Washington Merry-Go-Round

Warren's ridiculous attack on Trump judges falls flat

2020-01-23T15:59:00.000-05:00

Speaking at a forum in Iowa on Sunday, Warren attacked Trump’s executive branch appointments, quickly zeroing in on his judicial picks. “I think what’s at the heart of it is who you ask to be a judge,” Warren told the crowd gathered in advance of the Iowa caucuses. “And I’ll tell you what the answer has been for Donald Trump, cause I’ve seen these guys,” Warren added, “Homophobic, that’s in. Racist, that’s in. Sexist, oh yeah, most definitely. And anti-voter. That’s been a big qualification. He has named one person after another.”

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These Traitors To America Have Some Explaining To Do: Their Seditious Conspiracy To Overthrow Our Sitting President & Launch This National Nightmare Is Nothing Less Than Treason

2020-01-22T12:37:00.001-05:00

Adam Schiff was so very upset about Devin Nunes informing the President and his administration that they were being surveilled by the leftists, but showed no concern over Schiff’s leaking to the New York Times throughout the Russian collusion hoax. There has been nothing more than silence from Schiff as he acted like a sycophant for both Obama and Hillary. For years his "incontrovertible evidence" that Trump colluded with Russia has been proven to be nothing more than lies to hurt the Trump administration. Refusing to bring this "evidence" forward is nothing more than the lies of a narcissistic self-centered liar who will never admit to the wrongdoing or lies that not only damaged the Trump administration but advanced the divisiveness within our country.

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'People will sit at home': Sanders supporters threaten to boycott election if Democrats pick Biden

2020-01-21T10:46:00.001-05:00

Sanders backers fret the socialist Vermont senator, 78, is being consistently ignored and underestimated by Beltway insiders and a Washington-based press corps — the same bunch, in their view, who failed to predict Trump's 2016 White House win and were sure Hillary Clinton, who beat Sanders for the Democratic nomination, would easily prevail.

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Reality: Majority of Democrats are not liberal

2020-01-20T11:56:00.002-05:00

A major pollster reveals that the Democratic Party is not a bastion of unyielding liberalism. The Pew Research Center offers demographic details that could be of interest to such grassroots organizations as Black Voices for Trump, Black Republicans Activists, Latinos for Trump, GOP Latinos, plus the WalkAway Campaign, a national group which supports disenchanted Democrats who want to “walk away” from their party.

Here are the telling numbers: moderates and conservatives make up 51% of all Democratic voters while 47% of those Dem voters are liberal. This could spell a GOP opportunity in 2020, a year when every vote will count.

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Impeachment Without Class Politics: An Autopsy

2020-01-17T15:18:00.000-05:00

The impeachment proceedings are boring and will result in nothing — but they could have looked much different if the Democrats had pursued an impeachment focused on Trump’s flagrantly corrupt emoluments. The problem is, many House Democrats are incredibly rich themselves and don’t want to anger wealthy donors.

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Pelosi prepares to send articles of impeachment to Senate, speculates about Mitch McConnell's Russia connections

2020-01-14T15:33:00.000-05:00

This does seem pretty out of touch with reality. It’s almost as if Pelosi didn’t get the message from the Mueller report and now she’s ready to spread the collusion smear to new partisan targets. Perhaps she could get the FISA Court to approve some surveillance of McConnell’s associates? All she needs is some salacious rumors from a partisan source and the FBI will probably push it through three or four times. It’s not like the FISA Court was serious about reforming the process.

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How the Zionists won the body but lost the soul of US politics

2020-01-13T15:14:00.000-05:00

"AIPAC's mission," as they put it resoundingly, "is to strengthen, protect and promote the US-Israel relationship in ways that enhance the security of Israel and the United States. Our staff and citizen activists educate decision-makers about the bonds that unite the United States and Israel and how it is in America's best interest to help ensure that Israel is safe, strong and secure." And a vast propaganda machinery is at the disposal of AIPAC to spread the word.

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25 Lies Liberals Will Tell You

2020-01-09T09:19:00.004-05:00

1) Everything we need to know about global warming can be learned from a 16-year-old girl with Asperger’s and a famously ignorant former bartender who was just elected to Congress.
2) Of all the people we could have influencing children in our society, it makes the most sense to have drag queens reading to kids in libraries.
3) If you like your doctor or your healthcare plan, you can keep them AND it will cost $2,500 less per year for a family! Trust us!
4) Only bad people engage in cultural appropriation, which is why all of us should live in caves and carry sticks around lest we accidentally use something that our culture adopted from another two hundred years ago.

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Graham gives Pelosi ultimatum, proposes Senate rule change to remove her from impeachment process

2020-01-06T15:07:00.000-05:00

Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., insisted Sunday that if House Speaker Nancy Pelosi does not deliver articles of impeachment against President Trump to the Senate by the end of the week, the Senate should "take matters in our own hands."

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Appeals Court Hears Arguments in Trump’s Bid to Block McGahn Testimony

2020-01-04T09:48:00.002-05:00

A federal appeals court on Friday heard oral arguments in a dispute between Congress and the Trump administration over the subpoena demanding that former White House counsel Don McGahn testify before the House Judiciary Committee.

