Rubio and Vance Offer Competing Visions While White House Insists Everyone Is Singing From the Same Hymnal

For an administration that likes to remind everyone it's playing four-dimensional chess on the world stage, the Trump White House has found itself looking like a family trying to assemble IKEA furniture after losing the instructions. Everyone insists they're building the same bookshelf, but one guy is holding a hammer while another is convinced the leftover screws are decorative.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio has spent the past week doing something that used to be considered a basic qualification for running American foreign policy: acknowledging that the Iranian regime is exactly what decades of history say it is. Vice President JD Vance, on the other hand, has been floating a more optimistic theory that suggests the mullahs are just one reconstruction package and a few friendly conversations away from becoming respectable neighbors. What has he been smoking?

The White House would like everyone to stop noticing.

Rubio has consistently defended Israel's campaign against Hezbollah for what any honest observer can see it is: a response to years of rocket attacks, terrorism, and the bizarre international expectation that Israelis should quietly absorb missiles because it makes European diplomats feel more comfortable and besides, Jews need to be annihilated because, you know, the Qur'an and stuff.

While visiting the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, and Bahrain, Rubio worked to reassure nervous allies following the preliminary U.S.-Iran agreement signed on June 17. Critics have questioned whether the deal hands Tehran far too much for far too little. Rubio answered those concerns with a sentence so grounded in reality that it almost sounded old fashioned.

"While we want a deal, we don't want a deal at any price," Rubio said.

Imagine that. A Secretary of State who remembers that negotiations are supposed to benefit America instead of serving as therapy sessions for hostile dictators.

That practical approach stands in pretty stark contrast to the messaging coming from the vice president.

Vance, on the other hand, has defended the agreement against Israeli criticism while arguing that Israeli strikes on Hezbollah infrastructure in Beirut could complicate American diplomacy. That assumes Hezbollah is simply misunderstood and that their biggest obstacle to peace is poor calendar coordination with U.S. negotiators rather than an obsessive commitment to wiping Israel off the map.

Does he know nothing about Islamic anti-Semitism?

The vice president has also spoken favorably about Gulf nations helping finance Iran's reconstruction and has entertained the possibility of a more cooperative relationship with the Islamic Republic. Apparently decades of hostage taking, proxy wars, terrorism, and "Death to America" chants are now considered minor misunderstandings that can be smoothed over with enough infrastructure spending. He needs to forget about running for POTUS in '28.

Then came Thursday's interview.

Vance revealed that Washington had invited an Iranian intelligence official to serve as a deconfliction liaison with the Pentagon in Qatar. That's one of those ideas that sounds like it came out of a brainstorming session where someone asked, "What's the foreign policy equivalent of letting the bank robber install the security cameras?"

Naturally, everyone in the administration insists there isn't even the slightest disagreement.

"There is one camp, President Trump's camp, and the entire administration is fully behind the president's efforts to ensure Iran can never possess a nuclear weapon," spokeswoman Anna Kelly said.

State Department spokesman Tommy Pigott dismissed reports of friction as a "tired and fake" narrative before adding, "The entire administration is 100% in lockstep behind President Trump."

Rubio offered the same assurance Thursday.

"Everyone here is aligned behind the president."

Maybe they are.

But from where everyone else is sitting, this doesn't look like perfect harmony. It looks like one side is reading Ronald Reagan while the other is speed-running Barack Obama's Middle East playbook. Both keep insisting they're singing the same song, but one sounds like "God Bless America" while the other is humming "Kumbaya" with the ayatollah.

If this really is one unified strategy, somebody might want to hand out the same script before the next press conference.

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Mojtaba Khamenei might be gay: Trump cracks up

It was learned that the cardboard Ayatollah Junior Mojtaba Khamenei is probably gay. 

As a young buck, he was allegedly caught in the showers with men and, in addition,  he had a long-time relationship with his childhood tutor. So I guess he was being taught things that in ordinary Iranian regime society can get a gay guy hanged.

According to the bombshell report from the New York Post, President Trump got briefed on the new Iranian Supreme Leader, a cardboard cut-out, and let's just say the details had the room in stitches.

US intelligence dropped this gem: the late Ayatollah Ali Khamenei had major reservations about handing the keys of the caliphate to his son Mojtaba, even though the kid had been helping run the show for years. 

Why the cold feet from dear old dad? Because he knew about Mojtaba's homosexuality, according to our spy guys and it isn't nice to hang your own kid from a crane as been the wont of the IRGC and "morality police." [Now that's an oxymoron if there ever was one.]

President Trump was stunned. The man "laughed out loud" right there in the briefing. Sources say he couldn't contain himself. The other officials in the room found the whole thing "hilarious," with a bunch of them cracking up right along with the president. One senior intelligence official "has not stopped laughing about it for days." Can you blame them? This is peak absurdity in the middle of all the Iran drama.

Three separate sources, including two intel officials and one close to the White House, confirmed that American spy agencies view this assessment of Mojtaba as a homosexual as credible. 

Not some random rumor, but solid.

Two of those sources told the Post that Mojtaba has been in a long-term romantic relationship with his childhood male tutor.

A third source said he's been having an affair with someone who used to work for the Khamenei family. And get this: Mojtaba has made "aggressive" sexual advances toward multiple men assigned to take care of him.

One source emphasized that these reports on the 56-year-old cleric's homosexuality come from "one of the most protected sources that the government has." That's how locked-down this info is.

Going back further, earlier reports pointed to a State Department file on Mojtaba noting he didn't get married until age 30, which is pretty late for a Shi'ite cleric, but not so much for a gay one. The file suggested it was likely due to an "impotency problem" that was "eventually resolved" during extended visits to three British hospitals for treatment. The leaked intel even mentioned a fourth visit before his wife finally conceived. Their first kid, Mohamed Amin, wasn't born until eight years after the wedding.

Look, this is the kind of raw, unfiltered intel that shows you how bizarre the world really is. While the mullahs over there stone people for this stuff, their new top dog might be living it. And Trump? He just reacted like any normal guy would — with a good, hearty laugh. Classic.

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Illegal Alien who absconded after 2016 death of Sarah Root is extradicted

A Honduran man, Eswin Mejia, who’s been on the lam since 2016 after allegedly plowing into an Iowa woman while three sheets to the wind, finally got his one-way ticket back to the U.S. on Friday. 

Yes, they nabbed the former illegal alien in Honduras on Thursday, threw him on a plane, and now he’s stateside to face 'the man' for killing 21-year-old Sarah Root in a drunken crash in Nebraska.

The State Department’s crowing about it, and Marco Rubio—our new top diplomat—couldn’t wait to jump on X with the news. 

