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Manafort’s plea deal with prosecutors includes a requirement that he cooperate with Mueller’s Russia investigation. Manafort’s lawyer Kevin Downing was asked if it was a full cooperation agreement, and he responded, “It is.”

Rudy Giuliani, Trump’s lawyer, issued a statement saying, “Once again an investigation has concluded with a plea having nothing to do with President Trump or the Trump campaign. The reason: the President did nothing wrong and Paul Manafort will tell the truth.”

But just minutes later, Giuliani issued a revised statement that conspicuously omitted the “and Paul Manafort will tell the truth” part and merely said “The President did nothing wrong.”

While the complete terms of the plea deal aren’t clear yet, Manafort is reportedly expected to provide full cooperation with prosecutors. Manafort’s decision to cooperate with the special counsel could be profoundly damaging for the president, as he could potentially provide information about any coordination between the Trump campaign and Russia during the 2016 election.

Giuliani seemed to realize this, too, after he’d already sent out the initial statement.

That last-minute edit suggests Trump’s lawyers are worried about what Manafort might tell prosecutors — and whether what he tells them could potentially incriminate the president.

By leaving off the “Manafort will tell the truth” part, they’re not only scrambling to insulate themselves from what Manafort might say, but likely preparing to go on the attack — as Giuliani and Trump have done before when former Trump associates, such as Michael Cohen, have flipped.

It’s unclear what information Manafort has to offer prosecutors, and there’s no evidence right now that any of it could implicate Trump in the investigation into Russian collusion.

But Trump’s legal team apparently isn’t taking any chances.

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That last-minute edit suggests Trump’s lawyers are worried about what Manafort might tell prosecutors — and whether what he tells them could potentially incriminate the president.

New York Primary: Historic Wins, Voter Turnout Doubles

New York voters reject some Democrats who broke off to give state Senate control to the Republicans
They were punished in their Democratic primaries.

Democratic voters got payback in the New York state primary on Thursday against some of the renegade Democrats who broke away from their party and allied themselves with Republicans in New York’s state Senate.

Six of the eight members of the now-disbanded Independent Democratic Conference (IDC) have lost against more progressive challengers. That includes the powerful leader of the group, Sen. Jeff Klein (D-Bronx), who was unseated by challenger Alessandra Biaggi, a lawyer who worked on Hillary Clinton’s campaign.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo may have easily escaped his primary challenge, but the ousting of IDC members may be a sign that power structures are shifting in Albany.

The IDC disbanded in April, but it was one of the weirder institutions in the already strange world of New York politics: eight state senators, elected as Democrats, who broke off to caucus together and team up with Republicans.

The group was formed in 2011 and strengthened GOP power in the state Senate, stymieing progressive legislation from getting to the Senate floor.

But in April, after seven years, Cuomo brokered a deal — reportedly over cookies and coffee at a Manhattan steakhouse — to dissolve the IDC and bring most of the Democrats back into the fold.

That happened days before a special election, which could have tipped the balance of power back to the Democrats for real. But one rogue Democrats — Simcha Felder — decided to stick with the Republicans, leaving the Democrats one vote shy of the majority. (Felder isn’t considered a member of the IDC.)

But voters had already started to take notice of these rogue Democrats’ antics amid the wave of progressive activism after the 2016 election. Activists began targeting these legislators with the campaign #NoIDCNY to push these rogue Democrats out of office. Candidates stepped up to challenge them in the state primaries — winning some high-profile endorsements that added heft to their campaigns.

Now six former members of the IDC and state Senate incumbents have been ousted: Klein, Marisol Alcantara (D-Manhattan), Tony Avella (D-Queens), Jesse Hamilton (D-Brooklyn), Jose Peralta (D-Queens), and David Valesky (D-Syracuse).

Just two have survived: David Carlucci (D-Rockland) is ahead by a razor-thin margin, and just one IDC member, Diane Savino (D-Staten Island) handily held on to her seat.

Actually the reality of Islamists killing people in Europe and world wide is apologized for by Western media. They never say what Islam says only what they are told to say. You have a Nazi press in Europe that report what the state says they can report.

You keep denying it and people will continue to die. Cowards never run out of excuses. Anything is better than facing reality.

Populist Wave Must Change EU Tyranny

Conservatives and supporters of a free internet have been railing against the proposed measures for years, with varying degrees of success. Although not yet codified into law within the EU structure, the anti-free-expression agenda is plain to see.

The issue is a symptom of a much greater problem within the European Union and a stark example of why Britain is heading for the exits. The greater threats from the EU are the groupthink system the union has attempted to impose on its members and the increasingly authoritarian tactics used to do so.

Driving the debate now is the severe migration crisis affecting the continent. Initially fueled by war in Iraq and Syria and the creation of waves of refugees seeking security, the migration flows have been primarily economic. The migrants are overwhelmingly looking for a better life — and the loads of free stuff offered by the liberal EU welfare state look pretty good from where they sit. They are also enabled by the globalist forces — led by George Soros and his acolytes — who favor unchecked migration and open borders no matter the social and cultural costs to individual countries.

It’s hard to say why the left thinks this is a good idea, other than to spread a globalist vision which favors the interests and values of the elites over the well-being of ordinary people.

One thing is for sure, however: There are significant pockets of the EU that don’t believe in this vision one bit and didn’t sign up for it. For their skepticism, they find themselves being bullied into accepting this destruction of their Christian culture and a loss of their sovereignty.

Actually the reality of Islamists killing people in Europe and world wide is vastly exaggerated by your media.

You have right wing media in your country that only reports what happens to fall in line with their own ideology.

he wanted to make sure that his family was able to remain safe

New York Primary: Historic Wins, Voter Turnout Doubles

Oddly, people torching their Nikes didn’t stop the company’s stock from reaching an all-time high

And it is cheering me up considerably.

Joe DiGenova: Latest Strzok-Page texts reveal criminal and civil liability of many officials – 'they are going down'

> Here’s what we do now. We know from the text revealed by strzok and page yesterday that we now are at a different place. The walls are closing in, but they are not closing in on the president. They are closing in on the FBI and the department of justice under President Obama. Those text messages by strzok and page, which reveal an illegal media strategy to illegally and criminally released FISA warrant information and name a U.S. Citizen, whose information they gave to “The New York Times” is a criminal offense. And by mentioning Carter Page, they have now created massive civil liability for everybody involved in revealing Carter Page’s name. Including themselves, James baker, the former FBI general general counsel. Prize step, everybody in the chain of command, the reporters for “The New York Times” have no privileges now. They also can be sued by Carter Page. Because although they may have been legally able to accept information, by publishing it, they reveal classified information that smeared Carter Page. Mr. Page will be a very wealthy man.

Profiles in Treason Rod Rosenstein

Even the supplemental addendum that Rosenstein sent to Mueller claims that there are “allegations” of criminal wrongdoing by the President. The American people have a right to know what they spurious allegations are. If the American people who all these criminal bureaucrats work for cannot be shown a reason for all this damage being done to our country and the rule of law, SHUT IT DOWN.

indeed it is