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President Donald Trump blasted the "fake news media" and fired FBI Director James Comey in a new round of tweets Sunday touting market and job gains under his first five months in office. Trump claimed the "great economic news" has not been covered since he was elected to the White House.
Plagiarizing phrases from Obama's talking points on the Normalization Circus, some pro-Castro Republicans are asking the Trumpinator to keep that Circus alive. One would think that Republicans might want to find some arguments in favor of the Normalization Circus that haven't come straight out of the mouths of "progressives" in the Democratic Party or from the editorial staff of the major news outlets that support the Castro regime.
Trump is preparing to tighten at least some of Obama's changes, including restricting business with the Cuban military and U.S. travel that resembles tourism. Those type of revisions have been endorsed by Florida Sen. Marco Rubio and Miami Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart, the only two local GOP members of Congress who backed Trump and as a result have pressured his administration on the issue.
Election officials have long contended that the highly decentralized, often ramshackle U.S. voting system is its own best defense against vote-rigging and sabotage . New evidence from a leaked intelligence report indicates that hasn't deterred foreign adversaries from exploring ways to attack it anyway.
"Mitt Romney is once again testing his political power - critiquing President Donald Trump, raising money and campaigning for fellow Republicans, and not ruling out another run for office for himself," Politico reports. "Romney's return comes as senior Republicans express profound unease with the direction of Trump's presidency and worry it will cost them dearly in the 2018 midterms.
Tens of thousands of revelers were expected to pack Fifth Avenue for New York's annual Puerto Rican Day parade, despite a controversy over honoring a man who spent 35 years in prison for his involvement with a group responsible for bombings that killed and maimed dozens in the 1970s and 1980s. Corporate sponsors including AT&T and JetBlue dropped out of Sunday's parade over the organizers' decision to honor Oscar Lopez Rivera, 74, a former member of the militant Puerto Rican nationalist group Armed Forces of National Liberation, or FALN.
"We're committed to participating in debates moderated by members of the metro Atlanta press corps, so unfortunately Jon will not be attending the proposed debate on June 13th", Mesner wrote. The June 20 election is still two weeks away, but Federal Election Commission reports reviewed by Bloomberg BNA showed a total of more than $20.1 million in independent campaign expenditures in the race so far.
In Washington's hyper-partisan environment, both major political parties need scandals the way pyromaniacs require fire. In the Donald Trump era, at least, the media is playing the role of gleeful arsonist.
Former FBI Director James Comey testifies before a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on Russia's alleged interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., June 8, 2017.
No you can't have your pudding, EVEN if you eat your beans!! My, how lib regressives change their narrativea ..lost souls that can never be healed! In other words mentally unstable. GEEZ! Did you hear? Chelsea Clinton, the daughter of YOUR former President Bill Clinton and his crazy wife Hillary Clinton has just inadvertently ripped former lady Michelle Obama a new one, and it's all over Twitter.
Deutsche Bank has refused to release information on loans to Donald Trump and any possible connections to Russia requested by members of the House Financial Services Committee. Democrats on the committee, led by ranking member Maxine Waters , last month sent a letter to the German bank requesting details about an estimated $340 million in loans to Trump since 2012, along with any related information concerning the bank's Russian accounts.
President Donald Trump attends a roundtable on infrastructure at the Department of Transportation, Friday, June 9, 2017, in Washington. Faced with the under-oath allegations of ex-FBI Director James Comey and the steady creep of congressional investigations, TrumpA's response this week was aimed squarely at rallying his most dedicated supporters to his side.
In this March 6, 2017, file photo, Attorney General Jeff Sessions speaks at the U.S. Customs and Border Protection office in Washington. Sessions, whose contacts with Russia's ambassador to the U.S. during the presidential campaign has sparked questions, agreed Saturday, June 10, to appear before the Senate intelligence committee as it investigates alleged Russian meddling in the election.
Rep. Walt Leger III, D-New Orleans, stands at the lectern asking the House to vote to direct the committee to report HB1 as House Speaker Rep. Taylor Barras, R-New Iberia, right, watches during the closing minutes of the last day of the regular legislative session Thursday June 8, 2017, in Baton Rouge, La.. In the 2017 Legislature, passing the budget bills for the fiscal year beginning July 1 was supposed to be the easy part.
Rep. Walt Leger III, D-New Orleans, stands at the lectern asking the House to vote to direct the committee to report HB1 as House Speaker Rep. Taylor Barras, R-New Iberia, right, watches during the closing minutes of the last day of the regular legislative session Thursday June 8, 2017, in Baton Rouge, La.. During floor debate in the final week of the regular legislative session, Democratic Rep. Barbara Norton, of Shreveport, apparently had enough of Republican Rep. Valarie Hodges from Denham Springs.
The U.S. Navy has commissioned a new warship, the USS Gabrielle Giffords, in honor of former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, who survived an assassination attempt in 2011. In a ceremony in Galveston, Texas, on Saturday, Giffords was joined on stage by her husband, former Navy captain and retired astronaut Mark Kelly, as well as several Democratic friends including Hillary Clinton and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi.
Nearly five months ago, President Donald Trump bid farewell to a grinning Barack Obama, waving as the military helicopter shuttling his predecessor into post-White House life got smaller and smaller. For a president who seeks extensive counsel from outside the White House -- in calls to old friends, business executives, and even despotic foreign leaders -- Trump has largely forgone advice or guidance from any of the men who have held his job previously.
The city's public-housing stock is falling apart, and there are scant funds for repairs. So why are local politicians trying to block a plan to pump in new money? That's right: City Councilman Ben Kallos, Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer and Rep. Carolyn Maloney are trying to slow a plan to raise cash at the New York City Housing Authority's Holmes Towers on the Upper East Side.
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Washington, June 11 US Attorney General Jeff Sessions has confirmed that he will appear before the Senate Intelligence Committee next week to testify over his dealings with Russian officials, the media reported. Sessions on Saturday said he would appear in response to Federal Bureau of Investigation Director James Comey's testimony to the panel that took place on Thursday.