“Nine years ago, Sarah was tragically killed by an illegal immigrant who later fled our county,” he posted. “Today, the Trump Administration is announcing the extradition of Sarah’s killer from Honduras to the United States to face justice once and for all.” 

Boom—drop the mic, Marco

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Here’s the deal: Mejia, who wasn’t supposed to be here in the first place, was allegedly drunk when he smashed into Root’s car at an Omaha stoplight back in January 2016. Sadly, she didn’t make it—passed away at the hospital. 

The local police grabbed Mejia, charged him, but then—get this—he posted bond and poof, was gone like a fart in a hurricane. Next thing you know, he’s on ICE’s “Most Wanted” list, but back then, they were like, “Eh, not a priority.”

Iowa’s own Sen. Joni Ernst is over the moon about the bust. “The Trump administration never forgot Sarah Root’s story,” she blasted out on social media. “Together, we fought for justice to hold the illegal immigrant who took her life accountable. Iowans and every American know that this administration will always put our citizens first.”

Now, let’s rewind the tape on this clown. Border agents first clocked Mejia back in May 2013 when he rolled into Nogales, Arizona, as a so-called “unaccompanied child.” 

Law said they had to hand him over to the Office of Refugee Resettlement, and those geniuses shipped him off to Omaha in 2014 to live with his brother. Fast forward to that fatal 2016 crash—ICE says they only “encountered Mr. Mejia just once” after his arrest for motor vehicle homicide, but didn’t bother slapping a detainer on him. Whoops.

Oh, and the cherry on top? Honduras just inked a deal with us in February to keep a century-old extradition treaty alive. Good timing, too, because things were getting spicy down there—Honduran bigwigs were cozying up to Venezuela’s defense minister, a guy with U.S. drug trafficking charges hanging over his head. Awkward.

So, there you have it—Eswin Mejia’s back, Sarah Root’s family might finally get some closure, and the Trump crew’s flexing hard. Justice? We’ll see. But for now, it’s game on in Omaha.

And it isn't even 100 days on the job for President Trump!

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USAID aided terrorist groups longitudinal study shows

The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has given millions of dollars to extremist groups linked to Islamic terrorist organizations, according to a report from the Middle East Forum, a U.S. think tank.

"The Middle East Forum’s multi-year study of USAID and State Department spending has uncovered $164,000,000 of approved grants to radical organizations, with at least $122,000,000 million going to groups aligned with designated terrorists and their supporters," the conservative think tank wrote in its report published Feb. 4.

"Billions more of federal dollars have been given to leading American aid charities which have consistently failed to vet their terror-tied local partners, and show little interest in improving their practices, to the apparent indifference of the federal government."

The report specifically looks at funds from USAID and the State Department that ended up supporting radical groups and organizations connected to terrorism.

The think tank reported that USAID provided more than $900,000 to a "Gaza-based terror charity" called Bayader Association for Environment and Development. The funding started in 2016, with the latest allocation just days before the Hamassholes attacked Israel on Oct. 7, 2023.

Bayader describes itself as an NGO working "to build a civil society" in the Gaza Strip.

"Founded in 2007, shortly after Hamas’s takeover of the Gaza Strip, Bayader operates in close cooperation with the Hamas regime. Its 2021 annual report notes ‘coordination’ and ‘meetings’ with Hamas’s Ministry of Interior, Ministry of Works, Ministry of Social Affairs and Ministry of Agriculture," the report found.

The funds were channeled through other NGOs like Catholic Relief Services and medical groups.

"But USAID coordinates directly with Bayader as well," according to the report. "USAID officials have praised Bayader’s work on social media, and even visited Bayader’s offices, where one senior USAID official, Jonathan Kamin, received an award from the terror-linked charity."

The report also discovered that USAID approved a $12.5 million grant in 2024 to the American Near East Refugee Agency, a "long-standing partner" of Bayader. This agency was established in 1968 to aid refugees after the Arab-Israeli War.

It was found that employees of this NGO have publicly shared "violent ideas" like calling on God to "erase the Jews," supporting "brave prisoners" in Israeli jails during the Hamas-Israel conflict, and describing Oct. 7, 2023, as a "beautiful morning" without apparent reprimand from higher-ups.

Sam Westrop, the director of the Middle East Forum's Islamist Watch, highlighted these findings on X, calling them "horrifying."

"USAID won't even tell us how much they gave the Unlimited Friends Association, a Gaza terror charity which operates with help from Hamas. The head of the charity promises to ‘cleanse’ their land of ‘impure Jews,’" Westrop posted.

"USAID gave millions to Islamic Relief, whose Gaza branch openly works with senior terrorist officials in Gaza, including Hamas politburo member Ghazi Hamad. who promised that Hamas would repeat Oct 7 attacks ‘time and again until Israel is annihilated,’" he posted in another example from the report.

USAID funds amounting to $125,000 were traced to the Islamic Relief Agency (ISRA) in 2015, despite the U.S. Treasury designating it a global terrorist organization in 2004 due to links with Osama bin Laden.

The report states that USAID "undoubtedly knew of ISRA’s terrorism activities. In 2010, the executive director of ISRA’s U.S. branch (IARA-USA) and a board member pleaded guilty to money-laundering, theft of public funds, conspiracy, and several other charges. The plea was listed on USAID’s own website," the report found.

The funds were funneled to ISRA through an evangelical charity called World Vision, which works on providing clean water in Sudan, according to the report.

A World Vision official told Fox News Digital that they earned approval to work in Sudan "to help build a better world for the most vulnerable children and their families" and take "compliance obligations seriously."

"As soon as we became aware that a local partner, Islamic Relief Agency, might be on the list of organizations banned from transactions by the United States, we suspended the grant and asked the US Government to confirm its status," the official said. "We would never knowingly put those we serve or our staff at risk by working with a partner on the list of banned organizations. We exist to help build a better world for children and their families, serving in the name of Jesus Christ. We have no evidence that any of our funds have been used for anything other than urgent humanitarian work."

"As a Christian humanitarian organization, we do not compromise our beliefs nor commitment to integrity as we work with governments throughout the world," the official added. "It is not easy to operate in fragile contexts, yet this is where the Lord is calling us. We remain committed to our vision of bringing life in all its fullness to vulnerable children around the world."

Fox News Digital reached out to Bayader, the American Near East Refugee Agency, and Catholic Relief Services but received no responses.

USAID faces scrutiny from the Trump administration as the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), led by Elon Musk, investigates its spending and considers restructuring or closing the agency. USAID is currently under the interim leadership of Secretary of State Marco Rubio.

