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OrbitalDawn said:
The collusion is ongoing...

NSA chief: Trump 'has not ordered disruption of Russia election meddling'
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Fake News, or at least, your interpretation is fake news.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presiden...ntial-advisory-commission-election-integrity/

https://www.cnet.com/news/ag-sessions-cyber-task-force-will-tackle-us-tech-troubles-mueller/

Not that I care all that much, personally I find it funny to watch Trump whip up the froth so that it goes exactly where he wants it to go. :D
 
The click-bait frenzied media and the twerps feeding on them can be abused so easily.
Great show, good entertainment.
 
Attorney General Jeff Sessions said Tuesday that the Department of Justice inspector general will be investigating the agency’s use of the FISA court to obtain a spy warrant against former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page.

“We believe the Department of Justice must adhere to the highest standards in the FISA court, and yes it will be investigated, and I think that’s just the appropriate thing, the Inspector General will take that as one of the matters he’ll deal with,” Sessions told reporters at a press briefing Tuesday.

House Republicans have alleged that the DOJ and FBI provided inaccurate and incomplete information in four applications for FISA warrants against Page.

They say that the applications relied heavily on the dossier but failed to disclose that the Clinton campaign and Democratic National Committee funded the unverified document.

Democrats have countered by pointing out that the FISA applications disclosed the FBI “speculated” that the dossier was paid for by a politically-motivated client.
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http://dailycaller.com/2018/02/27/sessions-fisa-abuse/

About time...
 
Roger Stone's Secret Messages with WikiLeaks

On March 17, 2017, WikiLeaks tweeted that it had never communicated with Roger Stone, a longtime confidante and informal adviser to President Donald Trump. In his interview with the House Intelligence Committee last September, Stone, who testified under oath, told lawmakers that he had communicated with WikiLeaks via an “intermediary,” whom he identified only as a “journalist.” He declined to reveal that person’s identity to the committee, he told reporters later.

Private Twitter messages obtained by The Atlantic show that Stone and WikiLeaks, a radical-transparency group, communicated directly on October 13, 2016—and that WikiLeaks sought to keep its channel to Stone open after Trump won the election. The existence of the secret correspondence marks yet another strange twist in the White House’s rapidly swelling Russia scandal. Stone and Trump have been friends for decades, which raises key questions about what the president knew about Stone’s interactions with Wikileaks during the campaign.
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Oh look, they lied.
 
Tough day for Kushner.

Kushner’s overseas contacts raise concerns as foreign officials seek leverage

Officials in at least four countries have privately discussed ways they can manipulate Jared Kushner, the president’s son-in-law and senior adviser, by taking advantage of his complex business arrangements, financial difficulties and lack of foreign policy experience, according to current and former U.S. officials familiar with intelligence reports on the matter.

Among those nations discussing ways to influence Kushner to their advantage were the United Arab Emirates, China, Israel and Mexico, the current and former officials said.
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Kushner loses access to top-secret intelligence

Presidential son-in-law and adviser Jared Kushner has had his security clearance downgraded — a move that will prevent him from viewing many of the sensitive documents to which he once had unfettered access.
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Ben Carson’s HUD, Planning Cuts, Spends $31,000 on Dining Set for His Office

Department of Housing and Urban Development officials spent $31,000 on a new dining room set for Secretary Ben Carson’s office in late 2017 — just as the White House circulated its plans to slash HUD’s programs for the homeless, elderly and poor, according to federal procurement records.

The purchase of the custom hardwood table, chairs and hutch came a month after a top agency staff member filed a whistle-blower complaint charging Mr. Carson’s wife, Candy Carson, with pressuring department officials to find money for the expensive redecoration of his offices, even if it meant circumventing the law.
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Swampy.
 
http://thegatewaypundit.com/2018/02...eals-russians-bragged-bribing-clintons-video/

The lawyer for FBI informant William Campbell said that her client has told congressional committees that the Russians “bragged that the Clintons’ influence in the Obama Administration would ensure CIFUS (Committee on Foreign Investments in the United States) approval for [the] Uranium One deal.” […]

Before CIFUS, on which Secretary of State Hillary Clinton sat, approved the Uranium One deal, nine investors in Uranium One gave the Clinton Foundation a combined total of $145 million.

The deal called for the United States to allow Russia to purchase 20 percent of our uranium reserves, giving Russia access to vastly more uranium than we have.
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Swampy deluxe.
 
Trump says Florida police should have taken away the Stoneman Douglas shooter's guns "whether they had the right or not."

"I like taking the guns early," President Trump says. "Take the guns first, go through due process second."
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Can't wait for the MAGAheads falling over themselves to Trumpsplain this one and still pretend that it's totally about peoples' rights!

And Huckabee Sanders to explain what he 'really' meant is not at all what he said, as usual.

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This is excellent.

Trump says they should add an assault weapons ban to the Manchin-Toomey bill. Feinstein and Klobuchar loving it, Pence sitting stone faced. :crylaugh:

https://twitter.com/ryanstruyk/status/968952338898591744
 
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“In 2013, Rep. Adam Schiff wanted to give the President power to appoint FISA judges. Today, I filed that legislation & would encourage him to join me to advance bipartisan legislation. If it was good enough to give Obama these powers, it’s good enough to give Trump these powers,” Gaetz said.

