It's hard these days to be signaled out for fake news, but Brian Ross managed to do so with his erroneous report that Flynn was "ordered" by Trump the candidate to contact Russia.
ABC has suspended Ross for four weeks with no pay.
It took some of us no time whatsoever to determine Ross was wrong. It didn't make any sense and nobody else was reporting it. The problem is that too many people have Trump derangement syndrome and desperately "want" to believe the worst.
But the reality is the reality. Dating back to July of 2016, we have seen four different investigations into the allegations of collusion between Trump and Russia.
We still have zero evidence of it.
In fact in May of this year, former FBI director James Comey testified under oath that he had not seen any evidence to even consider the President a suspect.
The Brian Rosses of the world would like to imply differently. They will continue to report their fake news.
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Correctly so.
Shepard Smith said that the only Fake New is negative stories on the President.
You should obviously should agree with him or resign for four weeks.
https://youtu.be/CsLBlzBo1vo
So Mueller has a trump hater on his team. Well no kidding. He loaded it up with Obama and clinton donors. You reap what you sow.
President Trump's winning Biggly, fake news is real.
Pres. Trump is again, right.
His hate/never Trump staff is clearly exposed.
Where are then Hillary Clinton connected indictments???
Hmmmm.
Correctly so.
If only the right had the same morality....How many sycophants still think obama was born in kenya? How many still believe the tax plans help the middle class and not trump and his spawn...But trump is God and does no wrong...He takes teflon don to a new dimension.....
Trump Accuses Comey of Lying
President Trump tweets this morning: “I never asked Comey to stop investigating Flynn. Just more Fake News covering another Comey lie!”
Axios has the backdrop:
Former FBI director James Comey has testified under oath that Trump told him in January, “I hope you can see your way clear to letting this go, to letting Flynn go,” a remark he interpreted as a direction from the president. Trump’s critics have cited that as potential obstruction of justice, particularly after his Saturday tweet that he “had to fire” Flynn because he lied to the FBI (hence, Trump would have known Flynn committed a crime before allegedly asking Comey to back off).
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The Liar-in-Chief lies again.
I love being a pedophile like Moore.
The Liar-in-Chief lies again.
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yeah, i suppose we could manage to refer to brian ross as a liar in chief. he's certainly worked to earn the title, pederast.
i suppose we could manage to refer to brian ross as a liar in chief.
So....does he have access to the football???????
Was Michael Flynn Asked to Wear a Wire?
The Guardian:
“Section eight of the deal reached by Donald Trump’s former national security adviser in the inquiry into Russian meddling in the US election is entitled ‘cooperation.’ It specifies that as well as answering questions and submitting to government-administered polygraph tests, Flynn’s cooperation ‘may include … participating in covert law enforcement activities.’
“Long-time students of federal law enforcement practices agreed, speaking anonymously, that ‘covert law enforcement activities’ likely refers to the possibility of wearing a concealed wire or recording telephone conversations with other potential suspects. It is not known whether Flynn has worn a wire at any time.”
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My, my.
My how I love being a pedophile.
My how I love making depraved people show their depravity by posting stuff like that. -- Rev. Jim
DOJ And FBI Threatened With Contempt Of Congress For ‘Hiding’ Info On Anti-Trump FBI Investigator
The chairman of the House Intelligence Committee is threatening to hold the Justice Department and FBI in contempt of Congress for withholding details about why a top FBI investigator was removed from Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian interference in the presidential campaign.
“I have instructed House Intelligence Committee staff to begin drawing up a contempt of Congress resolution for DOJ Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and FBI Director Christopher Wray,” California Rep. Devin Nunes, the Republican chair of the committee, said in a statement on Saturday night.
Nunes set a Monday deadline for the DOJ and FBI to comply with the committee’s list of demands, which includes requests for interviews with Rosenstein, Wray, and deputy FBI director Andrew McCabe as well as documents related to the anti-Trump dossier written by former British spy Christopher Steele.
