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Re: Trump = Winning
« Reply #275 on: May 08, 2017, 12:23:27 PM »
Basically selling citizenship. Pretty fucked up.

True - BUT its still better than importing thugs and savages from Ecuador

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Re: Trump = Winning
« Reply #276 on: May 08, 2017, 12:59:06 PM »
True - BUT its still better than importing thugs and savages from Ecuador

It's different. Not better. At least that's my take on it.

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Re: Trump = Winning
« Reply #277 on: May 08, 2017, 01:18:32 PM »
I'm all for expediting payments for citizenship, not so much for work visas. I'm not a fan of work visas much at all.

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Re: Trump = Winning
« Reply #278 on: May 08, 2017, 01:44:53 PM »
Executive Office for Immigration Review Swears in Seven Immigration Judges

https://www.justice.gov/eoir/pr/executive-office-immigration-review-swears-seven-immigration-judges

FALLS CHURCH, VA – The Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) today announced the investiture of seven new immigration judges. Chief Immigration Judge MaryBeth Keller presided over the investiture during a ceremony held May 5, 2017, at EOIR headquarters in Falls Church, Va.

After a thorough application process, Attorney General Jeff Sessions appointed Nina M. Carbone, Jennifer I. Gaz, Charlotte S. Marquez, Jose L. Peñalosa Jr., Donald W. Thompson, David C. Whipple, and Ryan R. Wood to their new positions.
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Re: Trump = Winning
« Reply #279 on: May 08, 2017, 03:57:09 PM »
What did CNN mean by this?!



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Re: Trump = Winning
« Reply #280 on: May 09, 2017, 02:32:34 AM »
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/may/08/obama-warned-trump-michael-flynn-russia-contacts


 Obama warned Trump against hiring Michael Flynn
    Obama made warning when he met Trump in the White House
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The outgoing president issued the warning when the two men met in the White House two days after Trump’s election victory, White House spokesman Sean Spicer confirmed on Monday.
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Why was Flynn not stripped of, or denied, his security clearance under the Obama Administration?
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Re: Trump = Winning
« Reply #281 on: May 09, 2017, 06:46:03 PM »
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Re: Trump = Winning
« Reply #282 on: May 09, 2017, 08:21:29 PM »

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Re: Trump = Winning
« Reply #283 on: May 10, 2017, 09:49:20 AM »
White House pool just went into the Oval office expecting to see @POTUS and Lavrov and instead were greeted by Henry Kissinger.
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« Reply #284 on: May 10, 2017, 01:12:22 PM »
Why was Flynn not stripped of, or denied, his security clearance under the Obama Administration?

His last security clearance renewal under Obama administration took place in JANUARY of 2016. And the clearance he had was for access to some secure info, a clearance that some retired military personnel are allowed to keep. Apparently, it wasn't for government employment. He applied for broader security clearance  when Trump hired him and didn't receive it before he was fired.

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Re: Trump = Winning
« Reply #285 on: May 10, 2017, 02:25:29 PM »
AP BREAKING: Interior Department moves forward on seismic surveys as first step toward offshore drilling in Atlantic Ocean.
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« Reply #286 on: May 10, 2017, 02:32:05 PM »
Aetna Is Latest Health Insurer to Quit Obamacare Markets
https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2017-05-10/aetna-is-latest-health-insurer-to-quit-obamacare-markets

Aetna Inc. will leave the few remaining states where it had been selling Obamacare plans next year, making it the latest health insurer to pull out of the health law as Republicans attack the program as failing and work to dismantle it.

While the move is likely to attract outsize political attention, the decision affects just Delaware and Nebraska. The Hartford, Connecticut-based insurer already said last year it would pull out of 11 states, and in the last month announced plans to exit Iowa and Virginia.

“We will not offer on- or off-exchange individual plans in Delaware or Nebraska for 2018, and at this time have completely exited the exchanges,” Aetna said in a statement Wednesday.

Aetna had indicated it might pull out earlier this month, when Chief Financial Officer Shawn Guertin said the company would take steps to limit its financial losses in the program. Aetna has said it expects to lose more than $200 million on individual health plans this year in the four states where it’s still selling Affordable Care Act plans.

