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US-North Korea summit will not take place, Donald Trump says

8 Pieces of Evidence that the Government Was Working against Team Trump

Changing the rules

On Dec. 15, 2016 — the same day the government listened in on Trump officials at Trump Tower — Rice reportedly unmasked the names of Bannon, Kushner and Flynn. And Clapper made a new rule allowing the National Security Agency to widely disseminate surveillance material within the government without the normal privacy protections.

Trump sure did get a lot of praise for getting nothing done though.

oh ****, does that mean therell be no NObel Prize ?

Lib Columnist Comes Unglued When Forced To Admit Trump Has Destroyed Obama Legacy

The left is finally realizing that after just 17 months of Donald Trump’s presidency, Barack Obama’s legacy has effectively been erased.

“I don’t want to say or face this,” admitted New York Magazine columnist Andrew Sullivan. “I still want to believe my colleague, Jonathan Chait, whose thesis is that the changes Obama made in his difficult but tenacious eight years in office are too great to reverse.”

The best he can hope for

What Doesn’t Chuck Schumer Want America To Know?

So what is it, Senator? Is Andrew McCarthy correct? No matter if he is right or wrong, why can’t Americans know the truth? If “Operation Crossfire Hurricane” happened for legitimate reasons, why can’t we know those reasons? Why can’t we know if the operation was approved by a judge or as Mr. McCarthy suggests the Obama administration originated the investigation on their own for political reasons?

Senator, its hard understand why you aren’t flipping out at the very hint that this Spygate happened. How one administration could spy on the presidential candidate of the opposite party. Demanding answers as President Trump has is not anti-American. Refusing to allow American voters to get the answers, either because you put party before country, or covering up for the Obama administration, or covering up your own possible involvement…not allowing us to get answers for any reason, is anti-American.

BREAKING: FBI Agent to Testify Against James Comey

FBI Agent Joe Pientka who interviewed General Flynn plans to testify against Comey and McCabe, source adds “It was all Comey,” reports Jack Posobiec.

Posobiec adds:

Key read: Pientka knows what was said in the room, before the 302 reports were written by Strzok.

White House Accused Of Early Celebration

President Trump held a roundtable discussion about MS-13 in Suffolk County, New York on Wednesday in which he used super-heated rhetoric to emphasize the threat that gang members — and by extension, undocumented immigrants — purportedly pose.

At one point, Trump claimed that people who live on Long Island “can’t walk outside” because “you have gang members that are so rough” that people are afraid to leave their homes.


“It’s almost like a war where you’re getting rid of somebody that is occupying your nation,” Trump said. “And for me to go through and be in this position, and see towns that I’ve known all my life — I grew here here, I know every one of the towns — and it’s unthinkable that it’s almost like an occupied territory where your children are afraid to go out, and in many cases if they go out, bad things happen.”

But roughly 45 minutes in to Wednesday’s roundtable event, the hyperbole of Trump’s fear-mongering was accidentally exposed by Suffolk County police commissioner Geraldine Hart, who noted that there hasn’t been an MS-13-linked homicide in Suffolk County in more than a year.

“Since September of 2016, the department’s multi-faceted approach has resulted in 355 arrests of 235 MS-13 gang members,” she said. “There has not been an MS-13 murder in Suffolk County since April of 2017.”

Trump didn’t directly respond to Hart’s statistic, but instead described individual crimes committed by alleged MS-13 members in grisly detail.

The president also indicated he has no regrets about calling MS-13 members “animals” during a recent White House event.

I’m A Democrat, And The Left’s Russia Gaslighting Scares Me More Than Trump Does
My fellow Democrats are increasingly becoming the kind of low-information voters they despise and think are only on the other side.

The courts have recognized repeatedly that a government official's clear legal authority to take some action does not immunize that official from prosecution for crimes relating to the exercise of that authority. To take just a few examples, in U.S. v. Smith, several members of the Los Angeles Sheriff's department were convicted on obstruction charges for relocating and restricting access to a prisoner--conduct that would have been legal but for its purposeful interference with an FBI investigation into civil rights violations at Los Angeles County jails. In U.S. v. Baca, the court explained that "[a] local [police] officer may not use [his] authority to engage in what ordinarily might be normal law enforcement practices, such as interviewing witnesses, attempting to interview witnesses or moving inmates, for the purpose of obstructing justice." And in U.S. v. Mitchell, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit upheld the conviction of two brothers who accepted a payment of $50,000 to convince their uncle--a congressman--to stop a congressional investigation into a company's eligibility for a government program.

Comey & Clapper clarify

Here to lend a hand, Michael Barone provides understated and much needed historical perspective to his media colleagues: “Until 2016, just about everyone agreed that it was a bad thing for government intelligence or law enforcement agencies to spy (er, secretly collect information?) on a political campaign. Especially a campaign of the opposition party.” Thank you, Mr. Barone!