Despite their championing of a mysterious memo alleging impropriety by the President of the United States, it’s easily challenged by the simple fact that acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe testified to the Senate last week that there has been no interference in their investigations by the Trump administration.
Since the Washington Post’s report Monday that President Trump shared classified information with the Russian ambassador during an Oval Office meeting last week, the major media seems to smell blood in the water. Over the last 24 hours, almost every interview with Democratic politicians has included a question about whether we’re getting closer to impeaching the president.
Under the law, Comey is required to immediately inform the Department of Justice of any attempt to obstruct justice by any person, even the President of the United States. Failure to do so would result in criminal charges against Comey. (18 USC 4 and 28 USC 1361) He would also, upon sufficient proof, lose his license to practice law.
“He has the power to tell them what to do,” said Dershowitz, but since the president also was the only person who could have fired Comey, it’s not clear if he obstructed justice if he suggested to Comey to “go soft” on former National Security Agency Director Michael Flynn, as Comey has suggested and written in a memo.
JONATHAN TURLEY:This isn’t going to be real popular, but I don’t think so. My family has been pressing me on this. It’s sort of like going across-country with them and saying, are we there yet? Are we there yet? Everyone wants to reach that point. You say, I can still see our house. It’s only been 150 days or so since the inauguration. The fact is, I don’t think this makes out an obstruction case.
“Having served as Assistant Minority Counsel to the late Senators Howard Baker and Fred Thompson, it borders on the absurd to hear the comparisons from a gaggle of politicians and pundits between Watergate and the firing of the FBI Director by President Trump. Leaving aside that numerous Democrats have themselves ‘demanded’ the firing of Comey and that Comey himself notes that the FBI Director can be fired for ‘no reason’ at all, the comparisons are not only blatant partisan nonsense, they diminish the historic process which lead to President’s Nixon’s resignation in the summer of 1974,” Michael Madigan, former assistant minority counsel on the Watergate Committee said Wednesday.
Russian President Vladimir Putin said Wednesday he’s ready to turn over transcripts of President Trump’s meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, as he mocked the news media furor in the U.S. over alleged intelligence sharing.
I’m just going to warn you … you are about to nuke several brain cells by watching this video.
Donald Trump recently called for term limits for members of Congress. It’s an idea that has become far more popular over the past decade than it used to be. The Founders always envisioned government service to be temporary, not a career. Americans have always been comfortable with the status quo because they thought they could just vote anyone they don’t like out. However, after decades of very unpopular politicians retaining their seats, people started to wonder how it was possible unpopular politicians could stay in office. Turns out, it wasn’t just tribalism. The party apparatus that exists disproportionately benefits incumbents regardless of popularity. Furthermore, the party leadership further impacts who will get money, support, and infrastructure for reelection.
If you vote the way party leadership wants you to vote, you’ll have their help in your reelection bid. If you don’t, they’ll throw you to the wolves, and replace you with someone who will fall in line with the establishment.
Enter the conventional media. They deem themselves the gatekeepers of knowledge. One must only look at ‘It’s not news, it’s’ CNN’s Chris Cuomo’s recent comments that only media was allowed to look at Wikileaks documents. He actually claimed it was illegal for you to read them. FYI, it isn’t, and he’s an idiot. It’s not all that unlike the old church doctrine that only the clergy were allowed to look at, read, and interpret the Bible. The media see themselves as your elites. They are better, smarter, more informed than you could ever hope to be.
The reality … often they are little more than eye candy devoid of substance, knowledge, or comprehension of the issues they discuss. They rely on AP wire service scripts, and guests to get through their shows.
Enter CNN’s Brooke Baldwin (yes, another CNN amoeba). She had a panel on to discuss Trump’s call for term limits. It’s at that point, I actually blacked out from lack of oxygen by laughing at her. It’s ok though, I watched the video several more times to ensure I really heard what I heard.
Keep in mind, she’s a featured face on CNN covering politics on a regular basis. This isn’t another example of bias media covering for Hillary, or a simple error while doing live TV (it happens to all of us). This is genuine confusion wrapped with a sanctimonious smirk of self-confidence. She had no idea she was making an idiot of herself.
Full credit goes to the other three panel members for not bursting out laughing at her on live TV. Dana Bash did the best she could to ramble on and on and on in an effort to both distract herself from what she’d just heard on her network, and cover for Baldwin.
Bottom left square looks like he’s not even cognizant of what’s going on around him, and bottom right square looks like it took all the effort in the world to hold back his laughter. Thus causing his face to look as if he was sniffing a brutal fart the whole segment.
The second video in James O’Keefe’s Project Veritas investigation of the 2016 election reveals what O’Keefe describes as “Democratic Party operatives tell[ing] us how to successfully commit voter fraud on a massive scale.”
On Sunday afternoon, Trump tweeted, “This election absolutely is being rigged by the dishonest and distorted media pushing Crooked Hillary–but also at many polling places–SAD.”
Wikileaks said Tuesday that Secretary of State John Kerry asked Ecuador to stop WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange, from publishing leaked emails that could disrupt peace negotiations with a guerrilla group in Colombia.
As Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton routinely breached security and diplomatic protocol, according to an FBI interview with a professional who served on Clinton’s protective detail.
Nearly all of that money — more than 96 percent — has benefited Clinton: About 430 people who work in journalism have, through August, combined to give about $382,000 to the Democratic nominee, the Center for Public Integrity’s analysis indicates.
An unnamed State Department staffer disclosed to the FBI that Hillary Clinton and her staff took lamps and furniture from the State Department to furnish Clinton’s D.C. residence, according to FBI documents.
“Every allegation by Patriot Majority USA against the Indiana State Police is completely false. In fact, it is clear from evidence documented to date that we have uncovered intentional acts of fraud by representatives of Patriot Majority USA,” said Captain David Bursten, Chief Public Information Office for the Indiana State Police.
A judge on Friday dismissed a wrongful-death lawsuit by Newtown families against the maker of the rifle used in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting massacre, citing an embattled federal law that shields gun manufacturers from most lawsuits over criminal use of their products.
Hillary Clinton responded to the dismissal of the suit by calling it “incomprehensible” and reaffirmed her determination to change laws so that crime victims can sue gun manufacturers.
It's incomprehensible that our laws would protect gun makers over Sandy Hook families. We need to fix this. https://t.co/96uBe92wPi
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One frustrated driver sought to drive slowly through the crowd of protesters, apparently hoping they would clear a path, but the students merely banged on and shattered a portion of his windshield.
The goal of “bird-dogging”: to create a sense of “anarchy” around Donald Trump that would undermine his political support. Often, the tactic uses the most vulnerable people — including the elderly and disabled — to maximize shock value.
An attorney for Richard L. Campbell, the man accused of punching a protester outside a Donald Trump rally in Asheville, North Carolina, last month tells Breitbart News that a new video produced by James O’Keefe’s Project Veritas showing a Democratic consultant claiming responsibility for the incident should exonerate her client.
A senior State Department official proposed a “quid pro quo” to convince the FBI to strip the classification on an email from Hillary Clinton’s server – and repeatedly tried to “influence” the bureau’s decision when his offer was denied, even taking his plea up the chain of command, according to newly released FBI documents.
