Creative News Network hires 'the Bull Whisperer'

The Creative News Network (CNN) announced Friday the hiring of 'Lyin' Andy' McCabe, the disgraced FBI Deputy Director. He was fired from the bureau for lying just days before he was to retire, and that's when CNN knew that this was the guy for them and they scarfed him up. Who better to comment and "report" on President Trump and the GOP than "The Bull Whisperer?"

McCabe was canned in March 2018, merely hours before he was set to retire with a pension, after a Department of Justice Inspector General report found that he "lacked candor, including under oath" over the revelation that he leaked to the media. Due to the fact that justice is unequal and often political, McCabe is able to walk among us a free man.

The lizard brains at CNN complained incessantly this week over Fox News hiring former White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders and went equally ballistic when another former White House Press Secretary, Sean Spicer, landed an ABC "Dancing With The Stars" gig, because to them, everything is political.

CNN, also known colloquially as the Comedy News Network and as the Compromised News Network and formerly the Clinton News Network, had a crap-fest of a week. Their "Trump" propagandist, April Ryan, was giving a speech and her bodyguard was charged with assaulting a journalist. In other words, a so-called journalist allowed another journalist to be attacked by her bodyguard for the crime of doing journalism.

Then there's Chris Cuomo who in gangland style threatened to throw a man down a flight of stairs for calling him "Fredo," the dumb brother of the Godfather in the movie by the same name. In spite of the fact that Cuomo once referred to himself as Fredo, and the name was used on CNN in the past, "Don" Cuomo was super-pissed and went into a profanity-laced tirade which seemed to confirm the label he was given. Of course, it was wrong to call him Fredo in the first place, but Cuomo's response was over the top.

And then we have Don Lemon, an openly gay CNN host who makes Chris Cuomo seem like Stephen Hawking on Prevogin. A lawsuit has been filed in court against Lemon over sexual assault allegations, for which there is an alleged witness. A man in a bar asked Lemon if he could buy him a drink to which Lemon allegedly put his hand down into his skivvies, allegedly rubbed his balls and then allegedly shoved his fingers into the man's mustache and allegedly asked him if he liked d**k or p***y.

So political folks and journalists went on social media to share their thoughts about the hiring of McCabe.

Never the one to be shy about anything going on in the world that he could comment on, especially anything negative about CNN, President Trump reached into his limited bag of insults and tweeted: "Disgraceful!"

Dana Loesch tweeted: "So those at CNN who were up in arms over Fox hiring Sanders and Spicer appearing on dancing with the stars are celebrating their network’s hiring of Andrew McCabe, who, unlike Spicer and Sanders, lied under oath and was referred for criminal charges by the IG."

Perhaps my favorite is this one in which Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) tweeted: "It's not every day @CNN can hire someone with "failed coup attempt" on their resume..."

Rep. Mark Meadows (R-NC) tweeted: "Andrew McCabe: fired for lying to the FBI, caught by the Inspector General for unauthorized media leaks, and—worst of all—one of the ring-leaders in spreading the debunked and disastrous "Russian collusion" conspiracy theory. His reward? A paid CNN contract. Comical."

Except it isn't really comical--it's downright disgusting.

Journalist Yashar Ali tweeted: "McCabe is still the subject of a federal criminal investigation. McCabe is suing the Justice Department and the FBI. Is CNN going to disclose that fact every time he is on air? I'm assuming they're hiring him to talk about matters related to criminal justice and not the stock market."

Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-NY) tweeted: "McCabe->the FBI’s former Acting Director fired for leaking to the media & lying about it to the FBI, including under oath & “failing to adhere to the highest standards of honesty, integrity, & accountability”. Nothing to see here...let’s just be outraged Spicer is dancing on ABC."

Donald Trump Jr. tweeted: "REMINDER: Andrew McCabe was fired by the FBI for leaking and getting caught lying about it. ANOTHER REMINDER: @CNN ceased being a 'news organization' a long time ago. They’re now a fully integrated anti-Trump propaganda network and they don’t even try hiding it anymore."

"I can do the same thing with my finger"

So whether you call them the Comedy News Network, Creative News Network, Commie News Network, Clinton News Network, or even the Compromised News Network, they are not to be taken seriously.



