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Virginia Roberts accepts Alan Dershowitz’s dare, tells doc they had sex replies
Posted by Tptems 5/28/2020 11:57:25 PM Post Reply
Jeffrey Epstein’s former lawyer Alan Dershowitz dared Virginia Roberts Giuffre to “look in the camera” and accuse him of having sex with her — so she did. “I challenge Virginia Roberts to come on your show, look in the camera and say the following words: ‘I accuse Alan Dershowitz of having had sex with me on six or seven occasions,'” the 81-year-old lawyer said on camera in the new docu-series “Jeffrey Epstein: Filthy Rich.”
Cuomo blames everyone but himself for
nursing home fiasco of his own making --
and has got some doozies
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Posted by ladydawgfan 5/28/2020 11:52:01 PM Post Reply
Gov. Andrew Cuomo, that New York Democrat so vaunted in the media he was once touted as a replacement candidate for wretched Joe Biden, is on the hot seat these days for his wretched performance in the coronavirus crisis. He's become reviled for his outrageous decision to force New York's nursing homes to accept COVID-19 patients by executive order, killing off 5,000 of the state's most vulnerable people. He should be crawling under a rock in shame, now that word's gotten out. Instead, he's blaming everyone but himself. The latest? The nursing homes which were forced to obey his orders to accept "medically stable" COVID-19 patients,
All in this together? replies
Posted by ladydawgfan 5/28/2020 11:46:28 PM Post Reply
Lawn signs sprouting in my suburban neighborhood state: "Graduating Class of 2020 — #AllInThisTogether." Our seniors chose that message, no doubt, because it's in use everywhere. But one more pronouncement of our so-called "togetherness" may make me scream. Across the country, some are more "in this" than others. It's all a matter of being essential. Or not. Or caught at a particularly good (or not so good) stage of your life or career. How do you prepare for the unexpected? My dentist is non-essential. It's impossible to offer virtual dental services. Too bad for those who have gone without dental care
Why riot? replies
Posted by voxpopuli 5/28/2020 10:57:21 PM Post Reply
To understand why people destroyed parts of Minneapolis, we must look at the past. (snip) Words delivered by civil rights icon Dr. Marin Luther King Jr. nearly 53 years ago still speak to what's happening now. (snip) In his speech, "The Other America," from 1953, King said the following: "I think America must see that riots do not develop out of thin air. In the final analysis, the riot is the language of the unheard."
What’s Biden’s Purpose? replies
Posted by Harlowe 5/28/2020 10:27:33 PM Post Reply
RUSH: There’s something… You know, I intellectually understand it, and--to a certain extent--I politically understand it. But Joe Biden as the Democrat nominee--and then I have a story in the Stack where Silicon Valley tech gazillionaires are all-in on Biden.(Snip)The purpose of Plugs is to empower people who we really don’t know who will be running the country. He’s just gonna be a placeholder. (Snip)So the Silicon Valley tech zillionaires believe that if they can pull Plugs over or push him over the finish line, that they will be in a position to literally be the powers behind the throne.
Obtaining police body camera videos and
other electronic records just got easier
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Posted by poster 5/28/2020 10:19:23 PM Post Reply
In a victory for the news media and others seeking electronic records from public agencies in California, the state Supreme Court ruled Thursday that the government cannot require them to pay the cost of removing confidential material from the records. The court unanimously overturned a state appeals court decision in 2018 that allowed the city of Hayward to charge the National Lawyers Guild more than $3,000 for copying and assembling body camera videos from Hayward police after a December 2014 protest march in Berkeley against police violence, in which some protesters were injured. Much of the cost was for identifying and deleting footage on personal police information
George Floyd, fired officer overlapped
security shifts at south Minneapolis club
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Posted by voxpopuli 5/28/2020 10:02:55 PM Post Reply
A former club owner in south Minneapolis says the now-fired police officer and the black man who died in his custody this week both worked security for her club up to the end of last year. (snip) "Chauvin was our off-duty police for almost the entirety of the 17 years that we were open," Santamaria said. "They were working together at the same time, it's just that Chauvin worked outside and the security guards were inside."
‘If Anybody Needs To Be Fact-Checked,
It’s The Media’: Kayleigh McEnany Unloads
On Jim Acosta
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Posted by Maryland_Patriot 5/28/2020 9:15:01 PM Post Reply
White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany let loose on CNN White House correspondent Jim Acosta during Thursday’s press briefing. Acosta, after asking more than once why it took President Donald Trump 13 hours to tweet about the fact that the United States surpassed 100,000 deaths due to the coronavirus pandemic, questioned whether or not Twitter’s move to fact-check the president on another issue was warranted.
Soldier Stopped An Active Shooter By
Running Him Over With His Car
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Posted by momoftwinteens 5/28/2020 8:56:59 PM Post Reply
When a man got out of his car on a crowded bridge between Kansas and Missouri and began shooting, Master Sergeant David Royer told his fiancée to call 911, hung up the phone, and ran over the gunman with his Chevy. Royer was driving on Centennial bridge Wednesday morning when a man jumped out of his car and began shooting indiscriminately at cars, the New York Times reported. Royer, who served in the army for 15 years, told reporters Thursday that “I was shocked that it was happening and the adrenaline took over and, with the military training that I’ve received, I took appropriate action and took out the threat.”
Venezuela's opposition-led assembly backs
Guaido over Maduro choice
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Posted by Moritz55 5/28/2020 8:43:38 PM Post Reply
Venezuela's National Assembly on Thursday ratified opposition leader Juan Guaido as legislative speaker, defying a Supreme Court ruling approving a rival opposition figure more favorable to President Nicolas Maduro. The endorsement for Guaido continued a months-long stand-off with opposition rival Luis Parra, who Guaido has dismissed as "an accomplice to dictatorship".