On Feb. 4, USAID announced on its website that nearly all staff would be placed on leave by Friday, exempting those in "mission-critical functions, core leadership and specially designated programs." Its overseas missions have also been instructed to close.

Amid this potential dismantling, past USAID spending has come under review, revealing funds going to questionable initiatives like creating a version of "Sesame Street" in Iraq or funding pottery classes in Morocco,

USAID was set up in 1961 during the Kennedy administration to manage civilian foreign aid in close cooperation with the State Department. Rubio has suggested in a letter to Congress on Feb. 3 that USAID might be integrated into the State Department or abolished entirely.

Elon Musk has publicly stated on X that USAID is a "criminal organization" and that it's "time for it to die."

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Pro-Hamasshole students ready to be deported

AP Photo/Stefan Jeremiah

Before the door to the Oval Office fully closed on Monday, President Donald Trump was signing executive orders.

 One of them is focused on "protecting the United States from Foreign Terrorists and other national security and public safety threats."

"It is the policy of the United States to protect its citizens from aliens who intend to commit terrorist attacks, threaten our national security, espouse hateful ideology, or otherwise exploit the immigration laws for malevolent purposes," the order declares.

This statement spells trouble for visa holders who support terrorism, particularly those on college campuses who advocate for groups like Hamas.

"The Secretary of Homeland Security shall take immediate steps to exclude or remove that alien unless she determines that doing so would inhibit a significant pending investigation or prosecution of the alien for a serious criminal offense or would be contrary to the national security interests of the United States," the order further stipulates.

President Trump, alongside the Department of Homeland Security and the State Department, are evidently focusing on visa reform, especially targeting nations perceived as adversarial to American values, as explicitly outlined in the order.

"To protect Americans, the United States must be vigilant during the visa-issuance process to ensure that those aliens approved for admission into the United States do not intend to harm Americans or our national interests. More importantly, the United States must identify them before their admission or entry into the United States. And the United States must ensure that admitted aliens and aliens otherwise already present in the United States do not bear hostile attitudes toward its citizens, culture, government, institutions, or founding principles, and do not advocate for, aid, or support designated foreign terrorists and other threats to our national security," the order explains.

The pro-Israel group Betar has already compiled a list of such individuals. 

From the New York Post:

The group, Betar, has about 30 names of students from nations such as Jordan, Syria, Egypt, Canada, and the United Kingdom currently enrolled in some of the nation’s top universities, including Columbia, UPenn, Michigan, Syracuse, UCLA, The New School for Social Research, Carnegie Mellon, and George Washington University.

"We have started compiling lists of Jew-hating foreign nationals on visas who support Hamas," said Ross Glick, director of the US chapter of Betar.

So instead of a US President supplying Iran and their proxies with money, we finally have a President who is being proactive and is removing the problem from our country.

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Morgan Ortagus picked by Trump for Deputy Envoy to Middle East

On Friday, President-elect Donald Trump announced that Morgan Ortagus, who was the State Department spokesperson during his first term, will serve as the deputy special presidential envoy to the Middle East.

Ortagus will be working under Steve Witkoff, who was one of Trump's initial selections for his new administration. Both Ortagus and Witkoff are Jewish.

“She will hopefully be an asset to Steve, a great leader and talent, as we seek to bring calm and prosperity to a very troubled region,” Trump stated in a post on Truth Social. “I expect great results, and soon!”

Trump noted that Ortagus, who is also an active Navy Reserve intelligence officer, was involved in negotiating the historic Abraham Accords during his previous term, which facilitated diplomatic relations between Israel and Arab nations including Bahrain, Morocco, Sudan, and the United Arab Emirates.

“Early on, Morgan fought me for three years, but hopefully has learned her lesson,” Trump wrote, without going into specifics.

Ortagus had previously criticized Trump during the 2016 Republican primary, describing his foreign policy as "isolationist" and his behavior as "disgusting" and "not serious." However, she later became a supporter after Trump won the party's nomination.

“These things usually don’t work out, but she has strong Republican support, and I’m not doing this for me, I’m doing it for them,” Trump wrote. “Let’s see what happens.”

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Here's how the Mossad martyrd billionaire Hamasshole in Tehran

Question: Where did Ismail Haniyeh go when he died?

Answer: Everywhere.

Now we know just how Hamas' political chief and multi-billionaire Ismail Haniyeh was blown to smithereens in Tehran, Iran on Tuesday night. Initially, it was reported that the scumbag was killed by an Israeli airstrike, but that wasn't what caused the anti-Semite to go all to pieces. 

Mossad planted explosives under his bed and sent him to his 72 goats before he even knew why his ass was flying high above his disconnected head.

In other words, Israel was able to discover which room Haniyeh used during his stays there, slip a remotely detonated bomb under his MyPillow mattress, find out when he was going to be in Tehran and badahbah badahbing! 

Instant martyr.

And while Haniyeh was depicted by the liberal media as the "moderate" face of Hamas, in order to appease Reps. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI and Gaza), Ilhan Omar (D-MI and Somalia), Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY and the Communist Party), who themselves tend to side with the terrorist sympathizers, the truth is, the guy was a pile of dog poop. Of course, the media and the congress cretins would never come out and say they're all for anyone who hates the Jews. Instead, they say they're on the side of "the oppressed."

Haniyeh was about three billion dollars oppressed, money that he got that was slated for the Arabs in Gaza, much of which was sent by a demented president of some country that will go unnamed.

He has been on the State Department's Specially Designated Global Terrorists list since 2018 [aka pre-Biden administration] for his "close links with Hamas’ military wing" and for his support of "armed struggle, including against civilians." 

The State Department report also said, "He has reportedly been involved in terrorist attacks against Israeli citizens." Even the International Criminal Court, often useless in the extreme, sought an arrest warrant for Haniyeh earlier this year for "war crimes and crimes against humanity including murder, rape, torture and taking hostages," involving the Hamas Oct. 7 terror invasion of Israel.

So don't cry for him Argentina--he got what he gave, in spades, and Iran is praising him as a martyr. His seventh wife is said to be a little sad in his blasting.

Israel made no comment on the assassination, but Iran vowed to strike the Jewish State because today is a day that ends in "y."

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China's spy balloon got what they paid for: our US military intel

The Chinese spy balloon that did figure eights around the United States early this year was able to gather intelligence from many sensitive military sites, a recent report from NBC News states, in spite of the Biden administration claiming no harm, no foul.

The report cites two American officials and a former administration official and says the balloon was controlled by China, it was maneuvered by China, and made a number of passes over primary military sites, sometimes in a figure-eight pattern as it transmitted data back to Beijing in "real time."