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Sean Spicer causes Emmy's to be at all-time low

You can't blame Stephen Colbert for the toilet-tanked ratings the Emmy Awards got Sunday night. Everyone loves Colbert, just ask him. 

But when Colbert brought out former Trump Press Secretary Sean Spicer near the beginning of the show, everything was ruined. 

Liberals who don't normally watch Sunday Night Football flipped to the game (in spite of the lowered ratings due to conservatives refusing to watch a bunch of capitalist millionaires refusing to stand for the National Anthem). 

Those who never watch tennis turned on the Davis Cup and saw France's Tsonga win his match against some dude from Serbia or some country starting with an 'S'.

The irony is not lost on those who heard Spicer do a Trump-like schtick declaring the CBS Emmy show would have "the largest audience to witness an Emmys, period--both in person and around the world."


Last year's Emmys was hosted by Jimmy Kimmel and was the all-time lowest rating Emmy show until this one flopped along, taking aim over and over at the former Celebrity Apprentice host and current U.S. President. 

Colbert tweeted that at least with the Emmys, the winners are determined by the popular vote, unlike Trump's win. But of course, Colbert didn't do his homework because the Emmys are not decided by popular vote--it's more like an electoral system, just like the presidency. (For more on Colbert making a fool of himself, go to Twitchy.com  and read the responses on Twitter.

It had to involve a lot of network planning to put the Emmys in part of the same time slot as Sunday Night Football. But based on the idea that when people want to watch a form of entertainment, which the Emmys used to be, and they have to put up with leftist political pandering, they tend to vote with the remote.

For those of you who didn't watch TV Sunday night, the Atlanta Falcons beat the Green Bay Packers 32-23.

I didn't get to see the start of the game so I don't know if anyone on either team 'took a knee' for the National Anthem.

Yet another leftist political display that is resulting in a loss of NFL viewership.

Last year's ABC broadcast of the Emmys drew 11.3 million viewers, down 18% from the previous year and the lowest until this year.

This year about 113 people watched their self-congratulatory award show. And if Sean Spicer wasn't allowed in the theater, the number would have swelled to 240 or more. 

But it was allegedly a big hit in Serbia or some country that starts with an 'S'.


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BREAKING: Sean Spicer resigns as WH Press Secretary

DEVELOPING: It has been confirmed that Sean Spicer has resigned as White House Press Secretary. This comes on the heels of President Trump saying that he wants Anthony Scaramucci as his communications director.

Spicer, it was reported, did not like the appointment of Scaramucci and this was the reason he has stepped down. The communications director reports only to the president, not to the Press Secretary.

There is no official word as to what Sarah Huckabee Sanders' role will be in the future.

Apparently, there was a lot of pushback by Reince Priebus and Steve Bannon against the hiring of Scaramucci, but it's now a 'done deal' and Spicer is gone.

There is yet to be official word from the White House, but several major media sources have confirmed Spicer's resignation and Scaramucci's appointment.

This is a developing story, so stay tuned.

UPDATE: Sarah Huckabee Sanders will be the White House Press Secretary. The announcement came from Anthony Scaramucci during a question-answer session.







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Chelsea "upset" with Bannon for "fat shaming' Spicer

Howdy Doody lookalike Chelsea Clinton was upset with Steve Bannon for making fun of Sean Spicer's weight.

Rosie Gray of The Atlantic wrote that Chelsea is upset that Bannon said the reason why White House briefings were currently being held off camera is because "Sean [Spicer] got fatter."

And this was said by a rather corpulent Bannon, so perhaps it was just tongue-in-cheek, unless he doesn't own a mirror.

But really, I suspect Bannon was just breaking Spicer's chops with playful banter and giving us, the American people, a laugh-out-loud moment in a world where laughing is met by hearty "Allahu Akbars" and blood.

So of course, Chelsea Clinton had to get into the act. She couldn't deal with the fact that America couldn't give a rat's keister about her and she just had to step onto Bannon's comedic moment to show us all just how woke she is.

