[Epoch Times] More than 2 1/2 years after President Donald Trump assumed office, focus on actions taken during the 2016 presidential campaign is starting to shift toward the CIA and its former director, John Brennan.
While some observers, including this publication, have pointed out for more than a year that Brennan appears to have played a key role in the scandal that’s become known as Spygate, actions taken by Brennan and the CIA now appear to have become a central focus of investigators. That would be the ventriloquist on the right in the graphic.
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) told Fox News’ Maria Bartiromo that Justice Department Inspector General (IG) Michael Horowitz was "doing a very in-depth dive about the FISA warrant application" and "the behavior regarding the counterintelligence operation."
Graham noted that he believed Horowitz’s report would be coming out in "weeks‐not days, not months" and would prove to be "ugly and damning regarding the Department of Justice’s handling of the Russian probe." Graham noted that the IG’s report has been delayed because "every time you turn around, you find something new."
Graham said he wants the IG’s report to be as declassified as possible in order for the "American public to hear the story."
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Everyone talks about Ohr and the Fusion GPS connection to his wife. I thought I remember that she had a formal one to the Agency, and that whole Ham radio workaround for the NSA Hoover collections system? The Brennan and the cabal that appointed him lingering in the shadows...
Courage is needed to go down this path towards the cancerous knot whose face was facade....
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Not that I can tell, JQC. I can't see where Brennan's hand is, though.
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Always moving the release of the IG report back. Graham's comment makes me wonder if they're holding it to inflict maximum damage on the Dems in presidential elections. Drop it - say - Spring 2020?
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[NYPOST] President Trump went on the defensive Monday, shooting down the idea that hosting a G-7 summit at his Miami golf resort would make him richer, telling news hounds, "I don’t want to make money."
"It’s not about me, it’s about getting the right location," Trump said at a closing G-7 presser, in response to a news hound’s question about him profiting from a possible gathering at the Trump National Doral.
"I don’t want to make money. I don’t care about making money."
During an earlier meeting with German Chancellor Angela Merkel ...chancellor of Germany and the impetus behind Germany's remarkably ill-starred immigration program. Merkel used to be referred to by Germans as Mom. Now they make faces at her for inundating the country with Moslem colonists... , the president gushed over his resort’s accommodations, including its proximity to Miami International Airport, in a pitch for why it’s a prime spot to host next year’s G-7 summit.
"They love the location of the hotel," the former real estate mogul said. "We haven’t found anything that’s even close to competing with it. Really you can be there in a matter of minutes after you land."
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Heck, unless the locals start preying on foreign tourist again, its been a prime vacation spot for Euros particularly during winter. Maybe a greater Canadian population concentration outside Ontario as well. On the other hand, given that those who do come are so often the target of their rapacious tax farmers, it might be as welcoming for them as setting up a Cuban embassy in Miami.
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Soon we will hear of how much they are charged and his hotel will make million, etc... The truth is he has to give all profit and gifts back to the Fed. And he does.
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[PJMedia] A new study debunks liberal claims about grinding poverty in the U.S. compared to other developed countries. Accounting for how much America's poorest 20 percent consumes — rather than measures like income that can be misleading for reasons explained below — the study finds that the poorest fifth of Americans consume more resources than the average person in 64 percent of other countries in the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).
On average, a person among the poorest 20 percent of Americans consumes more goods and services than the average person in Canada, Greece, the United Kingdom, Sweden, Australia, Spain, Portugal, Japan, Denmark, Iceland, New Zealand, Slovenia, Slovakia, Israel, South Korea, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Poland, Chile, Hungary, Turkey, and Mexico.
"Our study shows that because of unreported income, charity, and non-cash government benefits like Medicaid and food stamps, consumption by America’s poorest 20 percent exceeds the national averages even in developed nations like Japan, New Zealand and Denmark," James Agresti, president of Just Facts, said in a statement on the report.
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IMHO, Bernie is not a serious contender for POTUS. Can anyone imagine him being taken seriously by foreign leaders or for that matter most Americans? His notions of fiscal responsibility are not realistic and suck. His policies are good for Bernie but not so much for the rest of us. He got rolled by Hillary and there's no reason to believe he wouldn't be rolled or bought off by the deep state again.
