Here’s what we know from the House hearing with FBI Director James Comey FBI Director James Comey and National Security Agency Director Mike Rogers appeared Monday before the House Intelligence Committee Check out this story on jconline.com: http://usat.ly/2mIt7Hx FBI Director James Comey says the FBI and Justice Department have no information to substantiate President Donald Trump’s claims that former President Barack Obama wiretapped him before the election. FBI Director James Comey and National Security Agency Director Mike Rogers appeared Monday before the House Intelligence Committee .
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Sean Spicer: Just the ‘beginning phase’ of investigating whether Trump Tower was surveilled
White House press secretary Sean Spicer continued today to defend President Donald Trump’s claims that Trump’s predecessor ordered surveillance of Trump Tower during the presidential election campaign, even as FBI Director James Comey testified to Congress that there is “no information” supporting that claim. “We are still at the beginning phase of a look as to what kind of surveillance took place and why,” Spicer told reporters at his daily briefing at the White House.
Schiff: ‘I’m very pleased’ with increase in FBI cooperation
Ranking Democrat of the House Intelligence Committee, Adam Schiff, on Sunday said the FBI director has increasingly started to work with his group’s investigation into Russia’s role in hacks during the 2016 presidential election. “I have been critical of the FBI and their willingness to cooperate in the investigation.
Hillary’s Former Campaign Manager Says Obama Ordered Wiretaps
As the classic line in the film “Casablanca” goes, “I’m shocked to hear Barack Obama illegally had Donald Trump wiretapped during his run for the presidency.” Who would know better this actually occurred than former Democrat presidential nominee Hillary Clinton’s campaign manager, Robby Mook.
Trump stumping for AHCA? Democrats arena t worried.
The three-phase Republican plan to replace the Affordable Care Act is intended to end with massive political pressure on Senate Democrats, who’ll face a choice: Vote with them on individual replacement bills, or be blamed for the American Health Care Act’s implementation going awry. The crux of the theory is that 10 Democrats face reelection next year in states won by Trump.
Republicans Just Made Trump’s Reelection a Whole Lot Tougher
President Donald Trump has thrown his full weight behind the House Republicans’ plan to overturn Obamacare. But he might end up regretting that move in 2020.
6 days later, no more clarity from Trump on wiretapping claims
Six days after he accused his Oval Office predecessor of wiretapping him, President Donald Trump on Thursday again avoided questions about the charge, leaving his aides and allies still-struggling to explain his Saturday-morning broadside. Trump was initially scheduled to come before cameras twice in the Roosevelt Room Thursday.
Enslaving debt has soared to almost $20 trillion
Within 40 days our national debt is likely to be $20 trillion; four of which is from eight years of George W. Bush and 10 from eight years of Barack Obama – the two biggest spending presidents in U.S. history. Obama alone accumulated more debt than all previous presidents put together.
Obama Used the Presidency, so should Trump
The front page of the Washington Post on Wednesday showed a charming picture of a gaggle of school kids on a White House tour excited by a surprise appearance by President Trump. The Post is overtly hostile to Trump, but editors find it hard to resist good photos of happy, bright-eyed children.
White House Names A Communications Head, Takes Pressure Off Spicer
If any women working in the White House wanted to walk out today and pressured, threatened, or otherwise told not to, you know where to reach us . Spicer was later asked whether Trump still loves Wikileaks as he said during the presidential election when Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton was targeted.
The Democrats and the Left Are Pursuing a Clever Strategy
Like other opponents of the Left, I am annoyed by the obstructionist tactics engaged in by Senate Democrats and the often hysterical reaction of the media to just about anything done by President Trump. I’m also appalled by the way Democratic and Obamaite operatives in the intelligence service and in other federal agencies leak sensitive information to their buds at the Washington Post and New York Times .
Media, Deep State lies: Conditioning America to accept the absurd
Here’s a prediction: it will be proven true that the U.S. government under Obama illegally spied on the opposition party through Trump Tower communications intercepts in the weeks leading up to the Nov. 8 presidential election. Here’s another prediction: Obama himself will get away with it because, to quote another lying politician, “it depends on what the meaning of ‘is’ is.”
Top Trump security adviser faces questions in rare hearing
The senior Army officer tapped by President Donald Trump to be his national security adviser faces questions from senators during a rare closed-door meeting amid intense scrutiny of the White House for alleged Trump campaign contacts with Russian officials. Lt. Gen.