"The White House using fat shaming to justify increased opacity, 2017. --Chelsea Clinton (@ChelseaClinton)

The fact that Ms. Doody has to go after two guys busting each other's chops and having fun is sad, but sad in the way that Hillary Clinton is sad for us to watch as she tries to be relevant.


But not sad for me--I'm glad Chelsea's momma is irrelevant.

Hopefully, Sean Spicer will be able to get through the Bannon ridicule and joshing and will not develop bulimia or anorexia. 

But Chelsea continued: 

"Oh ok. So using fat shaming to avoid answering questions about increasing opacity. Got it. 2017."

She's so on point, so brilliant with her remarks and verbal demonstrations. So 1990s.

Chelsea deftly responded to a tweet about how calculated she is:

"Hi Jim! Just me as I was standing in line @Starbucks earlier. Fat shaming isn't a joke I find funny. Ever."

Hillary must've gotten on her case for something she said about her pantsuit look.

Funny how liberals always take the moral superiority route, even when they're killing the unborn.


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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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Trump may back Palestinian 'self-determination'

"We can forgive the Arabs for killing our children. We cannot forgive them for forcing us to kill their children. We will only have peace with the Arabs when they love their children more than they hate us." --Golda Meir

Washington -- President Trump plans a Middle East trip this month and is expected to express his support for Palestinian "self-determination," a senior aide said Friday. This suggests the president is agreeable to a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, although the White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer as well as the Deputy White House Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders and Vice President Mike Pence have not commented on this having learned the hard way not to jump the gun before President Trump has had time to change his mind.

The comment by H.R. McMaster, the U.S. national security adviser came nine days after Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas visited the White House and was offered delicious chocolate cake that was out of this world.

During the meeting, Trump vowed to seek a tremendous and beautiful historic peace deal, but did not actually verbalize a recommitment to the eventual goal of Palestinian statehood, a long-existing U.S. policy. 

For his part, Abbas did not publicly discuss the ultimate goal of the Palestinian people to annihilate the Jewish State along with the Jews living there.

Regarding President Trump's first foreign trip, McMaster said that he will make his first stop in Saudi Arabia, where, as Sean Hannity frequently reminds us, women can't drive, can't vote and need a male escort to leave the home. Trump will try encouraging Arab and Muslim partners to take "bold new steps" to confront the Islamic State, Iran, al-Qaeda and Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad's government "who perpetuate chaos and violence" [in the name of Allah].

Trump is leaving next week and will also stop in Israel and Rome. The trip is intended to "broadcast a message of unity" by visiting holy sites of Christianity and Judaism [that have not yet been destroyed by Islamists] and he also plans to visit Islamic sites.

When Trump meets with Israeli and Palestinian leaders (scheduled separately to avoid violence) it will be closely observed for signs that he has a cohesive strategy to revive negotiations that have been stalled for years. Anyone with a brain is skeptical of Trump's chances of brokering a peace accord when other presidents before him could not.

Trump also will meet with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to "reaffirm America's unshakeable bond to the Jewish state" and with Abbas to "express his desire for dignity and self-determination for the Palestinians," McMaster said.

Trump will likely meet with Abbas in the little town of Bethlehem and with Netanyahu elsewhere. The president sparked international criticism in February when, in a news conference with Netanyahu, backed away from longstanding U.S. commitment to Palestinian statehood, saying he'd leave it up to Israel and the Palestinians to decide.

Like that would work.

When McMaster was asked if Trump would bring Netanyahu and Abbas together in the same room for a 'sit-down' he said that it would be up to the president and the other two leaders. 

What do you think? Should they be in the same room?

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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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POTUS calls for congressional probe into wiretapping of his campaign

The Trump administration called for congressional investigations on Sunday, into his claim the Obama administration orchestrated an attempt to gain information on then-GOP nominee Donald Trump.

Press Secretary Sean Spicer said in a statement: "Reports concerning potentially motivated investigations immediately ahead of the 2016 election are very troubling . . . President Donald J. Trump is requesting that as part of their investigation into Russian activity, the congressional intelligence committee exercise their oversight authority to determine whether executive branch investigative powers were abused in 2016."