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I've long said that every American should visit a country like India to see REAL poverty (and India is by no means the poorest country in the world.)
I joke that in America "poor" people complain that they only get 200 channels on their 65" TVs. Whereas in Bangalore, India I saw people living in corrugated metal shacks, with no running water or electricity - next to a stream that was essentially an open sewer.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia ||
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Nations like Chile, Slovenia, Poland, and Portugal are 2nd world, not developed. Mexico and Turkey are still 3rd world. And pure dollar signs don't take into account purchasing power parity. In Asia, their GDP-per-capita adjusts upwards. In Europe, it adjusts downwards. (Taiwan, for instance, technically only has a GDP per capita of $26,000, but it adjusts upwards all the way up to $55,000 due to the very low cost of goods and services. This happens (in a lesser proportion) to Japan and South Korea as well. It is fine and dandy to say that the amount of money people consume don't match up, but there is a significant difference in the expense of things in different parts of the world (which is why Europe is even poorer than it thinks it is).
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It's because of the democrat perception of conservatives and Trump, and a serious disdain for their own constituencies. The premise for fielding these prize idiots in the races is simply 'Persona', the cult factor. They believe that 'if a reality show guy', a larger than life 'gilded hotel tycoon' can win a Presidency, then at least giving him a fight ought to be easy for sideshow freaks like these.
They are so out of marbles themselves, they cannot yet comprehend why we support him, or why Americans elected him. Their terms 'deplorables' and 'irredeemables' clearly indicates that they believe conservative voters are ill-educated, unwashed idiots, regressive schlemiels waiting to be put out of their misery. Their own voters they are convinced, are a spectrum of misfits ranging from retarded to dysfunctional to fundamentalist. If you notice, there's a democrat candidate for every frequency of crazy on the ticket.
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Liberals care about the difference between poor and rich (not ultra Democrat Rich though) not about how these compare to others.
Comparing to others to say our poor are actually Euro-middle class is logical thinking and not emotional.
Suggesting that if we take all the money from the rich (not ultra Democrat Rich though) to give to the poor won't make the poor any better off misses the point in that such a move would make the rich poor as well, thus removing the envy gap.
I want to know how much he left for a tip; I'll guess somewhere between $0.00 and $0.01...
[SF Gate] - Sen. Bernie Sanders was in town for the Democratic National Committee's summer meeting and dined out with staff at San Francisco's iconic John's Grill this weekend, according to Politico.
The presidential hopeful didn't impress the owner of the 111-year-old restaurant, John Konstin.
"It was all very nice, except for cranky Bernie," Konstin told Politico.
Konstin told SFGATE the U.S. senator from Vermont declined to shake hands and take photos and "was rude" to staff.
"He was just rude, not friendly," Konstin said. "I think he was just hungry and didn't want to be a politician. He lost my vote."
[NYPOST] Rep. Joe Kennedy III (D-Mass.) said Monday that he is eyeing a run for the US Senate in 2020, a move that would set up a major Democratic primary fight against Sen. Ed Markey ...U.S. Representative-for-Life from Massachusetts, serving since 1976. He is a member of the Democratic Party, naturally.... "Over the past few weeks I’ve begun to consider a run for the U.S. Senate. This isn’t a decision I’m approaching lightly and ‐ to be completely candid ‐ I wasn’t expecting to share my thoughts so soon," Kennedy wrote in a Facebook post.
The 38-year-old congressman went on to write that he had not yet made a final decision, saying it would come in "the next couple weeks," after "talking to as many [Massachusetts voters] as I can."
Despite his hesitance to confirm his candidacy, Kennedy has already filed to run for a US Senate seat in Massachusetts with the Federal Election Commission, according to FEC records.
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Yeah - Bobby Jr lives in his own fantasy world. He is a prominent anti-vaxxer. He once sued hog producers in North Carolina (when he lived in New York). The suit was tossed for lack of standing. I am not a lawyer, but even I would have looked for at least a token NC resident who could claim "harm" from the hog farms.