The three officials say the data obtained by China was primarily electronic signals that could be collected from weapons systems or base communications, a strategic military move that would help the Chinese target America's defensive and offensive weapons.

NBC, to their credit, tried to press the National Security Council for comment [on the administration's incompetence] and were fed the same tired lines they were handed back in February by the Department of Defense, claiming the balloon had "limited additive value" to China "over and above what [China] is likely able to collect through things like satellites in low earth orbit.”

In spite of the myriad data the balloon likely collected in late January and early February, Biden officials said that China could have gathered even more intelligence if the administration hadn't taken actions to move potential targets around to disrupt intelligence gathering. A better idea would have been to shoot the damn balloon down as soon as it was discovered rather than allowing it to hang around for so long.

The State Department previously admitted the spy balloon had intelligence-gathering capabilities, because it was a freaking "spy" balloon. It flew over Montana where the nuclear missile silos at Malmstrom AFB are located. It also flew in a path that would allow it to gather intelligence at other sensitive military sites, all with impunity, because the Chinese said it was a civilian airship and Biden didn't want to screw up his foreign pension.

Finally, after it was finished doing what China paid for it to do, the spy balloon was shot down over the Atlantic Ocean on February 4 by a U.S. military F-22 Raptor using a single air-to-air AIM-9X Sidewinder missile.

General Glen VanHerck, Commander of North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) and United States Northern Command (USNORTHCOM), said that the balloon was up to 200 feet tall and weighed “in excess of a couple thousand pounds.” 

If it had an insignia stating: "Chinese Spy Balloon, Do Not Destroy," it may have stayed up there for another few weeks under this incompetent and corrupt administration.

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GOP is on the case into clusterfrack of 2021 withdrawal: investigation begins

Well, the Republicans have officially opened an investigation into the Biden administration's clusterfrack of a withdrawal of U.S. troops and temporary airplane hangers-on in Afghanistan in 2021.

House Foreign Affairs Committee [the safest affairs to have] Chairman Rep. Michael McCaul renewed a request for documents Thursday regarding the withdrawal. A letter was sent to Secretary of State Antony Blinken, saying that past requests have gone unanswered for over a year.

"It is absurd and disgraceful that the Biden administration has repeatedly denied our longstanding oversight requests and continues to withhold information related to the withdrawal," McCaul said in a statement.

He added that as committee chairman, he takes "this obligation very seriously and will pursue this investigation until all our questions are answered and all parties responsible are held accountable. We owe this to the American people, especially our service members and veterans."

The State Department has responded to thousands of requests for information about the chaotic withdrawal and provide over 150 bipartisan briefings to members of congress. The agency says that they are committed to working with the committee but everyone knows the fallout for the administration will be a joke.

You might recall how the US military worked to extract Americans out of Afghanistan in which 13 US service members were killed by a terrorist bomb because the administration refused to use the military airbase and used the civilian one instead. It was not secure and over 100 Afghans were also killed due to the incompetence of this administration.

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State Dept. Ned Price gets his butt handed to him by reporter

Maybe it's a new trend, but the legacy media hasn't been holding the Biden administration's feet to the fire until Thursday.

Associated Press reporter Matt Lee did not allow State Department spokesman Ned Price to get away with a ridiculous claim that implied his words were proof of a declassified report that Russia is planning to stage a fake video of Ukrainian military attacks as a pretext for Russia to then invade Ukraine.

Price literally said that “Russia is planning to stage fabricated attacks by Ukrainian military or intelligence forces as a pretext for a further invasion of Ukraine.”

He continued, “One possible option the Russians are considering, and which we made public today, involves the production of a propaganda video – a video with graphic scenes of false explosions – depicting corpses, crisis actors pretending to be mourners, and images of destroyed locations or military equipment – entirely fabricated by Russian intelligence. To be clear, the production of this propaganda video is one of a number of options that the Russian Government is developing as a fake pretext to initiate and potentially justify military aggression against Ukraine. We don’t know if Russia will necessarily use this or another option in the coming days.”

“Russia has signaled it’s willing to continue diplomatic talks as a means to de-escalate, but actions such as these suggest otherwise,” he added.

Lee was the first reporter to be called on by Price and his pushback was, well, Priceless. He demanded that Price provide evidence to back up his bull. He even went so far as to compare Price's statement to an Alex Jones claim.

“This is like Alex Jones territory you’re getting into now. What evidence do you have to support the idea that there is some propaganda film in the making?”

Considering the smackdown Lee gave Price, you'd have to believe that if it was our alleged President House Plant in place of his State Department spokesman, the outcome would have been the same. In other words, this administration is populated by amateurs who treat the American people as if we are too stupid to see what's going on. In this case, you have a government agency telling us to believe them because their words are the facts, even when they change to the new facts their words say they are and so on. Confused yet?


TRANSCRIPT: [with my comments in brackets and my italics]


NED PRICE, STATE DEPARTMENT SPOKESMAN: Good afternoon. We have previously noted our strong concerns regarding Russian disinformation and the likelihood that Moscow might create – seek to create -- a false flag operation to initiate military activity. Now, we can say that the United States has information that Russia is planning to stage fabricated attacks by Ukrainian military or intelligence forces as a pretext for a further invasion of Ukraine.

One possible option the Russians are considering, and which we made public today, involves the production of a propaganda video – a video with graphic scenes of false explosions – depicting corpses, crisis actors pretending to be mourners, and images of destroyed locations or military equipment – entirely fabricated by Russian intelligence.

To be clear, the production of this propaganda video is one of a number of options that the Russian government is developing as a fake pretext to initiate and potentially justify military aggression against Ukraine. We don’t know if Russia will necessarily use this or another option in the coming days. We are publicizing it now, however, in order to lay bare the extent of Russia’s destabilizing actions towards Ukraine and to dissuade Russia from continuing this dangerous campaign and ultimately launching a military attack.

Russia has signaled it’s willing to continue diplomatic talks as a means to de-escalate, but actions such as these suggest otherwise. We will continue to diligently work together with our allies and partners to expose Russian disinformation and other hybrid tactics used against Ukraine. We continue to work to prevent any effort Moscow might make to justify further military action in Ukraine. We again urge Russia to stop its destructive and destabilizing disinformation campaign, to de-escalate tensions, and to engage in diplomacy and dialogue for a peaceful solution.

Thank you.

MATT LEE, AP REPORTER: Thanks. Okay, well, that’s quite a mouthful there. So you said “actions such as these suggest otherwise” – suggest meaning that they suggest they’re not interested in talks and they’re going to go ahead with some kind of a – what action are you talking about?

