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The only thing I learned in this latest "revelation" is that the conservatives were associated with the Washington Free Beacon specifically.

it was never used in the campaign

Damn GB, you did a case study.

Conservatives who are appalled by this egregious violation of our nation's high political standards (yeah, right) haven't seemed to notice that,

I didn't claim she set up a sting, I simply suggested that it was curious that she invited her anti-Trump, headline-grabbing, congresswoman to attend.

On Thursday, the contract itself was obtained by journalist Ken Klippenstein, who identified a number of unusual provisions in the deal, including a clause that bars the federal government from auditing the company's costs and profits.

The White House has distanced itself from a $300m (£228m) contract awarded to a tiny Montana firm to help reconstruct Puerto Rico's power grid.
The press secretary spoke out as President Donald Trump asked his Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke if he had any role in the Whitefish Energy deal.
Federal authorities have expressed "significant concerns" about the contract, and are reviewing it.
Some 75% of Puerto Ricans have no power five weeks after Hurricane Maria.
At Friday's daily White House briefing, questions persisted over why a little-known, two-year old firm with no experience of work on this scale was awarded the contract so quickly.
Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders told reporters the "federal government has nothing to do with this contract".
She said they would look forward to the results of an ongoing audit.
The press secretary deflected a question about campaign donations made by a major Whitefish investor to the Trump campaign and allied groups during the 2016 election.
Ms Sanders also revealed that Mr Trump asked Mr Zinke at the White House earlier on Friday "just for clarification purposes" if he had any role in the process.
Mr Zinke "reiterated once again that we have no role - the federal government, and specifically he had no role in that contract", according to the press secretary.

Facebook has announced measures to make political advertising on the social media platform more transparent.
Political advertisers will have to verify their identity and location and their posts will carry a disclosure saying "paid for by".
The steps come amid allegations that Russian-backed groups used social media ads to interfere in the US election.
Executives from Facebook and other internet giants will testify before a Senate hearing on Tuesday.
"When it comes to advertising on Facebook, people should be able to tell who the advertiser is and see the ads they're running, especially for political ads," Rob Goldman, Facebook's vice president of ads, said in a blog post.
By clicking on the "paid for by" disclosure, users would be able to see more details about the advertiser, he added.

And it just-- folks, it illustrates to a T, this league [NFL] doesn't get it. They're run by a bunch of left-wing execs, many of whom have never been in football before. They come from marketing and retailing. There are some women in ranking positions of marketing and so forth in the NFL, the PR department is all former Obama and Clinton. It's not surprising to me.

this league [NFL] doesn't get it. They're run by a bunch of left-wing execs,

Free Beacon ✔@FreeBeacon
Clinton Campaign and DNC Paid for Research Behind Russia Dossier http://freebeacon.com/politics/clinton-campaign-dnc-paid-research-behind-russia-dossier/ … @cb0321
6:06 PM - Oct 24, 2017

At that point [the dossier] was funded by an unknown GOP client while the primary was still going on.

Braden Matejka survived a bullet to the head in the Las Vegas massacre. Then, the death threats started coming.

“You are a lying piece of **** and I hope someone truly shoots you in the head,” a commenter wrote to Matejka on Facebook, one week after a gunman killed 58 people and injured hundreds more. “Your soul is disgusting and dark! You will pay for the consequences!” said another. A Facebook meme quickly spread with a photo of him after the shooting, captioned: “I’m a lying ****!”

The 30-year-old victim – who narrowly escaped death in the worst mass shooting in modern US history – has faced a torrent of online abuse and harassment, forcing him to shut down his social media accounts and disappear from the internet. The bullying, taunting and graphic threats have also spread to his family and friends.

This story about the followers of Donald Trump's favorite conspiracy theorist Alex Jones attacking the victims of the Las Vegas massacre makes me believe this country is doomed. It is so, so awful that it's hard to believe we'll come through this without something catastrophic happening