Obamacare’s markets are becoming increasingly vulnerable as major health insurers exit, citing financial losses. Some insurers have stayed in, but raised the premiums they charge customers by double-digit percentages.
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Re: Trump = Winning
« Reply #287 on: May 10, 2017, 05:45:43 PM »
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« Reply #288 on: May 10, 2017, 06:01:36 PM »
Gaybamacare collapsing all on its own

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Re: Trump = Winning
« Reply #289 on: May 11, 2017, 05:29:17 AM »
Steel Industry,
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« Reply #290 on: May 11, 2017, 07:06:46 AM »
BREAKING: White House to launch commission to investigate voter fraud and suppression - AP

WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump is expected to sign an executive order on Thursday launching a commission to review alleged voter fraud and voter suppression in the U.S. election system, three White House officials said.

Vice President Mike Pence and Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach will lead the commission, which will look at allegations of improper voting and fraudulent voter registration in states and across the nation, one official said. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they weren't authorized to discuss details ahead of the formal announcement.

Trump has alleged, without evidence, that 3 to 5 million people voted illegally in his 2016 campaign against Democrat Hillary Clinton. He has vowed since the start of his administration to investigate voter fraud, a process that has been delayed for months.

The commission will include Republicans and Democrats and be composed of current and former state election officials and other experts, the White House official said.

The panel will aim to ensure confidence in the integrity of federal elections while looking at vulnerabilities in the system and the possibility of improper voting and fraudulent voter registration and voting, the official said.

Potential panel members include former Ohio Secretary of State Ken Blackwell and Indiana Secretary of State Connie Lawson, the official said.

During his campaign, Trump repeatedly alleged that the election system was "rigged" and after his election argued that such massive, widespread fraud kept him from the popular vote. Trump won the presidency with an Electoral College victory despite losing to Democrat Hillary Clinton by nearly 3 million votes.

Voting experts and many lawmakers have said they haven't seen anything to suggest that millions of people voted illegally, including House Oversight Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz. The Utah Republican said his committee won't be investigating voter fraud.

In a lunch meeting with senators in February, Trump said that he and former Republican Sen. Kelly Ayotte would have won in New Hampshire if not for voters bused in from out of state. New Hampshire officials have said there was no evidence of major voter fraud in the state.

Trump had previously identified Pence as the person to oversee the long-awaited commission. Kobach advised Trump's transition team and has been a leading GOP proponent of tighter voting regulations.

The secretary of state championed Kansas' proof-of-citizenship requirement as an anti-fraud measure that keeps noncitizens from voting, including immigrants living in the U.S. illegally. Critics contend it suppresses voter turnout, particularly among young and minority voters, and that there have been few cases of fraud.
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Re: Trump = Winning
« Reply #291 on: May 11, 2017, 07:42:14 AM »
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« Reply #292 on: May 11, 2017, 09:01:47 AM »
The White House's explanation for the firing of James Comey is totally unraveling
http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/11/politics/james-comey-firing-trump/

From the jump, it seemed odd that Comey's actions in and around the Clinton email server investigation were the impetus for this move. After all, while Trump had been openly critical of the Director's decision not to bring charges against Clinton, he had also heaped praise on Comey when the investigation was re-opened in late October due to the discovery of another trove of emails.

...As Tuesday turned to Wednesday, the story coming out of the White House began to change. Trump himself said after a photo op with, wait for it, Henry Kissinger, that Comey had been let go "because he wasn't doing a good job."


...Later, deputy press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said that the real reason for Comey's dismissal was the "atrocities" he had committed against the chain of command by openly acknowledging in Congressional testimony last week that he had not told the attorney general -- Loretta Lynch at the time -- what he would say on July 5 when he announced his findings in the Clinton case.


...What the ever-changing stories trying to explain why Trump did what he did suggest is that no one either knows or wants to talk about the real reason that Trump moved on Comey.


