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As American Cities Burn, Trump Declares 'ANTIFA' a Terrorist Group
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China-Japan-Koreas
Xi's wife and daughter left him over Hong Kong last year.
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Posted by: 3dc || 05/31/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  not happy with what he did to #HongKong

Naw, they just didn't want to be known as "Poohpsie" and Pooh-Pooh".
Posted by: Mercutio || 05/31/2020 13:31 Comments || Top||

#2  What kinda of autocrat is this Xi, can't keep order in his own house?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 05/31/2020 13:34 Comments || Top||

#3  Kinda dicey business having differences like that with your spouse when he just happens to be the most ruthless and powerful dictator in the world. Could be hazardous to one's health.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 05/31/2020 15:01 Comments || Top||

#4  Naw, they just didn't want to be known as "Poohpsie" and Pooh-Pooh".

Chicks dig bad boys, not ones nick-named after stuffed animals.
Posted by: SteveS || 05/31/2020 15:46 Comments || Top||

#5  or Piglet
Posted by: Frank G || 05/31/2020 16:10 Comments || Top||

#6  Even B1den is better than poo.
Posted by: Jealet Hitler8320 || 05/31/2020 17:21 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Schumer Calls On GOP To Cancel ‘Conspiracy' Hearings On Origins Of Trump-Russia Probe
Trying to stop the truth
[Daily Caller] Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer on Friday called on Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to cancel a hearing next week for Rod Rosenstein, the former deputy attorney general who launched the special counsel's investigation into possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia.

Schumer's request is a far cry from earlier in the Trump administration, when he called for public hearings for Trump associates regarding possible links to the Russian government.

Schumer accused Republicans of holding the Rosenstein hearing to "chase wild conspiracy theories" in order to help President Donald Trump's re-election campaign.

"With our country in crisis, Senate Republicans have become a conspiracy caucus," Schumer wrote in a letter to his fellow Democrats on Friday. "Leader McConnell should instruct these committees to cancel these conspiracy hearings."

Like many congressional Democrats, Schumer advanced the now-debunked conspiracy theory that the Trump campaign colluded with the Kremlin to influence the 2016 election.

"On guns and on Russian collusion investigation, the silence of my Republican Senate colleagues is deafening," he tweeted on Feb. 18, 2018.

Since then, the special counsel released a report that found no evidence that any Trump associates conspired with Russia to influence the election.

Rosenstein will testify on June 3 before the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Posted by: Frank G || 05/31/2020 06:15 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Screw you, Chuckie. Turnabout is fair play,
Posted by: Clem || 05/31/2020 6:32 Comments || Top||

#2  So he's going to keep his Antifa troops at war burning cities unless the hearings are canceled?
Posted by: 3dc || 05/31/2020 7:44 Comments || Top||

#3  Fat chance forehead boy.
Posted by: DarthVader || 05/31/2020 10:01 Comments || Top||

#4  Up = down
Preposterous fantasy = truth
Truth = "conspiracy theory"
Posted by: Lex || 05/31/2020 10:04 Comments || Top||

#5  Feels like the darkest before the dawn moment in our country. Like the left is pulling all stops lately to stave off their final collapse.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 05/31/2020 10:48 Comments || Top||

#6  I'm so happy having this ineffectual wimp as Senate minority 'leader'.
Posted by: Raj || 05/31/2020 10:58 Comments || Top||

#7  Did his fat pig niece ever go to Spain yet?
Posted by: Clem || 05/31/2020 11:31 Comments || Top||

#8  You mean joke-stealing Amy Schumer? No
Posted by: Frank G || 05/31/2020 12:07 Comments || Top||

#9  How about they raid every democrats office and home and seize all records paper and electronic? Any evidence of crimes will then be prosecuted. That's basically what the Dems have done to Trump.
Posted by: Silentbrick || 05/31/2020 12:36 Comments || Top||

#10  Enemies Foreign and Domestic.
Foreign => CCP
Domestic => Democrats

Occam’s Machete
Posted by: Alaska Paul || 05/31/2020 13:23 Comments || Top||

#11  I never put it together that amy schumer is chucks niece. Now I understand how she has a a "career".
Posted by: Chris || 05/31/2020 15:48 Comments || Top||


Declassified Flynn Transcripts Contradict Key Mueller Claims Against Flynn
[BlabberBuzz] Highly sought-after summaries and transcripts of intercepted phone calls between former White House National Security Adviser Michael Flynn and Russian ambassador Sergei Kislyak contradict key claims made by former Special Counsel Robert Mueller in his criminal case against Flynn.

