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11 investigations exonerated Hillary.

There is going to be one more. She is going to be put under oath this time.

She's been interrogated under oath many times.

That figure excludes trips focused on Trump or the first lady.

One of the most common criticisms of former president Barack Obama during his two terms in office was that he and his family took an exorbitant number of vacations. Donald Trump, then a private citizen, liked to use Obama’s trips as a critique.

Once Trump took office, his position on trips (and on Obama’s golf habit) shifted dramatically, though the rhetoric of many of his supporters didn’t. While the media tracked Trump’s regular trips to his privately owned properties in Florida and New Jersey, Trump’s defenders regularly defended Trump by pointing to the frequency and cost of Obama’s trips.

Data compiled by the Treasury Department, which oversees the Secret Service, shows the distribution of protected trips within the administration from 2010 to 2016. The figures, obtained and published by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, show that Obama, then-first lady Michelle Obama and their family took about 4,700 trips from 2010 to 2016. Just under 1,000 of those were for members of the president’s family, excluding Michelle. Most of the protected trips that were taken over that period were by former officials, including former presidents and their families.
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The data obtained by CREW extended into Trump’s own term in office. In 2017, 2018 and 2019, members of the presidents’ family took 4,560 trips — the bulk of them in the last two years.
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The data are collated in government fiscal years, which run from October through the following September, so the 2017 data include about four months of Obama’s presidency. Given that the number for family members jumped from 121 in fiscal 2016 to 1,311 in 2017, it’s safe to assume that Trump’s family has gone on more than 4,000 protected trips since he took office.

There are several reasons that Trump’s family might require more protected trips than did Obama’s. For one, Trump’s children are older and more numerous. Obama’s two daughters were teenagers when they lived in the White House. Four of Trump’s kids were college age or older. The Trumps also spend a lot of time traveling, including on official business for the Trump Organization and as surrogates for their fathers’ campaign and presidency.

The distinction is nonetheless stark. Forty percent of the protected trips in 2019 were ones involving members of Trump’s family — again, as distinct from trips taken by Trump and first lady Melania Trump.
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In the past two years, Trump’s family has gone on more than 3,200 protected trips, almost 50 percent more than the number of protected trips taken by former White House officials. The number of trips taken by Trump’s family in the past two years is more than three times the number taken by Obama’s family from 2010 to 2016. Trump, Melania Trump and his family took about 4,200 trips in fiscal 2018 and 2019 — about as many as Obama, Michelle Obama and Obama’s family took from 2010 through 2015.

Many of Trump’s own trips have been to properties he owns. In recent weeks, though, he hasn’t visited any Trump Organization properties. The coronavirus pandemic has led to the second-longest stretch of Trump’s presidency in which he hasn’t visited a golf course. (The longest stretch was during the government shutdown in 2018–2019.)
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In August 2017, the Secret Service announced that without additional funding, its employees would be forced to work overtime without being paid. ...

The Secret Service has protected Trump family members on 4,000 trips in three years

WASHINGTON — Attorney General William Barr believes the Russia investigation that shadowed President Donald Trump for the first two years of his administration was started without any basis and amounted to an effort to “sabotage the presidency,” he said in an interview with Fox News Channel that aired Thursday.

The report detailed 17 errors and omissions during those wiretap applications, including failing to tell the court when questions were raised about the reliability of some of the information it had presented to receive the warrants. Those mistakes prompted internal changes within the FBI and spurred a congressional debate over whether the bureau’s surveillance tools should be reined in.

But Barr believes they were more than just mistakes, offering a personal view of the probe, a highly unusual move for a prosecutor in an ongoing investigation.

“My own view is that the evidence shows that we’re not dealing with just mistakes or sloppiness,” he said. “There is something far more troubling here, and we’re going to get to the bottom of it.[

So you have been forced to shut up regarding the Obama

New Evidence Confirms That The Russia Probe Against Trump Was A “Witch Hunt”

Yet, all of this pivotal information was covered up by the FBI and Department of Justice as they accelerated their investigation of Trump and sought four successive warrants to surveil another former campaign adviser, Carter Page.

In other words, vital evidence was buried, the judges were deceived, and the court was defrauded.

The entire transcript reads like a bumbling interrogation gone terribly awry.

Under federal regulations that govern both the FBI and DOJ, as well as the rules of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC), government officials were obligated to disclose this exculpatory information, but failed to do so. They actively hid it from the court, congress and the American people.

Nope, not going away. Who will go to jail?

"The germ has gotten so brilliant that the antibiotic can't keep up with it ... there's a whole genius to it ... not only is it hidden, but it's very smart." Donald Trump, speaking today

“I like this stuff. I really get it,” Trump boasted to reporters during a tour of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, where he met with actual doctors and scientists who are feverishly scrambling to contain and combat the deadly illness. Citing a “great, super-genius uncle” who taught at MIT, Trump professed that it must run in the family genes.

“People are really surprised I understand this stuff,” he said. “Every one of these doctors said, ‘How do you know so much about this?’ Maybe I have a natural ability.”

Does it even appar credible?

CAN you say "uncorroborated hearsay"??

Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
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HAPPY GOOD FRIDAY TO ALL!

Australian scientists find Ivermectin kills COVID-19

A group of Australian scientists have said they’ve found another old drug that kills the novel coronavirus in two days. This week, researchers at Monash University in Melbourne announced Ivermectin, a common anti-parasite medicine, deactivates and suppresses COVID-19 in vitro or in laboratory conditions.

“We found that a single dose of the drug was able to prevent the virus from replicating within 48 hours,” stated Dr. Kylie Wagstaff. “We saw a pretty dramatic reduction in 24 hours as well, but by 48 hours, it had essentially had stopped replicating.”

Ivermectin has been used for the past 30 years to treat parasitic infections, such as worms, helminths and even hair lice. Doctors accidentally discovered it’s also effective against certain viruses, albeit not all of them.

“Ivermectin is used around the world for parasitic indications, largely on worms,” explained Wagstaff. “So, we know a lot about its safety in humans.”

Nate Lerner
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Stimulus packages around the world:

UK: 80% of workers' salaries

Denmark: 75% of workers' salaries

S Korea: 70% of workers' salaries

Netherlands: 90% of workers' salaries

Canada: $2k per month

Australia: $1k per month

US: One time $1200 check that may take months to arrive

it's the one with all the bodies piled around the bottom of the hill

US: One time $1200 check that may take months to arrive

I have always liked Australia.