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True Pundit
by admin
5/4/2018

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What were once whispers in the corridors of the White House and Beltway discussing the possible demise of the FBI have grown into more mainstream conversations among administration insiders.

“The president is not happy with the Justice Department and he is not happy with the FBI director,”  one high-level White House official said. “We’re all dealing with reality here that what happened with the FBI under (Robert) Mueller and (James) Comey. It might be a lost ship at this point.”

Talk in the Beltway of simply sacking the FBI as we know it today and starting over with a sleek, honest version of the once-elite law enforcement agency, is certainly now in the pipeline.

Trump professed recently he at some point will intervene to correct the wrongs of the Justice Department and FBI, if what he considers injustices against his White House continue.

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https://truepundit.com/trump-considers-disbanding-or-gutting-fbi-wrays-fbi-might-be-a-lost-ship/

Photo Illustration by Lyne Lucien/The Daily Beast

The former U.S. attorney and new member of Trump’s legal team contradicted prior White House statements during an appearance on Sean Hannity’s show.

Daily Beast
by Harry Siegel
5/2/2018

Excerpt:

In a remarkable appearance Wednesday, Rudy Giuliani said Donald Trump had indeed repaid the money used to buy Stormy Daniels’ silence about their affair, and that Trump had indeed fired then-FBI Director James Comey because Comey wouldn’t tell Trump that he wasn’t under investigation.

Both statements contradict the story the president himself and his White House have previously offered.

Giuliani’s appearance with Sean Hannity—one of the first by the former U.S. attorney since he joined Trump’s rapidly assembled new legal team, which has promised a tougher response to special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe—left the Fox News host and frequent Trump adviser and enabler openly stunned.

In an appearance stuffed with odd factual errors, like saying no president had ever before been subpoenaed, and sweeping claims about “criminal” Hillary Clinton and “disgraceful liar” and “pervert” James Comey, Giuliani flat out said Trump had paid back the money shelled out to buy the porn star’s silence, and that there was no problem there.

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Former Trump campaign adviser Michael Caputo says he has spent $125,000 on lawyers to comply with the demands of the Senate Intelligence Committee

• Former Trump campaign adviser Michael Caputo says he has spent $125,000 on lawyers to comply with the demands of the Senate Intelligence Committee
• He lived in Russia for two decades but insists he knows nothing about any links between Trump’s campaign and the Kremlin
• Delivered a scathing rebuke to Senate aides Tuesday, saying ‘God damn you to hell’ for making him sell his house and jeopardize his children’s future
• ‘I want to know who cost us so much money, who crushed our kids, who forced us out of our home, all because you lost an election,’ he told Democrats
• Caputo also says Democratic aides are helping a former committee staffer who is continuing to add to the salacious anti-Trump ‘dirty dossier

Daily Mail
by David Martosko, Us Political Editor For Dailymail.com
5/2/2018

Excerpt:

A former campaign communications adviser to Donald Trump blew up at Democratic U.S. Senate aides on Tuesday at the end of a behind-the-scenes grilling connected to their wide-ranging Russia investigation.

New York-based political consultant Michael Caputo said he has spent $125,000 on attorneys to help him navigate the committee’s demands for documents and testimony, ruining his children’s economic future and forcing him to sell his family home.

Calling the probe a ‘witch hunt,’ Caputo demanded to know who is funding a secretive effort to continue digging into unsubstantiated allegations that Trump has ties with the Kremlin.

‘What America needs is an investigation of the investigators,’ he said. ‘I want to know: Who is paying for the spies’ work and coordinating this attack on President Donald Trump?’

‘I want to know who cost us so much money, who crushed our kids, who forced us out of our home, all because you lost an election. I want to know because God Damn you to Hell.’

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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5682739/God-damn-hell-Former-Trump-campaign-aide-explodes-Senate-aides.html

Image source: IDLEHEARTS – https://www.idlehearts.com/1143672/why-is-it-there-are-so-many-more-horses-asses-than-there-are-horses-2

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This increasingly observed phenomenon can concisely be expressed
(sort of) mathematically as: 

HA/H  >>>>>>>> 1.0

Gina Haspel
President Trump’s Choice for New CIA Director

White House

May 1, 2018

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Last week, the Senate confirmed then-Director of the Central Intelligence Agency Mike Pompeo to be America’s 70th Secretary of State. Upon Secretary Pompeo’s swearing-in, CIA Deputy Director Gina Haspel assumed the role of Acting Director for the Agency. Haspel is President Donald J. Trump’s choice to succeed Mike Pompeo at the CIA’s helm on a permanent basis.

The President’s decision was an easy one. Like Secretary Pompeo, Haspel’s credentials as a public servant are far-reaching. She joined the CIA in the waning days of the Cold War and has spent many of the 33 years since in dangerous posts and foreign capitals on America’s behalf. That dedication has earned her multiple honors over her career, including the Intelligence Medal of Merit, a Presidential Rank Award, and the George H. W. Bush Award for Excellence in Counterterrorism.