Committee Republicans have tried in vain for months to force the DOJ and FBI to provide details of the Russia investigation, including how much it relied on the uncorroborated dossier to form the basis of its probe.
But the final straw for Nunes appears to be the bombshell revelation that FBI counterintelligence official Peter Strzok was kicked off of Mueller’s team over the summer after it was discovered that he exchanged anti-Trump text messages with his mistress, an FBI lawyer named Lisa Page who also worked on Mueller’s team. (RELATED: FBI Investigator Who Oversaw Trump, Clinton Investigations Sent Anti-Trump Text Messages)
The New York Times and Washington Post reported on Saturday that the Department of Justice’s inspector general discovered the text messages as part of an investigation into how the FBI handled the Clinton email investigation.
Strzok was removed from the Mueller team in August, though Mueller’s office, the FBI, and the DOJ have left the circumstances of his ouster a mystery for nearly four months. Strzok now works in the FBI’s human resources department.
Nunes pulled no punches in his statement, accusing the FBI and DOJ of “hiding” information about Strzok’s “documented political bias.”
“In light of today’s press reports, we now know why Strzok was dismissed, why the FBI and DOJ refused to provide us this explanation, and at least one reason why they previously refused to make Deputy [FBI] Director [Andrew] McCabe available to the Committee for an interview,” said Nunes.
Page, the lawyer who exchanged the texts with Strzok, worked under McCabe at the FBI.
Committee Republicans have issued subpoenas to Wray and Rosenstein — first on Aug. 24 — in an attempt to force the two to provide information about how the FBI and DOJ handled the Steele dossier, which was commissioned by opposition research firm Fusion GPS and funded by the Clinton campaign and DNC.
“This is part of a months-long pattern by the DOJ and FBI of stonewalling and obstructing this Committee’s oversight work, particularly oversight of their use of the Steele dossier. At this point, these agencies should be investigating themselves,” said Nunes.
Strzok has been at the center of the FBI’s two most high profile investigations.
He oversaw the Hillary Clinton email probe as well as the investigation into possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russian government.
Strzok is the FBI agent who interviewed Clinton during her July 2, 2016 meeting with the FBI. Then-FBI Director James Comey announced three days later that he would be recommending that charges not be filed against Clinton for mishandling classified information.
Strzok was also the FBI’s top investigator on the Trump collusion probe, which was opened at the end of July 2016. That was several weeks after Steele, a former MI6 agent, first briefed the FBI on information contained in his salacious and unverified dossier.
Steele was working for Fusion GPS, an opposition research firm that was hired by the Clinton campaign and DNC to investigate Trump’s activities in Russia.
Nunes said in his statement that the DOJ reached out on Saturday — after the reports about Strzok surfaced — expressing “a sudden willingness to comply with some of the Committee’s long-standing demands.”
“This attempted 11th-hour accommodation is neither credible nor believable, and in fact is yet another example of the DOJ’s disingenuousness and obstruction,” said Nunes.
Journalist: Obama’s Russian Collusion Far Exceeds Trump’s Relationship With The Country
Claudia Rosett, an award-winning journalist who worked for the Wall Street Journal for 17 years and known for her groundbreaking reporting on UN corruption, picks through the nuances of despots and dictators around the world.
Rosett sat down with The Daily Caller News Foundation and said the message from the 2016 election had nothing to do with Russia, but everything to do with shrinking paychecks, vanishing jobs and over-regulation.
The Democrats’ rhetoric about Trump’s supposed Russian collusion does not match the degree of enthusiasm and flexibility that former President Barack Obama actually displayed to Russia for his entire two terms, Rosett says in this video interview.
She cites: when Obama was caught on a hot mic promising flexibility to Vladimir Putin, shelving missile defense for Europe in a phony “reset” with our dangerous adversary, inadequate pursuit of Edward Snowden who is still hiding in Russia, the imaginary “red line” with Syria that opened the door to Russia being emboldened in the Middle East, the Iran deal that advantaged Russia and their allies on the world scene and the weak response of the U.S. when Russia annexed Crimea, which belonged to Ukraine.