In a reflexive tweet Mr. Trump wrote: "Who was it that secretly said to Russian President, 'Tell Vladimir that after the election I'll have more flexibility?'"

Spicer's statement comes after President Trump's explosive allegation that former President Obama ordered phones wiretapped at Trump Tower and added that nobody in his administration "will comment further until such oversight is conducted."

Trump's wiretap allegations in a bunch of tweets Saturday, along with the White House statement, are the latest developments in the "Vladimir Putin is trying to influence the U.S. election for Trump over his rival and shrew, Hillary Clinton" controversy. 

National Security Adviser Michael Flynn had to resign over this situation and Attorney General Jeff Sessions recused himself from any DoJ probe in the matter because it was learned that he spoke with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak after a gaggle of Democrats did the same.

"Terrible! Just found out that Obama had my 'wires tapped' in Trump Tower just before the victory. Nothing found. This is McCarthyism," the president tweeted Saturday.

And then he tweeted again: "Is it legal for a sitting president to be 'wire tapping' a race for president prior to an election? Turned down by court earlier. A NEW LOW!"

It isn't clear to whom Mr. Trump was directing the legal question, but we can rule out Alan Dershowitz and Rosie O'Donnell.

And then he tweeted again that a "good lawyer could make a great case of the fact that President Obama was tapping my phones in October, just prior to election!"

And again: "How low has President Obama gone to tap (sic) my phones during the very sacred election process. This is Nixon/Watergate. Bad (or sick) guy!" he said, overusing exclamation points and asking rhetorical questions, as he often does.

Obama denied Trump's accusation that he had Trump's phones tapped weeks before the November election. But that doesn't mean he didn't have someone else do it for him--like Loretta "How-are-your-grandkids-Bill" Lynch.

But Kevin Lewis, an Obama towel boy and caddy, refuted the idea that Lynch or Obama had anything to do with the alleged wiretapping. "Neither President Obama nor any White House official ever ordered surveillance on any U.S. citizen. Any suggestion otherwise is simply racist false."

So deniable plausibility aside, it's possible that the FBI or an outside source did the tapping.

In a Breitbart article on Friday it claimed the Obama administration made two Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISA) requests last year to monitor Trump's communications and a computer server in Trump Tower. The purpose was to determine if there were links with Russian banks.

No evidence of such links were found. Nada. Zilch.

Trump, on Sunday, has again attacked Obama saying he colluded with Russia.

Brilliant strategy: throw the grenade back at him.



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New Acting AG will enforce immigration order

Former acting Attorney General Sally Yates has been fired and replaced with a new acting AG Dana J. Boente. He has pledged to "defend and enforce" the laws of the land. Isn't that special?

When Yates refused to enforce Trump's lawful order, he did what he is known for: he fired her. And he was perfectly in his right to do so since she refused to do what she was sworn to do. An Attorney General doesn't get to pick and choose which laws (s)he wants to uphold.

She learned of her firing Monday evening in a hand-delivered note from the White House Office of Personnel, just hours after she directed the Justice Department lawyers not to defend the executive order. She wasn't convinced it was lawful or consistent with the agency's "obligation to always seek justice and stand for what is right."

Trump said in a statement that she "betrayed the Department of Justice by refusing to enforce a legal order designed to protect the citizens of the United States."

He fired her faster than a first-round loser in 'The Apprentice.'

Sean Spicer said in a statement that "Ms. Yates is an Obama administration appointee who is weak on borders and very weak on immigration."

According to The New York Times, Boente was sworn in at 9 p.m. ET. 

"I am honored to serve President Trump in this role until Sen. Sessions is confirmed. I will defend and enforce the laws of our country to ensure that our people and our nation are protected," Boente said in a statement.

The executive order faced condemnation from executives at top companies who might be upset that they cannot hire illegal immigrants to perform cheap labor. Both Goldman Sachs and Coca-Cola are among those companies, both of which threw tons of money at the Hillary Clinton presidential campaign.

An Obama spokesman said the former incompetent president is "heartened" by the protests [if he only had a heart]. 

It is highly probable that Obama will not go away because he doesn't have the class of a George W. Bush. If it was up to Obama, there would be no borders, no fixed genders, no Israel, and America would be 'about average.'

