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President Donald Trump on Thursday said the appointment of a special counsel to oversee the investigation into Russia’s interference in the 2016 election reflects poorly on national unity.

“I believe it hurts our country terribly, because it shows we’re a divided, mixed-up, not-unified country,” Trump said, according to ABC’s David Muir. Trump’s comments came in a luncheon at the White House with network anchors.

Trump said, according to Muir, that the Russia probe is “a pure excuse for the Democrats having lost an election that they should have easily won.”

“That’s all this is. I think it shows division, and it shows that we’re not together as a country,” he said. “And I think it’s a very, very negative thing. And hopefully, this can go quickly.”

Such a dipshit, this guy

"As Spicer tells it, Rosenstein was confirmed about two weeks ago and independently took on this issue so the president was not aware of the probe until he received a memo from Rosenstein on Tuesday, along with a letter from Attorney General Jeff Sessions recommending that Comey be fired,"
"It was all him,” Spicer said, referring to Rosenstein. "No one from the White House. That was a DOJ decision."

The next day, Vice President Pence told reporters that Rosenstein had independently reviewed and recommended that Comey be fired.

The next day, Vice President Pence told reporters that Rosenstein had independently reviewed and recommended that Comey be fired.

UC Berkeley Spends $3 Million of Student Money on One Gender Inclusive Locker Room

According to a press release, the new locker rooms will “reduc[e] the barriers to wellness for often marginalized student and campus communities including trans and non-gender binary students.”

The school says its well worth it. “This locker room project not only symbolically affirms our campus values of inclusivity and access for all, but it provides a tangible service for students..."

1 Times Square pedestrian killed, others hurt after car jumps curb

One woman was killed and 22 other pedestrians were struck when a speeding car plowed into a crowd in New York's Times Square on Thursday afternoon.

"He was driving very fast," said Karma Namgyal, 49, a street vendor. "He was going the wrong way up the street and drove onto the sidewalk. He started hitting people. They were flying in the air. He plowed through them. The people he hit were face down. Everyone else started screaming. It was all fast."

The suspected driver, Richard Rojas, was taken into custody in the incident. There's no indication the crash was related to terrorism, de Blasio said; however, the White House and FBI were made aware of the incident.

I watchedthat piece of crap and every time he talked about Democrats it sounded exactly like what /?Republicans have ben doing and saying during the Obama years and now during theTrump years. Sorry, Tucker, you're talking dreck.

After months and months of investigation, you do not have one single specific example of collusion.

Two Chinese Sukhoi Su-30 jets have conducted an "unprofessional" intercept of a US aircraft, the US military said.

One of the Chinese jets came as close as 150ft (45m) to the US WC-135 plane and flew upside down above it, according to US officials cited by CNN.

The US says the plane was on a mission to detect radiation in international airspace over the East China Sea.

Tensions have repeatedly risen over US activity near the resource-rich international waters off China's coast.

The intercept, which took place on Wednesday, was deemed unprofessional "due to the manoeuvres by the Chinese pilot, as well as the speeds and proximity of both aircraft," Air Force spokesman Lt Col Lori Hodge said.

He said the issue was "being addressed with China through appropriate diplomatic and military channels", and a military investigation was under way.

There is no hate speech exception to the First Amendment. Hateful ideas (whatever exactly that might mean) are just as protected under the First Amendment as other ideas. One is as free to condemn, for instance, Islam — or Muslims, or Jews, or blacks, or whites, or illegal immigrants, or native-born citizens — as one is to condemn capitalism or socialism or Democrats or Republicans.

One of the fondest dreams of the radical (and not-so radical) left is to undermine the First Amendment and ultimately to control speech. Democrats have advocated the DOJ’s investigation and even prosecution of climate “skeptics,” condemned “hate” speech formally in the House, supported the criminalization and ban of “hate” speech, and as we see play out on college campuses across the nation, resorted to violence as a response to speech with which they disagree.

They believe free speech is only for certain people with certain ideas. Everything else is “hate speech,” and anyone engaging in it should be muzzled—by force if necessary.

Our college students have come to this impasse in large part because their parents, high school teachers, college professors, and school officials have all failed them. They have not only refused to instill in them a reverence for the First Amendment, they have taught them to despise the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, the very things that protect their right to protest. In so doing, they have turned them into the thing they claim to despise most: fascists.

REUTERS: No Evidence of Wrongdoing or Collusion Between the Trump Campaign and Russia

You have to admit though that it is interesting when someone who at least for a time was a darling of the Left (and some folks in this forum) starts declaring America is under attack from within and that there are career employees in the government who are trying to take Trump down.