New evidence damning to Obama in phony Russiagate scandal

Fresh evidence unsealed in the Michael Flynn court battle confirms-not implies-that former President Barack Hussein Obama played a central role in moving forward the whole fake Russiagate "scandal" that rocked the entire country.

Handwritten notes by the disgraced former FBI agent Peter Strzok show that Obama and his comical side-kick, Joe Biden who played along, encouraged the FBI and Department of Justice to investigate Flynn, in spite of their knowledge told to them by the FBI that Flynn's actions "appear legit."

Of course, we should not be too hard with Biden as it's quite possible his mental status is similar to what it is today--lacking the analytical capacity to distinguish his derriere from his elbow.

Strzok notes the document of then FBI chief James "Lordy" Comey's account, which gives more detail of the January 5, 22017 meeting that included Obama, Biden, Comey, Susan Rice and Sally Yates. [Rice was then National Security Adviser and Yates was then Deputy Attorney General.]

On learning that the FBI was set to close its investigation into Flynn after finding no evidence of wrongdoing, Obama and Biden suggested finding ways to keep it open, with Biden bringing up the (dead letter) Logan Act, because he graduated at the bottom third of his law school and didn't realize how preposterous his idea was at the time.

The notes show Obama ordering the continued investigation be kept secret from the incoming Trump administration.  “Make sure you look at things and have the right people on it,” Obama ordered.

After Trump entered the White House, Comey and Yates were able to take out Flynn, thus sidelining White House oversight of the 

In the new administration, holdovers Comey and Yates did manage to take out Flynn, sidelining any effective White House oversight of the unprincipled Russiagate probe — and thus allowing it to grow like fungus.

Biden lied to ABC last month, “I know nothing about those moves to investigate Michael Flynn.” Still, it's possible he forgot as he has reached the point where he cannot identify his wife from his sister without assistance.

Serious-looking US Attorney John Durham is reviewing the origins of the Russiagate probe for signs of impropriety and unlawfulness. The report will hopefully be released to the public before the election in November.

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FBI went after Trump looking for a crime

The New York Times on Friday published an incredible story titled: "F.B.I. Opened Inquiry into Whether Trump was Secretly Working on Behalf of Russia." If you don't think this is disgusting and shows just how crazy the Washington swamp has become, you don't know Jack. It might even be illegal.

The article began:

WASHINGTON — In the days after President Trump fired James B. Comey as F.B.I. director, law enforcement officials became so concerned by the president’s behavior that they began investigating whether he had been working on behalf of Russia against American interests, according to former law enforcement officials and others familiar with the investigation.

So this is an FBI going after a person to find a crime. Usually it's the other way around--a crime had been committed and the FBI does their "I thing," they investigate.

Is it perhaps due to Trump's firing the weasel who led the agency investigating him?

The Times continued:

The inquiry carried explosive implications. Counterintelligence investigators had to consider whether the president’s own actions constituted a possible threat to national security. Agents also sought to determine whether Mr. Trump was knowingly working for Russia or had unwittingly fallen under Moscow’s influence.

The investigation the F.B.I. opened into Mr. Trump also had a criminal aspect, which has long been publicly known: whether his firing of Mr. Comey constituted obstruction of justice.

Of course it isn't obstruction--the president can fire whoever he chooses to fire that he had appointed. If you pay attention to the way the Gray Rag Lady words it, you can see how bias they are against Trump.

Newt Gingrich believes the FBI probe was led by anti-Trump fanatics who went against the Constitution, writing: 

A group of bureaucrats – elected by no one – sat in a room and decided they would investigate the new president of the United States for possible treason. Let me repeat: treason. This is, after all, the implication of this investigation.

This group of bureaucrats reports to no one in elected authority. In a Justice Department where employees gave 97 percent of their presidential campaign contributions to Hillary Clinton, the hostility toward – and fear of – newly elected President Trump was deep.

His point is that all involved in this covert operation were promoted under the Obama administration and were ready to overturn the "verdict of the American people in the 2016 election." And the same agency minimized the Clinton email and Internet scandals and the FACT that Bill Clinton collected money from Russians overseas while Hillary was secretary of state, in an incredible double-standard.

Thus, while there was clear evidence that Hillary violated the Espionage Act with her private bathroom server, they investigated Trump to look for evidence.

And since they decided to look for evidence against Trump and could not share it with him as he was the target, the person they should have gone to would have been Mike Pence, the Vice President, to brief him. Pence is as clean as the driven snow and has a history behind him to show that, so there is no reason not to have taken that step. Except this sounds like it was all political.

This is exactly what Trump talks about when he speaks of the swamp.


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POTUS pulls Brennan's security clearance

President Trump has revoked former CIA director John Brennan's security clearance on Wednesday. What took so long?

This is the first decision from a review of access for several top Obama administration intelligence and law enforcement officials.

White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders read a statement on behalf of President Trump at the start of the press briefing. She read that Brennan "has a history that calls his credibility into question."

The statement said that Brennan was "leveraging" his clearance to make "wild outbursts" and claims against the present administration.

