Wyden: "Does the NSA collect any type of data at all on millions or hundreds of millions of Americans?" Clapper then: "No." Clapper now: Wyden's question was really difficult and confusing and super hard to answer and I just got all mixed up.
************NOTE***************** The turn in polling began to happen as Democrats launched thier "Whore Offensive", yet the Democrats are experiencing "Storm Damage".
Michael Cohen’s Business Partner Flips May 22, 2018 at 5:18 pm
“A significant business partner of Michael Cohen, President Trump’s personal lawyer, has quietly agreed to cooperate with the government as a potential witness, a development that could be used as leverage to pressure Mr. Cohen to work with the special counsel examining Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election,” the New York Times reports.
“Under the agreement, the partner, Evgeny A. Freidman, a Russian immigrant who is known as the Taxi King, will avoid jail time, and will assist government prosecutors in state or federal investigations.” ______________________
Gosh, what will he help them with? Trump & gang haven't done nuthin' wrong!
on the Democratic side, Sen. Bernie Sanders carries more positive influence with both Democratic voters and independents than does Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi. More than half of Democrats say they'd be more likely to vote for a candidate endorsed by Sanders, while a majority of Democrats say a Pelosi endorsement wouldn't affect their vote. Nearly half of independents say knowing a candidate was backed by Pelosi would make them less likely to back that candidate themselves.
A new Politico/Morning Consult poll finds just 36% of voters say they would vote for President Trump over a generic Democratic candidate in 2020, compared with 44% who would pick the Democrat, the poll shows. One in five voters, 20%, are undecided.
Trump fumes over FBI's handling of Russia investigation Gregory Korte 59 mins ago
Trump tweets 'SPYGATE' could be one of biggest scandals
WASHINGTON — President Trump is escalating his rhetorical war against the agencies investigating Russian interference in the 2016 election, referring to them as the "criminal deep state" in a series of Wednesday morning tweets.
"SPYGATE could be one of the biggest political scandals in history!" Trump said.
Trump is referring to reports that the FBI and CIA relied on a retired Cambridge University professor to give them information on his contacts with two Trump campaign associates, who are now under investigation by Special Counsel Robert Mueller.
Trump has been pushing back against the Mueller probe ever since the special counsel was appointed to head the investigation after Trump fired FBI Director James Comey last year. He's denied his campaign colluded with Russian agents seeking to interfere in the 2016 presidential election, and described the probe as a "WITCH HUNT" again Wednesday.
The president is also pressuring the FBI and CIA to turn over to Congress documents related to their dealings with confidential sources in the Russia probe. Summoning law enforcement and intelligence officials to the White House on Monday, he instructed them to meet Thursday with congressional Republicans seeking the documents.
In an appearance on ABC's The View on Tuesday, former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper said U.S. agents weren't spying on Trump — they were spying on Russia. And he said Trump should be happy that those agents were trying to protect his campaign from foreign interference.
"No, James Clapper, I am not happy. Spying on a campaign would be illegal, and a scandal to boot!" Trump said in one tweet.
The Cambridge professor, Stefan Halper, is a longtime foreign policy consultant who has served in Republican administrations. He also received contracts from a Pentagon think tank during the Obama administration for work apparently unrelated to the Russia investigation.
"If the person placed very early into my campaign wasn’t a SPY put there by the previous Administration for political purposes, how come such a seemingly massive amount of money was paid for services rendered - many times higher than normal," Trump tweeted Wednesday. "Follow the money!" ________________________ *snicker* He better not say that too loudly.
Jonathan Chait: Trump may be forming an even more radical theory. Gabriel Sherman reports that Trump’s team ‘is attempting to build the case that anti-Trump forces in the F.B.I. entrapped his advisers using informants to plant evidence about Russian collusion.’
Let this roll around in your mind for a moment. Trump is not merely accusing the FBI of planting a spy, but of planting evidence.