Spike in Georgia COVID-19 cases
partly from virus spread, expert says
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Posted by Hermoine 5/28/2020 8:41:35 PM Post Reply
Georgia’s recent spike in new COVID-19 cases likely indicates the virus is spreading and cannot be solely attributed to a surge in testing, a prominent public health expert said Thursday.(snip)“That means by the end of September, by Labor Day, there will be another 100,000 deaths in our country,” he said. “That is a very sobering number.”
Colin Kaepernick expresses support for
Minneapolis protesters after death
of George Floyd
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Posted by NorthernDog 5/28/2020 7:48:28 PM Post Reply
Colin Kaepernick broke his silence on the death of George Floyd on Thursday, expressing support for the ongoing protests in Minneapolis. Police have used tear gas and water cannons on protesters. On Wednesday night, the second night of protests, several stores were set ablaze and some were looted. “When civility leads to death, revolting is the only logical reaction," Kaepernick said in posts on Instagram and Twitter. "The cries for peace will rain down, and when they do, they will land on deaf ears, because your violence has brought this resistance. “We have the right to fight back!” Kaepernick closed
Mississippi, Oklahoma and Arkansas are
among the states inching closer to normality
with visits to restaurants and shopping malls
now nearing pre-pandemic levels
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Posted by Imright 5/28/2020 7:45:05 PM Post Reply
A number of US states including Mississippi, Oklahoma, Arkansas and Tennessee are inching closer to normality with the level of visits to restaurants and shopping malls nearing pre-pandemic levels, according to cellphone data.Data compiled by Google shows that more Americans are venturing out to restaurants, cafes and shopping malls in a number of states as COVID-19 restrictions continue to be lifted across the country. According to the most recent data released on Wednesday, visits to those places are currently only down one percent in Mississippi and Oklahoma.The data compares to a baseline level, which is based off average visits from a five week period in January and February before
Grenell describes being an outsider in DC
Swamp, eviscerates Dem leakers and their
media minions
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Posted by Imright 5/28/2020 6:53:16 PM Post Reply
Former acting Director of National Intelligence Richard Grenell ripped the deep state “swamp” in Washington, D.C., along with Democratic politicians who leak classified information and the Left-leaning news outlet Political in a lengthy Wednesday interview with talk radio giant Mark Levin.The career diplomat and civil servant who recently stepped down from his post as U.S. ambassador to Germany noted that he was a “consumer of intelligence since 2001,” though Democrats criticized his temporary appointment as head of the U.S. intelligence community.Grenell also suggested that his presence in the ODNI was unsettling to the entrenched intelligence bureaucracy.“An outsider coming in
Looters hit Uptown businesses
as violent protests spread
throughout south Minneapolis
overnight
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Posted by voxpopuli 5/28/2020 6:49:18 PM Post Reply
Looters ransacked Frattalone’s Ace Hardware, Target, Urban Outfitters, Sephora, Timberland, among others. The CVS appears to be one of the most heavily damaged and looted business on West Lake Street. Looters shot their way into Thurston Jewelers, smashing glass cases and making off with tens of thousands of dollars’ worth of jewelry. The owner of Thurston Jewelers said he knows the city is in a lot of pain, but he sees a different way of going about it than breaking into his store and stealing most of his merchandise.
Corn prices keep slumping,
and farmers keep planting more
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Posted by Ribicon 5/28/2020 6:47:46 PM Post Reply
Corn farmers are throwing another government-backed Hail Mary this year, planting more of the crop than in 2019 even though prices are near the bottom of a six-year slump. “They call it plant and pray,” said Al Kluis, a commodities broker in Wayzata. “What you want is a disaster in some other part of the Corn Belt or some other country.”(Snip) Demand can’t keep up with supply. Corn futures hovered around $3.15 per bushel last week, nearly a dollar less than a year ago. Farmers came into the spring with a large inventory of corn in storage, and demand for the commodity
NYC City Council passes bill banning
'dehumanizing' word 'alien' in local laws
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Posted by Imright 5/28/2020 6:46:57 PM Post Reply
The New York City City Council has passed a bill banning the term “alien” in local laws, rules, and documents. “New York City just became the first major U.S. city to prohibit the use of the dehumanizing and offensive term 'alien' in local laws, rules, and documents,” New York City Council Speaker Corey Johnson tweeted Thursday. “From now on, the term will be 'noncitizen.'" (Tweet) The bill was passed almost unanimously, lacking the votes of four Republican councilmen and will now head to the desk of Mayor Bill de Blasio, who is expected to sign the bill into law, according to Staten Island Live.“Words matter,”
MLB unveils plan for drastic cut
in minor league teams
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Posted by EJKrausJr 5/28/2020 6:44:49 PM Post Reply
ARLINGTON, Texas — In order to run a sport, one must be able to wage battle on multiple fronts. Exhibit A occurred Thursday as, just seconds after running down the Players Association, baseball commissioner Rob Manfred turned his gaze toward the National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues, known to commoners as Minor League Baseball.