"The president has a constitutional responsibility to protect classified information and who has access to it, and that's what he's doing is fulfilling that responsibility in this action," Sanders said.

The White House is also looking into the security clearances of other former officials and Trump critics, including former FBI director James "Lordy" Comey; former deputy FBI director Andrew McCabe; former director of national intelligence James "Not Wittingly" Clapper; and former CIA director Michael Hayden.

The statement also mentioned Justice Department official Bruce Ohr, former FBI agent Peter Strzok, and former FBI special counsel Lisa Page [the married woman Strzok was having an extra-marital affair with].

Sanders said, "This is specific to Mr. Brennan and the others are currently under review."

And if they're allowed to keep their clearances, Trump will be making a yooge mistake.

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Holder to Sessions: 'Do what I say, not what I do'

"I love you." "I love you more."

Former Attorney General and self-described "Wingman" for President Obama, Eric Holder has the audacity to criticize current Attorney General Jeff Sessions Monday night for his role in the firing of FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe. 

Obama's wingman said that Sessions must "have the guts to look at the president every now and then and say 'no.'" Something that he wished he had the testicles to do with Obama, he failed to mention.

Sessions fired McCabe on Friday, just two days before McCabe was to retire and he said the firing was the administration's "war on the FBI."

In truth, the firing of McCabe and previously the firing of James Comey, was more like a war on incompetence and political activism on part of the FBI leadership, and not on the agency as a whole. Trump "loves" the FBI because they do "an incredible job."

Complaining at Georgetown University, Holder accused Sessions of rushing to fire McCabe at Trump's behest, and the only way he could know this is for him to be a mindreader or maybe have a few friends at the NSA bug Trump's electronic communications.

"It may be that at the end of the day . . . [McCabe's] termination is appropriate," Holder admitted. "But you know, you don't rush that component of it to meet a deadline that I think the president essentially set. You're the Attorney General of the United States [and Holder was the Attorney General for Barack Obama]. You run the damn Justice Department," he said, trying to sound macho. "You know? And you've got to have the guts to look at the president every now and again and say 'no.'"

So how does Holder know that Sessions doesn't say 'no' to Trump? After all, Trump was obviously not pleased when Sessions recused himself from the Russia investigation. That sounds as if he said 'no' to the president.

When did Holder ever say 'no' to Obama? 

The blatant hypocrisy of Eric Holder is not only palpable, it's outright laughable. The guy put guns in the hands of the Mexican cartel and got Brian Terry killed because of it. How dare he come off pontificating as if he was a great attorney general.

Obama's "Wingman" was also America's "Wingnut."

It must have really gotten to Holder when Trump tweeted about McCabe's firing that it was "a great day for Democracy" and a "great day for the hard working men and women of  the FBI."

Holder said Trump was "punching down" on McCabe, but he apparently doesn't realize that the president cannot let anything get past him without his input. That's what got him elected, in part, and the fact that Hillary Clinton is the most detestable person to ever run for the presidency.


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Comey calls the kettle black

Former FBI Director James "Titan Testes" Comey is actually calling for "more ethical leadership" in 2018. 

Yes, Comey's ethics was clearly illustrated in his exonerating Hillary Clinton before interviewing her and those involved with her illegal private email server. 

The FBI Director, who assumed the role of Attorney General by letting Hillary Clinton off the hook, and by allowing the wording of his analysis of her illegal private email server to be changed, had the nerve to say: "Here's hoping 2018 brings more ethical leadership, focused on the truth and lasting values." He was aiming his words at President Trump.

Comey's tweet was retweeted over 30,000 times Monday morning. He also got thousands of responses accusing him of lacking self-awareness amid the incredible controversy that surrounded his bureau. 

One guy tweeted: "Lordy, how could you type that with a straight face?"

Lordy, lordy. He can do it because he lacks self-awareness and has an abundance of arrogance along with a sense of entitlement. 


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FBI outed by Judicial Watch re: famous 'tarmac meeting'

The CEO of Judicial Watch Tom Fitton has discovered new documents that reveal the FBI covered up for Hillary Clinton in the probe regarding her private server and emails containing highly classified information.

The meeting between Bill Clinton and then-Attorney General Loretta Lynch on the tarmac of the Phoenix Airport on June 27, 2016, was "engineered" by former President Clinton--it was no accident and it wasn't about yoga and grandkids. The fact that the FBI was looking into Hillary's emails wasn't just coincidental to that meeting.

Fitton questions whether it was coincidental that just a few days later, the director of the FBI who served under Lynch, James Comey,  would not recommend prosecuting Hillary Clinton for her illegal email server, in spite of the obvious evidence that he should have gone forward with that recommendation.

What Fitton learned, however, that "a frantic scramble erupted in the halls of the FBI to cover up this meeting. In fact, the FBI turned its sharp light not on the scandalous meeting between the attorney general and Bill Clinton--but rather on one of the whistleblowers who got the word out."

Judicial Watch, using the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) on July 7, 2016,  requested the FBI provide them "for any records that might pertain to the infamous tarmac meeting." The request was ignored by the FBI and Judicial Watch had to sue them.