Planting evidence? Multiple spies? Obama political operatives? You might think this is all so unhinged Trump could not possibly believe it, but then, you would have to explain Trump’s longtime infatuation with the conspiracy theories he imbibes in his binge-watching of Fox News, where hours of air time can pass by without the appearance of anybody who is hinged. (LOL)
And you might also think Trump could not get his party to go along with this theory, to dismiss all the evidence of culpability as having been fabricated by a pro-Obama cabal in the FBI. But then you would be ignoring how far down the Trump rabbit hole the Republican Party has gone so far. (LOL)
Cohen Was ‘Paid by Ukraine’ to Arrange White House Talks
Michael Cohen “received a secret payment of at least $400,000 to fix talks between the Ukrainian president and President Trump,” sources in Kiev close tell the BBC.
“The payment was arranged by intermediaries acting for Ukraine’s leader, Petro Poroshenko, the sources said, though Cohen was not registered as a representative of Ukraine as required by US law.
“The meeting at the White House was last June.” ___________________ How much bigger can this stink get?
Trump can't block users on Twitter, federal judge rules
Tom Winter and Elizabeth Chuck 20 mins ago
President Donald Trump cannot block Twitter users for the political views they have expressed, a federal judge in Manhattan ruled on Wednesday.
Blocking users from viewing his Twitter account — a feature offered by the social media platform — is unconstitutional and a violation of the First Amendment, Judge Naomi Reice Buchwald wrote in her ruling.
"While we must recognize, and are sensitive to, the President's personal First Amendment rights, he cannot exercise those rights in a way that infringes the corresponding First Amendment rights of those who have criticized him," Buchwald wrote.
The government had argued that blocked individuals could still access the president's tweets. The judge agreed, but she said the impact of preventing them from interacting directly with Trump's tweets represented a "real, albeit narrow, slice of speech."
The case had been brought by the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University. They argued that the @realDonaldTrump Twitter account is a "public forum" under the First Amendment.
The institute represented seven individuals who had been blocked by account.
There was no immediate response from the White House to the ruling. ______________________ The would be dictator loses another one.
Trump blasts Mexico, Canada over NAFTA talks 1 hr ago
U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday railed against Mexico and Canada's efforts in renegotiating the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), saying both of the United States' neighbors had been very difficult.
"NAFTA is very difficult. Mexico has been very difficult to deal with. Canada has been very difficult to deal with ... but I will tell you that in the end we win," Trump told reporters at the White House. ___________________ Yeah, yeah, we heard that one before.
Its this double standard that keeps voters supporting trump." MB
Mr. Lost Years , waggled his finger at us and Pronounced: " at some point I think you've made enough money" Ok, so what is Enough. Presidential Pension = $208,000 Book deal $ 65 million NexFlix = $85 million
Blocking users from viewing his Twitter account — a feature offered by the social media platform — is unconstitutional and a violation of the First Amendment, Judge Naomi Reice Buchwald wrote in her ruling.
this is the stupidest fucking thing i'll read today. so i was not surprised to learn that she's a clinton appointee.
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
how the fuck does one interpret that to prevent anyone from blocking anyone else on twitter?
A new Navigator Research survey finds that 59% of Americans believe that special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation has not yet uncovered evidence of crimes, even though Mueller has already obtained five guilty pleas and 17 criminal indictments.
Matthew Yglesias: “That suggests that the press as a whole has not done a good job of actually conveying factual information to our audience, that Democrats’ messaging on the investigation has not been clear enough on the most damning point (Trump, even if otherwise innocent, is guilty of hiring crooks and trying to prevent an investigation into their activity), and that Trump’s counterstrategy of muddying the waters around the investigation has been fairly successful.”
He charged Papadopoulos with a process crime He charged Flynn with a process crime (both acts took place while being interviewed by the FBI, so they were not "uncovered" by Mueller)
He inherited the Manafort/Gates investigation that has been ongoing for several years. Gates and Van Der Zwann plead guilty to process crimes. Even if Manafort is found guilty, they are not new criminal charges that Mueller "uncovered".
He wrote an indictment that he appears either unwilling or unable to prosecute. The indictment regarded crimes that were not "uncovered" by Mueller, but rather were known to the world via a magazine expose in a Russian magazine. He did secure a guilty plea from an American who facilitated the bank accounts that the Trolling company used (even though the person in question was not aware of who he sold the accounts to).