‘What?!’ Donna Brazile leaves co-hosts
speechless when she argues ‘there’s no
First Amd. right to lie’
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Posted by Imright 5/28/2020 6:41:55 PM Post Reply
Fox News contributor Donna Brazile sent co-hosts of “The Five” into a fit of laughter over her take on the First Amendment.The former Democratic National Committee Chairwoman left the panel momentarily speechless after she declared that “there’s no First Amendment right to lie” during a discussion on the battle between President Trump and Twitter. (Video) “This whole fact-checking thing is designed as a way to tackle misinformation which would be good if there was a balance,” Greg Gutfeld noted in the discussion after President Trump blasted the platform this week for adding a fact-check label to his tweets about mail-in voting.“
Report: New Jersey NAACP Leader Calls
for Redo of Vote by Mail Election
After Massive Irregularities
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Posted by Imright 5/28/2020 6:10:16 PM Post Reply
President Trump is proven right, yet again, this time over mail in ballots. Democrat-run Paterson, New Jersey’s city council elections this month was marred by massive irregularities including about 3,200 ballots not counted out of nearly 17,000 cast, prompting the local NAACP to call for a redo of the election, according to a report by WNBC-TV published Thursday. (Photo) Part of the problem: Mail in ballots delivered unsecured to apartment buildings: (Tweet) Excerpt:A Paterson NAACP leader said the recent city council vote-by-mail election was allegedly so flawed that the results should be thrown out and a new election ordered.
Biden Backtracks on Picking Woman
of Color as Running Mate
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Posted by Imright 5/28/2020 6:05:09 PM Post Reply
Former Vice President Joe Biden is backtracking on the idea that his eventual running mate will be a woman of color.Biden, who is facing criticism after appearing to claim that African Americans considering voting for President Donald Trump “ain’t black,” told CNN’s Dana Bash on Tuesday during an interview that he was not ready to promise to put a woman of color on the ticket despite rumors in recent weeks that he was heading in that direction.“Look, I’m not going to get into that now because we haven’t gotten there yet,” the former vice president said when asked if his running mate would be a woman of color.
Cardi B: Looters who torched
AutoZone, ransacked Target and
liquor store had 'no choice'
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Posted by Ribicon 5/28/2020 5:54:34 PM Post Reply
Cardi B says there was “no choice” but arson, looting, and violence by Minnesotans who are upset over the death of George Floyd. The rapper behind “Invasion of Privacy” made the comments as arsonists burned an AutoZone, ransacked a Target and liquor store, and resorted to violence over Monday’s viral footage of Mr. Floyd, a 46-year-old black man, with a white police officer kneeling on his neck. “They looting in Minnesota and as much as I don’t like this type of violence it is what it is,” the rapper told nearly 12 million Twitter followers. “Too much peaceful marches,
'Flash looting' spreads to St. Paul where
squad cars pelted with rocks, bricks;
Maplewood urges avoidance of retail areas
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Posted by Ribicon 5/28/2020 5:51:38 PM Post Reply
Unrest spilled into St. Paul's Midway midday Thursday as looters rushed into stores and pelted police cars with rocks, bricks and liquor bottles as the violent consequence of George Floyd's death this week to the west in Minneapolis. Officers first responded to the Target on University Avenue around 11:30 a.m. and found between 50 and 60 people grabbing merchandise off the shelves without paying, said St. Paul police spokesman Steve Linders. Many dropped the goods and ran when authorities arrived. A fight broke out in the parking lot between a pedestrian and a driver, who reportedly tried to run down the person with their car.
WATCH: MN City Council VP: ‘Anger’ Justified, But ‘You Have No Right’ To ‘Violence, Harm’ On ‘Very Communities’
You Claim To Stand Up For
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Posted by momoftwinteens 5/28/2020 3:51:42 PM Post Reply
During a press conference on Thursday, Minneapolis Council Vice President Andrea Jenkins called for calm and peace and admonished rioters for hurting the “very communities that you say that you are standing up for.” On Wednesday, protests in Minneapolis turned ugly, as looting, violence, and arson erupted across the city, following the death of George Floyd, a black man who died after a police officer had his knee on the 46-year-old’s neck during an arrest, viral video shows.
Amy Klobuchar declined to prosecute
officer at center of George Floyd's
death after previous conduct complaints
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Posted by NorthernDog 5/28/2020 3:25:18 PM Post Reply
George Floyd's death in police custody is renewing criticism of Sen. Amy Klobuchar's (D-Minn.) prosecutorial record. Before she became a senator and a top contender for former Vice President Joe Biden's vice presidential spot, Klobuchar spent eight years as the Hennepin County attorney, in charge of prosecution for Minneapolis. And while in that position, Klobuchar declined to prosecute multiple police officers cited for excessive force, including the officer who kneeled on Floyd's neck as he protested, The Guardian reports. Ex-Minneapolis police officer Derick Chauvin saw at least 10 conduct complaints during his 19-year tenure before he was fired Tuesday, according
As non-COVID-19 patients return to Chicago-area emergency rooms, doctors see skyrocketing blood pressure and other side effects of delays in care.
‘It’s terrible, and it’s frightening.’
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Posted by AltaD 5/28/2020 3:18:09 PM Post Reply
One patient ran out of medication during the COVID-19 pandemic and ended up in the Loyola University Medical Center emergency room with dangerously high blood pressure. Others, unwilling or unable to get consistent treatment for chronic conditions during the pandemic, have come in with out-of-control asthma, mental health crises or inadequately treated chronic kidney failure. And then there are the patients who have been putting off treatment for chest pain. “The ones that worry me the most are the patients that say I’ve been meaning to go to the doctor, but I couldn’t get in.
Will mail-in voting turn Election
Day into Election Week?
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Posted by Harlowe 5/28/2020 2:50:55 PM Post Reply
A shift to mail voting is increasing the chances that Americans will not know the winner of November’s presidential race on election night, a scenario that is fueling worries about whether President Donald Trump will use the delay to sow doubts about the results. State election officials in some key battleground states have recently warned that it may take days to count what they expect will be a surge of ballots sent by mail out of concern for safety amid the pandemic. In an election as close as 2016's, a delayed tally in key states could keep news organizations from calling a winner.