The FBI then lied saying they couldn't find any records, but JW knew it wasn't true because in responding to another FOIA lawsuits, the DOJ gave them heavily redacted documents that showed there were additional documents over at FBI headquarters.

Since this was revealed in other JW lawsuits, somehow the FBI "reopened" their FOIA request and allegedly found about 30 pages of information that took them six weeks to review.

JW just received them last Thursday.

The documents JW received, show that FBI officials were concerned "solely about the leaking of details of the tarmac meeting. None of the documents show top agency officials cared one whit about the propriety of the meeting itself, but only about who blew the whistle on the covert tête-à-tête."

One email JW received said "we need to find that guy." The Phoenix FBI office was contacted, it was learned, "in an attempt to stem any further damage."

It took Judicial Watch to catch the FBI in an attempted cover-up. Our tax dollars at work for a jerk who lost to Donald Trump.



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Judge orders investigation of 3 Clinton lawyers

Annapolis, MD -- An investigation was ordered by a Maryland judge of three shyster lawyers who helped former secretary of state and "computer illiterate" Hillary Clinton delete her emails on an illegal private server.

Anne Arundel County Circuit Court Judge Paul F. Harris Jr. said the complaints against Clinton's lawyers, Cheryl Mills, David E. Kendall and Heather Samuelson were egregious and the state bar could not dismiss them as frivolous.

"There are allegations of destroying evidence," Harris said Monday and pointed out that the state's rules require investigation by the bar no matter who raises the complaint. In other words, one cannot brush aside accusations simply because they voted for Hillary Clinton for president and cannot tolerate her loss to a television personality.

The announcement by Judge Harris came one day before Clinton released her latest book of excuses for her second presidential loss titled "What Happened." Apparently her lack of insight in how the public is repulsed by her was the inspiration for the book's title.

The Maryland bar complaint was given by Ty Clevenger, an attorney who has attempted to achieve sanctions against Clinton and her legal team in several venues. He also pressed the FBI to release details of its investigation into Hillary's illegal activities that so far have most politicos looking at the squirrel hiding its nuts.

Federal courts as well as bars in D.C. and Arkansas, have poo-pooed Clevenger's requests. He is seeking to have Clinton's lawyers either suspended or disbarred. (Some of you might even hope for incarceration of the attorneys in a cell next to Hillary.) 

Judge Harris, however, said Mr. Clevenger's request seems to have merit and that Maryland will need to at least launch an investigation and demand a response from the three legal eagles.

The FOIA request Clevenger issued for the FBI to release information into Clinton's case was denied at first because it was judged that there wasn't enough "public interest" in the case to continue its pursuit. But alas, that has been reversed as the Justice Department agreed the case met the threshold of intense public interest. (You're reading this, right?)

Clinton's use of a secret [illegal] email server she kept in her New York home was used to conduct official State Department business. Over 100 emails were listed as classified--it only takes one classified email to violate the Espionage Act. 

The FBI agreed with common sense that the email setup risked national security and it's highly probable the classified emails were hacked by foreign entities. 

According to USLegal.com:

The Espionage Act is a federal legislature enacted in 1917. The act criminalizes and punishes espionage, spying and related crimes. The Act prohibits not only spying but also various other activities, including certain kinds of expression. The Act Pursuant to 18 USCS § 793, provides that a person will be punished with fine or imprisonment not more than ten years if s/he copies, takes, makes, or obtains, or attempts to copy, take, make, or obtain any sketch, photograph, photographic negative, blueprint, plan, map, model, instrument, appliance, document, writing, or note of anything connected with the national defense. The Act deems any person a criminal if s/he is found obtaining information with respect to the national defense with a reason to believe that the information to be obtained is to be used to the injury of the U.S.

Hillary's defense was that she's computer illiterate--just a poor, stupid woman who thinks the term "wiping a computer" is done with a cloth. 

So the former, fired FBI director James Comey did not recommend charges against Clinton because she was too inept to understand the risks she was running.

However, having your head up inside your nether regions isn't a requirement to absolve Clinton of indictment, and it wasn't Comey's call to make in the first place--it was the Department of Justice's call.

The former Attorney General Loretta Lynch, recused herself after secretly meeting with Bill Clinton for 30 minutes before the case was to be decided. She claimed they spoke about grandchildren and personal garbage, but the public didn't buy the lie. 

But the DoJ could have assigned the Deputy AG to handle the case rather than allow Comey, whose job it was to simply investigate the case and present his findings to the DoJ.

When it was discovered she had a private secret server, Clinton belatedly returned thousands of emails to the government but deleted the rest, claiming they were personal. However, the FBI probe found thousands of emails that were work-related and weren't turned over to the government. 

That alone should have been enough to indict her.

Clinton had her lawyers scour her account--that's what landed them in potential jeopardy.

Let's hope justice prevails--just don't hold your breath.


