[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] US Ambassador Nikki Haley ...Trump administration's ambassador to the UN. First woman to serve as Governor of South Carolina, and the second Indian-American governor in the country, after Bobby Jindal of Louisiana. At the age of 39, Haley was the youngest governor in the U.S., a distinction formerly held by Jindal. She is a Republican, which really grates on the Dems... has slammed rumors that she was having an affair with President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... as "highly offensive" and "disgusting."
The rumors stem from author Michael Wolff of the best-seller "Fire and Fury," who suggested in an interview that Trump was having an affair and that the liaison was with someone detailed in his book.
Wolff wrote in his book that Haley, the most high-profile woman in Trump's administration, was positioning herself as the president's heir apparent.
In an interview with Politico's Women Rule podcast on Thursday, Haley shot down talk of being romantically involved with the US president.
"It is absolutely not true," Haley said. "It is highly offensive, and it's disgusting."
She hit back at Wolff's assertion in his book that she was spending a lot of private time with Trump on his presidential plane and in the Oval Office.
"I have literally been on Air Force One once and there were several people in the room when I was there," Haley said.
"He says that I've been talking a lot with the president in the Oval about my political future. I've never talked once to the president about my future and I am never alone with him."
Haley attributed the rumors to sexism from a "small group of men" uneasy with strong-willed women.
"Most men respect women but there is a small group of men, that if you just do your job and you try and do it well and you are outspoken about it, they resent it. And they think the only option is to bring you down," she said.
There are women like that, too — the crabs-in-a-bucket problem.
The former South Carolina governor who backed Trump rival Marco Rubio The diminutive 13-year-old Republican U.S. Senator from Florida... for the Republican nomination said she and Trump are in agreement on almost all policy issues.
"We get along great, and I agree with almost everything that he has done," she said.
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Why? Because like with that stupid dossier, every claim in the book that’s knocked down makes the author less authoritative and his claims less believable.
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"Why does she even feel the need to defend herself against these allegations?"
You know, Gorb, I almost think ignoring them forever may become the way to deal with it, but.... Trump has played them like a violin thus far.
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#2 Why does she even feel the need to defend herself against these allegations?
Possibly the experience of watching Bush "taking the high road" and being used as a punching bag makes people reflect on the virtues of "punching back twice as hard."
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In the past Republicans did what you suggest, allowing slurs from Democrats to go unanswered as beneath contempt.
That strategy gives the slur spouters the last word on the subject. And it is the last word that most people remember. By hitting back, people remember her rejoinder. Trump hits back in a way which draws out semi-deranged interpretations of his comments from the press, which he counterpunches again and gets the last word.
Sarah Palin never answered the parodies of Tina Fey and so the uninformed remembered them and attributed them to Governor Palin. The press banged away at Bush who never answered and they wore down his reputation.
Trump seems to understand how to get the last word much more than his adversaries do. He somehow always manages to make them look ugly.
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#6, Hear, hear - "ignoring bullies" never works (too bad she can't push their heads into toilet bowl and flush).
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...Sadly, Ambassador Haley had the same problem here in SC.
Mike
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Discredited Michael Wolff author of discredited "Fire and Fury" published this trash. There have been zero past indications or even rumors of affairs on the part of Ambo Nikki Haley. The left is getting increasing crazy and unhinged. They are hoping that something/anything will stick to Trump. They believe that everyone plays by the same playbook they use in their own lives.
[DAWN] Dutch intelligence services have provided "crucial evidence" to US counterparts about Russian meddling in the 2016 elections, Dutch media reported on Friday.
After penetrating the network of Russian hackers known as Cozy Bear, the Dutch agents alerted US spy chiefs as they watched the Russians transfer "thousands" of Democratic Party emails ahead of the presidential vote.
The Dutch national intelligence service (AIVD) had been watching the notorious group since 2014, according to the respected Volkskrant daily, and a Dutch TV news programme Nieuwsuur.
They have provided "crucial evidence of the Russian involvement" as well as "technical" proof in the hacking of the US Democratic Party, the reports said, citing anonymous US and Dutch sources.
