Priebus calls Russian story "garbage'

Reince Priebus the White House Chief of Staff spoke on "Fox News Sunday" saying that top intelligence officials assured him President Trump's campaign did not collude with Russia to win the election--Hillary simply sucked as a candidate. 

Hopefully for Trump, this will put an end to new reports about potentially compromising illegal talks with Russia.

"I can assure you, the top levels of the intelligence community have assured me that [the allegation] is not only grossly overstated, but also wrong," Priebus told Chris Wallace. "They have made it very clear that the story is complete garbage."

Perhaps that's why it has been recycled so often.

The fact is, Priebus' statement will probably not end the controversy as there are bipartisan demands on Capitol Hill to hold investigative hearings. 

New allegations about a potential Trump-Russia connection bubbled up to the surface in the 2016 presidential campaign when then candidate Trump praised Putin's forceful governing style.

Saddam Hussein also had a forceful governing style. Perhaps Mr. Trump should have chosen his words more carefully as he often neglects to do.

But the bubbles reached their peak after Trump's national security adviser Michael Flynn spoke with a Russian official about U.S. sanctions. That alone is not grounds for dismissal, but Flynn failed to tell Vice President Pence the truth about it and lost the trust of the administration, they said. Flynn, of course, was asked to resign.

In a somewhat frenetic press conference Thursday, Mr. Trump repeatedly said he had no knowledge of his campaign officials talking to Russian officials. [He also said that he had more electoral votes than anyone in history except for Ronald Reagan. That turned out to be false but if you're curious about those kinds of things, go here.]

Priebus tried to end the discussion about the campaign-Russia story but he refused to name his source(s) within the intelligence community. This raises the problem about using anonymous sources for a story the Trump administration opposes.

He added that intelligence officials have dismissed reports that they've denied Trump access to intelligence reports, fearing a national security breach. He also defended Trump's tweet that called the news media the "enemy of the American people."

"I understand where he is coming from," Priebus said. "There are certain things that are happening in the news that just aren't honest. We aren't talking about everyone . . . There is nothing wrong with background. We need to communicate with reporters and give context."

I don't believe delegitimizing the reporting of most media outlets is the way for Trump to attack, but he's never one to not counterpunch when being punched. On one hand it's refreshing to see the bully pulpit strike back at the media bullies. On the other hand, the media bullies aren't going to stop and they're too distracting for someone running the country.

I think by focusing on the issues and by continuing to get things done, the media will be exposed for the biased bullies they are and the GOP will become even more powerful.


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Uganda Hussein Obama

Kony and Crew

President Obama is sending troops, once more in harm`s way, to Uganda. He said he wouldn`t send troops to fight in Libya, but Uganda is okay, because, according to him, these are special forces that will only be there for a month, and it`s a humanitarian mission. The key difference from Libya, is that Joseph Kony, the leader of the Lord`s Resistance Army, only has a few hundred troops and thus, the scale is much smaller. He is alleged to commit murder, rape, and sex slavery of the Ugandese and the troops are to be used to train them to use resist this army.     

To his credit, Obama is reacting to a humanitarian need in this African nation. People are at the mercy of the merciless militant and people are dying.  Children are recruited by Kony and made to kill their own parents--if they refuse, they are themselves, mutilated. This level of brutality is very similar to what eventuated in Iraq and Saddam Hussein (as in Barack's middle name, coincidentally, being he is non-Muslim unlikeSaddam). While the left kept screaming how W was Hitleresque, Obama is seen as more MLKesque. The unfortunate use of these types of comparisons, calling Bush a Hitler, diminishes the atrocities Hitler committed. It is a perverse, somewhat promiscuous use of language and I hope it stops.

Soddam Insane

Did the left ever consider the fact that, while no weapons of mass destruction were immediately found in Iraq, the one weapon of mass destruction, Saddam Hussein, was eventually found. Did the left forget what this monster did to his own people and the Kurds? Did they consider the horrors of his regime? But nothing Bush did was ever good. He was the embodiment of evil. According to the liberals, Bush was Hitler with a twang.

So let's support Obama's decision with Uganda, but let's keep the pressure going, to get every sane person you know of voting age, to make him a one-term wonder.  It makes you wonder why anyone ever voted for someone they never really knew.                              

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