, duty-driven marshal Will Kane in Fred
Zinnemann’s 1952 classic “High Noon.”
One is an avatar of chaos with autocratic instincts and
a resentment of the so-called “deep state” who has
waged an assault on the institutions that uphold the
Constitution.
Strangely, the only flaws Kakutani finds involve Comey’s
handling of Clinton’s classified document scandal, which
sore liberals believe cost her the election. After noting
Comey wrote his thesis on Christian theologian Richard
Niebuhr and the sins of pride:
Those characteristics can sometimes be seen in
Comey’s account of his handling of the Hillary Clinton
email investigation, wherein he seems to have felt a
moral imperative to address, in a July 2016 press
conference, what he described as her “extremely
careless” handling of “very sensitive, highly classified
information,” even though he went on to conclude that
the bureau recommend no charges be filed against
her....
Kakutani is not nearly so pleased with books that criticize
Democratic presidents. In 2017 she called Pulitzer Prize-
winning historian David Garrow’s 1,460-page book that
included unflattering depictions of the future president to
be “a condescending diatribe unworthy of a serious
historian.”
Kakutani is the author of the forthcoming book The Death certainly sounds like a moderate take.
of Truth: Notes on Falsehood in the Age of Trump, which
.

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 FBI Agents May Have Seized Tapes Of
Trump’s Conversations With Attorney
Michael Cohen During Raid
By Cristina Laila
April 14, 2018, 12:55 Pm

where they were actually seized? . . . Did they

FBI agents may have seized recorded
conversations Michael Cohen had with
Trump during their predawn raid earlier this
week.
Trump’s personal lawyer had the tendency to record his
conversations with his clients, according to a report by
WaPo.
find his recordings?”
Earlier this week, FBI KGB agents raided the
office of one of Trump’s personal lawyers
Michael Cohen at the request of Special
Counsel Robert Mueller.
Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein
signed off on the FBI raid.

They were looking for dirt on Stormy Daniels and seized

attorney-client privileged communications between Trump
and Cohen.

It was revealed Wednesday that agents were also looking

for records on the “Access Hollywood” tape.

Cohen is under criminal investigation for his

business dealings…

After a months-long criminal investigation into Cohen’s

business dealings, FBI agents conducted a raid.
Via WaPo:

Bloomberg reported:
President Trump’s personal attorney Michael D.
Cohen sometimes taped conversations with
associates, according to three people familiar
with his practice, and allies of the president are
worried that the recordings were seized by
federal investigators in a raid of Cohen’s office
and residences this week.
Cohen, who served for a decade as a lawyer at the Trump
Organization and is a close confidant of Trump’s, was
known to store the conversations using digital files and
then replay them for colleagues, according to people who
have interacted with him.
“We heard he had some proclivity to make
tapes,” said one Trump adviser, who spoke on
the condition of anonymity because of the
ongoing investigation. “Now we are wondering,
who did he tape? Did he store those someplace
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There’s an ongoing grand jury probe being
conducted by the FBI and federal prosecutors in
Manhattan. It’s independent of Special Counsel
Robert Mueller’s investigation of Russian
interference in the U.S. elections, the
prosecutors said.
Investigators are seeking evidence of crimes
“many of which have nothing to do with his work
as an attorney, but rather relate to Cohen’s own
business dealings,” prosecutors said.
Investigators have reason to believe “that
Cohen has exceedingly few clients and a low
volume of potentially privileged
communications,” they said.
The U.S. attorney’s office in Manhattan had
obtained earlier search warrants on multiple
 different email accounts maintained by Cohen,
and reviewed them for privileged material, the
prosecutors said.

President Trump was furious after the raid on his personal

lawyer.

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 Trump Lawyer Hits Back After Fake News Claims
‘Mueller Has Evidence Cohen Traveled To Prague In 2016
Confirming Part Of Dossier’
By Cristina Laila
April 14, 2018, 3:13 Pm
The left-wing media decided to recycle an
old fake news story that Trump’s lawyer
Michael Cohen traveled to Prague in a
clandestine, late-summer trip in 2016 in their
attempt to corroborate claims in Hillary’s
phony dossier.
Michael Cohen hit back on Saturday
morning, once again claiming he has never
been to Prague and he was with his son in
Los Angeles, California at the time.
On Friday, McClatchy ran a headline: ‘Sources: Mueller
has evidence Cohen was in Prague in 2016 confirming
part of dossier‘ which caused the fake news media to
erupt.
McClatchy reported:
The Justice Department special counsel has
evidence that Donald Trump’s personal lawyer
and confidant, Michael Cohen, secretly made a
late-summer trip to Prague during the 2016
presidential campaign, according to two
sources familiar with the matter.
Confirmation of the trip would lend credence to
a retired British spy’s report that Cohen
strategized there with a powerful Kremlin figure
about Russian meddling in the U.S. election.
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It would also be one of the most significant
developments thus far in Special Counsel
Robert Mueller’s investigation of whether the
Trump campaign and the Kremlin worked
together to help Trump win the White House.
Undercutting Trump’s repeated
pronouncements that “there is no evidence of
collusion,” it also could ratchet up the stakes if
the president tries, as he has intimated he might
for months, to order Mueller’s firing.
[…]
It’s unclear whether Mueller’s investigators also
have evidence that Cohen actually met with a
prominent Russian – purportedly Konstantin
Kosachev, an ally of Russian President Vladimir
Putin — in the Czech capital. Kosachev, who
chairs the Foreign Affairs Committee of a body
of the Russian legislature, the Federation
Council, also has denied visiting Prague during
2016. Earlier this month, Kosachev was among
24 high-profile Russians hit with stiff U.S.
sanctions in retaliation for Russia’s meddling.
This same fake news story previously circulated. In
January of 2017 strangely enough, CNN’s Jake Tapper
actually reported the Michael Cohen who traveled to
Prague was not Trump’s lawyer, but another Michael
Cohen who happened to be born in the same birth year as
Trump’s lawyer.
Video of Tapper from last year debunking the Cohen-
Prague story:
McClatchy’s reporting was so abysmal that even Trump-
hating, left-wing Comey confidant, Benjamin Wittes
questioned the sourcing in a tweetstorm:

Michael Cohen slammed McClatchy Saturday morning for

their poor reporting.

Cohen tweeted:

Bad reporting, bad information and bad story by

same reporter Peter Stone @McClatchyDC. No
matter how many times or ways they write it, I
have never been to Prague. I was in LA with my
son. Proven!

In January, Michael Cohen filed a defamation lawsuit

against Buzzfeed for publishing the dossier claiming he
traveled to Prague in 2016.

Mueller has nothing and the dossier is pure fiction cooked

up and funded by Crooked Hillary.

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 Independent Swiss Lab Says Poison
Used In Skripal Attack Was Produced In US Or UK
By Jim Hoft
April 14, 2018, 6:13 Pm

Lavrov said a Swiss lab analyzed the poison and said the
substance may have been produced in the US or UK.

Russia’s foreign minister says Moscow has received a

document from a Swiss lab that analyzed the samples in
the nerve agent poisoning of an ex-Russian spy, which
points at a Western-designed nerve agent as a likely cause.

Sergey Lavrov said Saturday that Moscow received the

On March 4, 2018, Sergie Skripal and his daughter Yulia,
who was visiting him from Moscow, were poisoned with a
Novichok nerve agent after he stopped by a local store.
Skripal is a Russian double agent who WORKED FOR
Christopher Steele’s company in England. Steele was
behind the fake Russian dossier on Trump.
confidential information from the laboratory in Spiez,
Switzerland, that analyzed samples from the site of the
March 4 poisoning of Sergei Skripal and his daughter in
the English city of Salisbury.
He said the analysis was done at the request of the
Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons.

Russia denied the poison attack.

The US expelled 60 Russian diplomats following the

poison attack after the poisoning of former spy Sergei
Skripal and his daughter in Salisbury, England.

On Saturday Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said

a Swiss lab analyzed the poison and said the nerve agent
was not produced in Russia or the Soviet Union.

The New York Times reported:

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov

announced on Saturday the nerve agent used
to poison former Russian spy Sergei Skripal
and his daughter was never produced in the
Soviet Union or Russia.

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 Following Cruise Missile Attack Syria Posts Video Of
President Al-Assad Walking To Work,
Briefcase In Hand
By Jim Hoft
April 14, 2018, 6:50 Pm

President Donald Trump announced on Following the cruise missile assault on his
Friday in a 9:00 PM press conference that country the Syrian regime posted video of
the US will attack Syrian targets following President Bashir al-Assad walking to work
the alleged gas attack by the Assad regime with briefcase in hand.
last weekend.
Via Wikileaks:
Missiles were fired immediately after the
President’s comments.

105 U.S. and allied missiles were fired, of which 66 were

Tomahawk cruise missiles launched from aboard three
U.S. Navy ships and one Navy submarine.

On Saturday morning the Pentagon said the strikes

“successfully hit every target,” during their press briefing
at the Pentagon.

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 Fired AG Sally Yates Lashes Out At Trump ‘Firing
Rosenstein Would Be An Unconscionable
Assault On The Rule Of Law’
By Cristina Laila
April 14, 2018, 7:07 pm

investigation and what becomes public. Both

Former acting Attorney General, Sally Yates D’s and R’s should reject sham excuses to fire
lashed out at President Trump on Saturday Rosenstein.1/2
and warned him ‘firing Rosenstein would be
an unconscionable assault on the rule of
law.’

Rumors are flying of Rosenstein’s imminent firing; a

lawmaker drafted articles of impeachment for the Deputy
AG on Friday.

Rosenstein misled the FISA court when he signed off on

the FISA application knowing Hillary’s phony dossier was
used as pretext to get a warrant.

Dirty Rosenstein also threatened members of Congress if
they didn’t back down from their investigation into FISA
abuses.
If anyone deserves to be fired and disbarred it’s Rosenstein
and Mueller.
Yates then said, “no one is above the law”
2/2 And you can’t fire a prosecutor because
you’re unhappy he approved a search warrant
that relates to your own conduct. No one is
above the law.

If no one is above the law, then why hasn’t Sally Yates

been prosecuted yet for her crimes?

Sally Yates was one of the corrupt DOJ officials who

misled the FISA court and signed off on the FISA
application along with her partners-in-crime Rosenstein
On Saturday, Sally Yates lashed out at
and Comey.
Trump on Twitter.

No wonder why she’s sticking up for Rosenstein and

Sally Yates tweeted:
Mueller.
Make no mistake about what’s at stake here:
Rosenstein is protecting her as well since she’s up to her
firing Rosenstein would be the same
eyeballs in corruption.
unconscionable assault on the rule of law as
firing Mueller. He controls scope of the Mueller
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President Trump fired the hack Sally Yates in January of Sally Yates believes she’s above law and has demonstrated
2017, shortly after he was sworn into office because she that with her criminal behavior.
refused to enforce the travel ban.

The former acting Attorney General told Justice

Department lawyers not to defend President Trump’s order
on halting refugees from dangerous countries.
.

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 President Trump’s Debt Increase Remains Half That Of Obama’s At
Same Time In Their Respective Presidencies
By Jim Hoft
April 15, 2018, 8:10 Am
President Trump took over in 2017 with
nearly $20 trillion of debt. He’s faced
headwinds from the Federal Reserve (FED)
which have increased interest rates by more
than one percent since the 2016 election. In
spite of this, President Donald Trump’s debt
is half that of Obama’s at the same time in
their respective Presidencies.
The US Treasury maintains an inventory of the daily
amount of US Debt outstanding. The US Debt since
President Trump was inaugurated on January 20th, 2017
through April 12, 2018, has increased by $1.1 trillion. On
inauguration day the debt was at $19.9 trillion and on April
12, 2018 the debt stood at $21.1 trillion.
Although $1.1 trillion is a lot of money
added to the debt, it is half of what
President Obama added during the
same time frame in office.
Where President Trump has increased the
US Debt to date by only 5.6% , Obama
increased the debt by 20.7% at this time in
his Presidency or by $2.2 trillion.
President Obama inherited a US Debt amount of $10.6
trillion on his inauguration and increased it $2.2 trillion by
April 12, 2010.
Obama increased the US Debt
amount by $1.1 trillion more than
President Trump in the same
respective time in office.
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In addition Obama benefited from all-time low interest
rates. Right after Barack Obama was elected President, on
December 16, 2008, the Federal Reserve (The Fed)
lowered the Fed Funds rate by an entire percent, from 1%
down to 0% . The Fed had not lowered the Fed Funds rate
by such a large amount (1% ) since at least before 1990, if
ever. The Fed kept this 0% rate for most of Obama’s eight
years in office.
CNBC reported in December 2015 that
President Obama oversaw “seven years of
the most accommodative monetary policy in
U.S. history” (from the Fed).
The Fed Funds rate was at zero for most of Obama’s time
in office. Finally, in December 2015 the Fed announced its
first increase in the Fed Funds rate during the Obama
Presidency.
The only Fed Funds Rate increases after were after
President Trump was elected President. The Fed increased
the Fed Funds Rate on December 14, 2016, March 15th,
2017, June 14, 2017, December 13, 2017, and again this
year on March 22, 2018.
Five times the Fed has increased rates on
President Trump since his election win after
doing so only once on President Obama late
in his 2nd term.
Increases in the Fed Funds Rate increase the cost of
borrowing. With $20 trillion in debt, a 1% increase in
interest payments equals $200 billion in annual interest
payment increases.
President Obama benefited from the lowest possible
interest rates possible for most of his eight years and in
spite of this, nearly doubled the US Debt from $10 trillion
to nearly $20 trillion.
The MSM won’t tell you but
President Trump’s US debt
increase is half of that of
Obama’s. America is moving in the
right direction under President
Trump.
 Soros Is Targeting District Attorney Races
To Create Havoc Against Conservatives
By Jim Hoft
April 15, 2018, 8:23 Am
Far left billionaire George Soros has been systematically
targeting district attorney races throughout the United
States. Some of the candidates he has backed have already
won. Now he is focusing on Oregon.
The Washington Free Beacon reports:
Soros Consultant’s PAC Could Influence DA
Races in Oregon
A longtime consultant to liberal billionaire George Soros is
listed on recently filed documents with the state of Oregon
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related to the formation of a political action committee that
appears to be an avenue for Soros to influence yet another
district attorney’s race, state records show.
The paperwork was filed with Oregon’s secretary of state’s
office in early April to launch the Oregon Law & Justice
PAC, which intends to “support candidates advocating for
justice.”
Whitney Tymas, an attorney who acts as the treasurer of a
number of Soros PACs, is listed as the director,
correspondence recipient, and alternate transaction filer for
the committee. The address listed for Tymas is the same
address as Perkins Coie, a Washington, D.C.-based law
firm.
No activity has been reported from the PAC other than its
formation. However, Tymas previously expressed interest
in criminal defense attorney Max Wall, who is running for
district attorney in Washington County, the second largest
county in the state.
There is clearly a strategy at work here.
None of it is happening by accident.
 Trump Fires Back At “Slippery” James Comey: “Will Go
Down As The WORST FBI Director In History”
By Lucian Wintrich
April 15, 2018, 8:56 Am

writer? It is inevitable that in another month Comey is

exposed in much the same was as Wolff before him.

President Trump has obviously grown exhausted seeing

the MSM continue to prop this immoral and disreputable
individual and has taken to Twitter to help remind the
MSM and the American people how contemptable Comey
actually is:

“Unbelievably, James Comey states that Polls,

where Crooked Hillary was leading, were a
factor in the handling (stupidly) of the Clinton
Disgraced former FBI Director James Comey has recently Email probe. In other words, he was making
kicked off a media blitz to shill his new book. decisions based on the fact that he thought she
was going to win, and he wanted a job.
During his helm at the FBI, he worked as a puppet for the Slimeball!”
Deep State, unfairly targeting Trump as was outlined in
the Nunes memo which outlined how the Hillary campaign
was able to plant false intel in the hands of the FBI which
resulted in the monitoring of top Trump campaign officials
and paved the way for the many-times disproven claims of
“Russian collusion.”

With Comey’s attempts to profit from lies book, are a

series of excerpts that the press is running with as earth-
shattering revelations. Perhaps one of the more ironic
quote pulls is from the New York Times:

“This president is unethical, and untethered to

truth and institutional values,” Comey writes.
“His leadership is transactional, ego-driven and
“The big questions in Comey’s badly reviewed
about personal loyalty.” Yes, you heard that
book aren’t answered like, how come he gave
right. Comey, who used the FBI as his personal
up Classified Information (jail), why did he lie to
plaything to attack President Trump is calling
Congress (jail), why did the DNC refuse to give
the president “ego-driven” and unethical.” If that
Server to the FBI (why didn’t they TAKE it), why
wasn’t enough, Comey recently claimed “‘it’s
the phony memos, McCabe’s $700,000 &
possible’ President Trump was with hookers
more?”
‘peeing on each other’ in Moscow,” during a
20/20 interview.

The Comey book draws striking similarities to closet-

queen Michael Wolff’s Fire and Fury. Remember
when Wolff also made up a series of lies, many of which
he attempted plausible deniability by also using the word
“possibly”? Remember when he went as far as to claim
President Trump and Nikki Haley were having an affair
before the MSM finally decided to drop the discredited

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 Comey throws AG Lynch “under the bus!” Why
can’t we all find out what happened on the
tarmac in the back of the plane with Wild Bill
and Lynch? Was she promised a Supreme
Court seat, or AG, in order to lay off Hillary. No
golf and grandkids talk (give us all a break)!

Slippery James Comey, a man who always

ends up badly and out of whack (he is not
smart!), will go down as the WORST FBI
Director in history, by far!

I never asked Comey for Personal Loyalty. I

hardly even knew this guy. Just another of his
many lies. His “memos” are self serving and
FAKE!

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 White House Releases Assessment Of Alleged Chemical
Attack In Douma — Read The FULL REPORT HERE
By Jim Hoft
April 15, 2018, 9:11 Am
The Trump White House released their
assessment of the alleged chemical attack
in Douma, Syria on April 7, 2018.
President Donald Trump announced on Friday in a 9:00 PM
press conference that the US will attack Syrian targets
following the alleged gas attack by the Assad regime last
weekend.
Missiles started flying immediately after the
President’s comments.
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US military officials announced on Saturday
morning that EVERY missile fired last night
hit its target.
The attack was a response to a allegations that the Assad
regime launched a chemical gas attack on the people in
Douma, Syria on April 7th.
The same US-backed rebels who accused
the Assad regime of a chemical attack also
used chemical weapons against the Kurds
in 2016.
The White House based their report on
social media users, non-governmental
organizations, and other open-source
outlets.
Here is the full report released by the White
House on their assessment of the alleged
chemical attack in Douma on April 7, 2018.
United States Assessment of the Assad Regime’s Chemical
Weapons Use by Jim Hoft from Scribd on next page.
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 U.S. Attack On Syria Explained: Warship Ruses, New
Weapons, And Why Trump Chose To Act
Posted On April 15, 2018
(National Sentinel) Tactics: The U.S. and its French and
British allies used a combination of feints, ruses, and new
missiles to level Syrian chemical weapons facilities on
Saturday.
At the same time, the use of chemical weapons against
Syrian rebels, allegedly by Syrian President Bashar Assad,
was not the only thing that spurred President Donald J.
Trump and European allies to act, Bloomberg Politics
reports.
The tactics
Reports last week, including in this publication, noted that
U.S. warships were gathering off the waters of Syria ahead
of yesterday’s strike, in which more than 100 missiles
were fired at three Syrian targets.
The flotilla included the destroyers USS
Donald Cook and USS Winston Churchill,
each of which carried 90 Tomahawk cruise
missiles. But in the end, according to
sources that spoke with Bloomberg, neither
of those ships fired a shot:
Instead, according to a person familiar with
White House war planning, they were part of a
plan to distract Russia and its Syrian ally from
an assault Assad’s government could do little to
defend itself against.
It worked. Pentagon officials on Saturday said
they faced little resistance to their targeted
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attack on what they said were three Syrian
chemical weapons facilities. Most of the Syrian
countermeasures, including defensive ballistic
missiles, were fired after U.S. and allied
weapons hit their targets, Lieutenant General
Kenneth McKenzie told reporters on Saturday.
“No Syrian weapon had any effect on anything
we did,” McKenzie said. He described the joint
U.S., French and U.K. strike as “precise,
overwhelming and effective.”
Subsequent reporting from Russian and Syrian sources
claimed that as many as 71 allied missiles fired during the
attack were shot down.
Battle Plan takes shape
During the planning phases, as Trump met with the
National Security Council and military leaders earlier in
the week, the president was given five targeting options, or
mission sets, to potentially strike, a source told Bloomberg.
Trump mostly listened to options as they were being
presented by Defense Secretary James Mattis, Chairman of
the Joint Chiefs of Staff Marine Gen. Joseph Dunford, and
other military leaders. Also on hand was newly-appointed
National Security Advisor John Bolton, along with Vice
President Mike Pence:
The president asked Bolton and the military
leaders to justify each potential target, and was
particularly focused on limiting the risk of
escalation by Russia. There was unanimity
among Trump’s top national security staff about
conducting strikes but debate about how hard to
hit the Syrians, the person said.
The objective was always to strike Syrian targets a)
without striking Russian forces inside the country and
drawing a Russian response; and b) without drawing the
United States further into the Syrian conflict.
Trump said earlier this month he wants to be out of Syria
in the coming months:
 Trump, who just a week earlier said he wanted
to pull U.S. troops out of Syria “very soon,”
didn’t want to become drawn into the civil war
there and instead focused the military response
on deterring the use of chemical weapons,
according to the official.
Sources added that U.S. ambassador to the UN Nikki
Haley was also blunt in her assessment of Syrian guilt and
hawkish in her push for a robust response, Bloomberg
noted.
The Attack — with New Missiles
As the USS Winston Churchill arrived on station with the
USS Donald Cook, the attack was already nearly ready to
launch. It came as Trump addressed the nation — around 9
p.m. EDT on Friday. It came from three directions — the
Red Sea, the Arabian Gulf and the Mediterranean — as a
means of overwhelming any missile defenses Assad had in
place.
The Pentagon noted that the weapons used included 19
new “Extended-Range” stealthy Joint Air-to-Surface
Standoff Attack Munitions (JASSAM) that were launched
by a pair of B-1B bombers from Al Udeid Air Bases in
Qatar, as well as a half-dozen Tomahawk cruise missiles
that were launched from the Virginia-class submarine USS
John Warner.
The JASSAM missiles have never been used in combat.
According to the Pentagon, the allied weaponry included
19 new “Extended-Range” stealthy Joint Air-to-Surface
Standoff Attack Munitions launched by two B-1B bombers
based out of Al Udeid Air Base, Qatar, and six Tomahawk
cruise missiles launched from the Virginia-class USS John
Warner submarine. The bomber-launched missiles, built
by Lockheed Martin Corp., had never been used in
combat.
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In the Red Sea, the cruiser USS Monterey fired 30
Tomahawks and the destroyer USS Laboon fired seven
Tomahawks. The destroyer USS Higgins fired 23
Tomahawks from the North Arabian Gulf, according to
Pentagon officials.
As for allied weapons fired, Bloomberg noted:
The weapons also included French SCALP-EG
cruise missiles and British Storm Shadow
standoff missiles launched by Tornado and
Typhoon jets. Nine SCALP missiles were fired
at what the Pentagon said was a chemical
weapons storage complex at Hims-Shinshar,
along with two SCALPS, nine Tomahawks and
eight Storm Shadows.
The Decision
Bloomberg noted that Trump’s decision to strike — and
that of the British and French — was not made based
solely on the chemical attack in Syria.
It was also based in part on Russia’s use of a nerve agent
in an assassination attempt of a former double agent and
his daughter in March who live in England.
Bloomberg reported:
The English incident added to concerns held by
Trump, his top aides, and leaders in the U.K.
and France that not responding might
encourage proliferation of chemical weapons,
according to two administration officials who
spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the
deliberations.
Haley warned following the strike that Assad, who has
used chemical weapons against rebels many times since
the civil war began in 2011, could use them again.
 Leaker Comey Led Meeting With FBI Leadership To
Discuss How Leaking Hurts The FBI
By Jim Hoft
April 15, 2018, 9:35 Am
The IG’s report related to terminated and
humiliated former FBI Head Andrew McCabe
was released on Friday. (See report here) In
the report former FBI Head James Comey
reportedly held a meeting with his staff
sharing his thoughts on how leaks hurt the
FBI. The audacity!
In the DOJ IG’s report released Friday, former FBI Head
McCabe and his Special Counsel, Lisa Page, both were
reportedly responsible for leaks to the media. The
report notes that McCabe lied about leaking a number of
times with investigators. Page texted about leaks with the
man she was having an affair with at the FBI, Peter
Strzok. (Both were later hired and fired by the Mueller
team and are now both back working at the FBI.) The
DOJ was also responsible for leaks per the report.
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The most shocking piece in the IG’s report
is the mention of a meeting held by former
FBI Director Comey –
On Monday morning, October 31, 2016, Comey held a
staff meeting, which Special Counsel attended. According
to Special Counsel’s contemporaneous notes, during the
meeting Comey said
“Need to figure out how to get
our folks to understand why
leaks hurt our organization.”
That same day McCabe and Comey had a face-to-face
conversation about the October 30 WSJ article. The
accounts they provided to the OIG of this discussion
contradicted one another.
Later in June of 2017 in front of Congress Comey admitted
to leaking as well –
Obama’s DOJ and FBI were leaking
machines. Comey had no business talking
about how leaks hurt the FBI. He was a
leaker!
A FISA Court report on FISA abuses stated
that James Clapper’s NSA had an
institutional “lack of candor”. Now it is clear
from the DOJ’s IG report that the FBI and
DOJ have the same lack of candor. They
were institutional leakers.
 He Can’t Leave Soon Enough=> Paul Ryan Says Leaker
James Comey A Man Of Integrity (Video)
By Jim Hoft
April 15, 2018, 10:22 Am

Paul Ryan told NBC on Sunday that Comey

was a man of integrity.

Good grief. This guy can’t leave Congress

soon enough.

Breitbart.com reported:

Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Speaker of

Fired FBI Director James Comey admits in his
book that he let Hillary walk because the polls
showed her with a huge lead on Donald Trump.
Fired FBI Director James Comey also admitted
in a Senate hearing that he leaked confidential
memos for the press to report.
As President Trump said in a Sunday morning
tweet: Comey will go down as the WORST FBI
DIRECTOR in US history.
the House Paul Ryan (R-WI) said former FBI
Director James Comey was a man of integrity,
as far as he knew.
When asked if Comey is a man of integrity Ryan said,
“As far as I know. I don’t know him very well.
I’ve — two or three briefings is about what I had
with James Comey.”
Todd asked, “Would you take him at his word?
Would you trust his judgment?”
Ryan added, “Look. I’m not going to try and
help sell some books.”

But at least James Comey knows he can

always count on Paul Ryan to snub President
Trump and stick a finger in his eye.
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 Was Trump Missile Attack Part Of Secret Plan
To End Syria Conflict & Prevent War With Iran?
Written By Dr. Michael Salla
April 15, 2018

and its major allies deeper into the Syrian Civil War, as a
prelude to a major attack on Iran.

So was Trump’s attack really a prelude to the U.S. getting

drawn more deeply into the Syrian and Iran conflicts via a
very transparent false flag event, or was Trump’s real goal
to achieve an entirely different strategic purpose, to bring
about a speedy end to the Syrian Civil War and prevent a
new war with Iran?

In finding an answer we can first take a look at what

In the early morning hours of April 14, President Trump
authorized an attack by a coalition of U.S., French and
British military forces against Syria. The attack involved
103 cruise missiles fired upon Syrian facilities previously
associated with chemical weapons productions. These
facilities were allegedly involved in a chemical weapons
attack nearly a week earlier on April 8, on Douma, a
suburb of Damascus.
QAnon, which is a group of US Military Intelligence
officials leaking classified information, has to say about
the missile strike. QAnon used a coded message to predict
back on April 8, the day of the Douma chemical weapons
incident, that 2 B-1 bombers would be involved in an
upcoming Syria missile attack, and these would launch 19
missiles:

After the limited missile strike, Trump said the attacks had
been successful and declared “mission accomplished”.

A perfectly executed strike last night.

Thank you to France and the United
Kingdom for their wisdom and the power of
their fine Military. Could not have had a
better result. Mission Accomplished!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump)
April 14, 2018
Just as Trump had clearly signaled to the world via Twitter
that he was about to launch an attack on Syria, he was now
clearly transmitting via Twitter that the attack was
completed with the mission goals achieved.
The post suggests that QAnon was aware of advance plans
for the Syria attack, and the craft to be used in it.
According to another Q Anon post, one that coincided with
the April 14 missile attack itself, the U.S. Coalition strike
was a limited military operation that would only involve
missiles, no ground force or plane overflights of Syrian
territory, and that we should trust Trump:

Many alternative media analysts accept that the April 8

chemical weapons attack was not orchestrated by the
Syrian government, because it did not have any strategic
purpose for doing so given recent battle field successes. In
their view, the chemical weapons attack was a false flag
Once again, Q Anon refers to “Sparrow Red” which is
event staged by Deep State actors wanting to drag the US
likely a reference to an older kind of guided missile, AIM-
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7 Sparrow, used by many world militaries including Israel
and Saudi Arabia. While the AIM-7 Sparrow is an air-to-
air missile not used in the attack itself, was the Sparrow
reference signaling an intent to use older missiles launched
by the B-1 bombers and surface ships in the U.S. French
and British coalition so that many of these missiles could
be shot down in a staged event coordinated with the
Russians (Sparrow Red – see update)?
This appears to be exactly what happened if consider a
statement put out by the Russian Ministry of Defense
describing the results of the U.S., French and British
missile strikes on Syria. The Russians said:
As evident by the available data, 103 cruise missiles have
been launched, including Tomahawk naval-based missiles
as well as GBU-38 guided air bombs fired from the B-1B;
the F-15 and F-16 aircraft launched air-to-surface missiles.
The Tornado airplanes of the UK RAF launched eight
Scalp EG missiles.The Syrian air defence systems, which
are primarily the USSR-made AD systems, have
successfully countered the air and naval strikes.
In total, 71 cruise missiles have been intercepted. The S-
125, S-200, Buk, Kvadrat, and Osa Syrian AD systems
were involved in repelling the attack. It proves high
efficiency of the Syrian armament and professional skills
of the Syrian servicemen trained by the Russian specialists.
Over the last eighteen months, Russia has completely
recovered the Syrian air defence systems, and continues its
development.
It is to be stressed that several years ago given the strong
request by our western partners, Russia opted out of
supplying the S-300 AD systems to Syria. Taking into
account the recent incident, Russia believes it possible to
reconsider this issue not only regarding Syria but other
countries as well.
The most telling point in the Russian statement was that
almost 70% of the U.S. coalition’s missiles were shot
down using old Russian air defense technologies.
These shoot down figures are publicly disputed by
Pentagon sources, who instead have highlighted the
missiles success in hitting their targets. Chief Pentagon
spokesperson, Dana White, said:
This operation was carefully orchestrated and methodically
planned to minimize potential collateral damage. I can
assure you we took every measure and precaution to strike
only what we targeted and we successfully hit every target.
So which is a more the accurate assessment of the missiles
success? If we accept the QAnon information suggesting
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older missile technology was to be used, then it is likely
that the Russian statement is more accurate.
Russia has said that given the strike, it now plans to move
forward with upgrading the Syrian air defense system
using their more modern S-300 technology.
This will significantly increase the defensive capability of
the Syrian air defense system, to make it virtually
impervious to the kind of limited air attack witnessed on
April 14 using cruise missiles and modern aircraft.
The Russian intent to upgrade Syria’s missile defenses will
eventually change the strategic balance of power. Having a
virtually impenetrable air defense system to limited air
strikes will deny most foreign actors the ability to
militarily intervene in the Syrian Civil War.
So the real loser from the missile attack may ultimately be
Israel, which has launched over a hundred air attacks
against Syrian forces and their main allies, Iran and
Lebanon’s Hezbollah, during the Syrian Civil War. This is
because Russia has now been given a suitable rationale for
upgrading the Syrian air defense system with their
advanced S-300 system.
This will soon make it very difficult for Israel to intervene
in the Syrian Civil War, as it has previously done with
virtual impunity up until February 10 when one of its jets
was shot down on after an attack on an Iranian site.
This means that Iran and Hezbollah will have a greater
capacity to attack the remaining militia groups fighting the
Syrian regime in order to end the Civil War, and allow
them to move closer to the Israeli border. This will
ultimately put pressure on Israel to reach an agreement
with the Assad regime on unresolved issues with Syria.
In addition, the interception and destruction of almost 70%
of the U.S. coalition’s missiles shows that any state that
possesses modern Russian air defenses can withstand the
kind of limited missile attack witnessed in the Syrian
strike.
This takes me now to what may have been the ultimate
goal behind the missile strike – to show how a similar
limited strike secretly being planned against Iran would be
doomed to failure!
Again, it’s worth taking a look at what QAnon has to say
about the Syrian strike setting the stage for resolving the
Iran issue as part of a secret plan in an April 14 post:
Iran is perceived as a major threat by Israel and Saudi
Arabia. There have been fears since 2013 that they would
collaborate in a surprise military campaign against Iran,
designed to drag the U.S. into the conflict, despite the 2013
Geneva Agreement reached to limit Iran’s nuclear
programs. On November 17, 2013, The Sunday Times
reported:
ONCE they were sworn enemies. Now Israel’s Mossad
intelligence agency is working with Saudi officials on
contingency plans for a possible attack on Iran if its
nuclear programme is not significantly curbed … As part
of the growing co-operation, Riyadh is understood already
to have given the go-ahead for Israeli planes to use its
airspace in the event of an attack on Iran. Both sides are
now prepared to go much further.
The problem with Israel and Saudi Arabia cooperating in a
surprise attack to take out Iran’s nuclear facilities is that
Iran has a recently modernized air defense system,
supplied by Russia, which protects its facilities.
In June 2016, Russia finally delivered its S-300 air defense
system, after a 10 year delay due to U.S. requests. In
March 2018, the Iranians successfully test-fired the system
as reported by a number of media outlets showing these
were now operational:
Iran has successfully test-fired a
sophisticated, Russian-supplied S-300 air
defense system, the official IRNA news
agency reported on Saturday. The drill took
place during a recent military exercise
named Damvand, and was attended by
senior military commanders and officials
according to Tasnim.
IRNA said the test targeted various flying objects
including missiles. With a range of up to 200 kilometers
(125 miles) the S-300 is capable of simultaneously
tracking and striking multiple targets, according to AP.
Iran state TV aired footage of the missiles launching from
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the back of trucks. It said the test was carried out in Iran’s
central desert.
As many puzzle over the real motivations between
Trump’s limited missile strike against Syria in response to
a widely perceived false flag incident, and his declaration
of “Mission Accomplished”, it is very likely that the
immediate goal was not to deepen U.S. military
involvement.
The purpose was to help promote an end the Syrian Civil
War by exposing how sophisticated Syria’s air defense
abilities were becoming due to Russian assistance. This
was quickly neutralizing Israel’s air superiority in the
region, and would pressure it to end its covert support of
armed Syrian groups fighting the Assad regime.
The real strategic goal, however, was to pre-empt a
surprise military strike against Iran by Israel and Saudi
Arabia by revealing how effective Russia’s advanced air
defense systems had become. With Iran now deploying
sophisticated S-300 air defense systems around its nuclear
and military facilities, it would be a futile exercise for
Israel and Saudi Arabia to launch a surprise attack given
their limited aviation and missile technologies.
Consequently, rather than the Syrian missile strike being
evidence of Trump being co-opted by Neocons into yet
another Middle East war that is part of a Deep State
agenda revealed to General Wesley Clark in 2001, the real
purpose seems to be part of a White House/Military
Intelligence plan that is aimed at bringing a speedy
resolution of the Syrian Civil War, and preventing rogue
military actions against Iran.
[UPDATE 4/17/18 Raytheon’s AIM-7 Sparrow is an air-
to-air missile so it could not have been used in the Syrian
missile attack on multiple ground targets. The logo of
Raytheon, that built the AIM-7 Sparrow is red text, so
QAnon’s reference to Sparrow Red may not be a reference
to Russia, but may refer to Raytheon missile technologies
used in the Syrian attack. Article updated accordingly.]
Déjà Vu? Trump Claims “Mission Accomplished” As Haley
Says No Withdraw From Syria In Sight Until All “Goals
Accomplished”, More Russian Sanctions On The Way
By Lucian Wintrich
April 15, 2018, 11:23 Am

Well, apparently a lot can change… almost overnight. This

morning, President Trump was much criticized for his
“Mission Accomplished” tweet that brought back
memories of President George Bush standing in front of
the now infamous sign as he declared U.S. involvement
was a major success. That war dragged on for ALMOST
A DECADE and cost the American taxpayer over 2.4
TRILLION.

Since 2013, Donald Trump railed against the Obama

Administration’s misguided involvement in Syria.
Frequently pointing out what a lose/lose situation Syria
presents the US. Trump was so vehemently against our
involvement in the backward country that the Daily Caller
actually compiled a list of all the times Donald Trump
warned against involvement.

This is certainly beginning to feel a lot like déjà vu.

During a Fox News Appearance, U.S. Ambassador to the

United Nations Nikki Haley declared that the US “would
not pull its troops out of Syria until its goals were
accomplished.” We currently have 2,000 troops stationed
in the backward country. These moves by the Trump
Administration stand in opposition to Trump’s own words
just a few weeks prior. At an Ohio rally, the president was
quoted as declaring “let other people take care of [Syra]
now” and emphasized we would “be coming out of Syria”
soon. Guess not…

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 DISGUSTING. Madeleine Albright Compares Trump
Admin To Nazis And Soviet Communists (VIDEO)
By Jim Hoft
April 15, 2018, 11:55 Am

Albright also famously said there was a “special place in

hell” for women who did not vote for Crooked Hillary.

This weekend Albright was out comparing

President Donald Trump to the Nazi regime,
the Soviet communists, the Marxist regime
in Venezuela, and other “fascist” leaders
like Orban in Hungary and Duterte in The
Philippines.

What an awful thing to say.

Former Secretary of State Madeleine

Albright is famous for supporting the
genocide of Iraqi children.

Here is a much forgotten exchange between Lesley Stahl

and Madeleine Albright on “60 Minutes” back on May
12, 1996 that is not getting much play lately:

Lesley Stahl on U.S. sanctions against Iraq:

We have heard that a half million children have

died. I mean, that’s more children than died in
Hiroshima. And, you know, is the price worth it?

Secretary of State Madeleine Albright:

I think this is a very hard choice, but the price–

we think the price is worth it.

In case you missed that episode, here is the video: FYI–

The Nazis killed at least 6 million innocent Jews and

minorities.

The Stalin regime murdered around 9 million victims of

repression.

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 Why Has This Prominent Former Obama Agency Chief
Not Been Interviewed By Robert Mueller?
By Jacob B.
Posted At 1:39 Pm On April 15, 2018

Former Director of the CIA John Brennan tells

NBC’s “Meet the Press” that he has not been
interviewed by Special Counsel Robert Mueller.

The media have certainly propped Brennan up as one who

is in the know when it comes to the investigation.

As stated by Chuck Todd in the interview, current CIA

Seems like of all people, Brennan would be one of the director (and Secretary of State nominee) Mike Pompeo
most sought-after interviews by Mueller. has been interviewed by Mueller.

But apparently not. Odd that Brennan has not been interviewed.

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 Comey Fires Off Tweet After Trump Threatens Former
FBI Chief With JAIL – Twitter Responds
By Cristina Laila
April 15, 2018, 1:53 Pm

“The big questions in Comey’s badly reviewed

President Trump unleashed on James
Comey Sunday morning in a ferocious
tweetstorm and even threatened the former
FBI chief with jail for leaking classified
information.
James Comey fired off a tweet a few hours later and
Trump supporters on Twitter torched him.
book aren’t answered like, how come he gave
up Classified Information (jail), why did he lie to
Congress (jail), why did the DNC refuse to give
Server to the FBI (why didn’t they TAKE it), why
the phony memos, McCabe’s $700,000 &
more?”

Round 2: Comey throws AG Lynch “under the

bus!” Why can’t we all find out what happened
on the tarmac in the back of the plane with Wild
Bill and Lynch? Was she promised a Supreme
Court seat, or AG, in order to lay off Hillary. No
golf and grandkids talk (give us all a break)!

Crooked cop Comey is set to embark on a book tour to

peddle his fictional memoir “A Higher Loyalty.”

Excerpts of the book have made their rounds ahead of the

April 17 release date.

Comey personally attacked President Trump by trashing

his marriage to First Lady Melania and poked fun at his
appearance.

The disgraced former FBI Director had the nerve to say
Trump “is unethical, and untethered to truth and
institutional values.”
Sunday morning Trump hit Comey hard and
even threatened him with jail.
Round 3: I never asked Comey for Personal
Loyalty. I hardly even knew this guy. Just
another of his many lies. His “memos” are self
serving and FAKE!

Trump tweeted:

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 Round 4: Slippery James Comey, a man who
always ends up badly and out of whack (he is
not smart!), will go down as the WORST FBI
Director in history, by far!

James Comey tweeted a few hours later

about “ethical leadership.”

No Bible verses or cryptic philosophical quotes this time

around, Comey?

Comey tweeted:

My book is about ethical leadership & draws on

stories from my life & lessons I learned from
others. 3 presidents are in my book: 2 help
illustrate the values at the heart of ethical
leadership; 1 serves as a counterpoint. I hope
folks read the whole thing and find it useful.

Comey’s sit-down interview with sycophant George

Stephanopoulos airs Sunday night at 10 PM EST on ABC.

Trump supporters on Twitter torched

Comey.

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 Comey Book Takes Aim At Obama
And Lynch For Jeopardizing Clinton Email Probe
By Joshua Caplan
April 15, 2018, 4:32 Pm
In his highly anticipated book, ‘A Higher
Loyalty‘, fired FBI Director James
Comey writes that former President
Barack Obama ‘jeopardized the Hillary
Clinton email investigation.
Partial excerpts from ‘A Higher Loyalty‘ via the
Washington Examiner”
“Contributing to this problem, regrettably,
was President Obama. He had jeopardized
the Department of Justice’s credibility in the
investigation by saying in a 60 Minutes
interview on Oct. 11, 2015, that Clinton’s
email use was “a mistake” that had not
endangered national security,” Comey
writes. “Then on Fox News on April 10,
2016, he said that Clinton may have been
careless but did not do anything to
intentionally harm national security,
suggesting that the case involved
overclassification of material in the
government.”
“President Obama is a very smart man who
understands the law very well. To this day,
.
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I don’t know why he spoke about the case
publicly and seemed to absolve her before
a final determination was made. If the
president had already decided the matter,
an outside observer could reasonably
wonder, how on earth could his
Department of Justice do anything other
than follow his lead.”
Comey extends similar criticism to ex-Attorney General
Loretta Lynch.
As The Gateway Pundit previously reported Comey
admitted that Lynch attempted to suppress and reframe the
investigation into former presidential candidate Hillary
Clinton’s illegal private email server. Lynch purportedly
directed Comey to immediately stop referring to the
Hillary probe as an “investigation” or a “probe” and,
instead, refer to it as a much more gentle “matter”.
Comey had a second meeting with Lynch where he
confronted her about her election interference.
According to the report, when confronted, Lynch stared
at Comey with a ‘steely silence that lasted for some time’
before she asked him to leave her office.
Documents released in August of last year show
Comey exonerated Hillary Clinton before the investigation
into her email conduct had concluded. Even more
concerning is
“Mr. Comey even circulated an early draft
statement to select members of senior FBI
leadership,” reported Townhall.
 AP Furiously Dissembles
In Four-Paragraph Item On McCabe IG Report
By Tom Blumer
April 15, 2018 5:26 PM EDT

The press has clearly chosen to downplay the Inspector

General's damning Friday report on the conduct leading to
former Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe's dismissal.
The worst such example was a grudging Saturday item at
the Associated Press.

The IG's report had a quote which the press could easily
have used:

We concluded that McCabe lacked

candor on four separate occasions in
connection with the disclosure to the
WSJ. Three of those occasions involved
his testimony under oath.
Those who avoided directly quoting that succinct, readily
understandable, unmistakable statement included the
AP; Reuters, whose headline contended that the IG only
"faulted" McCabe; the New York Times, which also used
"faulted" in its headline, but at least described the IG's
report as "scathing"; and CBS News, which headlined the
IG's clearly stated conclusions as mere "claims."
Two AP reporters devoted only four paragraphs to their
story, and furiously dissembled on McCabe's behalf:
 Item 2 of 4 states that "he falsely told the agents that
he had not authorized the disclosure to the WSJ
and did not know who did." Such a statement isn't an
example of misleading, it's a flat-out lie.
 Item 3 states that McCabe "falsely stated that: (a) he
was not aware of Special Counsel being authorized
to speak to reporters around October 30 and (b) he
did not know, because he was out of town, 'where
[Special Counsel] was or what she was doing'
during the relevant time period." That's two lies in
one item.
 In one of three examples of "lack of candor" in Item 4,
McCabe "falsely told the OIG in a recorded
interview that: (a) he told Comey on October 31,
2016, that he (McCabe) had authorized the
disclosure to the WSJ and that Comey agreed it
was a 'good' idea." Obviously, that's another lie.

The headlined term "on media" is incoherent gibberish.

The "news media disclosure" in AP's text

avoids telling readers that "McCabe’s
disclosure of the existence of an ongoing
investigation ... (into the Clinton
Foundation) violated the FBI’s and the
(Justice) Department’s media policy and
constituted misconduct."

The AP reporters acted as if the IG invented the term "lack

of candor" on his own.
Addressing the underlined items above — "Misled"
understates McCabe's offenses. The word is not present in
The term is official FBI-speak for
the IG's report, because it contains several direct
"untruthfulness or an attempt to dissemble
conclusions that McCabe lied:
from the point of view of the investigator" —
a description going far beyond "misled"
which "confers an obligation to disclose
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 relevant information even if an investigator The AP was not shy about using the L-word with President
has not directly asked about it." A 21-year Donald Trump's pardon of Scooter Libby. Its Friday
veteran of the FBI genuinely interested in evening report on the pardon said Libby was convicted of
candor would have studiously "lying to investigators." Its timeline coverage of the story
avoided being "misunderstood," as used that phrase four times.
McCabe alleges.
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 Here We Go… AFP Says Macron
Convinced Trump To Stay In Syria Long-Term
By Jim Hoft
April 15, 2018, 5:39 Pm

Less than two weeks ago, President Trump

said he wanted to remove all American
troops from Syria. Days later, after Syrian
president Bashar-al Assad carried out his
latest deadly chemical-weapons attack
against rebel forces and civilians, Trump
was reported to be blustering about
punishing Russia and Iran, which would
carry great risk of broadening the Syrian
Civil War. After his generals talked him
down from that idea, he opted for a
conventional, possibly fruitless strike on
Syrian chemical-weapons facilities. And
now, French President Emmanuel Macron
claims that he has convinced Trump to
commit U.S. forces to stay in Syria for a
while after all.
Five years ago President Trump said the
US should stay the hell out of Syria.
Macron says he changed Trump’s mind in a phone call
before the airstrikes on Friday night. “We convinced him it
was necessary to remain there,” he said.

Also during a Fox News Appearance on Sunday, U.S.

Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley declared
that the US

“would not pull its troops out of Syria until

its goals were accomplished.”
But things have changed since Donald
Trump became president.
We currently have 2,000 troops stationed in the backward
On Friday night the US military attacked country.
Syrian chemical weapons facilities.
And now it looks like the US will be
bogged down in Syria for awhile.
At least that’s what French President
Emmanuel Macron says.

NY Mag reported:

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 Loretta Lynch Releases Feisty Statement
Before Highly Anticipated James Comey Interview
By Joshua Caplan
April 15, 2018, 7:41 Pm

Former Attorney General Loretta Lynch

issued a feisty statement just hours
before fired FBI Director James
Comey’s interview is set to air on ABC.

Lynch’s partial statement via The Hill follows:

“Everyone who works for the Department of

Justice has an obligation to protect the
confidentiality and integrity of the work of
the Department. That is why, at the critical
early stages of this case, I followed the
Department’s long-standing policy of
neither confirming nor denying the fact of
an ongoing investigation,” Lynch said in a
statement obtained by CNN. […]
“This policy both predates my tenure in the
Department and will live on long after the
current debate is over,” she continued.
“Any suggestion that I invoked this bedrock
policy for any other reason is simply false.”
[…]
“It was a meeting like any other that we had
had, where we talked about the issues,”
Lynch said. “You know, we had a full and
open discussion about it. And concerns
were not raised.”

As The Gateway Pundit previously reported Comey

admitted that Lynch attempted to suppress and reframe the
investigation into former presidential candidate Hillary
Clinton’s illegal private email server. Lynch purportedly
directed Comey to immediately stop referring to the
Hillary probe as an “investigation” or a “probe” and,
instead, refer to it as a much more gentle “matter”.
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Comey had a second meeting with Lynch where he into her email conduct had concluded. Even more
confronted her about her election interference. concerning is

According to the report, when confronted, Lynch stared “Mr. Comey even circulated an early draft
at Comey with a ‘steely silence that lasted for some time’ statement to select members of senior FBI
before she asked him to leave her office. leadership,” reported Townhall.

Documents released in August of last year show

Comey exonerated Hillary Clinton before the investigation
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 HE WENT THERE=> Twitter Erupts
After James Woods Asks For Photo Evidence Obama
Attended Columbia University
By Cristina Laila
April 15, 2018, 7:56 Pm

Hey, if any of you went to Columbia

James Woods went there. University and recall Barack Obama as a
Late Saturday night, patriotic actor student there, would you please respond
James Woods asked anyone who with a tweet and a pic of him at Columbia?
attended Columbia University and Thanks.
recalled Obama as a student there to
please respond by tweeting a picture of
him at Columbia.
Twitter erupted and the responses were
hilarious.

The responses were amazing…

Barry Hussein Obama’s records are still sealed so we don’t

know what his grades were like nor do we know the
content of any papers he wrote.

People who attended Columbia University at the same

time as Obama do not recall seeing him or having any
classes with him.

James Woods tweeted:

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 He was never properly vetted thanks to the useless
media…

And here’s the proof we’ve all been waiting for…. WTH?

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 He Can’t Leave Soon Enough=>
Paul Ryan Defends Dirty Cop Robert Mueller
By Jim Hoft
April 15, 2018, 7:58 Pm
Earlier today Paul Ryan told Chuck
Todd on NBC that leaker-liar James
Comey was a man of integrity.
Paul Ryan followed this up by defending Dirty Cop Robert
Mueller who just raided Trump’s attorney’s home and
office this week.
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Paul Ryan told Chuck Todd that Trump is not above the
law.
Good grief.
NBC reported:
“First of all, I don’t think he should be fired,”
Ryan reiterated. “I think he should be left to
do his job, and I don’t think they’re really
contemplating this. We’ve had plenty of
conversations about this. It’s not in the
president’s interest to do that. We have a
rule of law system. No one is above that
rule of law system.”
This guy can’t leave office soon enough.
 Gregg Jarrett: James Comey’s Handling Of Classified
Documents Would Make Him “Just As Guilty
As Hillary Clinton” (VIDEO)
By Joshua Caplan
April 15, 2018, 8:56 Pm

Fox News legal analyst Gregg Jarrett anything that’s in the course and scope of
blasted James Comey’s handling of your employment is government property.
classified information ahead of the fired Every FBI agent signs a document that
FBI Director’s highly anticipated says ‘when you leave government, all of
interview with ABC’s George that is the government’s to remain behind,
Stephanopoulos. you are not to take it with you.’ Comey took
it with him — seven presidential memos.
Everything you do in the course and
scope of your employment is government
property. He was acting as the FBI director
when he spoke to the president, he wrote
about their conversations. It’s clearly
government property. He stole that
government property. According to Senator
Grassley, [Comey stole] four classified
documents, which would make him just as
guilty as Hillary Clinton.”

Back in June, Nick Short of Security Studies asked on the

subject of Comey’s memos if “By creating memos on a
govt computer, the memos would be classified as govt
documents right?

“So Comey violated NDA & broke Fed law

via leaks.”

JARRETT:

“In the Federal Regulations, Code of

Federal Regulations and the Privacy Act,
as well as the Federal Records Act,
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On Friday, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob
Goodlatte (R-VA.), House Oversight and Government
Reform Committee Chairman Trey Gowdy (R-SC), and
House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence
Chairman Devin Nunes (R-CA) demanded Deputy
Attorney General Rod Rosenstein turn over copies of fired
FBI Director James Comey’s memos about his
conservations with President Donald Trump — by
Monday.

