[Daily Caller] Republican South Carolina Rep. Trey Gowdy said on Fox News Tuesday night that the Clintons’ "entanglements" with the Department of Justice run much deeper than the average viewer may know.
On Fox News’ "The Story," Gowdy cryptically told host Martha McCallum that he believes "history will be much kinder to Jim Comey in that July press conference than the Democrats were."
"I think he had access to information that, because he is a stand-up guy he’s not gonna disseminate classified information (though God knows everybody else is)...so all your viewers see is this meeting on the tarmac," he explained.
"Jim Comey had access to additional information that I am convinced left him with no other choice but to make the decision he made in July," Gowdy said.
#1
The Sky Harbor meet was a Bill Clinton future Hildebeest administration job offer, more commonly known as a bribe.
Lynch knows it's a bribe, obstruction of justice or collusion (or has the appearance of a bribe, obstruction of justice or collusion), but is caught btwn a rock and a hard place. Courses of action available:
a. Make an official report of the event to the congress and recommend a special prosecutor? Trash the former president and the Hillary Clinton election over a (he said-she said) at Sky Harbor Airport ?
b. Don't report the event and go easy on the Clinton's as requested, only later to be seen as facilitating the Sky Harbor Bill Clinton obstruction, bribe or reward ?
c. Recuse herself, hand the Clinton issue to her deputy? But for what reason, and to what potential future outcome ?
Lynch goes to Comey for advice, probably Soetoro as well. Hey guys, WTF do I do? Comey recognizes her dilemma which is somewhat like his own. Comey is already reluctant to recommend charges on the mounting evidence against Clinton, and destroy her run for office. Soetoro tells Comey "I've got your back on this one, I think you know what to do."
On 5 July 2016 Comey then takes out the trash of two presidents, an AG, and the democratic party, lifts the decision burden from Lynch.
Bill Clinton smiles. Nothing can be proven. Mission accomplished. Soetoro hits the links. Lynch's lackluster career is programmed to slip into obscurity. On 10 July 2016 Democratic campaign worker Seth Rich is found murdered.
#7
I wonder what it would take for Gowdy "not to stop just short"? It seems like part of the problem with the Clintons is that far too many people have "stopped just short" and as the result, the Clintons have continued to skate for decades. Perhaps it is out of a fear of the Clintons as there is an unusually high number of unusual deaths around the Clintons.
[Daily Caller] Mayor Mike Signer--who had declared his intention to make Charlottesville, Virginia, the "capital of the resistance" to President Trump and a sanctuary city "to protect immigrants and refugees"--is refusing to protect a symbol saluting one of America’s greatest men.
Yes, Robert E. Lee was a great American.
If Signer knew the first thing about human valor, he’d know that there was no man more valorous and courageous than Robert E. Lee, whose "two uncles signed the Declaration of Independence and [whose] father was a notable cavalry officer in the War for Independence."
The battle flag of the Army of Northern Virginia--known as "Lee’s Army"--is not to be conflated with the "Stars and Bars," which "became the official national flag of the Confederacy." According to Sons of the South, the "first official use of the ’Stars and Bars’ was at the inauguration of Jefferson Davis on March 4, 1861." But because it resembled the "Stars and Stripes" flown by the Union, the "Stars and Bars" proved a liability during the Battle of Bull Run.
Skipping to last para:
Born in New York (confirmation of which Sergey Brin’s Google search is reluctant to cough up), steeped in Berkeley and Princeton--Mayor Mike Signer is nothing but a carpetbagger.
#1
Lee was a complex man and unlike this idiot mayor, actually changed with the times.
After the surrender, he was a full supporter and vocal advocate for the North's policies.
He didn't want to grant the vote to the freed slaves right away, but not from racism. He pushed for them to be educated at the landed elites expense so they would be on an equal footing with the whites when they did vote and become full citizens so their ignorance wouldn't be taken advantage of.
Needless to say, his plan didn't happen. I often wonder what the south and the US would look like if he plan was put into action.
#2
Such horseshit. I often wonder when the enlightened masses are going to come after my alma mater, Washington & Lee University, named after 'Saint Bob' (and George Washington) and of which he was president for 5 years immediately following the end of the Civil War. For the record, he took the job expressly to heal the wounds of the North and South through education. Those jackwads in Charlottesville should know better.
#3
I don't think anyone should be calling Robert E. Lee an "American Hero". He might have been an incredible military man, and had super patriotic uncles and father, but he was a military leader in an armed rebellion against the United States of America which is treasonous by most definitions.
Call him a hero of the south, a military hero, whatever you want but "American Hero" doesn't sound right.