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CAIR Blames White House ‘Islamophobes’ and ‘White Supremacists’ for New Travel Order
The Council on American-Islamic Relations on Monday blamed “Islamophobes” and “white supremacists” in the White House for President Trump’s new travel executive order or what CAIR has dubbed “Muslim ban 2.0.” “The driving force behind this Muslim ban are the Islamophobes and the white supremacists employed by the Trump administration, including [counterterrorism advisor] Sebastian Gorka, [chief strategist] Steve Bannon, and [senior policy advisor] Stephen Miller,” CAIR national executive director Nihad Awad told a press conference at the group’s Capitol Hill headquarters. “This order is just a preview of future anti-Muslim, anti-immigrant policy proposals being fed to President Trump by his Islamophobic advisors,” he added.
Park service inauguration photos show Obama’s was bigger
Park service inauguration photos show Obama’s was bigger The photos support earlier photographic evidence that Trump’s inaugural crowd was much smaller than Obama’s. Check out this story on USATODAY.com: http://usat.ly/2n8sLKH This pair of photos shows a view of the crowd on the National Mall at the inaugurations of then-President Obama, above, on Jan. 20, 2009, and President Donald Trump, below, on Jan. 20, 2017.
The Latest: Dems seek details of communications about Russia
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif., right, and the committee’s ranking member Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., leave after talking to reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, March 2, 2017, following a briefing with FBI Director Jim Comey about Russian influence on the American presidential election.
Comey asks Justice Department to reject Trump’s wiretapping claim
FBI Director James B. Comey asked the Justice Department over the weekend to publicly reject President Trump’s assertion that Barack Obama ordered the tapping of Trump’s phones, senior US officials said Sunday. Comey has argued that the highly charged claim is false and must be corrected, they said, but the department has not released any such statement.
Trump’s charge that he was wiretapped takes presidency into new territory
President Trump, who this weekend tweeted claims that he’d been wiretapped by his predecessor, boards Air Force One in Florida on his way back to Washington on Sunday. The president’s accusation Saturday that his predecessor, Barack Obama, had tapped his phone “during the very sacred election process” escalated on Sunday into the White House’s call for a congressional investigation of that evidence-free claim.
Investigating You Investigating Me
The White House showed no indication that it would back down from Mr. Trump’s claims. On Sunday, the president demanded a congressional inquiry into whether Mr. Obama had abused the power of federal law enforcement agencies before the 2016 presidential election.
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For the second consecutive day, President Donald Trump launched his weekend morning with some Twitter blasts aimed at Democrats – and the White House followed that up with a call for an investigation of the Obama White House. Several minutes later, Trump chimed in again, this time with a dig at President Barack Obama referring to a statement Obama made as he was running for a second term in 2012: “Who was it that secretly said to Russian President, “Tell Vladimir that after the election IA ll have more flexibility?” @foxandfriends” For better or worse, Trump has made Twitter his forum this weekend for At first blush, the news about U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions looked bad.
White House: Congress must probe alleged Obama power abuse
The White House on Sunday demanded that Congress, which is already investigating Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election, also examine whether former President Barack Obama abused his executive powers in connection with that campaign.
The Latest: Senator: Intel panel to look at alleged wiretap
The Latest on President Donald Trump’s claim that then-President Barack Obama had Trump’s telephones tapped during last year’s election : A Republican member of the Senate Intelligence Committee says he believes President Donald Trump’s unsubstantiated allegations that his predecessor ordered wiretaps of Trump Tower will become part of the committee’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. Arkansas Sen. Tom Cotton says, “We’re going to follow the facts wherever they lead us.
Abbreviated Pundit Round-up: McCarthyism, Schwarzenegger, Golf an eternal WTF
Donald Trump has won the presidency after narrowly carrying a few states to put him above 270 electoral votes. But… At his Senate confirmation hearing, Attorney General Jeff Sessions lied under oath that he had never had contact with the… Despite promising to release his tax returns in a televised debate with Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump continues to show that… For months, through the election and after, Donald Trump has been able to find something new to distract the press and public.
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Not too long ago I wrote about the need for Congress to just get off the stick and confirm Ryan Zinke as the next Secretary of the Interior. In a rare bit of good news, that actually happened this week.
Trump’s Bizarre Tweets Muddy The Waters Over The Potential Abuse of Government Power
Thanks to the Tweeter In Chief, the internet is abuzz today with talk of wiretapping, McCarthyism, FISA courts and Russian spying. The problem is, Trump fires off flares he knows will get his base frothing at the mouth and in the end, it winds up giving cover to the Obama administration.
Sen. Sasse: Trump Should Further Explain Wiretapping Allegations
Republican Sen. Ben Sasse on Saturday called for President Donald Trump to further explain his allegation that Barack Obama ordered his phones to be wiretapped during the presidential election, Politico reports. “The President today made some very serious allegations, and the informed citizens that a republic requires deserve more information,” Sasse said in a statement released Saturday on his Twitter account.
