Author: Freedom Watch

Opinion | George Conway: Why Trump had to hire this legal odd couple Washington Post January 19, 2020 This is what happens when you don’t pay your legal bills. President Trump, whose businesses and now campaign have left a long trail of unpaid bills behind them, has never discriminated when it comes to stiffing people who work for him. That includes lawyers — which is part of the reason he found the need to make some curious last-minute tweaks to his team, announcing the addition of the legal odd couple of Alan Dershowitz and Kenneth W. Starr. ��������The…

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For 3: Louisville makes a statement at Duke ESPN.com January 19, 2020 Let’s see. We had thrilling matchups, upsets, an ejection and questions about next week’s rankings. A typical Saturday in the 2019-2020 season. 3 things from Saturday. Louisville punctuates season with pivotal win at Duke We can discuss a multitude of moments that unfolded in No. 11 Louisville’s 79-73 win at No. 3 Duke on Saturday. Louisville’s 10-point lead at halftime. Louisville squandering that lead in the second half. Freshman David Johnson, who entered the game averaging 3.7 PPG, dropping 17 points on the Blue Devils in…

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Fox’s Chris Wallace asks if Trump legal team filled with people who have their own axe to grind By Joe Concha TheHill January 18, 2020 Chris Wallace questioned the motives of some of those on President Trump’s impeachment defense team, asking if it included “a bunch of people who each have their own axe to grind and their own ego to fill?” Wallace, the anchor of “Fox News Sunday,” also questioned whether Pat Cipollone, the president’s counsel, would be happy with the rest of his team, which includes Harvard Law professor Alan Dershowitz and Ken Starr, the former…

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‘Strong’ paper trail has John Durham investigating the months before Mueller appointment Washington Examiner January 18, 2020 A trail of documents has reportedly led Attorney General William Barr’s handpicked federal prosecutor to focus his inquiry into the origins of the Russia investigation on the first several months of President Trump’s tenure. John Durham, a U.S. attorney from Connecticut, is zeroing in on the period spanning from January 2017, when Trump took office, to May of that year. A “strong” paper trail, as CBS News senior investigative correspondent Catherine Herridge put it on Friday, has led the investigation into…

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By Larry Klayman WND January 17, 2020 Just when I thought nothing could become even more bizarre, President Donald J. Trump’s so-called legal team, led by Jay Sekulow, has recruited Ken Starr and Robert Ray, independent counsels during the Clinton years, to lead the defense of The Donald during the looming impeachment trial. Joining the legal team as well is retired Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz and former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi. Notably absent from the legal team is Rudy Giuliani, the president’s private legal counsel during the Russian collusion witch hunt of Special Counsel Robert Mueller. Giuliani,…

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Report: FBI, ICE, Education Department investigating Omar – WND By WND Staff WND January 16, 2020 The FBI, Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the Department of Education are investigating Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., according to a report. The controversial newcomer to Congress already had been facing credible accusations of marrying her brother. The new claim: BIG Ilhan Omar update: Federal investigators finally seem to be reviewing the overwhelming evidence against @IlhanMN. Continue Reading…..

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By Ammiel Hirsch and Joshua Davidson New York Times January 16, 2020 We recently spoke to some 500 high school students, teachers and administrators at Ethical Culture Fieldston School in the Bronx. As the senior rabbis of two major Reform synagogues with which dozens of Fieldston families are affiliated, we presented the Jewish community’s perspectives on the surge in anti-Semitic incidents in our area and throughout the country. We clarified that while we do not claim to represent all Jews, our views do fall within mainstream Jewish opinion. We shared statistics from the New York City police and the…

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Kellyanne Conway Melts Down Under Grilling by Fox News By Matt Wilstein The Daily Beast January 16, 2020 White House counselor Kellyanne Conway was asked four times by Fox News on Thursday morning to “flat-out” refute claims from Rudy Giuliani associate Lev Parnas that President Donald Trump was fully “aware” of what he was up to in Ukraine. She didn’t give a straight answer once. After Fox aired a clip of Parnas’ interview with MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow from Wednesday night, they asked her to refute his central claims. Conway first tried to laugh it off, joking with no…

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