PRICE: One, the actions I have just pointed to, the fact –

LEE: What action? What —

PRICE: The fact that Russia continues to engage in disinformation campaigns. 

LEE: Well no, you’ve made an allegation that they might do that. Have they actually done it?

PRICE: What we know, Matt, is what we – what I have just said, that they have engaged in this activity, in this planning activity —

LEE: Well, engage in what – hold on a second. What activity?

PRICE: But let me – let me – because obviously this is not – this is not the first time we’ve made these reports public. You’ll remember that just a few weeks ago – [It sounds as if Price is making it up as he goes along]

LEE: I’m sorry, made what report public? 

PRICE: If you let me finish, I will tell you what report we made public.

LEE: Okay.

PRICE: We told you a few weeks ago that we have information indicating Russia also has already pre-positioned a group of operatives to conduct a false flag operation in eastern Ukraine. So that, Matt, to your question, is an action that Russia has already taken. ["We told you" is not a report]

LEE: No, it’s an action that you say that they have taken, but you have shown no evidence to confirm that. And I’m going to get to the next question here, which is: What is the evidence that they – I mean, this is – like, crisis actors? Really? This is like Alex Jones territory you’re getting into now. What evidence do you have to support the idea that there is some propaganda film in the making?

PRICE: Matt, this is derived from information known to the U.S. Government, intelligence information that we have declassified. I think you know —

LEE: Okay, well, where is it? Where is this information?

PRICE: It is intelligence information that we have declassified. [If it's declassified, it can be shown and, if necessary, sources and methods can be redacted]

LEE: Well, where is it? Where is the declassified information?

PRICE: I just delivered it. [There's the "my word makes it evidence" and if you believe his word, you're a fool]

LEE: No, you made a series of allegations and statements —

PRICE: Would you like us to print out the topper? Because you will see a transcript of this briefing that you can print out for yourself. [Again, Price is saying "if I print out what I just said, will you just shut up and accept it as fact?"]

LEE: But that’s not evidence, Ned. That’s you saying it. That’s not evidence. I’m sorry.

PRICE: What would you like, Matt? [What we would all like: something to back up your claim]

LEE: I would like to see some proof that you – that you can show that —

PRICE: Matt, you have been —

LEE: — that shows that the Russians are doing this.

PRICE: You —

LEE: Ned, I’ve been doing this for a long time, as you know. [This is just a ploy to confuse the issue. How does this have anything to do with what the reporter is asking?]

PRICE: I know. That was my point. You have been doing this for quite a while. [So what?]

LEE: I have.

PRICE: You know that when we declassify intelligence, we do so in a means —

LEE: That’s right. And I remember WMDs in Iraq, and I —

PRICE: — we do so with an eye to protecting sources and methods. [Redact them]

LEE: And I remember that Kabul was not going to fall. I remember a lot of things. So where is the declassified information other than you coming out here and saying it? [BINGO]

PRICE: Matt, I’m sorry you don’t like the format, but we have — [It isn't a format. It's balderdash so far as anyone can tell]

LEE: It’s not the format. It’s the content.

PRICE: I’m sorry you don’t like the content. I’m sorry you — [he's throwing out chaff] 

LEE: It’s not that I don’t like it or —

PRICE: I’m sorry you are doubting the information that is in the possession of the U.S. Government. [what information other than him saying there is information. Price really seems to be making up information as he goes along to get along]

LEE: No, I —

PRICE: What I’m telling you is that this is information that’s available to us. We are making it available to you in order – for a couple reasons. [No he is not making it available to him. He is saying things that he cannot back up with proof other than him saying it] One is to attempt to deter the Russians from going ahead with this activity. Two, in the event we’re not able to do that, in the event the Russians do go ahead with this, to make it clear as day, to lay bare the fact that this has always been an attempt on the part of the Russian Federation to fabricate a pretext. 

LEE: Yes, but you don’t have any evidence to back it up other than what you’re saying. It’s like you’re saying, “We think – we have information the Russians may do this,” but you won’t tell us what the information is. And then when you’re asked — 

PRICE: Well, that is the idea behind deterrence, Matt. That is the idea behind deterrence.

LEE: When you’re asked – and when you’re asked —

PRICE: It is our hope that the Russians don’t go forward with this.

LEE: And when you’re asked what the information is, you say, “I just gave it to you.” But that’s not what —

PRICE: You seem not to understand — [he has to cut Lee off because the illogic is so obvious]

LEE: That’s not the way it works.

PRICE: You seem not to understand the idea of deterrence. [Price doesn't seem to understand the idea of evidence]

The dialogue between them goes on but you get the picture, and the picture is Priceless.

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It seems as if the U.S. is propagating propaganda and the press is finally not buying into it, as is usually their wont. Perhaps the Biden administration is looking to distract from their failures which keep piling up like shooting victims across the country. 

Whatever the reason, they are finally doing their job--at least in this case.

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SHOCKING: Taliban not cooperating to release trapped Americans at Mazar-i-Sharif airport

Who could have possible predicted the Taliban would not cooperate with "Big Satan" and the alleged Biden administration's State Department and refuse to help us in the evacuation of people still stranded in Afghanistan? 

C'mon, man. You're the Taliban; a religious group of guys who only did what they felt they had to do in the name of their religion.

The Biden crew has been rather closed-mouthed about what they're trying to do to get Americans and Afghan allies the hell out of Afghanistan after Joe Biden [his Indian name is "Droner of the Unknown"] gave us his self-imposed timeline in the middle of the Taliban's fighting season. It caused a crazy clusterfrack that stranded thousands of people behind enemy lines.

Two Qatar airlines flights left Kabul, Afghanistan late last week, but the Biden administration and others were mum over whether the Americans on those flights included a number of individuals who had previously been trapped, awaiting an airlift from a non-governmental organization at Mazar-i-Sharif airport. 

The silence portends to anything but hope.

The incompetently-led State Department's spokesman Ned Price told reporters Wednesday that the Biden administration has "pulled every lever available" but the Taliban refuses to go along with the program because, hey, they don't have to, which comes as no surprise to the sentient, but not so much to Joe Biden [whose alternate Indian name is "Chief Sniffing Hair"]. They also admitted that they did nothing to help in the evacuation of these people and the Taliban refuses to allow flights to leave.

‘I wanted to ask if there have been any movement on the flights out of Mazar. A week ago the Secretary said, quote, ‘Those flights need to move,'” one actual reporter asked price. “And also the Secretary had said State would be coordinating with veterans groups who are doing their own evacuation and extraction efforts. Has that been formalized? And if so, what does that look like now?”