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No more exposing himself to the world: Weiner wants privacy

New York -- In an amazing turnabout from his typical public behavior of showing his penis to Twitter birds, and in one instance whereby his son, Jordan, sat next to him on the marital bed, former Democratic congressman Anthony (aka Carlos Danger) Weiner, and his strange wife, Huma Abedin have asked the judge for privacy in their divorce case when they appeared on September 13th. 

Weiner, 53, no longer wants to expose himself to the world.

The couple sat together and had a nice chat while their lawyers met with Justice Michael Katz from Manhattan Supreme Court Wednesday.

Rather than having the case described as 'Weiner v. Abedin' or 'Danger v. Abedin, they want it to be designated 'Anonymous v. Anonymous.' The couple's son, Jordan, is the main reason they're asking for anonymity. 

"Because there is a child involved, we'd like to keep these proceeding secret to the extent your honor will allow," Abedin's attorney Amy ("Go for his Gonads") Donehower said.

The judge, acknowledged the press in the courtroom and said, "I appreciate the parties' request to keep this quiet as possible. As a practical matter, despite your attempt to keep this anonymous, it does not appear to be anonymous," he said, adding that he will rule on it at a later date.

Abedin, 41, said nothing to reporters. Weiner was asked if he was feeling okay and replied, "Thank you, yes. Bless you guys."

Abedin filed for divorce the same day her cyber-cheating husband copped to his Twitter exchanges with a 15-year-old child. He is to be sentenced September 25th, but if the law continues working for politicians as it has been lately (see Hillary Clinton, James Comey, Cheryl Mills, Eric Holder, and Loretta Lynch for starters) he has nothing to worry about.

In Hillary Clinton's new novel about her failed campaign and how it was everyone's fault but her own, she writes that Abedin appeared "stricken" when learning that Comey's move was inspired by the investigation into Anthony Weiner.

"This man will be the death of me!" Abedin said as she burst into tears," Clinton wrote.

And now another person has been added to the list of people whose fault it was that she lost the 2016 presidential election.


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Comey counted chickens before they came home to roost

The late FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover may have dressed up like Hillary Clinton, but he never would have exonerated her before he had the chance to interview the former secretary of state. 

But J. Brien Comey Jr. did--he exonerated Hillary Clinton over the email investigation in which she admitted publicly to using a private email server before he even interviewed her.

Equal justice in the eyes of the law for all?

Hardly.

Comey began drafting a statement exonerating Clinton in the investigation before interviewing key witnesses besides Hillary Clinton herself, according to Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley and SC Sen. Lindsey Graham. They wrote in a letter to the FBI this week that "The FBI should be held to a higher standard than that, especially in a matter of such great public interest and controversy."

Ironically, the FBI denied a FOIA request made by a New York attorney, Ty Clevenger on the grounds that the public is no longer interested in the story.

Grassley and Graham explained that they learned of Comey's draft exoneration statement after they reviewed transcripts of interviews with top Comey aides.

"According to the unredacted portions of the transcripts, it appears that in April or early May of 2016, Mr. Comey had already decided he would issue a statement exonerating Secretary Clinton," the senators said.

"That was long before FBI agents finished their work," they added. "Mr. Comey even circulated an early draft statement to select members of senior FBI leadership. The outcome of an investigation should not be prejudged while FBI agents are still hard at work trying to gather the facts."

Unless Comey was directed by someone higher up in the food chain.

In a news release Thursday, Grassley and Graham said Comey began drafting a statement in April or May of 2016, which was before the FBI interviewed 17 key witnesses including sweet Hillary Clinton [and her village] along with other top aides.

The statement came before the FBI entered into an immunity agreement with Cheryl Mills and Heather Samuelson, both top aides to Clinton.

But right now, the left wing media is more upset over Melania Trump wearing stiletto heels onto Air Force One on the way to the Texas devastation, than they are with real news. 




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Hillary still on the email hook

The Hillary Clinton illegal email farce appears like it's not going to be ending in the near future. State Department officials say they haven't a clue when they'll be finishing the task of sorting through and releasing previously BleachBit, hammer-broken and otherwise deleted hidden messages.

More illegally stored classified documents of the former secretary of state keep showing their ugly faces.

The Trump administration doesn't know if all documents Clinton secretly sent from her illegal private server in her home have been hunted down.

But even if more top secret and emails of higher classification are discovered, it doesn't matter. Everyone knows nothing will come of it--heck, she's Hillary Clinton, the "OJ Simpson of Capitol Hill," and he got away with murder.

"At this time, we do not have an estimate for completion of processing all of these documents," a State Department official told The Washington Times. 

The review in February 2016 by the State Department looked at over 30,000 emails on Clinton's illegal private server. She turned them over in December 2014 and the State Department sat on their hands for nearly two years after she left office to fully analyze them.

Last summer, the FBI provided the State Department with tens of thousands of additional emails gathered from its investigation, and the department continues to process them pursuant to court orders.

In June of this year, the FBI provided 7,000 additional documents recovered from the laptop computer shared by Clinton's top aide, Huma Abedin and her disgusting husband Anthony "Look-My" Weiner.