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A spokesman for Barack Obama rejects claims by U.S. President Donald Trump that the then-president had wiretapped Trump in October during the late stages of the presidential election campaign, saying it was “simply false.” , moved, by David Shepardson, 917 words) WASHINGTON – The White House budget director confirms that the Trump administration will propose “fairly dramatic reductions” in the U.S. foreign aid budget later this month.
Obama denies Trump’s claim he wiretapped him
WASHINGTON: A spokesman for Barack Obama on Saturday rejected claims by US President Donald Trump that the then-president had wiretapped Trump in October during the late stages of the presidential election campaign, saying it was “simply false.” Trump made the accusation in a series of tweets, without citing evidence, just weeks into his administration and amid rising scrutiny of his campaign’s ties to Russia.
Democrats say long-term success starts with 2018 governors’ races
For almost a decade now, governors’ offices have been a weak link for national Democrats, with Republicans racking up stunning and continuous wins in deep-blue bastions like Maryland, Massachusetts and New Jersey. Now, Democrats building a long-term strategy for retaking power in Congress and the states are counting on winning big in statehouse races over the next two years.
Top Obama adviser to Trump: ‘No president can order a wiretap’
Trump Goes Nuclear With Claim Obama Wiretapped Him During Election [Updated] – Early this morning, President Trump unleashed a barrage of tweets accusing then-President Barack Obama of wiretapping his office in Trump Tower during the presidential election:
Democrats say long-term success starts with 2018 governorsa races
For almost a decade now, governors’ offices have been a weak link for national Democrats, with Republicans racking up stunning and continuous wins in deep-blue bastions like Maryland, Massachusetts and New Jersey. Now, Democrats building a long-term strategy for retaking power in Congress and the states are counting on winning big in statehouse races over the next two years.
Veteran prosecutor in line to oversee Russia probe
In this Jan. 10, 2017 file photo, Maryland U.S. Attorney Rod Rosenstein in Greenbelt, Md. Some Democrats worry the appointment of a Jeff Sessions subordinate to oversee any federal investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election won’t be a clean enough break from the embattled attorney general.
Today in History: March 3, 2017
On March 3, 1931, “The Star-Spangled Banner” became the national anthem of the United States as President Herbert Hoover signed a congressional resolution. In 1887, Anne Sullivan arrived at the Tuscumbia, Alabama, home of Captain and Mrs. Arthur H. Keller to become the teacher for their deaf and blind 6-year-old daughter, Helen.
Conspire With Russia to Swing Presidential Election? It’s Been Done
The Democrats’ allegations against Jeff Sessions, one of the most upright men in Washington, are ludicrous. I don’t understand how anyone can think they amount to anything.
Your Guide to the Controversy About Russia and Trump’s Election
Questions about Russia’s role in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, and about possible contacts with Donald Trump’s campaign team, have swirled for almost a year. They’ve helped fray relations between Trump and the U.S. security agencies he now leads, and between Trump and the media.
Ap Fact Check: Trump claims credit for jobs that predate him
TRUMP: “Since my election, Ford, Fiat-Chrysler, General Motors, Sprint, Softbank, Lockheed, Intel, Walmart and many others have announced that they will invest billions of dollars in the United States and will create tens of thousands of new American jobs.” THE FACTS: Many of the announcements reflect corporate decisions that predate Trump’s presidential election, making it unlikely that his administration is the sole or even the primary reason for the expected hiring.
Trump: Obama Behind Protests, Leaks
President Donald Trump told Fox News on Monday he believes the leaks coming out of the government are holdovers from President Barack Obama’s administration. In a preview of an interview set to air in full on “Fox & Friends” on Tuesday morning, Trump told Fox’s Brian Kilmeade not only does he believe Obama is behind the protests at the town halls of Republican House and Senate members in recent days, he also has his people leaking information to the press.
Liberalism’s Fake Sense of Morality
Liberals constantly stake a claim to some religion-free moral high ground, which is laughable considering liberalism’s ideology is immoral at its core. Since November of last year, leftists have been too blinded by inane hatred for Trump to see the irony.
The Latest: Obama congratulates Perez as new DNC leader
Former President Barack Obama has congratulated Tom Perez on his election to lead the Democratic Party and commended his decision to ask runner-up Keith Ellison to be his deputy. Obama said in a statement that he knows “Perez will unite us under that banner of opportunity, and lay the groundwork for a new generation of Democratic leadership for this big, bold, inclusive, dynamic America we love so much.”