Price tried to blow smoke into the nether regions of the press, stating that “veterans groups have played an important and welcome role in this, but other advocacy groups, humanitarian groups, lawmakers, NGOs, private companies, media organizations, a constellation of actors have come to the support of the people of Afghanistan.” He was eventually forced to admit Americans are still on the ground because his boss, Antony Blinken, is as competent in his job as Brian Stelter is at his weight loss diet.

“I am not aware that any international flights, charter flights or otherwise, have left Mazar-e-Sharif. Of course, we have had a couple charter flights from Kabul International Airport that departed last week, including with U.S. citizens onboard,” he said. They also have gum, which has as much to do with the stranded folks as his words have.

“I know that the Turks and the Qataris, and if you listen to what the Taliban are saying publicly, the Taliban as well want to see not only charter flights, but normal commercial activity resumed at Kabul International Airport on an expedited basis,” Price added, showing his trust in them. “And it’s our hope that that will be able to happen in the not-too-distant future so that in addition to the charter flights that our Qatari partners have very generously administered to date, there will be additional options for individuals to leave from Kabul International Airport. So we will continue to work on this, just as we continue to work on these overland routes as well.”

Price quickly tried to change the subject to North Korea, but the reporter didn't take the bait.

“Sorry, what is the problem in Mazar? What’s the hold-up? Is it the same issue? I mean, we talked about documentation; you guys said that it wasn’t an acceptable reason, given the circumstances, to hold the flights. And then just nothing?” the reporter pushed.

“We have been very clear that the individuals who have expressed a desire and a willingness to leave via Mazar-e-Sharif should be allowed to leave the country. There – the fact that to my knowledge a charter flight has not departed Mazar has nothing to do with anything that the State Department has or has not done, and in fact, quite the contrary,” Price admitted.

So they have been "very clear" about the "shoulds." That should scare the crap out of them. What are they waiting for?

“The State Department, as we have said, has pulled every lever available to us,” good ole Ned said. “We have gone to extraordinary lengths with not only our engagement with the Taliban, but also with these other constellation of groups on the ground and operating from afar, and also with countries in the region. And to our minds, these flights, these individuals, there is no reason they should not be able to depart. And that’s what we’re continuing to focus on.”

Words without action, without results, are just noise.

“I said we’ve used every lever we’ve had in the narrow and specific issue of charter flights leaving from the Mazar-e-Sharif airport in northern Afghanistan,” Price added later. “The question of holding the Taliban accountable is a much broader question, it’s a much more strategic question. And we’ve talked about this before.”

And how will this government, led by a man with obvious signs of senile dementia, hold the terrorists accountable? 

But here's the clincher: a source close to the Americans and Afghan allies on the ground in Mazar-i-Sharif said the "State Department has indicated to groups that they are on their own to negotiate." They added that only 21 Americans, of the perhaps hundreds stuck in Afghanistan, were on the flights that left Kabul.

The Americans and our Afghan friends for latter flights are still stuck on the ground and the Taliban is flipping us the bird.

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Houthis terrorize Saudi civilians after Biden removes their terrorist designation

"With all due respect, the fact is, we had four dead Americans! Was it because of a protest or was it because of guys out for a walk one night who decided they'd go kill some Americans? What difference at this point does it make? It is our job to figure out what happened and do everything we can to prevent it from ever happening again." – Clinton shouting over Wisconsin Republican Sen. Ron Johnson regarding the Benghazi cluster-frack

The Biden administration announced it would reverse the Trump administration’s designation of the Houthis as a terrorist organization on Friday. The designation was made by outgoing Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on his last day in office.

The Biden State Department said Friday that “[O]ur action is due entirely to the humanitarian consequences of this last-minute designation from the prior administration, which the United Nations and humanitarian organizations have since made clear would accelerate the world’s worst humanitarian crisis.” However, they stressed that the declassification shouldn't be interpreted to mean that they were condoning the "reprehensible conduct" of the terrorist group, which is no longer to be considered as such even though they commit terrorism like Joe Biden commits verbal screwups and other errors in thinking.

So on Sunday, Biden's State Department thought it was a bad look that the Houthis were acting like terrorists by launching terrorist attacks after the Saudi-led military coalition stopped a Houthi terrorist drone strike against civilians, which are often composed of men, women, children and little babies.

The Saudi military coalition reported intercepting and destroying an armed drone launched by the Houthis from northern Yemen against civilian targets in southern Saudi Arabia.

“It was launched systematically and deliberately by the terrorist Houthi militia to target civilians and civilian objects in the south of the region,” coalition spokesman Turki al-Maliiki said.

On Sunday evening, the State Department said it was “deeply troubled by continued Houthi attacks.”

This, in turn, caused faces within the Biden State Department to morph crimson [go Tide!].

“We urge the Houthis to refrain from destabilizing actions and demonstrate their commitment to constructively engage in UN Special Envoy Griffiths’ efforts to achieve peace. The time is now to find an end to this conflict,” naive State Department spokesman Ned Price said softly.

No big deal for Biden, though. He plans to have the nation distracted with the faux impeachment trial of Donald Trump.

It's obvious that Democrats hate Trump more than they hate terrorists and illegal aliens who commit violent crimes.

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State Dept Spox says cops are the biggest threat to U.S. security

Jalina Porter is the new deputy mouthpiece of the State Department and could easily be mistaken for a BLM or Antifa member rather than someone who stands for law and order. 

In a Facebook posting dating back to Sept. 20, 2016, Porter said that the "largest threat to U.S. national security are U.S cops," adding, "Not ISIS, not Russian hackers, not anyone or anything else." [H/T Washington Free Beacon]

Porter's reference was in response to a video  released of Terence Crutcher, an unarmed Black man who, according to police, abandoned his vehicle in the middle of the street. He began walking toward police with his hands in his pockets, refused to show his hands, as he kept walking as police ordered him to stop. He refused to comply and was shot. A quantity of PCP was found in his SUV after the incident.

Autopsy revealed that Crutcher had "acute phencyclidine (PCP) intoxication" at the time of the shooting, a total of 96 nanograms per milliliter in his blood, as well as tenocyclidine (TCP), a psycho-stimulant and hallucinogen which is more potent than PCP, was present.

The officer involved in the shooting, Betty Shelby was tried and found not guilty.

Obviously, the incident was horrible, but when making a political point, it's always easier to blame the police officer rather than the person who resisted arrest or refused to comply with police.

Porter was not at the scene nor at the trial of Shelby, but posted:

 "An unarmed Black man takes a knee for justice, bigots riot. An unarmed black man (with his hands raised) takes a bullet and dies, these same bigots are silent. Explain this to me, please."

