One thing that is not so thrilling is that the new CIA director was directly involved with black sites for the detainment and torture of terrorists. I am sure there will be quite a lot of wailing over this move by Trump.
Since thankfully we have no thread titled HRC I am posting the following here, Democrats distance themselves from Hillary Clinton’s ‘backward’ claim Michael Scherer March 13 https://www.washingtonpost.com/powe...3d931db7f68_story.html?utm_term=.70caf722c24c Democratic senators facing tough reelection fights distanced themselves Tuesday from Hillary Clinton after she said President Trump’s voters came from less productive parts of the country and were attracted by a backward-looking message. “Those are kind of fighting words for me, because I’m partial to Missouri voters,” said Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.), who is running in a state Trump won by 19 points. “I think they were expressing their frustration with the status quo. I may not have agreed with their choice, but I certainly respect them. And I don’t think that’s the way you should talk about any voter, especially ones in my state.” Clinton made the comments Saturday at a conference in Mumbai in response to a question about how Trump won the 2016 election. She noted that the parts of the country she carried produced more economic activity than the “middle” of the country won by Trump. “I won the places that are optimistic, diverse, dynamic, moving forward,” Clinton said. “And his whole campaign — ‘Make America Great Again’ — was looking backward. You know, you didn’t like black people getting rights, you don’t like women, you know, getting jobs, you don’t want, you know, to see that Indian American succeeding more than you are. Whatever your problem is, I’m going to solve it.” At another point in the talk, Clinton, whose campaign slogan was “Stronger Together,” said that married white women voted for Trump because of “ongoing pressure to vote the way that your husband, your boss, your son, whoever, believes you should.” Click on the link above for a video entitled 'Hillary Clinton talked about the Trump-Putin “bromance,” dictatorship, and the effects Trump’s reality TV past had on the 2016 presidential election March 10. (INDIA TODAY)'. [Hillary Clinton says ‘follow the money’ in the Trump-Putin relationship] Republican strategists have pounced on the comments in an effort to remind voters in key states of Clinton’s polarizing role in the cultural divide that helped lift the GOP to victory in 2016. The Democratic path to regaining Senate control in 2018 depends on incumbents winning reelection this fall in 10 states where Trump beat Clinton. Democrats are also aiming to win open Republican seats in Tennessee and Arizona, two other states that voted for Trump, while also aiming to take out Republicans in several governors’ races. “Joe Donnelly, Claire McCaskill and Jon Tester, all of these red-state Dems campaigned for Hillary and did everything they could to elect her over Trump,” said Katie Martin, a spokeswoman for the National Republican Senatorial Committee. “As she continues to give these paid speeches throughout the world, I mean, the campaign ads write themselves.” At the U.S. Capitol, Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio), who is running in a state Trump won by nearly nine points, also made clear that he was unhappy with the comments. “I don’t really care what she said,” he told a reporter for the HuffPost. “I just think that that’s not helpful.” The Ohio Republican Party tweeted his quote later in the afternoon, falsely claiming that Clinton had called Ohioans “backward” and adding that Brown “says he doesn’t care.” The Republican Governors Association also released statements that falsely claimed Clinton had called Wisconsin “backward,” before noting that Democratic gubernatorial candidate Dana Wachs had served as a delegate for Clinton at the 2016 Democratic convention in Philadelphia. Several Democratic strategists dismissed the potential impact of Clinton’s comments on the midterm races, noting that the senators now running for reelection in states such as Indiana, Montana, Missouri and West Virginia easily overperformed President Barack Obama’s own vote count in the 2012 election. “If Republicans think that Hillary Clinton’s comments in India are going to help them win in November, they’re more desperate than I thought,” mused one senior Democratic Senate strategist. “I think this will have precisely