Biden looks ridiculous replies
Posted by earlybird 5/28/2020 1:42:17 PM Post Reply

News Busters reported, "Loyal Lackey: CNN’s Bash Goes Soft on Biden, Helps Push Conspiracies." What struck me was the graphic used to illustrate the report. The interviewer was a good 10 feet from Biden. As the illegal Democrat lockdown on America recedes, Biden is crawling out of his hole. He looks ridiculous. He is wearing a mask that looks like someone took a black magic marker to his photos. 

It looks like Trump's draft executive order
targeting Facebook and Twitter got
leaked online
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Posted by momoftwinteens 5/28/2020 1:40:24 PM Post Reply
President Donald Trump will target Facebook and Twitter in an executive order on social media, according to a draft that appears to have leaked online. Kate Klonick, an assistant legal professor at St. John's University's School of Law, published what she said was a draft version of the executive order late on Wednesday. (You can read it here.) The Techdirt reporter Mike Masnick said he had received the same draft, and Reuters confirmed that it had seen a genuine draft.
What the 'Obamagate' Scandals Mean
and Why They Matter
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Posted by earlybird 5/28/2020 1:37:05 PM Post Reply
Amid the flurry of details about spying on Michael Flynn, lying to secret courts about Carter Page, leaking classified documents, and more, it’s easy to get lost in the muck. It’s important to stand back, identify the worst abuses, and explain why they matter for American democracy. These abuses didn’t simply follow each other; their targets, goals, and principal players overlapped. Taken together, they represent some of the gravest violations of constitutional norms and legal protections in American history. Whether you are Democrat or Republican, whether you like Donald Trump or loathe him, these violations matter. (Snip)The entrenched elites behind these scandals are the Swamp at its most sulfurous.
Pennsylvania: How Democrats
Can Steal an Election
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Posted by mamabear 5/28/2020 1:36:42 PM Post Reply
Last week, the Department of Justice announced that in March, a former Philadelphia election official admitted to, and was convicted of, accepting bribes to stuff ballots for three Democrat candidates for Philadelphia Common Pleas Court Judge. He admitted to inflating the votes in primaries in years 2014 through 2016. He purportedly committed the fraud by standing in a voting booth and voting multiple times. That he acted alone seems unlikely. In Pennsylvania, each polling place must have a minimum of five poll workers to open and operate. They all work for thirteen hours – where were they?
Boeing to Lay Off More than 12K
Americans While Expanding in India
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Posted by Ribicon 5/28/2020 12:53:27 PM Post Reply
The Boeing Company is set to lay off more than 12,000 Americans in the midst of the Chinese coronavirus crisis while planning an expansion in India. On Wednesday, Boeing executives announced their plans to cut more than 12,000 American jobs over the next few months—including 5,520 voluntary layoffs and 6,770 involuntary layoffs set for the next three weeks. At the same time, Boeing India executives say they are planning for a major expansion: “Over the next couple of years, we expect Boeing’s India presence to be the largest outside of the US.(Snip) We want to contribute to the growth of India’s aerospace industry.
Arizona sues Google over tracking
user location data without consent
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Posted by Ribicon 5/28/2020 11:55:42 AM Post Reply
Arizona sued Google this week, alleging the big tech company engaged in deceptive and unfair business practices to obtain users’ location data for advertising purposes in order to gain a profit. The 50-page complaint alleges Google tracks the location of its users even if the consumer had disabled the tracker. After a roughly two-year probe, Arizona says Google also makes it confusing and increasingly difficult for a consumer to opt-out of the tracking and information collection. “While Google users are led to believe they can opt-out of location tracking, the company exploits other avenues to invade personal privacy,”
Lockdown-defiant NJ gym sues governor,
state in federal court
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Posted by poliposter 5/28/2020 11:00:20 AM Post Reply
The defiant New Jersey gym that was repeatedly shuttered for violating the state’s coronavirus lockdown is suing the state in federal court. The owners of Atilis Gym in Bellmawr charged that Gov. Phil Murphy, state Attorney General Gurbir Grewal and other New Jersey officials violated their constitutional rights by forcing them to close up shop for three months, putting their business on the verge of collapse.
Barr asks federal attorney from Texas
to lead review of 'unmasking'
in FBI's Russia collusion probe
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Posted by Ida Lou Pino 5/28/2020 10:54:11 AM Post Reply
Attorney General William Barr has asked a federal attorney from Texas to review the practice of “unmasking” during the 2016 presidential election. The attorney, John Bash, is a U.S. attorney for the Western District of Texas. The probe was announced Wednesday night by Justice Department spokeswoman Kerri Kupec on Fox News. Barr has asked Bash to focus on the unmasking, amid Connecticut federal prosecutor John Durham’s larger review of the federal government’s Russia collusion investigation.
Key Questions Former DAG Rod Rosenstein
Should Be Asked at Senate Oversight
Hearing Next Week
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Posted by earlybird 5/28/2020 10:46:19 AM Post Reply
Senate Judiciary Chairman Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) has called up former Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein to testify in the first of a series of hearings examining the Obama administration’s the Trump-Russia investigations and misuse of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.(Snip) Rosenstein oversaw the Russia investigation at the DOJ after Sessions recused himself from anything related to the investigation. Republicans will want him to explain a number of documents from that time period that were unearthed by Judicial Watch, last Fall. (Snip) 145 pages of Rosenstein’s communications, including a one-line email from Rosenstein to Robert Mueller stating “The boss and his staff do not know about our discussions.”
