Author: Freedom Watch
By Larry Klayman Newsmax July 27, 2017 In the last days, President Donald Trump has excoriated his attorney general in public for having recused himself from the investigation of alleged Russian collusion with his campaign. The way this was done — humiliating Jeff Sessions repeatedly in public — was less than classy and was not befitting of the president. However, President Trump’s criticism, if you can call it that, was not totally off base for the following reasons. Indeed, as I explain below, if the attorney general does not do his job, and learn how to take on the…
Opinion | Kenneth Starr: Mr. President, please cut it out By Kenneth W. Starr Washington Post July 27, 2017 Kenneth W. Starr, a former U.S. solicitor general and federal judge, served as independent counsel in the Whitewater and Monica Lewinsky investigations during the Clinton administration. Mr. President, please cut it out. Tweet to your heart’s content, but stop the wildly inappropriate attacks on the attorney general. An honorable man whom I have known since his days as a U.S. attorney in Alabama, Jeff Sessions has recently become your piñata in one of the most outrageous — and profoundly…
House Judiciary Committee votes to probe Comey and Clinton’s 2016 campaign By David Weigel Washington Post July 27, 2017 Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee voted Wednesday to request documents about former FBI director James B. Comey’s conversations with the Obama administration and journalists, amending and replacing a Democratic resolution that was designed to obtain documents about Comey’s firing by President Trump. “In my district, my constituents say, ‘Hey, what’s going on with investigation of the crimes of the previous administration?’ ” said Rep. Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.), one of the amendment’s sponsors. “When I hear talk that this…
America Talks Live with Miranda Khan Newsmax TV July 26, 2017
McCain: Trump Transgender Decision Inappropriate Newsmax July 26, 2017 Senate Armed Forces Committee Chairman John McCain on Wednesday said President Donald Trump’s announcement barring transgender individuals from the U.S. military was “unclear” and inappropriate given an ongoing Pentagon study on the issue. “I do not believe that any new policy decision is appropriate until that study is complete and thoroughly reviewed by the Secretary of Defense, our military leadership, and the Congress,” McCain said in a statement, adding that U.S. defense officials had already decided that currently serving transgender troops could remain in the military. Continue Reading…..
Republican senators steamed over Trump attacks back Sessions By Leigh Ann Caldwell and Alex Seitz-Wald NBC News July 26, 2017 Republican senators have Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ back. The GOP lawmakers are furious over President Donald Trump’s escalating attacks on their former colleague and are letting the attorney general — and the public — know that they stand with Sessions in the face of the president’s broadsides. “I told him we were thinking about him and that he had a lot of friends up here,” Sen. Richard Shelby, R-Ala., said he told Sessions, who until he joined the…
By Jordan Fabian TheHill July 26, 2017 White House press aide Michael Short resigned on Tuesday, capping off hours of drama over whether he would be fired by President Trump’s new communications director. “I have resigned, effective immediately,” Short said in a brief text message. “It was a privilege to serve the President of the United States.” Continue Reading…..
Analysis | Senators on hot mic: Trump is ‘crazy,’ ‘I’m worried’ By Philip Bump Washington Post July 25, 2017 Chairman Susan Collins (R-Maine) was unintentionally recorded talking about President Trump at the end of a Senate subcommittee hearing on July 25. Collins appears to have been speaking to Democratic senator Jack Reed. (Senate Appropriations Committee) At the end of a Senate subcommittee hearing on Tuesday morning, someone sitting near Chairman Susan Collins (R-Maine) didn’t switch off a microphone. Collins was recorded discussing the federal budget and President Trump’s lack of familiarity with the details of governing with a…
Ryan: Mueller ‘anything but’ a biased partisan By Betsy Klein CNN July 24, 2017 House Speaker Paul Ryan on Monday defended special counsel Robert Mueller, who is leading the investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election amid allegations by President Donald Trump that the investigation is a “witch hunt.” Asked why Republicans aren’t defending the President, Ryan stressed that Mueller, a former FBI director under the George W. Bush and Barack Obama administrations, is “anything but” a biased partisan. Continue Reading…..
Mueller probe: Meet the lawyers who gave $$ to Hillary, now investigating team Trump By Brooke Singman Fox News July 24, 2017 President Trump’s tough criticism of Special Counsel Robert Mueller signals a renewed effort to challenge his investigators’ credibility over their track record of pro-Democratic political donations and other associations. There is no shortage of examples to fuel the president’s case. Of the 15 attorneys currently on staff for Mueller, at least seven have donated to Democratic candidates and campaigns, including Trump’s 2016 rival Hillary Clinton. The rest have not made political donations, according to federal records;…