After digging themselves by chance into the Russians’ computer network run out of a university building near Moscow’s Red Square, the Dutch agents also gained access to the security cameras surveilling the room.
"Not only can the intelligence service now see what the Russians are doing, they can also see who’s doing it," the Volkskrant said.
The AIVD alerted its US counterparts when in 2015 it became a "witness to the Russian hackers harassing and penetrating the leaders of the Democratic Party, transferring thousands of emails and documents," it said.
"Yet, it will be months before the United States realise what this warning means: that with these hacks the Russians have interfered with the American elections. And the AIVD hackers have seen it happening before their very eyes." Pictures obtained from the security cameras, led the AIVD to conclude that Cozy Bear is directed by Russia’s external intelligence agency, the SVR.
Cozy Bear has been widely blamed for meddling in the American elections won by Republican President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... Despite Trump’s vehement denials of working with the Russians, his White House is now under investigation for possible collusion by special prosecutor Robert Mueller.
The information provided by the Dutch was "relevant material" to Mueller’s team, Volkskrant said.
In the past eight months, members of Trump’s campaign, family and White House staff have all been interviewed, and four indictments have been issued, with two guilty pleas as the investigation has spiralled closer to Trump himself.
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with two guilty pleas
For lying. Nothing to do with the Russians. BTW, who planted this Dutch gambit? Who's verified it?
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Dipshit John Podesta getting phished is NOT hacking
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“The Dutch access provides crucial evidence of the Russian involvement in the hacking of the Democratic Party, according to six American and Dutch sources who are familiar with the material, but wish to remain anonymous.”
but wish to remain anonymous? Really?
There is an alternative interpretation of the facts published at Zero Hedge. Dutch ‘Cozy Bear’ Farce Does Not Show DNC Emails Were Hacked By Russians. Here.
Crowdstrike was the only organization to see the DNC servers. Crowdstrike has been linked to the DNC/Hillary. They backed off on the assertion that it was the Russians. Seems like Cozy Bear and Fancy Bear are back in vogue. Moreover, Comey and the FBI never obtained the servers for forensic examination. In light of recent information about the behavior of members of the FBI and DOJ during the Obama administration, IMO there needs to be a thorough examination of this entire fake Dem Russian dossier, the DNC servers, Hillary's servergate and everyone involved in this Dem manufactured mess.
Previously, Adam Carter has made a good argument, based on forensic analysis, for information on the DNC servers most likely being taken by Dem-insider and whistleblower Seth Rich.
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A last ditch effort to prop up the collusion/it was the Russians narrative.
Do you really think the two premier hackers in the world would let a couple of Dutch kids hack into their surveillance cameras??? Really am I that stupid to believe this story?
The Israelis are different. If this story had come out of one of the Shin Bet front organizations, I would sit up and pay attention. It didn't so to me this just more liberal hide the story with BS.
Still trying to undercut the study that showed the emails weren't hacked, it had to be a download. AND falling for a pfishing scam?? Really? Crap even my free copy of AVG can cut out a pfishing attack...or was the DNC using that Russian antivirus stuff...
[FoxNews] A cabal of Hollywood elites, progressive groups and social activists are planning a "People’s State of the Union" as a "public alternative" on the eve of President Donald Trump’s first State of the Union address. A 'public alternative' to a speech that won't be given until 24 hours later and whose content you are completely unaware of. Got it.
Notable participants in Monday's scheduled event in New York City include filmmaker Michael Moore, whose last film. Michael Moore in Trumpland, made a whopping $149,090 which was probably just enough to cover his Hostess Twinkie tab
actors Mark Ruffalo, best known for playing some green fella
Alyssa Milano, who is no longer the boss, but does a mean weight control system infomercial
Rosie Perez who may not be workin' but looks pretty darn good
and Whoopi Goldberg who spends her afternoons on national television going on about something or another with no clear or direct connection to reality.
They'll congregate at the Town Hall in Manhattan, the venue where suffragists met in the 1920s. Singer Andra Day and rapper Common will be performing the song, "Stand Up for Something," from the biopic film "Marshall," about the late Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall.
Tickets were still available Saturday at $47 each. I'm guessing either demand isn't quite what they thought it was, or the 'people' they had in mind had a lot better things to do than blow a few hours' pay listening to these clowns tell them how bad they had it.