Haspel’s first overseas assignment was as a case officer in Africa. Years later, with the fight against al Qaeda heating up, she requested a transfer to the CIA’s Counter Terrorism Center. Her first day on the job was September 11, 2001.

Service in the CIA is largely quiet, behind-the-scenes work to keep America safe. The names of these men and women are often unknown to the wider public, but their contributions to national security are indispensable. Haspel’s promotion from within the Agency is a testament to the crucial work of these public servants.

Her rise is also a milestone for women. She is the first woman in the CIA’s 70-year history to climb the ranks to become Deputy Director, as well as the first woman to be nominated for CIA Director. When Haspel first took over as a Chief of Station in a tumultuous capital abroad, the skepticism of some of her male colleagues was obvious. It didn’t take long for her to prove the doubters wrong.

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https://www.whitehouse.gov/articles/cia-director-one-accomplished-officers-generation/

© AFP / by Esteban ROJAS | Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro announcing the increase of the montly minimum wage

France 24
5/1/2018

Excerpt:

CARACAS (AFP) – 

When Yolanda Abreu got her check for severance pay after five years working as a cardiologist, she let out a laugh of sheer disbelief: it was barely enough for a cup of coffee.

Like her, millions of Venezuelans have seen their salaries decimated by rampant hyperinflation that is expected to drive prices up by 13,000 percent this year, IMF figures show.

Her story hit the headlines after she tweeted a photo of the check for 156,584.29 bolivars, which equates to about $0.20 on the black market.

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http://www.france24.com/en/20180501-venezuela-five-years-severance-pay-now-buys-coffee

Image source: Drudge Report, April 29, 2018, 8:00 am ET — http://www.drudgereport.com/

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Image source: YouTube, April 29, 2018, 8:00 ET, “White House Correspondents’ Dinner: Michelle Wolf FULL monologue”, Published on April 28, 2018 by ‘Global News — https://youtu.be/lJlWGO5XHPk

American Thinker
by Brian C. Joondeph
4/25/2018

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As America approaches her 250th birthday, her instruction manual, the U.S. Constitution, is under assault as never before.  The First Amendment is under attack by campus speech police and social media, censoring and deciding which political statements are welcomed and which are verboten.  The Second Amendment is threatened by leftist elitists happy to ban guns for the law-abiding as long as they can have armed guards protecting themselves and their families from the criminals who don’t give a whit about whatever gun laws the left proposes.

It’s not only the Bill of Rights under assault, but also Article Two of the Constitution – specifically, the first section, detailing how a president is elected to a four-year term.

President Donald Trump was lawfully and constitutionally elected to serve as America’s 45th president for a term of four years, commencing in January 2017.  Unless he is impeached and removed from office, as dictated by the Constitution, for high crimes and misdemeanors, he is entitled to serve through January 2021.  If he chooses to seek a second term and the voters re-elect him, he may serve eight years.

This is how our government works: the peaceful transition of power from one president to the next.  At least, this is how it is supposed to work and has for the first 44 American presidents.

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https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2018/04/are_there_any_adults_left_in_washington_dc.html

On This Date: In 1976, protesters tried to burn an American flag at Dodger Stadium.

Outfielder Rick Monday wasn’t having any of that. pic.twitter.com/YyQ5tw9yIv

— ESPN (@espn) April 25, 2018

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(Jeff Robbins/AP)

Remembering baseball’s greatest play 42 years ago today

Washington Examiner
by Philip Wegmann
4/25/2018

Excerpt:

Rick Monday is a retired baseball player, more specifically a left fielder who batted left and threw left, who was voted an All Star twice, and who played in two World Series Championships during his 19 seasons. But the best play Monday ever made, the one he is famous for, happened during warm ups between the fourth and the fifth inning.

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https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/rick-monday-flag-burners-dodgers-stadium

Gateway Pundit
by Jim Hoft (Guest post by Joe Hoft)
4/25/2018

Excerpt:

Legal expert and lawyer Robert Barnes provided some expert analysis last night on Twitter about the legal implications former FBI Director and “Crooked Cardinal” James Comey is in. Comey’s leaks are highly likely to place Comey in prison [where he belongs] for many years.

Robert Barnes from Barnes Law tweeted the following set of tweets last night about the legal jeopardy that crooked Comey put himself in –

THREAD: As explained on @foxnewsnight w/ @ShannonBream, there is probable cause @Comey committed CRIMINAL ESPIONAGE against Trump when he leaked #ComeyMemos. The law punishes espionage w/ a 10 year federal prison sentence & can be found at 18 USC 793(f). https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/793 …

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http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2018/04/legal-expert-on-comey-leaks-probable-cause-comey-committed-criminal-espionage-punishable-with-10-years-in-prison/