The one finding that was uncovered regarding Clinton is that with all those classified emails on an illegal personal server, she should have been indicted, tried and probably convicted of violating the Espionage Act. 

How many Special Access Program (SAP) emails, those that identify our covert intelligence agents, have to be uncovered before Hillary Clinton is marched off in handcuffs?

And former FBI Director James Comey was wrong about the law--and he's a lawyer--when he said that based on Clinton's lack of intention, no prosecutor would indict her. 

That simply is a lie.

This leads one to believe that Comey should be disbarred or indicted for obstruction of justice. 

But there's nothing that will be done about them.

It was so bad that one email from Abedin was nearly totally redacted because it would have revealed foreign relations or foreign activities of the United States, including confidential sources, as mentioned above regarding SAP emails.

Another email from Dennis Ross, a former U.S. envoy to the Middle East, was redacted of confidential information regarding an Israeli military offensive in November 2012 against Hamassholes in the Gaza Strip. This email included discussions regarding cease-fire negotiations.

While Clinton originally handed over about 30,000 emails in December 2014, she erased (with BleachBit) another 32,000 emails she claimed were personal.

The struggle for transparency in Clinton's emails has broken ground in open-records laws and it isn't over yet.

At this time, Judicial Watch, a conservative legal watchdog group, has been leading the fight to make the emails public. There are currently at least nine Freedom of Information Act lawsuits pending.

Last week, Judicial Watch won a victory when District Court Judge Amit P. Mehta ordered the State Department to expand its search for Hillary Clinton's emails related to the terrorist attack on a U.S. diplomatic outpost in Benghazi that led to the killing of four Americans.

A cover-up is suspected when the Obama administration first downplayed the attack in the run-up to the 2012 presidential election, when then-UN Ambassador Susan Rice repeatedly claimed the attack was due to a YouTube video that mocked the so-called prophet of Islam Mohammed.

The State Department must now search the servers for email accounts of Cheryl Mills, Jacob Sullivan and Huma Abedin.

President Trump made Clinton's email scandal a top campaign issue when she ran against him. In fact, he promised to appoint a special counsel to investigate Clinton. 

But those were empty words--he backed down once elected saying he didn't want to "hurt the Clintons" and that she had already "suffered greatly."

That, unfortunately, is bull crap. Clinton is too arrogant to suffer greatly. It's more likely that she was irate and never thought she did anything wrong because of who she is.

Trump changed his tune again after special counsel Robert Mueller intensified the Russian interference investigation over the 2016 presidential election and last month he tweeted:

"Attorney General Jeff Sessions has taken a VERY weak position on Hillary Clinton crimes (where are E-mails & DNC server) & intel leakers!"

When asked about the slow pace of the Clinton email search, the White House did not respond.


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MSNBC analyst compares Trump to 'suicide bomber'

Elise Jordan, an MSNBC political talking head compared President Trump to a "suicide bomber" on Thursday. The name-calling came after he admitted he didn't have any recordings of the conversations he had with former FBI director James Comey.

Jordan is a former Bush White House aide but now works for progressive MSNBC and is a TIME contributor. She appeared on "MSNBC Live with Craig Melvin" on Thursday.

"It is a sad day when you cannot depend on the president's word, and my advice to Republicans who cozy up to him is it's just like hugging a suicide bomber--he blows you up in the process with him," the leftist Jordan said.

"That's a little strong, Elise," Melvin responded.

"If you went out on a limb, if you're a Republican who went on a limb and defended Donald Trump over saying he's got tapes that are gonna back up his point of view, you just got blown up too," she answered inaccurately.

Trump never said he had tapes of the conversations, although he alluded to the possibility. It turned out that Comey, perhaps believing he actually did have tapes, ended up by admitting that he told Trump he wasn't the target of the investigation. No Republican who actually listened to what Trump said feels as if they went out "on a limb" for him.

Evidently, Jordan hears what she wants to hear so she can spin it the way she wants to spin it. This is exactly what Trump talks about when he refers to "fake news," which, by the way, is a term invented by the left.

Her incredibly stupid comments came after the president posted a two-part tweet regarding tapes of conversations he had with Comey, who wrote memos detailing his talks with Trump. He testified that he would be eager to hear those tapes.

"Lordy," Comey began, as he used the Lord's nickname in a blasphemous statement aimed at making him look as if he and the Lord were buddies, "I hope there are tapes."

Trump said of Comey's statement, "With all of the recently reported electronic surveillance, intercepts, unmasking and illegal leaking of information, I have no idea whether there are 'tapes' or recordings of my conversations with James Comey, but I did not make, and do not have, any such recordings."

Jordan said Trump "wasted the country's collective time" with the speculation over the tapes. That's ridiculous--it served his purpose and possibly got Comey to come clean with the Senate Intelligence Committee.

But the fact that Trump doesn't know if any recordings of him exist should give us all something to worry about. If someone can record the president without his knowledge is beyond scary.


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Lordy, Comey visits the 'Gray Lady'

Former FBI director and failed forward for the NBA James Comey surreptitiously visited the New York Times on Thursday with his relatively short wife, according to my source who uses the pseudonym Vinny Boombots.