Same old Trump administration. As scattershot as ever.  :-\

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Re: Trump = Winning
« Reply #293 on: May 11, 2017, 09:07:03 AM »
Inside Trump’s anger and impatience — and his sudden decision to fire Comey
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/how-trumps-anger-and-impatience-prompted-him-to-fire-the-fbi-director/2017/05/10/d9642334-359c-11e7-b373-418f6849a004_story.html?utm_term=.fa2d8ccdd4eb

Every time FBI Director James B. Comey appeared in public, an ever-watchful President Trump grew increasingly agitated that the topic was the one that he was most desperate to avoid: Russia.


...The president already had decided to fire Comey, according to this person. But in the meeting, several White House officials said Trump gave Sessions and Rosenstein a directive: to explain in writing the case against Comey.


...Rosenstein threatened to resign after the narrative emerging from the White House on Tuesday evening cast him as a prime mover of the decision to fire Comey


...the private accounts of more than 30 officials at the White House, the Justice Department, the FBI and on Capitol Hill, as well as Trump confidants and other senior Republicans, paint a conflicting narrative centered on the president’s brewing personal animus toward Comey.



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Re: Trump = Winning
« Reply #294 on: May 11, 2017, 09:14:09 AM »
Trump finally to launch voter fraud panel
http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/11/politics/trump-election-integrity-voter-fraud/


Trump was initially set to sign an executive order looking into the alleged voter fraud on January 26, a few days after taking office. Reporters and photographers were summoned to the West Wing to document the signing, but waited for about 30 minutes amid confusion from aides. At the time, Spicer said the President "got jammed up on some meetings that needed to occur" and that the order would be signed in the next day or two.


...Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said in February that no federal money should be spent investigating voter fraud.
"There's no evidence that it occurred in such a significant number that would have changed the presidential election, and I don't think we ought to spend any federal money investigating that," the Kentucky Republican told CNN's Jake Tapper on "State of the Union."


...After Trump reportedly told several senators in a February private White House meeting much of the fraud took place in New Hampshire,Former New Hampshire Republican Party chairman Fergus Cullen took to Twitter to offer a $1,000 reward for evidence of a single illegal vote in New Hampshire by someone coming from Massachusetts. He said no one had offered evidence, and in an interview with CNN's Brooke Baldwin, he blasted the White House's claim.


...The New Hampshire secretary of state's office said it had not received any complaints of voter fraud.

Complete administrative disarray in service to a pointless publicity stunt? Classic Trump.
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Re: Trump = Winning
« Reply #295 on: May 11, 2017, 09:14:30 AM »
The White House's explanation for the firing of James Comey is totally unraveling
http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/11/politics/james-comey-firing-trump/

From the jump, it seemed odd that Comey's actions in and around the Clinton email server investigation were the impetus for this move. After all, while Trump had been openly critical of the Director's decision not to bring charges against Clinton, he had also heaped praise on Comey when the investigation was re-opened in late October due to the discovery of another trove of emails.

...As Tuesday turned to Wednesday, the story coming out of the White House began to change. Trump himself said after a photo op with, wait for it, Henry Kissinger, that Comey had been let go "because he wasn't doing a good job."


...Later, deputy press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said that the real reason for Comey's dismissal was the "atrocities" he had committed against the chain of command by openly acknowledging in Congressional testimony last week that he had not told the attorney general -- Loretta Lynch at the time -- what he would say on July 5 when he announced his findings in the Clinton case.


...What the ever-changing stories trying to explain why Trump did what he did suggest is that no one either knows or wants to talk about the real reason that Trump moved on Comey.


Same old Trump administration. As scattershot as ever.  :-\


CNN sounds like a gossiping girl by placing an unnecessary "Totally" in their title.
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Re: Trump = Winning
« Reply #296 on: May 11, 2017, 09:17:15 AM »
CNN sounds like a gossiping girl by placing an unnecessary "Totally" in their title.


I think that was the intentional point. That the White House's "explanation" sounds like the type of lie a child tells. 

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Re: Trump = Winning
« Reply #297 on: May 11, 2017, 09:19:18 AM »
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« Reply #298 on: May 11, 2017, 09:44:34 AM »

I think that was the intentional point. That the White House's "explanation" sounds like the type of lie a child tells. 

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« Reply #299 on: May 11, 2017, 10:48:19 AM »
President Trump’s decision to fire James Comey touched off widespread speculation in Washington over what will happen to the FBI’s Russia meddling probe – but the prospect of new leadership at the bureau also could hold implications for the ‘closed’ Hillary Clinton email case.