The event, coordinated by unions, organizers of the Women’s March and Planned Parenthood, is being marketed as a celebration of the "resistance," closer to "the people’s point of view," USA Today reported. I wish it were possible to zap everyone who uses the word 'resistance' back in time to The Second Great Unpleasantness, so they could see what it was like to really try and resist two of the most brutal dictatorships in history. I suspect they'd last about five minutes before either curling up in a ball sobbing or ratting out everyone they knew in a desperate attempt to be killed last.
Mike
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Gad, these dim lightbulbs have no clue how the middle class live or how their progressive ideas are destroying the lives and dreams of thousands of hard working Americans.
I'd like to see a use tax on private jets in California and see how that plays with these bloviated idiots
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Our elites are the popular might,
Awakened in sweetness and light!
That benighted extreme,
The US? Just a dream
Of the one-percent ultra-right white.
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$47/ticket? That will be 2 month's of a year's subscription of my InReach GPS/Iridium safety beacon. Hmmmm.....which is the greatest value to me. Choices....choices.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] It’s difficult to understand the fierce and ongoing conflict between Trump and the American media without understanding the secret motives of the two parties. Trump has raised the slogan "America First| and the media has been critical of him as he continued to lament America’s status. However, nothing needs reforming like other people's bad habits... these are how things look on the outside as the real conflict has nothing to do with all this.
Take the book "Fire and Fury," in which author Michael Wolff attacked the American president, as an example. Apart from the profit made (more than 1 million copies were sold in a week), Wolff wanted to show that the president has mental health issues by citing his embarrassing behavior, careless decisions, provocative tweets and unhealthy eating habits. The aim is to collect as much evidence as possible from within the White House to get people to doubt Trump’s mental health and show that he is not capable of assuming the difficult and sensitive tasks of a president and he must therefore be expelled from office.
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Deeply flawed Kings may sometimes turn up golden.
Americans find one now and again.
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It’s difficult to understand the fierce and ongoing conflict between Trump and the American media
Yeah - if you've been living under a pile of fucking rocks for a few decades. The first world news media is chock full of leftists and have zero interest in government accountability unless a given institution is under Republican control. The difference now is that not only does Trump fight back, he fights so much better than the press can and he loves doing it.
There are no 'secret motives' here - this author's an assclown who's reaching for something that isn't there, which is typical of the majority of news articles out there, which is how we get fake news. Piss off, camel jockey.
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I have a fervent hope that the MSM destroys itself and is replaced with an authentic media that publishes or airs something that resembles the truth. The current MSM has been taken over by billionaire oligarchs and the Washington Deep State who use it to pump out Dem/left/radical propaganda.
[AmericanThinker] The FBI and DOJ
We’re still waiting for the release of the four-page memo prepared by Congressman Devin Nunes on the investigation into the FBI and DOJ’s skullduggery in the "collusion" investigation, which his colleagues who have read it describe as "troubling" "shocking" "deeply disturbing." From what we are seeing in the publicly released communications of some of the participants, it is not far-fetched to consider that sedition charges may be in the works.
18 U.S. Code § 2384 - Seditious conspiracy
US Code
If two or more persons in any State or Territory, or in any place subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, conspire to overthrow, put down, or to destroy by force the Government of the United States, or to levy war against them, or to oppose by force the authority thereof, or by force to prevent, hinder, or delay the execution of any law of the United States, or by force to seize, take, or possess any property of the United States contrary to the authority thereof, they shall each be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than twenty years, or both.
(June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 808; July 24, 1956, ch. 678, § 1, 70 Stat. 623; Pub. L. 103‐322, title XXXIII, § 330016(1)(N), Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 2148.)
It appears from what little we’ve seen that there was, in fact, a conspiracy by key officials and employees of the bureau and department to advance Hillary Clinton’s campaign for president by covering up her illegal conduct, but as well, to undermine and overthrow the elected president.