zero effect.” Jesse Ferguson, a former Clinton campaign spokesman who is now working on the Democratic midterm effort, maintained that Clinton would be a net asset for Democrats in the fall. “Hillary Clinton speaking will always trigger the right wing that hates her, but she’s also a constant reminder that the majority of the country didn’t actually vote for the chaotic disaster we’re seeing on our TV every night,” he said. Jim McLaughlin, a Republican pollster who has advised Trump and is working on the Missouri Senate race, said Clinton’s comments could help increase Republican enthusiasm, much like her comment during the campaign that some Trump supporters were “deplorables.” But the effect, he added, would likely be limited. “It was different last time,” he said. “She was on the ballot.” [Trump: Clinton’s ‘deplorables’ comment is the ‘single biggest mistake of the political season’] Like Trump, Clinton has lost popularity since the 2016 election in national polls. In early December, Gallup found 36 percent of Americans viewed her favorably, the same percentage that approved of Trump’s presidential performance. The result marked a record low for Clinton in the Gallup poll, which has tracked her favorability since 1993. Just 5 percent of Republicans and 27 percent of independents had a favorable view of her. Several studies of the 2016 election have found that Trump overperformed Clinton in economically struggling parts of the nation, a likely motivator for voters seeking change in the party control of the White House. Parts of the country that shifted their support from Obama in 2012 to Trump in 2016 were also more likely to be negatively affected by globalization. In Missouri, a super PAC focused on defeating McCaskill released a digital ad in January that repeatedly transformed Clinton’s face into McCaskill’s. “Hillary Clinton, Claire McCaskill, two of a kind, too liberal for Missouri,” the ad said. At the U.S. Capitol on Tuesday, McCaskill made clear that she was unhappy to be answering questions about Clinton’s comments. “Oh, come on,” she told the reporter who asked the question. “You’re killing me here.” Seung Min Kim contributed to this report.
If the US had voter ID laws in place and election fraud handled objectively HRC would have never come to even be a recognized name in politics.
Interesting if true....more shaking going on.... FOX NEWS: John Kelly, H.R. McMaster & David Shulkin Could Be Purged in White House ‘BLOODBATH’ (VIDEO) ............ According to a person who spoke with Bolton after the meeting, Bolton recalled that Trump said he wanted him to join the administration: “We need you in here, John.” Bolton responded that there were only two jobs he’d consider: secretary of state and national security adviser. Trump said, “O.K, I’ll call you really soon.” Sources added that Trump spent much of the time with Bolton fuming that McMaster was speaking privately with Barack Obama’s former national security adviser Susan Rice. “Trump kept saying, ‘Can you believe it? To Susan Rice? Can you believe it?’” Perhaps most consequential for Robert Mueller’s investigation, sources said Trump has discussed a plan to fire Attorney General Jeff Sessions. According to two Republicans in regular contact with the White House, there have been talks that Trump could replace Sessions with E.P.A. Administrator Scott Pruitt, who would not be recused from overseeing the Russia probe. Also, because Pruitt is already a Cabinet secretary, he would not have to go through another Senate confirmation hearing. “The next phase of the Trump purge will likely include McMasters and Sessions, allowing Trump to scuttle the Iran deal and check Mueller,” says Vanity Fair’s Gabriel Sherman. http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/201...d-shulkin-purged-white-house-bloodbath-video/ Scott Pruitt: ......Pruitt represented Tulsa and Wagoner Counties in the Oklahoma Senate from 1998 until 2006. In 2010, Pruitt was elected Attorney General of Oklahoma. In that role, he opposed abortion rights, same-sex marriage, the Affordable Care Act, and environmental regulations as a self-described "leading advocate against the EPA's activist agenda." ........... As Oklahoma's Attorney General, Pruitt sued the Environmental Protection Agency at least 14 times regarding the agency's actions. ..... Pruitt rejects the scientific consensus that human activities are a primary contributor to climate change and that carbon dioxide is the primary contributor.
