Author: Freedom Watch
Opinion | Trump seems to be crying out: Impeach me, please! By Robert J. Samuelson Washington Post August 2, 2017 No one is working harder for the impeachment of Donald Trump than Donald Trump. If we have learned anything about this president, it is that he has a compulsion to be the center of attention. He can’t bear being out of the limelight and will say almost anything — no matter how offensive, outrageous or dishonest it strikes millions of Americans — to keep the public fixated on him. The more he does this, the more he risks…
Exclusive: Former Justice Department official joins Mueller team Reuters August 1, 2017 A former U.S. Justice Department official has become the latest lawyer to join special counsel Robert Mueller’s team investigating Russia’s interference in the 2016 presidential election, a spokesman for the team confirmed. Greg Andres started on Tuesday, becoming the 16th lawyer on the team, said Josh Stueve, a spokesman for the special counsel. Continue Reading…..
Trump dictated son’s misleading statement on meeting with Russian lawyer By Ashley Parker, Carol D. Leonnig, Philip Rucker, Tom Hamburger Washington Post August 1, 2017 On the sidelines of the Group of 20 summit in Germany last month, President Trump’s advisers discussed how to respond to a new revelation that Trump’s oldest son had met with a Russian lawyer during the 2016 campaign — a disclosure the advisers knew carried political and potentially legal peril. The strategy, the advisers agreed, should be for Donald Trump Jr. to release a statement to get ahead of the story. They wanted…
Success of North Korean Missile Test Is Thrown Into Question By William J. Broad and David E. Sanger New York Times August 1, 2017 Analysts examining video of North Korea’s launch on Friday of an intercontinental ballistic missile that appeared capable of reaching the West Coast of the United States say they saw evidence of a setback the North never mentioned: The mock warhead on the missile shattered into pieces during its fiery re-entry to earth. If the analysis is correct, it would mean that North Korea suffered a significant, but not decisive, setback. It suggests that the…
By Larry Klayman Newsmax August 1, 2017 Yesterday, much to the pleasure of the left, Sheriff Joe Arpaio, the former chief law enforcement officer of Maricopa County, Arizona, was predictably found guilty of criminal contempt for allegedly profiling illegal immigrant Latinos at day workers sites — where else can you mostly find them — in violation of a prior court order, obtained by the American Civil Liberties Union, before a politicized judge, G. Murray Snow. I say predictably, because the federal judge who gleefully made the ruling holding “America’s Sheriff” in criminal contempt, a buddy of Judge Snow, Susan…
Coulter to Trump: Move Jeff Sessions to DHS, Fire Rod Rosenstein Fox News Insider July 31, 2017 Author Ann Coulter called for Attorney General Jeff Sessions to be moved to the Department of Homeland Security, and for Sessions’ deputy to be fired. Coulter said it was not Sessions recusing himself from the Russia investigation that led to Deputy A.G. Rod Rosenstein appointing Robert Mueller as special counsel. Continue Reading…..
Putin’s Bet on a Trump Presidency Backfires Spectacularly By David E. Sanger New York Times July 31, 2017 A little more than a year after the Russian effort to interfere in the American presidential election came to light, the diplomatic fallout — an unraveling of the relationship between Moscow and Washington on a scale not seen in decades — is taking its toll. President Vladimir V. Putin bet that Donald J. Trump, who had spoken fondly of Russia and its authoritarian leader for years, would treat his nation as Mr. Putin has longed to have it treated by…
By Joe Concha TheHill July 31, 2017 Matt Drudge took aim at Sen. John McCain on Sunday night, displaying a photo of the Arizona Republican on Twitter with the caption “corruption has so many faces.” Corruption has so many faces… pic.twitter.com/XKI3mobWLp — MATT DRUDGE (@DRUDGE) July 31, 2017 The tweet is an apparent swipe at McCain’s vote that ultimately killed a GOP ObamaCare repeal bill. Continue Reading…..
Collins: Trump’s Threats Won’t Sway My Healthcare Vote By Solange Reyner Newsmax July 31, 2017 Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine on Sunday told CNN host Jake Tapper she wouldn’t be swayed by President Donald Trump’s threat to cut off funding for Obamacare payments. “It really would be detrimental to some of the most vulnerable citizens if those payments were cut off,” said Collins on “State of the Union.” Continue Reading…..
By John Fund National Review July 31, 2017 In 2008, presidential candidate John McCain bravely proposed a health-care reform that Fortune magazine said was a giant step toward “laissez faire liberty” in health care. He wanted to empower consumers to find the best health care and even end the tax break for employer-sponsored plans. In 2015, McCain joined all but one other GOP senator in voting to repeal Obamacare. The next year he ran an ad in his primary campaign against a Tea Party Republican claiming he was “leading the fight to stop Obamacare.” That ad helped him win…