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Don't try any cry baby sh*t.

It doesn't matter how many illegals there are now, or were in 1986.

The point is that that border wall is a joke, and an unnecessary drain on the treasury.

There's millions to be made by the coyotes, and billions to be made by the drug lords.

They'll find a way under, over or through the wall, you can count on it.

I'm not surprised that you didn't understand that.

During an interview on CNN on Wednesday morning, RNC chair Ronna McDaniel said she has no concerns about a report indicating President Trump grilled then-acting FBI director Andrew McCabe about who he voted for in the 2016 election.

“I think it’s just a conversation — I don’t think it intends, you know, all these terrible things that people are trying to put forward,” she said. “I ask people who they vote for sometimes. I think it’s just trying to get to know somebody.”

McDaniel was referencing a Washington Post report detailing that Trump — shortly after firing then-FBI Director James Comey amid the bureau’s active investigation into his campaign — had a meeting with McCabe during which he asked who McCabe voted for in the 2016 election.

“McCabe said he didn’t vote, according to [current and former U.S.] officials, who, like others interviewed for this article, spoke on the condition of anonymity to talk candidly about a sensitive matter,” the Post reported. “McCabe, who has spent more than two decades at the bureau, found the conversation with Trump ‘disturbing,’ said one former U.S. official.”

The Post report also notes that Trump “vented his anger at McCabe over the several hundred thousand dollars in donations that his wife, a Democrat, received for her failed 2015 Virginia state Senate bid from a political action committee controlled by a close friend of Hillary Clinton.”

Quote:

Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
How can FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, the man in charge, along with leakin’ James Comey, of the Phony Hillary Clinton investigation (including her 33,000 illegally deleted emais) be given $700,000 for wife’s campaign by Clinton Puppets during investigation?

Trump’s December tweet contains numerous factually inaccuracies. McCabe’s wife, Jill McCabe, received $500,000 from a PAC controlled by then-Virginia governor Terry McAuliffe for an unsuccessful Virginia senate bid she made in 2015, before the Clinton email investigation began.

Asking McCabe who he supported for president is just the latest example of Trump putting political pressure on the Department of Justice, which is supposed to operate independently of political influence.

Special counsel Robert S. Mueller III is seeking to question President Trump, but Trump's willingness to engage is unclear because he and his team keep changing their answers when questioned by reporters.
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Weinstein goes on to say that he believes many of the people on the left are unaware that they are part of something which contains these extremist tendencies, which he describes as “unholy and un-American.”

My own take, and the reason I wanted to highlight this, is that I believe Weinstein is basically correct that the activist left is an insurgency which is attempting to assert dominance over the left. It is currently seeking to spread its own quasi-religious ideas (intersectionality, safe spaces, micro-aggressions, etc.) paired with authoritarian tactics (shouting down opponents, no-platforming, mob violence) and if it succeeds we will be well on our way to finding out what the authoritarian left’s idea of equity really looks like.

I bet he does, and while the optics will be lousy, Trump should refuse, which is what any defense lawyer worth his or her salt would advise him.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Senior U.S. intelligence officers including CIA Director Mike Pompeo have been questioned by the U.S. special counsel’s team about whether President Donald Trump tried to obstruct justice in the Russia probe, sources told Reuters on Wednesday.

uch questioning indicates Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s federal investigation into alleged Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. election and potential collusion by Trump’s campaign has extended to examine the president’s actions around the probe.

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Senators start new effort at immigration deal

WASHINGTON — Senators from both parties started a fresh search Wednesday for compromise immigration legislation, but leaders conceded that the effort won't be easy and were already accusing each other of blame should the effort falter.

Around three dozen senators, evenly divided among Republicans and Democrats, planned to meet late Wednesday in what No. 2 Senate GOP leader John Cornyn of Texas said he hoped would "get people thinking about a framework that might actually work." Their goal is to produce a bipartisan package to protect from deportation the "Dreamers" — hundreds of thousands of immigrants in the U.S. illegally after being brought here as children — and to provide billions to toughen border security.

Since that can't find "collusion" they have to move on to what he did while they found nothing.