Now that President Trump admitted he made the whole thing up about making secret recordings about his conversations with Comey, it was obvious that "the coast is clear" for the 'tall drink of water' to speak with the 'Gray Lady' and tell them how he was wronged by POTUS.

This was one of the few public appearances Comey has made since he admitted to "taking a leak at The Times," Vinny said.

Comey kept his coolers on (sunglasses from India) and looked straight ahead as he and his wife, Patrice Failor (rhymes with "failure") also wearing shades, diddy-bopped along Eighth Avenue. 

Vinny thought he noticed tiny tears gently leaking down Comey's cheeks and it gave him pause as he considered the purpose of the emotionally vulnerable man's visit to The Times. 

Vinny couldn't ascertain the purpose of the visit, but it came just weeks after President Trump suggested Comey may be responsible for more leakage about the administration since Trump canned him.

Comey admitted he was the leaker to The Times regarding a private, unorthodox meeting he had with Trump just before the firing.

According to Boombots, there is a high probability that Comey will try to have The Times revisit the Russian investigation since it hasn't been in the news recently and Comey had his feelings hurt.

But if Trump did anything untoward in the private conversation with Comey, asking him to lay off of Flynn, and the former FBI director did nothing about it, then he would be just as guilty as the president for asking.

After he was fired on May 8th, Comey gave details of the memo to 'a friend' at The Times in response to a Trumptweet who threatened: "Comey better hope that there are no "tapes" of our conversations before he starts leaking to the press!"

Always that irrelevant exclamation point!

At his testimony to the Senate Intelligence Committee in June, Comey said he believed the president was subtly asking him to drop the investigation into Flynn and that due to his failure to do so, he was fired.

"Yeah, Donald Trump is as subtle as a baseball bat to the head," Vinny said. 

Trump said Comey was canned for the way he handled Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server when she was Secretary of State. He also believes that Comey is likely the source of many leaks in his administration.

"I believe the James Comey leaks will be far more prevalent than anyone ever thought possible. Totally illegal? Very 'cowardly!' Trump said June 11th. 

Although Trump admitted he made no recordings, he foolishly said that someone else could have. 

"That should scare the crap out of all of us who takes Trump seriously--to think the President of the United States doesn't know if his White House conversations are being recorded," Vinny said.



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CNN--Certainly Not News--blows it again

(Phtot: Heat Street)

CNN fired Reza Aslan and Kathy Griffin. Now it needs to fire itself based on the crappiest reporting we've ever seen from what is supposed to be a legitimate news organization. 

They're about as legitimate as the phone call I just received about ten minutes ago telling me I won the Publisher's Clearing House Sweepstakes--and I didn't even enter. Wow! (By the way, I'm not kidding--some guy with an Asian accent, who went by the name James Williamson, tried to convince me I'm a millionaire. I didn't give him time to ask for my banking information to put the 'money' into my account, but I did tell him what I thought of people like him trying to rip off the innocent.)

Anyway, I digress.

CNN (Certainly Not News) was forced to correct a report from, uh, anonymous sources about Comey's testimony. 

For two straight days CNN emphatically claimed that once under oath, Comey would dispute Trump's claims that Comey had assured him he wasn't under FBI investigation.

On Thursday night, they had to correct what they reported and apparently they're too stupid to feel embarrassed.

CNN's story, titled "Comey Expected to Refute Trump," was based on the word of "several anonymous sources." So because the story was anti-Trump, the network ran with it. Gloria Borger, Jake Tapper, Eric Lichtblau and Brian Rokus were listed on the byline. 

"Trump has made a blanket claim that Comey told him multiple times that he was not under investigation," they claimed, according to the Washington Post. "But once source said Comey is expected to explain to senators that those were much more nuanced conversations from which Trump concluded that he was not under investigation."

CNN ran with this story all throughout Tuesday and Wednesday. They screamed out the story with their on-screen banners and CNN panelists discussed the story. Gloria Borger was adamant that her anonymous sources were on the money.

Borger told the panel, "Comey is going to dispute the president on this point if he's asked about it by senators, and we have to assume that he will be. He will say he never assured Donald Trump that he was not under investigation, that that would have been improper for him to do so."

But Borger's anonymous sources were full of barn-droppings.

Comey's opening statement supported President Trump's assertion that Comey had told him several times that he wasn't under investigation. In fact, he testified that not only did he reassure Mr. Trump on several occasions, but that Comey saw absolutely nothing wrong with his actions.

But true to their Certainly Not News reputation, they spun the story. 

CORRECTION AND UPDATE: This article was published before Comey released his prepared opening statement. The article and headline have been corrected to reflect that Comey does not directly dispute that Trump was told multiple times he was not under investigation in his prepared testimony released after this story was published.

Of course the story came before Comey released his opening statement. That's why CNN ran with what they thought was a scoop, rather than a poop. 

And Comey did a lot more than "not directly dispute" the President's claims. He clearly came out and said he spoke to Trump several times and told him clearly that he was not under investigation.