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 Gagliano Torches Stelter’s
Lionization of ‘Feckless Leader’ Comey
By Nicholas Fondacaro
April 15, 2018 10:08 PM EDT
With less than two hours until ABC's highly anticipated
interview between George Stephanopoulos and former FBI
Director James Comey, the liberal media was abuzz with
speculation and admiration. One of Comey’s loudest
supporters was CNN senior media reporter and Reliable
Sources host Brian Stelter.
And amid his lionization of Comey during Sunday
night's CNN Newsroom, CNN law enforcement analyst and
former FBI Special Agent James Gagliano embarrassed
Stelter by calling out Comey for being a “feckless leader.”
At the start of the segment, host Ana Cabrera teed up
Stelter to hype the juicy tidbits of the Russia investigation
and dirt Comey was going to dish on the President.
“One of the topics to be detailed tonight
in the special it involves Russia and the
Russia probe,”
he said while being excited about seeing all the other
interviews in the coming week.
“Look for what Comey has to say about
Russia and Trump. We’ve already heard
some of it, we’re going to hear a lot
more.”
When it was Gagliano’s turn, he slammed Comey and the
lavish praise he had received.
“The issue I take with him, and many
former agents and those on board,
current on boards take this issue,
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James Comey is still an FBI employee,”
Gagliano said,
explaining why what Comey was doing was against DOJ
policy.
“He's discussing matters that are
relevant and salient to an open or
ongoing investigation or case. I.e., the
Russia probe. I.e. the Inspector
General's probe. I.e., a number of
different congressional probes still
going on right now.”
Gagliano noted that what Comey was doing (and what the
media had been praising) in term of chiding and sliming
the President both in the book and social media was
exactly what they hated about Trump:
This book is a bad look and leaking out the
excerpts that have shown him making
salacious comments about the President’s
appearance. Something that we look at the
President and say he's beneath the dignity
of the office, James Comey has now
elected to enter the pig wallow and is doing
the same thing.
“But what’s worse, Trump world’s
behavior or someone writing about
trying to sound the alarm about it,”
Stelter whined. “This is nothing to do
with that,” Gagliano exclaimed. “He held
the moral ground, Brian, until he leaking
to The New York Times. And then folks
like me that defended him last May, you
lost our respect.”
According to Stelter:
“Sometimes people leak because they
need to scream from the top of the
mountain when there is an emergency
happening. I think Comey's trying to
scream tonight.”
But what alarm is Comey ringing and what is he screaming
from the mountain tops about when there's already a
special counsel investigation underway? He’s not being a
whistleblower; rather, he’s being spiteful.
“He's a feckless leader,”
Gagliano shot back as he spelled out how Comey couldn’t
stand up for what was right as Director. He recalled how
Comey refused to stand up to former Attorney General
Loretta Lynch when she was pushing Clinton campaign
talking points or against Trump asking about the Flynn
investigation.
“He testified in front of the House
Intelligence Committee he wished he’d
been stronger but he wasn't.”
Along with Stelter, the liberal media’s lionization of
Comey doesn’t come from any sort of noble deed being
done. It stems from the fact he’s going after their mutual
target, Trump.
The relevant portions of the transcript are below, click
"expand" to read:
CNN Newsroom
April 15, 2018
8:06:54 PM
ANA CABRERA: So, Brian, let’s start with you. Do you have any
insight as to what Axios is reporting here, that the worst is yet to
come?
BRIAN STELTER: One of the topics to be detailed tonight in the
special it involves Russia and the Russia probe. I don't know
exactly what Comey said but I think that's what Axios is hinting
about. Look for what Comey has to say about Russia and Trump.
We’ve already heard some of it, we’re going to hear a lot more.
You know, Ana, this edit was going on at ABC until this early
afternoon. This is a five-hour-long interview, ABC had to cut it
down to an hour. So, there was a lot left out. ABC's going to
share the rest of that online and then after this interview, there’s
going to be a week's worth of interviews.
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(…)
CABRERA: James, when we hear he could be talking about the
Russia investigation. The Russia investigation isn't over. Do you
take issue with that?
JAMES GAGLIANO: I do. He has every right as a private citizen
to write his memoirs and sell books and to Brian's point, I think
an initial run of 850,000 books. Michael Wolff’s Fire and Fury
started out with an initial run of 150,000. He's going to be a best-
selling author. The issue I take with him, and many former agents
and those on board, current on boards take this issue, James
Comey is still an FBI employee.
The Department of Justice defines an employee as anyone who
holds or has held a position of trust in the agency. He's
discussing matters that are relevant and salient to an open or
ongoing investigation or case. IE, the Russia probe. IE the
Inspector General's probe. IE, a number of different
congressional probes still going on right now.
He is not just a witness. Not a part of the periphery. A central
figure. This book is a bad look and leaking out the excerpts that
have shown him making salacious comments about the
President’s appearance. Something that we look at the President
and say he's beneath the dignity of the office, James Comey has
now elected to enter the pig wallow and is doing the same thing.
STELTER: But what’s worse, Trump world’s behavior or
someone writing about trying to sound the alarm about it?
GAGLIANO: This is nothing to do with that. The FBI Director's
talking about an ongoing probe he's a central witness to. He held
the moral ground, Brian, until he leaking to The New York Times.
And then folks like me that defended him last May you lost our
respect.
STELTER: Sometimes people leak because they need to scream
from the top of the mountain when there is an emergency
happening. I think Comey's trying to scream tonight.
GAGLIANO: He's a feckless leader, and here’s why. To the point
of Boris about the former Attorney General Loretta Lynch, he had
an opportunity to go to her and say, “Madame AG, I’ve taken
issue with you telling me not to call this an investigation. This
investigation was forwarded to us from a House from Benghazi
investigation. You're now telling me to call it something that
aligns with the Clinton campaign talking points.” Feckless. He
also had a chance with nine interactions with the President. Nine,
on the phone and in person to say, “Mr. President, what are you
telling me to do? Are you telling me not to look into Michael
Flynn? Are you telling me to ignore investigations? Tell me to do
that and I'll go on record with this right now and I’m submitting my
resignation.” He didn’t. He testified in front of the House
Intelligence Committee he wished he’d been stronger but he
wasn't.
(…)
 Dirty Cop Comey On President Trump
Calling Him A Leaker: “Look, It’s True”
By Jim Hoft
April 15, 2018, 10:12 Pm

Comey told Stephanopoulos that it was

true was Trump said, that he was a
leaker.

Fired FBI Director James Comey held his first interview

on ABC Sunday night promoting his new book, “A Higher
Loyalty.”

During the conversation Comey was asked about President

Trump calling him a leaker.

President Trump hit Comey today before the interview.

Attorney Greg Jarrett agrees with Trump

— Comey could be prosecuted for his
crimes and makes him “just as guilty as
Hillary Clinton.”
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 Trump Hits Back=> Opposes Allowing Government To
Review Seized Materials From Cohen
Raid In New Court Filing
By Cristina Laila
April 15, 2018, 10:51 Pm

On Monday, FBI KGB agents raided the

office of one of Trump’s personal
lawyers Michael Cohen at the request of
Special Counsel Robert Mueller.

They were looking for dirt on Stormy Daniels and seized

attorney-client privileged communications between Trump
and Cohen.
Buzzfeed legal reporter Geidner reported on Friday:
It was revealed Wednesday that agents were also looking
for records on the “Access Hollywood” tape.
After several hearings were held on
Cohen’s request and related issues
President Trump was furious the politically motivated raid
throughout the day Friday, however, the
was imposing on his attorney-client privilege rights.
matter was continued over to a 2 p.m.
Monday hearing. In particular, Cohen’s
lawyers were unable to answer several key
questions on Friday, leading Wood to order
Cohen to attend Monday’s hearing.
Before Monday’s hearing, Wood has asked
Trump’s lawyers to present any additional
arguments on his behalf by 9 p.m. Sunday
and Cohen’s lawyers are to present their
final arguments — and a list of Cohen’s
clients (more on that to come) — by 10
a.m. Monday.

On Sunday, President Trump opposed allowing the

On Friday, President Trump was
officially granted intervention in the
Cohen case:
government to review materials seized by FBI KBG agents
in their raid of Michael Cohen’s properties in a court
filing.
Screenshot of page one of Trump’s court filing below:

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 Continued…

Read the 8-page court filing following this article.

Trump unleashed shortly after the raid on Michael Cohen’s

office and residence.

Legal reporter for Buzzfeed, Chris Geidner posted the

court filing on Twitter late Sunday evening.

Chris Geidner tweeted: JUST IN: Trump opposes

allowing the government to review materials seized in
SDNY search of Michael Cohen properties

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 Leaker, Liar Comey Says President Trump
Is Unethical, Unfit To Be President (VIDEO)
By Jim Hoft
April 15, 2018, 11:04 Pm

Fired FBI Director James Comey held his first interview

on ABC Sunday night promoting his new book, “A Higher
Loyalty.”
More…
During the conversation Comey was asked about President
Trump is unfit to be president.
Comey gave Stephanopoulos the
answer he was looking for.
Former Clinton advisor George
Stephanopoulos: “Is Donald Trump unfit
to be president?”
Leaker, liar James Comey: “Yes, but not
in the way I often hear people talk about
it…I don’t think he’s medically unfit to be
president. I think he’s morally unfit to be
president.”
What a pathetic little man.

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 Sean Hannity Hammers The Hell Outta Comey,
Hillary And Stephanopoulos In EPIC Tweetstorm
By Cristina Laila
April 15, 2018, 11:27 Pm

Sean Hannity was not having it.

Fox News’ Sean Hannity hammered the
hell outta liar Comey and Clinton Hannity let Comey and Stephanopoulos have it…enjoy the
sycophant George Stephanopoulos tweetstorm:
Sunday evening during the ABC
interview.

Fired FBI Director James Comey held his first interview

on ABC Sunday night promoting his new book, “A
Higher Loyalty.”

During the conversation, Comey was asked if President

Trump is unfit to be president.

Comey gave Stephanopoulos the answer he was looking

for.

Not one hardball was thrown at Comey, naturally since

Stephanopoulos is a long time Democrat operative and
Clinton sycophant.

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 At the end, Hannity said ‘journalism is
dead’ after he watched the worst
interview ever.

Comey should not be on a book tour making millions of

dollars in royalties. He should be prosecuted and thrown in
prison.

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 'That's Crazy, How Could That Be?': Comey Describes
What He Felt Right After Finding Out He'd Been Fired
Sonam Sheth
Apr. 15, 2018, 11:31 PM
 Former FBI director James Comey said his first
thought after he read a letter from the White House
telling him he had been fired was: "That's crazy.
How could that be?"
 Comey was in Los Angeles at the time and said
that as he flew back to Washington, he drank red
wine out of a paper coffee cup while looking "out at
the lights of the country I love so much."
 As the plane came close to landing, Comey said he
asked the pilots if he could sit in the cockpit with
them and watch the flight land.
 At the end, he recalled, they all shook hands "with
tears in our eyes" before he got off the plane and
was driven home.
Former FBI director James Comey's first thought when he
found out he'd been fired last year: "How could that be?"
He made the revelation during a one-hour interview with
ABC's George Stephanopoulos ahead of the widely
anticipated release of his book, "A Higher Loyalty:
Truth, Lies, and Leadership."
Comey was in Los Angeles on May 9, 2017 and speaking
to a group of FBI employees when he found out he'd been
removed, via a breaking news alert on TV.
Initially, however, the chyron read,
"Comey resigns."
Comey said he did not believe the news at first because he
thought it was a trick.
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"One of the many great things about the
FBI is we have some hilarious pranksters in
that organization, and so I thought it was a
scam by someone on my staff," Comey
said. "So I turn to them and I said,
'Someone put a lot of work into that.'"
Comey said he grew more wary when the chyron
eventually changed to reflect that he had been fired.
"And the audience could see my face
change, so they start turning around
looking at the back," Comey recalled. "And
I said, 'Look, I don't know whether that's
true or not. I'm going to find out.'"
After he finished talking to the employees and saying
goodbye, Comey said he went into a room to find out
whether he had been ousted,
"because I did not expect to be fired."
Eventually, he said, his assistant, Althea
James, sent him a scanned copy of the
letter outlining Trump's decision to fire
Comey. Trump said he had made the
decision based on the recommendation of
Deputy Attorney Rod Rosenstein, as well
as Attorney General Jeff Sessions."
Comey said his first thought while reading the letter was,
"That's crazy. How could that be?"
As he read over the recommendations from Rosenstein and
Sessions, Comey said he thought to himself,
"That makes no sense at all."
The White House said Comey had been fired because of
his handling of the FBI's investigation into former
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's use of a private email
server. Rosenstein harshly criticized Comey's management
of the investigation and his decision to publicly announce
that the Clinton investigation had been closed in July 2016.
Rosenstein further added that as a result of the decision,
 "the FBI is unlikely to regain public and
congressional trust until it has a Director
who understands the gravity of the
mistakes and pledges never to repeat
them. Having refused to admit his errors,
the Director cannot be expected to
implement the necessary corrective
actions."
Comey said that after reading the White House's letter and
Rosenstein's and Sessions' memos supporting his removal,
he thought,
"This is a lie."
"I actually gave thought to renting a
convertible and driving almost 3000 miles,"
he told Stephanopoulos.
However, at that point, Comey said the head of his security
detail told him that
"if I have to put you in handcuffs, we're
taking you back on the FBI plane."
Once he was on the plane, Comey said he pulled out a
bottle of red wine from his suitcase that he was bringing
back from California and drank some of it from a paper
cup while looking

He said his confusion grew when he began seeing "out at the lights of the country I love so
headlines in which the White House claimed the FBI's much as we flew home."
reputation was "in tatters" and that the workforce had lost
confidence in Comey, and was relieved that he had been
As the plane neared Washington, Comey said he asked the
fired.
pilots if he could sit with them in the cockpit because he
wanted to watch them as they worked.
"More and more lies," Comey said. "And so
I was worried about the organization,
"So they put the headphones on me and I
worried about the people."
sat on a jump seat between the two pilots
and watched them land along the
Afterward, Comey departed Los Angeles to head to Potomac," Comey said. "And then we
Washington. He said that he wasn't sure if he could use the shook hands with tears in our eyes, and
FBI's plane because by that point, he was no longer the then I left and got driven home."
FBI director.
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James Comey — Who Wrote Exoneration Draft Of Clinton
Months Before Email Probe Concluded — Admits His
Family Wanted Hillary For Prez (VIDEO)
By Joshua Caplan
April 15, 2018, 11:42 Pm
In an interview with ABC’s George
Stephanopoulos, fired FBI Director
James Comey admitted his family
wanted Hillary Clinton to win the White
House in 2016.
JAMES COMEY:
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“My wife and girls marched in the Women’s
March the day after President Trump’s
inauguration. At least my four daughters,
probably all five of my kids wanted Hillary
Clinton to be the first woman president. I
know my amazing spouse did.
PATRICE COMEY:
“I wanted a woman president really badly
and I supported Hillary Clinton. A lot of my
friends worked for her. It’s devastating
when she lost.
Documents released in August of last year show
Comey exonerated Hillary Clinton before the investigation
into her email conduct had concluded. Even more
concerning is
“Mr. Comey even circulated an early draft
statement to select members of senior FBI
leadership,” reported Townhall.
As Katie Pavlich of Townhall points out, the drafted
statement is redacted.
 ABC Presses Comey On Trump’s
Fitness For Office, Need For Impeachment
By Nicholas Fondacaro
April 15, 2018 11:45 PM EDT
Shortly before ABC wrapped up their hour-long special
interview on Sunday night with former FBI Director James
Comey, Clinton lackey George Stephanopoulos pressed
Comey on whether or not President Trump was fit to be
president and whether or not he needed to be impeached.
The answers may or may not be surprising.
“Almost a year has passed since James
Comey was fired by President Trump.
Since then, he's come to some stark
conclusions about the use of power and
moral leadership,” Stephanopoulos said
as they were coming back from a
commercial break. “You write that
President Trump is unethical,
untethered to the truth. Is Donald Trump
unfit to be president?”
At first, Comey said “yes,” but clarified that he didn’t
“buy this stuff about him being mentally
incompetent or early stages of
dementia.” Ouch. That's quite the blow to
CNN’s Brian Stelter and how he thinks
about the President. “He strikes me as a
person of above average intelligence
who's tracking conversations and
knows what's going on. I don't think
he's medically unfit to be president,” he
added.
But people like Stelter were quickly redeemed as Comey
asserted that Trump was “morally unfit to be President.”
“A person who sees moral equivalence
in Charlottesville, who talks about and
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treats women like they're pieces of
meat, who lies constantly about matters
big and small and insists the American
people believe it, that person's not fit to
be president of the United States, on
moral grounds,” he said.
“There's something more important than
that that should unite all of us, and that
is our president must embody respect
and adhere to the values that are at the
core of this country,” Comey continued.
“The most important being truth. This
president is not able to do that. He is
morally unfit to be President.”
After asking Comey to elaborate on why Trump was unfit
to be President, Stephanopoulos sought a solution from the
former FBI head.
“What is the remedy? Should Donald
Trump be impeached,” he wondered.
According to Comey, the solution was not impeachment,
but for the country to go to the polls and vote Trump out of
office:
I hope not because I think impeaching and removing
Donald Trump from office would let the American people
off the hook and have something happen indirectly that I
believe they're duty bound to do directly. People in this
country need to stand up and go to the voting booth and
vote their values.
“But you cannot have, as president of
the United States, someone who does
not reflect the values that I believe
 Republicans treasure and Democrats
treasure and Independents treasure,”
Comey declared. “That is the core of this
country. That's our foundation. And so
impeachment, in a way, would short-
circuit that.”
So, Comey wants President Trump out of office.
Transcript below, click "expand" to read:
ABC's James Comey Exclusive Interview
April 15, 2018
10:56:54 PM Eastern
GEORGE STEPHANOPOULS: Almost a year has passed since
James Comey was fired by President Trump. Since then, he's
come to some stark conclusions about the use of power and
moral leadership. You write that President Trump is unethical,
untethered to the truth. Is Donald Trump unfit to be President?
JAMES COMEY: Yes. But not in the way m-- I often hear people
talk about it. I don't buy this stuff about him being mentally
incompetent or early stages of dementia. He strikes me as a
person of above average intelligence who's tracking
conversations and knows what's going on. I don't think he's
medically unfit to be President. I think he's morally unfit to be
President. A person who sees moral equivalence in
Charlottesville, who talks about and treats women like they're
pieces of meat, who lies constantly about matters big and small
and insists the American people believe it, that person's not fit to
be President of the United States, on moral grounds. And that's
not a policy statement. Again, I don't care what your views are on
guns or immigration or taxes. There's something more important
than that that should unite all of us, and that is our President
must embody respect and adhere to the values that are at the
core of this country. The most important being truth. This
president is not able to do that. He is morally unfit to be
president.
STEPHANOPOULOS: You're the former director of the F.B.I.
You've served in senior positions in the Department of Justice for
Republican and Democratic presidents. And you think Donald
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Trump is unfit-- s-- the bottom line standard, unfit to be
President?
COMEY: I do. I do. And I-- I-- I hope one of the things that comes
outta the Trump administration his first term is a recognition that,
as much as we fight about those policy issues in this country,
what's at the core of this nation, we are just a collection of ideas.
And at the core of those ideas is that there is a thing called truth.
There is the rule of law. There is integrity. Those things matter
before any fights about policies. And people who tell themselves,
"Well, yes, Donald Trump is unethical but I'm getting the right
Supreme Court justice or the right regulatory rollback," are
kidding themselves because if we lose that tether to the truth, if
that stops being the norm at the heart of our public life, what are
we? Where are we as a country? So I worry sometimes people
think I'm talking about politics. Not in the way we normally talk
about in this country. But I hope in the most important way.
Values matter. This President does not reflect the values of this
country.
STEPHANOPOULOS: If you are right, what is the remedy?
Should Donald Trump be impeached?
COMEY: Impeachment is-- is a question of law and fact and
politics. And so that'll be determined by people gather--
STEPHANOPOULOS: You're a citizen. You have a judgment.
COMEY: Yeah, I'll tell you, I'll give you a strange answer. I hope
not because I think impeaching and removing Donald Trump
from office would let the American people off the hook and have
something happen indirectly that I believe they're duty bound to
do directly. People in this country need to stand up and go to the
voting booth and vote their values. We'll fight about guns. We'll
fight about taxes. We'll fight about all those other things down the
road. But you cannot have, as president of the United States,
someone who does not reflect the values that I believe
Republicans treasure and Democrats treasure and Independents
treasure. That is the core of this country. That's our foundation.
And so impeachment, in a way, would short circuit that.
(…)
 CNN Panel Swoons For Comey’s
‘Extraordinary’ Smears Of The President
By Nicholas Fondacaro
April 16, 2018 2:13 AM EDT
Mere seconds after ABC wrapped up their Sunday night
broadcast of its exclusive interview with former FBI
Director James Comey, CNN began its so-called two-hour
“Special Report” in which they mostly gushed about what
it meant for him to trash Trump like that.
While they did have some criticisms (which largely
centered on his handling of the Clinton investigation), the
stacked liberal panel sang Comey’s praises for speaking
out against the President.
“Just moments ago, we heard fired FBI
Director James Comey unleash on
President Trump, calling him ‘morally
unfit to be president,’ ‘a stain on the
people who work for him’ and a ‘liar’
who treats women like pieces of meat.
Really, just a jarring critique of a sitting
president,” former Obama administration
official-turned CNN correspondent and host
Jim Sciutto hyped at the top of the show.
Sciutto was immediately followed up by co-host Pamela
Brown, who marveled at Comey’s claims that Trump may
have obstructed justice and was compromised by the
Russians:
And in Comey’s first TV interview since he was fired, he
says there is, quote, “some evidence of obstruction of
justice” by the president when Mr. Trump asked him to let
go of his investigation of former National Security Adviser
Michael Flynn. And he suggestions it's possible that Mr.
Trump has been compromised by the Russians.
Brown went straight into seeking reaction from the largely
liberal panel, starting with chief political
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correspondent Dana Bash making sure people understood
the gravity of the interview. “Look, I mean, this is
something that in any other time would be seismic. And
I think, even in this time, where it's easy to kind of lose
sight of things that are enormously out of bounds and
enormously unusual,” she opined. “To say the things he
did about a sitting president of the United States is
absolutely extraordinary.”
“This is the kind of thing that a former
FBI director or former official does
usually many years down the road. This
is an active investigation that he
started,” Bash added.
While she noted that Comey was looking for some kind of
“retribution” for being fired, she didn’t pay it much mind
beyond that, essentially overlooking his powerful motive.
Looking for more praise of Comey, Sciutto then turned to
chief political analyst Gloria Borger, asking if Comey was
a “credible critic of the President?” Of course, despite
his spiteful attacks on the President’s physical appearance
and his marriage, she found no issues with him:
So when you want to look at his credibility, he's got ego,
his book is full of criticism so the President perhaps
shouldn't have made the size of his hands, the color of his
hair, his tan, et cetera, et cetera, put that ego aside and I
think the arguments he makes here about the man he is
dealing with are quite persuasive.
The only time the liberals on the panel actually had any
kind of critique of Comey’s actions was when it came to
his handling the Hillary Clinton e-mail investigation.
 “And his explanation, particularly for the
October 28th letter, is so weak and this
sort of helplessness, ‘I had no choice.’
He had every choice in the world and he
never acknowledges the incredible
strong justice department tradition of
not interfering with elections,” bemoaned
legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin.
Their hypocrisy here was truly a wonder to behold.
Reverence for Comey when he attacked Trump and hard-
hitting criticism when it’s about Hillary Clinton. This is
CNN.
Transcript below.
CNN Special Report: Comey Speaks Out
April 16, 2018
11:00:18 PM Eastern
JIM SCIUTTO: This a CNN Special Report Comey Speaks Out.
Just moments ago, we heard fire FBI Director James Comey
unleash on President Trump, calling him “morally unfit to be
president,” “a stain on the people who work for him” and a “liar”
who treats women like pieces of meat. Really, just a jarring
critique of a sitting president. Welcome to our viewers from the
United States and around the world. I'm Jim Sciutto.
PAMELA BROWN: I'm Pamela Brown. And in Comey’s first TV
interview since he was fired, he says there is, quote, “some
evidence of obstruction of justice” by the president when Mr.
Trump asked him to let go of his investigation of former National
Security Adviser Michael Flynn. And he suggestions it's possible
that Mr. Trump has been compromised by the Russians.
Needless to say, there is a lot to discuss this evening following
the interview with James Comey on ABC. Let's get to our
correspondents, analysts and political commentators. And Dana,
I’m going to go to you first on this because, look, we've been
waiting for this interview to happen. Finally James Comey is
speaking out. This is the man who used to be the head of the
FBI, one of the highest offices in the government calling the
President of the United States morally unfit. Your reaction?
DANA BASH: Look, I mean, this is something that in any other
time would be seismic. And I think, even in this time, where it's
easy to kind of lose sight of things that are enormously out of
bounds and enormously unusual. For an FBI director, even
though he was fired and he has, you know, he certainly feels a
sense he says of higher loyalty but retribution, let's face it.
.
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To say the things he did about a sitting president of the United
States is absolutely extraordinary. Especially, as you mentioned,
things like he believes that it’s possible that the President did
obstruct justice. Because remember, this isn't -- this is the kind of
thing that a former FBI director or former official does usually
many years down the road. This is an active investigation that he
started.
BROWN: And he's a central witness in the obstruction of justice
probe.
SCIUTTO: Gloria Borger, you listened to James Comey there. He
is a polarizing figure. In fact, he reiterates this in the interview
saying the Democrats hated him during the election and
Republicans – many do who are Trump supporters.
GLORIA BORGER: He said his life sucked, if you recall.
SCIUTTO: There was colorful language, a lot of colorful language
at this time. But as you heard him there, is he a credible critic of
the president?
BORGER: It's in the eye of the beholder, obviously. I think my --
Jason Miller over there is not going to believe that he is. But I do
believe that he is somebody, as a witness in this investigation,
somebody who was involved directly, one on one with the
president, who is saying the President is lying. Is lying about a
bunch of things.
Is lying about a conversation they had about loyalty, for example.
And when he says when he says the President is obstructing
justice and there is evidence of it, possibly, we know he's telling
that to the investigators. And the most stunning thing to me was
that a question is asked about the president of the United States:
do you believe that he could be compromised by the Russians.
And Comey's answer is, “I never thought I would say this”—“I
never thought I would say this but it's possible.”
And I mean, I think his word was, “you know, what always struck
me and still strikes me as unlikely but I would have been able to
say that with high confidence about any other president I dealt
with but I can't, not with this president.” So when you want to look
at his credibility, he's got ego, his book is full of criticism so the
President perhaps shouldn't have made the size of his hands, the
color of his hair, his tan, et cetera, et cetera, put that ego aside
and I think the arguments he makes here about the man he is
dealing with are quite persuasive.
(…)
 Mexican Presidential Election Front-Runner Agrees With
Trump – Corrupt Mexican Governments Are At Fault
By Jim Hoft
April 16, 2018, 9:09 Am
On June 16, 2015 Donald Trump announced he was
running for president of the United States.
During his speech Trump famously lambasted the illegal
immigration catastrophe from Mexico and Central
America.
Donald Trump:
When Mexico sends its people, they’re not
sending their best. They’re not sending
you. They’re not sending you. They’re
sending people that have lots of problems,
and they’re bringing those problems with
us. They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing
crime. They’re rapists. And some, I
assume, are good people.
Of course, the liberal media was
outraged that a presidential candidate
would dare be so honest about the
illegal immigration debacle.
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Now this…
On Sunday the leading candidate in the Mexican
presidential election agreed with President Trump. Andres
Manuel Lopez Obrador told supporters corrupt
governments in the country were to blame for U.S.
President Donald Trump’s bad impression of Mexicans.
Reuters reported:
Mexico’s left-wing presidential front-runner
said on Sunday that corrupt governments
in the country were to blame for U.S.
President Donald Trump’s bad impression
of Mexicans, promising to change Trump’s
perception if elected.
Speaking from the tourist destination of Rosarito in the
Baja California peninsula, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador
said Trump’s bad experiences investing in Mexico were
the reason for his negative view of the country.
“He invested here in Rosarito and also in
Cozumel, Quintana Roo, and because of
Mexico’s corrupt governments he had to
leave,” Lopez Obrador said. “That’s why he
got a bad impression of our country.”
Lopez Obrador, who has a double-digit lead in most major
opinion polls for the July 1 election, said his message for
Trump was that he was going to end corruption in Mexico.
 Dershowitz: ACLU Is Dead In The Water… A Partisan,
Hard-Left, Political Organization That No Longer Cares
About Civil Liberties (VIDEO)
By Jim Hoft
April 16, 2018, 9:36 Am

Famed attorney and author Alan
Dershowitz joined FOX and Friends on
Monday morning to discuss the Special
Counsel out to get President Trump and
fired FBI Chief James Comey’s interview
on ABC Sunday night.
Dershowitz thrashed the ACLU for
condoning the scandalous and
unethical behavior of the Mueller witch
hunt against President Trump.
coming in, not only justifying, defending,
but applauding a raid on a lawyer’s office
which may very well may have taken
material that was classified as lawyer
client?… It (ACLU) is absolutely political. It
is a partisan, hard-left, political organization
which no longer cares about the civil
liberties of all Americans.
Via FOX and Friends:

Alan Dershowitz:

If this were Hillary Clinton they’d be raising

money left and right defending Hillary
Clinton’s right. But now they’re raising
money left and left by attacking Trump and
putting the attack on Trump over defending
out civil liberties. Why do you think I’m here
all the time? Why do you think I’m speaking
out in favor of the rights of the man I voted
against? Because the ACLU is dead in the
water. Who’s ever heard of the ACLU
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 Kellyanne Conway Blasts Comey’s
‘Free Political Commercial’ On ABC
By Kyle Drennen
April 16, 2018 9:59 AM EDT
Appearing on Monday’s Good Morning America
following ABC’s exclusive Sunday night interview with
former FBI Director James Comey, White House advisor
Kellyanne Conway took anchor George Stephanopoulos to
task for allowing Comey a “free political commercial” to
encourage Americans to vote President Trump out of
office.
After Stephanopoulos asked if the President had watched
the interview,
Conway began ripping Comey for his
“really gutter” personal attacks against
Trump, “to talk about the size of his
hands and length of his tie.” She then
pointed to “the fact that Mr. Comey
admitted to you that he allowed polling
and politics to influence his decision” in
the Hillary Clinton e-mail investigation
as evidence of why he was fired by the
President last year.
“He admitted to you he purposely
leaked information to a friend so that it
would get into the media and trigger a
special counsel. This guy swung an
election. He thought the wrong person
would win,” she added.
Scolding Stephanopoulos, Conway declared:
“And now, at the end of your interview,
George, he gave a free political
commercial, telling people to go out
there and vote against the President and
his interests.”
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She lambasted Comey’s performance: “I think he struggled
to answer basic questions and he looked a little shaky.”
Minutes later, Conway concluded:
This man, Jim Comey, loves to be within
the proximity of power. He loves having
dinner alone with the President.
If he hadn’t, he should have invited
someone or asked who else was going to
be there. He loved being along in the Oval
Office, he wanted a piece of it.
He loved being in the proximity of power
until he got fired and then wrote a book.
Reiterating that Comey leaked information about his
meetings with the President, she asked:
“Why does The New York Times have a
right to get the leaked information and not
the House – the House committees who
represent all of us?”
Here are excerpts of the April 16 exchange:
7:10 AM ET
GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS: Let’s get more now from the
counselor to the President, Kellyanne Conway, she joins us live
from the White House this morning. Kellyanne, thank you for
joining us this morning.
KELLYANNE CONWAY: Hi, George.
STEPHANOPOULOS: We saw a lot from the President on
Twitter before the James Comey interview. Did he watch last
night? What’s his reaction?
CONWAY: I spoke with the President before the interview and
the President reminded me that Jim Comey said publicly that he
felt nervous before he met the President, admitted that to you.
What we don’t understand is why, if you’re going to meet the
President of the United States, the President-Elect, you’re not
saying, “My ticker list is I’ve got to tell him about the Russian
interference, I must tell him about the investigations that are
ongoing.” Instead he takes time to talk about the size of his
hands and length of his tie. That’s really gutter.
And the fact that Mr. Comey admitted to you that he allowed
polling and politics to influence his decision is much why Rod
Rosenstein, the Deputy Attorney General, in a scathing memo on
May 9th, and others, other former attorneys general had called
for Mr. Comey to step aside because they felt like he can no
longer hold up the values of the FBI.
He admitted to you he purposely leaked information to a friend so
that it would get into the media and trigger a special counsel.
This guy swung an election. He thought the wrong person would
win. His people in his household wanted the other person to win.
And now, at the end of your interview, George, he gave a free
political commercial, telling people to go out there and vote
against the President and his interests.
.
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I think he struggled to answer basic questions and he looked a
little shaky. He also – I really was very struck that when he was
meeting with the President, it’s three very limited meetings with
the President of the United States, I thought to myself, “You
waited two months as the FBI director to go and meet with the
President-Elect and then you waited nearly a year to tell the
country what was on your mind.” If he really felt like he was
saving the country rather than selling books why did he wait until
an interview with you, not under oath, and selling a book not
under oath?
(...)
CONWAY: This man, Jim Comey, loves to be within the proximity
of power. He loves having dinner alone with the President. If he
hadn’t, he should have invited someone or asked who else was
going to be there. He loved being along in the Oval Office, he
wanted a piece of it. He loved being in the proximity of power
until he got fired and then wrote a book.
And let’s be very honest. These are high-stakes issues that are
going on. This is somebody who admitted to you last night that
he leaked information that – the House investigators are looking
for those memos. Why does The New York Times have a right to
get the leaked information and not the House – the House
committees who represent all of us? What’s fair is fair.
(...)
 GOP Lawmaker: Rod Rosenstein Possibly Under
Investigation For Supervising Uranium-One Deal (VIDEO)
By Joshua Caplan
April 16, 2018, 10:07 Am

During an interview with the Fox So, I have no problem with impeaching
Business Network, Rep. Louie Gohmert Rosenstein. He is a problem. He needs to
(R-TX) raised the possibility that Deputy step down. But, he’s not going to because
Attorney General Rod Rosenstein is he’s got to cover for himself and for Mueller
under investigation for his role in the in the Uranium investigation.”
Uranium-One scandal.
As The Gateway Pundit’s Joe Hoft previously reported,
prior to the Obama administration approving the very
controversial deal in 2010 giving Russia 20% of America’s
Uranium, the FBI had evidence that Russian nuclear
industry officials were involved in bribery, kickbacks,
extortion and money laundering in order to benefit
Vladimir Putin, says a report by The Hill.

From the report we found out that the investigation was

supervised by then-U.S. Attorney Rod Rosenstein, who is
now President Trump’s Deputy Attorney General, and
then-Assistant FBI Director Andrew McCabe, who is now
the deputy FBI director under Trump. We also know
that Robert Mueller was the Head of the FBI at this time
and he even hand delivered uranium to Russia on an
airport tarmac before the Uranium One deal went through.

The Hill‘s John Solomon reported that the Obama Justice

Department failed to call on the deal’s secret informant,
William D. Campbell, when it came time to
charging former Russian uranium industry executive
Vadim Mikerinn.

“While he was Maryland’s chief federal

Gohmert:
“Rosenstein could very well be under
investigation. There is a full investigation
into Uranium-One, which he supervised,
which he soft-peddled to allow Hillary to get
her colleagues to approve the sale of
uranium to Russia through Uranium-One.
.
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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.
“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.
 PRESIDENT TRUMP Scores 51% Approval Rating
— 4 Points Higher Than Obama At Same Time In 2010
By Jim Hoft
April 16, 2018, 10:18 Am

PRESIDENT TRUMP HOLDS 51% A recent study found that 90% of the
APPROVAL RATING– left-wing media coverage of President
Trump was negative in 2017.

Barack Obama had a 47% approval rating on April 16,

2010 despite having around 90% favorability from the
liberal media.

Despite constant attacks by the liberal media President

Trump now holds a 51% approval rating according to the
latest Rasmussen poll.

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 HUGE! MAJOR SCANDAL UNCOVERED=> Internet
Sleuths Put Together Bombshell Hidden In Friday’s DOJ
IG Report – Involving Weiner Emails
By Jim Hoft
April 16, 2018, 10:31 Am

Background –

Anthony Weiner was sentenced to nearly 2 years in prison

in September 2017 for sexting minors. The pervert was
Democrat Senator Chuck Schumer’s protégé and is
married to Huma Abedin, Hillary Clinton’s favorite aide
during the 2016 Presidential campaign.

When NYPD investigated Weiner’s crime for texting

The DOJ IG’s report released on Friday
was a bombshell. Now we know hidden
in it were pieces of information that
when put into context with information
released at that time indicate
unimaginable corruption!
The DOJ IG’s report related to the many
lies made by former FBI Head Andrew
McCabe is 39 pages in length. (See
report here) We reported on Friday our
summary of the report. One key item
that was included in the IG’s report was
related to Anthony Weiner’s emails.
minors sometime in and around 2016 they obtained his
computer that at least one source said included up to
650,000 emails related to corruption, pay-for-play and
more heinous crimes implicating a number of individuals
including the Clintons and other liberal elites. It’s
suspected that this was Weiner’s insurance in case he ever
needed it. Instead it landed into the hands of the authorities
as a result of him texting minors.
The IG Report and the Weiner Emails
One Internet sleuth (@Tracybeanz) on the Internet put
together this amazing video explaining the connections
between Friday’s IG report and the Weiner emails –

We stated –

The report includes little mention of Anthony Weiner’s

laptop emails other than to mention that a meeting was
scheduled to get a search warrant to request the emails on
October 27th, 2016. The emails were the suspected cause
for Comey’s email to Congress on October 28th, 2016,
announcing that the Hillary email scandal was being
reopened. However, per text messages between Strzok
and Page, the FBI knew about the emails in September
2016 and had sent a team to New York to review the
emails at that time. [The Weiner emails may be what the
Democrats are most fearful of being released to the
public.]
Here is a link to a series of tweets noted in the above video
Some Internet sleuths have put together some astounding from her Twitter account –
implications from Friday’s report when put in context with
events at the time and Weiner’s emails.

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Storyline –
Andrew McCabe was made aware of Weiner’s emails in
September 2016 but he sat on the emails for a month. After
about a month there was either unrest within the FBI or the
NYPD. Individuals who knew of Weiner’s emails are
suspected of putting pressure on the FBI to look into the
emails.
Then on October 24th, 2016, Obama’s corrupt AG Loretta
Lynch inserted a new team on the Eric Garner case in New
York. Garner was a black man who died under police
custody. There were no indictments in the Garner case but
somehow the Justice Department got involved.
According to Friday’s IG report, McCabe and AG Lynch
held a call with New York –
McCabe told the OIG that during the October 2016 time
frame, it was his “perception that there was a lot of
information coming out of likely the [FBI’s] New York
Field Office” that was ending up in the news. McCabe told
the OIG that he “had some heated back-and-forths” with
the New York Assistant Director in Charge (“NY-ADIC”)
over the issue of media leaks.
On October 26, 2016, McCabe and NY-ADIC participated
in what McCabe described as
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“a hastily convened conference call with
the Attorney General who delivered the
same message to us”
about leaks, with specific focus being on leaks regarding
the high-profile investigation by FBI’s New York Field
Office into the death of Eric Garner.
McCabe told us that he “never heard her
use more forceful language.”
NY-ADIC confirmed that the participants got
“ripped by the AG on leaks.”
Note that McCabe held the call with AG Lynch that was
“hastily convened” and McCabe said he never heard AG
Lynch “use more forceful language”. Why did McCabe
use the word “forceful”? What was she forcing? Also,
how did anyone in New York know about McCabe’s leaks
which had not yet even occurred at that time (October
30th)? The AG must have been referring to some other
leaks.
On about the same day Trump supporter Rudi Giuliani was
on FOX News noting that there were big campaign
surprises coming out in the next few days –
Two days later on October 28th, 2016, crooked FBI Head
James Comey sent a letter to Congress noting that they
were re-opening the Hillary Clinton email investigation.
A few days later as reported at Breitbart on November 4 th,
2016, Erik Prince, founder of Blackwater, was on Breitbart
radio and he said shocking things about Weiner’s emails –
Prince claimed he had insider knowledge of the
investigation that could help explain why FBI Director
James Comey had to announce he was reopening the
investigation into Clinton’s email server last week.
“Because of Weinergate and the sexting
scandal, the NYPD started investigating it.
 Through a subpoena, through a warrant, investigation in New York into Weiner’s emails. Friday’s
they searched his laptop, and sure enough, IG report confirmed that AG Lynch did discuss the Garner
found those 650,000 emails. They found case with New York and McCabe and she used ‘forceful’
way more stuff than just more information language.
pertaining to the inappropriate sexting the
guy was doing,” Prince claimed. Friday’s IG report confirms many of the statements Prince
“They found State Department emails. made just before the 2016 election.
They found a lot of other really damning
criminal information, including money Related Comments –
laundering, including the fact that Hillary
went to this sex island with convicted No wonder President Trump is so confident when calling
pedophile Jeffrey Epstein. Bill Clinton went out McCabe and Comey as the corrupt and criminal
there more than 20 times. Hillary Clinton individuals that they are. The President may know more
went there at least six times,” he said. than we do.
“The amount of garbage that they found in
these emails, of criminal activity by Hillary, No wonder President Trump calls the Mueller
by her immediate circle, and even by other investigation a ‘witch hunt’. Certainly a number of
Democratic members of Congress was so individuals worked very hard to put the unconstitutional
disgusting they gave it to the FBI, and they investigation into place. This brazen act is so disturbing
said, ‘We’re going to go public with this if that there must be a larger reason for the actions taken.
you don’t reopen the investigation and you Weiner’s emails may hold the key!
don’t do the right thing with timely
indictments,’” Prince explained. Rudi Giuliani has been very quiet this past year. He also
“I believe – I know, and this is from a very by his own admission is a specialist in racketeering
well-placed source of mine at 1PP, One prosecution and he felt the Clinton Foundation was just
Police Plaza in New York – the NYPD that.
wanted to do a press conference
announcing the warrants and the additional
arrests they were making in this
investigation, and they’ve gotten huge
pushback, to the point of coercion, from the
Justice Department, with the Justice
Department threatening to charge
someone that had been unrelated in the
accidental heart attack death of Eric Garner
almost two years ago. That’s the level of
pushback the Obama Justice Department
is doing against actually seeking justice in
the email and other related criminal
matters,” Prince said.

Prince shared that the NYPD kept a copy of all the emails
In Summary –
on Weiner’s computer, and the following –
The Obama Administration’s corrupt
Prince agreed, but said, FBI, DOJ and AG all were working to
cover-up and stop an investigation into
Anthony Weiner’s emails before the
“If people are willing to bend or break the
2016 election. An individual or a group
law and don’t really care about the
of individuals forced these crooks to
Constitution or due process – if you’re
open up the second Hillary email
willing to use Stalinist tactics against
investigation in late October. AG
someone – who knows what level of
Lynch may have tried to use the Garner
pressure” could be brought to bear against
investigation to coerce individuals in
even the most tenacious law enforcement
New York to stop looking into Weiner’s
officials?
emails. All these Obama crooks were
hoping for a Hillary win.
Prince also stated that Obama’s DOJ was trying to use the
Garner investigation as leverage to shut down the Fortunately President Trump won.

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 James Comey’s Own Friend Says ‘A Higher Loyalty’
Book Damages His Reputation And Credibility (VIDEO)
By Joshua Caplan
April 16, 2018, 11:11 Am
In an interview with CNN’s Ana Cabrera
on Monday, James Comey’s own friend,
former federal prosecutor Walter Mack,
bashed ‘A Higher Loyalty,’ over its
salacious details.
MACK:
“I would say the first thought when I
watched that last night was ‘where was his
staff?’ ‘where were those around him with
comparable experience to overcome
whatever beaten down views he had?’
Because at least my experiences that when
you feel beaten down, your decision-
making is impacted and that’s when you
need people around you to get you to think
a little bit about where your situation and
what you’re supposed to do about it.”
CABRERA:
“As we understand, this was a five-hour
interview that ABC condensed to one-hour
.
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and there was so much in it. They did
release the full transcript. Did you hear
anything or learn anything that surprised
you?”
MACK:
“Most people, such as Jim and me and
others with that experience are very
reluctant to be in produced pieces and
interviews. When I saw how edited the
interview was, and in many ways I was
wondering whether he was making the right
decision to be interviewed outside of the
legal process which he is part of right
now..”
CABRERA:
“He put himself out clearly, but then he, in
his book and some of his comments that
he’s made on air, commenting on orange
skins and small hands, if he wanted the
focus to be on what he sees as a serious
threat to the office of the presidency, why
go there? Why talk about the president’s
appearance?”
MACK:
“I’m not going to justify that, myself. The
only time I talk to the press is in the
courtroom and that is when I’m explaining
myself either to a professional and I think
you run the risk lowering your platform by
interacting and going at all personal. He
may regret it. I hope his advisors — I’m not
one of them — have considered that in
terms of how he conducts himself last night
and in the ensuing times. Whether going on
book tours and interacting and perhaps
lowering his own credibility in order to deal
with what’s coming his way, I’m not sure it
enhances his reputation.”
 Here’s Why You Should Be
Skeptical Of That Michael Cohen Prague Story
Chuck Ross and Peter Hasson - Reporters
11:40 AM 04/16/2018
U.S. President Donald Trump's personal lawyer Michael Cohen exits
a hotel in New York City, U.S., April 15, 2018. REUTERS/Lucas
Jackson
McClatchy reporters Peter Stone and Greg Gordon rocked
the political world Friday when they reported special
counsel Robert Mueller has evidence Michael Cohen,
President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer, visited Prague
in the summer of 2016.
The report appeared to confirm one of the infamous
Trump-Russia dossier’s key allegations: that Cohen met in
Prague with a Kremlin official about Russian meddling in
the 2016 presidential election. The development would be
significant because Cohen has adamantly denied making
the Prague trip.
But three days later, no other news outlet has confirmed
the report, and there are reasons to be skeptical.
A spokesperson for the special counsel’s office wouldn’t
comment on the Cohen-Prague story specifically, but told
The Daily Caller News Foundation that “many stories”
about the Russia investigation have been “inaccurate.”
“What I have been telling all reporters is
that many stories about our investigation
have been inaccurate. Be very cautious
about any source that claims to have
knowledge about our investigation and dig
deep into what they claim before reporting
on it,” the spokesperson said. “If another
outlet reports something, don’t run with it
unless you have your own sourcing to back
it up.”
Benjamin Wittes, a fierce Trump critic and ally of former
FBI Director James Comey, over the weekend urged
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caution towards the report, which he called “a little too
good.”
“The sourcing is relatively thin. It is sourced
to two sources familiar with the matter, who
are presumably not Mueller shop folks. It’s
not clear to me what the universe of people
who would know this sort of thing from a
distance looks like,” Wittes wrote on
Twitter.
“The story does not, actually, say that
Michael Cohen was, in fact, in Prague at
the relevant time. It says that Mueller’s
investigation has developed some
evidence that he was in Prague. It gives no
sense of how much evidence or what type
of evidence—or how credible it is,” he
added.
Cohen also reiterated his denial that he’s visited Prague.
“Bad reporting, bad information and bad
story by same reporter Peter Stone,” he
tweeted in response to the McClatchy
piece.
On at least three other occasions, Stone and Gordon have
reported similarly explosive — but thinly-sourced —
Trump-Russia stories that have failed to live up to the
hype. All four stories cited the same sourcing: “two
sources familiar” with the matters.
Stone and Gordon reported on March 20, 2017, that FBI
investigators were probing whether right-wing news sites,
including Breitbart and Infowars, assisted Russian cyber
operations during the 2016 election.
The next day, Stone went on MSNBC and
floated the “possibility that some of these
far right news sites might have actually in
some way collaborated with Russia as it
was endeavoring to unload this enormous
cyber attack on the United States.” He
conceded the possibility the story won’t
“pan out.”
To date, no other news outlet has confirmed that story.
In January, Stone and Gordon reported that Mueller was
investigating whether Russian banker Alexander Torshin
funneled money to the National Rifle Association to help
Trump win the 2016 presidential election.
“The extent to which the FBI has evidence
of money flowing from Torshin to the NRA,
or of the NRA’s participation in the transfer
of funds, could not be learned,” the report
conceded.
Two days later, the two reporters came out with a second
report tying the NRA to Russia. That report claimed Cleta
Mitchell, a lawyer who worked for the NRA, “had
concerns about its ties to Russia and its possible
involvement in channeling Russian funds into the 2016
elections to help Donald Trump.”
Mitchell cast doubt on both of McClatchy’s NRA-Russia
reports.
“Ms. Mitchell tells me she told McClatchy
before publication that this was false, that
she has spoken to no one about the NRA’s
actions in 2016, and that she believes the
entire NRA-Russia story line is
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preposterous,” Wall Street Journal
columnist Kimberly Strassel wrote in a
column excoriating the McClatchy reports.
“She asked the reporters to explain to
whom she supposedly said this, when and
in what context,” Strassel wrote. “They
couldn’t, but ran the story anyway. Ms.
Mitchell calls it ‘the quintessential definition
of fake news.'”
Mitchell told TheDCNF that reporters from several outlets
contacted her with the allegations about the NRA-Russia
story.
“I know that someone was pitching the
false story about me to multiple news
outlets,” she said, asserting that McClatchy
is “the only one who bit.”
“There was someone really peddling that
false story,” says Mitchell, a partner at the
firm Foley & Lardner.
Gordon told TheDCNF he and Stone stand by their reports
on NRA-Russia ties and investigations into Breitbart and
Infowars. To date, no other news organization has
confirmed those reports.
 Stephanopoulos Whines To Comey
About Costing Hillary The Election
By Kyle Drennen
April 16, 2018 11:45 AM EDT
Recapping his Sunday night interview with former FBI
Director James Comey on Monday’s Good Morning
America, ABC anchor and former Clinton White House
political operative George Stephanopoulos complained that
the ex-Bureau chief’s decision to re-open the Hillary
Clinton e-mail investigation in October of 2016 cost the
Democrat the election.
In a report at the top of the morning show, Stephanopoulos
highlighted how he grilled Comey about the Clinton
investigation:
“Comey explains his thinking on the
October surprise that Hillary Clinton
believes cost her the White House. Why
did he reveal he was re-opening the
Clinton e-mail investigation?”
The host fretted:
“You could try to find out first whether
or not they were, indeed, relevant.
Whether there was evidence there of a
crime.”
Comey replied:
“My view is that would be a potentially
deeply irresponsible and dangerous thing
to do.” Stephanopoulos pleaded: “But we
don’t know what’s in it.” Comey explained:
“We know there are hundreds of thousands
of Hillary Clinton’s e-mails there, that’s an
affirmative act of concealment.”
Stephanopoulos then ominously told viewers:
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“What the public doesn’t know at the
time is that the FBI is actively
investigating the Trump campaign, and
whether members were working with the
Russians to influence the election.”
Turning back to Comey, the anchor scolded:
“Your critics say this is a clear, clear,
clear double standard. You revealed
information about Hillary Clinton. You
concealed information about Donald
Trump. That elected Donald Trump.”
Even though Comey spent much of the hour-long
interview personally attacking President Trump,
even he admitted that it would have been
“brutally unfair” to say anything about the
investigation into the Trump campaign at
the time because “we were not
investigating Donald Trump” and “We had
just started the investigation, didn’t know
whether we had anything.”
During the ABC News special Sunday night,
Stephanopoulos also bemoaned:
“And as this heated campaign goes
down to the wire, Comey closes the
Clinton investigation for a second time.
But to the Clinton campaign, the
damage has been done.”
Sympathizing with Clinton, Stephanopoulos pressed
Comey:
“If she were sitting right here today,
what would you tell her?” Comey
objected to Clinton’s assertion in her book
that he “shivved” her: “I mean, that sounds
like I was trying to knife somebody, I was
out to get her.”
Stephanopoulos followed up:
 “If you knew that letter would elect
Donald Trump, you’d still send it?”
Comey assured him: “I would. Down that
path lies the death of the FBI as an
independent force in American life. If I ever
start considering whose political fortunes
will be affected by a decision, we’re done.”
While Stephanopoulos interrogated Comey when it came
to his treatment of Hillary Clinton, the former Clinton hack
had no problem teeing up the former FBI director to
repeatedly slam Trump and even allowed him to give a
“free political commercial” against the President.
Here is a transcript of the April 16 exchange aired on
Monday’s GMA:
7:04 AM ET
(...)
GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS: Comey explains his thinking on
the October surprise that Hillary Clinton believes cost her the
White House. Why did he reveal he was re-opening the Clinton
e-mail investigation?
HILLARY CLINTON: We knew about it is, I assume, when you
knew about it.
STEPHANOPOULOS: He says he had no choice after additional
e-mails were found on the computer of Anthony Weiner, husband
of one of Clinton’s top aides.
You could try to find out first whether or not they were, indeed,
relevant. Whether there was evidence there of a crime.
JAMES COMEY: Well, maybe. And maybe another director might
have done that. My view is that would be a potentially deeply
irresponsible and dangerous thing to do.
STEPHANOPOULOS: But we don’t know what’s in it.
COMEY: We know there are hundreds of thousands of Hillary
Clinton’s e-mails there, that’s an affirmative act of concealment.
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STEPHANOPOULOS: What the public doesn’t know at the time
is that the FBI is actively investigating the Trump campaign, and
whether members were working with the Russians to influence
the election.
Your critics say this is a clear, clear, clear double standard. You
revealed information about Hillary Clinton. You concealed
information about Donald Trump. That elected Donald Trump.
COMEY: Take a step back and stare at the two cases and the
posture they were in. The Hillary Clinton e-mail case was public
and the counterintelligence investigation was trying to figure out
whether a small group of people, not Donald Trump, we were not
investigating Donald Trump – whether this small group of
Americans was coordinating anything with the Russians. We had
just started the investigation, didn’t know whether we had
anything. So it would have been brutally unfair to those people to
talk about it and it would have jeopardized the investigation.
(...)
Here is an excerpt of the exchange aired during the Sunday ABC
special:
10:22 PM ET
(...)
GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS: And as this heated campaign
goes down to the wire, Comey closes the Clinton investigation for
a second time. But to the Clinton campaign, the damage has
been done.
HILLARY CLINTON: If the election had been on October 27th, I’d
be your president.
STEPHANOPOULOS: If she were sitting right here today, what
would you tell her?
JAMES COMEY: As Hillary Clinton wrote in her book, I “shivved”
her? I mean, that sounds like I was trying to knife somebody, I
was out to get her. And it’s illustration of our polarization here
that you’ve got the Trump camp, which I guess thinks I was trying
to save Hillary Clinton. I would hope both camps will read this
and, I hope, see a deeply flawed human surrounded by other
flawed humans trying to make decisions with an eye, not on
politics, but on those higher values.
STEPHANOPOULOS: If you knew that letter would elect Donald
Trump, you’d still send it?
COMEY: I would. Down that path lies the death of the FBI as an
independent force in American life. If I ever start considering
whose political fortunes will be affected by a decision, we’re
done. We’re just another player in the tribal battle.
(...)
 Naturally: CBS Turns To
Hillary Clinton’s VP Nominee For Comey Reaction
By Scott Whitlock
April 16, 2018 12:58 PM EDT

Who better than Hillary Clinton’s vice presidential You said after his decision to reinitiate the investigation
nominee to respond to James Comey’s book tour? Tim into Hillary Clinton’s e-mail, “This was a very serious
Kaine and fellow partisan Democrat Adam Schiff were the error in judgment.” The Republicans are using that now.
only politicians brought on CBS This Morning, Monday, to So if he is capable of that serious an error in judgment,
comment on Comey’s hour-long interview on ABC. Co- why should people listen to him now?
host John Dickerson tossed this softball to the man who
was almost vice president: “Let me ask you about James
Comey. Hillary Clinton said he shivved her. How are
we supposed to take this new revelation?”