Former Mueller Prosecutor Andrew Weissmann
Now Fundraising for Joe Biden
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Posted by earlybird 5/28/2020 10:32:10 AM Post Reply
Robert Mueller’s hard-charging former “pit bull” Andrew Weissmann plans to participate in an upcoming fundraiser for Democrat presidential candidate Joe Biden, effectively ending his television career at NBC News. The network’s policy reportedly requires that employees avoid activities “that may create the appearance of a conflict of interest.” “If the fundraiser goes forward, I’m withdrawing from MSNBC so I can be in compliance with their policy,” Weissmann told the Washington Free Beacon on Friday. Weissmann joined MSNBC as a legal analyst in November, offering advice to House Democrats during their unsuccessful impeachment gambit against President Trump. (Snip)when he notified the network about his plan to headline the June 2
Cuomo’s Coronavirus Personae All Fail
the Statesmanship Test
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Posted by earlybird 5/28/2020 10:25:07 AM Post Reply
Anyone who has dipped into Andrew Cuomo’s daily coronavirus press briefings knows that the New York governor relishes his variegated personae. There is the ethnic Cuomo, who, we have learned repeatedly, enjoyed spaghetti and meatball Sunday dinners in his Queens childhood home.(Snip) But the most frequent Cuomo over the last several weeks is Cuomo, the objective man of science, guided not by prejudice or preconceptions but by data and facts: (Snip) According to Cuomo, his decision to lock down the entire state and to impose on every New York county an arcane set of complicated benchmarks for reopening is not a policy decision, it’s dictated by science.
How Obama just endorsed Trump replies
Posted by Imright 5/28/2020 10:16:52 AM Post Reply
Just when we thought we’d seen it all, heard it all, we are hit with another surreal shocker certain to wend its way into the narrative, and onto paid media as the 2020 presidential derby charges forward. In two recent virtual commencement addresses, former President Barack Obama took aim at Trump by questioning his willingness, much less his ability, to lead. Predictably, the left roared in delight while the right howled in protest.Yet lost in the partisan noise was a more telling passage of prose Obama uttered that day, words that may have eluded vetting by his political handlers — but not the rest of us.
Mueller shows the FBI needs disbanding replies
Posted by earlybird 5/28/2020 10:14:14 AM Post Reply
He was for a decade following 9/11 the federal government's police chief as FBI director. Thanks to fawning by the Washington press, Bob Mueller retired with a sterling reputation despite blowing the anthrax case. In 2017, he came out of retirement and tried to frame President Donald John Trump. John Dowd, Trump's lawyer, provided the details to Gregg Jarrett(Snip) "Mueller’s scheme was the same one captured in the (newly released) FBI set-up notes pertaining to Flynn. They knew they had nothing, but using their official power they created and perpetuated the facade of an investigation." Dowd said Mueller admitted he had nothing to the president’s lawyers on March 5, 2018.
The “Obstruction of Justice Trap” – Former
AAG Matt Whitaker Confirms Mueller
Probe Was Used As Weapon to Cover
Coup Effort….
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Posted by earlybird 5/28/2020 10:07:54 AM Post Reply
Within an interesting interview conducted by Jan Jekielek of Epoch Times, former AAG Matt Whitaker confirms what CTH long suspected. The Mueller investigation was used by corrupt interests within the special counsel’s office to threaten any/all executive branch and congressional officials with “obstruction of justice” charges if they revealed any exculpatory or counter-narrative information during the Mueller probe.Whitaker describes this as the “obstruction of justice trap.” (Snip) We know President Trump was threatened by Rod Rosenstein not to declassify any information in September of 2018 or the Mueller investigation would use that act as evidence of obstruction.
In Minneapolis, a political attack
aimed at conservatives turns on Democrats
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Posted by Magnante 5/28/2020 10:07:34 AM Post Reply
One of the most enjoyable things about the #MeToo movement has been the way that a political movement the left obviously intended to take out Trump and other prominent Republicans instead ended up exposing the gross sexism and outright misogyny of prominent Democrats in the political and media world. One would think there would be the same pleasure in watching how leftists have tried to hurt conservatives in the wake of police shootings, since that effort, too, has looped back to hurt leftists. There is no joy with this political theater, though
With his tweets about Scarborough’s intern,
Trump set a trap for Twitter
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Posted by Magnante 5/28/2020 10:04:34 AM Post Reply
Even Trump supporters have wondered about Trump’s tweets implying that MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough had something to do with a young intern’s death in his office when he was still a Florida congressman. (snip) I, however, don’t think it was strange at all. Trump is one of the most calculating, rational people ever to occupy the White House. He’s been faced with a serious problem, which is the fact that the immensely powerful social media giants, which are the gateway to most information nowadays, have already begun trying to sway the election to Biden.
Gretchen Whitmer slips state money
to leftist political operatives
to spy on Michiganders,
then lies about it
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Posted by Magnante 5/28/2020 10:02:12 AM Post Reply
It's pretty amazing how many negative activities gather around Michigan's hard-faced and ambitious Democratic governor, Gretchen Whitmer. Besides her outrageous performance on the coronavirus crisis - banning sales of garden seeds, seeding nursing homes with COVID-19 patients, forcing private dam operators to overfill their reservoir for greenie purposes, causing two of them to burst -- she's also a liar. We saw that clearly enough when her husband tried to put himself at the front of the boating queue by citing his marriage to her -- cronyism at its worst
Rasmussen Poll Shows 2:1 Support for
‘Hire American’ over ‘Business First
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Posted by Imright 5/28/2020 9:54:55 AM Post Reply
The swing voters who will decide the 2020 election oppose by 2:1 the inflow and hiring of more foreign workers amid the coronavirus crash, according to a May 20-21 poll of 1,250 likely voters by Rasmussen Reports.Fifty-nine percent of swing voting “moderate” voters and 56 percent of non-GOP, non-Democrat “other” voters agree that it would be “Better for businesses to raise the pay and try harder to recruit non-working Americans even if it causes prices to rise,” the poll says.In contrast, just 27 percent of moderates and 20 percent of “others” told Rasmussen that it would be “Better for the government to bring in new foreign workers
Stock Market Tells the Tale: Trump
Set to Win in November
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Posted by Imright 5/28/2020 9:38:07 AM Post Reply
What is the stock market telling us about the November election?Despite the fact that America currently has over 38 million unemployed workers, the market is down 8.5% this year, having gone up 32% since the late March low. Why is the stock market going up while our economy teeters on the edge of a Great Depression? There are several factors currently at work in the market with the most obvious being the extraordinary intervention by our leaders in Washington. Congress has authorized mind-boggling amounts of stimulus funds while the Fed has signaled that it is ready to purchase nearly anything and mostly everything.