But it isn't up to him.

Trump's executive order temporarily halts the U.S. refugee program and bans all entries from the same Muslim-majority countries that Obama first mentioned. The ban is only for 90 days but Soros-funded protesters are acting as if it's forever.

Speaking of Soros, have you noticed that since Hillary lost the election, the Soros-funded Black Lives Matter people are no longer relevant?

The entire refugee program is to be paused for merely 4 months and there is an indefinite ban on all people from war-torn Syria. But federal judges in several states, including New York, issued orders that temporarily block the government from deporting those with valid visas who arrived after the travel ban took effect. That seems to be a reasonable thing to do.

In spite of the chaos that ensued from the ban, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich said: "You now have a president who really takes seriously the tremendous threat of international terrorism and is prepared to take steps that are very tough-minded and that are going to inconvenience some people."

The American people are behind President Trump and his tactics for keeping America safe. But leftists, like George Soros and Barack Obama are apparently going to do everything they can to get in his way for their own agendas.

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POTUS orders construction of the wall, targets sanctuary cities

President Trump signed executive orders ordering the construction of the U.S.-Mexico border wall and the targeting of sanctuary cities. 

Mexico is still adamant about their pledge not to pay for the wall, but there are plenty of ways for them to pay for it and I suspect Trump will use one of them rather than getting a direct check from Mexico for the costs. 

The cost for the project is not known nor how it will be funded.

The orders cover a myriad immigration enforcement measures but the main item is the pursuit of the wall.

Trump signed the border measure when he visited the Department of Homeland Security. "We've been talking about this from the beginning," he said. 

"Ultimately it will come out of what's happening with Mexico," the president told ABC News, and said that construction could begin in a matter of months.

White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer said Homeland Security funding could be used to get the project started, but Congress would need to appropriate money to keep it going.

The executive order also includes provisions to give DHS more resources to stop illegal immigration and end what Trump refers to as "catch-and-release " policies (like an ethical fly fisherman who doesn't plan to eat the catch) and prioritize deporting illegal aliens who violate other orders.

Another order, the Secure Communities program, is aimed to assist federal immigration agents to crack down on illegal immigration. It ensures that illegal immigrant criminals are returned back to their countries of origin and moves to strip federal grant money to sanctuary states and cities that "harbor" illegal immigrants.

It seems like there should also be a way to charge government officials who facilitate the harboring of illegal immigrants to be charged with a crime as it is unconstitutional to do so.

U.S. refugee and visa policies are also to be addressed and are likely to include temporary suspension of visas from terrorist-affiliated countries such as Iraq, Sudan, Syria and Libya. In addition, the order might seek to reduce the number of refugees admitted into the U.S.

The wall will cost in the billions of dollars and where the money will come from is still a "complicated" mystery.

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Say it isn't so Mr. Trump

President Trump's White House aides are using personal email accounts!

I rarely use exclamation points in my writing (except when I use "Sad!" at the end of the blog post to imitate a Trump tweet). But this calls for hyperbolic punctuation.

Trump was all over Hillary's case during the campaign for her use of a personal email server while she wasted time and travel money as secretary of state. She potentially exposed the country to leaking secret information because she was too damn arrogant to follow the rules that everyone else had to follow.

Now we have Trump's people guilty of the same lax behavior according to Politico.

As the Trump team moves into the West Wing, where they will become intimately ensconced with top level strategy information and other documents not intended for public use, they are still using their own personal emails because officials haven't set them up with their new White House email accounts.

The team's transition into the White House has been problematic at times and press wranglers under the direction of Sean Spicer, were overlooked when the techies set things up and they've been using their private email addresses.

Sean Spicer had to jerry-rig his own contact system using Twitter to spread President Trump's daily public schedule to the media, rather than directly emailing them.

On the bright side however, is that the press team might have exclusive information but it isn't dealing with classified documents.

Sad!

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POTUS' choice for SCOTUS short list ready

President Trump is ready to make his Supreme Court justice choice this week after the country has gone 11 months with an empty seat after the death of Justice Antonin Scalia. The Democrats weren't happy with the wait, but since it was nearing the end of a socialist president's term, the GOP, under Mitch McConnell, thought it best to take the gamble and wait until after the election.