As for the unusual degree of unmasking of political adversaries caught in foreign intelligence intercepts in the final year of Obama’s tenure by someone like the former ambassador to the UN, Samantha Power, Rosett is suspicious and poking around. The breach of privacy and criminal leaking that appears to have happened with a potential abuse of power needs greater public exposure, she believes.
She says Fusion GPS, the shady group of former journalists who were for sale in currying the unverified “Russian dossier” of Donald Trump is, to her, a “sad icon of what is happening in journalism today.” They are “guns for hire” and it is a sad use of talent, she thinks. Someone should do a page one story on who Fusion GPS is and what they do.
Like HB, treating women like a hockey net?
Mueller does not know any of that.
Feinstein: Senate building obstruction case against Trump
NBC News
2 hrs ago
WASHINGTON — A Senate investigation into Russia's meddling in the 2016 presidential election has revealed a possible obstruction of justice case against President Donald Trump, Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein said on "Meet The Press" Sunday.
"The [Senate] Judiciary Committee has an investigation going as well and it involves obstruction of justice and I think what we're beginning to see is the putting together of a case of obstruction of justice," Feinstein, the panel's top Democrat, said.
"I think we see this in the indictments, the four indictments, and pleas that have just taken place and some of the comments that are being made," Feinstein added, referencing the indictments of former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort and his associate Rick Gates, who face charges that include conspiracy and money laundering that were uncovered during Special Counsel Bob Mueller's investigation into potential links between Trump and Russia. Also charged in connection to the Mueller investigation are Trump's former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn and former campaign adviser George Papadopoulos, who both pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI.
"I see it in the hyper-frenetic attitude of the White House, the comments every day, the continual tweets. And I see it most importantly in what happened with the firing of Director [James] Comey, and it is my belief that that is directly because he did not agree to 'lift the cloud' of the Russia investigation. That's obstruction of justice," Feinstein said.
Trump fired former FBI Director James Comey earlier this year in the midst of the bureau's investigation into Russia's interference into the 2016 presidential election.
The Senate Judiciary Committee is conducting just one of a number of congressional investigations that touch the fallout from Russia's alleged election interference, including active probes in both the Senate and House Intelligence Committees. The Judiciary Committee's purview has focused on oversight of the Justice Department and the FBI.
Feinstein, who is also a member of the Senate's Intelligence Committee, said that she does not believe Flynn acted as a "rogue agent" in his conversations with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak, communication that was the subject of Flynn's guilty plea in federal court on Friday for making false statements to the FBI.
Court documents showed that Flynn was urged by two transition officials to contact Russians, and sources have told NBC News that those officials are Trump's son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner, and K.T. McFarland, who later served as deputy national security adviser in the White House.
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The New York Times also reported this week that Trump has pressed top Republicans, including the chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, to end their inquiries into Russia. Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine)noted that the president has never contacted her specifically about it, but criticized any meddling by the president into the ongoing investigations.
"Even if it's inexperience, that doesn't make it right. The president should have no comment whatsoever on either of these investigations," she said. "The only thing he should be doing is directing all of his staff and his associates to fully cooperate."
Feinstein on Sunday also noted that her concern about the White House "rises with the day."
Asked specifically whether her concern with President Trump's ability to do the job rises by the day, she responded, "oh yes," and added that a moment came a month ago where she felt enough is enough.
But Feinstein did not go as far as saying there's a need to remove Trump from office yet.
"I believe it's time for us to finish our investigation and I don't want to bias any part of the investigation with premature thinking," she said. "I think that's very important."
Will Scandal Consume Trump’s White House?
New York Times: “Michael Flynn, the former national security adviser who pleaded guilty to a felony on Friday, was the fourth person near Mr. Trump to be charged and few in Washington expect him to be the last.