Dickerson offered criticism from Comey, but only when it

was about the ex-FBI Director possibly causing Clinton to
lose: “He said he had to speak out to make sure there was
integrity for her presidency. Is that part of his job as the
FBI director?”

If Dickerson was really interested in this question,

however, he might have had someone other than liberal
Democrats to react to Comey.

A transcript of the Comey interview is below. Click

“expand” to read.

CBS This Morning

4/16/18

Co-host Norah O’Donnell sympathized: “Do you think 7:14am ET

[Comey reopening the investigation] impacted the
election?”

In the 8am hour, Schiff, the ranking Democrat on the

House Intelligence Committee, appeared. O’Donnell
offered ANOTHER softball: “Your committee is
investigating Russian interference. So, you're familiar with
what Comey has said in the past. What did you learn from
his interview?”

Pushing Comey’s talking points, she added:

Something the FBI director did is he hinted at the

possibility that the Russians have something that could JOHN DICKERSON: Let me ask you about James Comey.
blackmail President Trump but he offered no evidence. Hillary Clinton said he shivved her. How are we supposed to take
Based on everything you've seen, what is your take? this new revelation?

Finally, Dickerson probed into Comey’s credibility: SENATOR TIM KAINE: I don't think Jim Comey was trying to
effect the outcome of the election. I think he made a real blunder
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by violating two rules the FBI had with Hillary Clinton and
following two rules with Donald Trump. The FBI had two rules.
Don't talk about the pending litigation and don't put controversial
material before the public right before an election. He did that
with Hillary Clinton. He didn’t do it with respect to Donald Trump.
I think it was more about protecting his reputation than it was
about trying to effect the outcome of the election.
DICKERSON: He said he had to speak out to make sure there
was integrity for her presidency. Is that part of his job as the FBI
Director?
KAINE: No, it's not part of his job, but if was going to do that, why
wouldn’t he have spoke out about the Trump investigation?
Which had been ongoing at the FBI as well. There is a clear
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double standard. But, look, I believe he was not trying to impact
the outcome of the election. I think he was trying to protect his
own reputation.
NORAH O’DONNELL: Do you think it impacted the election?
KAINE: There were a lot of things that did. And I suspect it had
some impact. But I walked back into my Senate office five days
after I introduced Hillary in New York for her concession speech
and when I crossed the mantle into my office I realized this job
has gotten much more important than it was before the election.
So I'm focused on things like Syria, trying to rein in an executive
who wants to wage war without Congress. That’s what I’m
focused on.
 ‘What A Self-Centered Jacka**’:
FBI Insiders Are Savaging James Comey’s
Interview With ABC
By Joshua Caplan
April 16, 2018, 1:06 Pm
James Comey, call your former office —
or better yet, don’t — because some of
your ex-colleagues may want to have a
word with you. A new report says
several FBI insiders are none too
pleased with the fired bureau Director’s
interview on ABC.
Real Clear Life reports:
Former FBI director James Comey’s
interview with George Stephanopoulos that
aired on ABC on Sunday night has angered
Comey’s former agents, according to The
Daily Beast. Seven current or former FBI
agents and officials spoke with Daily
Beast during and after the interview aired.
“Hoover is spinning in his grave,” said one
former FBI official. “Making money from
total failure.”
Between segments, a promo aired about Comey’s
upcoming interview with The View. One official didn’t like
this, texting the Daily Beast, “Good lord, what a self-
serving self-centered jackass. True to form he thinks he’s
the smartest guy around.”
One longtime Comey source, a current FBI agent, started
off sending multiple thumbs up emojis at the beginning of
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the interview, but then sent a frowny face, a nauseous
emoji and a poop emoji.
As it turns out, Comey’s own friend isn’t impressed with
the fired FBI Director, either.
In an interview with CNN’s Ana Cabrera on Monday,
Comey pal and former federal prosecutor Walter Mack,
bashed “A Higher Loyalty,” over its salacious details.
MACK: “I would say the first thought when I watched that last
night was ‘where was his staff?’ ‘where were those around him
with comparable experience to overcome whatever beaten down
views he had?’ Because at least my experiences that when you
feel beaten down, your decision-making is impacted and that’s
when you need people around you to get you to think a little bit
about your situation and what you’re supposed to do about it.”
CABRERA: “As we understand, this was a five-hour interview
that ABC condensed to one-hour and there was so much in it.
They did release the full transcript. Did you hear anything or learn
anything that surprised you?”
MACK: “Most people, such as Jim and me and others with that
experience are very reluctant to be in produced pieces and
interviews. When I saw how edited the interview was, and in
many ways I was wondering whether he was making the right
decision to be interviewed outside of the legal process which he
is part of right now..”
CABRERA: “He put himself out clearly, but then he, in his book
and some of his comments that he’s made on air, commenting on
orange skin and small hands, if he wanted the focus to be on
what he sees as a serious threat to the office of the presidency,
why go there? Why talk about the president’s appearance?”
MACK: “I’m not going to justify that, myself. The only time I talk
to the press is in the courtroom and that is when I’m explaining
myself either to a professional and I think you run the risk
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lowering your platform by interacting and going at all personal.
He may regret it. I hope his advisors — I’m not one of them —
have considered that in terms of how he conducts himself last
night and in the ensuing times. Whether going on book tours and
interacting and perhaps lowering his own credibility in order to
deal with what’s coming his way, I’m not sure it enhances his
reputation.”
 Stelter Mocks RNC Chair As 'Pretty Funny' For Not
Reading Comey Book In Advance
By Tim Graham
April 16, 2018 1:13 PM EDT
On Sunday's Reliable Sources, CNN host Brian Stelter
mocked Republican National Committee chairwoman
Ronna McDaniel for condemning the Jim Comey book on
Friday without reading it. "You have go to read the book
first," Stelter cracked. But who in America already has the
Comey book, when it comes out on Tuesday? It's being
discussed ad infinitum by non-readers. He set up a snippet
from The Lead on Friday and called it "pretty funny."
BRIAN STELTER: Jennifer Palmieri, back to you one on
one other element of this, the attempt to discredit James
Comey and make him out to be anything but an ethical
American who is worried about what's going on. This is
what Ronna McDaniel said to Jake Tapper in an interview
the other day:
RONNA McDANIEL: I think this book is salacious. I
think, when you read it, he discredits himself. I think the
very fact...
JAKE TAPPER: Have you read it?
McDANIEL: No, I haven't read it.
STELTER: You know, that's pretty funny, I have to admit.
Rule number one is, you GOTTA read the book first, or
you are going to get caught. But that aside, that
embarrassment aside, will these attacks be effective?
This is an odd rule when almost everyone commenting on
the Comey book hasn't read it yet. Has Stelter read the
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book yet? Certainly, the publisher didn't send book-
reviewer copies to the Republican Party headquarters. Is
she supposed to say "I'll get back to you next Thursday"
while everyone else has an opinion on Comey?
It turns out that Stelter did a bit of a hatchet job on the
Tapper interview, where McDaniel made the obvious point
that we can judge the book by the excerpts the publisher
thought were most fascinating/sales-boosting:
McDANIEL: He [Trump] had three meetings, that is it,
with James Comey, three in-person meetings. He and spent
time with him, he heard of this reputation, and as he got to
know James Comey and as he worked with him he
concluded this was not somebody fit for office, and he
fired him. I mean, obviously, the President came to a
different conclusion once he worked with James Comey. I
think this book is salacious. I think when you read it he
discredits himself. I think the very fact --
TAPPER: Have you read it?
MCDANIEL: No. I haven't read it, but the excerpts I'm
hearing, the very fact that he's saying that he used polling
to determine whether he went to the public and disclosed
opening an investigation, something that is unprecedented
in FBI history. I think that discredits him completely. It's
partisan, that he made a determination that Hillary Clinton
was going to win so that he had to take it upon himself to
take away any taint from her office as presidency. Some of
the descriptions he used are salacious. I think it's worth
pointing out that he has a credibility issue and that's what
we're trying to do at the RNC with our website.
Tapper threw hardballs at McDaniel over how the RNC
can position itself as a moral authority: "Minutes ago, you
accepted the resignation of Elliott Broidy, the deputy
finance chair of the RNC after The Wall Street Journal
broke the news that a different deputy finance director of
the RNC, Michael Cohen, also President Trump's personal
lawyer, negotiated a $1.6 million payout to a Playboy
model that Broidy impregnated while married."
 TOM FITTON: Comey Says HUNDREDS OF
THOUSANDS Of Hillary Emails Were Found On Weiner
Laptop – Judicial Watch Was Told Only 72,000
By Cristina Laila
April 16, 2018, 1:15 Pm
Fired FBI Director James Comey held
his first interview on ABC Sunday night
promoting his new book, “A Higher
Loyalty.”
Not one hardball was thrown at Comey,
naturally since Stephanopoulos is a
long time Democrat operative and
Clinton sycophant.
Comey just doesn’t know when to shut
up.
James Comey told Stephanopoulos in a
Sunday evening interview there were
hundreds of thousands of Hillary’s
emails found on Weiner’s laptop.
Transcript via ABC:
GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS: At the
same time, the Hillary Clinton email
investigation comes back. When did you
first know you were going to have to deal
with this again?
JAMES COMEY: Really, October 27th.
Somebody earlier in October, the b– in the
beginning of October sometime, mentioned
to me that there may be a connection
between emails found on Anthony Weiner’s
laptop and the Clinton email investigation. I
don’t remember.
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GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS: Was this
Andrew McCabe?
JAMES COMEY: I think it was Andy
McCabe, but I’m not certain. I didn’t store
that in any prominent place in my brain
’cause how could that possibly be true?
GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS: But how
could that not be something you
remember?
JAMES COMEY: That’s a great question. I
think the answer is because how could that
possibly be true? How could there be a
connection between Anthony Weiner’s
laptop and Hillary Clinton’s emails? And so
I think it was sort of a passing comment to
me, and I’m sure I stored it away thinking,
“Okay, well, that doesn’t make any sense,
but I’m sure they’ll tell me if it does.” And
they did. They c–
GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS: It’s l– it’s
led your critics to say that the FBI, for
several weeks, sat on the knowledge that
they had several thousand Hillary Clinton
emails.
JAMES COMEY: Yeah, more than
several thousand, hundreds–
GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS:
Hundreds of thousands.
JAMES COMEY: –-of thousands on
Anthony Weiner’s laptop. And I don’t
know the answer to that criticism. I don’t
know whether the Bureau team could have
moved faster to– to bring it to me for a
decision. All I know is that they did bring it
to me on the morning of October 27th. And
so, there’s an inspector general
investigation going on– about our work on
that investigation. I’m sure they’ll say,
which I think is great. But I don’t know the
answer to that now–
President of Judicial Watch Tom Fitton pointed out the
State Department and FBI previously told the watchdog
group 72,000 pages of Hillary documents were found on 72,000 pages of documents. Have we been
Weiner’s laptop. lied to again by State and FBI?
@RealDonalTrump should ask!
So which is it?

Via Judicial Watch in a January 2018 update:

Last year, the FBI uncovered 72,000 pages

of documents Clinton attempted to delete
or did not otherwise disclose. The State
Department had been processing the
documents at a rate that would have
required Judicial Watch and the American
people to wait until at least 2020 to see all
the releasable Clinton material.
The court also ordered the State
Department to identify and explain the
basis for all documents withheld in full from
both the 55,000 pages of emails turned
over by Clinton and the 72,000 pages of
records recovered by the FBI which have
been processed thus far by April 6, 2018.

Tom Fitton tweeted:

So Comey says “hundreds of thousands” of

Clinton emails on Weiner laptop. This is
news to @JudicialWatch–we were told
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California Backtracks: Refuses President Trump’s Request
To Deploy National Guard Along Border
By Lucian Wintrich
April 16, 2018, 2:00 Pm
As previously reported by Gateway Pundit, California
governor Jerry Brown initially agreed to President
Trump’s plan of deploying the National Guard along the
swiss-cheese like border between California and Mexico
which resulted in rare praise from the President on Twitter:
President Trump thanked Governor Jerry Brown for
sending the National Guard to the California-Mexico
border. Despite Gov. Brown agreeing to accept federal
funds and add about 400 troops, Brown asserted that the
deployed troops will only be used to “support operations
targeting transnational criminal gangs, human traffickers
and illegal firearm and drug smugglers” and not be used
for “enforcing federal immigration laws.” Also in his
statement, Gov Brown stated,
“This will not be a mission to build a new
wall. It will not be a mission to round up
women and children or detain people
escaping violence and seeking a better
life.”
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Well, it looks like what we speculated would happen did
happen as legislators in the state have now refused the
National Guard’s presence because it is considered too
“closely tied to immigration enforcement.”
More Via ABC News10:
Troops will not be allowed to fix and repair
vehicles, operate remotely-controlled
surveillance cameras to report suspicious
activity to the Border Patrol, operate radios
and provide “mission support,” which can
include clerical work, buying gas and
handling payroll, the state reportedly told
federal officials. State insiders with
knowledge of the talks spoke on condition
of anonymity because they were not
authorized to discuss the matter. […]
Evan Westrup, a spokesman for the governor, did not
immediately answer detailed question about California’s
rejection of specific guard duties.
Talks between U.S. and California officials about the
duties the California troops would perform soured Friday
and over the weekend after state authorities told federal
officials that they would not participate in vehicle
maintenance and the other jobs outlined for an initial phase
across the border in California, Arizona, New Mexico and
Texas, the U.S. officials said. The other border-state
governors — all Republicans — have openly embraced
Trump’s plans.
The state’s position infuriated some federal officials
because the restrictions California officials wanted to
impose on what the state’s troops would not do were
considered onerous, the officials said.
 Mccabe, Hillary And The Steele Dossier:
Excellent Questions ABC’s George Stephanopoulos
Failed To Ask James Comey
By Joshua Caplan
April 16, 2018, 2:02 Pm

On Monday, the Wall Street Journal’s

Kimberley Strassel tweeted out a list of
excellent questions that ABC’s George
Stephanopoulos failed to ask fired FBI
Director James Comey during an
interview that aired Sunday.

“Did you know Mr. Steele had been hired

by Fusion GPS? Did FBI do any due
diligence on Fusion, and discover its long
record of being hired to dirty the
reputations of its clients’ political foes? If
not, why not?”

“A few questions @Comey should have

been asked–but wasn’t,” began Strassel.

“You repeatedly note the “source” of the

dossier (Steele) was “credible.” Does the
FBI routinely view as “credible” sources
hired by political operatives? You say
Steele had a “track record” but did fact he
was now working for politicals–in an
election year–not concern you?”
“You say you knew dossier was funded by
a “Democrat-aligned” group but you never
knew which one. Why on earth not? Did
FBI truly not care where info came from?
Who was paying for it? Doesn’t this go
direct to source credibility?”

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“Did you ask Steele who had ultimately
hired him? If he claimed to not know
wouldn’t that be worrisome–that a
“credible” source (and former spy!) was
willing to work for/benefit an unknown
client? If by contrast he refused to tell you,
doesn’t that undercut credibility?”
“You claim the “effort” was originally
financed by a Republican source. You are
aware, correct, that the actual dossier effort
was only ever financed by the DNC and
Clinton campaign?”
“Steele (by his own admission) handed info
to FBI and then briefed press–despite
having been told not to Are these the
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actions of a “credible” source? Does it
concern you that your “credible” source
blew open to the public your investigation?”
“The FBI must’ve known the fall news
stories–particularly Yahoo News–came
from Steele. Sourcing was obvious. Yet
you told FISA court your “credible” source
had not talked to media. Either u didn’t
follow up on stories before going to court,
or Steele lied to you. Which?”
“You say nobody should ever lie to FBI. If
Mr. Steele did lie, why has he not been
prosecuted?”
“You admit dossier still “unverified” at the
time you were fired. Yet you used specific
unverified claims in it (Page) as basis of
FISA warrant four times. Explain.”
“You say what mattered was dossier’s
central “premise”–that Russia attempted to
interfere in election. Can you name a time
in modern history where Russia wasn’t
doing that? So why then give special
credence to a politically motivated,
salacious dossier?”
“Please discuss Andrew McCabe and that
IG report that finds he lied repeatedly–both
to you and about you. Do you still believe
he “stood tall” as you Tweeted in Jan? Or is
he one of the “small people” helping “tear
down” an institution?”

“Again, given your strong feelings about

lying: Why did the FBI never take any
follow up action against Huma Abedin,
whose statements to FBI are at odds with
emails FBI possessed?”
“You say you believe in “chain of
command” and note how you followed AG
Lynch’s instructions even on questionable
issues (like that “matter”). How do you
explain your contrasting dismissal of AG
Sessions authority, and your decision to
conceal vital information from him?”

“Also on lying: FBI usually interviews

witnesses up front, to see if they lie at start.
Why did u not interview Clinton until after
whole YEAR of work, and after you’d made
judgement? U say impt FBI treats everyone
same. Why all the special Hillary interview
accomodations?”

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 “You justify your numerous releases of FBI
information on grounds that each met high
bar of serving “public interest.” Yet you saw
no “public interest” in confirming publicly
what you’d told Trump privately–that he
was not under investigation?”
win, worry of “illegitimate” prez. Does this
not run directly counter to DOJ policy,
which specifically states: “politics must play
no role in the decisions of federal
investigators”?”

“It seems many of your decisions factored

in politics. IE you note expecting Clinton to

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 Former FBI Assistant Director Rips
James Comey Over ‘Salacious’ ABC Interview
By Joshua Caplan
April 16, 2018, 2:22 Pm
Former FBI Assistant Director Ron
Hosko isn’t too happy with fired bureau
Director James Comey. In an interview
with the Daily Caller, Hosko lays out
why he thinks the sit-down will end up
making the job of current FBI Director
Christopher Wray more difficult.
Former FBI director James Comey’s nearly five-hour
interview with ABC News’ George Stephanopoulos is
raising concerns among veteran members of the FBI, three
veterans tell The Daily Caller.
“I’m troubled by the timing of the book and
some of the content that has been reported
because I think it diminishes him” former
assistant director of the FBI Ron Hosko
tells TheDC.
Hosko took particular exception with Comey’s detailed
description of President Donald Trump’s appearance,
including his likely use of tanning goggles, his hand size,
and the length of his ties.
“To me that kind of salacious commentary
diminishes Jim Comey, raises more
questions about his true desire here,”
Hosko continued.
He added that Comey is a “carrier of the FBI brand” and is
making the job of current FBI Director Wray much more
difficult.
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“Director Wray would rather be answering
questions on the FBI’s current work, its
mission, priorities, and challenges rather
than having this rather cloud on his
horizon, questions about Jim Comey.”
Hosko also warned that Comey’s animus to the President
displayed in the interview would stoke accusations that a
“deep state” is attempting to undermine Trump and his
administration.
As it turns out, Comey’s own friend isn’t impressed with
the fired FBI Director, either.
In an interview with CNN’s Ana Cabrera on Monday,
Comey pal and former federal prosecutor Walter Mack,
bashed “A Higher Loyalty,” over its salacious details.
MACK: “I would say the first thought when I watched that last
night was ‘where was his staff?’ ‘where were those around him
with comparable experience to overcome whatever beaten down
views he had?’ Because at least my experiences that when you
feel beaten down, your decision-making is impacted and that’s
when you need people around you to get you to think a little bit
about your situation and what you’re supposed to do about it.”
CABRERA: “As we understand, this was a five-hour interview
that ABC condensed to one-hour and there was so much in it.
They did release the full transcript. Did you hear anything or learn
anything that surprised you?”
MACK: “Most people, such as Jim and me and others with that
experience are very reluctant to be in produced pieces and
interviews. When I saw how edited the interview was, and in
many ways, I was wondering whether he was making the right
decision to be interviewed outside of the legal process which he
is part of right now..”
CABRERA: “He put himself out clearly, but then he, in his book
and some of his comments that he’s made on air, commenting on
orange skin and small hands, if he wanted the focus to be on
what he sees as a serious threat to the office of the presidency,
why go there? Why talk about the president’s appearance?”
.
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MACK: “I’m not going to justify that, myself. The only time I talk
to the press is in the courtroom and that is when I’m explaining
myself either to a professional and I think you run the risk
lowering your platform by interacting and going at all personal.
He may regret it. I hope his advisors — I’m not one of them —
have considered that in terms of how he conducts himself last
night and in the ensuing times. Whether going on book tours and
interacting and perhaps lowering his own credibility in order to
deal with what’s coming his way, I’m not sure it enhances his
reputation.”
 ‘Shaking Their Heads:’
FBI Veterans Share Concerns On Comey Interview
Saagar Enjeti - White House Correspondent
2:24 PM 04/16/2018
Former FBI director James Comey’s nearly five-hour
interview with ABC News’ George Stephanopoulos is
raising concerns among veteran members of the FBI, three
veterans tell The Daily Caller.
“I’m troubled by the timing of the book and
some of the content that has been reported
because I think it diminishes him” former
assistant director of the FBI Ron Hosko
tells TheDC. Hosko took particular
exception with Comey’s detailed
description of President Donald Trump’s
appearance, including his likely use of
tanning goggles, his hand size, and the
length of his ties.
“To me that kind of salacious commentary
diminishes Jim Comey, raises more
questions about his true desire here,”
Hosko continued. He added that Comey is
a “carrier of the FBI brand” and is making
the job of current FBI Director Wray much
more difficult.
“Director Wray would rather be answering
questions on the FBI’s current work, its
mission, priorities, and challenges rather
than having this rather cloud on his
horizon, questions about Jim Comey.”
Hosko also warned that Comey’s animus to
the president displayed in the interview
would stoke accusations that a “deep state”
is attempting to undermine Trump and his
administration.
FILE PHOTO: Former FBI Director James Comey prepares to
testify before a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on “Russian
Federation Efforts to Interfere in the 2016 U.S. Elections” on Capitol
Hill in Washington, June 8, 2017. REUTERS/Jim Bourg/File Photo
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Robert Anderson, former executive assistant director of the
FBI, noted to TheDC that he believes Comey is a “good
man” that he “loved working for him” but expressed
concern over his decision to speak about an ongoing
investigation.
“Usually you don’t have anybody in the FBI
talking about ongoing investigations,”
Anderson said, adding that “if Jim says
something in one interview, then says
something in his book thats different, then
gives a different version of it in another
interview, and they use him as a witness
which I’m sure they will, then that could
become a problem” for the Russia
investigation.
Anderson continued that
“the biggest thing that bothers me about
the interview itself is that Jim is talking
about some of the issues he discussed with
the president in confidence, thats a little
shocking…that the former head of the FBI
would do that.”
The former executive assistant director noted that to him it
showed that Comey felt so strongly that Trump is unfit for
office that he was willing to break the usual norms of
conduct for a former FBI Director.
Former FBI special agent and 25-year veteran Jack Garcia
was particularly scathing after Comey’s interview. “This
man has tarnished that position by offering positions and
attacking the president of the United States,” he declared
to TheDC, adding that it was “insane” for the former FBI
director to offer an opinion on whether the Russian
government had compromising information on Trump.
“Our mission and our job is only to state the
facts, we don’t state opinions,” he declared,
joking that “opinions are like assholes,
everybody has one” and that “I am in touch
with a lot of agents both current and
former, they’re just shaking their heads.”
Garcia also took exception with Comey’s use of personal
memos to memorialize private conversations with Trump
and subsequently leaking them via a third party to The
New York Times.
“A man’s man would just go back and listen
and say, ‘This is wrong what happened
.
here’ or memorialize it in a proper
document,” he said, adding “you have
these amazing men and women in the FBI,
if you really believe something is going on
then sick them on him.”

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 GOP Lawmaker To Hold Special Order On House Floor
Tonight Detailing Case For Second Special Counsel To
Investigate Obama’s FISA Abuse
By Cristina Laila
April 16, 2018, 2:37 Pm
Rep Lee Zeldin (R-NY) just announced
he will be leading a Special Order on the
House Floor Monday night at 7 PM EST
detailing a case for a second Special
Counsel to be appointed to investigate
Obama’s FISA abuse.
Zeldin also wants to know how/why the
Clinton probe ended and how/why the
Trump-Russia investigation began.
At the time of this publication, 5
Freedom Caucus members are
confirmed speakers for Monday night’s
Special Order on the House floor.
Rep. Lee Zeldin tweeted:
Tonight, sometime in 7PM hour, I’ll be
leading a Special Order on House Floor,
joined by other Members, detailing case for
a 2nd Special Counsel to be appointed re
FISA Abuse, how/why Clinton probe ended
& Trump-Russia probe began.
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5 Freedom Caucus members will be joining Zeldin:
Confirmed Speakers for tonight’s Special Order on House
Floor detailing case for 2nd Special Counsel include
@RepMarkMeadows @Jim_Jordan @RepMattGaetz
@RepTenney & @replouiegohmert. Stay tuned for further
updates & watch live sometime in 7PM hour
In late February, Rep Lee Zeldin (R-NY) sent a letter to
AWOL Attorney General Jeff Sessions urging him appoint
a Special Counsel to investigate FISA abuses and
how/why Hillary’s probe ended and Trump’s Russia probe
began.
The letter reads (partial transcript):
As you know, evidence has come to light
that raises serious concerns about
decisions and activities by leadership at the
highest levels of the DOJ and FBI
regarding how and why the Clinton probe
ended and how and why the Trump Russia
probe began. Additionally, important
questions have been raised with regards to
FISA warrants targeting U.S. citizen Carter
Page. We write you to urge you today to
appoint a Special Counsel to investigate
these decisions and activities.
Initially 13 GOP Reps total signed Zeldin’s letter.
In late March, Rep Lee Zeldin announced House Majority
Whip Steve Scalise and GOP House Majority Leader
Kevin McCarthy both signed his letter demanding a U.S. Attorney John Huber was
second special counsel. first appointed to his position by Barack
Obama in 2015.
AG Sessions appointed a special prosecutor named John
Huber to investigate Obama’s FISA abuse.

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 BREAKING: Sean Hannity Responds After
Deep State Alleges He Was Michael Cohen’s 3rd Client
By Cristina Laila
April 16, 2018, 2:58 Pm

Sean Hannity responded to yet another

attack from the Deep State Monday
alleging he was Michael Cohen’s 3rd
client.

The New York Post:

Sean Hannity sent out tweets as well
addressing the Cohen drama.
The mysterious third client of President
Trump’s embattled personal lawyer Michael
Hannity tweeted:
Cohen was revealed Monday as Fox News
host Sean Hannity.
Michael Cohen has never represented me
Cohen was ordered to appear in court by in any matter. I never retained him,
Judge Kimba Wood and cough up received an invoice, or paid legal fees. I
Hannity’s name as part of the investigation have occasionally had brief discussions
into $130,000 in hush money Cohen paid with him about legal questions about which
to porn star Stormy Daniels, who allegedly I wanted his input and perspective.
had an affair with Trump in 2006.

Cohen fought against having to reveal the confidential list

— all of three clients — as part of a bid to block the feds
from reviewing documents that could be protected under
attorney-client privilege.

His lawyer Steve Ryan argued — in vain — that the

unnamed third client is a “publicly prominent individual”
who didn’t want to be associated with the ongoing
investigation into Cohen’s business dealings.
Part two:
Sean Hannity said on his radio show Monday he has never
retained Michael Cohen, never paid Cohen and Cohen has
never represented him. He only asked Cohen for advice. I assumed those conversations were
confidential, but to be absolutely clear they
never involved any matter between me and
a third-party.

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 The question must be asked about the judge on this case…
Part three:

In response to some wild speculation, let

me make clear that I did not ask Michael
Cohen to bring this proceeding on my
behalf, I have no personal interest in this
proceeding, and, in fact, asked that my de
minimis discussions with Michael Cohen,

From legal insurrection:

Part four:

which dealt almost exclusively about real

estate, not be made a part of this
proceeding.
Story developing…
.

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 FOX NEWS: Justice Department IG Horowitz Asked To
Testify As Clinton Probe Report Looms
By Joshua Caplan
April 16, 2018, 3:39 Pm
Fox News reports that the month of May
could be shaping up to be an important
one for Justice Department Inspector
General Michael Horowitz.
Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz
expects his wide-ranging report on the FBI and DOJ’s
handling of the Hillary Clinton email probe to be finished
next month and has been asked to testify before the House
oversight committee on May 8, according to letters
reviewed by Fox News.
Horowitz addressed the timing in a letter to Senator
Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa.
He wrote that the report, which began in January 2017
with bipartisan support, has been extended due to
“potentially important additional information and
documents that recently came to our attention, and the
interviews they have required us to conduct.” Horowitz
continued, “my expectation is that we will issue our report
in May, absent any new developments.”
As reported by NBC News, the Inspector General found
that “former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe
“lacked candor” on multiple occasions, violated the dept.’s
media policy and constituted misconduct.”
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Fox News has more:
The report, handed over to Congress on Friday and
obtained by Fox News, looked at a leak to The Wall Street
Journal about the FBI’s probe into the Clinton Foundation.
The report says McCabe misled investigators about leaks
and did so in a way that did not fall under a “public
interest” exemption.
“[W]e concluded that McCabe’s decision to confirm the
existence of the CF investigation through an anonymously
sourced quote, recounting the content of a phone call with
a senior department official in a manner designed to
advance his personal interests at the expense of department
leadership, was clearly not within the public interest
exception,” the report says.
Last Friday, details of Justice Department Inspector
General Michael Horowitz’s report were released. One of
the ‘big finds’ show then-Deputy FBI Director Andrew
McCabe reprimanded bureau officials for leaks he was
responsible for.
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 WAYNE ALLYN ROOT: Sexual Mccarthyism
By Assistant Editor
April 16, 2018, 3:55 Pm
“The Special Counselor is sex obsessed.
You can’t impeach a president over his
private sex life. Having affairs isn’t a crime.
The American people don’t care. The
prosecutor is over-reaching. The American
people elected our president based on his
politics, not his personal life. They don’t
care about his sex life. This is ‘Sexual
McCarthyism.’ The special prosecutor is a
‘sex pervert.’ He is jealous of the president.
This is a political and sexual witch-hunt.”
Yes, these charges all apply to Robert Mueller. But I’ve
heard all of this before. Every charge above came direct
from the liberal playbook defending President Bill Clinton
from the Ken Starr investigation. I was there. I’m a
witness. Every liberal friend and colleague I knew back in
1998 used these exact words. They all called Ken Starr a
“sex pervert” and branded his investigation of Bill Clinton
“a sexual witch-hunt based on partisan politics.”
But it wasn’t just average everyday liberals who cried “sex
pervert.” It was liberal celebrities and high-profile
Democrat politicians too. I know. I was a regular guest on
Bill Maher’s “Politically Incorrect” on ABC TV back in
the late 1990’s. I debated about the Bill Clinton-Ken Starr
investigation nonstop. Liberal celebs called Ken Starr a
“sex pervert.” They said he had no right to “politicize our
president’s sex life and make it into an impeachable
crime.”
But wait, it gets better. “The Village Voice” was New York
City’s famous newspaper for the liberal gay community.
Their headline in 1998 about the Ken Starr investigation
was “Sexual McCarthyism.” So, liberals in 1998
compared an investigation into a president’s sex life by a
special prosecutor, to the Senator McCarthy witch-hunt of
the 1950’s.
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Now let’s compare Bill Clinton’s sex scandal with
President Trump’s. Clinton’s scandal was the people’s
business. It was worthy of an investigation. Clinton had
sex while being paid by taxpayers, while in the White
House. Clinton had sex with a White House intern, in the
oval office. Then he lied about it under oath. He did
commit crimes. Clinton’s sex with an intern would today
be called “sexual assault.” The liberal feminist #metoo
movement would demand impeachment. Ken Starr’s
investigation was certainly warranted.
Today Robert Mueller has turned an investigation of
“Russian Collusion” that never happened into a sexual
witch-hunt. This truly is “Sexual McCarthyism.” Mueller
has even destroyed attorney-client privilege with a raid on
Trump’s lawyer’s office, home and hotel suite to
investigate possible affairs with Stormy Daniels and
Playboy Playmate Karen McDougal, and Trump’s “Access
Hollywood” videotape. My math says his investigation is
about sex, sex and sex. This is now a “Triple X”
investigation.
Unlike Clinton, all three incidents happened to a private
citizen Trump, before he was president. The sex was
consensual. None of this involves the American people. It
may be Melania’s business, but it’s not yours or mine, or
Robert Mueller’s.
Yes, in a few rare instances attorney-client privilege has
been broken in the history of America. Maybe for a mob
lawyer protecting a mass murderer…or a lawyer hiding
evidence on behalf of a billionaire drug trafficker…or a
terrorism case.
But never before in American legal history has a lawyer
been raided by the federal government on the basis of sex
affairs, minor FEC infractions, or a videotape of a private
citizen bragging to a TV host about sex with beautiful
women.
This is absurd. This is CHILLING. This is Soviet Gulag
tactics. This is criminal. I’m talking about Robert Mueller.
The system is rigged. If this attack on attorney-client
privilege stands, none of us can trust our attorney ever
again. If the government can raid my lawyer over minor
infractions and read my confidential privileged
conversations with my lawyer, and try to pressure my
lawyer to turn against me (for any reason) then America is
lost. The Judicial System is gone. We are all finished. If
politics and sex can be used as weapons by a Special
Counselor, and the ACLU and Bar Association say
nothing, we are a Banana Republic. Stalin would be proud.
We can all debate whether the Bill Clinton investigation
was justified. Whether Ken Starr over-reached. But today,
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there is no debate. Mueller’s investigation is a travesty. If
liberals called Ken Starr a “sex pervert” what dopes that
make Mueller? He is over-reaching. The American people
won’t stand for this. Mueller’s approval ratings are
plunging. For good reason…
This truly is “Sexual McCarthyism.”
 Buckle Up: Chris Cuomo, Kellyanne Conway
Come To Blows In Latest Duel On Jim Comey, Russia
By Curtis Houck
April 16, 2018 4:05 PM EDT
For the umpteenth time, Counselor to President Trump
Kellyanne Conway battled CNN host Chris Cuomo during
Monday’s New Day in a marathon shoutfest (almost 30
minutes in length) with the topics du jour being James
Comey’s book tour and the Russia investigation.
There were countless noteworthy moments that touched on
CNN’s obsessions with Comey and Russia, but it began
with Conway astutely pointing out that
“Jim Comey loves to be in the center of
power” even if that means having to
“divert the spotlight to himself and be in
the center of power.”
Conway was initially given comparatively long stretches to
emphasize Comey’s self-centered nature and even invoke
the IG report from last week pertaining to former Deputy
FBI Director Andrew McCabe’s issues with telling the
truth.
When Cuomo began interrupting her after she mocked
assertions that the Comey letter may have swung the 2016
election, Conway snapped back:
“Don't just throw out these sound bytes
and — to go viral without letting me
finish the sentence.”
“Listen, you're the one who goes viral.
What I'm saying is, when Comey came
forward and said that they were looking
into the e-mail investigation, it was
undoubtedly damaging to Hillary
Clinton,” Cuomo responded.
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Later, Cuomo played a clip of Comey hammering the
President for his supposed coziness with Russian President
Vladimir Putin.
Conway found Comey’s claim “completely
ridiculous” and slammed CNN for
“hav[ing] these screaming graphics that
cost you tons of money about Russian
collusion, Russia, Russia” and there’s
been zero proof of it thus far.
The interview then grew heated with Conway invoking
CNN’s chest-thumping “Facts First” slogan (click
“expand” to see more with bold emphasis being mine):
CONWAY: Comey is basing that on a meeting that he — one
small meeting he had last February. This man has been in the
presence of the President of the United States less than five
times. A handful of times. He's basing it — he had three — it
sounds like he had three or four engagements with the President,
two alone very briefly, in the span of six weeks and we have a
book over — about 15 months later that's supposed to be
compelling about what this President thinks about Russia and
Putin. You know what he thinks about Putin, and here's why. He
expelled 60 Russian diplomats last month. On April 5th, we put
sanctions on Russia that have hurt them financially more than
almost anybody anticipated and just this weekend —
CUOMO: It took you a long time to put the sanctions in place, but
you did.
CONWAY: Excuse me — no, it has taken you a long time to
prove Russian collusion. I know that's very disappointing to
your network.
CUOMO: It's not my job.
CONWAY: But let me tell you something, Christopher and, in
addition, this weekend, this President did precise, decisive strikes
— effective strikes against Syria. And that puts Russia and Iran
on notice, also. Russia tried to embarrass the United States. I
think, which you and I both are citizens of, Christopher, tried to
embarrass our country this weekend and it blew up in his face.
He only had Bolivia and China agree with them in their — in this
ridiculous vote. The U.S. had everybody else standing with them,
and the U.K. and France.
CUOMO: The criticism stands that the President rarely mentions
Vladimir Putin by name and almost never in a negative way.
CONWAY: No, no, no, he's expelling — excuse me, he's
expelling Russian diplomats. He's sanctioning their finances.
CUOMO: That's a fair point.
CONWAY: It's not a fair point, it's a fact. You want facts
first?
CUOMO: Yes, the fact is —
CONWAY: That's a fact.
CUOMO: — that he talks about Putin in the negative by name
very, very infrequently.
CONWAY: I thought we were talking about Comey.
CUOMO: That was what Jim Comey was echoing.
CONWAY: And I'll talk — and — and can you talk negatively
about Jim Comey like you did in tweets right after October?
CUOMO: I'm not the President of the United States. Let's stick to
who matters.
CONWAY: The President —
CUOMO: I'm just -- I'm just a -- I'm just asking questions.
However, the 9:00 a.m. Eastern mark provided the most intense
exchange pertaining to whether the President will fire Deputy
Attorney General Rod Rosenstein (or Special Counsel Robert
Mueller) and when Cuomo refused to accept any of Conway’s
answers, she mocked him: “You want to say, ‘Ah, Kellyanne
struggles to answer the question. She will not deny X. She
will not deny Y.’”
But when Conway asked whether Cuomo can safely vouch
for his job security, the battle was on.
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Check out the transcript and jousting in this excerpt,
including Cuomo pathetically lecturing Conway to not
“poison people's minds” and that she (not, you know, the
liberal media) must seek “common ground and not
division.” He also fiercely defended CNN’s Russia probe
obsession (again, emphasis mine):
CUOMO: We never promised anything like that,
Kellyanne.
CONWAY: Oh come on. You’re obsessed over — you
know — you gave —
CUOMO: I don't try to poison people's minds like that,
Kellyanne.
CONWAY: Excuse me. Excuse me.
CUOMO: That’s — it’s not helpful.
CONWAY: You put more — no, you put more
emphasis —
CUOMO: We need common ground and not division. Don’t
poison people.
CONWAY: — no kidding. So, let's be honest. How much air
time did your network give to Russia collusion last year
compared to —
CUOMO: I don’t know, but I hope it’s a lot.
CONWAY: — ObamaCare, immi — oh, I know.
CUOMO: I hope it’s a real lot —
CONWAY: Oh, you hope it’s a lot. Why you hope it’s a lot?
CUOMO: — because it really matters because they are trying
to tear us —
CONWAY: It matters — it matter that you’re trying to prove
something that’s not that.
CUOMO: — asunder and they are being effective at it and
they are still doing it and the President has been slow to
respond. You guys don't have a real plan on how to combat
it
CONWAY: The President is not slow to respond.
CUOMO: — because the President conflates it with his own
personal —
CONWAY: So, if it was really on the mind of — if it was really on
the mind —
CUOMO: — his own personal prospects.
CONWAY: — of FBI Director Jim Comey —
CUOMO: You won't tell me he won't make a move on special
counsel.
CONWAY: No, no, I didn't say that. I told you —
CUOMO: You won't say anything. That's the point.
CONWAY: — excuse me —
CUOMO: Please.
CONWAY: — and I told you that he makes the personnel
decisions around here.
CUOMO: I know it.
CONWAY: So, I'm not playing that game.
Relevant portions of the transcript from CNN’s New Day
on April 16:
CNN’s New Day
April 16, 2018
8:47 a.m. Eastern
KELLYANNE CONWAY: Jim Comey loves to be in the center of
power. He loves to divert the spotlight to himself and be in the
center of power. So the President is correcting the record
because there were two people involved in these conversations
and he's right, Chris, you can't — you can't say that McCabe is a
credible person when we just realizing [sic] — we just learned in
the IG's report from Friday that he lied four times, three times
under oath. They were running an FBI of honorable men and
women in the rank and file, but at the tippy top, people who were
in charge of the Clinton investigation were --
CHRIS CUOMO: Right.
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CONWAY: They were Clinton people. Strzok and Page sexting
each other about how much they didn't like our now President.
Peter Orr and his wife. McCabe himself. This was a hot mess —
CUOMO: Well, McCabe's a Republican. His wife's a Democrat.
CONWAY: And Jim Comey was too busy running out to the
cameras on July 5th, on October 28th and you agreed with it.
You were tweeting pretty heavily last fall after October 28th that
Jim Comey has made himself more politically relevant than any
FBI director has ever done, that he has created controversy —
CUOMO: Sure.
CONWAY: — with apparently no good cause. So I saw a man
last night very shaky and unsure to answer questions, not even
under oath, but we know when Comey was under oath, that he
had a very difficult time telling the truth. The FBI had to clean up
the big mess, the big lie about how many confidential e-mails
were on the Huma Abedin/Anthony Weiner --
CUOMO: Well, it wasn't a lie. He was wrong.
CONWAY: Oh, come on. He was wrong by hundreds of
thousands.
CUOMO: The President has that in his tweet, also. He corrected
it and he was wrong.
CONWAY: Oh, Comey math is really fascinating.
CUOMO: It was less.
CONWAY: It was a handful.
CUOMO: Well, I just think it's interesting that you and the
President call that a lie, which, one, it obviously isn't, but also that
it benefitted Hillary Clinton, that fix.
CONWAY: It's not a lie?
CUOMO: So the President's upset that Jim Comey had to
change testimony in a way that helped Hillary Clinton? Is that
what it is?
CONWAY: No, no, we're putting on the -- the president -- we are
pointing out, and I have on your network and other places over
the course of a year, pointing out that when he testified, the FBI
immediately had to correct the record, that it wasn't hundreds of
thousands, it was a handful.
CUOMO: Right, it was wrong. Right, because it wasn't that big a
deal, which is why when you guys —
CONWAY: Oh, right. Well, it depends who you are.
CUOMO: When you guys made such a big deal about it during
the campaign saying, oh, these new e-mails will change
everything —
CONWAY: No, let's —
CUOMO: — and it amounts to nothing,
CONWAY: — let's boil it down to the interview last night.
CUOMO: — that's why the Democrats are mad at Comey.
CONWAY: — let's boil it down to the interview last night. No, the
Democrats are mad at Comey for lots of reasons. I mean they —
they blame him for her loss. I look — I saw — I saw Jim Comey
last night and I said, this guy swung an election? I don't think so.
I mean, it definitely took away from that. He struggled to even
answer basic questions. He also admitted that he, as FBI
director, injected partisan politics and — and his belief that that
person who lost the election should have won, Chris. That he
believed that she would win and he was operating under that
premise. He also had people in his own household who wanted
her to win.
CUOMO: Right.
CONWAY: And then he tells George Stephanopoulos he didn't
vote —
CUOMO: But he wound up hurting her.
CONWAY: But he didn't vote --
CUOMO: Badly.
CONWAY: No, he didn't, she hurt herself.
CUOMO: What?
CONWAY: She was not — Christopher, she was never at 50
percent in any of the polls in those swing states.
CUOMO: It's certainly higher than Trump was, but that's not the
point.
CONWAY: I said it to you, to Anderson Cooper.
CUOMO: Comey wound up disclosing the existence of the —
CONWAY: No, no, no, no, don't — don't interrupt me. Don't do
that.
CUOMO: I'm interrupting —
CONWAY: Don't just throw out these sound bytes and — to go
viral without letting me finish the sentence.
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CUOMO: Listen, you're the one who goes viral. What I'm saying
is, when Comey came forward and said that they were looking
into the e-mail investigation, it was undoubtedly damaging to
Hillary Clinton.
(....)
CONWAY: Oh, who's trying to re-litigate the 2016 election now,
Christopher?
CUOMO: I'm not. You brought it up.
CONWAY: I'm not going to stand in the White House Briefing
Room talking about the 2016 election.
CUOMO: I'm just stating what it was.
CONWAY: Here's what I'm going to talk about. That while this
man is President, The FBI director took two months to go visit the
President-elect at Trump Tower. If you're that concerned about
alleged Russian interference, if you're that concerned about
counterterrorism, you need to meet the new president, you can't
like get on the shuttle or walk to New York? It took him two
months to —
CUOMO: What's the relevance?
CONWAY: — it's relevant because he's the sitting FBI director.
He wanted to keep his job. Go and brief the President-elect
before that. It took him two months. Then it took him —
CUOMO: But he did brief him and usually you come when
called.
CONWAY: And then it took him — it took two months, come on.
CUOMO: You come when called.
CONWAY: And then it took a year — it took a year for him to say
that he's clearing his conscience. If you have vital information in
the national — in the national interest, then you come forward
before your book and your media tour start and you know that.
This man had no political instincts whatsoever. He was wrong
about the election, as were many people, but then last night he
tells George Stephanopoulos, I didn't vote because the FBI
director should be independent. You can't cast a private ballot in
the mail or in a ballot box? That's so ridiculous.
CUOMO: But so —
CONWAY: He didn't vote because he thought Hillary Clinton was
going to win and didn't need his help.
CUOMO: That doesn't matter.
CONWAY: Yes, it does matter because last night at the end he
gave a free political commercial.
CUOMO: Look, what he did to Hillary Clinton —
CONWAY: Look, no, the President shouldn't be impeached but
people should know.
CUOMO: — was by no one's measure helpful to her. Had he
done the same thing to Donald Trump, you would have been
going nuts about it.
CONWAY: Christopher, she was on her way to losing already.
She had no message. She had no message.
(....)
JAMES COMEY: At least in my experience, he won't criticize
Vladimir Putin, even in private, even in a meeting with three
people in the Oval Office he is arguing that he gave a good
answer when he said essentially we are the same kind of killers
that Putin's thugs are. And that struck me.
CUOMO: So this is from a different interview with USA Today.
CONWAY: I have no idea what he's talking about.
CUOMO: Jim Comey is making the point that the President of the
United States, Donald Trump, has a built in resistance to saying
anything negative about Vladimir Putin, even if that winds up
meaning that he will put the United States on even footing with
Russia when it comes to being killers.
CONWAY: Completely ridiculous. I'm not even going to let you
finish that, it's so ridiculous.
CUOMO: I'm finished.
CONWAY: I know you guys have these screaming graphics that
cost you tons of money about Russian collusion, Russia, Russia
— CONWAY: And I'll talk — and — and can you talk negatively
CUOMO: Well, that's Comey saying it.
CONWAY: And — and that's turned out to be non — excuse me,
Comey is basing that on a meeting that he — one small meeting
he had last February. This man has been in the presence of the
President of the United States less than five times. A handful of
times. He's basing it — he had three — it sounds like he had
three or four engagements with the President, two alone very
briefly, in the span of six weeks and we have a book over —
about 15 months later that's supposed to be compelling about
what this President thinks about Russia and Putin. You know
what he thinks about Putin, and here's why. He expelled 60
Russian diplomats last month. On April 5th, we put sanctions on
Russia that have hurt them financially more than almost anybody
anticipated and just this weekend —
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CUOMO: It took you a long time to put the sanctions in place, but
you did.
CONWAY: Excuse me — no, it has taken you a long time to
prove Russian collusion. I know that's very disappointing to your
network.
CUOMO: It's not my job.
CONWAY: But let me tell you something, Christopher and, in
addition, this weekend, this President did precise, decisive strikes
— effective strikes against Syria. And that puts Russia and Iran
on notice, also. Russia tried to embarrass the United States. I
think, which you and I both are citizens of, Christopher, tried to
embarrass our country this weekend and it blew up in his face.
He only had Bolivia and China agree with them in their — in this
ridiculous vote. The U.S. had everybody else standing with them,
and the U.K. and France.
CUOMO: The criticism stands that the President rarely mentions
Vladimir Putin by name and almost never in a negative way.
CONWAY: No, no, no, he's expelling — excuse me, he's
expelling Russian diplomats. He's sanctioning their finances.
CUOMO: That's a fair point.
CONWAY: It's not a fair point, it's a fact. You want facts first?
CUOMO: Yes, the fact is —
CONWAY: That's a fact.
CUOMO: — that he talks about Putin in the negative by name
very, very infrequently.
CONWAY: I thought we were talking about Comey.
CUOMO: That was what Jim Comey was echoing.
about Jim Comey like you did in tweets right after October?
CUOMO: I'm not the President of the United States. Let's stick to
who matters.
CONWAY: The President —
CUOMO: I'm just -- I'm just a -- I'm just asking questions.
CONWAY: The President is a busy guy. We're not worried about
Jim Comey. I — honestly, there were parts last night where I was
trying to grasp his essential relevance. He had limited interaction.
I'm in the Oval Office more in a day than this guy was in his
limited career as FBI director under President Trump.
CUOMO: Right, but he was conducting an investigation that gave got a big story to tell. He had very limited interaction with the
him a lot of insight into a lot of different things. President. He admitted he was nervous to meet the President.

(....) CUOMO: Right, but he was doing the investigation. It's not about
his face-to-faces. It's about what he knew about the
CUOMO: He was asked by the President to go to dinner. What, investigation.
are you supposed to say no?
CONWAY: Oh, no, come on, he's the FBI director.
CONWAY: No, but you could have said, who else will be there?
Should I bring my wife? Should I bring my deputy, Andrew (....)
McCabe? That would have been fun. Should I — should I bring
Page and Strzok? They like to spend time together. Should I CONWAY: You want to say, “Ah, Kellyanne struggles to answer
bring Peter Orr and his wife? Should I bring all these people who the question —
are at the highest level of the FBI who are investigating Hillary
Clinton and were for Hillary Clinton against Donald Trump?
CUOMO: You are struggling to answer the question.
Maybe they could have come to dinner.
CONWAY: — She will not deny X. She will not deny Y.” Is your
CUOMO: They were so for her that they announced an
job safe at CNN? How do you know that? Because you showed
investigation against her twice, once in the last two weeks of the
up this morning?
campaign. Yes, they were really trying to help her out. I
understand that.
CUOMO: It's very safe. I have a contract.
CONWAY: And, so what and then he closed the investigation.
She was already was losing, and you know that. CONWAY: How do you know that?

(....) CUOMO: Very safe.

CONWAY: Let me ask you a question — let me ask you a
question, as a reporter, as a good person, as a father of three
children, let me ask you if you're comfortable with the FBI director
headed right — directly into the gutter when it comes to what he
was looking for in his first meeting with the President, what he
wants to reflect in his book, the length of his tie, the size of his
hand sizes. Are you comfortable with that? Because I'm very
uncomfortable with that. I think that's a disgrace.
CONWAY: How do you know they have confidence in you at
CNN?
CUOMO: Very safe. My boss says he has confidence.
CONWAY: That’s such a ridiculous question.
CUOMO: Very safe, he says I am.

CUOMO: No, I think it's tawdry stuff that the American people CONWAY: Yes, everybody in the media is safe because
don't need to hear. everybody got the election wrong together.

CONWAY: And I agree with Rod Rosenstein and what he said in CUOMO: Hold on. He’s talking to me right now — he says I’m
May 9th last year, the Deputy Attorney General, when he said very safe.
very clearly that Jim Comey, quote, “has violated the obligation to
preserve, protect and defend the traditions of the department of
CONWAY: So nobody wanted to go first and get fired.
the FBI.” Agreed to by former attorneys general and deputies
attorney general, right, left and center. And he recommended the
removal of Jim Comey because he said he broke every FBI and CUOMO: The President —
DOJ protocol when it came to how to respond. Why didn't —
George Stephanopoulos asked the right question, Comey, why CONWAY: But let me say something — let me say something.
didn't you just say, we declined to prosecute Hillary Clinton? You
had to go out there. You had the pipe and flags behind you. CUOMO: The President has control.