It apparently was not obvious to the police at the scene that Crutcher was unarmed when he refused to comply with them and posed a threat as he approached. We don't know what he was thinking at the time, and yes, he was apparently high on drugs, but what are cops supposed to do when they believe their lives are being threatened?

Porter, a former cheerleader for the NFL's Oakland Raiders and NBA's Washington Wizards, was also a top aide in the congressional office of Cedric Richmond, now Biden's White House advisor. She also worked for the left-leaning Truman National Security Project where Hunter Biden once worked.

"If y’all don’t wake up and rise up to this truth, the genocide against Blacks in America will continue until we are near extinct," she wrote. 

The State Department had no comment.

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New Clinton emails found--some with classified info end used texts for gov't business

I guess that rag for wiping Hillary's server clean wasn't good enough, nor was BleachBit, as Judicial Watch, the conservative watchdog group, revealed that the FBI released 37 pages of new Clinton emails showing that the former Secretary of State Clinton used her unsecure, non-government, illegal, unauthorized, ridiculously easy to hack email to transmit classified information.

The new emails also show that she, in addition, she used text messages for government business, something that is clearly stupid and irresponsible. The documents, produced to Judicial Watch after a review by the State Department, include 13 new Clinton emails.

According to Judicial Watch, the State Department didn't reveal where the emails were discovered nor why they were not previously provided. They also don't say whether or not more records will be forthcoming.

In February, a Justice Department attorney was not able to tell how and where the FBI found the new trove of Clinton emails--perhaps Huma Abedin knows, but that's not a certainty.

Previously, the State Department claimed they had produced all reasonable Clinton emails, including the ones she withheld or tried to destroy with BleachBit. The department initially said, in 2018, that all responsive emails had been produced, but found additional ones, for the first time early last year.

Can you smell it?

Last November, the State Department first disclosed to the court that the FBI found the latest batch of emails and they were produced due to the intrepid work of Judicial Watch and the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit for all of Hillary Clinton's government emails sent on her secret, illegal server, when she served as Secretary of State, as well as all emails by other State Department employees to Clinton regarding her non-"state.gov" email address.

One of the latest uncovered emails dated January 23, 2012 was from former British Prime Minister Tony Blair to Clinton's personal email containing information that was redacted as classified.

Another email containing classified information on August 30, 2011, then-Assistant Secretary for the Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs suggested Clinton meet with Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati in Paris to discuss Syria and other issues.

But perhaps the most disturbing one was an email sent on April 10, 2012, where Hillary forwarded an intelligence memo on Egypt's Election campaign that contained information on the Muslim Brotherhood that she received from Sidney Blumenthal, and her then-Deputy Chief of Staff Jacob Sullivan. In the memo, Blumenthal claims to have “Sources with access to the highest levels of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces, and Western intelligence and security services.”

There's more but the point is made that Hillary Clinton has been violating the Espionage Act over and over, with no consequences to this day. As it stands now, the FBI recovered about 5,000 of the 33,000 government emails Clinton grabbed and tried to destroy. But the case remains open and she gets to wander the woods ruminating over how the country just cannot admit that she is the real President of the United States of America!


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Good News: Hillary has to address her private emails, "Still more to learn"

A Federal judge granted a Judicial Watch request to have former first lady, former NY senator, former Secretary of State, and current two-time loser for President, Hillary Clinton sit on her pear-shaped bottom for a sworn deposition to answer questions about her use of a private email server [located in a Colorado bathroom], to conduct government business.

Judicial watch is a conservative watchdog group.

A federal judge Monday granted a request from conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch to have former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton sit for a sworn deposition to answer questions about her use of a private email server to conduct government business.

Bill Clinton's cucquean  argued that she already went through the questioning and shouldn't have to be made to sit there when she has better things to do. However, D.C. District Court Judge Royce C. Lamberth ruled that her past responses sucked.

"As extensive as the existing record is, it does not sufficiently explain Secretary Clinton’s state of mind when she decided it would be an acceptable practice to set up and use a private server to conduct State Department business," Lamberth said.

Especially given the fact that the server, located just a few feet from a toilet, had enough confidential information for our enemies to launch an attack on our homeland.

The judge recognized that while Hillary Clinton responded to written questions in a separate case, "those responses were either incomplete, unhelpful, or cursory at best. Simply put her responses left many more questions than answers.” 

Judge Lamberth said that using written questions this time “will only muddle any understanding of Secretary Clinton’s state of mind and fail to capture the full picture, this delaying the final disposition of this case even further.”

Ooo--she might be in big trouble . . . but I doubt it.

The ruling comes after Judicial Watch revealed at a December 2019 status conference that the FBI released "approximately thirty previously undisclosed Clinton emails," and that the State Department "failed to fully explain" where they came from.

The State Department has been pushing for the discovery phase of the case to come to a close, but Lamberth said he is not ready to do so, saying that "there is still more to learn."

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Only 23 violations of security protocols found by Dept. of State in Clinton emails

How many security-breached emails does it take to indict a Clinton for violating the Espionage Act? The answer must be 24 because 23 hasn't been enough, unless things change now that her protector James Comey is gone.

The State Department revealed Monday that no less than 15 people mishandled former Secretary Clinton's emails with a total of 23 different violations. Lordy, thank goodness it wasn't 24.

The revelation came in a letter written to Iowa Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley.

The letter states that 15 people received write-ups for breaking state department rules, The Washington Times reported, and if this happened anywhere in the Middle East, heads would roll.

State Department assistant secretary, Mary Elizabeth Taylor, in the Bureau of Legislative Affairs wrote in the letter: “To this point, the Department has assessed culpability to 15 individuals, some of whom were culpable in multiple security incidents.”

“DS has issued 23 violations and 7 infractions incidents. … This number will likely change as the review progresses,” she added. “The department considers and violation of security policies to be a serious matter.”

But not serious enough for an indictment of Hillary Clinton, who will never become the first female President of the United States of America.

Grassley is currently overseeing the review and responded Tuesday morning to the State Department’s findings via Twitter:

Glad state dept responded 2 my inquiry & disclosed 23 violations + 7 infractions from 15ppl mishandling classified info in Clinton email review I’ve been doing oversight on this since 2015 Classified info must b handled by the book & violators shld b held accountable

— ChuckGrassley (@ChuckGrassley) June 18, 2019

President Trump acknowledged the findings were “really big.” But he didn't move to lock her up, referring to Hillary Clinton, who thus far has avoided incarceration for her use of a private, unprotected and totally illegal email server, which is uncontroversial and should have landed her in prison.

