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Oh No, NY Times! McGahn Just Blew Apart Your Entire Fake News Article

It wasn’t until the end of the article that the authors admitted McGahn said he “never saw Mr. Trump go beyond his legal authorities.”

Media Fail: 70% Believe News Reporting Intentionally Biased

The study suggests that the plummeting trust in the media was impacted by the bias scandals surrounding two of America's most prominent new anchors, ABC's George Stephanopoulos and NBC's Brian Williams. Also likely playing a role in the growing distrust of the public is the irresponsible and misleading reporting of the Michael Brown case and the Ferguson and Baltimore protests and riots.

The president has already bullied numerous targets in the 24 hours since Melania Trump said social media can be ‘destructive’

On Monday morning, Melania Trump rejoined her signature “Be Best” campaign against cyberbullying at the Federal Partners on Bullying Prevention summit in Maryland.

The first lady said in prepared remarks that social media is an integral part of children’s daily lives and has a number of positive uses, “but can also be destructive and harmful when used incorrectly”.

“‘Be Best’ chooses to focus on the importance of teaching our next generation how to conduct themselves safely and in a positive manner in an online setting,” she said.

It was a message that many children would indeed do well to hear, not to mention the child-like adults among us. But it’s one she might have better directed at her husband, who spent the morning during the event, and the subsequent 24 hours, on a voluminous tirade of spite and invective, even by the president’s already prolific standards of cyberbullying.

Donald Trump’s targets since Monday’s speech read like a retread of his Greatest Bullying Hits – Robert Mueller and his “witch-hunt”, “fake news”, even his own attorney general, Jeff Sessions – with a few new twists thrown in to keep people guessing.

Chief among his targets on Monday to Tuesday was John Brennan, “the worst CIA director in our country’s history” and a “political hack”, whose security clearance the president recently revoked in an apparent act of political retribution.

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In fact, Mr. McGahn laid out how Mr. Trump tried to ensure control of the investigation, giving investigators a mix of information both potentially damaging and favorable to the president. Mr. McGahn cautioned to investigators that he never saw Mr. Trump go beyond his legal authorities, though the limits of executive power are murky.

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American neoconservative political analyst.

Kristol is associated with a number of prominent conservative think tanks. He was chairman of the New Citizenship Project from 1997 to 2005. In 1997, he co-founded the Project for the New American Century (PNAC) with Robert Kagan. He is a member of the board of trustees for the free-market Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, a member of the Policy Advisory Board for the Ethics and Public Policy Center, and a director of the Foreign Policy Initiative. He is also one of the three board members of Keep America Safe, a think tank co-founded by Liz Cheney and Debra Burlingame, and serves on the board of the Emergency Committee for Israel and the Susan B. Anthony List.[4]

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Just spitballing here, but if Flynn is guilty, and Manafort’s guilty, and Cohen’s guilty...maybe Trump’s guilty?

2:07 PM - 21 Aug 2018

The Pentagon is concerned that not providing safe haven to more of the Iraqis, many of whom interpreted and did other key tasks for U.S. forces, will harm national security by dissuading locals from cooperating with the United States in Iraq and other conflict zones, the officials said.

A report attached to the intelligence authorization bill issued last week said that the CIA was behind in development of Arabic, Chinese, Farsi, and Pashto language programs.

"Year after year, this committee has insisted that the intelligence community recruit a more culturally diverse cadre of analysts and officers, especially seeking individuals proficient in critical languages such as Arabic, Chinese, and, the much less well known languages including Pashto and Urdu," the report states. "The committee is heartened by the president's call to increase significantly the number of human intelligence and analytic officers in the intelligence community."

It is common for Trump’s opponents to retreat into cynicism about the possibility for news events to damage Trump’s standing. It is certainly true that the president has tapped into a deep vein of cultural and racial revanchism, ensuring the irrevocable loyalty of a large segment of his base. But not every Trump voter was attracted to his gross bullying racism. Some simply overlooked or accepted it in the hopes that he would put his bullying to work for them, to “drain the swamp.” That criminality has proven to pervade his inner circle is visceral evidence of a broken faith with those voters who trusted this promise.

From his profitable association with La Cosa Nostra, to his lending of properties out for worldwide money launderers, to his “Trump University” scheme that he was forced to settle, Trump has built an entire career knee-deep in ethical filth.

Should he stand for reelection — a prospect that seems slightly less certain tonight than it did this morning — Trump will be doing so in very different circumstances. He will be running not as Nixon in 1968 or 1972, but Nixon in 1974, not as the guardian of law and order, but a crook.