One-way halls, lunch at desk, playing
alone. L.A. schools could reopen
with stark rules
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Posted by MuncsSister 5/28/2020 9:05:07 AM Post Reply
Sixteen students to a class. One-way hallways. Students lunch at their desks. Children could get one ball to play with — alone. Masks are required. A staggered school day brings on new schedules to juggle. These campus scenarios could play out based on new Los Angeles County school reopening guidelines released Wednesday. This planning document will affect 2 million students and their families as educators undertake a challenge forced on them by the coronavirus crisis: fundamentally redesigning the traditional school day. The safe reopening of schools in California and throughout the nation compels the reimagining — or abandoning — of long-held traditions
Mitt Romney Defends ‘Friend’ Scarborough
From Trump Attacks
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Posted by WhamDBambam 5/28/2020 8:59:24 AM Post Reply
RRepublican Utah Sen. Mitt Romney defended MSNBC host Joe Scarborough Wednesday from President Donald Trump’s accusations that he was involved in the death of former congressional intern Lori Klausutis. “I know Joe Scarborough. Joe is a friend of mine. I don’t know T.J. Klausutis. Joe can weather vile, baseless accusations but T.J.? His heart is breaking. Enough already,” Romney tweeted.
Warren's VP bid faces obstacle:
Her state's Republican governor
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Posted by StormCnter 5/28/2020 8:43:57 AM Post Reply
Buzz is growing about Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s interest in joining former Vice President Joe Biden atop the Democratic presidential ticket, but one of the biggest obstacles she faces is the possibility that her Senate seat could wind up getting filled by a Republican. Warren is in regular contact with Biden, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, and plans to hold a big online fundraiser for him on June 15. The high-profile progressive has also increased her outreach to Biden’s longtime Senate allies, sending the message that she’s eager to join Team Biden, according to Senate sources. Picking Warren could give Biden a boost in the polls.
Looter is shot dead by pawn shop owner and stores are
ransacked and torched as George Floyd protest erupts
in violence and armed vigilantes patrol Minneapolis
streets in second night of violence
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Posted by AltaD 5/28/2020 8:43:01 AM Post Reply
A suspected looter has been shot dead outside a pawn shop after protests over the death of George Floyd descended into chaos Wednesday night and rioters vandalized stores across the city. Minneapolis Department Police Chief John Elder confirmed in a midnight press conference that one person was shot and killed and that another person was being held in custody. (Snip) Stores including Wendy's, Target, Walmart and AutoZone were looted, ransacked and some set alight before rioters tried to bust open an ATM, as many ignored pleas from the Floyd family's lawyer and Minnesota Governor Walz to protest peacefully Wednesday night. Videos showed what was reported to be an apartment building
Dinosaurs Scavenged and Cannibalized
at a Jurassic Site in Colorado
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Posted by StormCnter 5/28/2020 8:36:48 AM Post Reply
The Mygatt-Moore Quarry in the McInnis Canyons National Conservation Area of Western Colorado is barren and rocky, but turn the clocks back 150 million years to the Upper Jurassic and you would find a lush riparian paradise exploding with plant and animal life. Those animals? Dinosaurs. But this wet and rich environment could occasionally turn bone dry. When that happened, rich topsoils cracked like dry skin, plants shriveled, grazers move on or died off, and predators turned to scavenging or even cannibalism. In short, it was chaos. Researchers led by Stephanie K. Drumheller, an adjunct assistant professor in paleontology at the University of Tennessee, painted this vivid picture
The Media’s Tara Reade Stress Test replies
Posted by StormCnter 5/28/2020 8:32:14 AM Post Reply
In March, a former staffer in Joe Biden’s Senate office in the 1990s appeared as a guest on a podcast called the Katie Halper Show and said that in 1993, Biden sexually assaulted her. The emergence of Tara Reade’s story has since served as a kind of stress test for the fourth estate. Would journalists pay it the same heed they had previously granted to allegations against other political figures, such as Donald Trump and Al Franken? Would they apply the same standards of credibility and proof to Reade’s allegations as they had for those made by Christine Blasey Ford against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh,
In praise of Kayleigh McEnany replies
Posted by Judy W. 5/28/2020 7:51:57 AM Post Reply
Is Kayleigh McEnany the best Press Secretary in history? I think she may be. True, it’s early days. She was elevated to the position only in April and presided over her first briefing just a few weeks ago on May 1. But so far her tenure has been glorious. Despite having attended both Georgetown and Harvard, where she took a law degree, she remains quick-witted, forthright and occupies a cant-free zone that suffuses the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room with a spirit of patriotic candor that is as welcome as it is rare in the self-involved purlieus of the so-called mainstream media.
Just How Exaggerated Is
The COVID-19 Death Count?