You can see why people don't trust the media anymore, except for those who only hear what they want to hear and only believe what they want to believe. 

President Trump hasn't handled this situation very well at all. He needs to stay focused and remain more professional. He needs to kick things around with people he trusts before he tweets on his own to defend his ego.


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Comey is a freaking leaker

His tweet-finger has been disciplined about James Comey's Congressional testimony until Friday morning when he broke his silence. 

President Trump tweeted that he felt vindicated and made certain to emphasize that Comey admitted to have leaked details of confidential conversations with him to the press. 

Trump's tweet read: "Despite so many false statements and lies, total and complete vindication ... and WOW, Comey is a leaker!"

Yesterday, Trump's personal lawyer Marc Kasowitz read a statement to the media, which would have served Trump better had it just released the written statement to the press rather than reading it. The statement went directly after Comey's stunning testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee.

Trump, in a joint news conference with Romanian President Klaus Iohannis in the Rose Garden, did not discuss Comey's allegations, which for Trump, could have literally caused his head to explode trying to hold back his response.

Comey revealed that he had a friend, Columbia University Law Professor Dan Richman, leak his private memos to the media with the intention of this prompting an "appointment of a special counsel."

Apparently, even unclassified material that belong to the FBI are not to be leaked to the public and there are penalties for doing that. Comey might be in some sort of trouble, but I doubt anything will come of it. Look at what didn't happen to Hillary Clinton.


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Comey uses the Lord's nickname in vain

'Trumped' FBI Director James Comey spoke at the Senate testimony Thursday, in front of TV cameras and millions of Americans.

When the topic of President Trump's warning about the possibility of having their conversations on tape, Comey did the unthinkable--he used the Lord's nickname in vain. 

You just don't do that.

"I have seen the [president's] tweet about tapes. Lordy, I hope there are tapes," he told Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.).

Comey was referring to the May 12 tweet in which Trump apparently warned him to be mindful about what he says.:"Comey better hope" there are no tapes of their Oval Office conversations.

Feinstein appeared nonplussed and looked down when the word "Lordy" was spoken. 

The Trump administration continues to decline to confirm the existence of a taping system or if Trump recorded his conversations.

But what does any of this matter when we know that Comey, due to his blatant arrogance of using the Lord's nickname, is going to hell.



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Spicer didn't rule out blocking of Comey from testifying

White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer didn't rule out President Trump using his executive privilege power to block former FBI Director James Comey from testifying in front of a congressional committee next Thursday.

Spicer was asked at the White House press briefing whether President Trump would seek executive privilege to keep Comey out of the hot seat. If Trump does, it probably isn't going to look good for him.

"The committee hearing was just noticed--it's gotta be reviewed," Spicer said. "The date for the hearing was just set; I haven't spoken to counsel yet, I don't know how they'll respond."

Executive privilege allows the president to withhold information from other branches of government.

Mr. Comey is expected to tell the Intelligence Committee that the president asked him to drop the investigation into former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn and his Russian ties. 

But if Comey reports this and believed at the time the President was obstructing justice, then Comey too has violated the law for not reporting it at that time. I expect that he will say that he didn't believe when asked that President Trump was ordering him to stop the investigation.

As FBI Director, Comey wrote memos after all meetings. In February, he wrote a memo suggesting Trump asked him to shut down the probe into Flynn. But anyone can write anything they want to write in a memo--it doesn't make the memo a testament of fact.

Rather than answer any of the follow up questions on the matter, Spicer said, "All questions on these matters will be referred to counsel."

Hillary Clinton also blames Spicer for her loss to Trump in the presidential election.



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Biden says Hillary kind of stinks

Former Vice President and Gaffer King Joe Biden (aka Uncle Joe) spoke negatively about Hillary Clinton on Thursday saying that now that he thinks about it, she wasn't a "great candidate" for president. 

In fact, he alluded to the idea that she kind of sucked as a candidate and couldn't even defeat an obnoxious TV guy. He didn't say that directly, but we know what he was thinking.

Speaking at a hedge-fund manager (you know, those "Wall Schtreet guys") conference in Las Vegas, Uncle Joe kept the door open for a possible 2020 run for president. 

If he actually wins, he will have turned 78 just before being sworn in, proving that the Democratic Party is the party of geriatric flatulence and failed ideas.

According to The Street, Biden spoke bluntly about how surprised he was that "Crooked Hillary" lost to President Trump.

Biden said Clinton wasn't a "great candidate" and that, "No man or woman should announce for the presidency unless they genuinely believe that for . . . that moment in the nations's history they are the most qualified person to deal with the issues facing the country."

He did not mention the extent to which the country did not trust her and saw her as just another lying Democratic windbag. Nor did he discuss another reason she lost to Trump: she was too arrogant to campaign in the Rustbelt.

It's probable that Biden was hinting about his own 2020 plans, but claims that he's focusing on his family for now. But if it seems like he's the best, if not oldest person to run, he said, "I may very well do it," if he's still alive.