The transcripts were provided to Congress on Friday and obtained by The Federalist. You can read the full documents here and here.

The intercept transcripts and summaries released on Friday afternoon cover calls between Flynn and Russian ambassador Kislyak or his representatives on December 22, 2016; December 23, 2016; December 29, 2016; December 31, 2016; January 12, 2017; and January 19, 2017. The substance of the December 22 conversation remains entirely classified, while the remaining transcripts and conversations are only lightly redacted.

The transcripts, which were declassified by former acting Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Ric Grenell and current DNI John Ratcliffe, were provided to Congress by Ratcliffe, who began working in the position earlier this week following full Senate confirmation of his nomination. Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wisc.) and Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), the chairmen of the Homeland Security and Finance committees, respectively, had repeatedly called for the transcripts to be declassified and provided to Congress.

Flynn was charged by Mueller in 2017 with making false statements to federal officials about conversations he had with Kislyak on December 22 and December 29, 2017.

According to the charging documents from Mueller, Flynn allegedly falsely claimed to Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) agents that he did not ask Kislyak to "refrain from escalating" in response to U.S. expulsion of Russian diplomats and falsely claimed that he did not ask Kislyak to help defeat an anti-Israel resolution pending before the United Nations at the time. Mueller also claimed that Flynn lied when he said he didn’t remember Kislyak telling him that Russia would "moderate its response" to the expulsions.
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/31/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Mueller and his entire team need to be cuffed, frog-marched to jail, and locked away while everything they did is examined under a microscope. Chuckie Schumer might need to be locked up with them.
Posted by: Old Patriot || 05/31/2020 17:30 Comments || Top||


Government
BOOM – Dana Boente Removed! – FBI Chief Legal Counsel Forced to Resign…
Long, detailed, names names.
[ConservativeTreehouse] Finally, the DOJ has moved to remove one of the biggest background corrupt officials within the FBI. According to multiple media sources FBI chief legal counsel Dana Boente was forced to resign on Friday. Finally, sunlight has removed a very corrupt player.

In prior positions as U.S. Attorney for Virginia; and while leading the DOJ National Security Division; and then later shifting to the FBI as chief legal counsel under Chris Wray; Dana Boente was at the epicenter of corrupt intent and malign activity toward the Trump administration.
"Pack yer shit and git!"
Posted by: Sneque Shineth7419 || 05/31/2020 00:24 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Great article!
Posted by: 3dc || 05/31/2020 1:42 Comments || Top||

#2  FBI General Counsel Dana Boente to retire from bureau, Wray says
Posted by: Skidmark || 05/31/2020 10:37 Comments || Top||

#3  Let Wray be next.
Posted by: Sheter Grens9560 || 05/31/2020 11:31 Comments || Top||

#4  Bottle rockets and M-80's when he's gone. We've simply got to do better than that crooked SOB.
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/31/2020 11:33 Comments || Top||

#5  Crooked SOB seems to be a common, and appropriate, appellation for a lot of DOJ types these days, no?
Posted by: AlanC || 05/31/2020 11:47 Comments || Top||

#6  And it only took three and a half years.
Posted by: charger || 05/31/2020 14:29 Comments || Top||

#7  Drainin' the swamp be hard.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 05/31/2020 15:03 Comments || Top||

#8  Now do Wray. I hear Grennell is available for temporary clean-up jobs, while we look for a non-swamper to take over the FBI.
Posted by: Marilyn Tojo7566 || 05/31/2020 23:37 Comments || Top||

#9  Seconded. Ric to the rescue.
Posted by: Lex || 05/31/2020 23:38 Comments || Top||



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