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Posted by PageTurner 5/28/2020 6:46:44 AM Post Reply
As the “official” tally of COVID-19 deaths tops 100,000 in the U.S., we keep hearing how that number is likely a low-ball estimate. But there’s far more evidence that the death count has been knowingly exaggerated – possibly by a very wide margin. A recent Seattle Times article pretty much lays out the charade going on. The headline reads: “Washington state’s actual coronavirus death toll may be higher than current tallies, health officials say.” But the story itself leads one to the exact opposite conclusion. Well down in the article, the reporter reveals that: “The rapid onslaught of this coronavirus forced
This Election Is Republicans v. China –
Oops, I Mean Democrats
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Posted by MissMolly 5/28/2020 5:10:34 AM Post Reply
It’s pretty clear who the commie bastards known for their shoddy lab practices and their weird fetish for gnawing on pangolins badly want to win in November, and is not Trump and the Republicans. The Chinese communists want their money’s worth, and they will go all-in for the Democrats who find the chance to hurt Trump at the same time they hurt America too delicious to pass up. Plus, the Dems heartily approve of what Mao’s Pals are doing to freedom-loving Hong Kongers, seeing it as a template for what they would love to do to freedom-loving us. We need to understand and accept
American vulnerability and American strength replies
Posted by MissMolly 5/28/2020 5:08:12 AM Post Reply
Early in the COVID-19 pandemic, people predisposed to believe in conspiracies posited the idea that the coronavirus was a Chinese bioweapon manufactured in a Wuhan laboratory. This was always far-fetched. It seemed and still seems far more likely that the virus leaked accidentally from the lab, where safety procedures were known to be sloppy. But one counterargument made against the weapon theory, that the virus was not lethal enough, always seemed unpersuasive. Surely, a smart bioweapon made by a hostile power wanting to supplant America as world leader would not kill tens or hundreds of millions of people. It would infect and kill only
'Tail wagging the dog': Washington Post,
leaker reignited FBI's Flynn probe
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Posted by MissMolly 5/28/2020 5:04:33 AM Post Reply
Not much was going on in the Michael Flynn probe until The Washington Post and a leaker reenergized the FBI, according to a newly disclosed transcript of closed-door testimony by former bureau Director James B. Comey. The FBI had filled out the paperwork to end the Flynn-Russia probe, but Mr. Comey halted the closing in early January 2017. Transcripts emerged of the incoming White House national security adviser talking by phone with Kremlin envoy Sergey Kislyak. The retired three-star Army general and Mr. Kislyak talked about not overreacting to economic sanctions that President Obama imposed on Dec. 31, 2016, in retaliation for Moscow’s election interference.
A congressman caught in the 1970s
Abscam sting is now at the heart of a
Philly election fraud probe, sources say
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Posted by Pluperfect 5/28/2020 5:00:51 AM Post Reply
A central question lingered after federal authorities last week disclosed that a South Philadelphia poll worker had admitted taking bribes to stuff ballot boxes in local elections: Who was the unnamed campaign “Consultant #1” described in court filings as the man who paid Domenick DeMuro, 73, to inflate vote totals on behalf of favored candidates between 2014 and 2016? Prosecutors have declined to say. But two sources briefed on the matter and an Inquirer analysis of campaign finance data and court filings in DeMuro’s case point to one man: former U.S. Rep. Michael “Ozzie” Myers.
Michael Flynn Judge Emmet Sullivan
Needs To Recuse Himself Already
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Posted by Pluperfect 5/28/2020 4:53:40 AM Post Reply
Judge Emmet Sullivan must recuse from the Michael Flynn criminal case because he no longer maintains any semblance of impartiality. On December 1, 2017, Flynn appeared before federal Judge Randolph Contreras and pleaded guilty to one count of making a false statement to FBI agents. Less than a week later, and without explanation, the case was reassigned to Sullivan, who has served as the presiding judge in the Flynn case since then. Circumstances have long suggested that Judge Sullivan holds an anti-Flynn bias. After all, he once intimated during court proceedings that the retired lieutenant general had committed treason.
The Folly of Twitter’s Fact-Check Policy replies
Posted by Pluperfect 5/28/2020 4:50:44 AM Post Reply
No American, not even the president, has an inherent right to a social-media account. Tech companies such as Facebook and Twitter are free to ban any user they see fit. They’re free to fact-check anyone they want, to create a framework of acceptable speech, and to enforce their policies either consistently or capriciously. They’re free to accuse Donald Trump — and only Trump, if they see fit — of being a liar. They’re free to do all of these things. Even if they shouldn’t. Yesterday, after years of pressure from media and Democrats, Twitter labeled two of Trump’s tweets — in which he had claimed that the use
Biden Confuses D-Day With Pearl Harbor replies
Posted by Pluperfect 5/28/2020 4:44:17 AM Post Reply
Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden confused D-Day and Pearl Harbor—as well as the date that Delaware declared its independence from neighboring Pennsylvania—at a Wednesday campaign event. "We declared our independence on December the 7th. It's not just D-Day," Biden said in an online townhall with Pennsylvania governor Tom Wolf, referring to Delaware's breakaway from Pennsylvania. While President Franklin D. Roosevelt did declare December 7 a day that "will live in infamy," the date marks the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor. D-Day, the Allied invasion of Normandy, took place almost three years later, on June 6, 1944.