CUOMO: Tortured language that made it really deceptive in CONWAY: You want to talk about Rosenstein?
terms of whether they should have prosecuted or not.
CUOMO: Wait, hold on. I don't want you to duck this question if
CONWAY: Well, he shouldn't have done that, but he's very you don’t mean to.
skilled at one thing. Jim Comey's very skilled at diverting the
spotlight on to himself and it's unfortunate that people think he's CONWAY: I’m not ducking any question.
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CUOMO: Do you think there’s a chance — CONWAY: — ObamaCare, immi — oh, I know.

CONWAY: But you seem a little hot about the Comey book. CUOMO: I hope it’s a real lot —

CUOMO: — do you think there’s a chance that the President will
remove Rod Rosenstein and/or Bob Mueller?
CONWAY: The President has done everything that he and his
team have been asked to do to comply with this investigation and
you know it. He makes the personnel decisions around here.
CUOMO: Why aren't you answering this question?
CONWAY: Oh, by the way, in case there’s any doubt too, he has
confidence in me. So, don't ask me why I'm still here. Ask the
people who got fired.
CUOMO: I haven't asked you anything about that. It’s like you’re
having a different conversation. All I want to hear is an answer to
whether or not the president is considering moving on the man
that you --
CONWAY: Sarah Sanders has answered that. I just answered
that. The President alone makes the personnel decisions. There
is no plans to do that at the moment.
CONWAY: Oh, you hope it’s a lot. Why you hope it’s a lot?
CUOMO: — because it really matters because they are trying to
tear us —
CONWAY: It matters — it matter that you’re trying to prove
something that’s not that.
CUOMO: asunder and they are being effective at it and they are
still doing it and the President has been slow to respond. You
guys don't have a real plan on how to combat it
CONWAY: The President is not slow to respond.
CUOMO: — because the President conflates it with his own
personal —
CONWAY: So, if it was really on the mind of — if it was really on
the mind —
CUOMO: — his own personal prospects.

CUOMO: I know who makes it. Is he safe? Yes or no.

CONWAY: — of FBI Director Jim Comey —

CONWAY: And you want this to be — and you want this to be

CUOMO: You won't tell me he won't make a move on special
about something other than what the whole day is about here,
counsel.
which is whether or not this President has complied with the
investigation that your network and others promised would lead
to evidence of collusion between the campaign. Does it matter to CONWAY: No, no, I didn't say that. I told you —
you at all?
CUOMO: You won't say anything. That's the point.
CUOMO: We never promised anything like that, Kellyanne.
CONWAY: — excuse me —
CONWAY: Oh come on. You’re obsessed over — you know —
you gave — CUOMO: Please.

CUOMO: I don't try to poison people's minds like that, Kellyanne. CONWAY: — and I told you that he makes the personnel
decisions around here.
CONWAY: Excuse me. Excuse me.
CUOMO: I know it.
CUOMO: That’s — it’s not helpful.
CONWAY: So, I'm not playing that game.
CONWAY: You put more — no, you put more emphasis —
(....)
CUOMO: We need common ground and not division. Don’t
poison people. CONWAY: I’m constantly on your network. I'm one of the few
willing to come on. You’re welcome.
CONWAY: — no kidding. So, let's be honest. How much air time
did your network give to Russia collusion last year compared to CUOMO: We appreciate it.
—
CONWAY: Christopher, I come on and I tell you every single time
CUOMO: I don’t know, but I hope it’s a lot. that you want to talk about everything except the issues. So, you
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can't have it both ways. You and I have hardly even talked about
Syria if at all. We’ve hardly even talked about —
CUOMO: Well, this is the preponderance of the news of the day.
Let’s be honest. I’m happy to talk about that.
CONWAY: Okay, well because you’re making the preponderance
of the news of the day
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CUOMO: I’m happy to talk about a lot of aspects of the day.
CONWAY: But if Comey’s going to be the news of the day as you
just said, he’s going to be the preponderance of the news of the
day, then we have every right beginning with the President of the
United States to respond. Why should it just go —
CUOMO: You have every right to respond. Who responds and
how responds, I think, is legitimate.
 Megyn Kelly Slams Comey For Personal Attacks,
Letting Polls Determine Clinton Investigation
By Kyle Drennen
April 16, 2018 5:22 PM EDT
Reacting to ABC’s exclusive interview with former FBI
Director James Comey, on her Monday morning show,
NBC anchor Megyn Kelly blasted the ex-federal law
enforcement official for his personal attacks against
President Trump and his revelation that he looked at the
polls in the final days of the 2016 election to determine
whether or not to announce the reopening of the Hillary
Clinton e-mail investigation.
“I was shocked to hear excerpts from
this book and to see him discussing Mr.
Trump the way he was last night on
ABC....it’s extraordinary to hear
somebody in his position leave office
and talk so openly about his former
boss, who happens to be our president,
like he did.”
After former U.S. Attorney Daniel Goldman tried to
defend Comey as “a man of incredible integrity,” Kelly
scolded:
“...the comments about Trump’s orange
skin and the under-eye circles, and the
size of his hands. I mean, I expect that
on cable news, where I spent 14 years. I
don’t expect that from James Comey.”
Kelly’s other guest, PBS In Principle co-host Amy
Holmes, even compared Comey to a Sex & the City
character complaining about her love life:
“Watching it last night, sometimes I
didn’t know if I was listening to the
former FBI director or Carrie Bradshaw
after a bad breakup.”
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Holmes continued:
I didn’t feel like I learned anything new
or substantive. I did learn the entire
Comey family hates Donald Trump. I did
hear that James Comey on the one hand
claims that politics never influenced his
decisions, yet, two weeks before the
election, he was checking the polls to
decide if he should make a very
momentous announcement about
Hillary Clinton.
Kelly agreed:
Exactly, that was the biggest
contradiction in what he said. That he
never lets politics influence his
decisions. And yet, he admitted
elsewhere in the book and in the
interview that politics did play a role. He
was looking at the poll numbers saying,
“Hillary’s gonna win, and therefore, I have
to release the fact that we’re investigating
this new tranche of e-mails we found on
Anthony Weiner’s computer. Otherwise,
her presidency will be considered
illegitimate by some. Well, it’s like, which
is it?
Holmes declared:
“He said he was watching the poll
numbers.”
Even Goldman, who largely defended Comey, admitted
that was a bad decision:
“But what he’s saying, and it was a startling
admission, I agree with you, is that he was
looking at the polls to determine whether or
not it made sense for him to disclose this
information. There’s a Justice Department
policy against it.”
Kelly pressed:
 “He should not have done that, right?”
Goldman reiterated:
“There’s a Department of Justice policy
against it. And it’s sort of a slippery slope.
Once you start doing that, then you’re
going down a rabbit hole and there’s no
good way to end it.”
Kelly concluded:
“Right, we were not paying him to look
at polls.”
On Friday, CBS This Morning and ABC’s Good Morning
America similarly took Comey to task for his “petty”
attacks on the President.
Here are excerpts of the April 16 panel discussion:
9:03 AM ET
(...)
MEGYN KELLY: So let’s talk about Comey. I’ll just tell you, I was
shocked to hear excerpts from this book and to see him
discussing Mr. Trump the way he was last night on ABC. I was
shocked. I thought he’d keep his cards closer to the vest. Mr.
Trump is still in office, he was his acting FBI director. To me, it’s
extraordinary to hear somebody in his position leave office and
talk so openly about his former boss, who happens to be our
president, like he did. But what do you think?
DANIEL GOLDMAN [FMR. ASST. US ATTORNEY, SOUTHERN
DISTRICT OF NY]: Well, I think you’re right. It is an extraordinary
moment. And what clearly came out in the interview, and Jim
Comey was the U.S. Attorney of the Southern District of New
York, where I worked for 10 years, and his reputation sort of
proceeds him as a man of incredible integrity, as a career law
enforcement official who cares very deeply about this country.
And what really came out is that he fells, I think, that our country
is a little bit in crisis. And that was obvious in the way that he
stressed so much his concern about the basic norm of truth in the
Trump era.
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KELLY: See, I get all that. I get all that. And I don’t think it’s going
to come as big news to anybody that Trump’s relationship with
the truth is not exactly an adult one. [Laughter] However,
however, the comments about Trump’s orange skin and the
under-eye circles, and the size of his hands. I mean, I expect that
on cable news, where I spent 14 years. I don’t expect that from
James Comey.
AMY HOLMES [CO-HOST, PBS “IN PRINCIPLE”]: Exactly,
Megyn. Watching it last night, sometimes I didn’t know if I was
listening to the former FBI director or [Sex & The City character]
Carrie Bradshaw after a bad breakup. [Laughter] I mean, he like
tells this story about flying back after getting fired, on the FBI
private jet, sipping his red wine from a paper coffee cup. And I
was like, I hear you, brother, but for me, it was Amtrak Northeast
Regional. [Laughter]
KELLY: And a mallet to the head, over and over.
HOLMES: Exactly, I didn’t feel like I learned anything new or
substantive. I did learn the entire Comey family hates Donald
Trump. I did hear that James Comey on the one hand claims that
politics never influenced his decisions, yet, two weeks before the
election, he was checking the polls to decide if he should make a
very momentous announcement about Hillary Clinton.
KELLY: Exactly, that was the biggest contradiction in what he
said. That he never lets politics influence his decisions. And yet,
he admitted elsewhere in the book and in the interview that
politics did play a role. He was looking at the poll numbers
saying, “Hillary’s gonna win, and therefore, I have to release the
fact that we’re investigating this new tranche of e-mails we found
on Anthony Weiner’s computer. Otherwise, her presidency will be
considered illegitimate by some. Well, it’s like, which is it?
HOLMES: He said he was watching the poll numbers.
(...)
GOLDMAN: But I think his point is only that he doesn’t let – he
would never have let his own political preferences influence his
decision. But what he’s saying, and it was a startling admission, I
agree with you, is that he was looking at the polls to determine
whether or not it made sense for him to disclose this information.
There’s a Justice Department policy against it.
KELLY: He shouldn’t have done that. He should not have done
that, right?
GOLDMAN: There’s a Department of Justice policy against it.
And it’s sort of a slippery slope. Once you start doing that, then
you’re going down a rabbit hole and there’s no good way to end
it.
KELLY: Right, we were not paying him to look at polls.
HOLMES: Dan, he dove down the rabbit hole, okay?
GOLDMAN: He opened the hole in July, when he made the
announcement, and he just kept going down.
(...)
HOLMES: Again, I was really surprised by how sort of open and
brazen the former FBI Director was about his personal feelings,
his personal political judgments about a sitting President of the
United States.
.
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KELLY: Right, because you’ve got to wonder whether President
Trump is sitting in his office now, with his existing, you know, FBI
director or CIA director, thinking, “Can I talk to this person
openly? Like, what’s gonna happen? Is this person, if I fire them,
are they going to run to the TV cameras?” I don’t know, I feel like
while a person’s in office, is there a requirement or a duty to be
quiet until they’re gone? Or no? Does he have a duty to speak
out and tell us, you know, that Trump is saying things that may
potentially amount to obstruction of justice?
(...)
 Dem Congressman Calls For
Fox News To Fire Sean Hannity
By Cassandra Fairbanks
April 16, 2018, 5:24 Pm

As the media continuously foams at the mouth screaming Connolly claimed during his attack on free press that
about how President Donald Trump is a threat to the Hannity having the same lawyer as Trump is
media, a Democratic lawmaker is now directly calling for
Fox News to fire Sean Hannity. “a big stain on Hannity and Fox News.”

The real issue however, seemed to be the fact that Hannity

covers things and asks questions about issues that make
Connolly uncomfortable. The congressman cited the fact
that Hannity has repeatedly asked questions about the
unsolved murder of Democratic National Committee
staffer Seth Rich.

Hannity tweeted that he has never formally been

represented by Cohen in any legal proceedings or paid him
any fees.
Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-Va.)
“Michael Cohen has never represented me
in any matter. I never retained him,
During an appearance on CNN on Monday, Rep. Gerry received an invoice, or paid legal fees. I
Connolly (D-Va.) called for Hannity to be fired for being have occasionally had brief discussions
represented by Michael Cohen and reporting on things that with him about legal questions about which
he does not like. I wanted his input and perspective,”
Hannity tweeted. “I assumed those
“I think he is so into this like a pig in the conversations were confidential, but to be
mud he can’t get out of it. And I think he absolutely clear they never involved any
deserves to be fired. His word can never matter between me and a third-party.”
again be trusted,” Connolly said on
CNN.

Hannity explained that the discussions were mostly

focused on legal questions regarding real estate.

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 OAN Reporter In Syria ‘Finds No Evidence
Of Chemical Weapon Attack In Douma’
By Cassandra Fairbanks
April 16, 2018, 5:25 Pm
Pearson Sharp of One America News obtained exclusive
access to where the chemical attack was alleged to take
place in Douma and is reporting and that after interviewing
dozens of people, the consensus by residents is that the
incident was staged by the rebels to help them escape.
The stunning on the ground report asserts that they spoke
with approximately ten residents about a block away from
where the attack was said to have happened and not a
single person heard anything that day.
Additionally, the crew visited a rebel headquarters that had
been held by Jaish al-Islam until recently.
“I got to go down and I explored some of
the tunnels in the area. I walked through
some of the rooms where they were
making weapons — weapons
manufacturing. There were entire rooms
filled with mortars and they were stacked
from floor to ceiling. It’s shocking to see
how much weaponry the terrorists had
piled up in that area,” Pearson said.
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Next, the investigative team went to a nearby square where
what appeared to be a Syrian relief convoy was handing
out necessities such as food, water and clothing. He
estimated that the line to receive aid was at least a
thousand people long. Pearson picked dozens of random
people to speak to in the line.
“I went up random people. I know that there
is a lot of concern from people that the
residents being interviewed are plants —
that they are Russian operatives or staged
interviews,” Pearson said. “No one came
up to us, and we interviewed probably 30
or 40 people throughout the town.
Consistently not one person in the entire
town, that we talked, to said that they had
seen or heard anything about a chemical
attack.”
Many of those he spoke to claimed that they were very
close by when the attack was said to have happened. One
man that he spoke to asserted that he was within 50 meters
of the site at the time and did not see any unusual activity.
“All of them told me that it was staged
by the rebels who were occupying the
town at that time. They said that it was a
fabrication, that it was a hoax, and when
I asked them why — they told me that it
was because the rebels were desperate
and they needed a ploy to help get the
Syrian Army off their backs so that they
could escape,” Pearson reported.
Pearson repeatedly reiterated that this was not his opinion
or propaganda, but rather what he was told by residents on
the ground while he was in town.
“The residents told me that the terrorists
staged this attack to get the Western
powers to attack the Syrian Army,” Pearson
asserted.
Another question that Pearson asked residents was about
their opinions of Bashar-al Assad, who is reported by the
mainstream media as being a brutal dictator who is
terrorizing his people.
 “When I talked to the people who lived in
these towns, they specifically said that they
loved Bashar-al Assad, that he was great,”
Pearson explained. He also asked
residents about the so-called “moderate
rebels,” and was told that there was no
such thing as a “moderate rebel” and that
they were starving people to death.
Finally, the team went to ground zero of where the
chemicals were alleged to have hit.
“There was some mortars that had
exploded in the concrete, but nothing
looked like a chemical attack. When I
asked the people there — there were
soldiers there, there was military police
there — they said that they had been
stationed there for a while and did not see
anything that day,” Pearson said.
Pearson also spoke to one of the doctors at a hospital very
close to where the attack allegedly happened, and he told
him that it was a “routine day” and that it was very dusty
that day so people were coming in coughing.
“Suddenly, out of nowhere, they said a
bunch of strangers burst into the room
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screaming that there was a chemical
attack. They brought in alleged victims
and started hosing them down with
water. So, the doctors freaked out and
they grabbed hoses and started
helping,” Pearson said. “The strangers
who brought in the victims were
videotaping everything.”
The doctor reportedly told Pearson that after everyone was
washed off the strangers packed up their camera gear and
they left. He said that while the people were there, he did
not see any indication that there had been a chemical
attack and that the people who came in looked totally
normal.
Pearson also spoke to the head surgeon of the hospital and
that there had been zero deaths there that day.
In conclusion, Pearson said that while there is no definitive
proof either way on whether not there was an attack, he
could not find a single bit of evidence that there had been.
Pearson is said to have footage which backs up his
reporting, but was having difficulty transmitting it back to
the United States for the live update.
 Federal Judge Who Rejected Trump’s Request For A
Restraining Order Over Materials Seized In FBI Raid
Officiated George Soros’ Wedding
By Cristina Laila
April 16, 2018, 6:18 Pm

Kimba Wood, the federal judge Judge Kimba Wood said a government
overseeing the Cohen-Trump case taint team can weed out privileged
rejected Trump’s request for a documents, but she left open the possibility
temporary restraining order on an independent third party could play a role
materials seized after KGB FBI agents at a later time, in the interest of “the
raided Cohen’s properties. perception of fairness.”
“I have faith in the Southern District
prosecutors, that their integrity is
unimpeachable,” Wood said.
Her ruling came at the end of a hearing
attended by Cohen and Stormy Daniels,
who sat feet apart but did not appear to
interact.
How’s this for a fun fact? The same
federal judge who just rejected Trump’s
request for a temporary restraining
order, officiated George Soros’ wedding
in 2013.
FBI agents raided Cohen’s home and office looking for
dirt on Stormy Daniels and seized attorney-client
It was a very intimate ceremony with only close family
privileged communications between Trump and Cohen.
members in attendance.

On Friday, President Trump was officially granted

Kimba Wood almost became the first female Attorney
intervention in the Cohen case.
General during the Clinton administration in the early 90’s.

Late Sunday night, President Trump opposed allowing the

Hillary Clinton hand-picked Kimba Wood to be on her list
government to review materials seized by FBI KBG agents
of nominees for Bill Clinton’s consideration.
in their raid of Michael Cohen’s properties in a court
filing.
After it was revealed Kimba Wood employed an illegal
immigrant as a nanny, she was dropped from consideration
Federal Judge Kimba Wood made her decision on
to become Bill Clinton’s Attorney General.
Monday.
This is totally normal, right?
She rejected Trump’s request for a temporary restraining
order.
The New York Post reported in 2013:
ABC reported:
Soros and Bolton, a health care consultant,
will exchange vows in a small ceremony on
A federal judge rejected a request from
Saturday morning at the Bedford, New
President Donald Trump and his personal
York estate, which Soros bought in 2003
lawyer Michael Cohen for a temporary
from “Jurassic Park” author Michael
restraining order that would have kept
Crichton.
federal prosecutors from reading files
seized in raids last week.

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Kimba Wood, a federal judge, will perform the non-
denominational ceremony, which will be attended by
members of the couple’s families, including his five
children, a source familiar with the arrangements told
Reuters.

The wedding ceremony will be followed by a reception on

Saturday evening with more than 500 guests at the
Caramoor arts center in nearby Katonah. On Sunday, the
couple will preside over a brunch, also at Caramoor

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 King Claims IG Report On
McCabe’s Lies Is ‘Devastating’ For Comey
New York Republican Congressman Says The Review 'Raises Real Issues'
For The FBI's Two Former Top Officials Regarding Their Credibility
By Kathryn Blackhurst
Updated 16 Apr 2018 At 6:41 PM

appointee." Former President Barack

Inspector General of the Department of Justice (DOJ)
Michael Horowitz’s report is “devastating” for former FBI
Director James Comey and former FBI Deputy Director
Andrew McCabe, Rep. Peter King (R-N.Y.) said Monday
on Fox News’ “America’s Newsroom.”
The DOJ’s Office of Inspector General (OIG) released its
internal report Friday reviewing the department’s conduct
during its investigation into Hillary Clinton’s use of a
private email server to conduct official business while
serving as secretary of state.
The report revealed that McCabe lied four times to federal
investigators and Comey about leaking information to The
Wall Street Journal about the Clinton probe. Attorney
General Jeff Sessions fired McCabe in March, only hours
before his retirement with a pension was set to begin.
Obama appointed Horowitz in 2012.
"He's independent and he was appointed
by the Obama administration," King said.
"So this is devastating to McCabe, it's
devastating to Comey, and it really raises
issues about the top echelons of the FBI —
not the rank-and-file agents who do a great
job."
King said that the "top level" at the FBI
under Comey's leadership "seems to have
either been badly mismanaged, corrupt or
just not doing their job the way the FBI is
supposed to do it."
Comey currently is touting his upcoming book, "A Higher
Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership."
When asked if he believed there would be
some "accountability" within the FBI and
DOJ after the report's release, King replied,
"I would think there would have to be."

The day after Comey’s first televised interview following

his May 2017 firing aired on ABC News, King said that the
report is “devastating” for both McCabe and Comey.

“[McCabe was] the number-two person in

the FBI, and he’s accused of either
misleading testimony or not telling the
truth,” King said. “No matter how you look
at it, this is a serious, serious matter for the
number-two person in the FBI, especially "I know the FBI concluded that General
on such an important matter as the Clinton [Michael] Flynn had not lied in his
investigation.” statements to them, and yet later on he
was forced to plead guilty to lying," King
"But it also raises real issues about Jim said. "And this case, where there's been an
Comey," King continued. "Here's the actual finding by the FBI [and] that McCabe
director of the FBI, here's the number-two did lie, I don't see how he avoids
person, the person [Comey] relied on has prosecution."
now been accused of lying and has ... been
fired. And this was done by an Obama

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Flynn briefly served as Trump's national security adviser
until he resigned in February 2017, after reports revealed
that he had misrepresented to Vice President Mike Pence
his contact with a Russian ambassador. Flynn pled guilty
in December 2017 to lying to the FBI during special
counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into allegations of
Trump-Russia collusion.
"I think in this case, Andrew McCabe
should receive at least the same treatment
as General Flynn, if not more," King said.
Rep. John Ratcliffe (R-Texas) also appeared Monday on
"America's Newsroom" to discuss the DOJ's OIG report.
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He predicted that McCabe in particular will suffer harsh
repercussions.
"If I were going to make a prediction, I
would expect there to be a criminal referral
in this matter, and I would expect that
Andrew McCabe will be facing the same
types of charges that Michael Flynn, Rick
Gates and George Papadopoulos are
facing," Ratcliffe said.
Flynn, Gates and Papadopolous all pled guilty to making
false statements to the FBI. Ratcliffe said that he
"certainly" believes McCabe should suffer the same
consequences as those three, based on the DOJ's OIG
report.
"Again, this is the Department of Justice
investigating itself and finding misconduct
on not one, not two, not three but four
different occasions, some of those under
oath," Ratcliffe said. "That, I believe, even
though I'm not in the business of
prosecuting people anymore, I believe in
this case will be a prosecutable crime."
 Yellow Journalism:
CNN Spouts Off About 'Pee Tapes'
77 Times In Five Days
By Bill D'Agostino
April 16, 2018 7:02 PM EDT
As James Comey’s new book exploded onto the scene,
CNN pumped the breaks on its “Facts First” campaign to
revisit perhaps the most salacious claim contained in the
Steele dossier. The dossier alleged that Donald Trump had
paid ladies of the night to micturate upon one another in
Moscow, and that the Russian government had taped the
horrific escapade. To date, no part of these allegations has
been substantiated.
Intrepid NewsBusters analysts examined transcripts of all
CNN broadcasts that aired between April 12 and April 16,
finding 77 separate mentions of the absurd claim. The
cable network feverishly replayed a clip of Comey
repeating the allegation to ABC’s George Stephanopoulos,
which constituted 28 of those instances. April 13 featured
a particularly steady stream of mentions: 48 in one day, for
an average of one every 30 minutes.
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For the purpose of this study, a mention was defined as
any allusion to the most graphic aspect of the rumor. Thus
a clip in which James Comey merely mentioned Russian
prostitutes would not have factored into the study. Rather,
analysts looked only for phrases such as “prostitutes
urinating on each other,” “the pee tape,” and, of course,
“golden showers.”
This constituted the MRC’s second study in
2018 to cover CNN’s bizarre obsession
with toilet language. In January,
NewsBusters found that the network’s
denizens had used the phrase “s***hole”
(uncensored) 195 times in one day. At the
very least, newscasters on that day had
been discussing a corroborated claim
about the President.
Admittedly, Comey’s book release and subsequent ABC
interview do partially explain the resurgence of this rumor
on CNN’s airwaves. But even then, the number of
mentions was inordinately high considering this year-old
claim still has not been verified.
The self-described “Facts First” organization has
demonstrated a troubling penchant for reporting
scandalous rumors and sexual innuendo. Such obsessive
coverage is a particularly bad look for a network that once
published an op-ed calling for a ban on the term “fake
news.”
 Joe Digenova On Comey: Single-Handedly Destroyed The
FBI – He Has To Be Be Charged With Crimes And For
Lying To Congress (VIDEO)
By Jim Hoft
April 16, 2018, 9:00 Pm

Former United States Attorney for the District of
Columbia Joe DiGenova joined Sean Hannity on Monday
night to discuss fired FBI Director James Comey’s big
Sunday night interview on ABC News.
DiGenova credited Comey with single-handedly
destroying the esteemed Federal Bureau of Investigation.
think that he performed a legitimate law
enforcement function during the
investigation of Hillary Clinton. And it is
quite obvious that the dossier was a fake
document. That it was absolutely purposely
used illegitimately by senior officials at the
FBI and the Department of Justice. Mr.
Comey lied repeatedly last night. And
regrettably, he lied to the FISA Court. He
encouraged others to lie to the FISA Court.
And regrettably, I think Mr. Comey has to
be charged with crimes for falsely
presenting information to a FISA Court and
for apparently lying regularly to Congress.

Via Hannity:

Joe DiGenova:

America’s dirty cop has destroyed the

integrity, the reputation and the legitimacy
of the Federal Bureau of Investigation
single-handedly by his outrageous
performance last night on ABC. It is
inconceivable to me that anyone can now
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 WATCH=> GOP Lawmaker DESTROYS Comey,
Hillary And McCabe From House Floor As He Lays Out
Case For Second Special Counsel
By Cristina Laila
April 16, 2018, 9:06 Pm

Earlier, Rep Lee Zeldin (R-NY)

announced he would be leading a
Special Order on the House Floor
Monday night detailing a case for a
second Special Counsel to be appointed
to investigate Obama’s FISA abuse.

Zeldin also wants to know how/why the

Clinton probe ended and how/why the
Trump-Russia investigation began.

The letter reads (partial transcript):

As you know, evidence has come to light

GOP lawmaker Lee Zeldin went off on Hillary Clinton,
Comey and McCabe Monday evening.
The DOJ and FBI used Hillary’s phony dossier to spy on
Trump yet we have a the same corrupt actors leading an
investigation into the victim, Donald Trump.
Zeldin says the Trump-Russia probe began simply because
Donald Trump won the election.
This video is a must watch. Zeldin puts everything out
there for the public to see.
Zeldin even calls out the Uranium One scandal.
VIDEO:
In late February, Rep Lee Zeldin (R-NY) sent a letter to
AWOL Attorney General Jeff Sessions urging him appoint
a Special Counsel to investigate FISA abuses and
how/why Hillary’s probe ended and Trump’s Russia probe
began.
that raises serious concerns about
decisions and activities by leadership at the
highest levels of the DOJ and FBI
regarding how and why the Clinton probe
ended and how and why the Trump Russia
probe began. Additionally, important
questions have been raised with regards to
FISA warrants targeting U.S. citizen Carter
Page. We write you to urge you today to
appoint a Special Counsel to investigate
these decisions and activities.
Initially 13 GOP Reps total signed Zeldin’s letter.
In late March, Rep Lee Zeldin announced House Majority
Whip Steve Scalise and GOP House Majority Leader
Kevin McCarthy both signed his letter demanding a
second special counsel.
AG Sessions appointed a special prosecutor named John
Huber to investigate Obama’s FISA abuse.
U.S. Attorney John Huber was
first appointed to his position by Barack
Obama in 2015.
Rep. Lee Zeldin is correct. We need a second Special
Counsel to investigate the astounding corruption stemming
from Obama’s criminal administration.

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 CBS Frets Comey’s Comments 'Could Certainly
Complicate' His Testimony Against Trump, Impeachment
By Nicholas Fondacaro
April 16, 2018 9:14 PM EDT
The day after former FBI Director James Comey’s
interview with ABC News where he repeatedly slammed
President Trump, the liberal media was largely fawning for
his chides and speculation of Russian influence. While
their colleagues were focused on touting Comey’s media
antics, CBS Evening News spent their Monday report
fretting about the damage Comey may have done to any
legal or political case against Trump.
“What impact will Comey's book and his
comments have on the special counsel
investigation,” anchor Jeff Glor asked of
Justice reporter Paula Reid after playing a
clip of Comey suggesting Trump was
“morally unfit to be president.”
Reid immediately noted:
“Comey's attacks on the President could
certainly complicate any future court
proceeding or any kind of impeachment
debate in Congress.”
Pointing to the former FBI director’s account of the
President allegedly telling him to “let go” of the Michael
Flynn investigation, Reid worried Comey could have
undermined himself.
“And in the interview, Comey concludes
that he believes that was certainly
evidence of obstruction of justice. And
his legal conclusions like that, that
could be used to undermine him if he
was ever called as a witness in this
case,” she said.
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“Also these personal attacks on the
president, calling him “orange,” taking
shorts at his marriage and his height,
those could also be used to show bias
and suggest that he had an agenda
here, trying to sell books by attacking
the President,” she added.
Reid also reported that she had spoken with a former
prosecutor who told her that since Comey admitted to
“leaking his memos in the hopes of
triggering a special counsel,” it “could
also be used to potentially undermine
the legitimacy of Special Counsel
Robert Mueller.”
Glor also noted Trump brutal response to the ABC
interview on Twitter.
“The President today blasted James
Comey, the man he fired as FBI director,
tweeting that Comey is a liar who
committed many crimes,” he announces
as the segment began. “This after Comey,
plugging his new book on ABC, took
aim at Mr. Trump.”
It’s interesting that CBS was more worried about Comey
undermining any case against Trump instead of worrying
about a former FBI director possibly being bitter and
targeting the President for retribution. It shows their
priorities.
The transcript is below:
CBS Evening News
April 16, 2018
6:36:59 PM Eastern
JEFF GLOR: The President today blasted James Comey, the
man he fired as FBI director, tweeting that Comey is a liar who
committed many crimes. This after Comey, plugging his new
book on ABC, took aim at Mr. Trump.
JAMES COMEY: He strikes me as a person of above-average
intelligence who is tracking conversations and knows what's
going on. I don't think he's medically unfit to be president. I think
he's morally unfit to be president.
GLOR: Our Justice reporter Paula Reid joins us with more on
this. Paula, what impact will Comey's book and his comments
have on the special counsel investigation?
PAULA REID: Well, Comey's attacks on the President could
certainly complicate any future court proceeding or any kind of
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impeachment debate in Congress. For example, in that interview
there, Comey discusses a conversation he had with the president
where he was asked to let go of the ongoing investigation into
former National Security Adviser Mike Flynn.
And in the interview, Comey concludes that he believes that was
certainly evidence of obstruction of justice. And his legal
conclusions like that, that could be used to undermine him if he
was ever called as a witness in this case. Also these personal
attacks on the president, calling him “orange,” taking shorts at his
marriage and his height, those could also be used to show bias
and suggest that he had an agenda here, trying to sell books by
attacking the President.
And also, a former prosecutor points out to me the fact that
Comey admits to leaking his memos in the hopes of triggering a
special counsel, that could also be used to potentially undermine
the legitimacy of Special Counsel Robert Mueller. Jeff?
GLOR: Paula Reid at the white house. Paula, thank you.
 Tucker Carlson: The Point Of The
Hannity Controversy Is About Hurting Trump
And Anyone Close To Trump (VIDEO)
By Jim Hoft
April 16, 2018, 11:04 Pm

The point of the Russian investigation,

you may have figured out, is not to find
collusion. There was no collusion.
Everybody knows that and everybody
has always known that. The point is and
was to hurt Trump and anyone close to
Trump. And by the way it’s working.
Russia collusion was always a lie.
The media knows it.
The Democrats know it.
Deep State knows it.
Tucker Carlson blasted liberal judge
Kimba Wood for revealing in court that The point of the investigation has
Sean Hannity was listed as one of always been to destroy President Trump
Michael Cohen’s client. and anyone who supported him.

Tucker Carlson: It makes you wonder who is calling the shots in the
Democrat Party today. Satan?
Michael Cohen was forced to hand over a
list of his clients on a list to a judge. Among Via Tucker Carlson Tonight:
those on a list was our friend Sean Hannity
in the hour after ours. Judge Kimba Wood
ordered Hannity’s identity revealed even
though Hannity had specifically requested
that his name remain private which is his
right… Keep in mind that Sean Hannity is a
talk-show host. He’s not under investigation
by anyone for anything. Who he hires as a
lawyer and why is nobody’s business. No
judge has a right to violate his privacy or
anybody else’s. Those used to be the rules
but the rules have changed.

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 Carter Page Sees ‘So Many
Political Motives’ In Comey Interview
Former Trump Campaign Adviser Ripped The Fired FBI Director For
Using The 'Dodgy Dossier' To Renew Surveillance Warrants
By Kathryn Blackhurst
Updated 17 Apr 2018 At 6:22 AM
Former FBI Director James Comey’s ABC News interview
was “laden with so many political motives” that went
“beyond any common sense,” former Trump campaign
adviser Carter Page said Monday on Fox News’ “The
Ingraham Angle.”
Page’s name was peppered throughout the unverified
dossier, alleging collusion between President Donald
Trump’s 2016 campaign and Russian interests. The FBI
used the dossier to obtain court approval for authorizing
and then renewing surveillance warrants against Page.
The document was authored by former British spy
Christopher Steele and paid for by the Democratic
National Committee and 2016 Democratic presidential
nominee Hillary Clinton.
But during Comey’s first televised interview since his May
2017 firing, the former FBI director admitted to ABC’s
George Stephanopoulos that he chose not to tell Trump
about the dossier’s politicized origins because it “wasn’t
necessary for my goal.”
Page told host Laura Ingraham that Comey’s excuse
regarding the “dodgy dossier” was “just so laden with so
many political motives” that were “so beyond any
common sense.”
During the ABC News interview, Comey noted that the
FBI had its eye on Page because the bureau was "trying to
figure out, is he in any way coordinating with the
Russians, as part of their effort to influence our — our
election?"
"We hear the word 'collusion' all the time.
'Collusion' is not a word that's familiar to
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me from my work. The question is, is
anybody conspiring or aiding and abetting,
helping, the Russians accomplish their goal
of interfering in the American election?"
Comey continued. "That's what the
counterintelligence investigation was
about."
But Page argued that the adjectives Comey used provided
"a perfect description of what the Steele
dossier was doing ... on behalf of the DNC
and the Democratic candidate that year."
"And again, it's early. We don't know the
full details. But that basically sums it all up,"
Page said of Comey's quote.
Just before Page's appearance on "The Ingraham Angle,"
Ingraham interviewed three former FBI officials regarding
Comey's interview. Retired FBI agent Bobby Chacon
blasted the interview as an "absolute mess" and panned
Comey's upcoming book, "A Higher Loyalty: Truth,
Lies and Leadership," also as "a mess."
"It's a mess. He's an absolute mess. This
book is a mess. It's hurtful, and it couldn't
be more damaging to the men and women
of the FBI," Chacon said. "It demeans the
office of the director to issue a book that
talks about the size of the president's
hands and unconfirmed rumors about
prostitutes in Moscow."
"[Comey] took the low road, and he's
dragging the men and women of the FBI
back into this political maelstrom that they
 don't deserve to be in," Chacon continued.
"He put them there in the first place, and
how he's dragging them back there again.
And it's unconscionable that he does that."
Page later told Ingraham that in order for the FBI to restore
"the dignity" that Comey besmirched, the bureau must
release "all of the FISA warrant applications to get all the
right info out there as to what actually happened" during
the events leading up to and profoundly affecting the
Russia probe.
former President Bill Clinton, told Ingraham that Comey's
"whole conduct" during the key investigations into the
Trump campaign and Clinton was "just shameful."
"There's nothing he can do to rehabilitate
himself," Wisenberg said.
Starr told Ingraham the men and women of
the FBI are being "dishonored by Mr.
Comey," his book and his interview
circuit. "It's a very disappointing display,"
Starr said.

Solomon Wisenberg, former deputy independent counsel

for Kenneth Starr's Whitewater-Lewinsky investigation of
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 DEADLINE PASSES For DOJ To Turn Over
Unredacted Comey Memos To Congress (Video)
By Jim Hoft
April 17, 2018, 8:16 Am

On Sunday House Judiciary Chairman

Rep. Bob Goodlatte (R-VA) told Maria
Bartiromo on Sunday Morning Futures
that the House was ready to take action
against the DOJ if the requested Comey
memos from the FBI.
Rep.Bob Goodlatte:
We don’t have the documents yet. We
don’t have access to the documents but I
believe we will have them very soon based
upon the discussions that we’re
undertaking. If we do not we are prepared
to take additional steps and I believe that
people in the administration very much
want to have the Congress get these
documents so that we can A, conduct our
investigation but B, also recognize that
right of the Congress and the American
people to have access to information so
that these investigations, this oversight can
be conducted.
The documents were already passed by Comey to the
media but Congress does not have a copy yet.
Congress needs to impeach these DOJ crooks.
On Monday night the deadline passed
and the Sessions Department of Justice
had still not turned over the unredacted
Comey memos to Congressional
investigators.

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 Speaker Ryan’s Biggest Mistake Was Not Supporting
President Trump – He Should Step Down From
Speakership Now!
By Jim Hoft
April 17, 2018, 8:52 Am

During the President’s first year in office, Ryan couldn’t

contain his disdain for the President. Every time he was
with the President he had a horrible smirk on his face.

Wisconsin Representative Paul Ryan

announced that he is stepping down as
Speaker and will not seek re-election in
the House of Representatives. He may
have higher aspirations but his lack of
support for President Trump will
ultimately be his downfall.
Speaker Ryan may be planning to run for President
someday. He was VP Candidate for losing Republican
Presidential candidate Mitt Romney and he is currently
Speaker of the House. However, because of his
miscalculations and lack of support of President Trump,
odds are that Speaker Ryan will never win a Presidential
race. He totally underestimated the current President at
every turn. Ryan’s lack of support for the President and his
massive group of supporters prove Ryan is out of touch
with what is important to Americans.
In 2016, during the Presidential campaign Speaker Ryan
stated in a call with House Republicans that he will never
support then Presidential candidate Trump, and he never
has –
Ryan never realized how disgusting his actions and lack of
support were to Republicans who admire President Trump
for his courage and efforts to change America for the
better after the eight destructive years of the Obama
Administration. In spite of significant head winds from
corrupt Democrats, the media and NeverTrumper
Republicans, like Ryan himself, the President succeeded in
accomplishing a significant portion of his agenda in his
first year in office.
But in March 2018, Ryan provided the President a
monstrous spending bill. The President signed it but
reluctantly. Americans voted against massive spending
from the Obama years by voting for Trump. In spite of
President Trump’s deficits being half that of Obama’s, the
spending bill was not popular and Ryan knew it. Ryan
gave the Democrats all they wanted and didn’t provide
money for President Trump’s wall on the Southern border.
Since announcing his run for office, the media and
Democrats have attacked President Trump relentlessly. He
is under attack by the unconstitutional Mueller
investigation. In the face of these attacks on Trump and
his family, Speaker Ryan remains silent.

Judge Janine argued a few weeks ago for Republican

leadership to begin supporting the President, but they have
not listened –

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 The most disturbing actions by the current Speaker are his
support for individuals that are against our President. This
past weekend former FBI Head Comey slandered the
President. Ryan responded by sharing his support for dirty
cop Comey.

Speaker Ryan provides no support and

remains silent while corrupt and
criminal liberals and their elite friends in
the media slander and report salacious
and unverified reports about President
Trump. Americans will not forget. This
is Speaker Ryan’s downfall. He should
resign from the Speakership now!
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 South And North Korea Set
To Announce End To 67 Year War In Talks Next Week
By Jim Hoft
April 17, 2018, 9:07 Am
North and South Korea are set to
announce an end to their 67-year-long
war in talks next week.
The announcement was made before a
summit next week between Kim Jong
Un and South Korean President Moon
Jae-in.
President Donald Trump has agreed to
meet with North Korea’s Kim Jong Un
by the month of May.
CNBC reported:
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North and South Korea are in talks to
announce a permanent end to the officially
declared military conflict between the two
countries, daily newspaper Munhwa Ilbo
reported Tuesday, citing an unnamed
South Korean official.
Ahead of a summit next week between
North Korean premier Kim Jong Un and
South Korean President Moon Jae-in,
lawmakers from the neighboring states
were thought to be negotiating the details
of a joint statement that could outline an
end to the confrontation.
Kim and Moon could also discuss returning
the heavily-fortified demilitarized zone
separating them to its original state, the
newspaper said.
Pyongyang and Seoul have technically
been at war since the 1950-1953 Korean
conflict ended with a truce — and not a
peace treaty. Geopolitical tensions have
occasionally flared up since the armistice,
although to date both countries have
managed to avoid another devastating
conflict.
 CNN Uses Sean Hannity Story
To Give Lessons In Honest Journalism
Nick Givas - Media And Politics Reporter
9:46 AM 04/17/2018
CNN's Alisyn Camerota And Brian Stelter Give Lessons On How To
Be An Ethical Journalist - New Day 4-17-18 (Screenshot/CNN)
CNN’s Alisyn Camerota and Brian Stelter discussed what
it takes to be an ethical journalist on “New Day” Tuesday,
after it was revealed Fox News host Sean Hannity has a
connection to President Donald Trump’s attorney Michael
Cohen.
“In terms of journalism, the rules of
journalism that we follow, there’s
something called full disclosure and it
works like this,” Camerota said. “When you
have a previous relationship with someone,
you say something to the effect of ‘I worked
at Fox News for many, many years and
know Hannity and always had a very
pleasant relationship with him.’ So the
viewers know where I’m coming from.”
“Hannity talked about Michael Cohen a
million times,” she continued. “He never
disclosed to his viewers that they have this
relationship where he seeks legal advice
from him. But Hannity gets to play with the
facts in terms of whether he’s journalist or
not and he’s said both. Does it matter if
he’s not a journalist, should he have had to
have disclosed all of that?”
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Stelter thinks Hannity should have disclosed the
relationship to his viewers, but said the Fox News host
should not be considered a journalist.
“The disclosure for me about Hannity is
that he calls me Humpty Dumpty for some
reason,” Stelter said. “Don’t know why and
I enjoy covering him. I think he’s a really
interesting phenomenon because he does
blur these lines. He says he’s not a
journalist. Says journalism is dead and yet
he calls his show real news and has
anonymous sources.”
Stelter said Hannity tries to be both an entertainer and a
newsman and gets lost somewhere in between.
“He’s an entertainer but on a channel with
the logo in the corner that says news on
the bottom of the screen,” Stelter added.
“I think this story shows us how Trump
world really works and how tight-knit the
relationships really are,” he said. “It’s a
reminder about all of these men and their
relationships going back decades. That
could be a good thing or maybe that could
be a very bad thing.”
 POLL: Americans Want Republicans,
Not Democrats, To Run The Economy
Robert Donachie - Capitol Hill And Health Care Reporter
9:46 AM 04/17/2018
U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) speaks next
to U.S. President Donald Trump, Vice President Mike Pence and
Congressional Republicans as they celebrate passage of sweeping tax
overhaul legislation on the South Lawn of the White House in
Washington, U.S., December 20, 2017. REUTERS/Carlos Barria
More American voters want the Republican party to
remain in charge of the economy and tax policy, according
to an NBC News/WSJ poll released Monday evening.
The two media outlets found that 35 percent of Americans
believe the Republican party is better suited to handle the
economy, compared with 28 percent who think Democrats
have the better economic policies.
Roughly three months ago, Democrats had the upper hand.
Thirty-five percent of American voters thought Democrats
were the better choice in December — the same month
Republicans passed the 2017 tax reform bill.
The party now holds a slim 2 percent advantage over
Democrats on the question of who has the better tax
policy. Democrats had a 4 percentage point advantage in
December.
Americans remain divided on whether or not the 2017 tax
reform bill was a net-positive. Only 27 percent of
Americans think the bill was a good idea, while 34 percent
say they don’t know enough about the bill and 36 percent
say it wasn’t a good idea.
A slim majority of Americans — 53 percent — think it is
likely a negative because of expectations that it will greatly
increase the federal deficit. Americans also believe the bill
was a giveaway to the wealthy and major corporations.
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Recent findings from government oversight officials work
to back up Americans’ growing federal deficit concerns.
The non-partisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO)
expects the Republican tax reform bill and 2018
congressional budget agreement to grow the economy over
the coming years, but adds nearly $2 trillion to federal
deficit over the next decade.
The CBO released analysis earlier in April detailing how
the federal budget deficit will be $804 billion in 2018 and
exceed $1 trillion in 2020. Publicly held U.S. debt will
total $28.671 trillion by the end of 2028, amounting to
over 96 percent of U.S. gross domestic product (GDP) that
year.
Republican tax cuts are expected, as leadership has
repeatedly claimed, to grow the economy over the next
two years. Real GDP will expand 3.3 percent in 2018 and
2.4 percent in 2019. Starting in 2020, those gains are
expected to taper off. The CBO expects real GDP to grow
1.8 percent in 2020, continuing at an average annual rate
of 1.7 percent from 2020-2026.
While the deficit remains a concern, the tax bill has shown
and is expected to show some other net-benefits for the
American people. Hundreds of corporations and small
businesses announced bonuses and wage increases
following the bill’s signing last December, although many
have decried the moves as simply a public relations stunt.
Americans filed their first tax returns under the new
Republican tax plan Tuesday, a first litmus test for voters
and politicians as to how effective the tax cuts will end up
being.
Tax cuts are also expected to bring nearly $2 trillion in
capital held overseas back to the United States, according
to a United Nations Conference on Trade and
Developments report.
The U.N. expects the Republican tax law could lead to the
repatriation of roughly $2 trillion in funds that American
multinationals are holding overseas. U.N. analysts attribute
their predictions to the dramatic cut to the U.S. corporate
tax rate that took effect on Jan. 1, 2018.
 Two Hours And Counting...
Nets Can’t Get Enough Of Comey Book Tour
By Geoffrey Dickens
April 17, 2018 9:49 AM EDT

mob boss, and saying his administration is a ‘forest fire.’

This morning, we have a first look inside the pages.”

Today marks the official release of fired FBI director

James Comey’s new book A Higher Loyalty and the Big
Three (ABC, CBS, NBC) networks already have done their
part to boost its sales, packing a total of two hours, 24
minutes in five days of coverage on their evening and
morning news programs.
This exorbitant total doesn’t even include ABC’s Sunday
night interview special with George Stephanopoulos –
which took up an hour of primetime.
ABC, which hyped its exclusive Stephanopoulos interview
with Comey, was the most obsessed network, as it loaded
its programs with 77 minutes, 52 seconds of book
coverage. NBC came in second, spending a total of 35
minutes, 43 seconds. CBS offered 30 minutes, 35 seconds
to the Comey book.

The nets began teasing the book Thursday night, as they

highlighted the most salacious allegations against
President Donald Trump. On that evening’s ABC’s World
News Tonight, chief justice correspondent Pierre Thomas
zeroed in on Comey’s smear of Trump acting like an
infamous mafia underboss:

“Comey claims at that dinner, President

Trump told him, ‘I need loyalty. I expect
loyalty.’ In his book, Comey writes, he
thought to himself, ‘The demand was like
Sammy ‘The Bull’s’ Cosa Nostra induction
ceremony.’”
On NBC’s Today show, on Friday, co-host Savannah
Guthrie excitedly proclaimed: “Taking his shots. Fired FBI
Director James Comey’s book leaks overnight, and it’s a
bombshell. Calling the President a liar, comparing him to a
.
For this study MRC analysts reviewed the
network morning shows (ABC’s Good
Morning America, CBS This Morning and
Sunday Morning, NBC’s Today) and
evening programs (ABC’s World News
Tonight, CBS Evening News, NBC Nightly
News).

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 Comey: I Wasn’t Making Fun
Of Trump In My Book
Amber Athey - Media Reporter
9:55 AM 04/17/2018

In his new book “A Higher Loyalty,” Comey brings up

Trump’s spray tan and goggle lines, the size of his hands
and whether or not his blonde hair is real.

ABC’s George Stephanopolous asked Comey during a

“Good Morning America” interview on Tuesday how he
would respond to people criticizing his attacks on the
president.
Screen Shot James Comey (ABC: April 17, 2018)

“A lot of people say you put too many petty

Former FBI Director James Comey claimed on Tuesday
that he wasn’t making fun of President Trump in his book
when he described his appearance.
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personal details in the book about
President Trump talking about his hair,
hand size, speculation about the tanning
goggles,” Stephanopolous said. “A lot of
critics say that struck them as beneath you
getting down to the sandbox with President
Trump. Any regrets?”

Comey insisted that people criticizing him haven’t fully

read the book and that he was just trying to “bring readers
with me into the room.”

“So I describe all kinds of people in great

detail to try and create a vivid image for the
reader,” Comey asserted. “I’m not trying to
make fun of President Trump. I’m not trying
to make fun of anybody. But if you read the
whole book you’ll see I’m trying to give you
that picture.”
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WINNING! Kroger Announces 11,000 New Jobs, Increased
Wages, Education Benefits Thanks To TRUMP Tax Cuts
By Jim Hoft
April 17, 2018, 10:03 Am

Kroger CEO Rodney McMullen

announced Monday that the
Republican’s tax cut has allowed the
company to raise wages and invest in
its employees.

McMullen made the announcement on CNBC on Monday.

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 BET Founder Says Trump Economy
Helping Blacks; Washpost Prints
— 9 Days Later
By Julia A. Seymour
April 17, 2018 10:13 AM EDT
Robert Johnson, the founder of BET television and
America’s first black billionaire, had some positive things
to say about the economy in April, but most liberal media
failed to notice. The one national paper to cover it delayed
including it in the print edition for more than a week.
Citing multiple factors including “fairly stable” interest
rates, the “Trump tax cut,” and historically low
unemployment for African Americans, Johnson said,
“Business is very good.”
He also told Squawk Box viewers on April 6, “I believe
that the economy is on a strong growth path.” In addition
to founding BET, Johnson owns asset management firm
RLJ Companies.
Later in the same broadcast Johnson told CNBC, “You
have to take encouragement from what’s happening in the
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labor force and the job market. When you look at African
American unemployment in over 50 years since the
Bureau of Labor Statistics has been keeping the number,
you have never had two things: African American
unemployment this low, and the spread between
unemployment among whites and African Americans this
narrow.”
He interpreted that as a job market which is bringing in
employees who had been out of the labor force for various
reasons.
However, in spite of Johnson’s media and business
prominence his positive attitude about the economy under
President Donald Trump and how it is helping African
Americans was all but ignored by liberal media outlets.
ABC, CBS and NBC news programs all ignored it,
according to a Nexis search.
The Washington Post was the only national newspaper to
report on it — but the Post failed to run the story in its
print edition until April 15, on page G3. Nine days after
the CNBC interview. That print story was the same as a
digital version that appeared on the Post’s website on April
7.
The Post article quoted Johnson extensively, but
unsurprisingly included two liberal critics of his remarks.
 VIDEO: On Tax Day Democrat Whip
Hoyer Promises To RAISE TAXES If
Democrats Win Congress
By Jim Hoft
April 17, 2018, 10:21 Am

On Tuesday, Democratic Whip Steny
Hoyer (D-MD) told CNBC that if
Democrats regain the majority after the
2018 election, they will look to raise
taxes.
The 2018 tax filing deadline is today –
Tuesday April 17.
This bill is going to create debt. Obama
created and previous presidents created.
Democrats like to use the term “revenues” when they are
talking about raising taxes today. It is one of their word
games – like the “Affordable” care act.
Over 4,000,000 working Americans will
receive Trump tax reform bonuses this
year.
Democrats want to take that away.

CNBC:

Are you looking at raising the tax rate again

on the highest earners?

Democrat Steny Hoyer: Democrats proposed a trillion

dollar tax hike in March.
I think certainly we’ll look to have revenues
as opposed to simply creating more debt.
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 Spurs Coach Gregg Popovich Losing
Fans For Anti-Trump Comments
Jena Greene - Reporter
10:21 AM 04/17/2018

she continued. “It ruined my basketball life.

I took it personally. I was such a loyal fan,
and he insulted me. Why would you start
attacking the people who had been so
loyal?”

Hundreds of former Spurs fans have said on Twitter that

they won’t be watching the Spurs anymore because they’re
so turned off by Popvich.

And asked on Monday whether he feels any pressure to

“tone down” his rhetoric regarding President Trump,
Fans of the San Antonio Spurs are dropping like flies, and Popvich shrugged off the question.
it has nothing to do with the success of the team.

Regardless of how well the Spurs may do in the playoffs,

the team may have a hard time filling the stands because of
one pretty political – and high profile – member of the
franchise.

Head coach and longtime basketball veteran Gregg

Popovich has upset Spurs nation for his increasingly
political rhetoric. That’s at least according to fans, who say
the coach is alienating a massive demographic with his
liberal opinions.

Last year, Popovich called President Trump a “soulless

coward” for how he handled the death of four soldiers in
Niger last October. To be clear, he made these comments
during a press conference that was supposed to be about
the upcoming NBA season.

It would be one thing if Popovich were a former member So while some shows and franchises in the entertainment
of the Obama administration or if he were the mayor of industry – like “Roseanne” – enjoy success for making a
San Francisco. But he’s not. He’s the coach of an NBA concerted effort not to alienate Trump voters, others will
team in the heart of Texas. And fans have had enough. likely struggle while they lecture a mixed audience about
their liberal politics. It just goes to show you how tone
deaf some prominent players in sports and entertainment
“I am completely turned off,” a self- really are.
proclaimed former fan told the Washington
Post on Monday. “After all those years
supporting the team, and now I just have
no interest. Popovich really messed up,”
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 Comey: Loretta Lynch
Put Me In A ‘Terrible Spot’
Amber Athey - Media Reporter
10:22 AM 04/17/2018

Comey wrote about the Clinton email investigation in his

new book “A Higher Loyalty,” but Lynch took issue with
the fact that Comey never discussed his concerns about it
with her at the time.