A brilliant move.

It was worth the wait as it is likely Trump will pick a conservative Constitutional originalist as Justice Scalia was, to fill the seat.

President Trump has assured us the decision is coming soon. "I'll be making my decision this week, we'll be announcing next week," he said after meeting with bipartisan Senate leaders Tuesday. "We'll pick a truly great Supreme Court justice."

It will be very, very great. So great we're going to say 'Hey Donald, your pick was too great. We're getting tired of all this greatness.'

According to sources who ask to remain anonymous in order to find out more secret stuff, the list is down to  three or four names, all of whom are federal appeals court judges.

You may recall that President Trump said at a presser last week before taking the oath of office that a decision on the pick for Supreme Court would come within two weeks after taking office.

White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer backed up that timeline on Monday, and said the nomination remains a "priority."

Trump already met with Judge William Pryor from the 11th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals, in Birmingham, Ala. He is a close friend of the Attorney General nominee Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.).

Pryor was initially given a recess appointment to the appeals court but Senate Democrats tried to block his subsequent nominations, citing his strong criticism of the Roe v. Wade decision establishing a woman's right to kill her unborn baby. He called it the "worst abomination in the history of constitutional law."

As Ronald Reagan pointed out: "I've noticed that everyone who is for abortion has already been born."

Other possible judges on Trump's short list may be Judge Neil Gorsuch, on the 10th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals, with chambers in Denver. 

He was born in 1967 and went to Harvard Law School, clerked for Justices Byron White and Anthony Kennedy. He then went into private practice before joining the Bush Justice Department. His mother is Anne Burford, the first female EPA administrator. He also wrote: "The Future of Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia."

Judge Thomas Hardiman, 3rd Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals, with chamber in Pittsburgh.

He was born in 1965 and his 2010 ruling that a jail policy of strip-searching all those arrested does not violate the Fourth Amendment was affirmed by the Supreme Court. He also sits on the same court as President Trump's sister, Judge Maryanne Trump Barry, but she is not being considered for any high court vacancy.

There are more possible considerations but we shall see what he does in the days to come.

So far, Trump has met with auto industry leaders and others, and will be meeting with the British and Canadian Prime Ministers, Theresa May and Justin Trudeau, respectively.

Just for the fun of it, I've put up a Steve Crowder video of the Women's March in Washington on Friday. It's only a bit over 8 minutes long but fun to watch. 

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The softer side of Sean Spicer

The new White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer started off with a little teeny weeny bit of anger in his first encounter with fellow journalists over the weekend, but today was a new day and the first day of the "real" work week.

On his first daily presser he actually picked a reporter from Univision--the Spanish language media outlet that had, in the past, been hostile to President Donald Trump as he campaigned, particularly over his stance on immigration. 

The reporter, Janet Rodriguez, was Spicer's third pick, in fact, after having called upon the New York Post and the Christian Broadcasting Network.

FoxNews.com reported that Spicer's decision to not pick the AP and other front-row outlets for the first questions might have been his way of signaling the press that he might be showing less deference to mainstream news outlets in the briefing.

Rodriguez asked Spicer about former President Obama's actions on children of illegal immigrants (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals aka DACA) and what would be done for recipients. She also asked about the current status of the White House's Spanish website--which was taken down on Inauguration Day as part of the transition to a new website. 

The new White House Press Secretary said that the website may take a bit more time. "Trust me," he said, "it's just going to take a little bit more time, but we're working piece by piece to get that done."

He should have added that the Spanish website will be running without a problem a lot faster than the Obamacare website did.

Insofar as DACA is concerned, Spicer made it clear that President Trump's priority for immigration was to deport criminal illegal aliens first.

"First and foremost, the president's been very, very clear that we need to direct agencies to focus on those who are in this country illegally and have a record--a criminal record or pose a threat to the American people," he said. "That's where the priorities are going to be and then we're going to continue to work through the entire number of folks that are here illegally. But right now the clear focus is on that."

Gee, that sounds like a good idea.