The now overt and forceful "elitist/globalist types'" controls against conservatives are bringing doubts about future elections. Seems the Putin shills themselves are the ones continuing to collude against the country. More and more banning of the conservative point of view as well as more actual facts being hidden from the public by the powerful can only become worse with more orders to conform or else....maybe you won't be able to purchase supplies without swearing allegiance! WOW! Republicans Say PA Voting Machines ‘Miscalibrated’, Saccone Votes Changed To Lamb “We’re actively investigating three instances and likely to file court action on them,” the source said. Among the listed concerns are “miscalibrated” voting machines in Allegheny County, the only county of four in the district that went for Lamb, according to the source, who said there have been many reports of voters who intended to vote for Saccone ending up casting a ballot for Lamb. Furthermore, Republicans say their attorneys were ejected from polling sites as the absentee ballots were still being counted and that due to confusion caused by the Pennsylvania secretary of state website people were directed to the wrong polling locations. http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/201...nes-miscalibrated-saccone-votes-changed-lamb/ ============================================================== Historian Niall Ferguson: Midterms Going to Be Much Worse Than GOP Can Imagine Because of Tech Giants Targeting of Conservatives Historian Niall Ferguson warned Republican lawmakers that the midterms are going to be much worse than they can imagine because of the targeting and banning of conservative sites be Facebook, Google and Twitter. Niall Ferguson: The midterms are going to be worse, a lot worse. Because never again will the network platforms in Silicon Valley allow them to use them as Donald Trump’s campaign used them in 2016. The sound of heads exploding on November the 9th of 2016 was deafening in California. They couldn’t believe that Facebook advertising had been so vital to Trump’s success. Which it was. I don’t think he would have become president without Facebook. As people think more and more about this they will I think begin to grasp the power of the platforms. I think the Russia issue is a distraction from the real question. http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/201...-imagine-tech-giants-targeting-conservatives/
I heard Rush Limbaugh this afternoon say there may be evidence that Republican Congressmen funded Lambs campaign. Trump has plenty of enemies in his own party against him. Sad.
More stories about WH layoffs: EXCLUSIVE REPORT: Massive Layoffs To Hit Tomorrow, VA Secretary Shulkin & Chief Of Staff Gen. John Kelly FIRED A source close to multiple senior White House officials has exclusively told the Gateway Pundit that massive layoffs within the Trump administration are slated to hit tomorrow. Speaking anonymously but on the record, The Gateway Pundit has informed the layoffs will not just affect senior officials but entire teams: “Many staffers were being told not to come to work tomorrow, they are still finalizing the full list of people who are out.” The press will try to spin this as a president in scandal and under fire, but this is really the president continuing to streamline his administration with the best individuals for the job, hopefully with this shake-up the administration furthers its ability to push forward their agenda as efficiently and robustly as possible. Among senior officials on the chopping block is chief of staff John Kelly and VA Secretary Shulkin. Our source explained that these moves will help put power back in the hands of the president: “Trump wants to take back control of his administration, that means more allies come in for the first time. Even the people who don’t end up getting fired, he’s looking for plan Bs on everybody at this point. I’m curious to see how Muller responds…” When asked further about VA Secretary Shulkin, it seems that his failures and lavish use of taxpayer money for a European vacation is what finally set the president off: “He was an Obama appointee, he had bipartisan support but then he got caught. Trump has this combination thing – if you’re embattled in scandal and failing him then you’re gone. Shulkin was not doing his job well and he was f***ing up generally.” http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/201...tary-shulkin-chief-staff-gen-john-kelly-gone/
Trump I suspect is the kind of guy who will appoint someone to a post for a specific goal/time frame, and once that goal is completed they are done if he thinks someone else has a better chance of meeting the next goal post. It's a harsh way to run things but effective when you are trying to run a project to the absolute fastest timeline and least risk of slipping dates for completion. He won't make many friends doing things this way but I suspect most of these folks know exactly what they are getting themselves into when they say yes to his offer. It would be worth it for most just to be on the team IMO.
Former Deputy Director of the FBI, McCabe, was finally fired.....and in his personal statement he at least implied that he wasn't going down alone. This is exactly what Mark Taylor has predicted....that once some of these corrupt individuals of the swamp gets caught they will all begin naming names and eating each other. So one might be able to safely also expect tons of indictments to come...also as Mark Taylor has predicted (prophesied?)