If he ran and miraculously won, he would be 82 by the end of his first term. In all probability, his mental status deterioration would not appear any worse than it already is.

When asked he reportedly said, "Could I? Yes. Would I? Probably not."

Another person reportedly said that Biden stated Clinton would have made a very "good" president. It is rumored that person who made that statement is Bill Clinton.

In spite of the fact that Obama and other big shot Democrats tirelessly campaigned for Hillary, she proved how horrible she was as a candidate. We can only hope that she runs again in 2020.

Hillary has recently come out of the woods from a period of faux 'reflection'. But you can't change someone who refuses to take any of the blame for a miserable loss.


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Crystal ball readings from the Dems

Clairvoyant Democratic senators say that Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein knew that FBI Director James Comey was going to be fired before he learned that he had to write the letter saying that Comey should be fired.

One Democratic senator even predicted that by 2027 a meteor would come dangerously close to the earth and Al Gore would buy back Al Jazeera, the TV station he sold to the sharia advocates.

The Rosenstein memo was cited by the White House as the reason for Comey's firing, but the story changed and the White House Press Secretary and Deputy Press Secretary were made to look foolish.

The crystal ball reading came Thursday from a Democratic senator who has made 'a killing' on the ponies as he knew the outcomes in advance.

Rosenstein had named a special counsel (not councel, President Trump) to oversee the Russian probe that Comey helped lead before he was fired. The previous day, Rosenstein briefed all of the Senate on Capitol Hill.

Even Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) said: "He knew that Comey was going to be removed prior to him writing his memo."

How McCaskill knew that is under a special committee investigation and Republicans are calling for her impeachment as they believe she is the leaker of all things secret since she knows about Rosenstein.

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Angry Trump may 'clean house'

Sean Hannity's 'Question of the Day' may soon be: "How many people should Donald Trump fire from his Cabinet and staff?"

Now that former FBI DirectorJames Comey has been shown the proverbial front door, the White House appears to be in chaos. President Trump's friends are telling him that his staff is unsure how to work with him and his approval ratings are in the dumper and there are leaks, which makes for a messy dumper.

One of those friends said, "The advice he's getting is to go big--that he has nothing to lose. The question now is how big and how bold. I'm not sure he knows the answer to that yet."

If Trump goes full Rambo, his White House inner sanctum would shrink like a cashmere sweater in boiling water. He would have his family doing the heavy lifting and they have no government experience. The leaks may stop but the problems won't.

On the brighter side, Trump sometimes has a bark worse than his bite and while saying he's going to fire someone, he may not follow through. Thus, it's possible the talks he's having with his confidants is just talk and a way for him to feel supported.

At the end of this week, the President is heading on his first international trip. He's going to meet with Netanyahu and his Palestinian counterpart, Abbass (the 'Abb' is silent). So the process, if he really will go through with it, may take some time. 

It's also possible he may cut people out of the information flow to cut down on leaks, as opposed to firing them. He may want to keep the drama at a minimum for now. 

The confidential sources say that Trump isn't only unhappy with his staff, but he feels ill-served by his Cabinet officials, saying that they're either tooting their own horns too much, or they're not doing a good enough job kissing up to him with praise over his diplomatic prowess.

The sources say that no Cabinet member is expected to be fired anytime soon, but expect a West Wing shuffle in the future.

One of the few top officials, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has been winning Trump's praise as he has been defending him in public as he did on "Meet the Press."


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CNN "feels" Trump is guilty

Washington (Certainly Not News) -- According to certain US officials (whose area over which they officiate is unclear) say that information suggests that Trump associates may have coordinated with Russians, or maybe not.

The FBI has information that indicates associates of President Trump communicated with suspected operatives to possibly coordinate the release of information damaging to Hillary Clinton's campaign, US officials told CNN.

This is partly what FBI Director Comey was talking about when he made a bombshell (LOL) announcement Monday before Congress that the FBI is investigating the Trump campaign's ties to Russia, according to one source.

The FBI is reviewing that information, according to those US officials. The information is raising the suspicions  of FBI counterintelligence investigators that the coordination may have taken place, though officials cautioned that the information was NOT CONCLUSIVE AND THAT THE INVESTIGATION IS ONGOING. 

In his statement, Comey said the FBI began looking into POSSIBLE coordination between Trump campaign associates and suspected Russian operatives because the bureau had gathered "a credible allegation of wrongdoings or reasonable basis to believe an American MAY be acting as an agent of a foreign power.

CNN assured the American people that this investigation has nothing whatsoever to do with the relationship of the Clinton Foundation and the millions of dollars of foreign money given to it at the time Hillary Clinton was secretary of state. 

Also, CNN assures us that this investigation has nothing to do with the selling of uranium to the Russians by the Clintons or the open mic moment with former President Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev.

White House press secretary Sean Spicer was clear after Comey's testimony on Monday that there is no evidence to suggest any collusion took place between the Trump campaign and the Russians, but CNN will do all they can to either find it or create it.

But we at CNN feel that the Trump campaign is probably guilty and that Donald Trump should resign the presidency.

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