This presser by Spicer was a far less angry one than the very first meeting he had with the press. It seemed like he was going for a "do-over."


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Priebus: media obsessed with delegitimizing Trump

White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus defended his boss on Sunday saying that "there is an obsession by the media to delegitimize this president. We are not going to sit around and let it happen," he told "Fox News Sunday."

President Trump spoke to about 300 CIA staffers on Saturday and suggested to them that his well-publicized split with the U.S. intelligence agencies was created by the media. This then led to his free associating about the media and the size of his inauguration crowd which, he said, they lied about saying it was rather small.

Trump apparently has a problem with 'small.'

What had happened was that Trump didn't go along with the intelligence community's assessment that Russia influenced the 2016 presidential election to help him win.

He also said that someone within the intel community leaked an unofficial dossier with alleged personal information about him that was perversely sexual in nature, and that, he said, was like living in "Nazi Germany."

It was "one bad actor" that probably leaked the fake document so Trump wasn't angry at all of the country's intelligence officers, Priebus told Fox.

"I'm telling you; it was a love fest in there," he said, referring to Trump's CIA visit.

Media didn't report this

Priebus spoke about the claim that Trump removed the bust of Martin Luther King Jr. from the Oval Office. This turned out to be false and Priebus said about the inaccurate report: "It could have had explosive ramifications . . . It was shoot first, point later."

The so-called "reporter" later apologized.

The Chief of Staff also defended the White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer's comments about the media for under reporting the crowd size. A flash press conference was called and Spicer angrily accused the media of "false reporting" on the inauguration in a "shameful" attempt to minimize enthusiasm for Trump. And then he left without taking questions. 

"The point is not the crowd," Priebus said. "The point is the media is trying to delegitimize the presidency."


The point is, Trump needs to focus on what's important  . . . or is it that crowd size is the new hand size?


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Sean Spicer claims no 'conclusive evidence' Russia hacked DNC emails

The Trump team on Monday made it clear that it isn't clear that Russia executed a cyber-attack on the presidential race. "Rushing to judgment on stuff like this is not in anybody's best interest," Sean Spicer, incoming White House Communications Director said on "Fox & Friends" Monday.

Spicer said that Trump isn't disputing statements made by U.S. intelligence officials, but instead is waiting for a final report due later in the week that could provide more conclusive evidence.

"Then I think we'll have a better idea of what to make to the situation," he said. 

Several U.S. intelligence agencies have claimed that Russia was behind the hacking and release of John Podesta's emails from the DNC, but if you know anything about who runs some of these intelligence agencies, you might not be totally convinced that they're telling the whole truth.

Last week, Obama had 35 Russian diplomats expelled who are believed to be spies and involved with the email hack. The Russian compounds, which are large mansions, in New York and Maryland have been since closed.

Hillary Clinton's team and supporters believe the hacked emails, contributed to her upset loss to Donald Trump because the public got to see how little she and her team think of the American people. 

They never disputed the validity of the emails, only where they came from. 

Obama, who only reacted to the email hack after the election but knew about the hacking beforehand, said the investigation and sanctions were in the interest of protecting the U.S. election system especially if the GOP wins.

Spicer suggest that Obama's actions were politically motivated.

When Obama pees, it's politically motivated.

"There is a question about whether there's a political retribution here versus a diplomatic response, he told ABC on Sunday.

Regarding Trump's New Year's Eve comments about "know(ing) things that other people don't know," about the hacking, Spicer said that Trump gets briefed daily and this is "privy to information that nobody else is. What he's driving at is that there doesn't seem to be conclusive evidence."

Spicer also dismissed the FBI and Homeland Security report supporting the accusations against Russia, and called the report a "how-to" manual on basic cybersecurity for Democrats. He said the report isn't even final but is being taken "as gospel."

Interestingly, Spicer pointed out that in 2015 China stole sensitive information from millions of Americans, including federal workers, and Obama failed to issue "a single statement."

Or get off the golf course.

Donald Trump will meet this week with intelligence officials to get more input about the allegations against Moscow.

Trump said, "I know a lot about hacking. And hacking is a very hard thing to prove, so it could be somebody else."

Like that 400 pound couch potato.




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