So no James...
Mueller has not "uncovered" anything. He is simply a prosecutor who is charging people for things that were already known.
50 comments:
for the same reuters poll on 05/17 it's R - 34.2%
D - 33.6%
heh.
Wyden: "Does the NSA collect any type of data at all on millions or hundreds of millions of Americans?"
Clapper then: "No."
Clapper now: Wyden's question was really difficult and confusing and super hard to answer and I just got all mixed up.
He is an appallingly bad liar.
Maybe Clapper looks up to the "pastor"
************NOTE*****************
The turn in polling began to happen as Democrats launched thier "Whore Offensive", yet the Democrats are experiencing "Storm Damage".
Maybe if the dems give us a little more pissed off profanity. That'll do it.
Michael Cohen’s Business Partner Flips
May 22, 2018 at 5:18 pm
“A significant business partner of Michael Cohen, President Trump’s personal lawyer, has quietly agreed to cooperate with the government as a potential witness, a development that could be used as leverage to pressure Mr. Cohen to work with the special counsel examining Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election,” the New York Times reports.
“Under the agreement, the partner, Evgeny A. Freidman, a Russian immigrant who is known as the Taxi King, will avoid jail time, and will assist government prosecutors in state or federal investigations.”
______________________
Gosh, what will he help them with? Trump & gang haven't done nuthin' wrong!
Jane & HB the spam sista's
"I know a guy, that knows a guy, that knows a guy."
The US Economy and those tax cuts that have put more disposable income in the pockets of earners. 100 % Pres. Trump and Republicans did that.
on the Democratic side, Sen. Bernie Sanders carries more positive influence with both Democratic voters and independents than does Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi. More than half of Democrats say they'd be more likely to vote for a candidate endorsed by Sanders, while a majority of Democrats say a Pelosi endorsement wouldn't affect their vote. Nearly half of independents say knowing a candidate was backed by Pelosi would make them less likely to back that candidate themselves.
© 2018 CBS Interactive
"Gosh, what will he help them with? Trump & gang haven't done nuthin' wrong!"
Says the blog pedophile.
Trump is losing it, really losing it.
Trump: ‘Criminal deep state’ caught up in ‘major spy scandal’
"NO DEMOCRATS ALLOWED." THAT'S HOW DICTATORS ACT.
When you have the Democrats defending MS-13, it's a good day in Trump land.
James is in panic mode.
Best twitter line of the day
Just Jenn @JennJacques
I’m renaming my AR-15s “MS13s” so the Democrats will protect them.
Lol
"James is in panic mode."
Syphilis.
Lol,
So much winning.
New Home Sales
Released On 5/23/2018 10:00:00 AM For Apr, 2018
New home sales surged higher in March.
winning bigly.....average cost gasoline jamuary 2017 2.14 gallon..... May 2018 2.89
Pretty well eats the average tax break for anyone using 500 gallons a year.....and the right remains happy!!!
"James is in panic mode."
Nope. Trump is. :-)
Speaking of panic mode:
Trump Re-Election Bid Starts In a Hole
A new Politico/Morning Consult poll finds just 36% of voters say they would vote for President Trump over a generic Democratic candidate in 2020, compared with 44% who would pick the Democrat, the poll shows. One in five voters, 20%, are undecided.
James Boswell of Normal, Illinois is a pedophile.
'SPYGATE,' 'WITCH HUNT!'
Trump fumes over FBI's handling of Russia investigation
Gregory Korte 59 mins ago
Trump tweets 'SPYGATE' could be one of biggest scandals
WASHINGTON — President Trump is escalating his rhetorical war against the agencies investigating Russian interference in the 2016 election, referring to them as the "criminal deep state" in a series of Wednesday morning tweets.
"SPYGATE could be one of the biggest political scandals in history!" Trump said.
Trump is referring to reports that the FBI and CIA relied on a retired Cambridge University professor to give them information on his contacts with two Trump campaign associates, who are now under investigation by Special Counsel Robert Mueller.