“Loretta is a person I respect and like very

much. But that isn’t the problem I faced in
that investigation,” Comey said. “The
problem I faced in late June was that she
announced she wouldn’t recuse herself
Former FBI director James Comey accused former without checking with the FBI to see
attorney general Loretta Lynch of putting him and the FBI whether we had a view on it but would
in a “terrible spot” during the Clinton email investigation. accept my recommendation.”
“There should have been a discussion
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the matter but what she did was say, ‘I’ll
stay involved but I’ll accept his
recommendation,’ which put me and the
FBI in a terrible spot.”

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 President Trump Furious At California Gov. Jerry Brown:
“The High Crime Rate Will Only Get Higher”
Without National Guard
By Lucian Wintrich
April 17, 2018, 10:43 Am
As previously reported by Gateway Pundit, California
governor Jerry Brown initially agreed to President
Trump’s plan of deploying the National Guard along the
swiss-cheese like border between California and Mexico
which resulted in rare praise from the President on Twitter:
President Trump thanked Governor Jerry Brown for
sending the National Guard to the California-Mexico
border. Despite Gov. Brown agreeing to accept federal
funds and add about 400 troops, Brown asserted that the
deployed troops will only be used to “support operations
targeting transnational criminal gangs, human traffickers
and illegal firearm and drug smugglers” and not be used
for “enforcing federal immigration laws.” Also in his
statement, Gov Brown stated, “This will not be a mission
to build a new wall. It will not be a mission to round up
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women and children or detain people escaping violence
and seeking a better life.”
Yesterday, we reported that California legislators back-
tracked on Brown’s double-sided welcoming of the
National Guard as they found it too closely tied to
immigration. Today, President Trump is furious and in
sharp contrast to the President’s earlier tweet commending
Gov. Brown for approving the National Guard, Trump
lashed out at the governor derailing him for “not looking
for safety and security along their very porous border.”
President Trump went further to point out the high crime
rate in many parts of California that are in no small part
the result of illegals stating, “the high crime rate will only
get higher.”
 Supreme Court Hands Trump Defeat On Deporting
Criminal Immigrants – Gorsuch Sides
With Liberals On Court
By Jim Hoft
April 17, 2018, 11:24 Am
Trump nominee Justice Neil Gorsuch
sided with liberals on the Supreme
Court to hand President Trump a defeat
on his plan to deport criminal
immigrants.
The Supreme Court was conflicted on
the definition of violent criminal actions.
This was an old case where the court came to a 4-4 tie.
Gorsuch sided with the Democrats this time.
Business Insider reported:
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The Supreme Court said Tuesday that part of a federal law
that makes it easier to deport immigrants who have been
convicted of crimes is too vague to be enforced.
The court’s 5-4 decision — an unusual alignment in which
new Justice Neil Gorsuch joined the four liberal justices —
concerns a catchall provision of immigration law that
defines what makes a crime violent. Conviction for a crime
of violence makes deportation “a virtual certainty” for an
immigrant, no matter how long he has lived in the United
States, Justice Elena Kagan wrote in her opinion for the
court.
The decision is a loss for President Donald Trump’s
administration, which has emphasized stricter enforcement
of immigration law. In this case, President Barack
Obama’s administration took the same position in the
Supreme Court in defense of the challenged provision.
With the four other conservative justices in dissent, it was
the vote of the Trump appointee that was decisive in
striking down the provision at issue. Gorsuch did not join
all of Kagan’s opinion, but he agreed with her that the law
could not be left in place.
 White House Correspondents’ Dinner
Host Dares ‘Poor Little Man’ Trump To Show Up
By Corinne Weaver
April 17, 2018 12:03 PM EDT

“What if Trump shows up at the last

minute?”

Wolf responded,

“If he does show up, it would be real fun …

I’d like to look him in the eye. I like making
fun of people when they’re there.”

The late night talk show host then decided to suggest

something: “You should dare him to do it. That’s the only
way you could potentially get him to come.”
The most hostile gathering of liberal journalists and
comedians is scheduled to be on April 28. And President
Trump isn’t going. Gee, who knows why?

On Jimmy Kimmel Live, Michelle Wolf, the White House

Correspondents’ Dinner’s host for 2018, spoke to Kimmel
about how she felt about Trump avoiding the event for the
second time in a row. To say she felt relief is apparently an
understatement. The Daily Show writer apparently is so
disgusted by the concept of the President that she took the
time to express her revulsion.

She told Kimmel,

Then Wolf responded enthusiastically,
“The first thing I thought was, ‘Oh thank
God, I don’t have to hear Trump eat!’ “Yeah! I dare you, you poor little man! I’ll
You know he doesn’t chew with his give you five dollars if you come.”
mouth closed! He’s probably like a real
smacky eater, and like a mouth breather
As if Kathy Griffin at the White House Correspondents’
at the same time.”
Dinner wasn’t deterrent enough, now they want Trump to
come and listen to the host rant about how he eats? Sounds
Um, okay. Unless she speaks from experience, that’s quite counter-productive.
a speculation. But then Kimmel laughingly asked Wolf,

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 Sketch Of Man Who Allegedly
Threatened Stormy Daniels Has Twitter Buzzing
By Cristina Laila
April 17, 2018, 12:46 Pm

Stormy Daniels said in a “60 Minutes” The response on Twitter was hilarious.
interview that a mystery man
approached her in a parking lot while
she was with her then-infant daughter
and threatened her in an effort to
silence her about her sexual encounter
with Donald Trump.

On Tuesday morning, Stormy Daniels released a rough

sketch of the man who allegedly threatened her in 2011.
(screenshot below)

Stormy Daniels released the sketch on an appearance with

“The View.”

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 Dershowitz Explains Why
Comey Was Wrong To Leak Memos
Harvard Legal Icon Cites Supreme Court First Amendment Case On Which
He Was On The Losing Side — But Took The Decision To Heart
By Brendan Kirby
Updated 17 Apr 2018 At 1:32 PM
Famed Harvard Law School Professor Emeritus Alan
Dershowitz Tuesday rejected fired FBI Director James
Comey’s argument that there was nothing wrong with
leaking his memos documenting private conversations
with President Donald Trump.
Appearing on “The Laura Ingraham Show,” Dershowitz
drew from his own personal experience — a case he
argued before the Supreme Court in 1980.
That case, Snepp v. United States, involved former CIA
agent Frank Snepp, who wrote a book on his experiences
during the U.S. withdrawal from Vietnam in the 1970s.
The government objected, and Dershowitz helped Snepp
fight the case.
“They won,” Dershowitz recalled. “They
took it all the way up to the 4th Circuit
[Court of Appeals] and then to the United
States Supreme Court, and I lost and lost,
lost, lost at every point. I was devastated. I
thought the First Amendment had really
suffered.”
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In an unsigned opinion, the high court noted that Snepp
had signed an agreement to get government permission
before divulging information that might be privileged. The
justices ruled he had breached the "constructive trust"
between him and the government. Even if Snepp had not
revealed classified information, the court ruled, writing the
book "impairs the CIA's ability to perform its statutory
duties" and could harm current employees.
Snepp had to surrender his royalties from the book.
Dershowitz (pictured above) said it was the only First
Amendment case he ever lost.
Dershowitz — who has emerged as one of Trump's most
prominent and active defenders despite their stark political
differences — said he views Comey's actions in the same
light. After Trump fired him last year, Comey used a
Columbia School of Law professor to leak embarrassing
information about conversations with the president.
"The existing precedent would suggest that
Comey doesn't have the complete right to
publish everything he published, including
secret, confidential conversations with the
president-elect and the president of the
United States," he said. "It certainly creates
a very bad precedent for future CIA, FBI,
U.S. attorneys."
Many high government officials have written books about
their experiences. The right way to do it, Dershowitz said,
is to emulate former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger.
He has written many books — but years after the fact, with
historians in mind, long after the principal figures have
died.
Dershowitz said Comey's book, "A Higher Loyalty:
Truth, Lies, and Leadership," is different.
"To write a gossipy book in the middle of an
investigation, self-justifying, making a lot of
money without concern for what impact it's
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gonna have on presidential willingness to
talk to officials of the government in a
confidential way," he said. "It's really a
very, very dangerous precedent. And I
certainly don't approve of it."
 Fox News Responds —
Sean Hannity Has Our ‘Full Support’
Justin Caruso -
Media Reporter
2:44 PM 04/17/2018

Hannity himself responded to the news on his show

Fox News responded Tuesday to reports that Sean Hannity
had an attorney-client relationship with Michael Cohen in
a statement.
The conservative network stated that Hannity had their
“full support.”
Monday night, saying,
“I never paid Michael Cohen for legal fees.
I did have occasional brief conversations
with Michael Cohen, he’s a great attorney,
about legal questions I had, where I was
looking for input and perspective.”
“My discussions with Michael Cohen never
rose to any level that I needed to tell
anyone that I was asking him questions.
And to be absolutely clear, they never
involved any matter, any — sorry to
disappoint so many — matter between me,
a third party, a third group at all.”
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 Crooked Comey Responds To Trump’s Jail Threats
By Cristina Laila
April 17, 2018, 3:21 Pm
President Trump unleashed on James
Comey Sunday morning in a ferocious
tweetstorm and even threatened the
former FBI chief with jail for leaking
classified information.
On Tuesday, James Comey responded to Trump’s jail
threats in an NPR interview.
On Sunday morning Trump threatened
Comey with jail.
Trump tweeted:
“The big questions in Comey’s badly
reviewed book aren’t answered like, how
come he gave up Classified Information
(jail), why did he lie to Congress (jail), why
did the DNC refuse to give Server to the
FBI (why didn’t they TAKE it), why the
phony memos, McCabe’s $700,000 &
more?”
On Tuesday, fired FBI Director James Comey responded
to Trump’s jail threat in an interview with NPR saying
“it’s not normal,” and it’s “not OK” for the president to be
tweeting a private citizen should be put in jail.
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Poor Comey!
He misled the FISA court when he signed off on a FISA
application to extend a spy warrant on Trump knowing the
dossier was a piece of garbage paid for by Hillary but he’s
the innocent victim.
Comey leaked classified information to the liberal media
and may have also perjured himself, but let’s all feel sorry
for this innocent boy scout.
Crooked Comey also exonerated Hillary Clinton for
mishandling classified information before interviewing 17
witnesses, including Hillary Clinton and handed out
immunity like candy.
Partial transcript via NPR:
President Trump, I don’t follow him on
Twitter but I get to see his tweets tweeted, I
don’t know how many, but some tweets this
past couple of days that I should be in jail.
The president of the United States just said
that a private citizen should be jailed. And I
think the reaction of most of us was, “meh,
that’s another one of those things.” This is
not normal. This is not OK. There’s a
danger that we will become numb to it, and
we will stop noticing the threats to our
norms. The threats to the rule of law and
the threats most of all to the truth. And so
the reason I’m talking in terms of morality
is, those are the things that matter most to
this country. And there’s a great danger
we’ll be numbed into forgetting that, and
then only a fool would be consoled by
some policy victory.
Crooked Comey just kicked off a book tour to peddle his
pile of garbage “A Higher Loyalty.”
He should be prosecuted and thrown in prison rather than
collecting royalties from his book.
 Jordan Says ‘Double Standard’
Between McCabe, Flynn ‘Drives Americans Crazy’
Ohio Congressman Reveals The Lack Of Severe Consequences For The Former FBI
Deputy Director — Who Lied Four Times To Investigators —
'Bothers' Him, Trump And The Public
by Kathryn Blackhurst
Updated 17 Apr 2018 at 5:25 PM
There is a “double standard [that] drives Americans crazy”
in comparing the treatment accorded former FBI Deputy
Director Andrew McCabe and former national security
adviser Michael Flynn for the same offense of lying, Rep.
Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) said Tuesday on Fox News’ “Fox &
Friends.”
Michael Horowitz, the inspector general (IG) for the
Department of Justice (DOJ), released his internal report
Friday reviewing the department’s investigation into 2016
Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton’s use of a
private email server to conduct official business while
secretary of state.
Horowitz concluded that McCabe lied four times to federal
investigators about leaking information to The Wall Street
Journal about the Clinton probe, a conclusion that formed
the basis of Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ decision last
month to fire McCabe only hours before his planned
retirement with a full federal pension was set to begin.
Flynn briefly served in President Donald Trump’s
administration until he resigned in February 2017, after
reports revealed that he had misrepresented his contact
with a Russian ambassador to Vice President Mike Pence.
Flynn also pled guilty in December 2017 to lying to the
FBI during special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation
into allegations of Trump-Russia collusion.
Mainstream media outlets and liberal pundits obsessed
over Flynn's downfall in stark contrast to their comparative
lack of interest in McCabe's four lies. Jordan condemned
the "double standard" he saw between how McCabe and
Flynn were treated.
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"Andy McCabe doesn't have a whole lot of
credibility, either," Jordan said. "And I think
as you look at all this, the thing that bothers
Americans so much — and certainly
bothers the president, bothers me — is the
double standard."
"I mean, Mike Flynn, while not under oath,
makes a false statement to the FBI and
gets indicted. Andy McCabe lies four times
to the FBI, twice under oath to Michael
Horowitz, and nothing happens to him,"
Jordan continued. "That's the kind of stuff
that drives Americans crazy."
Although McCabe hasn't yet faced any legal consequences
as Flynn has, some lawmakers predict that he may soon
face them.
"If I were going to make a prediction, I
would expect there to be a criminal referral
in this matter, and I would expect that
Andrew McCabe will be facing the same
types of charges that Michael Flynn, Rick
Gates and George Papadopoulos are
facing," Rep. John Ratcliffe (R-Texas) said
Monday on Fox News' "America's
Newsroom."
Flynn, Gates and Papadopolous all pled guilty to making
false statements to the FBI during its Russia probe.
Ratcliffe said that he "certainly" believes McCabe should
suffer the same consequences.
 "Again, this is the Department of Justice
investigating itself and finding misconduct
on not one, not two, not three but four
different occasions, some of those under
oath," Ratcliffe said. "That, I believe, even
though I'm not in the business of
prosecuting people anymore, I believe in
this case [it] will be a prosecutable crime."
Jordan, a member of both the House Committee on the
Judiciary and the House Committee on Oversight and
Government Reform, noted that Horowitz is expected to be
asked to testify before the Oversight Committee.
"Michael Horowitz, I mean, we got his
report on Andy McCabe, which I thought
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was very good, shows all of the things that
Mr. McCabe was up to," Jordan said. "Mr.
Horowitz is well-respected. We're looking
forward to his big report."
The IG's final report on the DOJ and FBI investigations of
Clinton, along with allegations of collusion between the
Russian government and President Donald Trump during
the 2016 campaign, was expected to be released in April,
but it's now thought to be heading for a May release,
Jordan said.
"I look forward to questioning Mr. Horowitz.
More importantly, I look forward to getting
the report and [finding] out what he's
discovered over the last year," Jordan said.
 STORMY DANIELS Caught Lying About Her Mysterious
“Harasser” Who Looks JUST LIKE Her Ex-Husband
By Jim Hoft
April 17, 2018, 6:11 Pm

Stormy Daniels said in a “60 Minutes” interview that a
mystery man approached her in a parking lot while she
was with her then-infant daughter and threatened her in an
effort to silence her about her sexual encounter with
Donald Trump.
“His face is burned in my memory,” Daniels explained.
Daniels described the man as “well dressed,” and said he
wore a suit. Daniels described him as up to six feet tall
and “lean but fit.”

On Tuesday morning, as reported by TGP’s Cristina Laila, “I thought he was someone’s husband,”
Stormy Daniels released a rough sketch of the man who Daniels said, noting that she thought he
allegedly threatened her in 2011. (screenshot below) was “kind of cute.”

But today Stormy says the harasser

looks like a thug in a hoodie.

Either Stormy Daniels was lying to “60

Minutes” or she’s lying today.

Which is it?
Then again — It could be her ex-
husband.

The sketch sparked a social media frenzy.

However, after a closer look at the “harasser” it is clear

that either Stormy Daniels was lying to “60 Minutes” or
she’s lying today.

Here is what Stormy Daniels said on “60 Minutes.”

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 ‘I’m Not A Partisan’; Former Comey Aide Debates
Gagliano On Book, ‘Sounding The Alarm’ On Trump
By Curtis Houck
April 17, 2018 6:20 PM EDT
Tuesday’s New Day featured a respectful but vigorous
debate between two CNN law enforcement analysts at the
opposite ends of the spectrum on the James Comey book
tour extravaganza.
In one corner, former Comey aide Josh Campbell declared
that he’s “not a partisan” and defended his former boss
while James Gagliano argued in the other that Comey’s a
“good man” but carrying out a “vainglorious and self-
serving” book tour.
For the record, the pair agreed at the onset that the so-
called “raids” on President Trump’s attorney Michael
Cohen were lawful and not anything close to being
nefarious.
One point from that exchange was Campbell’s assertion
that, when it comes to criticizing the FBI:
I'm not a partisan but in looking at the volleying back and
forth, the left and right, and, you know, some of these
attacks on the system, the attacks on law enforcement, I
think that when you attack everything, you lose credibility
in making those arguments.
Considering his attacks on Fox News, his questionable
hiring, and how he quit the FBI, the suggestion Campbell
wasn't partisan is simply fake news.
Gagliano went first when co-host Chris
Cuomo shifted to Comey’s book tour and
the retired FBI supervisory special agent
emphasized that he need to “make an
important distinction here,” which was
that “[c]riticism of this former FBI
director's decisions, which I have said
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and I continue to maintain there was a
period of time in the Bureau where he
made feckless leadership decisions” is
“not a character assassination.”
Gagliano continued, making clear that this
was “different than talking about his
character” as Comey seems like “a good
and decent man” (click “expand” to see
more):
I've listened to Josh's warm anecdotes about the personal
life of the man. I've watched him, I've listened to him. He
seems to have a compelling story. The timing of the book
— which The Washington Post, by the way — their book
review critic said it is an author who doesn't just quote
Shakespeare, he quotes himself quoting Shakespeare — is
a bad look and I also believe that of recent, you've got a
number of folks — an assistant director — two or three of
them actually — an executive assistant director — folks
that worked for Comey in that seventh-floor circle that
have come out and said he's damaged the brand. Now, I'm
not here to protect the FBI, I'm here to call it as I see it. I
spent 25 years in it. I bleed FBI blue and gold, but here's
the problem. The two things that you point out — the
Hillary Clinton e-mail investigation — Josh has taken
issue with the term that I use called “punting it back across
the street.” It's not an abdication of duty when your
responsibility is not as an FBI director to step out in front
of cameras and talk about the closing of a case. To
basically dirty somebody up, which is what happened —
not purposely, but maybe ham-handed....To the Russia
collusion piece that you just mentioned, I believe that he
made the right decision there. I don't think he should have
mentioned that. Why? He said Donald Trump was not a
target.
“I disagree also with the look of the
book tour. I think it's vainglorious and
self-serving, and I think it further
tarnishes the FBI. Having said that, I
don't believe James Comey is a bad
man. I think he was the wrong man at
the wrong time in the wrong position,”
he concluded.
Campbell replied by claiming that “this
book is about” “leadership” which is
“very important to Jim Comey” as
opposed to making money and becoming
 lionized in the media for condemning the
President.
He also made a not-so-cryptic reference to the Daily Caller
story questioning his hiring by CNN (which, for tweeting
about it and his initial apperances, got this writer blocked
by Campbell).
“I'm not saying that when you
question...James Comey's decision that
you're attacking his character....What
I'm talking are when you have the
people at the highest levels of
government calling him a liar, calling
him slimeball, calling him disgraceful,
you tell me that's not character
assassination,” Campbell added in
reference to tweets by the President.
To Cuomo’s credit, he countered by invoking Comey’s pot
shots on Trump’s physical appearance as having done the
President “a favor,” but Campbell disagreed by
discounting it as
“a fraction of a fraction of a fraction of
what's in the book, actually and that's
obviously the salacious part that's
going to get the headlines.”
Sorry, Josh, but that’s like saying people buy Playboy to
read the articles.
The pair concluded with a back-and-forth as Campbell
asserted that his former boss’s book isn’t one that’s a
“typical, standard Washington” work of “look how
great I am”:
CAMPBELL: It's not that. What he's doing
is sounding the alarm. He's saying that our
system right now, we are in a situation
where things are dangerous, where we
have norms that are being destroyed, these
important foundations that, you know, on
which our country sits and stands and if we
don't go to the ballot box, if we don't speak
out in the public square, these things are
going to take root and we're going to
become numb to them. So you tell me,
when is the best time to do that? When is
the next best time to do this, after the next
election?
GAGLIANO: I — I can answer that.
CAMPBELL: Hold on, Jimmy, I’m not
finished. When is the next best time to do
this, after the next election? You tell me.
CUOMO: Alright, we're short on time. Keep
it tight and we’ll take it up on Twitter.
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CAMPBELL: In two years from now? You
tell me.
GAGLIANO: So I can answer that. It's not
during a current, ongoing investigation of
which he's not just a peripheral witness,
he's the central witness too. Second of all
this, James Comey had nine interactions
with the former — with the President. In
none of those meetings did he push back,
and that's why I go to the feckless
leadership part. He didn't go back and say
I'm sounding the alarm. I'm going to the
Attorney General and sounding it. He
waited now. It's helping him sell books. It's
not a good look, Josh.
CAMPBELL: Yeah, I disagree.
The relevant transcript from CNN’s New Day on April 17:
CNN’s New Day
April 17, 2018
7:55 a.m. Eastern
JOSH CAMPBELL: I think what I do have concern with — and,
you know, I'm not a partisan but in looking at the volleying back
and forth, the left and right, and, you know, some of these attacks
on the system, the attacks on law enforcement, I think that when
you attack everything, you lose credibility in making those
arguments. So here we see, you know, the President and his
allies going after the system, but again, when you attack
everything it's hard to parse and make sense of what's actually
righteous and what's just noise.
CHRIS CUOMO: And look, just for you guys at home, some of
you have asked why I don't call it a raid because it wasn't a raid.
By Michael Cohen's own recording, they didn't break down his
door and take things. I think it suggests an aggression that is
used to imply that this was somehow wrong —
CAMPBELL: That’s right.
CUOMO: — or motivated by animists. That's why I don't say it.
Alright, so now let's talk about something where I think you guys
will not agree. James Comey is part of the rationale for his
actions and his justification for the same to NPR in an interview
and said this. “Comey asserted that the reputation of his agency,
which operates under near-daily siege from the President and his
allies, ‘would be worse today had we not picked the least bad
alternatives.’” Okay, Jimmy, the reference is to his
unprecedented/controversial moves of saying that there was an
investigation into Hillary Clinton but not saying that there was one
into Donald Trump and then saying, once again, supposedly on a
promise to Congress that they were looking at the situation and
reopening it once again just days away from the election, which
does breach the tradition of the FBI to stay out of any election
that close to the actual election day. Do you believe that Comey
helped the FBI by what he did?
JAMES GAGLIANO: Let's make an important distinction here
and this is where I disagree vehemently with Josh. Criticism of
this former FBI director's decisions, which I have said and I
continue to maintain there was a period of time in the Bureau
where he made feckless leadership decisions. That's not a
character assassination. I will give you the reasons why. That's
definitely different than talking about his character. I think he's a
good and decent man. I've listened to Josh's warm anecdotes
about the personal life of the man. I've watched him, I've listened
to him. He seems to have a compelling story. The timing of the
book — which The Washington Post, by the way — their book
review critic said it is an author who doesn't just quote
Shakespeare, he quotes himself quoting Shakespeare — is a
bad look and I also believe that of recent, you've got a number of
folks — an assistant director — two or three of them actually —
an executive assistant director — folks that worked for Comey in
that seventh-floor circle that have come out and said he's
damaged the brand. Now, I'm not here to protect the FBI, I'm
here to call it as I see it. I spent 25 years in it. I bleed FBI blue
and gold, but here's the problem. The two things that you point
out — the Hillary Clinton e-mail investigation — Josh has taken
issue with the term that I use called “punting it back across the
street.” It's not an abdication of duty when your responsibility is
not as an FBI director to step out in front of cameras and talk
about the closing of a case. To basically dirty somebody up,
which is what happened — not purposely, but maybe ham-
handed. You should have said to Loretta Lynch, who did some
things that were questionable and politicized things, this belongs
on the desk of the Deputy Attorney General, a career prosecutor
who had to go through the Congressional vetting system before
she was appointed. To the Russia collusion piece that you just
mentioned, I believe that he made the right decision there. I don't
think he should have mentioned that. Why? He said Donald
Trump was not a target. They were concerned about a small
group of people — a coterie that might have been working —
might have been — with the Russians and to mention that at that
time might have sent those folks scurrying elsewhere. So I
disagree with the decision-making. I disagree also with the look
of the book tour. I think it's vainglorious and self-serving, and I
think it further tarnishes the FBI. Having said that, I don't believe
James Comey is a bad man. I think he was the wrong man at the
wrong time in the wrong position.
CUOMO: Josh?
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CAMPBELL: Well, there's a lot there — like five or six things. But
let me just start if I can with leadership because that's what this
book is about and that's something that was very important to
Jim Comey. I know it is to Jimmy Gagliano, as well. I think you
fundamentally have two different leadership styles here. If you
put yourself in the — in the position of Jim Comey and go back to
— you know, obviously with the distance of hindsight, we can
look and — you know, look at all different decisions and
determine what was done well and what was done maybe
differently. I think we can distinguish between the decisions that
Jim Comey made and the person Jim Comey is and so when I
talk about a character assassination, I'm not saying that when
you question Jim — when you question James Comey's decision
that you're attacking his character. I think that would be an easy
way out. What I'm talking are when you have the people at the
highest levels of government calling him a liar, calling him
slimeball, calling him disgraceful, you tell me that's not character
assassination, so let's set that side.
CUOMO: Well first, that's the President of the United States and
that's who's saying it.
CAMPBELL: That's right and that's what I'm referring to.
CUOMO: Let's — you know, there's no reason for us to cloak any
of this, but let's talk about why he's doing that. Comey did him a
favor, okay? Trump likes to go low. He likes to keep it personal.
He likes to make it a battle of ego? Why? Because it makes
sense to people and it allows him to ignore the facts and
subtleties and complexities of situations. James Comey did help
him out in this one regard, Josh, by talking about his orange face
and the white circles and his hands and his hair. He's making it a
little tawdry, and by doing that, he reduced himself to a position
of potential vulnerability to make this a battle of egos opinions
about the other guy, did he not?
CAMPBELL: No, I disagree with that. I mean, if you look at the
book, I think that's a fraction of a fraction of a fraction of what's in
the book, actually and that's obviously the salacious part that's
going to get the headlines. So I set that aside. What I think what
we see is when someone is being criticized, and I know this from
personal experience, unfortunately very recent personal
experience, that when someone is trying to discredit you and
doesn't even know you or is, you know, presenting a set of fact,
when is it your time to tell your side of the story? Look at James
Comey and all that he's gone through, you know, since June of
2017 since that hearing when he's essentially been silent, you
know, writing this book, working on this piece. So now is his time
to speak out, number one and number two, look what we tell our
kids. You know, you treat everyone with kindness, you treat
everyone with respect, but you don't let the bully get away with
those actions. Sometimes, you have to stand up to the bully, and
I think what he's doing here, he's looking at someone he
considers a bully, someone he considers that lied about him, and
he's standing up to him and let me say just one more thing if I
can. If you look at what Jim Comey is doing right now, this book
isn't the typical, standard Washington, look how great I am book,
if you look at it. It's not that. What he's doing is sounding the
alarm. He's saying that our system right now, we are in a
situation where things are dangerous, where we have norms that
are being destroyed, these important foundations that, you know,
on which our country sits and stands and if we don't go to the
ballot box, if we don't speak out in the public square, these things
are going to take root and we're going to become numb to them.
So you tell me, when is the best time to do that? When is the
next best time to do this, after the next election?
GAGLIANO: I — I can answer that.
CAMPBELL: Hold on, Jimmy, I’m not finished. When is the next
best time to do this, after the next election? You tell me.
CUOMO: Alright, we're short on time. Keep it tight and we’ll take
it up on Twitter.
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CAMPBELL: In two years from now? You tell me.
GAGLIANO: So I can answer that. It's not during a current,
ongoing investigation of which he's not just a peripheral witness,
he's the central witness too. Second of all this, James Comey
had nine interactions with the former — with the President. In
none of those meetings did he push back, and that's why I go to
the feckless leadership part. He didn't go back and say I'm
sounding the alarm. I'm going to the Attorney General and
sounding it. He waited now. It's helping him sell books. It's not a
good look, Josh.
CAMPBELL: Yeah, I disagree.
CUOMO: Jimmy and Josh, let's take it up on Twitter. We'll keep
the conversation going.
CAMPBELL: Oh, that's never a great place to have a good
debate.
GAGLIANO: I agree with Josh there.
CUOMO: It is as long as it's you three guys. How people respond
to it is something different and we'll have you back here as well.
Josh, James, well argued, thank you.
 McConnell Shuts Down Bill
To Protect Dirty Cop Mueller’s Job
By Cristina Laila
April 17, 2018, 7:07 Pm
On Tuesday, Senate Majority Leader
Mitch McConnell shut down a bipartisan
bill to protect Special Counsel Robert
Mueller’s witch hunt job.
McConnell says he will not hold a floor
vote on the bill even if it gets approved
in the Senate Judiciary Committee.
AP reported:
McConnell said the bill is unnecessary
because President Donald Trump will not
fire Mueller.
“We’ll not be having this on the floor of the
Senate,” McConnell said on Fox News.
His comments came amid widespread
opposition to the bill among members of his
caucus, with several GOP senators saying
the bill is unconstitutional. Others said it’s
simply not good politics to try and tell
Trump what to do, likening the legislation to
“poking the bear.”
Last week, GOP snakes Lindsey
Graham and Thom Tillis from North
Carolina joined with Democrats to
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introduce a bill to protect Dirty Cop
Robert Mueller.
Robert Mueller isn’t a king. He is not immune from
criticism or from being fired.
In fact, the whole point of a special counsel is to avoid a
conflict of interest which clearly Mueller has being that
he’s buddies with Comey.
Just like GOP Rep Louie Gohmert recently said, not only
does Mueller need to be fired, he needs to be investigated
for his role in the Uranium One scandal.
“There is nobody in America that needs
firing more than Mueller,” Gohmert said.
“He needs not only to be fired, he needs to
be investigated for his part in helping the
Clinton Foundation make $145 million from
the sale of Uranium when nobody knew
more than Mueller did about the
investigation, about the Russian efforts to
get our Uranium. He participated. He needs
to be the target, not investigating,” Gohmert
continued.
Gohmert also called for Rosenstein to be fired and
investigated.
“We need the appointment of a second
counsel to investigate Comey and his
leaks, Mueller and Rosentein,” Gohmert
concluded.
Where the hell is Jeff Sessions and the rest of the spineless
Republicans??
 MSNBC's Scarborough Suggests
Trump Voters Are Too Incompetent To
Handle 'Anything Sharp'
By Ryan Foley
April 17, 2018 7:19 PM EDT
During Monday's edition of Morning Joe, co-host Joe
Scarborough argued that anyone who subscribed to the
idea that former FBI Director James Comey and former
Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe have an animus
against President Trump should not handle “anything sharp
because you will hurt yourself because you are too
incompetent actually to use any basic household
appliances.”
Not surprisingly, the panel had plenty to say about
Comey’s interview with ABC’s George Stephanopolous
ahead of the release of his book A Higher Loyalty. Co-host
Mika Brzezinski brought up a Washington Post report
claiming that White House officials set up a meeting
between President Trump and Japanese Prime Minister
Shinzo Abe at Mar-a-lago at the time of the book’s release
in an effort to “distract President Trump from what James
Comey would say.”
After Brzezinski pointed out that Comey served as the
target of “six of the seven tweets President Trump sent
before heading out to play golf,” her fiancé Scarborough
jeered that the President’s advisors decided to “use Japan
to distract the President from acting like a child.” The duo
could have also pointed out that Comey’s obsession with
the President’s “bright white half moons” under his eyes
could also fall into the “acting like a child” category.
After Brzezinski read aloud a Trump tweet about
Comey, Scarborough weighed in:
“It needs to be repeated as much as
possible that the President is claiming that
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he was the victim of a conspiracy that
elected him President.”
As the chyron at the bottom of the screen read “Trump
Launches Twitter Tirade Against Comey,” Scarborough
and Brzezinski launched a tirade against Trump voters.
After assuring the American people that
“James Comey’s letter did as much as
anything, other than Hillary Clinton’s bad
campaigning, electing Donald Trump
President,” Scarborough argued that “if you
are at home and you don’t understand that
and you’re buying into some stupid
conspiracy theory that somebody on TV is
telling you, please step away from your
kitchen utensils and knives and blenders.”
The insults continued with Scarborough saying that he did
not even trust “these people” to handle a “manual egg
beater,” while Brzezinski worried that they would “get
their fingers stuck in it.”
As the segment continued to fly off the rails, Scarborough
painted a graphic visual:
“Because you know what, they might go,
wait, is this something that trims my nose
hair? I mean, they’re doing this, and there’s
blood coming out all over the place.”
In his post-congressional career spanning nearly two
decades, Scarborough has become quite well-known for
graphic imagery, once comparing President Trump to a
child pooping his pants.
Scarborough gave one final piece of advice to Trump
voters
“Put yourself in bubble wrap and slowly
walk back into your bedroom and put the,
make sure you can breathe, and then put
the covers over your head because this is
so obvious that you, I really find it hard to
believe that you are as stupid as anybody
that’s pushing these conspiracy theories.”
The “conspiracy theories” that the Morning Joe hosts refer
to argue that the top officials at the FBI, including Comey
and McCabe have been working to remove President
Trump from office. ABC’s one-hour special actually
managed to bolster that argument, as it highlighted how
Comey’s wife and daughters actively supported Hillary
Clinton’s Presidential Campaign and went to the Women’s
March.
In 2018, late night TV and left-wing political commentary
have become indistinguishable. Morning Joe now relies
heavily on sophomoric humor once reserved for late night
TV, while ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live makes more of an
effort to dabble in liberal politics than carry out its actual
purpose: to make people laugh. As Trump Derangement
Syndrome continues to spread, expect more segments and
tirades like this one that appeared on Morning Joe Monday
morning.
The relevant transcript:
MSNBC's Morning Joe
April 16, 2018
06:08 a.m. Eastern
MIKA BRZEZINSKI: So a report in The Washington Post claims
White House officials tried to distract President Trump from what
James Comey would say. Administration officials said aides were
so concerned about Comey’s book that they scheduled Trump to
be at his Mar-a-lago estate for a meeting with Japanese Prime
Minister Shinzo Abe at the same time as the book’s release.
Comey was the target of six of the seven tweets President Trump
sent before heading out to play golf.
JOE SCARBOROUGH: We’re going to use Japan to distract the
President from acting like a child.
BRZEZINSKI: This is where we are.
SCARBOROUGH: We are going to use Japan.
BRZEZINSKI: In one tweet, Trump claimed “James Comey
states that Polls, where Crooked Hillary was leading, were a
factor in handling (stupidly) of the Clinton Email probe. In other
words, he was making decisions based on the fact that he
thought she was going to win, and he wanted a job. Slimeball!”
That’s our President.
SCARBOROUGH: What Comey was referring to was his
decision to reveal new evidence eleven days before the 2016
election. “I was operating in a world where Hillary Clinton was
going to beat Donald Trump…if I hide this from the American
people, she’ll be illegitimate the moment she’s elected, the
moment this comes out.” Comey also…
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SCARBOROUGH: All right. All right. I just…you know, again…
BRZEZINSKI: Well, let’s…
SCARBOROUGH: I just…it needs to be repeated as much as
possible that the President is claiming that he was the victim of a
conspiracy that elected him President.
BRZEZINSKI: Exactly.
SCARBOROUGH: James Comey’s letter did as much as
anything, other than Hillary Clinton’s bad campaigning, electing
Donald Trump President. McCabe leaking about the Clinton
Foundation being under investigation hurt Hillary Clinton. Now, if
you are at home, and you don’t understand that and you’re
buying into some stupid conspiracy theory at home that
somebody on TV is telling you, please step away from your
kitchen utensils and knives and blenders.
BRZEZINSKI: Anything sharp.
SCARBOROUGH: Anything sharp because you will hurt yourself
because you are too incompetent actually to use any basic
household appliances. Let me state again, the President of the
United States won in large part because of James Comey.
JOHN HEILEMANN: Are egg beaters okay?
SCARBOROUGH: No. I don’t even trust these people…
HEILEMANN: …To be near an egg beater? A manual egg
beater?
SCARBOROUGH: No, not even a manual egg beater.
BRZEZINSKI: They get their fingers stuck in it.
SCARBOROUGH: Because you know what, they might go, wait,
is this something that trims my nose hair? I mean, they’re doing
this, and there’s blood coming out all over the place.
BRZEZINSKI: Stop.
SCARBOROUGH: If you don’t…stay away from it. Stay away
from it. Just, you know what, put yourself…
BRZEZINSKI: The President thinks you’re that stupid…
SCARBOROUGH: Put yourself in bubble wrap and slowly walk
back into your bedroom and put the, make sure you can breathe,
and then put the covers over your head because this is so
obvious that you, I really find it hard to believe that you are as
stupid as anybody that’s pushing these conspiracy theories.
James Comey did more than anybody in America other than
Hillary Clinton to elect Donald Trump.
 CIA Director Mike Pompeo
Met With Kim Jong Un In Pyongyang
By Jim Hoft
April 17, 2018, 8:16 Pm
The Hill reported:
CIA Director Mike Pompeo reportedly
met with North Korean dictator Kim
Jong Un in a top secret visit during
Easter weekend.
President Donald Trump is expected to
meet with Kim Jong Un in June or
earlier.
POTUS Trump told reporters today his
administration has held talks “at the
highest level” recently with Kim Jong
Un.
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CIA Director Mike Pompeo flew to North
Korea earlier and met with the nation’s
leader Kim Jong Un, The Washington Post
reported Tuesday.
The shocking, top-secret trip took place
during Easter weekend ahead of a possible
summit between Trump and Kim later this
year to discuss Pyongyang’s nuclear
program.
Trump said Tuesday that the U.S. had
direct talks with North Korea at “very high
levels” but did not provide more details.
“We have had direct talks at very high
levels, extremely high levels, with North
Korea,” the president said. “I really believe
there’s a lot of good will. We’ll see what
happens, as I always say. Because
ultimately it’s the end result that counts.”
He added that the meeting with Kim could
take place “probably in early June or before
that,” but cautioned it is hardly a guarantee,
based on Kim’s actions.
Trump has nominated Pompeo as his next
secretary of State, though multiple
Democratic senators have expressed
reticence amid his confirmation process.
 Rep Desantis Puts Rosenstein On Notice
After Deadline Passes: Produce The Comey Memos –
Stop Stonewalling! (VIDEO)
By Cristina Laila
April 17, 2018, 8:26 Pm

On Sunday House Judiciary Chairman Comey leaked 4 out of the 7 memos he

Rep. Bob Goodlatte (R-VA) told Maria penned stemming from 9 private
Bartiromo on Sunday Morning Futures conversations he had with President
that the House was ready to take Trump.
action against the DOJ if the requested
4 out of 7 memos contained classified
Comey memos from the FBI. information so at minimum Comey leaked 1
classified memo.
The documents were already passed by Comey to the
media but Congress does not have a copy yet. Rosenstein needs to be fired and
investigated.
Congress needs to impeach these DOJ crooks.
VIDEO:
Rep Ron DeSantis (R-FL) put Rosenstein on notice
Tuesday evening.

DeSantis also blasted Rosenstein from

his Twitter account.

Congressman DeSantis joined Lou Dobbs Tuesday

evening to discuss Rosenstein’s stonewalling of Comey’s
memos.

“They’re gonna extend the deadline. They

should also set at the deadline a contempt
hearing for Rosenstein so that Rosenstein
knows that if he doesn’t meet the deadline
we will just hold him in contempt,” DeSantis
said.
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 Freedom Caucus Leader Mark Meadows:
Obama Admin Instructed DOJ And FBI To
Surveil Donald Trump (Audio)
By Jim Hoft
April 17, 2018, 9:21 Pm
On March 4, 2017, President Donald Trump accused his
predecessor Barack Obama of spying on him during the
2016 election.
Trump was right!
Not only was the Obama White House
spying on him but the Obama
administration instructed the DOJ and
FBI to surveil Trump.
Freedom Caucus leader Rep. Mark
Meadows (R-NC) went on with Patrick
Johnson on WPTF last week to discuss
the latest developments in the Obama-
Comey DOJ-FBI spying on Republican
Donald Trump.
During the radio interview Rep. Mark
Meadows dropped this bomb– The
Obama Administration was aware and
instructed the DOJ and FBI to surveil
Donald Trump.
Rep. Mark Meadows:
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It now appears that the State Department
and the White House at the very highest
levels including the president himself were
involved in this whole narrative in
investigating Donald Trump. And much of
that started with a fake dossier that was put
together by Democratic opposition
research firm as we now know, Fusion
GPS that was paid $12 million to come up
with this dirt that would suggest that the
FBI and DOJ could surveil Donald Trump
and spy on an American citizen. It’s just not
the way we normally think of our FBI and
DOJ officials in fact the mass majority of
them are great patriots serving their
country… We believe that contrary to his
public statements that not only was
President Obama aware but his Chief of
Staff Denis McDonough had a briefing on
August the 12th of 2016. And then there
was another briefing in September.
The text messages that I’ve had the
privilege of reviewing and some of the
other correlating information which
strongly suggests that there was not
only information given to the White
House but indeed they were involved in
drafting some of the action of the
Department of Justice and FBI in the fall
of 2016.
That’s troubling when you see one president allowing their
DOJ to get involved in a political campaign.
Here’s the audio from WPTF:
 EXCLUSIVE: US Embassy Paid
Speaker Who Compared Trump’s Rhetoric To ISIS
Saagar Enjeti - White House Correspondent
10:03 PM 04/17/2018
The U.S. Embassy in Germany paid a terrorism scholar to
speak in February in spite of his past writings comparing
President Trump’s rhetoric to the extremism of ISIS.
The scholar, Dr. Arie Kruglanski of the University of
Maryland, compared Trump’s rhetoric to the terrorist
group in a December 2015 op-ed for The Guardian.
“Psychologically, Trump’s affinity to Isis is no joke. Both
exploit the fear and uncertainty so prevalent in the world
today and skillfully cultivate it,” Kruglanski declared.
Kruglanski was nonetheless enlisted by U.S. diplomats in
Germany to support Trump’s national security strategy and
to participate in dialogues with German
counterparts. “Prof. Kruglanski stopped in Düsseldorf,
Hamburg and Berlin to introduce his work to a German
audience,” the embassy touted on its website at the time.
A spokesman for the U.S. Department of State confirmed
the payment to The Daily Caller.
“Dr. Arie Kruglanski traveled to Germany,
at the invitation of the U.S. Embassy, to
work with our German partners on de-
radicalization and countering violent
extremism. This program was part of the
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Embassy’s efforts to support the
President’s National Security Strategy,” the
spokesman told TheDC. “In accordance
with U.S. Speaker Program regulations, the
U.S. Embassy in Berlin paid for Dr.
Kruglanski’s travel expenses and provided
him with a speaking honorarium.”
Kruglanski defended his invitation, telling TheDC he
wasn’t surprised to be invited despite his past comments.
“I was invited as a scholar who studies
violent extremism a topic that both the U.S.
and Germany are very interested. I see it
as rather unrelated to columns that I wrote
on other topics,” he said.
This is not the first speaker with open animus to the
president to be invited by the German Embassy. The U.S.
consulate in Frankfurt recently promoted motivational
speaker Ricardo Calderón, who has tweeted,
“#TrumpIsAFool.”
A Trump administration official familiar with the U.S.-
German relationship noted to TheDC that the U.S.
Embassy in Germany has been without an ambassador —
even though one has been nominated by Trump — for
nearly a year and is currently being run by career foreign
service officer Kent Logsdon. The official expressed alarm
at the pattern of anti-Trump speakers and noted Germany’s
continued shirking of White House priorities.
These actions include Germany’s attempts to remain
within the 2015 Iran nuclear agreement, its recently
approved permits to a Russian pipeline opposed by the
U.S. and its refusal to join the U.S. and its allies in striking
Syrian President Bashar-Al-Assad’s regime.
 ABC, CBS Ignore High-Level U.S. Talks
With North Korea Ahead Of Possible Meeting
By Nicholas Fondacaro
April 17, 2018 11:23 PM EDT
In remarks late Tuesday afternoon, President Trump
revealed the United States was in high-level talks directly
with the North Korean government and had given the okay
for South Korea to negotiate an official end to the decades-
long state of war. These were major developments on the
world stage but the evening broadcasts of ABC, CBS and
Spanish-language networks Univision and Telemundo flat
out ignored them. Only NBC Nightly News thought it was
important enough to inform their viewers about.
“There is breaking news from President
Trump tonight at a critical meeting with
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in
Florida. The President revealing that
high-level talks have begun between the
U.S. and North Korea,” announced anchor
Lester Holt at the start of the segment.
As NBC Chief White House correspondent Hallie Jackson
explained, the talks between the U.S. and North Korea
were a “milestone” because it was the first time the two
countries have spoken that way in
“nearly two decades.”
“Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un face to
face, maybe in May or June, the
President says. As he confirms high-
level direct talks happening now with
the North Korean regime,” she reported.
“No North Korean leader has ever met
with a sitting U.S. president. So, if
Donald Trump does, it would be a major
milestone.”
Even though it was a historic moment, Jackson had a lot to
complain about.
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She huffed that President Trump was
“granting dictator Kim Jong-un the
legitimacy he craves.”
It was a point some say went out the window when three
presidents let the rogue state obtain nuclear weapons and
reportedly the ability to hit Washington, DC with them.
Jackson did, however, note that “to pave
the way, the North Koreans are in talks
with South Korea, apparently given the
green light by the U.S.” “South Korea is
meeting and has plans to meet with North
Korea to see if they can end the war, and
they have my blessing on that,” Trump said
in a clip.
The president also said that they have not picked a final
location for the talks to occur but did have it narrowed
down to five possible locations.
NBC also brought on George W. Bush-era National
Security Council member Victor Cha to bemoan Trump’s
negotiating tactics:
This is usually something that comes at the
end of a negotiation process. It's not
something at the very beginning, which will
only incentivize the North Koreans to
believe they have been accepted as a
nuclear weapons state and will keep their
weapons.
That complaint came even though the U.S. had made it
clear they wanted denuclearization.
Not long after the network evening broadcasts were off the
air, The Washing Post reported that CIA Director Mike
Pompeo actually made a secret trip to the communist
regime to meet with Kim personally.
“CIA Director Mike Pompeo made a top-
secret visit to North Korea over Easter
weekend as an envoy for President
Trump to meet with that country’s
leader, Kim Jong Un, according to two
people with direct knowledge of the
trip,” the paper reported.

Instead of reporting on the historic talks, ABC's World
News Tonight reported on a baby gorilla at the National
Zoo and CBS Evening News highlighted the North Pole
Marathon.
The transcript is below:
NBC Nightly News
April 17, 2018
7:07:05 PM Eastern [1 minute 55 seconds]
LESTER HOLT: There is breaking news from President Trump
tonight at a critical meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo
Abe in Florida. The President revealing that high level talks have
begun between the U.S. and North Korea. A lot of major issues
to hammer out before a potential summit between the President
and Kim Jong-un. Our White House correspondent Hallie
Jackson is traveling with the President in Florida.
[Cuts to video]
HALLIE JACKSON: Dominating discussions tonight, not talks
with Japan's prime minister, but a different meeting that could
come within weeks.
DONALD TRUMP: I look forward to meeting with Kim Jong-un
and hopefully that will be a success.
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JACKSON: Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un face to face, maybe
in May or June the President says. As he confirms high level
direct talks happening now with the North Korean regime. For the
first time in nearly two decades.
TRUMP: We've also started talking to North Korea directly. We
have had direct talks at very high levels. extremely high levels.
JACKSON: No North Korean leader has ever met with a sitting
U.S. president. So, if Donald Trump does, it would be a major
milestone. Granting dictator Kim Jong-un the legitimacy he
craves.
TRUMP: We have not picked the site yet. But we picked five sites
where it's potentially going to be.
JACKSON: To pave the way, the North Koreans are in talks with
South Korea, apparently given the green light by the U.S.
TRUMP: South Korea is meeting and has plans to meet with
North Korea to see if they can end the war, and they have my
blessing on that.
VICTOR CHA: This is usually something that comes at the end of
a negotiation process. It's not something at the very beginning,
which will only incentivize the North Koreans to believe they have
been accepted as a nuclear weapons state and will keep their
weapons.
[Cuts back to live]
JACKSON: In those talks here in south Florida, with the
Japanese prime minister trade could be a tension point with
President Trump pushing for a one on one agreement. Lester?
HOLT: All right Hallie Jackson, thank you.
 Comey Questions Colbert
About ‘Pee Tape’ Hotel Room In Moscow
By Nicholas Fondacaro
April 18, 2018 1:44 AM EDT

“If you felt like you were working for a

mob boss, were you surprised that you
got whacked? Because that's what they
do,” he joked.

After Colbert read some Trump’s tweets slamming the

former FBI Director, Comey joked that Trump was a like a
jaded lover:

He's tweeted at me probably 50 times. I've been gone for a

year. I’m like a breakup he can't get over. He wakes up in
the morning-- ( cheers and applause ) I'm out there-- I'm
out there living my best life. He wakes up in the morning
In a disgustingly gushy interview on CBS’s The Late
and tweets at me.
Show, former FBI Director James Comey admitted that no
one went to investigate the Ritz-Carlton Moscow hotel
room where the Steele dossier alleged President Trump Colbert went on to defend Comey’s book from critics that
paid for the services of prostitutes. But host Stephen point to the bitter physical description of the President as
Colbert apparently did and begged the former investigator evidence the book was tainted.
to ask him about it.
“It is one paragraph on page 217 into
“Is it big enough for the -- a germophobe 218. It's probably six sentences,” Colbert
to be at a safe distance from the explained as he ripped the pages out of his
activity,” he obliged. copy. “There's another 160 pages in here
that are pretty good and pretty
“The bedroom is very long, very long. gripping.”
You could definitely be out of at what
we call at Sea World, ‘the splash zone.’
Okay,” the raunchy late night host
declared. And this was only one of many
ridiculous moments during the not-so-tough
interview.

Immediately after Comey stepped out onto the stage, the

escapades began.