“I’d encourage the gentleman from California to join me as a co-sponsor so that we can find bipartisan solutions to improve the FISA process,” Gaetz said.
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http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/201...s-adam-schiff-house-floor-fullofschiff-video/

:crylaugh:
 
Hope Hicks resigns as White House communications director

Hope Hicks, the White House communications director and longtime aide to Donald Trump, has announced her resignation.

The White House confirmed news of Hicks’ departure on Wednesday, one day after Hicks testified before the House intelligence committee for nine hours as part of the panel’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.
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Kushner’s Business Got Loans From Companies After White House Meetings

Early last year, a private equity billionaire started paying regular visits to the White House.

Joshua Harris, a founder of Apollo Global Management, was advising Trump administration officials on infrastructure policy. During that period, he met on multiple occasions with Jared Kushner, President Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser, said three people familiar with the meetings. Among other things, the two men discussed a possible White House job for Mr. Harris.

The job never materialized, but in November, Apollo lent $184 million to Mr. Kushner’s family real estate firm, Kushner Companies. The loan was to refinance the mortgage on a Chicago skyscraper.

Even by the standards of Apollo, one of the world’s largest private equity firms, the previously unreported transaction with the Kushners was a big deal: It was triple the size of the average property loan made by Apollo’s real estate lending arm, securities filings show.

It was one of the largest loans Kushner Companies received last year. An even larger loan came from Citigroup, which lent the firm and one of its partners $325 million to help finance a group of office buildings in Brooklyn.

That loan was made in the spring of 2017, shortly after Mr. Kushner met in the White House with Citigroup’s chief executive, Michael L. Corbat
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Handy timeline:

https://twitter.com/MichaelSLinden/status/969032605143326720

1) Trump promises to close the carried interest tax loophole that benefits private equity
2) Apollo (private equity firm) founder starts meeting with Jared Kushner
3) Kushner receives huge loan from Apollo
4) Trump reverses position on carried interest loophole
 
https://www.nationalreview.com/2018...vestigation-fisa-abuse-david-french-analysis/

A couple of questions:

Is Mueller's indictments of those Russian trolls legally valid? If so, what do you call Steele's lying to the FBI? What do you call the fact that the Clinton campaign didn't actually disclose its financing of the Steele Dossier in light of the fact that Steele is a British (supposedly ex) spy who attempted to influence an election by getting dirt from Russian intelligence?
 
Senate Intelligence Leaders Say House G.O.P. Leaked a Senator’s Texts

The Senate Intelligence Committee has concluded that Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee were behind the leak of private text messages between the Senate panel’s top Democrat and a Russian-connected lawyer, according to two congressional officials briefed on the matter.

Senator Richard M. Burr of North Carolina, the committee’s Republican chairman, and Senator Mark Warner of Virginia, the top Democrat, were so perturbed by the leak that they demanded a rare meeting with Speaker Paul D. Ryan last month to inform him of their findings. They used the meeting with Mr. Ryan to raise broader concerns about the direction of the House Intelligence Committee under its chairman, Representative Devin Nunes of California, the officials said.

To the senators, who are overseeing what is effectively the last bipartisan investigation on Capitol Hill into Russia’s interference in the 2016 election, the leak was a serious breach of protocol and a partisan attack by one intelligence committee against the other.
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This might get interesting. Although at present it's basically just another thing to add to the 'Paul Ryan is a spineless coward' and 'Nunes is an obvious Trump toadie' lists.
 
Trump's massive new tariffs will hurt US businesses and consumers

On Thursday, President Donald Trump said that he would soon announce protective tariffs on metals – 25% on imported steel and 10% on imported aluminium.

He brought a whole bunch of steel and aluminium executives to the White House for the announcement, and I’m sure they were happy, because this tariff is going to protect them from foreign competition and allow them to charge higher prices.

Unfortunately, this policy is bad news for virtually everyone else in the US. It’s even bad news for the manufacturing sector that Trump thinks he is protecting.

Despite the myth that US manufacturing is in decline – and despite the very real decline in manufacturing employment – US industrial output is nearly double what it was 30 years ago. Very often, American manufacturers are in the business of making things out of steel and aluminium.

Metal tariffs will hurt American manufacturers that use steel and aluminium by raising their cost for inputs. That will discourage investment and growth, reducing both corporate profits and job creation.

And what if you’re a consumer who buys things made out of steel and aluminium – cars, appliances, canned beer? This policy is going to make you poorer. It will make prices higher, and you won’t get an offsetting wage increase unless you happen to work in steel manufacturing, which you probably do not.

Those problems are all before we even consider the possible effects of retaliatory trade actions – other countries may raise their own tariffs on American exports, which would cost jobs here.

This policy is bad for US business as a whole, which is why its announcement caused stock prices to fall – except steel and aluminium stocks, which went up.
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