Rioters Are So Angry About Police
Killing That They... Stole Baby Clothes
and Air Fryers From Nearby Target
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Posted by Pluperfect 5/28/2020 4:40:28 AM Post Reply
There’s a great deal to be upset about regarding the death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police officers under color of authority, but it’s quite another thing for protesters to turn into rioters and steal stuff under cover of righteous indignation. That’s what happened in Minneapolis Wednesday night after Police Chief Medaria Arradondo announced that four police officers involved in the stop on Sunday night were fired. Floyd died in custody Sunday night after getting stopped for forgery. Floyd was held down at his neck by an officer using his knee. Onlookers recorded the hold for minutes as Floyd protested he couldn’t breathe
You can’t mask the Joe Biden mess replies
Posted by MissMolly 5/28/2020 4:33:38 AM Post Reply
I’m sorry, but Joe Biden looked ridiculous wearing a Michael Jackson mask and sunglasses that covered most of his face on Memorial Day. It was his first outing in more than 10 weeks from his Delaware basement and should have been an opportunity to project strength and hope for the campaign ahead. Instead, it was a total downer. Politics is about perception, and the image of Biden that history will record shows a frail and muzzled Democratic presidential nominee. The black mask only accentuates the impression with an extra dash of weirdness.
Choking Out Our Freedoms replies
Posted by MissMolly 5/28/2020 4:28:48 AM Post Reply
Sacramento- I was perusing the internet for stories about the communist Chinese government’s brutal crackdown on Hong Kong’s pro-democracy demonstrators, who were protesting new national security laws and a measure criminalizing “disrespect” for the national anthem. There was a chilling video of police in riot gear firing rubber bullets at and spraying a chemical irritant on the generally peaceful crowd, but then I noticed the story’s dateline: Minneapolis. Oops, these were scenes from a different brutal government. Several hundred U.S. protesters had taken to the streets after a video circulated of a Minnesota officer calmly kneeling for several minutes on the neck of an unarmed man named George Floyd.
'COVID camper' sales surge before
summer amid pandemic: report
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Posted by MissMolly 5/28/2020 4:20:08 AM Post Reply
The future of travel remains uncertain amid the coronavirus pandemic, but the open road remains as alluring as ever. Some RV dealers across the country say that sales are surging amid the ongoing outbreak of the novel coronavirus, Fox 59 reports, as cooped-up adventurers invest in what Bloomberg has dubbed “COVID campers” for road-trip getaways. In Indiana, Mount Comfort RV owner Ken Eckstein said that RV sales are about triple what they were last year.
Medicare chief Verma blasts Cuomo for
trying to deflect blame onto White House
for NY nursing home deaths
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Posted by MissMolly 5/28/2020 4:17:48 AM Post Reply
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Seema Verma fired back at New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo Wednesday after he claimed last week to be following "what the Republican administration said to do" when he ordered nursing homes to admit coronavirus patients who had been discharged from hospitals. Verma told "The Brian Kilmeade Show" on Fox News Radio that neither she nor Trump instructed governors to place infected patients back in their original nursing home setting. "President Trump took very early actions when it came to nursing homes," Verma said. "We prohibited visitors [and] put out guidance to both nursing homes and states."
Let the Sun Shine In replies
Posted by Imright 5/28/2020 12:52:06 AM Post Reply
For a moment in April, the Internet tried to cancel Florida. Photos showing crowds flocking to Jacksonville Beach amid the Covid-19 pandemic brought the hashtag #FloridaMorons to the top of Twitter. The media eagerly spun scenes of ignorant spring breakers endangering themselves and others. Nearly two months after America’s first case of coronavirus, here was Florida’s Republican governor, Ron DeSantis, joining neighboring state Georgia’s “experiment in human sacrifice” by letting locals lift restrictions on their own. Nearly a month later, Jacksonville’s Duval County reports new Covid-19 hospitalizations in the single digits. Rates of hospitalizations, cases, and deaths remain steady across Florida. So far, fewer Floridians
Mark Zuckerberg criticizes Twitter
for fact-checking Trump
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Posted by Imright 5/28/2020 12:47:30 AM Post Reply
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said Twitter was wrong to fact-check President Trump’s tweets that made the dubious claim that mail-in ballots increase voter fraud. Zuckerberg reasoned that the social media platforms shouldn’t be the “arbiters of truth” “We have a different policy, I think, than Twitter on this,” Zuckerberg said in an excerpt from a Fox News interview scheduled to air on The Daily Briefing Thursday. “I just believe strongly that Facebook shouldn’t be the arbiter of truth of everything that people say online,” Zuckerberg went on. “In general, private companies probably shouldn’t be, especially these platform companies, shouldn’t be in the position of doing that.”
Shouting CNBC host explodes on colleague:
‘100k people died and all you did was try
to help your friend the president!’
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Posted by Imright 5/28/2020 12:43:06 AM Post Reply
A CNBC segment quickly erupted into a fiery debate between hosts who battled over the rally of the stock market and support of President Donald Trump.The hosts of CNBC’s “Squawk Box,” Joe Kernen and Andrew Ross Sorkin, locked horns Wednesday as they sparred over the spike in the stock market in an apparent reaction to optimism in the reopening of the nation’s economy after months of coronavirus shutdowns.(Video) Sorkin contended that “a lot of smart people” agree that there is some skepticism about how some stocks were rallying so quickly even though the pandemic had caused so much disruption and unemployment in the country.“Why is that the smart people?!
Nancy Pelosi Delays FISA Vote After
Progressive, Conservative Revolt
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Posted by Imright 5/28/2020 12:31:54 AM Post Reply
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) delayed a vote on Wednesday to reauthorize parts of the FISA program after a revolt from conservatives and progressive Democrats. Pelosi decided to cancel Wednesday’s vote on the FISA reauthorization after President Donald Trump signaled his opposition to the bill. The bill faced increasing opposition as Wednesday progressed, and Pelosi failed to galvanize a coalition that could pass an extension of the FISA program.Trump wrote on Wednesday, “If the FISA Bill is passed tonight on the House floor, I will quickly VETO it.” (Tweet) The House had initially planned to vote on a bipartisan amendment, sponsored by Reps. Zoe Lofgren (D-CA) and Warren Davidson (R-OH),
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