“Before we get started, you've done a lot

of interviews. I do a lot of interviews. I
just want you to know, I need loyalty. I
expect loyalty. Can you give me that,”
Colbert asked, mocking the President. “Eat
your shrimp scampi,” Comey told him.
To recreate Comey’s trip home after being fired, Colbert
busted out the pinot noir and paper cups and made a toast
to “the truth.” This led to a series of questions where he
would ask Comey about the Trump White House being run
like a crime family.
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The only time Colbert got serious was when he was
grilling Comey from the left about his actions regarding
the Hillary Clinton e-mail investigation. The CBS host
didn’t believe Comey when he argued he had no good
choice between speaking about the reopening of the case
and concealing it.
“Conceal naturally has a pejorative to it,
it's speak or standard discretion of the
FBI. It's not the same thing as
concealing,” Colbert argued.
But the interview appeared to end in a way that would
make Colbert happy. Because in wrapping up the
interview, Comey described Trump as a devastating forest
fire that would allow things to grow. But his example of
that positive growth was the anti-gun Parkland students.
“Forest fires allow things to grow that
couldn't grow before. I see kids getting
energized. It's inspiring to see kids in
the wake of Parkland out there getting
involved,” he opined.
All told, the interview very much had a higher loyalty to
attacking the President.
The relevant portions of the transcript are below:
CBS's The Late Show
April 17, 2018
11:52:18 PM Eastern
STEPHEN COLBERT: Sir, thanks for being here.
JAMES COMEY: It's great to be here. Thanks for having me.
COLBERT: Before we get started, you've done a lot of
interviews. I do a lot of interviews. I just want you to know, I need
loyalty. ( Laughter ) I expect loyalty. Can you give me that?
COMEY: Eat your shrimp scampi.
COLBERT: Was that over dinner?
COMEY: Yes, it was over dinner.
COLBERT: All right. Well, all I ask from you is honesty tonight. I
know that when you were fired, you say in the book, when it was
over, you flew back on a plane to the east coast, drinking pinot
noir out of a paper cup, so I thought maybe we could recreate
that happy moment for you right now. ( Cheers and applause )
There you go. To the truth.
COMEY: Yes, to the truth.
(…)
COLBERT: You can see-- you're a prosecutor. You're not just
telling a story. You're laying out a case for your actions regarding
Hillary Clinton and her investigation, and your run-ins with Donald
Trump. It's a-- it's an indictment of Donald Trump in describing
what an ethical leader is. Do you think that he has – I know you
don’t like the man, but do you think he has an opportunity still to
be an ethical leader? Can he turn his presidency around if your
eyes?
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COMEY: I think it would be very hard given the way he is as a
person. He doesn't seem to be somebody who has external
reference points his life. Ethical leaders make hardest decisions
by looking to some reference points.
(…)
COLBERT: Describe him as being-- or the people around him, as
having a mob, or a Cosa Nostra quality. What is it about him and
the people around him that feels like the mob, which you
prosecuted, to you?
(…)
COLBERT: If you felt like you were working for a mob boss, were
you surprised that you got whacked? ( Laughter ) Because that's
what they do.
COMEY: I actually was quite surprised because I thought I'm
leading the Russia investigation. Even though our relationship
was becoming strained, there's no way I'm going to get fired or
whacked.
(…)
COLBERT: The president has said some kind of fun things about
you. He has called you in the last few days, he has called you
"Slippery Jim." And he has called you a "Slimeball." Anything to
say back?
COMEY: No. He's tweeted at me probably 50 times. I've been
gone for a year. I’m like a breakup he can't get over. He wakes
up in the morning-- ( cheers and applause ) I'm out there-- I'm out
there living my best life. He wakes up in the morning and tweets
at me.
(…)
COLBERT: Well, you-- he's not the only one who has called you
names. Chris Wallace, talking about your book, called you
"Bitchy" because he was surprised about the-- you were talking
about President Trump's hair and his hand size and the fact that
he looks so, sort of Orange, when you see him. Why did you
include that?
COMEY: Because I'm trying to be an author. ( Laughter ) And I'm
sitting there typing, and I can hear my editor saying, "Bring the
reader with you. Show the reader that room."
(…)
COLBERT: Are you surprised how much attention just that part of
it has gotten? Because I want to point out to everybody out there-
- People I know and respect or are interested in book have said,
"I don't know, it seems a little tawdry, the hair and the hands." It
is one paragraph on page 217 into 218. It's probably six
sentences. Okay. [Rips pages out] Now it's out of the book.
There's another 160 pages in here that are pretty good and pretty
gripping. Why do you think people are focusing just on that?
COMEY: Because they haven't read the book, and they're
looking to criticize the book and me, and so they're looking for a
handhold. And that was an easy handhold. To my mind it's a silly
handhold, but it's something people grab on to and they can on
of go on TV and talk about and haven't done what you have
done, which is actually reading it.
(…)
12:20:11 AM Eastern
COLBERT: Let's keep on going. Because, look, I want to be
delicate here, but he looks like a microwave circus peanut that
someone rubbed on a golden retriever. By the way, I went to that
room-- just so you know, the people out there know-- I went to
that room. I stayed at the Ritz-Carlton Moscow. We rented that
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room. Which is really all you need to do. Now, you're an
investigator, did anyone from your office ever go to that hotel and
look at that room?
COMEY: Not while I was director.
COLBERT: I don’t know if anyone from the press—You’re an
investigator, would you like to ask me anything of the room? Ask
me anything about that room.
COMEY: Is it big enough for the-- a germophobe to be at a safe
distance from the activity?
COLBERT: The bedroom is very long, very long. You could
definitely be out of at what we call at Sea World, "the splash
zone." Okay?
(…)
 'Higher Royalties': Meghan McCain Attacks Comey As
Greedy For Money And Attention
By Tim Graham
April 18, 2018 2:07 PM EDT
ABC's The View gave almost their entire hour on
Wednesday to an interview with James Comey...on top of
the hour of publicity (minus commercials) he was granted
by ABC in his primetime book-selling special on Sunday
night. The toughest questions came from Meghan McCain,
who quickly turned to accusing Comey of going on a book
tour for money and attention.
MEGHAN McCAIN: You're not naive to the
criticism you’ve gotten from Republicans
and Democrats, and I think it’s worth noting
that David Axelrod, a big Democrat, a
former chief stratetgist to President
Obama, said ‘I have no doubt about its
brilliance when it comes to book sales.
Maybe he should have called it Higher
Royalties.' What do you say to people like
him and people like me that think you're
doing this for money and attention?
COMEY: Yeah, the first thing I’d do is ask
him to read the book, and I'm not saying he
should agree with me, but if he reads the
book, he will see I'm trying to make choices
between bad options and doing it in a way
that I think you would want someone as
director of the FBI to do it. So even if you
leave the book still thinking I'm an idiot, you
realize I'm actually kind of an honest idiot
and I'm not on anybody's side. [Applause]
McCain then asserted longtime FBI director J. Edgar
Hoover would be "rolling over in his grave" at Comey's
book. Comey repeated his line about he's trying to be
"open and honest." McCain then asked if "transparency"
was most important. Comey said
"It's a huge part of the FBI. It's a bedrock."
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Then McCain brought up his deputy, Andrew McCabe:
McCAIN: Even if your second in command
was fired for lying four times. So this is
where I think the confusion comes from.
McCabe was fired for lying multiple times
within the FBI. You defended his character
on Twitter. That's okay?. Lying is okay
internally?
COMEY: No, it's definitely not. In fact, the
McCabe case illustrates what an
organization that's committed to the truth
looks like. We investigate -- I ordered that
investigation. We investigate and hold
people accountable. Good people lie. I lay
out, I think I'm a good person, where I have
lied. I still believe Andrew McCabe is a
good person, but the inspector general
found that he lied, and there are severe
consequences as there should be
throughout the government.
McCain was cut off a few minutes later when she said
"people like Alan Dershowitz said you didn't have the
courage" to tell Trump he was wrong to ask for loyalty.
Whoopi Goldberg cut to the commercials. Later, she
asserted that Comey sounds like a political commentator:
"You write in your book about you went to
President Obama and you were on the
verge of tears, saying you were going to
miss him. You also said you were dreading
the next four years with Trump....I don’t
want to know your politics. And a lot of the
things you’re saying and doing are highly
political."
 Tucker Interviews Former
British Ambassador To Syria —
He Makes Some Huge Claims About
Syria’s Chemical Weapons
Justin Caruso - Media Reporter
2:21 AM 04/18/2018
Fox News’ Tucker Carlson interviewed on Tuesday Peter
Ford, a former British ambassador to Syria, about the
Syrian chemical weapons attack.
WATCH:
“It’s not certain by any means that it
was a chemical attack,” Ford told The
Daily Caller co-founder.
Ford now works for the British Syrian Society, a group
that Tucker said is accused of being pro-Bashar al-Assad.
“There are reports from Western journalists
who were in Douhma yesterday, reports
that they could find no folks would confirm
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that there’d been a chemical attack,” Ford
said. “They went actually to the hospital
where it was–where those videos were
filmed, they spoke to doctors, named
doctors, so this can be checked, who said
that there was no chemical attack.”
“What there was, was an ordinary bomb
attack that had people streaming into the
hospital with smoke inhalation problems
and what happened then was that the
White Helmets, that’s the jihadi medical
auxiliaries, started shouting “gas,” caused
panic, then everybody went into gas mode,
they started with the hoses and the
inhalers. Meanwhile, it was all being
carefully video’ed and put out by–rich Arab
country propagandists. And, there’s a
distinct possibility that we have been
deluded. That we’ve been suckered.”
“I think the president’s advisors have
served him extremely badly. They have not
been asking the hard questions, like who
are these White Helmets? Was the
president was told that these are the
people who have helped in beheadings,
who have literally been picking up the
pieces. Are these are the people that he
thinks would be good witnesses?”
 FINALLY! President Trump Is Hosting
His First State Dinner. Here’s What To Expect
Jennifer Boswell Pickens - White House East Wing Historian
3:09 AM 04/18/2018
April 24, 2018 is a day that could define the Trump
presidency. President and Mrs. Trump will host President
and Mrs. Emmanuel Macron of France for their first State
Dinner at the White House. The way a president entertains
says a great deal about his administration; a carefully
planned event such as this, can build and strengthen
diplomatic friendships, as well as bestow long-lasting
authenticity upon a President’s legacy. Though many in
the “chattering class” will find things to criticize regarding
the State Dinner, it is in fact shaping up to be another
successful social event for President and Mrs. Trump.
No one should be surprised that the Trumps have chosen to
honor French President Emmanuel Macron and his
wife, Brigitte Macron. Given the warm reception they
received in Paris during the Bastille Day events, returning
the gesture makes perfect sense. Historically, Presidents
selected their first State Dinner to recognize one of their
closest allies. For instance, President Ronald Reagan
selected the United Kingdom, and his decades long
relationship with Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.
President George H.W. Bush chose similarly for his first
State Dinner honorees in welcoming President and First
Lady Mubarak of the Arab Republic of Egypt, to be his
guests.
While some criticize what they expect to be an intimate
affair of merely 150 guests, these more intimate dinners
were the ones of choice by many successful commanders
in chief. President and Mrs. Reagan held regular State
Dinners, nearly one a month, yet none of these exceeded
the size of the State Dining Room, capable of holding 120
guests. Additionally, President and Mrs. Kennedy rarely
exceeded the amount of guests that could be held on the
State Floor of the Executive Mansion. Yes, it was
customary during both the Clinton and Obama
Administrations to tent the South Lawn nearly doubling
the size of their dinners, (the Clinton Administration even
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recommended the Bush Administration find a permanent
structure to accommodate large venues on the South lawn),
but, this was never the historic norm. Smaller, more
exclusive events tend to be cherished and more
appreciated, sending the message that president and first
lady thought so much of you to be one of 120 people in
America to honor this visiting head of state. Besides, you
could sit in the finest, most expensive tent on the South
Lawn, but it is always much more elegant to dine by
candlelight surrounded by history inside the White House.
Furthermore, who would want to use the bathroom in
portable, outdoor toilets?
There is no doubt all eyes will be on First Lady Melania
Trump at her first State Dinner. Looking at the past White
House events Mrs. Trump has planned, it is obvious Mrs.
Trump has a high regard for and deliberate homage to
history. Her first Christmas at the White House was
framed by a theme “Time-Honored Traditions”, paying
homage to the leaders that came before the president and
herself. One of her first White House seated dinner was in
honor of the White House Historical Association, which
featured special White House artifacts dating back to
President Monroe. The 140th Easter Egg Roll might be our
greatest insight to what the Trump’s first seated State
Dinner will entail. It was smaller in size, meticulously
planned with new features, activities, and visual elements,
along with the traditional military bands, giving guests a
more enjoyable and fulfilled experience in the historic
grounds.
First Lady Laura Bush may have illustrated the many
preparations of a State Dinner best in an account to
Vicente Fox. Mrs. Bush shared with Fox the details of
planning her first state dinner:
“…I was not nervous before my own
wedding…A state dinner is far more
intricate, an elaborate display of hundreds
of moving parts, from guest lists to menus,
which require an advance tasting, to table
seatings, arrival protocols, and choices of
linens, flowers, china, and silver, even the
champagnes and wines… If the four-hour
evening is flawless, it is only because of
the hundreds of hours that have been
invested beforehand. No detail is too
small…”
Mrs. Trump has the right East Wing team in place with
politico Lindsay Reynolds as her chief of staff and well-
established D.C. event planning executive Rickie Niceta as
social secretary. While they will all advise Mrs. Trump, it
will ultimately be up to her to make the all the final
selections.
Mrs. Trump has hosted elegant affairs in New York,
Florida and now Washington D.C. with the president. I
predict the Trumps’ first State Arrival Ceremony and State
Dinner will truly be a meaningful event for the Macrons,
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as even the smallest details are coming from Mrs. Trump’s
appreciation for American History and respect for her
French guests. The Trump mystique has arrived and it will
be gilded with all the trappings, pomp and circumstance of
a brand the world has come to know as the highest quality
and the best. Not since Jackie Kennedy will we have a
First Lady able to speak fluently to her guests creating that
timeless “Melania Trump je ne sais quoi” that will help the
president create deeper bonds, and closer diplomatic ties
with our French neighbors.
 Hah-Hah! PRESIDENT TRUMP Hits
Stormy Daniels And #Fakenews Media On
“Nonexistent” Thug
By Jim Hoft
April 18, 2018, 7:50 Am

Stormy Daniels said in a “60 Minutes”

interview in March that a mystery man But today Stormy says the harasser
approached her in a parking lot while looks like a thug in a hoodie.
she was with her then-infant daughter
and threatened her in an effort to Either Stormy Daniels was lying to “60
silence her about her sexual encounter Minutes” or she’s lying today.
with Donald Trump.
Which is it?
On Tuesday morning, as reported by TGP’s Cristina Laila,
Stormy Daniels released a rough sketch of the man who Then there’s this — The sketch looks a
allegedly threatened her in 2011. (screenshot below) lot like her ex-husband.

The sketch sparked a social media frenzy.

However, after a closer look at the
“harasser” it is clear that either Stormy On Wednesday morning President
Daniels was lying to “60 Minutes” or Trump mocked the #FakeNews media
she’s lying today. and their porn star prop Stormy Daniels.

Here is what Stormy Daniels said on “60 Minutes.”

“His face is burned in my memory,”

Daniels explained.
Daniels described the man as “well
dressed,” and said he wore a suit.
Daniels described him as up to six feet tall
and “lean but fit.”
“I thought he was someone’s husband,”
Daniels said, noting that she thought he
was “kind of cute.”

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 Eric Holder Hangs Comey Out To Dry:
‘Made Some Really Serious Mistakes’
Nick Givas - Media And Politics Reporter
8:22 AM 04/18/2018

Former Attorney General Eric Holder said former FBI

Director James Comey is a “truthful” man but admitted
he’s made a lot of mistakes, Tuesday on MSNBC’s “All In
With Chris Hayes.”
“I think he is a truthful person. I think he’s a
man of honor, a person of integrity,” Holder
said. “I think he’s also a person who made
some really serious mistakes.”
WATCH:
Holder disagreed with Comey’s release of information
about former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton during the
2016 presidential election, but he still thinks his credibility
is beyond reproach.
“I wrote an article after he held that after he
released that material in which I said that
good men can make mistakes,” Holder
concluded. “I think that’s what happened to
Jim in 2016. But in terms of his credibility, I
think that that is a touchstone for him. He
tells the truth.”

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 Comey Compares Feud With Trump
To ‘Breakup’ While Appearing On Colbert
Nick Givas - Media And Politics Reporter
8:52 AM 04/18/2018
Former FBI Director James Comey appeared on “The
Late Show with Stephen Colbert” Tuesday and
compared his feud with President Donald Trump to a
romantic breakup.
“He’s tweeted at me probably 50 times. I’ve
been gone for a year,” Comey said. “I’m
like a breakup he can’t get over.”
Comey at first shrugged off Trump’s comments, but now
believes people must call out the president’s actions.
WATCH:
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“My first reaction to those kinds of tweets is
a shrug. Like, ‘Oh, there he goes again.’
But actually I caught myself and I said,
‘Wait a minute. If I’m shrugging, are the
rest of the country shrugging? And does
that mean we’ve become numb to
this?'” Comey continued. “It’s not okay for
the president of the United States to say a
private citizen should be in jail. It’s not
normal. It’s not acceptable. It’s not okay.
But it’s happened so much, there’s a
danger we’re now numb to it, and the norm
has been destroyed.”
“I feel that norm destroying in my own
shrug,” he said. “We can’t allow that to
happen. We have to talk about it and call it
out. It’s not okay.”
 Rep. Ron Desantis Asks DOJ To Open Criminal
Investigation On James Comey, Hillary Clinton And
Loretta Lynch (VIDEO)
By Jim Hoft
April 18, 2018, 8:58 Am

Rep. Ron DeSantis believes Comey’s lack of candor with

Congress regarding the Clinton email investigation needs
to be investigated. Comey made his determination on
Hillary Clinton’s fate months before investigating her. And
Comey told ABC News last weekend that he used the polls
to determine his decision.

Desantis also wants the DOJ to investigate Hillary Clinton

for disguising payments to Fusion GPS on mandatory
disclosures during the general election. The Clinton camp
disguised the fact that they were funding the anti-Trump
Rep. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) went on FOX
Russia dossier by sending payments to the Perkins Coie
and Friends to discuss corruption at the
law firm who then paid Fusion GPS for the junk document.
Obama DOJ and Clinton campaign.
DeSantis added, “If you’re going after (Michael) Cohen
DeSantis is asking the Department of then why isn’t anybody also looking at how the Clintons
Justice to investigate several Obama handled this.”
officials: Hillary Clinton, James Comey, and
Loretta Lynch for possible crimes.
.

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 Ron Desantis Wants To Investigate
James Comey For His Lack Of Candor Before Congress
Nick Givas - Media And Politics Reporter
9:25 AM 04/18/2018

Florida Rep. Ron DeSantis wants Former FBI Director

James Comey investigated for not telling the full truth to
Congress about former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s
investigation.
“Remember, [Comey] testified to the
Congress that he did not make any
decision regarding Secretary Clinton until
after she was interviewed,” DeSantis, a
Republican gubernatorial candidate, said
on “Fox & Friends” Wednesday.
WATCH:
.
“He was asked that specifically by one of
my colleagues and yet, the evidence that’s
come out since then demonstrates that
actually they made this determination
months before, not only interviewing
Secretary Clinton, but also interviewing a
number of key
witnesses,” DeSantis continued.
“The lack of candor with the Congress is
something that needs to be investigated,”
he concluded.

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 Charlie Dent Says GOP Has Obligation
To Rein Trump In And Is ‘Saddened’ By His Behavior
Nick Givas - Media And Politics Reporter
9:53 AM 04/18/2018
Republican Pennsylvania Rep. Charlie Dent said he is
“saddened” by President Donald Trump’s behavior on
“Morning Joe” Wednesday, and believes it’s up to the
GOP to rein in the commander-in-chief.
“I believe that we have an obligation as
Republicans to stand up for what I think
we’ve stood for a long time,” Dent said.
“We’re supposed to be a party about
principles and ideals, and I think what’s
happened is that the — prior to Donald
Trump, I’ve always said that this party used
to have litmus test issues and we had the
purity police who would judge us and
determine whether or not we were doctrine
enough.”
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“Since Donald Trump stepped up, the
litmus test has become loyalty to the
man,” Dent added.
Dent said it falls to Republicans to pull Trump back when
he “goes off the rails” and referenced Charlottesville and
Trump’s comments on Muslims as examples.
“I think it’s incumbent on us as members of
the Republican party to stand up for
things,” Dent said. “When the president
goes off the rail on trade, we should call
him out. Or if he makes some absurd
statements, whether it’s Charlottesville or
about Muslims. You go down the whole list
of things he said over the time he’s been a
candidate or president that we had to rein
him in.”
“I think we need to do that more forcefully
from time to time and I’m a little saddened
by that,” he concluded.
Dent announced his retirement from Congress Tuesday
and said he will be stepping down in the coming weeks.
 Newt Gingrich Praises Pompeo’s Diplomacy
Skills And Predicts Historic Deal With North Korea
Nick Givas - Media And Politics Reporter
9:45 AM 04/18/2018
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich praised CIA
Director Mike Pompeo for his diplomacy skills and
believes he can help broker a “historic” deal with the
North Korean regime.
“Just think about the Democrats in the
Senate right now, wrestling with whether or
not to vote for Pompeo to be Secretary of
State. This is a guy who graduated first at
West Point. Graduated first at Harvard Law
School,” Gingrich said on “America’s
Newsroom” Wednesday. “[Pompeo] just
proved he is capable of quiet diplomacy by
going as the CIA director to sit down with
the dictator of North Korea.”
WATCH:
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“I believe that there is a very real chance
that the Trump policy of firmness is leading
Kim Jong Un to decide that he actually
wants a deal,” Gingrich continued. “I think
that would be remarkably historic and I
think that having a willingness to meet with
him, going through this process, really
opens up possibilities that are very
important.”
Democrats should take this as sign of Pompeo’s
competence and should confirm him without further
delay, Gingrich said.
“It’s absurd that they’re being slow about
this,” Gingrich concluded. “I would hope
today with this news, that Democrats would
recognize that Mike Pompeo can be a
pretty darn good diplomat and that he is
very prepared to negotiate. Even with the
toughest dictator on the planet.”
 Trump: Comey Wasn’t Fired
For Russia Investigation
Saagar Enjeti - White House Correspondent
9:53 AM 04/18/2018

Trump has railed against Comey for his ongoing series of

interviews in which he has attacked the President’s
character and appearance. He did note in an interview with
NBCNews Lester Holt, however, that was considering “the
Russia thing” when he made the decision to fire Comey.

Comey discussed his firing in an interview with Stephen

Colbert Tuesday evening noting that he was shocked to be
fired by Trump in 2017.

President Donald Trump attacked former FBI director
James Comey and claimed he was not fired for his role in
the Russia investigation, in a Wednesday tweet.
“I thought, I’m leading the Russia
investigation. Even though our relationship
was becoming strained, there’s no way I’m
going to get fired or whacked,” the former
FBI director told the late night host, adding
“that would be a crazy things to do. Why
would you fire the FBI director whose
leading the Russia investigation?”

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 Savannah Guthrie Holds Comey’s
Feet To The Fire: ‘You’re Shorter In Person’
Christian Datoc - Breaking News And Engagement Editor
10:02 AM 04/18/2018

NBC’s Savannah Guthrie held James Comey’s feet to the
fire during a Wednesday morning interview on “Today.”
WATCH:
little bit of anger left over, a little bit of
bitterness.”
“Some people have said that was kind of,
for lack of a better word, that was a little
catty. Did you enjoy taking those shots at
the president?”

Comey pushed back against the question and said he really

wasn’t taking shots at president Trump, yet Guthrie
continued her line of aggressive questioning.

“You have really made some strong

“Terrifying,” Comey told Guthrie when she
asked how it feels to have his new book, “A
Higher Loyalty,” out in the public eye.
“Just because of all the attention to it. I
don’t crave that. It’s hard for me to hide
because I’m a giraffe.”
“Yeah. You are shorter in person,” Guthrie
answered with a smile on her face. “I did
have to say.”
“It still seems raw. It seems like you have
some scores to settle,” she continued. “A
.
assertions against the president. You’ve
said he’s morally unfit, you said he’s lied
almost constantly,” she continued. “You are
the star witness, perhaps, in Former
Director [Robert] Mueller’s investigation
into obstruction of justice. Your testimony
against President Trump’s testimony.”
“Are you concerned you’re making that
prosecution tougher? Because you’ve been
out there and demonstrated that you do
have a bias against the president.”
“Yeah that was going to be pretty obvious
to begin with,” Comey conceded. “He fired
me.”

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 Dem Pollsters Say No One
Cares About Trump’s Golfing
Thomas Phippen - Reporter
10:45 AM 04/18/2018

according to Golf News Net. Conservatives made a big

deal about former President Barack Obama’s visits to golf
courses during times of crisis, but that line of attack also
didn’t make a difference beyond the partisan divide.

The Navigator report is based on polls of more than 1,000

people, along with qualitative surveys, spearheaded by a
group that believes Democrats are not capitalizing on the
intense polarization of Trump.

“There is a dearth of direction as it relates

US tycoon Donald Trump plays a stroke as he officially opens his new to how to talk about things,” Jefrey Pollock,
multi-million pound Trump International Golf Links course in the president of Global Strategy Group, told
Aberdeenshire, Scotland, on July 10, 2012. Work on the course began The Post. “When the news cycle is the
in July 2010, four years after the plans were originally submitted. length of the tweet, that challenge is more
(Photo: Andy Buchanan/AFP/GettyImages)
acute than ever.”
The vast majority of likely 2020 voters do not care how
Parts of the research are well reported reactions to Trump
much time President Donald Trump spends on a golf
and reinforce conventional opinion. For instance, the
course, according to surveys conducted by Democratic
surveys found that Americans are concerned about their
messaging consultants to help leftist candidates and
own personal finances and about the health of the greater
advocates through then next few elections.
economy. They distrust Washington politicians and view
the government machine as corrupt.
A group of consultants leading the messaging project,
dubbed Navigator Research, say in a new study first
Pollock, whose Democratic political clients include New
reported by The Washington Post that Americans care
York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, Montana Gov. Steve Bullock,
more about Trump’s recklessness than about the time he
West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin, and other members of
spends away from presidential duties.
Congress, believes that right of center politicians and
commentators are more consistent in framing debates. “For
“Concern about recklessness may help years, Republican politicians have been better at paying
explain why so many Americans find it attention to language cues. We’re trying to do a
unacceptable that Trump does not read his progressive version of that,” Pollock said.
intelligence and national security briefings,”
according to the April report, the first of a
Nick Gourevitch, also of Global Strategy Group, and
series. “Laziness (think Trump on the golf
Margie Omero of GBA Strategies are involved in the
course), on the other hand, does not
research effort, along with campaign staff alumni for
resonate, as just 3% say lazy speaks to
former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Independent
their concerns about Trump.”
Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont.
Trump has spent nearly a quarter of his days in office
visiting a golf course, often one of his own resorts,
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 Adam Schiff Says Secret North Korea
Meeting Is ‘Good News For Diplomacy’
Nick Givas - Media And Politics Reporter
10:31 AM 04/18/2018

WATCH:

Democratic Rep. Adam Schiff of California said the secret

meeting between CIA Director Mike Pompeo and the
North Korean regime is “good news for diplomacy” and
expressed optimism about America’s future dealings with
the rogue nation.
Schiff urged President Donald Trump’s administration to
“I think it is good news for diplomacy and be patient and to play to long game with North Korea
I’m glad that the meeting took before rushing to embrace a military option.
place,” Schiff said on MSNBC’s “Morning
Joe” Wednesday. “This looks like “I hope our administration understands this
preparations into a real talk between our is a long-term difficult endeavor negotiating
president and the leader of North Korea. with the North Koreans,” Schiff said. “If it
Up until this point, I think we were was easy, it would have been done
wondering is this really going to happen? successfully before and it hasn’t.”
Did the South Koreans relay an accurate
message? But it looks like it’s going to take
place.”
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 Trump: Stormy Daniels
Sketch Is A ‘Total Con Job’
Saagar Enjeti - White House Correspondent
10:26 AM 04/18/2018

Daniels has repeatedly claimed that a man approached her

President Donald Trump expressed skepticism at porn star
Stormy Daniels’ release of a sketch of a man who
supposedly threatened her to keep silent about her alleged
affair with the President.
“A sketch years later about a nonexistent
man,” Trump tweeted. “A total con job,
playing the Fake News Media for Fools (but
they know it)!”
.
and her daughter at a Las Vegas casino in 2011 and
threatened her to not discuss her alleged 2006 affair with
Trump.
“A guy walked up on me and said to me,
‘Leave Trump alone. Forget the story” she
said in an interview with CBS’ “60 minutes.”
“‘That’s a beautiful little girl. It’d be a shame
if something happened to her mom.'”
Daniels and her lawyer released a sketch of the alleged
attacker Tuesday during an appearance on ABC’s The
View. Trump has been largely reticent to discuss the
Daniels case but recently denied having an affair with her
in a gaggle with reporters.

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 Comey Cuts GOP Loose And Claims
Republican Party Has ‘Lost Their Way’
Nick Givas - Media And Politics Reporter
10:52 AM 04/18/2018

they’ve lost their way and I can’t be

associated with it.”

Comey believes the GOP is driven by “ego” and has

become morally bankrupt in its mission to appease
President Donald Trump.

“These people don’t represent anything I

Former FBI Director James Comey said he’s leaving the
Republican Party behind, Wednesday on the ABC News
Podcast “Start Here,” because the party no longer
represents his values.
“The Republican Party has left me, and
many others,” Comey said. “I just think
.
believe in,” he continued. “I see the
Republican Party, as near as I can tell,
reflects now entirely Donald Trump’s
values.”
“It doesn’t reflect values at all. It’s
transactional. It’s ego-driven. It’s in service
to his ego,” Comey concluded. “And it’s, I
think, consoling itself that we’re going to
achieve important policy goals — a tax cut
or something.”

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 Liberal NY Times And CNN Attorney Persuaded Liberal
Judge To Publicly Name Sean Hannity At Cohen Hearing
By Jim Hoft
April 18, 2018, 11:15 Am

An attorney for far left New York Times and CNN

convinced Judge Kimba Wood to publicly name Sean
Hannity at the hearing.

Twitchy reported:

According to reports from inside the

courtroom, Judge Kimba Wood was ready
to allow Michael Cohen to submit the name
of his 3rd client — who we now know is
Sean Hannity — under seal, but an
On Monday liberal Judge Kimba Wood, the federal judge attorney for CNN and the New York Times
overseeing the Cohen-Trump case, released the name of convinced her otherwise.
Trump attorney Michael Cohen’s alleged third client –
Sean Hannity.
From Natasha Bertrand, The Atlantic:

This same federal judge who just rejected Trump’s request

for a temporary restraining order and who outed Sean
Hannity publicly at the hearing officiated George Soros’
wedding in 2013.

Sean Hannity immediately responded to

the reports that Michael Cohen was his
attorney.

The attorney’s name is Robert Balin.

Hannity explained on his show that the discussions were

mostly focused on legal questions regarding real estate.
So liberal attorneys are now colluding
Now this… with liberal judges against
conservatives.
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 CNN's Don Lemon: Some Pro-Trump
Guests Don't Mean What They Say
By Tom Blumer
April 18, 2018 11:35 AM EDT
In a podcast posted on Monday, CNN's Don Lemon told
National Review podcast host Jamie Weinstein that some
pro-Trump panelists on his show have admitted that, in
Weinstein's words,
"they don't believe what they are saying" —
as if knee-jerk leftists never engage in such disingenuous
behavior (sure, Don).
Lemon apparently has no problem allowing people who
have allegedly admitted to this behavior to continue
serving as panelists. Lemon's statement is a de facto
admission that he and his network are willing to broadcast
fake opinions.
The delusional Lemon also claimed credit for "starting the
panel shows" with "these huge panels" in 2014 in covering
the disappearance of Malaysian Airlines Flight 370.
Readers may recall that these supposedly enlightening
discussions included Lemon theorizing that the aircraft
disappeared into a black hole.
Fox News's Special Report has had discussions with a host
and several panelists since its inception over two decades
ago. The Sunday morning broadcast network news shows,
particularly Meet the Press, appear to have begun the
practice even earlier. Lemon's and CNN's supposed
innovation was showing all panelists on the screen at once.
Big whoop. As a visual tool in a different arena,
Hollywood Squares beat CNN to that idea almost a half-
century earlier.
As to his pro-Trump guests' on-air statements, Lemon said
the following (h/t Twitchy):
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If the green-underlined statements are true, Lemon is
admitting that dishonest panelists are invited back. Lemon
apparently has no problem with presenting substantively
fake opinions.
The red-underlined statement may technically be true. But
in June of last year, James O'Keefe released an undercover
interview with a CNN producer who admitted that the
network's obsession with Russia had "no factual proof,"
and was being pushed to cater to those who do want to see
Trump driven from office:
A CNN producer acknowledged in an
undercover video that the cable news
network has been creating fake news
against President Trump for the past five
months.
In a video released by Project Veritas,
CNN supervising producer John
Bonifield admitted that stories about
Russia colluding with the Trump
administration have no factual proof.
Bonifield has worked for CNN as a journalist and producer
for 15 years.
... Asked why CNN is giving so much
coverage to the alleged Russian
 interference in last year’s election and
trying to tie it to Trump, Bonifield replied,
“Because it’s ratings.”
Bonifield admitted that the whole Russian
story “could be bull***t.” ...
... “And so I think the president is right
to say, ‘Look, you are witch hunting
me,’” Bonifield admitted. “‘You have no
smoking gun, you have no real proof.’“
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“Bonifield says CNN loves the Russia
story not because it’s true but because
(their viewers) want it to be true,”
O’Keefe charged. “They are feeding their
audience a false narrative in order to get
ratings.”
As to the blue-underlined statement that it's hard to find
Trump supporters willing to appear on-air, perhaps that's
because Trump supporters know there is virtually no
chance they will be fairly treated.
 Hah! Sean Hannity On Twitter: People In Destroy Trump
Media Just Make Sh*T Up – Thx For BS Free Press
By Jim Hoft
April 18, 2018, 12:04 Pm

On Tuesday night Sean Hannity took to Twitter to respond

to the latest fake news.

Sean Hannity:

I have to laugh. People in destroy Trump

media just make shit up. Thx for all the BS
free press.

On Tuesday the far left Washington Post published a piece

on how White House aides consider FOX News host Sean
Hannity “the unofficial Chief of Staff.”

Mediaite reposted the nonsense:

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 Republicans Call For DOJ Investigation
Into Comey, Clinton, Lynch, Strzok And Page
Robert Donachie - Capitol Hill And Health Care Reporter
12:21 PM 04/18/2018
A group of House Republicans are calling for the
Department of Justice to investigate a laundry list of
former agency heads and people involved in the
investigation into former Secretary of State Hillary
Clinton’s private email server.
The letter is addressed to Attorney General Jeff Sessions,
FBI Director Christopher Wray and U.S. Attorney for the
District of Utah John Huber. It asks that each of these men
use their respective powers to investigate “potential
violation(s) of federal statues” on the part of former FBI
Director James Comey, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton,
Attorney General Loretta Lynch, Acting Director of the
FBI Andrew McCabe, FBI agent Peter Strzok and FBI
counsel Lisa Page.
The representatives include members of the conservative
House Freedom Caucus, including Rep. Ron DeSantis of
Florida, Dave Brat of Virginia and Paul Gosar of Arizona,
and other GOP House Members, like Claudia Tenney of
New York.
“Those in positions of high authority should
be treated the same as every other
American” and because of that the
members want to be sure that any
“potential violations of law” be “vetted
appropriately,” the group of Republican
lawmakers wrote.
“In doing so, we are especially mindful of
the dissimilar degree of zealousness that
has marked the investigations into former
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and the
presidential campaign of Donald Trump,
respectively,” the lawmakers wrote.
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The group argues that Comey mishandled the Clinton
email investigation, an investigation they believe to be
“motivated by a political agenda.”
FBI released documents in October 2017 show that Comey
started drafting a letter regarding the email probe months
before the former FBI director began conducting key
interviews. The letter recommended that charges not be
brought against Clinton.
House Republicans aren’t the only ones who believe
Comey mishandled the Clinton case. Deputy Attorney
General Rod Rosenstein wrote a damning memo in May
2017 in which he claimed Comey made “serious mistakes”
in conducting the investigation.
“Almost everyone agrees that the Director
made serious mistakes; it is one of the few
issues that unites people of diverse
perspectives. The way (Comey) handled
the conclusion of the email investigation
was wrong,” Deputy Attorney General Rod
Rosenstein wrote. “As a result, the FBI is
unlikely to regain public and congressional
trust until it has a Director who understands
the gravity of the mistakes and pledges
never to repeat them.”
The group of congressmen also questions the former FBI
director’s use of memos, claiming it created a “paper trail”
that was then used to leak classified information to a
Columbia University professor who is friends with Comey.
The professor, Daniel Richman, says the FBI requested the
memos he obtained from Comey and that he “voluntarily
agreed” to hand them over.
Many on the Republican side of the aisle see Comey’s
move as dubious and question the legality of those leaks.
Four of the seven memos Comey drafted contained secret
or confidential information. Comey leaked four of the
memos to his confidant, Richman. Arithmetically, the
numbers suggest Comey released classified information to
a civilian.
 House Republicans want Clinton to get investigated for
“disguising payments to Fusion GPS,” an opposition
research firm behind the Trump dossier,
“on mandatory disclosures to the Federal
Election Commission.”
The group is asking that Lynch be investigated for
“her decision to threaten with reprisal the
former FBI information who tried to come
forward in 2016 with insight into the
Uranium One deal.”
The Clinton Foundation has found itself at the center of a
number of alleged pay-to-play schemes. A few of the most
notable include Laureate Education and Uranium One.
Lawmakers believe Lynch used her power as attorney
general to block the informant from coming forward with
information regarding the Uranium One deal.
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Lawmakers also want an investigation into Strzok and
Page’s involvement in a potential interference scheme in
the Clinton private email case. Strzok and Page had an
ongoing, intimate relationship.
The group is also interested in reported
texts between Strzok and Page that appear
to show the FBI eliminated evidence that
Clinton compromised “high-level
communications.” Furthermore, the group
is concerned with texts that show Strzok
texted Page to tell her that senior FBI
officials “water(ed) down the reference to
President Obama,” using “senior
government official” instead. At the time
statement was made public, the lawmakers
argue, references to Obama and to a
“senior government official” were washed
from the record.
 ‘No Disrespect, But…’ — Meghan McCain
Grills James Comey For Attacks On Republicans
Justin Caruso - Media Reporter
12:02 PM 04/18/2018
Meghan McCain took on former FBI director James
Comey on The View Wednesday over his political
statements.
WATCH:
“I want to believe you’re not a political
person,” McCain said to Comey. “You’re
the head of the FBI, but you write in your
book how you went to President Obama,
and you were on the verge of tears, saying
you were going to miss him. You also said
were dreading the next four years with
Trump.”
“You said very incendiary things about my
party this morning,” she continued. “I’m a
Republican who has many issues with
Trump, that is not reflective of my party as
a whole. The big issue I have is — I don’t
want to know your politics, and a lot of the
things you’re saying and doing are highly
.
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political, and I just don’t understand what
you gain, trying to sort of clear the deck
here by bringing things like this up.”
“That’s a good question,” Comey
responded. “I don’t think of it as my politics.
I think of it as my values.”
McCain then brought up how Comey’s wife went to the
anti-Trump Women’s March and was “very sad on
election night.”
“But why bring up politics now?” McCain
said. “No disrespect, but what your take on
the current Republican Party is — I’m more
interested in what you know about national
security.”
“I brought it up because I was asked about
it,” Comey said.
Later in the interview, McCain told Comey that he
sounds “like a political commentator.”
“I don’t mean to be,” Comey responded. “I
don’t care whether people support a
Republican or a Democrat, because I’m not
either. I don’t care who they support. I hope
the conversation will start with values and
come to policy second, because we’re
always going to fight about guns and taxes
and immigration, but all we are as this
country is a collection of values and that’s
what unites Republicans and Democrats.”
 Comey Discusses Why
He Is No Longer A Republican
By Cassandra Fairbanks
April 18, 2018, 1:05 Pm

During a Wednesday morning stop on former-FBI Director

James Comey’s media tour, he explained why he is no The author went on to discuss a website that was created
longer a Republican. by the Republican National Committee —
“LyinComey.com,” which clearly hurt his feelings. The
website points out claims made by Comey and his
Defenders of Comey frequently point to the fact that he
defenders before thoroughly debunking them.
was a Republican to defend him from claims of bias.

“Even Democrats and members of the

liberal media have slammed Comey as a
partisan, political leaker,” LyinComey.com
explains.

Though Comey presents himself more as a political pundit

than an impartial actor, he appears to be very upset about
people pointing that out.

“I just think they’ve lost their way and I

can’t be associated with it,” Comey said
on the podcast.

The disgraced former-FBI leader claimed that changes

within the party happened “probably over the Trump
presidency.”
When asked on the ABC News Start Here podcast if he
still considers himself a Republican, Comey responded by “I see the Republican Party, as near as I
saying can tell, reflects now entirely Donald
Trump’s values, it doesn’t reflect values at
“no, the Republican party has left me, and all. It’s transactional, it’s ego-driven, it’s in
many others.” service to his ego,” ” Comey continued
while self-promoting. “And it’s, I think,
Comey also stated that consoling itself that we’re going to achieve
important policy goals — a tax cut or
something.”
“these people don’t represent anything I
believe in.”
Comey stated that he hasn’t lost respect for all Republicans
however, he still likes Mitt Romney.
.

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 Comey Caught In HUGE LIE In
ABC Interview About Papadopoulos And Fusion GPS
By Cristina Laila
April 18, 2018, 1:20 Pm
Fired FBI Director James Comey held
his first interview on ABC Sunday night
promoting his new book, “A Higher
Loyalty.”
Not one hardball was thrown at Comey,
naturally since Stephanopoulos is a
long time Democrat operative and
Clinton sycophant.
Comey just doesn’t know when to shut up; we have caught
ANOTHER whopper from the former FBI chief from his
ABC interview.
On Sunday. Stephanopoulos asked Comey if the Steele
dossier triggered the FBI’s Russia investigation.
Comey responded with another whopper.
Crooked cop Comey told Stephanopoulos that it was the
Papadopoulos information that came in late July that
triggered the investigation. He also went on to say the FBI
didn’t get any information that’s part of the Steele dossier
until after that.
LIES!
Partial transcript via ABC:
GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS: While this is all going on in
July of 2016, the FBI also opens an investigation into the Trump
campaign. Why?
JAMES COMEY: Well– to be more clear, we opened an
investigation into whether there were any Americans associated
in any way with the Trump campaign who were working with
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Russia as part of Russia’s effort to influence our election. And so
in late July, the FBI got information that there was somebody who
had had– was a foreign policy advisor named Papadopoulos to
the Trump campaign.
GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS: George Papadopoulos.
JAMES COMEY: Right, who had been talking to someone in
London about getting dirt that the Russians had on Hillary Clinton
as part of their effort to influence our campaign– the– our
election. And the reason that was important was that was long
before the– there was any public indication that the Russians had
material they were going to dump, which they started dumping in
mid-June.
And so we opened, our counterintelligence division, in late July,
an investigation to try and figure out– we know the Russians are
trying to mess with our election. Are any Americans working with
them, trying to help them?
GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS: You also had had your eye on
Carter Page, who had also been working with the Trump
campaign.
JAMES COMEY: Correct.
GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS: And what was your concern
there?
JAMES COMEY: Similarly, trying to figure out is he in any way
coordinating with the Russians, as part of their effort to influence
our– our election? We hear the word “collusion” all the time.
“Collusion” is not a word that’s familiar to me from my work. The
question is, is anybody conspiring or aiding and abetting, helping,
the Russians accomplish their goal of interfering in the American
election? That’s what the counterintelligence investigation was
about.
GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS: S– so what impact did the
Steele– the so-called Steele dossier have on the FBI
investigation? Did that trigger the FBI investigation in any
way?
JAMES COMEY: No. No, in fact, as I said, the information
that triggered it was the Papadopoulos information that
came in late July. The FBI didn’t get any
information that’s part of the so-called Steele
dossier, as I understand it, until after that. And so
the investigation was triggered entirely separately from the Steele
dossier.

This is a HUGE LIE.

As previously reported, Republican

investigators have evidence dossier
author Christopher Steele met with the
FBI on July 5th 2016 which is the
EXACT SAME DAY former FBI Director
James Comey exonerated Hillary
Clinton.

John Solomon of The Hill reported this bombshell news:

Republican investigators say they have

evidence that Steele first approached the
FBI with his allegations on July 5, 2016, the
same day then-FBI Director James
Comey announced he would not pursue
criminal charges against Clinton for
passing more than 100 classified
documents through her private email
server.

The FISA memo revealed that if not for Hillary’s phony

dossier, the FBI would never have sought a spy warrant on
Carter Page. This is McCabe’s own words under oath.

Comey is a liar and and a leaker; he should be prosecuted

and imprisoned, not bankrolling from a book.

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 Comey Claims Nobody Asked
About Clinton Obstruction Before Today
The Former FBI Director, During His Book Tour, Fielded Plenty Of Questions
About The Behavior Of President Donald Trump
By Kathryn Blackhurst
Updated 18 Apr 2018 At 1:25 PM
When WTOP’s Joan Jones asked former FBI Director
James Comey on Wednesday if the “smashing of
cellphones and destruction of thousands of emails” during
the investigation into Hillary Clinton was “obstruction of
justice,” Comey said that he had never been asked that
question before.
“You have raised the specter of obstruction
of justice charges with the president of the
United States,” Jones said to Comey
concerning his new book, “A Higher
Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership.”
The book was released earlier this week.
“Some are asking, though, ‘Why wouldn’t
smashing of cellphones and destruction of
thousands of emails during an investigation
clearly be obstruction of justice?'” Jones
asked Comey.
Comey replied,
“Now that’s a great question. That’s the first
time I’ve been asked that.”
Former 2016 Democratic presidential nominee Hillary
Clinton used a private email server to conduct official
business while serving as secretary of state. When the FBI
released its report of its investigation into Clinton’s
conduct in September 2016, it was revealed that her aides
destroyed two mobile devices
“by breaking them in half or hitting them
with a hammer” and deleting emails using
BleachBit.
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The revelations caused an uproar in Congress and on the
campaign trail.
Comey has been asked whether he believed President
Donald Trump committed “obstruction of justice” by firing
him in May 2017 or by asking him about the investigation
into former national security adviser Michael Flynn.
The former FBI director told ABC News’ George
Stephanopoulos on Sunday that he believed Trump
“possibly” obstructed justice, arguing that “certainly” there
was “some evidence of obstruction of justice.”
Although mainstream media outlets, liberal pundits, and
lawmakers have been obsessing over possible obstruction
of justice charges and anticipating impeachment for Trump
as a result, these same individuals showed a marked lack
of interest in whether or not Clinton and her team
obstructed justice.
"And the answer is, it would depend upon
what the intent of the people doing it was,"
Comey said. "It's the reason I can't say
when people ask me, 'Did Donald Trump
committee obstruction of justice?' My
answer is, 'I don't know. It could be. It
would depend upon, is there evidence to
establish that he took actions with corrupt
intent?'"
"So if you smash a cellphone, lots of
people smash their cellphones so they're
not resold on the secondary market and
your personal stuff ends up in somebody
else's hands," Comey continued. "But if you
 smash your cellphone knowing that
investigators want it and that they've got a
subpoena for it, for example, that is a
different thing and can be obstruction of
justice."
Jones followed up, asking,
"The law requires intent?"
"Yes. It requires not just intent, but the
prosecutors demonstrate corrupt intent,
which is a special kind of intent that you
were taking actions with the intention of
defeating and obstructing an investigation
you knew was going on," Comey replied.
As Comey has been embarking on his tour and touting his
book over the past several days, many interviewers
focused on his negative impressions of Trump and whether
he believed obstruction of justice charges would be
coming. But WTOP's Jones and Bruce Alan asked Comey
some tough questions about himself and his own conduct.
.
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Alan noted that some critiques of the book allege that
Comey "took some cheap shots" at the president and "sort
of ceded some of the high ground you may have had."
Comey defended his book and his actions.
Noting that Comey had been largely viewed as a
"professional" without overt political biases prior to his
conduct during the 2016 election,
Alan asked whether Comey felt "like you've
now undercut that image a bit?"
"I hope not. I think the actions I had to take
before the election made everybody hate
me on both wings of our partisan divide,"
Comey replied. "And I hope that's some
indication that I'm not acting in a political
way. I care about the public's trust. I don't
care about politics. And I really appreciate
these good questions."
 Flashback: Clinton Lawyer
Represented Tons Of Journalists
Amber Athey - Media Reporter
3:43 PM 04/18/2018
The media is up in arms this week over Fox News host
Sean Hannity’s relationship with Trump lawyer Michael
Cohen.
Journalists have decided it was improper for Hannity not to
disclose his relationship with Cohen while defending him
on air, but many have had their own connections to a
famed political lawyer.
Bob Barnett has represented scores of politicians,
including Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush,
Hillary Rodham Clinton, Michelle Obama, and Laura
Bush. He served as the Clintons’ personal lawyer while
they were in the White House. In addition, he is one of the
most prominent lawyers representing journalists and TV
anchors.
In fact, his own website describes him as the “leading
representatives of television news correspondents.” A
Washingtonian article from 2008 says Barnett is
“Washington’s indispensable man, the link
among politicians, authors, government
officials, journalists, ex-presidents, future
presidents, and even foreign leaders.”
According to Barnett, he has represented famed
Washington Post journalist Bob Woodward, CNN’s Jake
Tapper, Dr. Sanjay Gupta, Jim Acosta, and Jeff
Zeleny, MSNBC’s Brian Williams, Peter Alexander,
and Chris Jansing, and Fox News’ Steve Doocy, Brit
Hume, Neil Cavuto, Dana Perino, Jesse Watters, and Juan
Williams.
.
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Questions about Barnett’s ties between politicians and
journalists have been raised before. Barnett gained major
influence in the Clinton White House after the Whitewater
incident and, in 1993, The Wall Street Journal wondered if
journalists could properly report on the Clintons while
retaining their personal lawyer.
Media critic Marvin Kitman wrote,
“How exactly does a real reporter, I found
myself wondering, cover the President and
then sleep with his lawyer every night?”
Barnett even resigned from being the Clintons’ lawyer due
to the heavy criticism, but returned to the gig in 1997 after
his wife left her job at CBS.
That same year, Barnett helped now-ABC anchor George
Stephanopolous sell a book proposal for $2.7 million. He
went on to help Woodward and Bernstein sell the
Watergate papers to the University of Texas for $5 million.
He has been responsible for tons of book deals for top
reporters and politicians in the game.
With all of the criticism thrown at Hannity for his
relationship with Cohen — which he claims was just “brief
discussions” about legal advice — it’s certainly interesting
that journalists haven’t considered their own potential
ethical dilemmas with Barnett.
Fox News’ Howard Kurtz wrote on Wednesday that
Hannity should have disclosed his relationship with
Cohen. His advice could just as easily apply to the many
who have covered the Clinton family without talking about
the fact that the Clintons’ personal lawyer has made them
millions of dollars.
“Sometimes people in journalism, on the
news or opinion side, find themselves
covering folks with whom they have had
friendships or professional dealings,” Kurtz
explained. “If the relationship is serious
enough, it may require recusal. If not, the
best course is being transparent and
disclosing it.”
 REPORT: Putin Ready To Make “Deep Concessions”,
Kremlin Orders Ease Of Anti-U.S. Rhetoric
By Lucian Wintrich
April 18, 2018, 5:09 Pm
order for Russian officials to ease off of anti-American
rhetoric.
More Via Singapore Times:
As previously reported by Gateway Pundit,
During a Fox News Appearance, U.S.
Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki
Haley declared that the US “would not pull
its troops out of Syria until its goals were
accomplished.” We currently have 2,000
troops stationed in the backward country.
These moves by the Trump Administration
stand in opposition to Trump’s own words
just a few weeks prior. At an Ohio rally, the
president was quoted as declaring “let
other people take care of [Syra] now” and
emphasized we would “be coming out of
Syria” soon.
Tensions with Russia after the US-lead missile strike were
at an all-time high, with Putin declaring additional strikes
would result in global “chaos” this past Monday.
Today, Putin has changed tunes with Mr. Igor Bunin of the
Centre for Political Technologies, a Kremlin offshoot,
stating “Putin is ready to make numerous, deep
concessions, but he has to appear like he’s not losing.”
Following with this statement was the Kremlin-backed
.
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The Kremlin is still coming to grips with the
economic impact of the most punitive
penalties the US has imposed since first
sanctioning Russia four years ago, over the
conflict in Ukraine.
The latest measures, which Treasury called
payback for Mr Putin’s “malign activity” in
general, hit one of the country’s most
powerful businessmen, billionaire Oleg
Deripaska, the hardest.
Shares of Mr. Deripaska’s aluminium giant
Rusal have plunged about 70 per cent in
Hong Kong since the US basically banned
the company from the dollar economy on
April 6, erasing about US$6 billion (S$7.87
billion) of value and threatening 100,000
jobs at a time when Russia is limping out of
its longest recession in two decades.
Mr. Putin, who is due to be sworn in for
what may be a final six-year term next
month, is keen to avoid having another
major company suffer a similar fate.
It could be too late to reverse the
downward spiral that’s taken relations to
the lowest level in decades.
While Mr. Trump is open to trying to
improve ties, Congress and much of his
administration are committed to keeping
the pressure up on a country many view as
America’s No. 1 enemy after allegations of
Kremlin meddling in the 2016 elections.
 Ouch! President Trump’s Approval Holds At 50% –
Hillary Clinton’s Approval Sinks To 27%
By Jim Hoft
April 18, 2018, 6:02 Pm

It’s worse for Hillary Clinton — According to the latest

Wall Street Journal-NBC News poll released this week
Hillary Clinton’s approval rating is down to 27%.

President Trump’s approval rating held

at 50% on Wednesday according to
Rasmussen Reports.

Barack Obama’s approval rating at the same time in his

presidency was at 47%.

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 Trump Torches Mueller Witch Hunt:
“The FBI Takes Everything But They Never Took The
DNC Servers” (VIDEO)
By Cristina Laila
April 18, 2018, 6:56 Pm

On Wednesday, President Trump

conducted a joint news conference with The president concluded by saying the Russia investigation
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is bad for the country and he’s looking forward to
from Palm Beach, Florida. wrapping it up.

A reporter asked the president about Mueller and VIDEO:

Rosenstein and the Russia investigation, prompting Trump
to point out the FBI never even took the DNC’s servers in
order to conduct a forensic inspection.

“There was no collusion. There was no

collusion with Russia other than with the
Democrats, or as I call them obstructionists
because they truly are obstructionists.”
“This was a hoax created largely by the
Democrats as a way softening the blow of
a loss,” Trump continued.

The president then blasted the FBI for their lack of interest
The FBI raided Trump’s personal lawyer’s home and
in the DNC’s servers that were supposedly hacked by the
office last week for dirt on Stormy Daniels yet they
Russians.
haven’t inspected the DNC’s severs that were supposedly
hacked by the Russians.
“The DNC server was never gotten by the
FBI. Why didn’t the FBI take it? The FBI
Let that sink in.
takes what they want. They go in and they
wouldn’t get the server. This is a hoax,”
Trump continued.
.

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 “YOU’RE GOING TO GET LOCKED UP!” –
Conservative Reporter Laura Loomer DESTROYS Comey
At Book Signing (VIDEO)
By Cristina Laila
April 18, 2018, 7:35 Pm

Independent journalist Laura Loomer

blasted fired FBI Director James Comey Another angle of the video…look at Comey’s reaction!
Wednesday at a book signing at a
Barnes & Noble in New York City.