#7
After reading the "Civil War Trilogy" by Shelby Foote I completely changed my opinion of Lee. When he knew the Civil War was lost he continued to fight which killed many more Union and Confederate soldiers that had no reason to die. Do you know that many of the Politicians who voted for Secession said that they were opposed to it while campaigning?
[Daily Caller] The New York Times reported on Tuesday that President Trump allegedly asked former FBI Director James Comey to shut down the investigation into former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn. The source of the allegation is a memorandum, revealed by an anonymous source, allegedly prepared by Comey regarding a meeting in the Oval Office the day after Flynn was forced to resign for misleading the Vice-President.
While the headline is sensational, The New York Times’s report is self-contradictory at times, conflicts with statements made on-the-record and under oath, overhypes the substance of the memorandum, and is irreconcilable with other information in the public record.
First, the report concedes that the Times has not "viewed a copy of the memo," despite the fact that the Times says memo itself "is unclassified." If the memo is unclassified, then that raises several questions. Why did the Times not press the source for a copy of the memo? Why did the Times not seek a copy through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) before publishing? If it was truly unclassified, then the Times stood a decent chance of having the memo released.
Second, if Times’s story is true and what President Trump did amounted to obstruction of justice, then Acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe likely committed perjury. Before Comey was fired, McCabe was the Deputy Director of the FBI, one of four "senior staff" positions and also the Bureau’s second-in-command. The Times report alleges that Comey "shared the existence of the memo with senior F.B.I. officials and close associates," which means that McCabe knew about the memo on May 11 when he testified before the Senate Intelligence Committee about the Russia investigation. During his testimony, Senator Marco Rubio and McCabe (who was under oath) had the following exchange:
#1
The radical left and their ass kissing beltway establishment will not allow anyone but them in power. To hell with democracy as far as these tyrants are concerned.
[Wash Times] Ohio Gov. John Kasich said during a joint CNN town hall Tuesday with Vermont Sen. Bernard Sanders that his instincts were right about President Trump.
Mr. Kasich, who unsuccessfully ran against Mr. Trump in last year’s Republican presidential primary, said the allegations that Mr. Trump shared Israeli intelligence about the Middle East with the Russians is "a very, very serious matter."
"I don’t like people that say, ’I told you so,’ but you both know how much pressure, criticism and heat I took because I was the one Republican who would not endorse Donald Trump," he told CNN’s Dana Bash and Jake Tapper.
[Real Scoop] Tillerson is saying the Washington Post’s report is RONG!!
"During President Trump’s meeting with Foreign Minister Lavrov, a broad range of subjects were discussed among which were common efforts and threats regarding counter-terrorism," Tillerson told reporters at the White House Monday evening. "During that exchange the nature of specific threats were discussed, but they did not discuss sources, methods or military operations."
National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster attended the meeting and also pushed back against the reports of Trump’s comments to Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak.
NSA McMaster has already denied it and so has his Deputy NSA Dina Powell.
[Independent] Two women travelling on an American Airlines flight have claimed members of staff were "racist" towards one of them.
Rane Baldwin, who is African American, was flying with friend Janet Novack, who is white, from Kentucky to Charlotte when the incident occurred on 2 May.
Baldwin - an AAdvantage Platinum Select/World Elite cardholder - had purchased the two tickets and decided to upgrade them both to first class. However, when they were issued their boarding passes, she was instructed to go to the back of the plane despite her frequent flyer status, while Novack, who holds no status with the airline, was directed to first class. Baldwin was told her seat had been reassigned because there weren’t enough first class seats available.
The behaviour of American Airlines flight attendants from there added up to "the most blatantly racist thing that’s ever happened to me," according to Baldwin. "I’ve never felt so unimportant in my entire life," she told The Root.
She's Platinum? Pull out your phone, dear, and call that private customer service number on the back of your card to complain that you are being mistreated right now this minute, and would they please talk to the stew standing in the aisle about fixing it? No? I need to talk to your supervisor right now -- this is a problem. Yes, thank you, I'll hold. But do hurry, as we are due to take off, and they've got me sitting by the lavatory at the back of Coach, while they seated my companion in First Class. I can't imagine what they were thinking.
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[Daily Caller] The New York Times reported on Tuesday that President Trump allegedly asked former FBI Director James Comey to shut down the investigation into former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn. The source of the allegation is a memorandum, revealed by an anonymous source, allegedly prepared by Comey regarding a meeting in the Oval Office the day after Flynn was forced to resign for misleading the Vice-President.
[Wash Times] Ohio Gov. John Kasich said during a joint CNN town hall Tuesday with Vermont Sen. Bernard Sanders that his instincts were right about President Trump.