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[NYPOST] Former Vice President Joe Foreign Policy Whiz Kid Biden ...When the stock market crashed, Franklin Roosevelt got on the television and didn't just talk about the princes of greed. He said, 'Look, here's what happened.'... is losing ground in the Democratic presidential primary race, according to a new Monmouth University poll released Monday.
Biden polled at just 19% ‐ down from 32% from Monmouth’s last poll in June.
The drop in support now places Biden in a virtual three-way tie with Sens. Bernie Sanders ...The only first openly Socialist member of the U.S. Senate. Sanders was Representative-for-Life from Vermont until moving to the Senate for the rest of his life in 2006, assuming the seat vacated by Jim Jeffords. He ran for the 2016 nomination for president, to be cheated out of it by Hillary Clinton, then went back to being a socialist, waiting for 2020 to roll around... and Elizabeth Being Native American has been part of my story since the day I was born Warren ...Dem Senatrix from Massachussetts, who traces her noble lineage all the way back to Big Chief Spouting Bull. It has been alleged that she speaks with forked tongue but she denies that. She had a DNA test to prove her lineage and it turns out she's colorless... , who topped the poll with 20% of support each from registered Democrats and Democratic-leaning voters across the country.
Support for Warren and Sanders rose since the last poll, up from 14% and 15%, respectively.
Biden lost support from voters across the board, including Democrats, black voters, men and women. The drop in those areas were shifted almost equally to Warren and Sanders.
Support for the rest of the Democrats in the packed primary field remained generally intact, including Mayor Bill de Blasio ...cryptocommie mayor of New York and for some reason a Dem candidate for president in 2020. Corrupt and incompetent, his qualifications for office seem to consist of being married to a black woman, with whom he honeymooned in Cuba. He has a preppy-looking son named Dante, whose Divine Comedy involved getting his back hair up when a police car drove past him slowly... , who’s still polling at just 1%.
The latest poll was conducted from Aug. 16 to Aug. 20, and the results were based off 298 registered voters who identify as Democrats or lean left.
The poll has a plus/minus 5.7 percentage-point margin of error.
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That "don't distract your enemy while they are defeating themselves" advice is looking good...
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Definitely looks like an outlier. Only 298 Democrats polled? Emerson and Politico (more recent polls) have Biden over 30%.
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EC - Biden's not a bad guy but it's obvious that his mind is starting to go.
He clearly doesn't have the mental stamina - tenacity and almost superhuman ability to focus and refocus and refocus again, dozens of times every day, and without making mistakes of any kind - that is needed for the ordeal by fire that is a US presidential campaign.
[THEGATEWAYPUNDIT] Democratic presidential candidate Joe Foreign Policy Whiz Kid Biden ...When the stock market crashed, Franklin Roosevelt got on the television and didn't just talk about the princes of greed. He said, 'Look, here's what happened.'... claimed that he’s "not going nuts," despite yet another gaffe at a campaign stop in New Hampshire.
Biden, 76, was at his second campaign stop of the day, after speaking at Dartmouth College.
"I want to be clear, I’m not going nuts," Biden told the crowd after forgetting where he had just given a speech a few hours earlier. "I’m not sure whether it was the medical school or where the hell I spoke. But it was on the campus," Biden added, according to a report from the Washington Examiner.
During a previous trip to the state Biden also mistook New Hampshire for Vermont, saying that "I love this place. Look, what’s not to like about Vermont in terms of the beauty of it? And what a neat town ... everybody has been really friendly. I like Keene a lot."
The blunders have lead to many questioning if the septuagenarian would be able to take on President Trump in the election, let alone run the White House.
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[Epoch Times] More than 2 1/2 years after President Donald Trump assumed office, focus on actions taken during the 2016 presidential campaign is starting to shift toward the CIA and its former director, John Brennan.
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[NYPOST] Rep. Joe Kennedy III (D-Mass.) said Monday that he is eyeing a run for the US Senate in 2020, a move that would set up a major Democratic primary fight against Sen. 
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