Brian Weidner, a veteran former FBI agent, suggested both the case and the immunity deals struck during that investigation could be revisited.

"I would be surprised if they did not review all the investigations regarding HRC and come up with [a] conclusion regarding prosecution. The statute of limitations hasn't come into play yet," he said in an email to Fox News.

As for the immunity deals struck with key players in the Clinton orbit, he noted those deals are “with the government, so in theory it wouldn't change.”

However, he wrote, “a new AG and new director may take a good look at the entire case, and if anyone who received immunity did not live up to their agreement, like Huma [Abedin] with the classified documents on her computer, the deal is off and they are potential targets again.”

For dozens of current and former agents, the key factor will be who is the next director of the world’s most powerful law enforcement agency.

Does Trump pick from the FBI ranks or opt for a more political choice?

"No one can figure out how this POTUS [president of the United States] operates," one former agent connected to the Clinton email probe said. 

While Democrats allege Trump fired Comey because of his discomfort with the probe of Russian interference in the 2016 campaign and potential ties to Trump associates, the stated reason for the ouster was Comey’s handling of the Clinton email probe last year. A detailed memo from Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein faulted Comey for announcing his findings last July, going around his boss, then-Attorney General Loretta Lynch, and for making public a decision to revisit the case shortly before the election.

Former State Department Inspector General Howard Krongard told Fox News that he remains critical of how Comey led the email investigation – including the immunity deals with key Clinton aides Abedin, Bryan Pagliano, Cheryl Mills, John Bentel and Heather Samuelson.

Krongard described it as “the granting of immunity to five senior Clinton aides for virtually nothing in return.”

He said this is “normally done in return for a proffer of evidence or testimony which will build a bridge from one level to a higher level; in this case, the immunity grants built a moat around the higher level, not a bridge.”

Krongard stressed that the FBI’s interview with Clinton, “the highest level person and ultimate person of interest in the investigation” was held on July 4 weekend, “when the investigation had to have been virtually complete."

It also still baffles Krongard why Mills – a participant in the use of Clinton’s private email systems to send and receive classified messages – "was allowed to be present during the interview [with Clinton] and even to act as counsel."

There is no shortage of criticism surrounding other aspects of that investigation.

A former FBI agent familiar with the counterintelligence investigation into Clinton's use of non-secure email devices and servers told Fox News that "no stone was unturned” in the probe but alleged the process was deliberately "slowed down" by Clinton’s personal attorney David Kendall.

“We got everything we needed, but it was more painful than it needed to be,” the source said. “We would draft up search warrants for the servers in both residences -- then the process would be slowed down. It was like Step 1 and a pause, Step 2 and a pause.”

The source said coordinating with Kendall bothered him and others, saying, “Only when we threatened with the search warrants, something would be given up.”

The source said, "It was so much harder than it should have been."

The source added that the Justice Department “was running the show,” and the tone of the investigation was set at the top. “There was distaste for the investigation during the entire time.”

Rosenstein, in his memo, used the word "wrong” to describe Comey's handling of the conclusion of the criminal investigation into Clinton's use of private email servers and a private email account for all government business while she served as secretary of state.

"The way the director handled the conclusion of the email investigation was wrong," Rosenstein wrote, specifically noting that, "the director announced his own conclusions about the nation's most sensitive criminal investigation without the authorization of duly appointed Justice Department leaders."

The source, though, asserted that Comey “wanted to protect then-Attorney General Lynch."

Lynch at the time was under fire for meeting in late June 2016 with former President Bill Clinton on a Phoenix tarmac.

Eight days later, Clinton appeared for her official FBI interview at the Washington Field Office. The next day, Comey held his press conference proclaiming no criminal charges would be brought against Clinton despite her being "extremely careless" with the handling of highly classified materials while serving as the secretary of state.


Catherine Herridge is an award-winning Chief Intelligence correspondent for FOX News Channel (FNC) based in Washington, D.C. She covers intelligence, the Justice Department and the Department of Homeland Security. Herridge joined FNC in 1996 as a London-based correspondent.