Think of the irony: Bill Clinton gets a speaking fee from the Russians for $500,000 that defies honest justification. Hillary then hired GPS/Fusion, which contacts Russian officials who promote unverified and unverifiable smears against her opponent Donald Trump, which, under her direction, the outfit disseminates to the press and the FBI to justify surveillance of himself, his family, and the campaign under the guise that he was colluding with the Russians.
The Justice Department is still withholding tens of thousands of internal communications subpoenaed by from Congressional investigators.
Justice has decided to allow Congress to see just 4,000 to 7,000 of a total of 50,000 Strzok-Page texts -- even the larger number is slightly less than 15 percent of the total number of texts the Justice Department has now. Why is that? Justice Department officials point to a Jan. 19 letter from Assistant Attorney General Stephen Boyd to Capitol Hill investigators explaining which texts would and would not be turned over.
"The department is not providing text messages that were purely personal in nature," Boyd wrote. "Furthermore, the department has redacted from some work-related text messages portions that were purely personal. The department's aim in withholding purely personal text messages and redacting personal portions of work-related text messages was primarily to facilitate the committee's access to potentially relevant text messages without having to cull through large quantities of material unrelated to either the investigation of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's use of a personal email server or the investigation into Russian efforts to interfere with the 2016 presidential election."
Finally -- and this could be significant or not -- Boyd said that "in a few instances," the Justice Department consulted with the office of Trump-Russia special prosecutor Robert Mueller and made some redactions "related to the structure, operation, and substance of the [Special Counsel's Office]'s investigation because it is ongoing." Hill investigators don't really know what that covers.
The bottom line is that the Justice Department has turned over a fairly small percentage of the Strzok-Page texts. Even assuming many of the texts would be personal -- the two were having an extramarital affair, after all -- some Hill investigators wonder whether between 43,000 and 46,000 of the 50,000 known texts were wholly personal.
As more of the communications between the participants is revealed and the Glenn Simpson testimony is made public, it is increasingly obvious that Simpson is a conspiracy nutter of the first order and his work product was seized upon by deep state players as a pretext for their conduct. His dossier cannot withstand even the merest critical examination.
Michael Goodwin details the current state of play:
[E]ach day brings credible reports suggesting there is a massive scandal involving the top ranks of America’s premier law enforcement agency. The reports, which feature talk among agents of a "secret society" and suddenly missing text messages, point to the existence both of a cabal dedicated to defeating Donald Trump in 2016 and of a plan to let Hillary Clinton skate free in the classified email probe.
If either one is true -- and I believe both probably are -- it would mean FBI leaders betrayed the nation by abusing their powers in a bid to pick the president.
More support for this view involves the FBI’s use of the Russian dossier on Trump that was paid for by the Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee. It is almost certain that the FBI used the dossier to get FISA court warrants to spy on Trump associates, meaning it used the opposition research of the party in power to convince a court to let it spy on the candidate of the other party -- likely without telling the court of the dossier’s political link.
Even worse, there is growing reason to believe someone in President Barack Obama’s administration turned over classified information about Trump to the Clinton campaign.
As one former federal prosecutor put it, "It doesn’t get worse than that." That prosecutor, Joseph diGenova, believes Trump was correct when he claimed Obama aides wiretapped his phones at Trump Tower.
Goodwin continues by reviewing the records Nunes received which show unmistakably the bias against Trump by FBI agents, James Comey, Andrew McCabe (Comey’s deputy):
"Talk about irony," writes Goodwin, "While Dems and the left-wing media already found Trump guilty of collusion before Mueller was appointed, the real scandal might be the conduct of the probers themselves."
The Guggenheim
The FBI, Department of Justice, and the office of the Special Counsel are not the only outfits whose reputations are in the toilet this week. Due to the nasty arrogance of its anti-Trump curator, Nancy Spector, the Guggenheim Museum of Art joins them.
Tom Stoppard once said "Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art." Added to this is the tendency of those contemporary artists’ living well off rich patrons to deride materialism without which they’d be peddling their wares on street corners for pennies.
One such artist is Maurizo Cattalan, famous for having created in craftsmanship-type perfection a solid gold toilet which for a time was in the Guggenheim Museum’s public washroom. His work was highlighted this week when the first lady requested the loan of a Van Gogh painting from the Guggenheim for the White House’s private quarters. The museum’s anti-Trump curator Nancy Spector responded that it was unavailable for loan and snidely offered up Cattalan’s toilet instead.