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Rep. Omar Vows To 'Step In And Stop Trump' After Soleimani Killed

2020-01-03T11:16:00.000-05:00

"So what if Trump wants war, knows this leads to war and needs the distraction? Real question is, will those with congressional authority step in and stop him? I know I will."

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Durham Investigation Puts CIA Director Gina Haspel On Notice

2020-01-02T12:33:00.000-05:00

CIA Director Gina Haspel is the latest Intelligence official to reportedly be dragged into John Durham’s investigation of the Russia probe. On Friday, Politico reported Haspel may have information on former CIA Director John Brennan, who served under the Obama administration.

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Republican Senate will turn on Trump — they too are up to their eyes in Ukraine crime and don’t want witnesses exposing them

2020-01-01T09:37:00.000-05:00

While the McCain club of Republican Senators led by McConnell and Graham up to their ears with Joe Biden in the pro-E.U anti-Russia pro-obama-McCain-Brennen pro-corruption pro-second-Jewish homeland at the site of ancient Khazaria coup in Ukraine that was so rewarding to Hunter Biden and sons of other US Democrat legislators, while all these have crimes and conspiracies to hide, so that neither Senate Republicans nor Democrats want a Senate trial where non-corrupt House Republican defenders of the president ask free ranging relevant questions of Schiff’s whistle blower that Schiff forbade republicans from questioning or the whistleblowers 6 sources whose identities are still kept from Republicans along with any opportunities to question them on their stories.

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US Congress Authorises $5 Mln Prize Competition to Help Pentagon Tackle Deepfakes

2019-12-31T10:25:00.000-05:00

The US Congress has approved an annual defence policy bill authorising up to $5 million in cash prizes for a competition to find a way to automatically detect deepfake technology, which allows fabricated images, sounds and videos to look like real ones, the intelligence defence publication website C4ISRNET reports.

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The ‘Deep State’ and the Impeachment Conspiracy

2019-12-30T08:31:00.000-05:00

Ever since the impeachment bandwagon got rolling in September, anything said in defense of President Trump is automatically dismissed by Democrats and their media allies as either (a) “Republican talking points,” (b) “Russian propaganda” or (c) a “conspiracy theory.” The self-evident purpose of this rhetoric is to delegitimize the president’s defenders as either dishonest partisans, agents of a foreign enemy, or purveyors of paranoid delusions. It is impermissible, by the rules of the game as played on CNN and in other “mainstream” media outlets, to ask whether or not such accusations are more properly directed at Democrats. Are they never guilty of partisanship? Didn’t Democrats spend three years promoting a “collusion” conspiracy theory? And why is it that Russia is the only foreign power whose influence deserves our vigilance?

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FISA Court Warned Multiple Times For Years About FISA Abuse and Yet Did Nothing Until Now Proving It's Another Corrupt Obama Institution

2019-12-29T10:04:00.000-05:00

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Rogers’ Cooperation With Durham Team the ‘Biggest Single Development’ in Case, Here’s Why

2019-12-27T09:23:00.000-05:00

https://www.redstate.com/elizabeth-vaughn/2019/12/26/digenova-calls-mike-rogers-cooperation-durham-team-biggest-single-development-heres/?utm_source=rsmorningbriefing&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&bcid=8669d0fc2af5c2bedbe03e793662256b

British Ex-Spy Christopher Steele Shared More Anti-Trump Fake Conspiracy Theories With the FBI

2019-12-26T12:19:00.001-05:00

https://pjmedia.com/trending/british-ex-spy-christopher-steele-shared-more-anti-trump-fake-conspiracy-theories-with-the-fbi/

Court Documents Suggest Dems Want To Impeach Trump A SECOND TIME

2019-12-25T06:52:00.000-05:00

https://summit.news/2019/12/24/court-documents-suggest-dems-want-to-impeach-trump-a-second-time/

That walking pile of human waste, Adam Schiff, has no sympathy for the hell Carter Page was put through

2019-12-23T09:00:00.000-05:00

https://thenationalsentinel.com/2019/12/22/that-walking-pile-of-human-waste-adam-schiff-has-no-sympathy-for-the-hell-carter-page-was-put-through/

FBI Agent Who Played ‘Significant’ Role In Surveillance Abuse Wore Several Hats In Trump Probe

2019-12-13T09:00:00.000-05:00

The Justice Department inspector general’s report on FBI surveillance of the Trump campaign offers a damning assessment of the bureau’s handling of the Steele dossier, and its investigation of Carter Page.
Among those deemed “primarily responsible” for the “most significant” errors in the investigation is “Case Agent 1.”
The agent, who still works for the FBI, played a key role in several aspects of Crossfire Hurricane, including handling an FBI informant, interviewing a source for the dossier, and applying for warrants to spy on Page.

“Case Agent 1” wore many hats during the Trump-Russia investigation.