When the fired FBI Chief asked for questions Laura

Loomer stood up and asked him why he lied under oath
and hid information from President-elect Donald Trump
that Hillary Clinton paid for the debunked Steele Fusion
dossier.
“Why didn’t you disclose to President
Trump that his opposition paid for the
dossier?” Loomer asked Comey as people
began to boo loudly.
“You are not an ethical leader!” Loomer
exclaimed.
Even though Comey’s sycophants were trying to silence
Laura Loomer, she continued to blast Comey.
“Eleven lawmakers today, Mr. Comey, filed
a criminal referral against you!”
Loomer was referring to the letter Rep. Ron DeSantis and
10 other lawmakers sent to the DOJ Wednesday,
criminally referring Comey, Hillary Clinton, McCabe and
Loretta Lynch for their investigations into Trump.
Laura finished her questioning with,
“You’re going to Jail!”
Security personnel quickly moved in and proceeded to
escort Laura Loomer out of Barnes & Noble.
VIDEO:
Comey got Loomered!

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Laura Loomer posted a picture of herself to her Twitter
account smiling at Barnes & Noble:

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 Gopers Urge Sessions, Wray
To Probe Clinton, Top FBI And DOJ Officials
The Former Secretary Of State, James Comey, Loretta Lynch And Others
Potentially Violated Federal Statues And Deserve Further Scrutiny
By Kathryn Blackhurst
Updated 18 Apr 2018 At 8:11 PM
Eleven GOP lawmakers sent a criminal referral urging the
Department of Justice and the FBI to investigate former
FBI Director James Comey, former Attorney General
Loretta Lynch, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton
and others for “potential violation(s) of federal statutes.”
The 11 House Republicans sent the referral to Attorney
General Jeff Sessions, FBI Director Christopher Wray and
U.S. Attorney for the District of Utah John Huber, whom
Sessions appointed to review the DOJ’s and FBI’s
investigation into Clinton and other controversies.
The lawmakers listed Comey, Lynch, Clinton, former FBI
Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, FBI agent Peter Strzok,
FBI counsel Lisa Page, former Acting Attorney General
Sally Yates, and others as prime candidates for further
investigation because of their questionable conduct during
and after the 2016 presidential election.
“Because we believe that those in positions
of high authority should be treated the
same as every other American, we want to
be sure that the potential violations of law
outlined below are vetted appropriately,”
the lawmakers wrote.
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 Reps. Andy Biggs (R-Ariz),
 Dave Brat (R-Va.),
 Ron DeSantis (R-Fla.),
 Jeff Duncan (R-S.C.),
 Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.),
 Paul A. Gosar (R-Ariz.),
 Andy Harris (R-Md.),
 Jody Hice (R-Ga.),
 Todd Rokita (R-Ind.),
 Claudia Tenney (R-N.Y.), and
 Ted S. Yoho (R-Fla.)
Signed the referral.
The lawmakers noted that Comey's July 2016 exoneration
of Clinton for the investigation into her private email
server
"appears to have been made prior to
interviewing Secretary Clinton and as many
as 17 key witnesses, including Clinton's
closest aides."
Such a predetermined conclusion
"suggests improper investigative conduct,
potentially motivated by a political agenda,"
they argued.
"Remember, [Comey] testified to the
Congress that he did not make any
decision regarding Secretary Clinton until
after she was interviewed," DeSantis said
Wednesday on Fox News' "Fox & Friends."
"Yet the evidence that's come out since
then demonstrates that actually they made
this determination months before not only
interviewing Secretary Clinton, but also
interviewing number of key witnesses."
"So the lack of candor with Congress is
something that needs to be investigated,"
DeSantis added.
The 11 GOP lawmakers also took issue with Comey's
decision to leak his memos detailing key conversations
with President Donald Trump to the press through a friend
of his.

Comey is under intense scrutiny because he currently is

embarking on a press tour touting his new book, "A
Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership."

Rep. Mark Meadows (R-N.C.), a member

of the House Committee on Oversight and
Government Reform, sent a letter to
committee Chairman Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-
S.C.) Tuesday urging him to look into the
"multiple troubling inconsistencies in the
comments and testimony of James
Comey." Meadows wrote that he found
documents that "suggest a concerning level
of coordination between the Department of
Justice and the FBI throughout crucial
moments of the investigation into [Hillary]
Clinton's private email server."
The controversial Obama-era Uranium One deal gave
"Here's the question that needs to be Russia control over roughly 20 percent of all U.S. supplies
answered: Did Director Comey, while under of a scarce resource that is essential to the nation's defense.
oath, mislead Congress and the American Clinton was secretary of state when the deal occurred, and
people on whether he coordinated with multiple investors in Uranium One were Clinton
Loretta Lynch and the DOJ during the Foundation donors with ties to her and her husband,
investigation of Secretary Clinton?" former President Bill Clinton.
Meadows tweeted Tuesday. "Some
evidence suggests the answer is yes — he
did." McCabe drew the lawmakers' ire when Michael Horowitz,
DOJ's inspector general (IG), concluded that McCabe lied
four times to federal investigators about leaking
information to The Wall Street Journal about the Clinton
probe. This conclusion formed the basis of Sessions'
decision last month to fire McCabe hours before his
retirement with a full pension was set to begin.

"Here's the issue ... If they are going to go

after people like [former national security
adviser] Michael Flynn for a false statement
to the FBI on really a tangential fact that
wasn't material to any criminal offenses,
but yet, you have the deputy director ...
lying under oath ... is there going to be a
similar case brought against him or do we
have two different sets of rules for people?"
DeSantis asked.

Strzok and Page were the two FBI officials who texted
anti-Trump and pro-Clinton messages to one another while
taking part in the investigations into both Trump and
Lynch should be investigated because of Clinton. Strzok also interviewed Clinton and Flynn.

"her decision to threaten with reprisal the
former FBI informant who tried to come
forward in 2016 with insight into the
Uranium One deal," the 11 lawmakers
wrote.
"Well, if you look at those text messages, it
raises a lot of alarming things, one of which
is obstruction of a congressional
investigation," DeSantis warned.

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Yates is under scrutiny, along with Comey, McCabe,
Lynch and former acting Deputy Attorney General Dana
Boente, for their connections to the compilation of the
anti-Trump dossier authored by Christopher Steele, which
.
the FBI used to renew surveillance warrant applications to
spy on Trump campaign official Carter Page.
The dossier was paid for by the Clinton campaign and the
Democratic National Committee (DNC).

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 House Hacking Suspects’ Father Transferred Data To
Pakistani Government, Ex-Partner Claims
Luke Rosiak And Wajid Ali Syed
9:07 PM 04/18/2018
Awan Town in Lahore, Pakistan, where Imran Awan's wife Hina
Alvi lived / Wajid Al Sayed
FAISALABAD, Pakistan — The father of Imran Awan —
an IT aide to Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz who
investigators concluded made “unauthorized access” to
House servers — transferred a USB drive to
a Pakistani senator and former head of
a Pakistani intelligence agency, the father’s ex-business
partner, Rashid Minhas, alleged.
Minhas told The Daily Caller News Foundation that Imran
Awan’s father, Haji Ashraf Awan, was giving data
to Pakistani official Rehman Malik, and that Imran
bragged he had the power to “change the U.S. president.”
Asked for how he knew this, he said that on one occasion
in 2008 when a “USB [was] given to Rehman Malik by
Imran’s father, my brother Abdul Razzaq was with his
father.”
“After Imran’s father deliver (sic) USB to
Rehman Malik, four Pakistani [government
intelligence] agents were with his father 24-
hour on duty to protect him,” he said.
Minhas did not say what was on the USB.
TheDCNF traveled to Pakistan for this story and
interviewed numerous residents who interacted with
Imran, and they confirmed that he does travel that
country with a contingent of armed Pakistani government
officials and routinely brags about mysterious political
power.
The House Office of Inspector General charged in Sept.
30, 2016 that data was being funneled off the House
network by the Awans as recently as September 2016 —
shortly before the presidential election.
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Nearly Imran’s entire immediate family was on the House
payroll working as IT aides to one-fifth of House
Democrats, and he began working for the House in 2004.
The inspector general, Michael Ptasienski, testified this
month that
“system administrators hold the ‘keys to the
kingdom’ meaning they can create
accounts, grant access, view, download,
update, or delete almost any electronic
information within an office. Because of this
high-level access, a rogue system
administrator could inflict considerable
damage.”
WATCH:
Minhas said
“Imran Awan said to me directly these
words: ‘See how I control White House on
my fingertip…’ He say he can fire the prime
minister or change the U.S. president,”
Minhas said. “Why the claiming big stuff, I
[didn’t] understand ’till now.”
“I was Imran father’s partner in Pakistan,”
Minhas said, in two land deals
in Pakistan so big that they are often
referred to as “towns.” In 2009, both men
were accused of fraud, and Haji was
arrested but then released after Imran flew
to Pakistan, “allegedly… exerting pressure
on the local police through the ministry as
well as the department concerned,”
according to local news. Minhas and
 multiple alleged victims in Pakistan also
told TheDCNF Imran exerted political
influence in Pakistan to extricate his father
from the case.
Minhas is now in U.S. federal prison for additional fraud,
and TheDCNF could not confirm whether Minhas’ claims
about the USBs are true. But Minhas said the DOJ or FBI
never interviewed him about the Awans, an indicator the
potential for espionage may not have been explored
extensively. The probe involves money allegedly
disappearing to Pakistan and Minhas was, prominently,
their business partner there.
He is also one of many people with past relationships with
the Awans who have said they believe they are aggressive
opportunists who will do anything for money. And parts of
Minhas’s story correlate with observations elsewhere.
Haji’s wife, Samina Gilani — Imran’s stepmother — said
in court documents that Imran used his IT skills to wiretap
her as a means of exerting pressure on her.
Haji would frequently boast that Imran’s position gave him
political leverage, numerous Pakistani residents told
TheDCNF.
“My son own White House in D.C.,” he
would say, according to Minhas. “I am
kingmaker.”
Sen. Malik is a former intelligence agent who served as
director of the Federal Investigation Agency from 1993 to
1996. From 2004 to 2007, he was chief of security for
former prime minister Benazir Bhutto. In 2013, he became
an adviser to Prime Minister Yousaf Gillani, and served as
Interior Minister until 2013, a capacity in which he
interfaced with then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. He
now serves in the Pakistani Senate.
Sen. Malik denied any relationship with the parties
allegedly involved, saying
“I am hearing their names for the first time.
I am in public and people always do name-
dropping.” Chris Gowen, an attorney for
Imran, said Minhas’s contentions were
“completely and totally false.”
House Sergeant-At-Arms Paul Irving banned the Awans
from the congressional network on Feb. 2, 2017 after the
IG report alleged that the Awans were making
“unauthorized access” to House servers. They logged in
using members of Congress’s personal usernames and
logged into servers of members for whom they did not
work, the IG report said. After some members fired them,
they still kept accessing their data, an IG presentation
charged.
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The behavior mirrored a “classic method
for insiders to exfiltrate data from an
organization,” and “steps are being taken
[by the Awans] to conceal their activity,” it
said.
In the months before the election, the epicenter of the
cyberbreach was the server of the House Democratic
Caucus, a sister group of the Democratic National
Committee (DNC). Authorities said they believe Imran
secretly moved all the data of more than a dozen House
members’ offices onto the caucus server.
The server may have been “used for nefarious purposes
and elevated the risk that individuals could be reading
and/or removing information,” an IG presentation said.
The Awans logged into it 27 times a day, far more than
any other computer they administered.
Imran’s most forceful advocate and longtime employer is
Florida Democratic Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, who
led the DNC until she resigned following a hack that
exposed committee emails. Wikileaks published those
emails, and they show that DNC staff summoned
Imran when they needed her password.
Democrats have blamed the DNC hack for former
Clinton’s loss in the 2016 presidential race.
Soon after the IG report, the entire House Democratic
Caucus server was physically stolen, three government
officials said, in what authorities took as evidence
tampering. Then-Caucus Chairman Xavier Becerra
has refused to discuss the incident except to say that he
would cooperate with authorities.
The Awans began selling their assets during the same time
period. In January 2017 they took out a loan intended for
home improvement, falsely claimed a medical emergency
in order to cash out their House retirement account, and
wired $300,000 overseas, according to an FBI affidavit.
Imran was arrested at Dulles Airport in July 2017 trying to
fly to Pakistan with a wiped cell phone and a resume that
listed his address as Queens, New York, prosecutors said.
Imran and his wife, Hina Alvi, were indicted in August on
bank fraud charges, with prosecutors contending in court
filings that shortly before moving the money, the couple
had likely learned that authorities were closing in on them
for their other activities.
Yet Imran and Hina have not been charged with
unauthorized access to congressional data, despite an
analysis of server logs by House investigators that
determined that unauthorized access by Imran and Hina
occurred. Three other suspects – Abid Awan, Jamal Awan
and Rao Abbas – have faced no charges. Abid’s wife,
Ukraniane-born Nataliia Sova, was also on the payroll but
left before the Awan family was banned.
The separation between the legislative and executive
branch has complicated the prosecution. Congressmen
have refused to publicly address the IG’s findings, and
Wasserman Schultz’s brother is a prosecutor in the office
of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, which is
handling the case.
Two months after the ban, Capitol Police found that Imran
was in the building and left a laptop with username
RepDWS in a phone booth along with a note that read
“attorney client privilege,” according to a police report.
Wasserman Schultz hired a private lawyer to block
prosecutors from looking at the computer. Imran’s attorney
then said the laptop should not be looked at unless he
withdraws his claim of attorney-client privilege. Their next
court date is May 4.
The suspects worked for foreign affairs committee
members such as Ted Lieu of California and for
intelligence committee members Joaquin Castro of Texas,
Andre Carson of Indiana, and Jackie Speier of California.
All have ignored repeated requests for comment.
Imran appeared to still have a backdoor into the
congressional network as late as August 2017 through the
email account 123@mail.house.gov, according to civil
court filings. Instead of Imran’s name, the email address
was associated with the name Nathaniel Bennett, an
intelligence specialist for Carson.
Minhas said
“Last time I seen Mr. devil Awan
in Pakistan 2010 about him and his father
commit fraud with me and other landlords
in Faisalabad.”
Minhas and Haji Awan acquired a large tract of farmland
from elderly farmers to turn into a housing development,
but allegedly failed to pay them. When the farmers filed
charges, Imran tried to have the elderly victims arrested by
claiming they beat and “tortured” him, and used political
influence to have police drop the charges against his
father, according to a detailed 2009 article in
Pakistani newspaper Dawn.
Minhas said that was Sen. Malik’s influence.
“The way he used his resources through
Congress to call U.S. Embassy in
Islamabad and Pakistani officials, it was so
bad,” Minhas said. “What the hell Rehman
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Malik was doing” being involved in a local
case?
The alleged scam Minhas and Haji ran was not the only
one for either. Minhas is now in federal prison in
Minnesota for swindling money from American Muslims.
According to court documents, Minhas stole $700,000
from American Muslims by using their faith against them.
He set up travel agencies that sold cheap tickets to the
Hajj, the obligatory trip to Mecca. But instead of providing
the tickets, he sent buyers letters saying
“Allah didn’t invite you. That’s why you
guys didn’t go,” as one victim recounted in
court papers. “So, he blamed the whole
thing on God, not on his thing what he did
to us.”
Prosecutors said
“he used the travel agency down in Falls
Church, Va., as a stalking horse to make it
appear to his customers that he was doing
what he was supposed to be doing,
knowing all along that he wouldn’t get
those visas.”
Minhas lived in Chicago at the time, while Imran ran a car
dealership in Falls Church on top of his $165,000-a-year
job in Congress. But no connection between Imran and the
travel agency was apparent.
The Awans’ car dealership business partner Nasir Khattek
said in sworn testimony that the automobile business —
called Cars International A, or CIA — used false
bookkeeping and took $100,000 from Ali Al-Attar,
an Iraqi government official who is wanted by the U.S.
Department of Justice.
Minhas has been in prison since 2014. He said his brother,
Abdul Razzaq, witnessed one handoff of a USB between
the elder Awan and Malik in 2008. He said his brother has
since died.
Sen. Joe Donnelly of Indiana, then a House member,
inexplicably paid the elder Awan $116 in late 2007 to be
his “systems administrator,” according to payroll records,
even though he did not have any computer training and
said on insurance documents that he worked as a religious
figure.
Imran told Laurel Everly, a tenant of one of his family’s
numerous Virginia rental homes, that Imran sometimes
performed his job administering congressional servers
from Pakistan.
Several people, including Imran’s stepmother Gilani, said
Imran used his job as a congressional IT administrator to
exert pressure, particularly among foreigners and
immigrants.
Minhas said the Awans also defrauded him. “My brothers
brought all customers and investors. I stay
in Pakistan March 2006 to August 2006 and sold about 79
percent town name Gulshan-e-Moin (sic), after sold that
town end of 2006, we purchased another land and sold 40
percent land to Faisalabad Agriculture University staff.
“In 2007 Awan family showed me dirty
blood in their body, and from 37 acres they
only transfer 1000 square feet oh yes only
1000 square feet in my name, and I was
third 34 percent partner.”
Even with Minhas out of the picture and the Awans in full
control of the land business, multiple people said Imran
and his family have continued to defraud them in Pakistan.
The land was subdivided and a portion sold to the faculty
of the Faisalabad Agriculture University to build a housing
complex for professors.
Dr. Zafar Iqbal, a faculty member and the group’s
president, told TheDCNF in an interview on his front
porch that the group paid Haji for the land, but he never
turned over the deed, and they have been fighting him and
Imran for it for years.
In January 2017, Haji died and Imran traveled to Pakistan,
where the association members cornered him, Dr. Iqbal
said. Imran cautioned them that he “has got powerful
political connections in Pakistan and in the U.S,” Dr. Iqbal
said, adding that he had seen the government agents
protecting him. Imran promised to either refund their
money or get them the deeds.
But Imran “pulled another trick,” Dr. Iqbal said. “He’s
such type of person.”
Wajid Al-Sayed reported from Faisalabad, Pakistan.
Imran Awan: A Continuing DCNF Investigative Group
Series
 Court docs
 Timeline
 Hearing Reveals Congress Provided 'No Supervision'
Of IT Aides, Missed Red Flags, But Members Block
Proposed Reforms
 Congress And Wasserman Schultz Negligent For
Allowing Hacking Suspects Continued Access, Expert
Says
 Exempted From Background Checks Despite Policy
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 Long History Of Alleged Witness Intimidation, Evidence
Tampering
 Why Did The FBI Let A Congressional Hacking
Suspect Leave The Country?
 Intel Committee Dems 'Dangerous,' 'Negligent' In
Handling Of Breach
 Internal Probe Reported 'Unauthorized Access' To
Data; Officials Misrepresented Findings As 'Theft'
 House IT Aides Ran Car Dealership With Markings Of
A Nefarious Money Laundering Operation
 Becerra Tried To Block Awan From House Democratic
Caucus Server, But Logins Continued; He Didn't Go To
Cops
 Hard Drive Tied to Wasserman Schultz Is Central To
Imran Awan Case
 18 Months In, Dem IT Aides Not Charged With Hill
Crimes Despite Evidence
 Used Political Influence To Have Fraud Charges
Dropped In Pakistan
 Own Wife Turns, Accuses Him Of Fraud, Violent
Threats
 Imran Awan 'Very Strongly' Wants To Block Review Of
DWS' Hard Drive
 Lawyer Implicates Congressmen
 Sending Money To Police Officer In Pakistan
 Funneling 'Massive' Data Off Congressional Server,
Dems Claim It's Child's Homework
 'Like a Slave': Three Muslim Women, At Least One Of
Them Bloodied, Called Police on Imran
 Had Secret Server, Caught Falsifying Evidence To
Cover It Up
 Imran Still Has Copy Of House Laptop DWS Said Has
Sensitive Leg-Branch Info
 DWS Laptop Found at 3AM In Phone Booth With Letter
To Prosecutors
 Awan Asks Judge To Remove GPS, Citing Possible
Emergency With Kids--Who Are In Pakistan
 Has Secret, Still-Active House Account--
123@mail.house.gov--Linked To Intelligence Specialist
 DWS 'Islamophobia' Claim Prompts Angered
Witnesses To Go Public
 Rep. Yvette Clarke Quietly Signed Away $120,000 In
Missing Equipment
 Imran, Hina Indicted For Conspiracy Against U.S.
 DWS Now Says Laptop She Sought To Keep From
Police Was Awan's, Not Hers
 Liquidating $1.8M In Real Estate When Arrested, Some
Still Pending
 DWS Seemingly Planned To Pay Suspect Even While
In Pakistan
 Lawyer Is Longtime Clinton Associate
 Arrested At Airport After Wiring $300k To Pakistan
 FBI Seized Smashed Hard Drives From Home
 Ex-DNC Head 'Negotiating' With Police Over Letting
Them See Evidence
 Dems Tying Themselves Into Knots To Ignore Criminal
Probe
  'You'd Like Him:' Associates Describe 'Cunning,'
Charismatic Con Artist
 In Personal Lives, Evidence Of Massive Cons
 House Dems Hired A Fired McDonald's Worker As
Email Administrator
 DWS Admits To Violating Network Security, Blames
House
 Wasserman Schultz Threatened Police Chief For
Gathering Evidence
 Suspect Has Fled To Pakistan, Relative Says
 House IT Aides Fear Suspects In Hill Breach Are
Blackmailing Members
 Read the Court Docs Detailing Their Greed,
Ruthlessness
.
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 Paul Ryan: Capitol Police Getting 'Assistance' On
Criminal Investigation
 Brothers Could Read Every Email Of Dozens Of
Congressmen
 ...Also Had Access To DNC Emails
 ...Allegedly Kept Stepmom In 'Captivity' To Access
Offshore Cash
 ...Received $4 Million From Dem Reps
 ...Owed Money To Hezbollah-Connected Fugitive
 ...Secretly Took $100K In Iraqi Money
 Brothers Had Massive Debts, Years Of Suspicious
Activity
 House Intelligence, Foreign Affairs Committee
Members IT Compromised
 Cohen Could Turn If Charged, Adviser Warned Trump
By Joe Palazzolo, Michael Rothfeld and Michael Siconolfi – Wall Street Journel
Published: Apr 18, 2018 9:19 p.m. ET
The offices of President Donald Trump's personal lawyer, Michael
Cohen, were raided last week.
One of President Donald Trump’s longtime legal advisers
said he warned the president in a phone call Friday that
Michael Cohen, Trump’s personal lawyer and close friend,
would turn against the president and cooperate with federal
prosecutors if faced with criminal charges.
Trump made the call seeking advice from Jay Goldberg,
who represented Trump in the 1990s and early 2000s.
Goldberg said he cautioned the president not to trust
Cohen. On a scale of 100 to 1, where 100 is fully
protecting the president, Cohen “isn’t even a 1,” he said he
told Trump.
Cohen is under criminal investigation for potential bank
fraud and campaign-finance violations. FBI agents
raided Cohen’s home, hotel and office last week, seeking
documents about, among other things, a $130,000 payment
he made in October 2016 to a former adult-film actress to
prevent her from publicly discussing an alleged sexual
encounter with Trump in 2006, The Wall Street Journal
previously reported, citing people familiar with the matter.
Trump and Cohen deny such an encounter occurred.
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Investigators are examining whether Cohen committed
bank fraud in using a home-equity line of credit to pay the
former porn star for her silence, as well as potential
campaign-finance violations related to the payment, the
people said.
“Michael will never stand up [for you]” if
charged by the government, Goldberg said
he cautioned the president.
Neither Cohen, who hasn’t been charged, nor his lawyer
responded to requests for comment. The White House
confirmed the phone call of Trump and Goldberg.
The 15-minute discussion between the two men provides
an inside peek at the president’s efforts to seek guidance
amid the rapidly escalating developments involving
Cohen.
Goldberg is one of several longtime advisers Trump has
reached out to as he and his legal team try to assess the
potential fallout from the criminal investigation of Cohen
and devise a response.
Goldberg said the volume of correspondence taken and the
potential pressure the government can bring to bear on
Cohen to testify put the president in more potential peril
from the Cohen matter than from special counsel Robert
Mueller’s investigation.
Mueller is examining whether members of Trump’s
campaign team colluded with Russians to affect the 2016
election. Russia officials have denied meddling in the
election, and Trump has denied any collusion took place.
 Schiff Goes Into Overdrive=> Introduces Bill To Make It
Difficult For Trump To Grant Pardons
In Russia Witch Hunt
By Cristina Laila
April 18, 2018, 9:32 Pm

Leaker and liar Adam Schiff (D-CA) went members of his family that: ‘if you have my
into overdrive Wednesday and back, I’ll have yours.’”
introduced a bill that would make it “At a time of constitutional peril, it is
difficult for President Trump to pardon
incumbent on the Congress to stand up for
anyone caught up in Mueller’s witch
the rule of law by creating a strong
hunt. disincentive to the president issuing
pardons to protect himself and obstruct
ongoing investigations.”

Ranking member of the House Intel Committee and shill

for Putin, Adam Schiff introduced legislation Wednesday
aiming to make it more difficult for President Trump to
pardon anyone caught up in Mueller’s witch hunt.

The bill, called the Abuse of Pardon Prevention Act was

drawn up in response to Trump’s pardon of Scooter Libby.

Scooter Libby was former Vice President Dick Cheney’s

Chief of Staff who was convicted for lying to the FBI and
obstruction of justice.

Many took Trump’s pardon of Scooter Libby as a message

to Mueller.

Adam Schiff said in a statement as reported by the

Washington Examiner:
President Trump has left the idea of pardoning General
Flynn on the table.
“President Trump already has signaled that
he is willing to use his constitutional powers
in order to protect those who remain loyal General Flynn should be pardoned and reimbursed for his
to him, even if they are convicted of legal fees; he was ambushed and caught off guard by
obstruction or perjury. By pardoning Strzok and McCabe.
Scooter Libby last week, Trump has sent a
clear and unmistakable message to Paul Manafort was indicted by a federal grand jury on
potential witnesses against him or many charges that have nothing to do with the 2016
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presidential election as Mueller roves outside of his The Republicans have the majority in the House so it is
mandate without any oversight. highly unlikely Schiff’s legislation will make any
headway.
Manafort has pleaded not guilty to the charges and
continues to fight Mueller and Rosenstein in court.
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 ‘Hardball’ Guest Whacks Hannity For Advising Trump
Without A College Degree, Matthews Defends
By Curtis Houck
April 18, 2018 11:36 Pm Edt
For the second time in as many days, frequent CNN and
MSNBC guest/former Republican Congressman David
Jolly proved his usefulness to the liberal media by not
criticizing the relationship between President Trump and
Fox News Channel host Sean Hannity on conflicts of
interest or policy, but by cheaply condemning Hannity for
not having graduated college.
The discussion came during Wednesday’s Hardball in light
of the Monday revelation following an unsealing of court
documents that Michael Cohen has given legal advice to
Hannity and further put a spotlight (albeit an obsessive one
by the liberal media) on the pair’s closeness.
Host Chris Matthews initially condemned Hannity for
“spinning conspiracy theories” about the idea of a Deep
State out to remove President Trump from office. Aside
from his policy, however, Matthews sought to understand
and even defend Hannity.
Speaking to Jolly and The Washington Post’s Robert
Costa, he told them that he doesn’t
“want to be a media critic...because I am
in the media and I think it's like a
baseball player complaining about
another baseball player” but focus on
“the possible extraordinary influence
that Sean Hannity might have on this
President.”
Having written a front-page story about it, Costa argued
that the pair jell since Hannity’s
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“a New Yorker, brash, conservative”
who “relishes his anti-establishment
persona.”
Matthews went to Jolly and admirably defined why elected
officials turn to friendly journalists and pundits to get a
sense of what their political base might be thinking (click
“expand” to see more):
If you're on the air three hours a day, I think
three hours a day that Sean is, it takes a
particular talent to be on the air in talk
radio. I don’t know if I’d be any good at it or
not because you really have to have a
good ear for the audience and you begin to
develop a conversation with your regular
audience...Is that what he's checking on?
Is it like a polling operation, calling up
Sean, is the President saying: “Is this
working? Is that working? What should I be
pushing? What should I be playing down?
Where is the action? How are the people
reacting to this?” Is that what he's using it
for? And so, what's so wrong with that if
he's using him as his guy with an ear to the
ground?
Jolly replied that this this relationship instead
“feeds into the lack of credibility that I
think a lot of Americans have when it
comes to Donald Trump and the fact is
Sean Hannity is not a subject matter
expert.”
After a nod to George W. Bush’s less-than-ideal election
that was redeemed by “seasoned advisers,” Jolly went
personal:
In this case, Sean Hannity is not seen as a trusted hand, a
subject matter expert, a man who never graduated from
college is giving policy advice to the President of the
United States and I think that's the concern and anxiety this
story that Robert so ably reported on creates within the
American people.
Matthews again tried to strike a middle
ground, conceding that Hannity “does
 have his ear to the ground” by being on-
air “four hours a day” (three on the radio,
one on television).
Unlike Jolly, Costa reiterated that
“[t]he way it's described to me by White
House officials and friends of the
President is that it's feedback” and
“[t]hat Hannity to the President
represents that base, that base
conservative voter who listens to talk
radio who may have voted for President
Trump.”
To see the relevant transcript from MSNBC’s Hardball on
April 18, click “expand.”
MSNBC’s Hardball
April 18, 2018
7:22 p.m. Eastern
SEAN HANNITY: Let’s look at the Mueller crime family. Of
course, we are now on day 329 of the Mueller witch hunt and
there's still zero evidence of collusion. Imagine that. [SCREEN
WIPE] Remember this whole witch hunt started when Mueller’s
best friend, James Comey, leaked his personal, potentially
classified notes. [SCREEN WIPE] During his tenure at the FBI,
We all know about the special treatment that Hillary Clinton
received from the Bureau. [SCREEN WIPE] Knowing what we
now know about what is obvious deep state crime families trying
to take down the President. [SCREEN WIPE] Aren't you now
glad that Trump fired Comey.
CHRIS MATTHEWS: Welcome back to Hardball. That was Fox
News host Sean Hannity spinning conspiracy theories on his
show last week, arguing that Clinton, Mueller and Comey crime
families — that’s what he calls them — are out to get President
Trump. Well, before this segment aired — that did — the
President tweeted: “Big show tonight on [Hannity].” He was
promoting what Sean was about to say. On Monday, it was
revealed that both Trump and Hannity had — were clients of
lawyer Michael Cohen. They share a lawyer. Well, at least in
case of Trump, a fixer. The Washington Post’s Robert Costa
reports that: “The revelation this week that the two men share an
attorney is just the latest sign of how Hannity is intertwined with
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Trump's world — an increasingly powerful confidant who offers
the media-driven president a sympathetic ear and shared
grievances. The conservative commentator is so close to Trump
that some white house aides have dubbed him the unofficial chief
of staff.” The author of that article, of course, Robert Costa, who’s
a national political reporter from The Washington Post and
MSNBC political analyst and David Jolly, former Republican
congressman from Florida. I don't want to be a media critic. I try
to avoid that because I am in the media and I think it's like a
baseball player complaining about another baseball player. What
I do focus here is on is the possible extraordinary influence that
Sean Hannity might have on this President. How would you
describe it when he gives that deep state conspiracy stuff about
how it's all a plot by bureaucrats and the federal agencies to get
this particular President and he's not just echoing the president,
He may be forcing the President to echo him which is a thought I
want you to dwell on for a second. Robert?
ROBERT COSTA: It's an understandable story for a long time
watchers of President Trump, Sean Hannity, a New Yorker,
brash, conservative, relishes his anti-establishment persona. As
the president returns to his roots in a sense during this
presidency, ignoring at times the advice of his traditional
advisers, he's turning to people like Sean Hannity and often Sean
Hannity to give him counsel informally, phone calls late at night,
sometimes early in the morning as they think through their own
lives and the President's agenda.
MATTHEWS: Well, let me give some logic to this, first of all, to
David Jolly. You know, I’ll check this on you. If you're on the air
three hours a day, I think three hours a day that Sean is, it takes
a particular talent to be on the air in talk radio. I don’t know if I’d
be any good at it or not because you really have to have a good
ear for the audience and you begin to develop a conversation
with your regular audience, the ones who's tune in every day that
give you the big bucks and the big audience, obviously. Is that
what he's checking on? Is it like a polling operation, calling up
Sean, is the President saying, is this working? Is that working?
What should I be pushing? What should I be playing down?
Where is the action? How are the people reacting to this? Is that
what he's using it for? And so, what's so wrong with that if he's
using him as his guy with an ear to the ground.
DAVID JOLLY: Sure. If it's measuring the pulse of the body
politic, perhaps there's nothing wrong with that. But I think this
feeds into a bigger suspicion and it’s this. There's a difference
between lack of experience and lack of credibility. Frankly, most
presidents come to the job without the experience necessary to
be commander in chief on day one. But this feeds into the lack of
credibility that I think a lot of Americans have when it comes to
Donald Trump and the fact is Sean Hannity is not a subject
matter expert.
MATTHEWS: Yeah.
JOLLY: If you look at Bush 43 came in, he was young. The
legitimacy of the election was questioned, but he surrounded had
himself by seasoned advisers, Colin Powell, Condi Rice,
Rumsfeld. Whether you agreed with their ideology or not, you
knew he was in trusted hands. In this case, Sean Hannity is not
seen as a trusted hand, a subject matter expert, a man who
never graduated from college is giving policy advice to the
President of the United States and I think that's the concern and
anxiety this story that Robert so ably reported on creates within
the American people.
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MATTHEWS: Is that the overlay, the dangerous red line here,
Robert, as you report it is not that he's giving him political advice
which Sean would be good at because he does have his ear to
the ground. He's on the air all day long — four hours a day,
including radio. He knows what's working with the conservative
base. The poll, the right-wing poll, if you will, but he's not an
expert on regional studies with China or regional studies with the
Middle East. Is he getting policy advice or political advice from
Sean Hannity?
COSTA: The way it's described to me by White House officials
and friends of the President is that it's feedback. That Hannity to
the President represents that base, that base conservative voter
who listens to talk radio who may have voted for President
Trump. He's not looking to Hannity for policy advice. But he trusts
his own instincts but he also trusts as someone who has a mass
audience, has to cater to a mass audience and he sees Hannity
as someone in a similar position in that respect, trying to play to
that base and keep that audience.
 Poll Is Big Yellow Caution Sign
For Impeachment-Hungry Democrats
Latest Marist Survey Says More Voters Would Oppose Than Support
Congressional Candidates Vowing To Remove The President
By Brendan Kirby
Updated 19 Apr 2018 At 6:58 AM
While impeachment fever has gripped the Democratic
Party, the voters are not nearly so sure about that,
according to a poll released Wednesday.
The Marist poll of 827 registered voters, taken April 10
through April 13, has a 3.9 percent margin of error. It
found that voters are less willing to support than oppose a
congressional candidate promising to impeach President
Donald Trump.
Some 47 percent said they definitely would vote against a
candidate who wants to impeach the president, compared
with 42 percent who definitely would vote for that
candidate.
One in 10 voters said they were unsure.
Even 30 percent of Democrats said they would vote
against a pro-impeachment candidate or were unsure.
Lee Miringoff, director of the Marist College Institute for
Public Opinion, noted that the results break down along
partisan lines.
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"But, because nearly one-third of
Democrats are not eager to open up this
debate, it is one potential campaign issue
that advantages the GOP," he said in a
statement.
The poll overall paints a favorable political environment
for Democrats ahead of the November elections. The party
holds an advantage of 5 percentage points, 44 percent to 39
percent, on the question of which party voters would
support in the midterms.
What's more, Trump's approval rating is upside down.
Fifty-seven percent have an unfavorable view of him,
compared with 36 percent who view him positively. The
Republican-controlled Congress is deeply unpopular — 78
percent of adults have little or no confidence in the
legislature — and 56 percent say the country is moving in
the wrong direction.
But the impeachment question suggests Democrats could
blow their advantage.
"We just haven't triggered anything for
impeachment," said Bryan Lanza, a
political consultant who was deputy
communications director for Trump's
presidential campaign and communications
director for his transition team. "Democrats
have been talking about that since Nov. 8
[2016]. That narrative doesn't seem to be
selling with their voters."
But impeachment talk has only grown louder within the
Democratic Party as a couple of Trump's former aides have
faced criminal charges from special counsel Robert
Mueller — although none are related to the Russian
election inference that Mueller was appointed to
investigate.
California billionaire Tom Steyer has spent millions of
dollars on daily cable television ads urging Congress to
remove the president from office. Nearly 5.2 million
people have signed his online petition.
It is not just activists on the outside. In January, 66
Democrats in the House of Representatives supported an
impeachment resolution introduced by Rep. Al Green (D-
Texas).
.
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But Lanza argued that most Americans recognize that
impeachment is an extreme remedy for serious breaches —
not a political ploy to be trifled with lightly.
"If Democrats go to the primary ballot and
impeachment is the litmus test, Democrats
will not regain control of Congress," he told
LifeZette. "They will suffer historic defeats."
 DEEP STATE DON’T PLAY: Dirty Cop Mueller Will
Threaten Trump Attorney With Life In Prison
By Jim Hoft
April 19, 2018, 7:34 Am
Last week Dirty cop Robert Mueller
stormed Trump Attorney Michael
Cohen’s home and office collecting
documents going back 30 years.
Mueller may threaten Cohen with life in prison for
associating with President Donald Trump.
Mueller will find the charges later.
The deep state doesn’t play.
Politico reported:
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President Donald Trump and his outside
advisers are increasingly worried that his
longtime personal attorney might be
susceptible to cooperating with federal
prosecutors.
Two sources close to the president said
people in Trump’s inner circle have in
recent days been actively discussing the
possibility that Michael Cohen — long seen
as one of Trump’s most loyal personal
allies — might flip if he faces serious
charges as a result of his work on behalf of
Trump.
“That’s what they’ll threaten him with:
life imprisonment,” said Alan
Dershowitz, the liberal lawyer and
frequent Trump defender who met with
the president and his staff over two
days at the White House last week.
“They’re going to threaten him with a
long prison term and try to turn him into
a canary that sings.”
FBI agents overseen by federal
prosecutors in New York last week raided
Cohen’s office and apartment, as well as a
hotel room he’d been using.
 South Korea: Kim Jong Un Regime
Expresses Complete Denuclearization
Of Korean Peninsula
By Jim Hoft
April 19, 2018, 8:12 Am
Reuters reported:
South Korean President Moon Jae-In
announced Thursday the North Koreans
have expressed a desire for “complete
denuclearization” of the Korean
peninsula.
The Kim Jong Un regime is not seeking
US withdrawal from the South first.
Historic talks between President Donald
Trump and Kim Jong Un are scheduled
to take place in weeks.
.
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North Korea has expressed its desire for
“complete denuclearization” of the Korean
peninsula and is not seeking conditions
such as U.S. troops withdrawing from the
South first, South Korean President Moon
Jae-in said on Thursday.
Moon said big-picture agreements about
normalization of relations between the two
Koreas and the United States should not
be difficult to reach through planned
summits between North and South, and
between the North and the United States,
in a bid to rein in the North’s nuclear and
missile programs.
“North Korea is expressing a will for a
complete denuclearization,” Moon told
reporters.
“They have not attached any conditions
that the U.S. cannot accept, such as the
withdrawal of American troops from South
Korea. All they are expressing is the end of
hostile policies against North Korea,
followed by a guarantee of security.”
 MSNBC’s Chris Hayes Asks
Cory Booker If Trump Is A ‘Criminal’
Nick Givas - Media And Politics Reporter
8:35 AM 04/19/2018

“I think it’s politically perilous the way we

are throwing things around and getting
ahead of this investigation,” he continued.
“I think we need to let this prosecutor, let
the special counsel rather do their job and
draw conclusions after the evidence comes
forward.”

WATCH:
MSNBC's Chris Hayes Asks Cory Booker If Trump Is A 'Criminal' -
All In 4-19-18

MSNBC host Chris Hayes asked Democratic New Jersey

Sen. Cory Booker if President Donald Trump should be
considered a “criminal” Wednesday on “All In.”

“Do you think the president’s a criminal,”

Hayes asked.
“Look, I’m one of those folks that says let’s
go where the evidence leads. And right
now, we have a special counsel that is
doing a thorough investigation,” Booker
replied. “Let’s not get ahead of our skis.
Let’s make sure we support the special Booker also believes Democrats need to limit their talk of
counsel’s investigation.” impeachment to avoid further political division.

Booker thinks if the president is innocent, he should tone
down his rhetoric and allow the investigation play out.
“If the president, like he says he has
nothing to worry about, he should be
backing off on the rhetoric — backing off on
the things he’s doing to undermine the
investigation and let it take its course. And
then let’s draw our conclusions from the
evidence that’s gathered,” Booker said.
.
“I think that we undermine our position as
Democrats if we are reaching out now for
impeachment which is just going to whip up
more of the political divisions,” Booker
concluded.
“I’ll take criticism for [saying] that, but that’s
okay. We need sober minds, fact-based
conclusions drawn from evidence as
presented.”

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 Mark Meadows Thinks
James Comey Lied To Congress About
Coordination With Loretta Lynch
Nick Givas - Media And Politics Reporter
9:40 AM 04/19/2018

WATCH:

Republican Rep. Mark Meadows of North Carolina thinks

former FBI Director James Comey lied under oath while
“We’ve got Director Comey out there
testifying before Congress and believes an investigation is
saying well, you know, I was a boy scout, I
now warranted.
was above reproach. Now we have
evidence that would suggest that that’s not
“We have a number of documents. A accurate,” he added. “So we have to look
growing body of evidence that now would at it further.”
suggest that Director Comey, who under
sworn testimony, a number of times, said
The FBI scandal goes beyond the texts between FBI agent
there was no coordination between [former
Peter Strozk and attorney Lisa Page, Meadows said.
Attorney General] Loretta Lynch’s DOJ and
our FBI investigation,” Meadows said on
“Fox & Friends Thursday. “Not only was “What we have is beyond just the two of
that false, but we know that over and over them though,” Meadows said. “It’s other
again now, we have emails that would people within the FBI and DOJ who know
suggest that, that testimony was false and that the testimony that Director Comey
at best mislead the American public.” gave before Congress was not entirely the
whole truth and nothing but the truth.”
“At worse [Comey] was lying to Congress,”
he said.
.

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 Figures. Dirty Cop Comey Was
Only Taking Pre-Screened Questions At
First Book Signing Event In NYC
By Jim Hoft
April 19, 2018, 9:54 Am

Fired FBI Chief James Comey held his “Why didn’t you disclose to President
first book signing event in New York Trump that his opposition paid for the
City on Wednesday night. dossier?” Loomer asked Comey as people
began to boo loudly.
Comey was pre-screening
“You are not an ethical leader!” Loomer
questions from journalists at exclaimed.
the event.

Journalist Laura Loomer told The Gateway Pundit that

Comey’s handlers were asking for questions before the
event for James Comey.

They were screening questions.

Buzzfeed reporter Tasneem Nashrulla posted photos of

the fishbowl for questions.

But that didn’t stop Laura Loomer–

When Comey opened his event for
questions independent journalist Laura
Loomer blasted fired FBI Director James
Comey with the first question at the
event.

When the fired FBI Chief asked for questions Laura

Loomer stood up and asked him why he lied under oath
and hid information from President-elect Donald Trump
that Hillary Clinton paid for the debunked Steele Fusion
dossier.

TGP’s Cristina Laila reported on this last night.

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Even though Comey’s sycophants were trying to silence
Laura Loomer, she continued to blast Comey.

“Eleven lawmakers today, Mr. Comey, filed

a criminal referral against you!”

Loomer was referring to the letter Rep. Ron DeSantis and

10 other lawmakers sent to the DOJ Wednesday,
criminally referring Comey, Hillary Clinton, McCabe and
Loretta Lynch for their investigations into Trump.

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 Judge Napolitano Wants Hillary Clinton
Prosecuted For Committing ‘Serious Felonies’
Nick Givas - Media And Politics Reporter
9:55 AM 04/19/2018
Fox News senior judicial analyst Judge Andrew Napolitano
said Thursday on “Fox & Friends” that Hillary Clinton
needs to be held accountable for committing multiple
felonies and should be put in prison.
“The evidence of Mrs. Clinton’s guilt of
espionage, failure to safeguard state
secrets, that’s the 22 or 23 top secret
pieces of information that were on her
private server. The failure to do that — the
evidence of guilt is
overwhelming,” Napolitano said.
“The statute of limitations is 10 years. It
hasn’t run,” he added.
Napolitano said part of the reason Clinton has been able to
escape prosecution is due to former FBI Director James
Comey and his political agenda.
WATCH:
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“The reason she wasn’t prosecuted have
been shot through by Jim Comey’s own
words in the past two weeks, as a political
reason rather than a law enforcement
[reason],” Napolitano declared. “I’ve been
asking the attorney general to do this for
months and I wish he would.”
“The countervailing argument is — we are
not a banana republic. The victor, Donald
Trump doesn’t put the loser Hillary Clinton
in jail. The flip side of that argument is
there is evidence of serious felonies on her
part,” he concluded. “She shouldn’t be
immune from prosecution because she ran
for president and lost or because her last
name is Clinton.”
 Republicans Are Fleeing And So
Are Their Hopes For Keeping The House
Robert Donachie - Capitol Hill And Health Care Reporter
10:54 AM 04/19/2018
Republicans’ hopes for maintaining control of the House
are dwindling and that is likely an understatement.
Forty-six House Republicans are either resigning, retiring
or seeking other office in 2018. Roughly 22 House
members retire each election cycle, so to say the party is
going through a seismic shift is not a misnomer.
In fact, its been nearly 25 years — since 1994 — that a
majority party incurred as many losses as Republicans
have this year. Democrats controlled the House leading up
the to the 1994 midterms. The party had 28 members
announce retirement and Republicans subsequently took
them to the cleaners, picking up 54 seats and outright
claiming the majority in what is now known as the
“Republican Revolution.”
Following what was a quiet stream of weeks after the
months-long chain of Republicans fleeing the House,
Speaker of the House Paul Ryan rattled Capitol Hill early
last week, declaring he will hang up his hat after serving
almost 20 years in the lower chamber. Rep. Charlie Dent
of Pennsylvania dealt another blow to the party Tuesday
morning, becoming the 46th Republican on a growing list
of casualties.
“The party in power faces historic
headwinds in midterm election years, which
is why Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel has
raised an unprecedented amount of
resources allowing us to make continued
investment in our permanent data-driven
ground game,” Steve Guest, a spokesman
for the Republican National Committee,
told The Daily Caller News Foundation.
“We remain 100 percent committed to
defending our majorities in both the House
and the Senate.”
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If the slew of defections weren’t enough, Republicans are
trailing their Democratic challengers in 43 races, Politico
reported. Some 14 GOP incumbents have less cash on
hand than their Democratic counterparts, according to
Open Secrets.
Republicans might not be in as tough a spot overall in
terms of fundraising, despite Democrats recent onslaught
of donations. The Republican National Committee (RNC)
has raised $157,675,631.54 in the 2018 election cycle,
compared to the Democratic Congressional Campaign
Committee’s $125,367,636.26, according to the Federal
Election Commission.
Ryan has transferred a record-setting amount of money for
a speaker — $40 million — to Republicans’ campaign
committee this cycle and has held over 70 fundraising
events, including three this week.
Still, Republicans have reason to remain concerned. GOP
members have yet to deliver on a handful of much-lauded
campaign promises they made to constituents in 2016.
That matters for a number of reasons:
The first, Republican and conservative voters don’t have a
reason to trust members in November when they make
promises. Second, GOP voters could be discouraged (even
more so than a typical off-year election) to get out and
vote.
Republicans delivered on a watered-down amalgamation
of the speaker’s and Trump’s respective tax proposals in
December. However, they failed to repeal and replace
Obamacare, secure adequate funding for the construction
of a wall along the southern U.S.-Mexico border, defund
sanctuary cities (as TheDCNF exclusively reported in
March) and defund abortion giant Planned Parenthood.
Republican leadership is adamant that running in 2018 on
a campaign platform of tax cuts is the surefire strategy for
winning this election cycle, but a recent meeting of
Republicans on Capitol Hill showed the message isn’t
setting in with voters as hoped. National Republican
Congressional Committee Chairman Steve Shivers of Ohio
showed members recent polling data that constituents have
not heard from their representatives about the new tax bill
and Shivers urged them to get out and sell the new tax law
to voters.
Voters head to the ballot box in November to choose
House members and a third of the Senate. Conventional
wisdom pegs the Senate as mostly safe for Republicans,
but nothing is a guarantee.
.
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House Republicans face eight months of palace intrigue as
to who will take over as the top ranking member in the
chamber. Thus far, House Majority Leader Kevin
McCarthy, Majority Whip Steve Scalise and Rep. Jim
Jordan of Ohio, a co-founder of the conservative House
Freedom Caucus, are thought to be the major players in
contention to take over for Ryan. Of course, if Democrats
take control of the House this cycle, the next speaker
would be a Democrat.
 Democrat Operative: “It’s Clear”
That Eric Holder Is Running For President (VIDEO)
By Jim Hoft
April 19, 2018, 11:42 Am

with Al Sharpton that he’s gonna position

himself like Obama to approach in court the
African-American and progressive vote.
He’s somebody who had a couple of
scandals, the Fast And Furious, the
conservative donors. Well so the left has
problems with him because he didn’t
prosecute anyone coming out of the
financial crisis. More candidates, the better
it is for Donald Trump.

Via Varney and Co.:

Democrat operative Doug Schoen told

Varney and Co. on Thursday that Eric
Holder is likely to run for president in
2020.

Doug Schoen:

Everything I’ve seen and been told says

he will run it’s clear based on his
appearance at the National Action Network
.

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 Trump Wants North Korea To Free Three American
Prisoners, And Talks Are Already Under Way
Ryan Pickrell - China/Asia Pacific Reporter
11:45 AM 04/19/2018
A man (C) who identified himself as Kim Dong Chul, previously said
he was a naturalised American citizen and was arrested in North
Korea in October, leaves after a news conference in Pyongyang,
North Korea, in this photo released by Kyodo March 25, 2016.
REUTERS/Kyodo/File Photo
President Donald Trump said Wednesday that the U.S. is
in the process of negotiating the release of three American
prisoners held captive in North Korea.
“We are fighting very diligently to get the
three American citizens back,” Trump
explained to reporters, adding, “I think
there’s a good chance of doing it. We’re
having very good dialogue.”
CIA Director Mike Pompeo recently made a secret trip to
North Korea, where he met North Korean leader Kim Jong
Un. Pompeo brought up the three captives during his time
in North Korea, and the U.S. is hopeful that they will be
released, a senior official told Reuters.
Trump is also focused on the abduction of Japanese
citizens by the regime, an issue he recognizes is a major
concern for the Japanese people. The president “made a
promise to Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe,
recognizing that this particular problem was “one of the
truly most important things on Shinzo’s mind.”
.
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The three Americans languishing in the North Korean
prison system include Kim Dong Chul, Kim Sang-duk
(Tony Kim), and Kim Hak-song.
Kim Dong Chul, a 62-year-old naturalized U.S. citizen
born in South Korea was arrested in 2015 on charges of
espionage, while Tony Kim and Kim Hak-song, two
former professors at Pyongyang University of Science and
Technology, were picked up by North Korean authorities
in April and May 2017 for allegedly undermining the
North Korean government and unspecified “hostile acts.”
Otto Frederick Warmbier, an American college student,
returned home after a year in prison in the North for
allegedly attempting to pilfer a propaganda poster. The
young man in his early 20s returned home in a coma and
passed away one week later. The Trump administration
played a key role in his return, but it was too late, as his
condition had already deteriorated to the point that there
was no real chance of recovery.
Pompeo’s secret trip to North Korea was part of efforts to
lay the groundwork for a summit between Trump and the
North Korean leader in May or June. Trump has expressed
optimism about the planned meeting, but he has also
warned that he will walk out if talks are unproductive.
“If we don’t think it’s going to be successful,
we won’t have it,” he said Wednesday. “If I
think it’s a meeting that is not going to be
fruitful, we’re not going to go. If the meeting
when I’m there is not fruitful, I will
respectfully leave the meeting.”
Some Korea watchers are concerned that if talks fail to
yield fruit, the next step in the process may be military
conflict.
 FITTON FURIOUS: FBI Wants To Take 16 Months To
Process Only Half Of Comey Docs Requested Under FOIA
By Cristina Laila
April 19, 2018, 12:39 Pm

Comey docs under FOIA. Which is just

President of Judicial Watch Tom Fitton half of the full Comey file!
was outraged on Thursday after the FBI @RealDonaldTrump should ask Director
told the watchdog group it will take 16 Wray why his agency is making a
months to process only half of the mockery of the FOIA law.” Fitton
Comey docs they requested under tweeted.
FOIA.

In February, the FBI said they will review over 16,000

Comey docs in response to a Judicial Watch FOIA lawsuit
seeking records for the former FBI chief that was archived
after he was fired.

Judicial Watch sued for the Comey memos which Fitton

says is a scandal in itself.
The memos were already leaked to the New York Times by
Comey himself so the fact that Judicial Watch has to sue
for the documents is outrageous.
Rosenstein is also withholding the Comey memos after the
oversight committee has requested the unredacted
documents.
Trump should ask FBI Director Christopher Wray why his
agency is making a mockery of the FOIA law, Fitton said.
VIDEO:
“OUTRAGEOUS: FBI wants to take 16
months to process 8,000 pages of
Last week, the FBI notified Judicial
Watch that the bureau will need at least
three years to hand over “releasable,”
communications between anti-Trump
FBI agents Peter Strzok and Lisa Page.
Fitton was outraged over this setback.
The Judicial Watch boss has previously called on
President Donald Trump to direct U.S. Marshals to seize
computer evidence at the FBI in relation to
the missing Strzok-Page text messages.
The FBI thinks they are above the law. They became
weaponized under Obama and the stonewalling of
documents has continued under new leadership.