Israel is in the process of plunging America into a war with Iran that could destroy what’s left of the Middle East and ignite a third world war, Col. Lawrence Wilkerson, former chief of staff to Secretary of State Colin Powell, warned in Washington approximately a week ago. Wilkerson, a retired army colonel who now teaches at Washington-area universities, didn’t hold back in his critique of where the status quo is leading the United States via its client state, Israel. At the annual Israel lobby conference at the National Press Club, sponsored by the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs and Institute for Research: Middle East Policy, Wilkerson explained that Israel is headed toward “a massive confrontation with the various powers arrayed against it, a confrontation that will suck America in and perhaps terminate the experiment that is Israel and do irreparable damage to the empire that America has become.” One of the principal antagonists begging for a war with Iran that Wilkerson identified was none other than Avigdor Lieberman, Israel’s Russian-born Defense Minister. Wilkerson stated: Lieberman will speak in April in New York City at the annual conference of the Jerusalem Post. The title is, ‘The New War with Iran.’ It is clear that he’s [at] the forefront of promoting this war. And nowhere does my concern about such a war focus more acutely at the moment than Syria. As [the] president of France Emmanuel Macron described it recently, ‘The current rhetoric of the U.S., Saudi Arabia, and Israel is pushing the region toward conflict with Iran.’” Despite Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s incessant denigrations of Iran, including claiming the greatest danger facing the Jewish state is the Islamic republic — a country he accuses of fanning the flames of anti-Semitism — Wilkerson blew these accusations out of the park using simple logic. He said: This antisemitism bit, of course, as we’ve heard today, is almost always a weapon of choice for Israeli politicians under stress hurled, in this case, at the country whose Jewish population — by the way, the largest in the Middle East outside of Turkey and Israel — lives in Iran in reasonable peace.” He continued: And don’t forget that these words were uttered by the man who, as we’ve heard today, is doing everything he can to expel dark-skinned African refugees largely from Eritrea and Sudan from Israel, where most have come as legitimate refugees.” Wilkerson highlighted the hypocrisy of Netanyahu and his cohorts in more ways than one. For example, Wilkerson referred to Netanyahu’s grandiose speech at the Munich Security Conference in which he directly challenged Iranian Minister of Foreign Affairs Mohammad Javad Zarif while holding remnants of a drone allegedly downed over Israeli airspace. Israel claimed the drone was Iranian-manufactured. Wilkerson noted that in response, Iran found itself being rescued by Lebanon’s Defense Minister, who said he had an Israeli drone over his head virtually 24 hours a day. Further, the mainstream media and the governments that benefit from their narratives pay close to zero attention to the fact that Israel routinely violates Lebanese airspace with its sophisticated aircraft. Rather, Iran is constantly painted as the major threat and violator of international law. “Of late of course,” Wilkerson continued, “Tel Aviv is increasingly using Iran’s presence in Syria, its support for Bashar al-Assad, and its alleged drive– and I love this one, and my military comrades love it, too– for a Shia corridor from Tehran to Aden, as the hoary beast that must not be at any cost, including of course America’s treasure and lives, as his probable cause and existential prompt for action.” But why is there a danger that the U.S. will be dragged into this war, and why does Israel need America’s help? As Wilkerson explains: I believe the answer is fairly clear once you push aside the cobwebs that surround it. The legitimacy of great power is what I call it. And that is precisely what Netanyahu and Lieberman desire. “It’s also what Riyadh desires, especially with the new boy king Mohammed bin Salman, now an erstwhile ally of Israel. “In short, the IDF could defend Israel but it could not attack Iran. Not successfully, anyway. And were it to do so, it would be damned internationally and thus isolated even more than it already is today, perhaps devastatingly so.” Last year, a top Israeli general tasked with writing his country’s defense policy admitted that Israel cannot take on Iran’s military alone if the day should come that the regional powers face off in a direct military confrontation, saying they would need to rely on the U.S. for assistance According to a Politico report, during the Obama years, Israel drew up a military strike option but never really used it. Deep down, Israel knew its effectiveness lied in its ability to pressure the U.S. government into taking further action of its own lest it be dragged into a catastrophic war with Iran that it may or may not be prepared to fight. From the Politico report: They [the Israelis] ordered