Trump has been pushing back against the Mueller probe ever since the special counsel was appointed to head the investigation after Trump fired FBI Director James Comey last year. He's denied his campaign colluded with Russian agents seeking to interfere in the 2016 presidential election, and described the probe as a "WITCH HUNT" again Wednesday.
The president is also pressuring the FBI and CIA to turn over to Congress documents related to their dealings with confidential sources in the Russia probe. Summoning law enforcement and intelligence officials to the White House on Monday, he instructed them to meet Thursday with congressional Republicans seeking the documents.
In an appearance on ABC's The View on Tuesday, former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper said U.S. agents weren't spying on Trump — they were spying on Russia. And he said Trump should be happy that those agents were trying to protect his campaign from foreign interference.
"No, James Clapper, I am not happy. Spying on a campaign would be illegal, and a scandal to boot!" Trump said in one tweet.
The Cambridge professor, Stefan Halper, is a longtime foreign policy consultant who has served in Republican administrations. He also received contracts from a Pentagon think tank during the Obama administration for work apparently unrelated to the Russia investigation.
"If the person placed very early into my campaign wasn’t a SPY put there by the previous Administration for political purposes, how come such a seemingly massive amount of money was paid for services rendered - many times higher than normal," Trump tweeted Wednesday. "Follow the money!"
________________________
*snicker*
He better not say that too loudly.
Brennan, clapper and comey are spinning themselves dizzy right now. Clearly they're worried, as they should be.
DOWN THE OLD RABBIT HOLE
Trump Latest Theory Is Insane (LOL)
Jonathan Chait:
Trump may be forming an even more radical theory. Gabriel Sherman reports that Trump’s team ‘is attempting to build the case that anti-Trump forces in the F.B.I. entrapped his advisers using informants to plant evidence about Russian collusion.’
Let this roll around in your mind for a moment. Trump is not merely accusing the FBI of planting a spy, but of planting evidence.
Planting evidence?
Multiple spies?
Obama political operatives?
You might think this is all so unhinged Trump could not possibly believe it, but then, you would have to explain Trump’s longtime infatuation with the conspiracy theories he imbibes in his binge-watching of Fox News, where hours of air time can pass by without the appearance of anybody who is hinged. (LOL)
And you might also think Trump could not get his party to go along with this theory, to dismiss all the evidence of culpability as having been fabricated by a pro-Obama cabal in the FBI. But then you would be ignoring how far down the Trump rabbit hole the Republican Party has gone so far. (LOL)
trump’s FBI Spy Theory Is Completely Insane
By Jonathan Chait
Read the entire article. It is EYE OPENING.
James Boswell of Normal, Illinois is a pedophile.
So its only s theory even though brennan and clapper admitted hiding their spy in the campaign. Yeah right.
Trump is not merely accusing the FBI of planting a spy, but of planting evidence.
You know what? It wouldn't surprise me if that is exactly what happened.
Cohen Was ‘Paid by Ukraine’ to Arrange White House Talks
Michael Cohen “received a secret payment of at least $400,000 to fix talks between the Ukrainian president and President Trump,” sources in Kiev close tell the BBC.
“The payment was arranged by intermediaries acting for Ukraine’s leader, Petro Poroshenko, the sources said, though Cohen was not registered as a representative of Ukraine as required by US law.
“The meeting at the White House was last June.”
___________________
How much bigger can this stink get?
You know what? It does not at all surprise me that you would think that.
James Boswell of Normal, Illinois is a pedophile.
I'm such a fucking loser.
No one reads my spam.
Trump can't block users on Twitter, federal judge rules
Tom Winter and Elizabeth Chuck 20 mins ago
President Donald Trump cannot block Twitter users for the political views they have expressed, a federal judge in Manhattan ruled on Wednesday.
Blocking users from viewing his Twitter account — a feature offered by the social media platform — is unconstitutional and a violation of the First Amendment, Judge Naomi Reice Buchwald wrote in her ruling.