President Trump tweeted:

Wow! The State Department said it has identified 30 Security Incidents involving current or former employees and their handling of Crooked Hillary Clinton’s Emails. @FoxNews This is really big. Never admitted before. Highly Classified Material. Will the Dems investigate this?

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 18, 2019

The State Department said that its investigation should end in early September and acknowledged how time-consuming the probe has been.

Mary Elizabeth Taylor wrote, “Given the volume of emails provided to the Department from former Secretary Clinton’s private email server, the Department’s process has been necessarily more complicated and complex requiring a significant dedication of time and resources.”

She said that disciplinary actions were pending and that “all valid security incidents are reviewed by DS and taken into account.”

While the letter did not mention any specific names, the State Department promised an additional update once the investigation is complete.

We shall see what happens, but don't hold your breath over Hillary going to the crowbar hotel anytime soon.

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Trump cuts off $200 million in Palestinian terror funding

Washington -- President Trump has cut over $200 million in bilateral aid to the group of terrorists who call themselves Palestinians. This came after a review of the funding for projects in the West Bank and Gaza, according to the State Department.

The department told Congress of the decision on Friday in a short, three paragraph notice sent first to lawmakers then to so-called journalists. The notice said that it will redirect the money to "high priority projects elsewhere."

Evidently, Trump doesn't believe that giving Hamassholes money is a good idea.

The move comes as Trump and his Middle East emissaries Jared Kushner and Jason Greenblatt prepare their offices for a rollout of a dire, but unclear peace plan for Israel and the so-called Palestinians, a term that was recently invented about a country that never existed in history.

"At the direction of President Trump, we have undertaken a review of U.S. assistance to the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank and Gaza to ensure these funds are spent in accordance with U.S. national interests and provide value to the U.S. taxpayer," the State Department said. "As a result of that review, at the direction fo the president, we will redirect more than $200 million . . . originally planned for programs in the West Bank and Gaza" [which have instead been used by Hamas to provide funding for terrorist attacks on Israel].

"This decision takes into account the challenges the international community faces in providing assistance in Gaza, where Hamas control endangers the lives of Gaza's citizens and degrades an already dire humanitarian and economic situation," the notice read.

No details were provided and the notice didn't give an exact amount of the funds to be cut, but said they had been approved in 2017.

Like it does with days ending in the letter "y" the loss of assistance will almost certainly piss off the Palestinians [who go to bed and awaken in that state] against Trump's peace plan. The PA leadership hates Trump because of his pro-Israel [pro-ally] stance. And when he recognized Jerusalem as Israel's capital and moved the U.S. embassy from Tel Aviv there, well, that was too much for anti-Zionists to digest.

So the PA and its President Mahmoud Abbas broke off contact with the U.S.

Friday's decision comes after a similar one last week in which the State Department said that it would be redirecting $230 million in aid planned for stabilization programs in Syria's liberated areas. But in this case, the department said the loss of our funding would be more than offset by other nations such as Saudi Arabia, which announced a $150 million contribution for Syrian stabilization.

So perhaps we'll anger some Palestinians, but we're building a better relationship with Israel now that Obama is gone, and Hillary lost the election.


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McCabe turns over personal memos to Mueller investigation

Freshly fired FBI Deputy Director Andy McCabe kept personal memos a là James Comey, on his interactions with President Trump.

The disclosure of the memos on Saturday, were confirmed to Fox News by a sneaky source close to the disgraced weasel and comes after he was dumped by Attorney General Jeff Sessions.

McCabe gave the memos to Special Counsel Robert Mueller and it includes what Comey told him about his interactions with Trump, so that is considered hearsay in a court of law.

In fact, just because McCabe turned over something he has written, doesn't make the content factual, just like the memos Comey leaked.

McCabe is trying to put the blame on the Trump administration for his termination, but it was Jeff Sessions and the DOJ's  Office of Professional Responsibility that nailed his lying butt. Sessions said that he acted on the termination after a Justice Department inspector general's report and on the recommendation of FBI disciplinary officials. 

Not President Trump.

Sadly for McCabe, but happily for tax payers, the firing came just two days before his official retirement and his eligibility to receive his full retirement package.

President Trump tweeted:

Andrew McCabe FIRED, a great day for the hard working men and women of the FBI- A great day for Democracy. Sanctimonious James Comey was his boss and made McCabe look like a choirboy. He knew all about the lies and corruption going on at the highest levels of the FBI.

Rep. Mark Pocan, (D.-Wis.) extended a job offer to McCabe on Saturday because if there's one guy the Democrats like, it's a guy who hates Trump as much as he hates following the law. 

By hiring McCabe at the position offered, he would be able to get the taxpayer's retirement money.

Pocan (not to be confused with Pocahontas or pecan, a different form of nut) said, "Andrew McCabe's firing makes it clear that President Trump is doing everything he can to discredit the FBI. My offer of employment to Mr. McCabe is a legitimate offer to work on election security." 

[It's possible that Pocan wants McCabe to work with the New Black Panthers to suppress the white vote if Kamala Harris is nominated in 2020.]

McCabe released a "Hillary-esque" statement Friday suggesting his firing was part of the Trump administration's "war on the FBI," and a vast right wing conspiracy the likes of which would blow your mind.

Trump loved the firing and this had to sit poorly with not only McCabe, but also with Comey when Trump compared the two.

Trump later tweeted of alleged "tremendous leaking, lying and corruption" among the leaders of the FBI, DOJ and State Department.

The IG's report will likely conclude McCabe authorized the release of information to the media and was not forthcoming with the FBI while it examined the bureau's handling of the Hillary Clinton inquiry regarding her use of an illegal private email server, for which she was not indicted due to her royal status, while serving as Secretary of State under former president and socialist, Barack Obama.

"The FBI expects every employee to adhere to the highest standards of honesty, integrity and accountability," Sessions wrote in a statement.

In an effort to dilute his dishonesty and lack of candor, McCabe tired to shift blame and maintain his credibility saying the attack on him was "part of a larger effort not just to slander me personally," but also the bureau and law enforcement, which doesn't make sense.

Mueller is investigating whether Trump's actions, including the firing of Comey, constitute obstruction of justice. McCabe could be an important, unbiased (LOL) witness.

McCabe served over 20 years as an FBI official. His wife, Jill, ran in the Democratic Party for the Virginia State Senate and for which McCabe accepted a $600,000 campaign contribution, which went for nought--she lost and for which Andrew did not recuse himself.

McCabe is also alleged to have leaked FBI investigative information to the media. That's grounds for termination all by itself.



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