the Israel Defense Forces and the intelligence arms to prepare for a huge operation: an all-out air attack in the heart of Iran. Some $2 billion was spent on preparations for the attack and for what the Israelis believed would take place the day after – a counterattack either by Iranian warplanes and missiles or by its proxy in Lebanon, Hezbollah. The latter could use either the 50,000 missiles it had stockpiled (by 2018, Israeli intelligence estimated the number had increased to 100,000), or it could activate its terror cells abroad, with the assistance of Iranian intelligence, to strike at Israeli or Jewish targets. This is what it did in 1992 and 1994 when it responded to Israeli attacks in Lebanon by blowing up the Israeli embassy in Buenos Aires and the Jewish community center AMIA in that city, with a massive number of casualties in both attacks.” The strike plan never took place, of course, but according to Politico, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu continued to use it to put pressure on the U.S. government to achieve its anti-Iranian objectives. Every day, the likelihood that a war might erupt between Israel and Iran, in turn involving the United States, which has sworn to come to Israel’s defense if attacked by Iran, continues to inch that much closer to reality. https://www.mintpressnews.com/retir...-the-united-states-into-world-war-iii/238812/
Rather......(and consider the source for the rest of the article) Trump wants to get the U.S. out of Syria’s war, so he asked the Saudi king for $4 billion In a December phone call with Saudi Arabia’s King Salman, President Trump had an idea he thought could hasten a U.S. exit from Syria: Ask the king for $4 billion. By the end of the call, according to U.S. officials, the president believed he had a deal. The White House wants money from the kingdom and other nations to help rebuild and stabilize the parts of Syria that the U.S. military and its local allies have liberated from the Islamic State. The postwar goal is to prevent Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and his Russian and Iranian partners from claiming the areas, or the Islamic State from regrouping, while U.S. forces finish mopping up the militants. ...... A $4 billion Saudi contribution would go a long way toward U.S. goals in Syria that the Saudis say they share, particularly that of limiting Assad’s power and rolling back Iran’s influence. By comparison, the United States last month announced a $200 million donation to the stabilization effort. At the same time, Trump is eager to get the United States out of a war in which he has already claimed that victory over the Islamic State is near. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/worl...ing-for-dollar4-billion/ar-BBKjU3D?li=BBnbfcL
Yes, and a day before his planned retirement which would have yielded him over 2 million in pension benefits. What a shame.
Replace Israel with Zionists and re read this article is a bit more truthful I think. Considering that this whole thing is propped up with protestant beliefs fueling the foreign policy of US/Zionist relations and defense in the ME. If it were not the case the Christians and Jews of these regions, the real ones, not the proxies using their names would not suffer the fates they have and will continue to under the cabal. While the truth of the matter is that the underlying powers are the same and yet the time is not quite right for the big reveal. But, it is coming.
Dominoes falling. Constitutional Law Professor: Red Flag In McCabe Statement Suggests Comey Perjured Himself (VIDEO) After briefly discussing McCabe’s potential liability for allegedly misleading investigators, the liberal law professor shifted gears and started discussing how Comey fits into all of the drama and intrigue. Turley noted, “This could easily spin further out of control. There was one line in the case statement last night that I immediately flagged. Because he said that he had authority to do this and he conferred with the director—the director at the time was James Comey.” Turley continued: Now, the problem there is that James Comey said under oath that he never leaked information and never approved a leak. So, if the Inspector General believes this was a leak to the media, it raises serious questions about Comey’s previous testimony and could get him into serious trouble. https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/20...cabe-statement-suggests-comey-perjured-video/
I don't know whether you were being sarcastic, but I think it harsh that he would lose his pension. People build up their pension rights over years and not just in the final few months or years in a job. Surely he must be entitled to at least a partial pension even if his dismal justifies depriving him of the full 2 million.
Although McCabe should be treated in the same way that all of the underlings would be treated he actually will only have his pension delayed until age 58 according to an expert on Judge Jeanine's program last night. Perhaps if he is later convicted of more criminal activity that might change things.