The Guggenheim has said no to the president of the United States, which is a powerful gesture in itself. But it has also presumed to offer him something "more" valuable according to the value system it imputes to him: a tawdry love of gleaming gold fixtures, common to vulgar despots all the way back to Midas himself. The subtext here is: We assume you only want the van Gogh painting as a status symbol, which we refuse to endorse; but we will give you what you really crave, which is crass gold. If he accepts the golden toilet, he confirms their view of him. If Trump declines the golden toilet, by implication he would seem to believe that there are things (such as van Gogh paintings) that transcend money and commerce. And thus, he may undermine his own worldview, in which all things have their price and anything can be exchanged for something else if the money is right.
So the artwork here is not by Cattelan, who is merely instrumental in this game. Rather it is the work of Guggenheim curator Nancy Spector, who made the offer to the White House. Curators may be talented and creative, but they are not often in the business of making art itself. But now the Guggenheim owns a new work, a Spector original, which will add if not luster at least levity to the museum’s collection. And perhaps, like all political art, a little bit of risk, too. The president is not known to suffer sick burns with a light sense of self-deprecation.
People getting rich off the rise of the markets due to Trump’s policies might consider whether they want to continue contributing to such "sick burn" artistic gestures. Smarmy bastids at the Guggenheim. Maybe the Trump ought to initially accept the toilet and then return it filled and unflushed.
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DOJ has elected to provide only 4000-7000 of 50,000 Strzok-Page texts. They said they culled out those of strictly a personal nature and redacted some material based on security.
Missing also are Andrew McCabe's emails/texts. These might be more interesting than the Strzok-Page messages.
Reads like what Hillary and her attorneys did with her server.
h/t Instapundit
[WorldTribune] Some liberal Democrats are fighting back tears when discussing President Donald Trump’s travel ban on Muslims from seven nations.
But in 1975, leftist Dems went to great lengths to keep Vietnamese refugees (even orphans) out of the United States.
Trump issued the order, the White House said, so that a better system to vet refugees coming from those nations can be put into place.
The Democrat complaints in 1975 appeared to center on the fact that the refugees were escaping communism, an ideology, analysts say, liberals did not find that objectionable.
Leading the effort to ban the Vietnamese refugees was California’s Gov. Jerry Brown. Other prominent Democrats calling for the ban were Delaware’s Sen. Joe Biden, former presidential "peace candidate" George McGovern, and New York Congresswoman Elizabeth Holtzman.
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Leading the effort to ban the Vietnamese refugees was California’s Gov. Jerry Brown. Other prominent Democrats calling for the ban were Delaware’s Sen. Joe Biden, former presidential "peace candidate" George McGovern, and New York Congresswoman Elizabeth Holtzman
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So it was Kennedy and LBJ who got us into that war, LBJ who fucked it up beyond all recognition, Nixon the Republican who negotiated an end to it, Carter and the Democrats who reneged on promises to send arms to the South Vietnamese thereby leaving them defenseless and then Democrats who did not want to accept the refugees. I guess irresponsible would be one word for it.
But if you look at those refugees, those boat people, and their children now you find fully assimilated, high achieving and productive American citizens. You cannot say the same for some of those other folks who have been joining us lately at the behest of Democrats.
Kinda makes you wonder if Brown, Biden, Carter, et al. knew even then which way the Vietnamese refugees would tend to vote in our elections.
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As a friend of mine from that era once said, "When you were born in a cave you don't want to return to your roots."
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
...Trump administration's ambassador to the UN. First woman to serve as Governor of South Carolina, and the second Indian-American governor in the country, after Bobby Jindal of Louisiana. At the age of 39, Haley was the youngest governor in the U.S., a distinction formerly held by Jindal. She is a Republican, which really grates on the Dems...
The diminutive 13-year-old Republican U.S. Senator from Florida...
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] It’s difficult to understand the fierce and ongoing conflict between Trump and the American media without understanding the secret motives of the two parties. Trump has raised the slogan "America First| and the media has been critical of him as he continued to lament America’s status. 