“No president in modern times has faced such a major investigation so early in his term even as he was still seeking to establish his political footing, much less one with as little popular support in polls as Mr. Trump has. The challenge for Mr. Trump in the weeks to come will be how to press forward on his agenda without letting the ominous drumbeat of indictments and court hearings consume his presidency.”
Looks like the answer may be Yes.
NYT: Operative Offered Trump Campaign ‘Kremlin Connection’ Using N.R.A. Ties
WASHINGTON — A conservative operative trumpeting his close ties to the National Rifle Association and Russia told a Trump campaign adviser last year that he could arrange a back-channel meeting between Donald J. Trump and Vladimir V. Putin, the Russian president, according to an email sent to the Trump campaign.
A May 2016 email to the campaign adviser, Rick Dearborn, bore the subject line “Kremlin Connection.” In it, the N.R.A. member said he wanted the advice of Mr. Dearborn and Senator Jeff Sessions of Alabama, then a foreign policy adviser to Mr. Trump and Mr. Dearborn’s longtime boss, about how to proceed in connecting the two leaders.
Russia, he wrote, was “quietly but actively seeking a dialogue with the U.S.” and would attempt to use the N.R.A.’s annual convention in Louisville, Ky., to make “ ‘first contact.’ ” The email, which was among a trove of campaign-related documents turned over to investigators on Capitol Hill, was described in detail to The New York Times.
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DONALD TRUMP'S USUAL BLATHER TWEET:
"After years of Comey, with the phony and dishonest Clinton investigation (and more), running the FBI, its reputation is in Tatters - worst in History! But fear not, we will bring it back to greatness."
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FORMER OBAMA ATTORNEY GENERAL ERIC HOLDER:
"Nope. Not letting this go. The FBI's reputation is not in 'tatters. It's composed of the same dedicated men and women who have always worked there and who do a great, apolitical job.
"You'll find integrity and honesty at FBI headquarters and not at 1600 Penn Ave right now."
I love being a pedophile.
Not Fake News bullshit.
Billy Bush
Dec. 3, 2017
He said it. “Grab ’em by the pussy.”
Of course he said it. And we laughed along, without a single doubt that this was hypothetical hot air from America’s highest-rated bloviator. Along with Donald Trump and me, there were seven other guys present on the bus at the time, and every single one of us assumed we were listening to a crass standup act. He was performing. Surely, we thought, none of this was real.
We now know better.
Recently I sat down and read an article dating from October of 2016; it was published days after my departure from NBC, a time when I wasn’t processing anything productively. In it, the author reviewed the various firsthand accounts about Mr. Trump that, at that point, had come from 20 women.
Some of what Natasha Stoynoff, Rachel Crooks, Jessica Leeds and Jill Harth alleged involved forceful kissing. Ms. Harth said he pushed her up against a wall, with his hands all over her, trying to kiss her.
“He was relentless,” she said. “I didn’t know how to handle it.” Her story makes the whole “better use some Tic Tacs” and “just start kissing them” routine real. I believe her.
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Kristin Anderson said that Mr. Trump reached under her skirt and “touched her vagina through her underwear” while they were at a New York nightclub in the 1990s. That makes the “grab ’em by the pussy” routine real. I believe her.
President Trump is currently indulging in some revisionist history, reportedly telling allies, including at least one United States senator, that the voice on the tape is not his. This has hit a raw nerve in me.
I can only imagine how it has reopened the wounds of the women who came forward with their stories about him, and did not receive enough attention. This country is currently trying to reconcile itself to years of power abuse and sexual misconduct. Its leader is wantonly poking the bear.
In 2005, I was in my first full year as a co-anchor of the show “Access Hollywood” on NBC. Mr. Trump, then on “The Apprentice,” was the network’s biggest star.
Oh please. Please do IT.
DEMS SHUT DOWN US GOVT FOR DACA.
Put a bow on it.
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