"While we must recognize, and are sensitive to, the President's personal First Amendment rights, he cannot exercise those rights in a way that infringes the corresponding First Amendment rights of those who have criticized him," Buchwald wrote.
The government had argued that blocked individuals could still access the president's tweets. The judge agreed, but she said the impact of preventing them from interacting directly with Trump's tweets represented a "real, albeit narrow, slice of speech."
The case had been brought by the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University.
They argued that the @realDonaldTrump Twitter account is a "public forum" under the First Amendment.
The institute represented seven individuals who had been blocked by account.
There was no immediate response from the White House to the ruling.
______________________
The would be dictator loses another one.
James Boswell of Normal, Illinois is a pedophile.
Trump blasts Mexico, Canada over NAFTA talks
1 hr ago
U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday railed against Mexico and Canada's efforts in renegotiating the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), saying both of the United States' neighbors had been very difficult.
"NAFTA is very difficult. Mexico has been very difficult to deal with. Canada has been very difficult to deal with ... but I will tell you that in the end we win," Trump told reporters at the White House.
___________________
Yeah, yeah, we heard that one before.
James Boswell of Normal, Illinois is a pedophile.
The clintons took in 400M but James is worried about 400K.
Its this double standard that keeps voters supporting trump.
Welcome back oPie, so your average tax cut is $1,750, cool.
500 gallons x 25 mpg = 12,500 mile per person. That is silly.
Oh I think everybody loses with this Judge's ruling.
It means one you're elected a public official, you lose your constitutional rights.
But the bigoted and narrow-minded James doesn't get that so let's block him and delete his spam.
Its this double standard that keeps voters supporting trump." MB
Mr. Lost Years , waggled his finger at us and Pronounced: " at some point I think you've made enough money"
Ok, so what is Enough.
Presidential Pension = $208,000
Book deal $ 65 million
NexFlix = $85 million
So now we know.
"But the bigoted and narrow-minded James doesn't get that so let's block him and delete his spam."
We can only dream.
Blocking users from viewing his Twitter account — a feature offered by the social media platform — is unconstitutional and a violation of the First Amendment, Judge Naomi Reice Buchwald wrote in her ruling.
this is the stupidest fucking thing i'll read today. so i was not surprised to learn that she's a clinton appointee.
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
how the fuck does one interpret that to prevent anyone from blocking anyone else on twitter?
It means that in this country, even the President must respect our right to freedom of speech.
James Boswell of Normal, Illinois is a pedophile.
This "Prez" is such a Twerp.
Most Don’t Know Mueller Has Uncovered Crimes
A new Navigator Research survey finds that 59% of Americans believe that special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation has not yet uncovered evidence of crimes, even though Mueller has already obtained five guilty pleas and 17 criminal indictments.
Matthew Yglesias: “That suggests that the press as a whole has not done a good job of actually conveying factual information to our audience, that Democrats’ messaging on the investigation has not been clear enough on the most damning point (Trump, even if otherwise innocent, is guilty of hiring crooks and trying to prevent an investigation into their activity), and that Trump’s counterstrategy of muddying the waters around the investigation has been fairly successful.”
Trump, even if otherwise innocent, is guilty of hiring crooks and trying to prevent an investigation into their activity
But of course he is not "otherwise innocent."
James,
So what "crimes" has he uncovered?
He charged Papadopoulos with a process crime
He charged Flynn with a process crime
(both acts took place while being interviewed by the FBI, so they were not "uncovered" by Mueller)
He inherited the Manafort/Gates investigation that has been ongoing for several years. Gates and Van Der Zwann plead guilty to process crimes. Even if Manafort is found guilty, they are not new criminal charges that Mueller "uncovered".
He wrote an indictment that he appears either unwilling or unable to prosecute. The indictment regarded crimes that were not "uncovered" by Mueller, but rather were known to the world via a magazine expose in a Russian magazine. He did secure a guilty plea from an American who facilitated the bank accounts that the Trolling company used (even though the person in question was not aware of who he sold the accounts to).
So no James...
Mueller has not "uncovered" anything. He is simply a prosecutor who is charging people for things that were already known.
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