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hows team america doing here?

saving the motherfcking day yeah!!
 
Another lie by Pruitt exposed.

EPA chief Scott Pruitt did meet lobbyist linked to condo lease, despite denials

Environmental Protection Agency chief Scott Pruitt met in his office last year with a veteran Washington lobbyist tied to the bargain-priced condo where Pruitt was living.

Both Pruitt and lobbyist Steven Hart had previously denied Hart had conducted any recent business with EPA.

A spokesman for Hart confirmed on Saturday that the lobbyist met Pruitt at EPA headquarters in July 2017 to discuss efforts to preserve the Chesapeake Bay.

The admission about the meeting came after the lobbying firm Williams & Jensen filed a new disclosure report late on Friday, hours after Hart announced his early retirement as chairman. The firm’s filing, first reported by the Hill, says Hart lobbied EPA during the first quarter of 2018 on behalf of Smithfield Foods.
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Scott Pruitt is the target of no less than 10 federal investigations

The feds are really, really curious about what Scott Pruitt’s been up to.

As the controversies surrounding the EPA chief have mounted in recent weeks, so have the federal investigations. Now, the EPA’s internal watchdog has lots of questions for Pruitt, as does the top federal ethics watchdog, and the House Oversight Committee, led by Republican Trey Gowdy.

There are at least 10 federal investigations focused on Pruitt’s first-class travel, unusually large security detail, frequent association with lobbying interests, pay raises for staffers, and, somehow, more.
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Michael Cohen case shines light on Sean Hannity's property empire

When Sean Hannity was named in court this week as a client of Donald Trump’s embattled legal fixer Michael Cohen, the Fox News host insisted their discussions had been limited to the subject of buying property.

“I’ve said many times on my radio show: I hate the stock market, I prefer real estate. Michael knows real estate,” Hannity said on television, a few hours after the dramatic hearing in Manhattan, where Cohen is under criminal investigation.

Hannity’s chosen investment strategy is confirmed by thousands of pages of public records reviewed by the Guardian, which detail a real estate portfolio of remarkable scale that has not previously been reported.

The records link Hannity to a group of shell companies that spent at least $90m on more than 870 homes in seven states over the past decade. The properties range from luxurious mansions to rentals for low-income families. Hannity is the hidden owner behind some of the shell companies and his attorney did not dispute that he owns all of them.

Dozens of the properties were bought at a discount in 2013, after banks foreclosed on their previous owners for defaulting on mortgages. Before and after then, Hannity sharply criticised Barack Obama for the US foreclosure rate. In January 2016, Hannity said there were “millions more Americans suffering under this president” partly because of foreclosures.

Hannity, 56, also amassed part of his property collection with support from the US Department for Housing and Urban Development (Hud), a fact he did not disclose when praising Ben Carson, the Hud secretary, on his television show last year.
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The 'deep state' is real. But are its leaks against Trump justified?
America doesn’t have coups or tanks in the street. But a deep state of sorts exists here and it includes national security bureaucrats who use secretly collected information to shape or curb the actions of elected officials.

Some see these American bureaucrats as a vital check on the law-breaking or authoritarian or otherwise illegitimate tendencies of democratically elected officials.

Others decry them as a self-serving authoritarian cabal that illegally and illegitimately undermines democratically elected officials and the policies they were elected to implement.
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What? I thought the deep state/permanent state/cabal is supposed to be a conspiracy theory/myth?

Looks like they are going from that straight to "it is good for you, you just don't know it".
 
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Perhaps you missed the word "Opinion" on that page. I know, it's easy to do, it's the very first word in the article, appearing even before the title. And who doesn't want to dive right into an article that purports to support their world view?

Except this thread is still in News and Current Affairs, so when you post "opinion" and treat it as "fact", you seem more silly than usual, Techne.
 
Shame, you really get triggered by some opinions. All huffy and puffy and pulling out the standard tried and failed lefty tactic of "muh you stooopid". Carry on:crylaugh:.
Here is another newsworthy opinion. Careful.
 
buka001 said:
Surprise. Trump lied about the 2013 Miss World contest in Russia.

Flight records show that he spent a night in Moscow. Something which he denied.

https://www.bloomberg.com/amp/news/...ump-s-moscow-nights?__twitter_impression=true
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He's denied it, and Cohen denied it. But Keith Schiller testified in Congress that he was there. Derp.

And Michael Cohen dropped his lawsuit against BuzzFeed, which he instituted because he claimed they repeated the claim that he'd been in Prague (was in the dossier, which they reported on). He dropped it after it came out he was there.
 
OrbitalDawn said:
He's denied it, and Cohen denied it. But Keith Schiller testified in Congress that he was there. Derp.

And Michael Cohen dropped his lawsuit against BuzzFeed, which he instituted because he claimed they repeated the claim that he'd been in Prague (was in the dossier, which they reported on). He dropped it after it came out he was there.
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I wonder why all these people are denying it?
 
Hamish McPanji said:
Because they are innocent until proof emerges otherwise

....or they forgot again
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They actually went through their media trials long ago. They are all guilty. Nobody cares about the Russia conspiracy nonsense.
 
Hamish McPanji said:
How can you say that. They forgot is the right answer
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They have to say they forgot because some conservatives still live in the 70's were the cold war is still going full steam for them.
Can't have them siding with the libtards if Trump is openly friendly with the Russians, which has been the goal of all the propaganda in the media.
4d chess.
 
rietrot said:
They have to say they forgot because some conservatives still live in the 70's were the cold war is still going full steam for them.
Can't have them siding with the libtards if Trump is openly friendly with the Russians, which has been the goal of all the propaganda in the media.
4d chess.
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Wait, the story has changed?!! The original story was they genuinely forgot. Now the story is that they deliberately said they forgot because blah.

Am sure there were a few other stories, but they were shifting so often, I think I forgot what they were
 
cerebus said:
You think nobody cares if the pee tape is real? Interesting.
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Well maybe some idiots do. But they shouldn't if Trump paid women to pee on them and they accepted the money good for them. Consenting adults and all that.
 
rietrot said:
Well maybe some idiots do. But they shouldn't if Trump paid women to pee on them and they accepted the money good for them. Consenting adults and all that.
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If the tape existed and got out, Trump's presidency would be ruined. He would become a public laughingstock and he would probably resign in total disgrace. I can't imagine anything more humiliating for the USA than to have a broadcast video of their president engaging in an act like that.
 
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