The veteran FBI counterintelligence investigator was a handler for Stefan Halper, a Cambridge academic who met covertly with three Trump campaign advisers 2016. Case Agent 1 opened the case file, known as an Electronic Communication, on Trump campaign adviser Carter Page in August 2016. He was also the main driver at the FBI for surveillance warrants on Page, and he was put in charge of verifying each strand of evidence included in the documents. He interviewed Page, a former Naval officer, five times in March 2017, and also met in January 2017 with Christopher Steele’s main source for information in the infamous Trump dossier.

Case Agent 1 is also one of the main villains in the Justice Department inspector general’s (IG) report on the FBI’s handling of the Trump-Russia probe, known as Crossfire Hurricane.

“Case Agent 1 was primarily responsible for some of the most significant errors and omissions in the FISA applications,” Michael Horowitz, the inspector general, said in a scathing report laying out a series of missteps in the FBI’s handling of Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA)

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Lindsey Graham: Carter Page Should ‘Sue The Hell Out Of’ FBI And DOJ

2019-12-12T10:00:00.000-05:00

Republican South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham said Wednesday he hopes that Carter Page “sues the hell” out of the FBI and Justice Department for relying on the unverified Steele dossier to obtain surveillance warrants against the former Trump campaign aide.

Graham was speaking at the opening of a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing to go over a Justice Department inspector general’s report that found the FBI misled the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court in order to obtain spy warrants on Page.

The FBI relied heavily on information from former British spy Christopher Steele to assert that there was probable cause to believe that Page was a Russian agent. Steele, a former British spy who worked for the DNC and Clinton campaign in 2016, alleged that Page was part of a “well-developed conspiracy of cooperation” involving the Trump campaign and Russia.

But the inspector general’s office found evidence that raised questions about both Steele’s credibility and the reliability of the ex-spy’s dossier sources.

Graham highlighted those aspects of the report and questioned why the FBI did not re-evaluate its investigation of Page after receiving information that undercut the dossier.

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Christopher Steele ‘Meticulously’ Recorded Source Who Disavowed Dossier Claims, Lawyers Say

2019-12-11T10:00:00.000-05:00

Christopher Steele “meticulously” documented and recorded interactions with a key source for his infamous Trump dossier, lawyers for the former British spy said Tuesday in a lengthy response to the Justice Department inspector general’s report on the FBI’s handling of the Russia probe.

The report, released Monday, poked holes in the dossier, and revealed that a primary source for Steele disavowed some of the information in the salacious document.

The source, whom FBI agents interviewed multiple times between January and May 2017, said Steele exaggerated or misrepresented information in his dossier, which the FBI cited extensively in applications for surveillance warrants against Carter Page.

FBI interviews with the source “raised significant questions about the reliability of the Steele election reporting,” according to the inspector general’s (IG) report.

The source, who is identified only as “Primary Sub-Source,” told FBI agents Steele’s dossier asserted there was evidence to support the claim that the Kremlin had blackmail video of Donald Trump in Moscow with prostitutes. But Steele’s source told the FBI that the information was based on “rumor and speculation,” and had not been verified.

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FBI Failed To Disclose That Carter Page Was ‘Operational Contact’ For CIA, Was Given ‘Positive Assessment’

2019-12-10T10:30:00.000-05:00

The FBI failed to inform surveillance court judges that Carter Page was an “operational contact” for the CIA for years, and that an employee at the spy agency gave the former Trump aide a “positive assessment,” according to a Justice Department report released Monday.

The finding is included in a list of seven of the FBI’s “significant inaccuracies and omissions” in applications for Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrants against Page, a longtime energy consultant who joined the Trump campaign in March 2016.

The report said the FBI “omitted” information it obtained from another U.S. government agency about its prior relationship with Page.

The agency approved Page as an “operational contact” from 2008 to 2013, according to the report.

“Page had provided information to the other agency concerning his prior contacts with certain Russian intelligence officers, one of which overlapped with facts asserted in the FISA application,” the report stated.

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Joe Biden Claims Ignorance On His Son’s Conflicts Of Interest With Burisma

2019-12-09T10:00:00.000-05:00

Former Vice President Joe Biden said in an interview Friday that he was never warned about potential conflicts of interest involving his son’s position with a Ukrainian energy company — a claim that conflicts with what a former Obama administration official told The New Yorker earlier this year.

“Nobody warned me about a potential conflict of interest. Nobody warned me about that,” Biden told NPR when asked about his discussions while vice president involving his son Hunter Biden’s position with Burisma Holdings.

Joe Biden’s denial conflicts with what a former Obama administration official told The New Yorker for a story published on July 1.

Amos Hochstein, who served as the Obama administration’s special envoy for energy policy, told The New Yorker he raised concerns about Hunter Biden’s position with the former vice president in December 2015.

Questions about potential conflicts of interest were also widely covered in the press in 2014 and 2015. A New York Times report from Dec. 8, 2015 asserted that Hunter Biden’s work for Burisma may have “undermined” his father’s anti-corruption message toward Ukraine.

“Now you look at the Hunter Biden situation, and on the one hand you can credit the father for sending the anti-corruption message,” Edward Chow, an expert on Ukrainian policy at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, told The Times. “But I think unfortunately it sends the message that a lot of foreign countries want to believe about America, that we are hypocritical about these issues.”

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