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 FBI: James Comey Allowed McCabe To Run The FBI’s
Clinton Foundation Probe Despite Conflicts Of Interest,
Deceit And Lies; No One Was Prosecuted
By Investigative Bureau
Posted On April 19, 2018
As FBI Director, James Comey allowed Andrew McCabe
direct oversight of the Bureau’s Clinton Foundation
investigation even after the now-fired deputy director was
removed from supervising the Hillary Clinton email
investigation for improprieties, according to high level FBI
officials.
McCabe ran the FBI’s probe of the Clinton Foundation
even after he recused himself from the Clinton email probe
on Nov. 1 2016, and after his wife, Jill accepted over $1.25
million from Hillary-backed political bundlers to run for a
senate seat in Virginia.
While Comey, who was fired from the FBI’s top post, has
slammed President Trump in his new book and on his
publicity tour, it was Comey who failed to remove
McCabe from investigating the charity’s alleged sweeping
fraud.
No one has ever been prosecuted despite the hundreds of
millions of illicit dollars involved.
Even after Comey discovered McCabe and FBI agent Peter
Strzok concealed evidence in the Hillary email
investigation for weeks before the 2016 election — in an
apparent attempt to help clear the Democratic presidential
candidate of criminality — Comey did not remove
McCabe from directing the charity fraud porbe, sources
said.
“Now you’re seeing the real underbelly
here of the Comey era,” one FBI official
said. “He can sell books but he couldn’t run
a clean Bureau.”
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Did McCabe slow walk the Clinton Foundation
investigation just as he tried to sabotage the email probe
days before the election to favor Hillary?
FBI sources said it certainly looks possible.
Just months before the election McCabe instructed
subordinates on how to proceed with the Clinton
Foundation probe, sources said. His instructions included
directions to not make a lot of noise that might draw
attention or alert the media about the probe. FBI agents
were to tread very lightly, sources said.
But why? Those stipulations make little sense to men and
women at the FBI tasked with investigating any case.
But this, again, falls directly back to Comey. During an
executive FBI meeting on Oct. 27 2016, Comey removed
McCabe from a conference call at the request of FBI
Counsel James Baker. The subject matter involved
Anthony Weiner’s laptop and the Hillary emails and after
McCabe was kicked out of the conference, it was also
about McCabe. Specifically, how did he sit on damaging
Hillary evidence for weeks, evidence that forced Comey to
publicly announce the FBI was reopening the Hillary
Clinton investigation?
All hell broke loose after that announcement. It changed
the election and likely, history.
Yet after all these events, Comey still allowed McCabe to
run the investigation of the Clinton Foundation. At that
point the investigation into the charity was a year old, yet
yielded very little prosecutable progress.
“They (Comey and McCabe) were never
committed to the Clinton Foundation
investigation,” one FBI agent said. “Comey
was in left field and McCabe lied to him
constantly with false updates and briefings.
It is hard to know exactly what he told
Comey about the progress but you can bet
it wasn’t true.
 “Comey never followed up either and
checked to make sure the investigation
was on track. McCabe was running the
investigation and running Comey. There
never was a serious look at the Clinton
Foundation. Agents were on a leash.”
Perhaps that was the point. McCabe had already tried to
sandbag the Hillary email investigation. Why would he do
differently for the Clinton Foundation investigation?
Clinton Foundation officials have long denied any
wrongdoing, saying it is a well-run charity that has done
immense good. Yet the paper trails show hundreds of
millions of dollars unaccounted for and perhaps secured
illegally, absent internal controls. Moreover, many of those
millions were likely secured in a sophisticated pay-to-play
scheme between Bill and Hillary while she serves as
Secretary of State and her husband was racking up
excessive speaking fees from countries and private
concerns doing business with Hillary’s State Department.
Despite what FBI agents believe was overwhelming proof
of illicit activity, Justice Department prosecutors who were
supervised by Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates said
there wasn’t enough evidence to prosecute the Clintons for
charity fraud, money laundering, or even simple wire
fraud. McCabe had found solidarity with Yates’ team.
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FBI agents refused to stand down and kept turning over
rocks in the Clinton Foundation probe. Until a few months
before the 2016 presidential election. According to
sources, on Aug. 12 2016, a senior Justice Department
official contacted McCabe to voice displeasure at finding
that New York FBI field agents were still openly pursuing
the Clinton Foundation probe during the election season.
Sally Yates, directly or indirectly, had spoken. Again.
“Justice was fucking steaming,” one FBI
official said. “The message was drop the
case or sit on it until after the election.”
The pitfall with putting the case in mothballs was the clock
was ticking on the statute of limitations, normally five
years, on many of the alleged financial crimes agents were
pinpointing in the Clinton Foundation probe. A delay of
months would nullify much evidence, rendering it useless.
From what we now know, that certainly was the goal.
Unless you ask James Comey, who allowed lies about the
FBI’s biggest investigation to stand and steer the probe’s
course, unchecked.
Perhaps Comey’s ‘Higher Loyalty” was to the Clinton
family.
 Senate Defies McConnell=>
Moves To Protect Dirty Cop Robert Mueller
By Cristina Laila
April 19, 2018, 1:10 Pm

WASHINGTON — Despite opposition from

On Tuesday, Senate Majority Leader
Mitch McConnell shut down a bipartisan
bill to protect Special Counsel Robert
Mueller’s witch hunt job.
McConnell says he will not hold a floor
vote on the bill even if it gets approved
in the Senate Judiciary Committee.
On Thursday, Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley
(R-IA) announced that his committee will vote next week
to protect dirty cop Mueller’s job.
Senate Judiciary Chair Charles Grassley
voted on the bill Thursday afternoon.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell,
Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley
confirmed Thursday that his committee will
vote next week on a bill to protect special
counsel Robert Mueller from being fired in
the midst of the Russia investigation.
“Some have raised the question of why the
committee plans on proceeding with the
markup despite the fact that the majority
leader has indicated that he will not take
this bill up on the floor,” said Grassley, R-
Iowa., at a committee meeting. “The views
of the majority leader are obviously
important to consider, but they do not
govern what happens here on the Judiciary
Committee.”
Last week, GOP snakes Lindsey
Graham and Thom Tillis from North
Carolina joined with Democrats
to introduce a bill to protect Dirty Cop
Robert Mueller.

Robert Mueller isn’t a king. He is not immune from

criticism or from being fired.

In fact, the whole point of a special counsel is to avoid a

conflict of interest which clearly Mueller has being that
he’s buddies with Comey.

Just like GOP Rep Louie Gohmert recently said, not only
does Mueller need to be fired, he needs to be investigated
for his role in the Uranium One scandal.

“There is nobody in America that needs

firing more than Mueller,” Gohmert said.

“He needs not only to be fired, he needs to

be investigated for his part in helping the
Clinton Foundation make $145 million from
the sale of Uranium when nobody knew
more than Mueller did about the
investigation, about the Russian efforts to
Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck get our Uranium. He participated. He needs
Grassley (R-IA) to be the target, not investigating,” Gohmert
continued.
USA Today reported:
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 BREAKING: Inspector General Sends
Criminal Referral Of Andrew McCabe
To US Attorney’s Office
By Cristina Laila
April 19, 2018, 1:19 Pm
On Thursday, Inspector General Michael
Horowitz sent a criminal referral for
former FBI Deputy Director Andrew
McCabe to the US Attorney’s office
about the FBI’s investigation into the
Clinton Foundation.
CNN reported:
The Justice Department’s inspector general
has sent a criminal referral regarding
former FBI Deputy Director Andrew
McCabe to the US attorney’s office in
Washington, according to a source familiar
with the matter.
A McCabe spokesperson, the Justice Department and US
attorney’s office all declined to comment.
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The IG had found that McCabe “lacked
candor” on four occasions when discussing
the disclosure of information for a Wall
Street Journal article about the FBI’s
Clinton Foundation investigation, according
to a copy of the report obtained by CNN.
In addition, the inspector general
determined that McCabe was not
authorized to disclose the existence of the
investigation because it was not within the
department’s “public interest” exception for
disclosing ongoing investigations. The
disclosure to the Journal was made “in a
manner designed to advance his personal
interests at the expense of department
leadership,” the report said.
This is not a good week for McCabe.
Rep. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) is also asking
the Department of Justice to investigate
several Obama officials: Hillary Clinton,
James Comey, McCabe and Loretta
Lynch for possible crimes.
DeSantis and 10 other lawmakers sent a letter to the DOJ
Wednesday,criminally referring Comey, Hillary Clinton,
McCabe and Loretta Lynch for their investigations into
Trump.
Story developing…
 Veteran Political Strategist Says
Running From Trump Won’t Work For GOP
Matt Schlapp, Head Of The American Conservative Union, Says President Is The
Party Leader And 'Nothing Can Change That' Fact
By Brendan Kirby
Updated 19 Apr 2018 At 1:38 PM

there, and a lot of grass-roots people I've

talked to, don't want to change that fact."

Schlapp (pictured above) said it is not surprising that

Trump has left controversy in his wake as he storms
through his agenda. His candidacy foretold it, Schlapp
said.

"Let's face it, Donald Trump is a disruptor,

and he was a latecomer to the Republican
Party," he said. "And Washington is still
having trouble getting [that], digesting the
fact that Donald Trump is the president.
Vulnerable Republicans cannot save their political fortunes
And, by the way, his approval ratings are
by distancing themselves from President Donald Trump, a
going up and up, and his agenda is very
conservative activist said Thursday.
popular."
Matt Schlapp, chairman of the American Conservative
The president's average approval rating in the
Union (ACU), told guest host Raymond Arroyo on “The
RealClearPolitics roundup has ticked up a percentage point
Laura Ingraham Show” that he learned this while working
or two since March. And the "generic" congressional ballot
for former President George W. Bush. The president’s
— while still favoring Democrats in the midterms — is
approval ratings sank lower and lower in his second term
less pronounced that it was last month.
amid growing discontent with the wars in Iraq and
Afghanistan.
Figures such as Sen. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) exemplify the
anti-Trump dissent within the GOP. But Schlapp said
Republican members of Congress faced a tough midterm
Corker is not running for re-election because there is no
election environment in 2006.
constituency among the rank and file for that sentiment.
“Republicans tried to flee from their
"It's tough for him, because he loves being
president,” he said. “And you know what,
a senator," he said. "But the people of
Raymond? In selected cases, maybe that
Tennessee don't love him being their
kind of works. But generally, that is a
senator."
terrible strategy.”

Schlapp ridiculed vows by Democrats to run on repealing

Maneuvering around Bush did not prevent Republicans
the tax cuts passed by Republicans last year.
from shedding 31 seats in the House of Representatives —
five in the Senate — and coughing up control of both
houses of Congress. "They've done that before, and the fact is
that this election is going to hinge on the
state of the economy," he said. "And it's not
"It's a huge mistake to think that it's gonna
the macro numbers that matter — where
pay off to distance yourself from the
the stock market is, what the GDP growth
president," Schlapp said. "He is the
is, although those are important as well.
president of the United States. He's the
What's really gonna matter, Raymond, is:
head of the Republican Party. You can't
Do individuals feel like they have greater
change that fact. And a lot of them out
opportunity?"

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Schlapp also backed the decision by retiring Speaker of the
House Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) to finish his term rather than
leave early to give the party a chance to pick a new leader
heading into the midterms.
"What Paul Ryan's doing is the right thing
… And the Republicans would make a big
mistake to have a big, bloody fight over
who will lead the party in the House before
the midterms. I don't think the American
people care that much about who the
leaders are."
.
For conservatives, Schlapp said, there is another advantage
to waiting. The election likely will remove moderate
Republicans from the Northeast, he said. While that likely
would narrow the Republican majority — assuming they
keep it at all — it would make the caucus more
conservative in 2019.
"That gives the most conservative
candidate a real shot to win," he said.

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 REPORT: McCabe ‘Criminally Referred’
To US Attorney Of DC
Saagar Enjeti - White House Correspondent
2:02 PM 04/19/2018

The Department of Justice inspector general has made a

criminal referral for former FBI deputy director Andrew
McCabe to the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia.

CNN’s Pamela Brown first reported the news.

The Washington Post confirmed CNN’s report.
A recently publicized IG report found that
“then-Deputy Director Andrew McCabe
lacked candor, including under oath, on
multiple occasions in connection with
describing his role in connection with a
disclosure to the WSJ.”
.
A spokesman for the DOJ IG declined The Daily Caller’s
request for comment on the matter.
“It may be referral is mandated but in my
experience many OIG investigative
conclusions are referred to US Attny’s Ofc
as matter of course for review. This type of
referral very uncommon for prosecution &
usually would be left up to agency for
admin action, of which could be none,”
national security attorney Mark Zaid said of
the report.

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 Federal Judge Raises Doubts
On Dirty Cop Mueller’s Scope
By Cristina Laila
April 19, 2018, 2:09 Pm
On Thursday, a federal judge raised
doubts on Mueller’s scope as
Manafort’s lawyers argued Rosenstein
never gave the special counsel specific
guidelines.
Instead, Deputy Attorney General Rod
Rosenstein gave Mueller permission to
rove around, effectively creating a
Soviet-style witch hunt of ‘show me the
man, I’ll show you the crime.’
Manafort has been charged with crimes
that date back to 2006 and have
NOTHING TO DO with Russian
collusion.
Mueller keeps the special counsel open
even though there never was a crime to
investigate and there never was
collusion between Donald Trump and
the Russians.
The federal judge did not issue a ruling
on Thursday after hearing arguments
from both sides.
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If the judge rules in favor of Paul
Manafort she could shut down the entire
Mueller witch hunt.
Josh Gershstein of Politico reported:
During a two-and-a-half hour hearing in
one of Mueller’s criminal cases against
former Trump campaign chairman Paul
Manafort, U.S. District Judge Amy Berman
Jackson questioned whether Deputy
Attorney General Rod Rosenstein’s
directive appointing Mueller granted him
more authority than Justice Department
regulations appear to permit.
Manafort’s lead defense attorney, Kevin
Downing, noted that the May 17 order
appointing Mueller grants him authority to
pursue the Trump-Russia probe as well as
other issues that “may arise” from that
investigation. Downing said that was at
odds with Justice’s rules, which say a
special counsel must be told of the “specific
factual matter” in his or her mandate.
“That’s a fair point,” Jackson said. “I don’t
think that, as good as he is, that the deputy
attorney general can see into the future.”
[…]
Jackson issued no ruling on the issue Thursday or on two
other defense motions to dismiss individual counts in the
indictment. However,
she did not seem persuaded that the
potential overbreadth of Rosenstein’s
order had actually resulted in any harm
to Manafort.
The judge said it seemed likely that that scrutiny of
Manafort’s business ties to Ukraine was already part of the
broader Trump-Russia investigation when Mueller was
appointed last May. She also suggested Manafort’s
activities in Ukraine would qualify as part of Mueller’s
announced mandate to look at all “links” between the Jarrett previously called for Rosenstein and “unethical
Trump campaign and the Russian government. Mueller” to resign.

An August 2017 memo from Deputy

Attorney General Rod Rosenstein to
Special Counsel Robert Mueller
surfaced a couple weeks ago in a court
filing.

Mueller used the memo to defend his

scope of the investigation against a
recent motion Manafort filed to dismiss
his case.

In the heavily redacted memo, Robert Mueller admits Gregg Jarrett also called for Mueller to resign in June of
Rosenstein’s order appointing him to Special Counsel was 2017 stating the special counsel has an egregious conflict
intentionally vague. of interest.

“This violates the special counsel law that

requires a specific statement of facts to be
investigated,” says Attorney Gregg Jarrett.
.

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 House Intel Chairman Says
Subpoenas Are Imminent For Comey Memos
Rep. Devin Nunes Is Growing Weary Of Continuing Delays And Excuses
By Department Of Justice, FBI Officials In Producing Documents
By Brendan Kirby
19 Apr 2018 At 2:25 PM
House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence
Chairman Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) is running out of
patience and said Thursday executive branch officials will
soon be hit with subpoenas to force compliance with a
request for copies of memos created by former FBI
Director James Comey.
Nunes’ panel, as well as House Judiciary Committee
chaired by Rep. Bob Goodlatee, (R-Va.) and the House
Committee on Oversight and Government Reform chaired
by Rep. Trey Gowdy, (R-S.C.), had asked the Department
of Justice (DOJ) to hand over the documents as part of
their review of Comey.
The chairmen earlier this week agreed to give Deputy
Attorney General Rod Rosenstein an extension until
Monday to hand over the memos. But Nunes said on “The
Laura Ingraham Show” that he believes more forceful
action will be necessary.
“At the end of the day, what’s going to have
to happen is we’re probably going to have
to issue a subpoena if they don’t come
here within, you know, in the next hour,” he
said. “That’s where we’re at.”
The memos, in part, detail Comey’s private interactions
with President Donald Trump. After the president fired
him last year, Comey used a Columbia University School
of Law professor to leak parts of those memos to The New
York Times.
Comey later testified before Congress that his intention
was to get a special counsel appointed to investigate
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Russian interference in the 2016 election and possible
coordination with the Trump campaign.
The strategy worked. But now House Republicans want to
examine the memos to determine whether they contained
classified information or if their release via Comey's
leaking violated DOJ rules.
Resistance by the department is part of a pattern dating
back more than a year, Nunes said.
“They never seem to learn,” he said. “They
never seem to get it … I have not found
them to be forthcoming with any
information.”
Nunes renewed his call for a special counsel to review the
actions of top officials at the FBI and the Justice
Department who participated in launching a
counterintelligence probe focused on allegations of
collusion between Trump's 2016 campaign and individuals
or groups linked to the Russian government.
That investigation was based, in part, on the so-called
dossier of unverified and salacious accusations against
then-candidate Trump. Christopher Steele, an ex-British
spy with an intense dislike of Trump, produced the
document for FusionGPS, an opposition research firm that
had been hired by the Democratic National Committee and
2016 Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton.
“The Department of Justice and the FBI,
they’re in no position to investigate
 themselves,” Nunes said. “And the more
that this goes on, the more they withhold
documents, the worse this gets.”
Nunes said his estimation of Comey has only sunk during
the former FBI director's whirlwind tour promoting “A
Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership,” his anti-
Trump book.
“Mr. Comey has said a lot of really crazy
things over the last year since he was
fired,” Nunes said. “And actually, the more
he talks, the more it comes out, you know,
.
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why he was fired. This is somebody who
didn’t have the temperament for the job, in
my opinion.”
Nunes blasted Comey for engaging in speculation —
without evidence — that Russian agents might have dirt on
the president.
“That’s totally inappropriate, because I
could say it’s certainly possible Russians
have dirt on all sorts of Americans … It’s
totally inappropriate for the FBI director,
former FBI director, to say stuff like this.”
 Rosenstein Told Trump He’s
Not A Target In Mueller Probe, Sources Say
By Jennifer Jacobs And Chris Strohm
April 19, 2018, 2:34 PM CDT Updated On April 19, 2018, 3:28 PM CDT
 Trump told associates he no longer needs to fire either
man
 Deputy attorney general volunteered assurance last week
Bloomberg’s Chris Strohm reports on Deputy AG
Rosenstein’s assurance to President Trump on the Mueller
probe.
Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein told President
Donald Trump last week that he isn’t a target of any part
of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation,
according to two people familiar with the matter.
Rosenstein, who brought up the Mueller probe himself,
offered the assurance during a meeting with Trump at the
White House last Thursday, a development that helped
tamp down the president’s desire to remove Rosenstein or
Mueller, the people said.
Rod Rosenstein - Photographer: Zach Gibson/Bloomberg
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After the meeting, Trump told some of his closest advisers
that it’s not the right time to remove either man since he’s
not a target of the probe. One person said Trump doesn’t
want to take any action that would drag out the
investigation.
The change in attitude by the president comes after weeks
of attacks on the special counsel and the Justice
Department, raising questions about whether he might take
drastic steps to shut down the probe.
The shift gives some breathing room for Mueller, as well
as Rosenstein, who has been criticized strongly by House
Republicans for being slow to comply with requests for
classified documents. Last week’s meeting was set up in
part to allow Rosenstein to assuage Trump’s frustration
with his decisions.
U.S. stocks pared their decline on the news. The S&P 500
Index closed down 0.6 percent in New York trading after
an earlier slump of as much as 1 percent.
Rosenstein’s message may have been based on a
technicality. Trump may not officially be a target, but
Mueller hasn’t ruled out making him one at some point in
the future, according to a U.S. official with knowledge of
the unfolding investigation.
‘Fairly Standard’
“I don’t know what it means. It is a fairly
standard part of any investigation -- trying
to decide whether a person you’re
encountering is a witness, a subject or a
target,” former FBI Director James Comey,
who was fired by Trump, said Thursday on
CNN when asked what Rosenstein’s
assurance to Trump means at this point.
A target is someone about whom an investigation and a
grand jury “developed significant evidence -- evidence
sufficient to charge,” Comey said.
Trump, who still hasn’t ruled out removing Rosenstein and
Mueller at some point, signaled his shift in approach to
them on Wednesday, responding to a reporter’s question
about their fate by saying they are “still here.”
 “They’ve been saying I’m going to get rid of
them for the last three months, four
months, five months,” Trump said at his
Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida.
“And they’re still here. We want to get the
investigation over with, done with, put it
behind us. And we have to get back to
business.”
The Justice Department declined to comment on
Rosenstein’s meeting with Trump, which was also
attended by White House General Counsel Don McGahn,
FBI general counsel Dana Boente, and White House Chief
of Staff John Kelly.
The moment echoes another conversation early in Trump’s
presidency, when he spoke with then-FBI Director Comey.
Comey’s Book
Back in March 2017, Comey told Trump he wasn’t a target
in the FBI’s investigation of Russian meddling in the 2016
election. Comey wrote in his new book, “A Higher
Loyalty,” that Trump repeatedly asked him to help lift
“the cloud” hanging over him by publicly announcing he
wasn’t under investigation.
Comey refused to make a public announcement, writing
that
.
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“the FBI and Department of Justice had
been reluctant to make public statements
that we did not have an open case on
President Trump for a number of reasons,
most important that it would create a duty
to correct that statement should that status
change.”
Ever since FBI agents raided the home and office of his
lawyer Michael Cohen earlier this month, Trump has been
egged on by some of his strongest supporters to strike back
at Mueller.
Court papers filed after the raid revealed that the U.S.
attorney’s office in the Southern District of New York has
been investigating Cohen for months, following a referral
from Mueller. That referral was approved by Rosenstein,
according to a person familiar with the matter.
In his remarks Wednesday, Trump called
the Mueller-led investigation “a hoax”
created by Democrats “to soften the blow
of a loss.”
“As far as the investigation, nobody has
ever been more transparent,” he said
during a news conference with visiting
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. “I
have instructed the lawyers, ‘Be totally
transparent.”’
— With assistance by Jennifer Epstein
 Department Of Justice
To Release Comey Memos To Congress
News Commentary By Jim E
April 19, 2018 3:44PM
Here we go!
The Justice Department has finally agreed to release the
fabled Comey memos to Congress. These memos, the
subject of which was the basis for Comey’s self-serving
memoir, supposedly contain information that’s damning of
President Trump.
More importantly, the memos were used to set up the
special counsel investigation, now being led by Robert
Mueller.
Comey deliberately leaked these memos to a friend. Now
we’re finally going to get to the bottom of what’s actually
within them.
Politico just reported:
The Department of Justice is expected to
send to Congress on Thursday afternoon
copies of former FBI Director James
Comey’s memos documenting his
interactions with President Donald Trump,
.
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according to a source familiar with the
department’s plans.
Comey has told lawmakers he drafted
seven memos detailing his encounters with
the president in person and on the phone.
He has also publicly claimed that he felt
pressured by Trump to back off the FBI’s
pursuit of an investigation into the Trump
campaign’s contacts with Russia as well as
into his former national security adviser,
Michael Flynn.
The memos are believed to be central to special counsel
Robert Mueller’s investigation into whether Trump or his
allies attempted to obstruct the Russia probe.
This could be big. Depending on what’s in these memos,
the Mueller probe could appear justified, or be revealed to
be a complete and utter farce. Whatever happens, Congress
will get a firsthand look at exactly what Comey was
thinking while dealing with President Trump.
I wouldn’t count on the substance of the memos to remain
a secret from the public for very long either.
 Rudy Giuliani In Talks
To Join Trump’s Legal Team
They’re Just Talks For Now.
Betsy Woodruff
04.19.18 3:56 PM ET
Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani has been in
talks to join the President Donald Trump’s personal legal
team, according to a person familiar with the matter. No
decision is currently final.
A slew of foreign policy matters which Trump has had to
deal with has slowed the process of expanding the
president's legal team, according the person familiar with
the matter. Trump’s time has been absorbed by North
Korea and Syria, which has limited his availability to
speak with potential new members of his legal team.
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Giuliani did not immediately return a request for comment.
But he is a close ally of the president, having campaigned
closely with him during the 2016 election. Giuliani gave
an impassioned speech in favor of Trump at the
Republican National Convention in Cleveland.
“What I did for New York City, Donald
Trump will do for America,” he said at the
convention. “I have known Donald Trump
for almost 30 years. And he has created
and accomplished great things. But beyond
that this is a man with a big heart. Every
time New York City suffered a tragedy,
Donald Trump was there to help.”
After Trump’s victory, however, Giuliani wasn’t selected
for any cabinet post, leaving him on the outside of an
administration he’d helped elect. Axios reported last
summer that Trump had considered replacing Attorney
General Jeff Sessions with Giuliani. But that too never
happened.
This is a developing story.
 Seriously!? Stormy Daniels’ Lawyer Explains
Why He Might Sue Donald Trump (Hint: It’s Sketchy)
By Doug P.
Posted At 4:26 Pm On April 19, 2018

As Twitchy told you yesterday, a sketch that Stormy So it’s come to this!
Daniels and her attorney say is a likeness of the man
Daniels claimed threatened her about a relationship with
Donald Trump caused the president to quote tweet
somebody who noticed a resemblance:

Just when you think the country’s out of sharks to jump,

along comes another.

The sketch also sparked all sort of speculation and snark

on Twitter, but Trump’s comment didn’t sit well with
Daniels’ attorney:

Where all this will be a couple weeks from now is

anybody’s guess.

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 LEAK: Rosenstein Tells POTUS He’s NOT A Target In
Mueller Witch Hunt… Trump Should
Never Trust This Man
By Cristina Laila
April 19, 2018, 3:55 Pm

Deputy Attorney General Rod

Rosenstein told President Trump last
week he is not a target of Mueller’s
witch hunt according to a new report by
Bloomberg.
This is the second leak from the special counsel claiming
Trump is not a target of Mueller’s probe.
Fox News is also reporting Rosenstein told Trump he is
not a target in the Michael Cohen investigation.

Separately, Fox News is reporting Rosenstein also told

Bloomberg reported:
Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein
told President Donald Trump last week that
he isn’t a target of any part of Special
Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation,
according to two people familiar with the
matter.
Rosenstein, who brought up the Mueller
probe himself, offered the assurance during
a meeting with Trump at the White House
last Thursday, a development that helped
tamp down the president’s desire to
remove Rosenstein or Mueller, the people
said.
After the meeting, Trump told some of his closest advisers
that it’s not the right time to remove either man since he’s
not a target of the probe. One person said Trump doesn’t
want to take any action that would drag out the
investigation.
More from Bloomberg (VIDEO):
Trump he is not a target in the Cohen investigation:
Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein
told President Trump last week that the
president is not a target in the Michael
Cohen investigation, and that the
investigation is focused solely on Cohen,
the president’s personal attorney, a source
familiar with the probe told Fox News on
Thursday.
Fox News Catherine Herridge has more details about
McCabe’s criminal referral, Comey’s memos and
Rosenstein telling Trump he’s not a target (VIDEO):
The Washington Post reported in early
April that special counsel Robert
Mueller notified President Trump’s
lawyers in March that their client is
currently not a criminal target in the
Russia probe.

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 Trump and his lawyers should never
trust Rosenstein or Mueller. Never.
Trump is still Mueller’s number one
target.
.
In an aggressive move, Rosenstein approved an FBI raid of
Trump’s personal lawyer and seized attorney-client
privileged communications.
Rosenstein and Mueller are dirty; they both need to be
fired and investigated.

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 Thanks Stormy! White Evangelical
Support For Trump At All-Time High
By Jim Hoft
April 19, 2018, 4:13 Pm

A new PRRI survey finds white evangelical support for

President Trump at an all-time high, with 75 percent
holding a favorable view of the president and just 22
percent holding an unfavorable view. This level of support
is far above support in the general population, where
Trump’s favorability is at 42 percent.

Once again, it appears the liberals have

overplayed their hand.

This is terrific!
Watch the liberal heads explode!

President Trump’s favorability with

white evangelicals is at an all-time
highs.

And this is after a solid month of

nothing but the liberal media flashing
busty Stormy Daniels on TV every night.

PRRI reported:

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 BREAKING UPDATE: Rudy Giuliani Joins Trump’s
Legal Team To ‘Negotiate An End’ To Mueller Witch Hunt
By Cristina Laila
April 19, 2018, 4:18 Pm
President Trump is looking to expand his legal team.
According to reports, Rudy Giuliani is in talks with Trump
to join is his legal team.
UPDATE: Rudy Giuliani has joined Trump’s legal
team!
This will galvanize the Trump base; Giuliani is loved by
Trump supporters.
The Daily Beast reported:
Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani
has been in talks to join the President
Donald Trump’s personal legal team,
according to a person familiar with the
matter. No decision is currently final.
A slew of foreign policy matters which
Trump has had to deal with has slowed the
process of expanding the president’s legal
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team, according the person familiar with
the matter. Trump’s time has been
absorbed by North Korea and Syria, which
has limited his availability to speak with
potential new members of his legal team.
Rudy Giuliani supported Donald Trump during the 2016
election and announced in April 2016 he would be voting
for Trump.
Trump supporters went wild after America’s Mayor threw
his support to Trump.
Update via WaPo:
Former New York mayor Rudolph W.
Giuliani, a combative former prosecutor
and longtime ally of President Trump, told
The Washington Post on Thursday that he
has joined the president’s legal team
dealing with the ongoing special counsel
probe.
“I’m doing it because I hope we can
negotiate an end to this for the good of the
country and because I have high regard for
the president and for Bob Mueller,” Giuliani
said in an interview.
Giuliani, who joins a legal team that has struggled to
recruit new members to its ranks, said he has been
speaking with Trump for weeks about joining the group of
legal advisers. He said he would work alongside Trump’s
current attorneys, Jay Sekulow and Ty Cobb, who focus on
the federal investigation into Russian interference in the
2016 presidential election. He also said he will soon take a
leave from his law firm, Greenberg Traurig.
Giuliani said he formalized his decision in recent days,
including over dinner last week at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago
resort in Florida.
Giuliani and Trump spoke on Thursday about legal
strategy moving forward, along with Sekulow, who
Giuliani described as a “good friend.” He added that he
and Cobb spoke on Wednesday.
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The Daily Caller reported two other former federal
prosecutors will also be joining Trump’s legal team.
The husband-and-wife team of Martin and Jane Raskin are
the two other attorneys to join Trump’s team, which is
being led by Jay Sekulow. The Raskins, who operate a law
firm in southern Florida, have worked in various U.S.
attorney’s offices as well as at Justice Department
headquarters in Washington, D.C.
Story is developing…
 Dirty Cop McCabe Responds To Criminal Referral
By Cristina Laila
April 19, 2018, 5:07 Pm

On Thursday it was revealed Inspector Administration, the US Attorney’s Office will

General Michael Horowitz sent a conclude that it should decline to
criminal referral for former FBI Deputy prosecute.”
Director Andrew McCabe to the US
Attorney’s office about the FBI’s Newsweek reporter Max Kutner provided the statement:
investigation into the Clinton
Foundation.

Andrew McCabe responded to the criminal referral

through a spokesman.

This is not a good week for McCabe.

McCabe’s spokesman said in response to the criminal
referral from IG Horowitz:
“We were advised of the referral within the
past few weeks. Although we believe the
referral is unjustified, the standard for an IG
referral is very low.
“We have already met with staff members
from the US Attorney’s office. We are
confident that, unless there is inappropriate
pressure from high levels of the
Rep. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) is also asking
the Department of Justice to investigate
several Obama officials: Hillary Clinton,
James Comey, McCabe and Loretta
Lynch for possible crimes.
DeSantis and 10 other lawmakers sent a letter to the DOJ
Wednesday,criminally referring Comey, Hillary Clinton,
McCabe and Loretta Lynch for their investigations into
Trump.

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 Trump SLAMS McCabe And Comey Over IG Report
‘Getting A Little Of Their Own Medicine?’
By Cristina Laila
April 19, 2018, 6:28 Pm

It’s the battle of the crooked cops.

James Comey threw McCabe under the
bus in an interview with CNN’s Jake
Tapper Thursday.

Shortly after CNN aired the Tapper interview with Comey,

President Trump blasted the two crooked cops.

On Thursday, James Comey sat down for an interview Trump tweeted:

with CNN’s Jake Tapper.
James Comey just threw Andrew McCabe
Comey told Tapper he could be a potential witness against “under the bus.” Inspector General’s Report
McCabe. on McCabe is a disaster for both of them!
Getting a little (lot) of their own medicine?
When asked if he could be a witness, Comey responded,

“Sure, given that the IG’s report reflects

interactions that Andy McCabe had with me
and other senior executives, I could well be
a witness.”
“I think it is accountability mechanisms
working,” Comey added. “It is not
acceptable in the FBI or the Justice
Department for people to lack candor. It’s On Thursday it was revealed Inspector
something we take really seriously.” General Michael Horowitz sent
a criminal referral for former FBI Deputy
The Office of Inspector General released a scathing report Director Andrew McCabe to the US
on McCabe last week claiming he “lacked candor,” (lied) Attorney’s office about the FBI’s
including under oath several times.
investigation into the Clinton
Foundation.
Video of Comey-Tapper interview:
This is not a good week for McCabe.
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 Rep. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) is also asking
the Department of Justice to investigate
several Obama officials: Hillary Clinton,
James Comey, McCabe and Loretta
Lynch for possible crimes.
.
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DeSantis and 10 other lawmakers sent a letter to the DOJ
Wednesday,criminally referring Comey, Hillary Clinton,
McCabe and Loretta Lynch for their investigations into
Trump.
Comey, McCabe and Loretta Lynch are all beginning to
throw each other under the bus as the truth comes out
about their criminality.
 Nadler Releases New Report On Oversight Efforts
Apr 19, 2018
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today, following House
Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Jerrold Nadler’s
(D-NY) participation in a bipartisan forum at Georgetown
Law entitled, “Congressional Oversight of the DOJ and
FBI in the Trump Era,” he released a new report detailing
Committee Democrats’ efforts to conduct proper oversight
of the Trump Administration.
Below are excerpts from Ranking
Member Nadler’s remarks at the forum,
as prepared for delivery:
“Instead of real oversight, we now live in a
time when the Administration appears to be
actively coordinating with Members of the
Majority to stymie Congressional and DOJ
investigations. The results of these attacks
and lack of oversight have taken their toll.
Fifteen months into the Trump
Administration, we stand on the verge of a
constitutional crisis.
“Depending on the day of the week, the
President is threatening to fire the Attorney
General, the Deputy Attorney General, and
the Special Counsel. The president may
also be signaling that pardons are in the
offing for anyone who could testify against
him. He criticizes individual judges, refers
to the press as “the enemy of the people,”
and calls for his political opponents to be
prosecuted and jailed.
“Although Democrats don’t control the
gavel, we have done everything in our
power to force the Majority to act, or at the
very least, to create accountability where
they fail to act. Significantly, these
oversight efforts help lay the predicate for
action if Democrats retake the House
majority in the fall. Notwithstanding our
best efforts in the Minority, it is clear far
more needs to be done immediately. For
the good of our Democracy, we need to do
everything in our power to protect the
integrity and independence of the
Department of Justice and the FBI, and we
need to do so as soon as possible.”
As the report documents, since the 2016 presidential
election, House Judiciary Committee Democrats have
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remained committed to pursuing active oversight of the
executive branch. In ordinary times, under the leadership
of either party, the Committee would have focused its
attention on election security, enforcement of federal
ethics rules, obvious breaches of the Foreign Emoluments
Clause of the Constitution, allegations of obstruction of
justice, and preserving the independence of the
Department of Justice, among other matters.
But these are not ordinary times. Although any one of
these subjects should command the attention of the House
Judiciary Committee, President Trump appears to have
failed the country on all of these fronts at the same time.
And although the Committee has an obligation to address
these pressing issues without delay, the Republican
majority has refused to conduct any meaningful oversight
of the Trump Administration.
Committee Democrats have hoped to force action by
writing letters to the Administration and House leadership,
holding and participating in forums, forcing votes on
resolutions of inquiry, releasing reports, and introducing
legislation. Unfortunately, nearly all the letters sent by our
Members have received no response, and all of our
resolutions of inquiry have been rejected by the Majority.
The silence speaks to an Administration run amok and a
Republican majority willing to turn a blind eye to gross
misconduct. Significantly, these oversight efforts help lay
the predicate for action by the Committee if the Democrats
retake the House majority in the fall.
Ranking Member Nadler has proposed that Congress take
several immediate actions to restore accountability and
protect DOJ and FBI from undue interference, including
passing the Special Counsel Integrity and Independence
Act, ensuring that subpoenas are approved by committee
members and limiting misuse of assertions of executive
privilege.
House Judiciary Committee Democrats’ oversight efforts
include the following:
 Sent 64 letters to the Administration
 Sent 6 letters to the Inspector General of the
Department of Justice
 Sent 39 letters to the House Judiciary Committee and
House Majority Leadership
 On 4 occasions moved to convene special committee
meetings and floor activity
 Sent 12 letters to outside entities
 Held and participated in 14 Democratic forums
 Released and assisted with 11 reports
 Requested 6 Government Accountability Office
reports
 Introduced and supported 5 Resolutions of Inquiry
 Introduced 2 censure resolutions
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 Introduced 35 oversight-related bills and resolutions
 Led one lawsuit against the President for his violation
of the Foreign Emoluments Clause with over 200 co-
plaintiffs
 Led 15 amicus briefs
The full report is on next page.
Read Nadler’s remarks at the forum follow report.
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 Nadler Statement At Georgetown University Law Center
Forum On “Congressional Oversight Of The DOJ
And FBI In The Trump Era”
Apr 19, 2018
I would like to make a few points at the outset.
First, oversight of the Department of
Justice and the FBI is incredibly
important, especially under President
Trump.
There are few tasks in our government more critical than
ensuring the fair and impartial administration of justice.
Second, we live in a time when both the
DOJ and the FBI are under attack by the
President and the Congressional
Majority.
It’s impossible to recount all of Mr. Trump’s assaults on
the Department, but in just the last week, he asked why
former FBI Director Comey has not gone to jail, and
tweeted that Former Deputy FBI Director McCabe was
“totally controlled by Comey - McCabe is Comey!! No
collusion, all made up by this den of thieves and lowlifes!”
and that “Much of the bad blood with Russia is caused by
the Fake & Corrupt Russia Investigation, headed up by the
all Democrat loyalists, or people that worked for Obama.”
This assault has been aided and abetted by the Majority in
Congress. This February for the first time in our history the
House Intelligence Committee released classified
information, over the strenuous objection of the
Department of Justice and the FBI, which had “grave
concerns” and described the memo’s release as
“extraordinarily reckless.” The Memo’s release was
blessed by the Speaker of the House who subsequently
called for a “cleanse” of the FBI.
Third, the Administration has made it
next to impossible for the Minority to
engage in meaningful oversight.
Last summer Politico reported that, “At meetings with top
officials for various government departments this spring,
Uttam Dhillon, a White House lawyer, told agencies not to
cooperate with [oversight] requests from Democrats.” It’s
no wonder that we have received no substantive responses
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to the more than 60 oversight letters we have sent to the
Administration.
Instead of real oversight, we now live in
a time when the Administration appears
to be actively coordinating with
Members of the Majority to stymie
Congressional and DOJ investigations:
 It is by now well known that the phony “tip” Intelligence
Chair Nunes received to substantiate Mr. Trump’s false
claim that he was wiretapped by President Obama
came from the Trump White House.
 President Trump has made numerous calls to
Members of Congress, including Senate Intelligence
Chair Burr, asking them to end their Russia
investigations.
 House investigations in my own committee as well as
in the Oversight and Intelligence Committees are now
principally focused on investigating dubious and
unsubstantiated charges involving DOJ and the FBI,
initiated by Mr. Trump, Fox News, or both.
 Staunch Trump allies Rep. Mark Meadows and Jim
Jordan are now threatening to impeach Deputy
Attorney General Rosenstein.
 Last night Judiciary Chairman Goodlatte informed me
that he intends to issue a unilateral subpoena to Mr.
Rosenstein, which could be laying the predicate for
holding him in contempt or be used to justify his firing.
The results of these attacks and lack of
oversight have taken their toll. Fifteen
months into the Trump Administration,
we stand on the verge of a
constitutional crisis.
The DOJ and FBI have become political punching bags,
with career officials like Mr. Campbell demoralized and
heading to the exits. Corruption and conflicts are rampant
– including at the EPA, HUD, HHS, Interior and the White
House itself.
Depending on the day of the week, the
President is threatening to fire the
Attorney General, the Deputy Attorney
 General, and the Special Counsel. The
president may also be signaling that
pardons are in the offing for anyone who
could testify against him. He criticizes
individual judges, refers to the press as
“the enemy of the people,” and calls for his
political opponents to be prosecuted and
jailed.
Although Democrats don’t control the gavel, we have done
everything in our power to force the Majority to act, or at
the very least, to create accountability where they fail to
Act.
Today I am issuing an Interim Report
entitled, “A Record of Abuse,
Corruption, and Inaction: House
Judiciary Democrats’ Efforts to
Document the Failings of the Trump
Administration” which details the
myriad actions we have taken thus far.
Among other things, we have:
 Sent 39 oversight letters to the Majority – nearly all
without response; and introduced 35 oversight-related
bills – also without response.
 Sent six letters requesting Inspector General Reports
and initiated 7 GAO investigations, led 15 Amicus
briefs, and brought our own lawsuit (along with nearly
200 Members and Senators) to require the President to
comply with the Emoluments Clause.
 Hosted or co-hosted 11 Democratic Forums; released
and assisted in 11 Minority Reports; and introduced
two censure resolutions.
 Introduced 5 Resolutions of Inquiry and invoked our
rights under House Rules to attempt to bring relevant
legislation to the House Floor (pursuant to two
discharge petitions); markup legislation in Committee
and bring the Committee into Executive Session
(pursuant to House Rule XI).
Our efforts have focused on election security, enforcement
of federal ethics and conflict of interest rules, breaches of
the Foreign Emoluments Clause, allegations of obstruction
of justice, and preserving the independence of the
Department of Justice, among other matters.
Committee Democrats have hoped to initiate action by
writing letters to the Administration and House leadership,
holding and participating in forums, forcing votes on
resolutions of inquiry, releasing reports, and introducing
legislation. Unfortunately, nearly all the letters sent by our
Members have received no response and all of our
resolutions of inquiry have been rejected by the Majority.
The silence speaks to an Administration run amok and a
Republican majority willing to turn a blind eye to gross
misconduct. Significantly, these oversight efforts help lay
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the predicate for action if Democrats retake the House
majority in the fall.
Notwithstanding our best efforts in the Minority, it is clear
far more needs to be done immediately.
I believe Congress needs to take several
common sense actions right now to
protect the integrity of the Department
and help restore accountability to our
government:
1. Pass the Special Counsel Independence and Integrity
Act – This bipartisan legislation will be marked up next
week in the Senate Judiciary Committee today and has
over 100 cosponsors in the House. It is not a cure all,
but it would provide urgently needed safeguards to
make sure the Special Counsel is not subject to
arbitrary or unjustified firing.
2. Return to Regular Order on Oversight – We have
gotten out of practice of doing oversight. With only a
few months left in the legislative session, our
committee has held no oversight hearings of the
criminal division, none for the antitrust division, none
for the civil rights division, and none with the Secretary
of Homeland Security. It also goes without saying that
any Administration needs to respond to oversight
requests of both parties, whether they are in the
Majority or not.
3. Committees Should Vote on Subpoenas – When I
came to Congress, it was unheard of for Chairmen to
issue unilateral subpoenas. Lately it has become the
rule, not the exception, preventing Members on both
sides of the aisle from being able to participate in this
critical oversight function.
4. Limit hypothetical assertions of Executive Privilege – In
this Congress, witnesses have been widely permitted
to avoid answering committee questions merely by
claiming the President may someday, somehow want
to assert executive privilege. There is no effort to
reach an accommodation to protect Congressional
interests and no effort to force the president to actually
assert the privilege or produce a privilege log. In
essence, accepting such an expansive view of
executive privilege provides current and former
Administration officials with a cost free “get out of jail
free card.”
5. Enforce Rules Limiting Communications between the
White House and DOJ – Current White House policy
limits communications involving DOJ to matters
involving national security or those defending
Administration policies. There have been numerous
documented instances when this policy has not been
followed, including when the White House Chief of Staff
attempted to convince the Department not to challenge
the Nunes memo. I would suggest that White House
Counsel McGhan learn to enforce his own rules or find
a new line of work.
 One of our Nation’s founding principles
is that no person – not even the
president – is above the law.
We rely on an independent law enforcement function
within the Department of Justice to preserve that
principle. In my view, that principle is at grave risk today
not only because of the misguided actions of the President,
but because we in Congress have not acted to protect it.
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For the good of our Democracy, we
need to do everything in our power to
protect the integrity and independence
of the Department of Justice and the
FBI, and we need to do so as soon as
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 BREAKING UPDATE: Congressional
Committees Have Received Comey Memos
By Cristina Laila
April 19, 2018, 6:35 Pm
Faced with the threat of subpoena, the
Justice Department is expected to send
Comey’s unredacted memos to
Congress later Thursday.
The deadline passed several days ago prompting Rep
DeSantis to call for contempt charges against Rosenstein.
This article was updated at 8:30 PM EST.
The Daily Beast confirmed the Justice Department is
finally complying with the oversight committee’s request
and will be sending Comey’s memos to Congress today or
tomorrow.
Comey penned 7 memos stemming from 9 conversations
with President Trump.
The fired FBI Director admitted to leaking contents of the
memos to the New York Times through a friend in order to
prompt a special counsel investigation into Trump.
CNN’s Jake Tapper also reported the Comey memos
would be available to Congress later today.
The Daily Beast confirmed the Justice Department is
finally complying with the oversight committee’s request
and will be sending Comey’s memos to Congress today or
tomorrow.
Comey penned 7 memos stemming from 9 conversations
with President Trump.
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The fired FBI Director admitted to leaking contents of the
memos to the New York Times through a friend in order to
prompt a special counsel investigation into Trump.
CNN’s Jake Tapper also reported the Comey memos
would be available to Congress later today.
On Sunday House Judiciary Chairman
Rep. Bob Goodlatte (R-VA) told Maria
Bartiromo on Sunday Morning Futures
that the House was ready to take
action against the DOJ if the requested
Comey memos from the FBI.
The documents were already passed by
Comey to the media but Congress does
not have a copy yet.
Congress needs to impeach these DOJ
crooks.
On Monday night the deadline passed
and the Sessions Department of Justice
had still not turned over the unredacted
Comey memos to Congressional
investigators.
The oversight committee has requested unredacted
documents so if the DOJ hands over redacted memos,
expect a firestorm and contempt charges to follow.
Comey was taunted on Twitter.
Update: Fox News reporter Brooke Singman confirms both
House Judiciary and House Oversight Committees have
the Comey memos.

Page 2:
The DOJ has turned over both a
redacted and unredacted versions of
Comey’s memos.

Screenshot of letter from DOJ to Oversight and House

committees:

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 BREAKING: FBI Admits Comey Memos —
THAT HE LEAKED — Were Classified Material!
By Jim Hoft
April 19, 2018, 7:45 Pm

Therefore, pursuant to your request, we are

providing the requested memoranda in
both the redacted and unredacted formats
for your convenience. Consistent with
your request, we are providing an
unclassified version of the documents
redacted to remove any classified
information.

The DOJ wrote Congressional leaders this evening.

The FBI turned over the Comey memos to Congress today

after missing their deadline earlier in the week.

Congressional leaders threatened to impeach deep state

leaders if they continued to stall on the memos.

Fired FBI Chief James Comey wrote about the memos in

his book and leaked the documents to reporters last year.
Congress has not yet had a chance to look at the memos —
Until tonight.

AND—– THE MEMOS ARE CLASSIFIED!

Meaning Fired FBI Chief James Comey
leaked CLASSIFIED DOCUMENTS TO
THE PRESS.

From the report:

From the DOJ to Congress:

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 HERE THEY ARE=>
Complete Memos Of Comey’s Meetings With
Trump Published Online
By Cassandra Fairbanks
April 19, 2018, 8:46 Pm
Redacted memos written by disgraced former FBI Director
James Comey were published online on Thursday evening.
Comey penned seven memos stemming from nine
conversations he had with President Donald Trump during
his time at the FBI.
The 15-page document was provided to Congress by the
Justice Department on Thursday.
The memos discuss Trump’s former national security
adviser, Michael Flynn. In his notes, Comey claims that
Trump had complained to him about the general’s
judgement.
“The guy has serious judgment issues,”
Comey claimed to recall the president
saying.
“I did not comment at any point during this
topic and there was no mention or
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acknowledgment of any FBI interest in or
contact with General Flynn,” Comey wrote.
Comey also wrote that Trump told him,
“I need loyalty.”
“I replied that he would always get honesty
from me,” Comey wrote. “[Trump] paused
and said that’s what he wants, ‘honest
loyalty.’ I replied, ‘you will get that from
me.'”
“It is possible we understood that
phrase differently,” Comey added, “but I
chose to understand it as consistent
with what I had said throughout the
conversation: I will serve the President
with loyalty to the office, the country,
and the truth. I decided it would not be
productive to push the subject further.”
Comey also recalled Trump wanting him to investigate the
infamous dossier to disprove it.
On Sunday House Judiciary Chairman Rep. Bob Goodlatte
(R-VA) had told Maria Bartiromo on Sunday Morning
Futures that the House was ready to take action against the
DOJ if the requested Comey memos from the FBI were not
provided.
2018-4-19 Comey Memo – Enclosure Unclassified by Fox
News on Scribd starts on next page.
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Breaking: Comey Lied About Never Seeing Trump Laugh:
His Own Memo Records That Trump Laughed
By Kristinn Taylor
April 19, 2018, 8:47 Pm
Fired FBI Director James Comey made big headlines this
week with his observations in his book, A Higher Loyalty,
and in interviews that he has never seen President Donald
Trump, the man who fired him, laugh. However this has
turned out to be a big lie by Comey as his own memo
(dated January 7, 2017) of a private conversation he had
with then President Elect Trump on January 6, 2017 at
Trump Tower shows Comey wrote he saw Trump laugh at
Comey’s mention of Russian prostitutes in the now
infamous Russian Dossier.
Comey in his book, as reported by People with the
headline, James Comey Says President Trump Never
Laughs and Is ‘Deeply Insecure’ in Explosive New
Memoir:
“I don’t recall seeing [Trump] laugh, ever.
Not during small talk before meetings. Not
in a conversation. Not even here, during an
ostensibly relaxed dinner,” writes Comey.
“I suspect his apparent inability to do so is
rooted in deep insecurity,” he adds later,
“his inability to be vulnerable or to risk
himself by appreciating the humor of
others, which, on reflection, is really very
sad in a leader, and a little scary in a
president.”
In his interview with ABC News’ George Stephanopoulos,
as reported by CNN with the headline, James Comey says
Donald Trump never laughs. Is he right?.
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STEPHANOPOULOS: You notice
something else — during that dinner. You
say the President didn’t laugh.
COMEY: Yeah, not at all. And I was struck
by it. So struck by it, it stayed with me, that
I’ve never seen him laugh. Not in public,
not in private. And at a dinner with
someone — I mean, I’m not a comedian
but I occasionally say something that’s
funny that people chuckle with each other.
But I never saw anything that resembled a
laugh. And I could over-interpret that, I
could be — also, we’re missing something
that — that maybe he’s — he’s breaking up
in stitches with other people other than the
FBI director, but I also tried — after I got
fired, I thought — that stayed with me. And
so I went and tried to find examples of
videos where he’s laughing and I could
only find that really wasn’t a genuine
laugh.”
From Comey’s memo on the January 6, 2017 meeting with
Trump (posted to Document Cloud by the AP):
…(Previous sentence redacted) “I said the
Russians allegedly had tapes involving him
and prostitues at the Presidential Suite at
the Ritz Carlton in Moscow from about
2013. He interjected, “there were no
prostitutes, there were never prostitutes.”
He then said something about him being
the kind of guy who didn’t need to “go
there” and laughed
(which I understood to be communicating
that he didn’t need to pay for sex. He said
“2013” to himself, as if trying to remember
that period of time, but didn’t add anything.
He said he always assumed that hotel
rooms he stayed in when he travels are
wired in some way. I replied that I do as
well.”
Here is a screengrab from the Comey memo:
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“David Remnick gave a stellar interview

UPDATE: This evening as the memos were released,
Comey was still promoting his big lie:
for @NewYorker radio hour interview
with @Comey tonight “laughter is
suggests a balance of confidence &
humility; I never saw Trump laugh” ��� –
at Town Hall”

“James @Comey says he never

remembers seeing Trump laugh: “It struck
me because I think that laughter is a tell
that a person has a certain level of
confidence and humility.”
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